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In this episode, with Halloween coming up (yes, we are THAT lazy at posting), we discuss Starship Troopers, duty to community, and consequence of action. We chat about truth and reconciliation and it's effect on indigenous gang culture in western Canada. Pat explains how much contemporary tattoo style is influenced by jail culture. We discuss finding dark stuff from the dark web, and why police agencies are necessary. We move onto the principle of individual self work, and how personal accountability may lighten the load of police agencies. We balance real news, vs trending internet media, and chat about marginalized people's representation in popular culture. We finally move onto victimhood vs survival-hood, and damaged ego boundaries. Just another Tuesday afternoon around the bondage table.

These boys start with discussing fast-forward blowjobs and juvenile delinquency. We wonder how Thanksgiving dinners actually work for functional families, before moving on to discussing intersex hillbillies and Rockstars! We enter into a Dave Chapelle discussion, and wonder if other comedians like Chris Rock, or Kids in the Hall, will be problematic.

We chat about music, Russian prison tattoos, and go down the rabbit hole of creepy triggery movies. We discuss whether gun violence is a reflection of popular cinema, or if cinema reflects reality.

The boys cover a wide array of topics during this two hour episode. Starting off with nerd culture, and facing transitional times, we move on to discussing self work and facing personal challenges. We dive into unprogramming potentially toxic life decisions, and how it relates to the Truth and Reconciliation movement in Canada; whether healing individual personal issues is the key to healing intergenerational trauma. We examine performative activism and commodification of underground culture. We discuss whether pop music is bland consumerist bullshit, and the difficulty of creating challenging art in an increasingly fragile environment. We talk about being scumbags, and Pat suggests that maybe Not All Cops Are Bastards. We discuss whether industrial society has removed human connection and what methods we could use to could reconnect us. Pat put forward some issues with the growing sex-work acceptance movement; mainly whether pornography is healthy for creating gender and sexual norms in young people. We end on a discussion of dominance between men and women, that leaves more questions than answers. All the stuff.

In this episode, Dusty tells us about his covid-era visit to Toronto, and Pat shared a heavily censored version of his trip to the Philippines. We discuss Charles manson and the Coyote mind, and how man is basically useless living feral without technology. We touch upon rednecks in Saskatchewan, and the need for subculture in a society that stifles creativity. We move onto tattooing, and discuss whether the internet has commodified the underground. Pat rants about e-commerce, PayPal, social credit systems, and the lack of liberty in a so-called "free" society. We finish off chatting about women being drafted into the military, and whether "equal rights" should also mean "equal fights". Just another casual Monday night...

This episode, the guys talk about a bunch of stuff that we didn't actually take notes of when editing, and we also suffered a couple (audio) technical difficulties during the process of recording. Basically, we conclude that we really don't know shit about shit. Guess you'll just have to watch the podcast to find out what we talked about!

In this episode, the boys start our discussing the lack of professionalism in Pat's trade (tattooing), before we move onto late June solstice festivities, as celebrated by minibike fire ceremony! We discuss the symbolism of the solar wheel, and how precolonial wisdom has been hidden in our post-colonial culture. We discuss whether humanity has just become livestock for a monetary slave system, and debates the pros and cons of abandoning what seems like a failing social model. We discuss animal rights and the merits of sustenance hunting, and how much anybody is really able to do any real self work, when they are barely able to survive. Can life prevail?

In this podcast, the boys cover some heavy content! Starting out with a general lack of athleticism in our lives, we move onto cult behaviour like NXIVM and the grooming of MMA fighter Diego Sanchez. We discuss people who exploit spirituality for selfish gain, and how Jeff Bezos owns a yacht for his helicopter alone! We talk about how human suffering will never as long as it is profitable not to do so. We move onto recent mass graves of indigenous children found around canadian residential schools, and when clergy turns to evil. We discuss capitol punishment and when humans turn into monsters. Nice, casual, easy listening.

Bad Ideas, Good Stories #33: "Video Games and Abrahamism"In Episode #33 the boys start off discussing how a person can essentially disappear into a virtual world via video games, and how that could eventually morph into alternate realities, like the television show Westworld. They discuss the movement in the Alt-Right towards terrorism, and how racism is losing ground in the face of cultural evolution. We discuss abrahamic imperialism, as expressed in the Palestinian occupation, and how fundamentalism may have suppressed lost spiritual wisdom. We ask whether a person should obey unjust laws, and speculated whether cities would benefit from gardens replacing lawns.

In episode 32, the boys discuss consent culture in the light of some local musicians facing  #metoo accusations, before moving on to sexual impropriety in american Politics. We touch upon stimulus fraud amidst the Covid-19 lockdowns, and what (if any) effects the situation is having on our collective psychology. We move to fond memories of the World Wrestling Federation, and the continuity of the universes that the Predator, Aliens, Prometheus, and Blade Runner movie franchises share. Pat talks about some recent books he's been reading, and we finish off discussing how violent aggression can reflect a "wounded masculine", and self work towards resolving that imbalance.