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Minion Death Cult

If an untalented "artist" can have possession of a national treasure then everyone should (preview)

Minion Death Cult

Alexander Edward

Dsa, Leftwing, Comedy, Democraticsocialism, Rightwing, News, Communism, Politics, Cringe, Socialism

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This week we discuss Jim Henson's Trollops

Lizzo enrages flute aficionados (racists) when the Library of Congress asks her to play James Madison's crystal flute during a concert

We discuss which items we would steal from the Smithsonian

And Bill Maher teaches us not to judge slave owners too harshly during a New Rule segment you don't want to miss.

Listen to Tony on this week's Street Fight Radio

Transcript

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0:00.0

So once I saw her actually playing the flute, I was happy again.

0:03.3

I was like, okay, that's, that's what I needed.

0:06.1

Other people, not so much.

0:09.7

This is one of those stories where, unfortunately, I just saw the headline.

0:16.9

I just saw Library of Congress, you know, let's Lizzo play James Madison's flute. And I was like,

0:22.5

okay, here's the topic for the episode without doing any, like any research or any looking at all.

0:29.7

I was just like, okay, I'll make a note of this. Yeah, this, the responses to this are so fucking funny.

0:36.9

David Amaral, and I think this was in the AB Club comment section, says,

0:41.0

why is the Library of Congress loaning out irreplaceable historical items to individuals?

0:47.5

I could see them allowing it to put on display in a museum somewhere,

0:52.2

but this seems highly irresponsible.

0:56.2

The risk of damage or theft outweighs whatever reason they had for doing this.

1:01.8

It's like, okay, I kind of see what you're saying as, and don't be reckless with this,

1:07.2

but you are very publicly handing it over to, I would say, the most famous floutis.

1:14.8

Like I said, Jethro Toll is pretty famous.

1:17.7

Okay, go ahead and say that to anybody under, like, I don't know, 40.

1:21.5

I say it to myself every morning when I wake up.

1:24.3

Because, like, she's like, for sure, the most famous.

1:26.7

I think you could even tell some people, oh, do you know that Jeff Thorotel had fluton it?

1:31.3

They might be like, I've actually never heard Jeff Thorotow.

1:33.8

I just know the words.

1:35.6

Come on, baby, Aqua.

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