Welcome to the 44th episode of the Catch The Sky Podcast. When we discussed cancel culture several weeks ago, we didn't realize we were only at the cusp of a societal meltdown over plastic potatoes. Sweet T Tee's Off Pepe Le Pew in our opening segment and how the creators of these characters are missing an opportunity to educate their viewers (1:39). This leads to Saif to bring up how things are contextually viewed based on their date of creation and how children absorb these behaviors (4:15). Our hosts recognize that the behaviors that they are exhibiting are what's more offensive than perhaps their national background, and how that can generate a negative stereotype (7:17). The pair briefly preview their origin story and doing a behind-the-scenes episode (8:25). A tangent about poking cat's buttholes leads to the observation that tolerating depictions of assault is part of the larger patriarchal hegemony that promotes a certain subset of our culture's dominion over the rest (9:40). Sweet T thinks this is the sad reality of who we are as a species, and holds the creators of these characters accountable (15:07). This idea spills into reality as they ponder why Christopher Columbus is still celebrated and how to give proper historical context to things (19:57). The conversation broadens as our hosts weigh the pro's and con's of a conversation that challenges the historical narrative (30:41).

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Music by Emby Alexander

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