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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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TODAY: We discuss the recent Simpsons episode, “Night of the Living Wage,” in which the class warfare is laid on thick and a billionaire gets crushed by a non-union bulldozer operator.
The show hits on numerous miserable realities for modern workers as Marge is forced to get a job at a ghost kitchen, enduring myriad dystopian Silicon-Valley abuses and finally joining with her coworkers to form a union.
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0:00.0 | I was slightly worried when the episode began because I had heard good things about it. |
0:04.6 | And then it starts with like what almost seems like a reactionary framing of complaining about emotional. |
0:12.1 | Like everybody needs their emotional support animal now. |
0:15.3 | Like I was like, uh-oh. |
0:16.6 | But I. |
0:17.4 | Yeah, absolutely. |
0:18.1 | No, no, no. |
0:18.5 | You're you're totally right. |
0:19.8 | That's like the, though it's, but it's, it's a classic simpsons concert conservative simpsons joke where it might be coded as like culturally conservative but it's still funny and it still it still makes sense you know like everybody knows even the people who have the emotional support animals know that there's a bunch of people with fake emotional support animals out there right it's like a kind of a universal uh thing another like culture |
0:42.9 | war but but like to that point when lisa goes in there one of the like hippie you know |
0:50.8 | whatever liberal coded girls who has an emotional support chicken uh starts berating she tells you know lisa liberal-coded girls who has an emotional support chicken starts berating. |
0:56.5 | She tells, you know, Lisa, how inclusive they are and how they're accepting all animals, |
1:00.2 | except if they don't have a vest. |
1:02.0 | And like, so this is, again, like, like seems like it could be liberal intolerance sort of thing or like liberal bureaucracy. |
1:11.1 | It feels like a classic like anti-peda joke or like, I don't know, like early 2000s |
1:19.0 | Schwartzweiler could have written this part. |
1:22.6 | I really liked it though because like they are doing this whole kind of soft society |
1:27.2 | type thing right but what |
1:29.4 | smart is because we know what this episode is going to be about we know this is a pro-union |
1:33.0 | episode so what they're doing is they're kind of saying like hey guys hey listen i i know that even |
1:39.6 | you think this is funny because people are soft they They're not trying to scare anybody away. |
1:45.0 | Get on board. |
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