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 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.

Well, Tucker Max was a best-selling author. He had four best-selling books, but the first of them, which was the runaway bestseller, you could get it at every hot topic, you could get it at every urban outfitters,

any one of those clothing stores that had a book section, you would find this one next to Chuck Norris Facts.

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 broy, it was very fratty.

No.

The pendulum of culture has swung so far since then in such a short amount of time, like when we were older teenagers, it was the era of old school.

It was the era of pickup artists. It was a whole different kind of like fratty, sex-strenched culture.

And Tucker Max was definitely like one of the key guys of that time.

So he would do these blog posts, and I guess he collected them in these books. And I don't know, I didn't particularly like them at the time.

I'm sure I would probably like them even less now. They were just stories of like, and then I brought a chick home, and then we were having sex, and then the dog came in the room.

Or somebody throws up on somebody by accident during the act, or stuff like that, various comical or unpleasant sexual situations.

And he was very much regarded as like a very sexist figure.

This was before men's rights activists, this was before gamer gate, this was before somebody like him would have become a symbol of a different kind of sexism.

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