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*PREVIEW* Getting Dilb-pilled (feat. Aisling McCrea)

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're talking Dilbert and Scott Adams. Why? Well, for some reason all five of us liked Dilbert as a kid. Also, it just so happens that friend of the show Aisling McCrea (@ambientGillian) just published an article in Current Affairs about Dilbert's strange appeal. So, let's talk about it. Let's talk about Scott Adams' promise that he can make you no-touch cum. Let's dilb out. Read Aisling's article here!  https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/10/the-adams-principle/  To hear the whole thing, sign up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42491909 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Transcript

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0:00.0

What was it that that bound you to Dilbert that led you to then continue reading Dilbert even once you'd been suckered by

0:22.2

the picture of the dog, Ashley? I am not sure. I think part of it is just being slightly abnormal

0:30.4

as a child and existing kind of slightly before, like at a time where we had internet, but it was like sort of shitty dial-up,

0:40.3

and, you know, you had to, like, plug out the phone to put the internet cable in.

0:45.8

If you have any, like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

0:50.4

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, sounds of se.

0:53.7

It was not once all-encompassing.

0:56.7

You had to log onto it.

0:58.6

You had to go on the computer.

1:01.8

You weren't just in a constant state of being on the computer.

1:05.1

You had to sit down and switch on a physical switch to be on the computer.

1:10.8

Yeah.

1:11.1

You had to buy a copy of Dilbert's desktop games from Electronics Boutique for $9.

1:17.2

You had to heat up your own Dilberito.

1:20.0

Yeah.

1:20.8

A real thing that Scott Adams actually made.

1:23.5

I would say, calls his dick.

1:24.7

I would also say to...

1:26.0

Sorry, go ahead.

1:26.8

No, go ahead, Alice, please.

1:27.9

My answer for why I like Dilbertved aside from being a fucking nerd was that I wanted to be like my dad, right?

1:34.0

So, like, they were his books.

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