Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta stay up way past their bedtimes to record this ridiculous episode of the Strug Boat for ya’ll! We start with an awesome act of cartomancy as we continue to read Taylor Swift from our last Garbage Barge! The details for this special reading our just below, so take a look! Stick around because the special shit in this episode comes when Candice decides to share some of her posts from over a decade ago, from an ancient LiveJournal that once was. Having started her LiveJournal at 17 years old while in independent study for weirdos, there is more angst than a single person can handle within it’s cobwebby internet tombs. We hope you laugh as hard as we did at the absurdity of it all!

Information for this particular form of Cartomancy (You can also watch Stef Sanjati’s orignal video, linked below.):

For reading cards in this method, remove joker cards and any numbers below 9. You should be left with 9s, 10s, jacks, queens, kings, and aces.

Layout: Have the person you are reading shuffle the cards, or you shuffle the cards – hold the intention for which you are seeking clarity in your mind and in your hands as you work the cards. Deal out 7 cards at a time, flipping only the 7th card face up each time, forming a row. This will leave you with a small stack of face down cards, and four face up cards making a row. Do this process two more times, which should leave you with your original row of 4 cards, a new row of 3 cards, and another short row of 2 cards. The rest of the cards are done for this reading. Now you are ready to read!

Card Meanings:

Ace of:

Spades: Death/Serious Illness/Mental Health

Clubs: Correspondence/Communication

Diamonds: Wealth (loss/gain/use)

Hearts: Romance, Intimacy, Affection

10 of:

Spades: Trouble/Unease

Clubs: good time, good memory

Diamonds: a wish, a goal, an aspiration

Hearts: a trip, a movement from one place to another

9 of:

Spades: slight illness, relapse

Clubs: A home/familiar place

Diamonds: a gift, a favour, an offering

Hearts: close friend, family ties, familiar person

King: Man

Queen: Woman

Jack: Person (of any gender)

Resources:

Stef Sanjati YouTube

Cartomancy Wiki

Timestamps:

Music: 00:00:00-00:00:27

Taylor Swift Cartomancy: 00:00:25-00:07:53

Livejournal: 00:07:54-00:15:26

Patreon: 00:15:27-00:16:12

Music/Outro: 00:16:07-00:16:33

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta are gluttons for punishment, and they’ve had a lot of wine. We’re coming hard for some of the most devoted fandoms out there! We’re talking about the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance, and how there are examples in everyday pop culture of what happens when people don’t practice the things they preach. Chances are, people don’t even realize that the discomfort that they’re feeling is cognitive dissonance. Well, no worries. We’re here to drag ya’ll for filth and expose ourselves to the rabidly defensive fans of Taylor Swift, Joss Whedon and Game of Thrones. Strap in for this wine-y tour of cognitive dissonance in current popular culture!

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:47

Episode: 00:00:36-00:21:29

Patreon: 00:20:30-00:21:17

Music/Outro: 00:21:17-00:21:45

Resources:

Stop Worshipping White Feminism

The Root: T Swift and White Privilege

Buzzfeed: Taylor Swift Playing The Victim

Kim K West Came With Receipts

Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift Drama Timeline

WaPo: Joss Whedon’s Wife Calls Him Out

Reconsider Joss Whedon’s Feminism

Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman

Megahn Tonjes on Joss Whedon

WaPo: We Don’t Need A TV Show About The Confederacy Winning

Vanity Fair: Backlash for GoT Producers Over Confederate

The Daily Beast: The Game of Thrones Producers Next Show Sounds Stupid As Hell

Cognitive Dissonance Wiki

13th Amendment Wiki 

13th Movie Wiki

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It’s obvious from the get go that Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta are feeling a little slap-happy straight off recording their episode of the Garbage Barge for this wonderful of all Millennials Week! Join us and we giggle and drink our way through Kari Paul’s list for MarketWatch, in which they list all the things that us evil Millennials have so unjustly murdered with our non-dollars. There’s even a couple little outtakes included in this one, particularly because we needed the seconds and secondarily because it was pretty silly to listen to with them included! Laugh along with us, won’t you? Point out the gaffs! What are some of your favorite things Millennials have killed? How do you feel about a single roasted shallot? Let us know!

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:27

Episode: 00:00:23-00:010:03

Patreon: 00:09:20-00:09:56

Music/Outro: 00:09:58-00:10:23

Resources: 

MarketWatch: List of Things Millennial Have Killed

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta are millennials. Not by choice, they were born that way. This is a special week for The Garbage Barge as we introduce Millennial Week! On this episode, we’re taking on the economic and societal factors that are responsible for Millennials finding themselves in the unique position they have of, apparently, ruining all the things and being the worst. At least, that’s what every Millennial think piece author would have you think! Colin and Candice are here to defend the good name of the betrodden Millennial. And definitely don’t miss this week’s Strug Boat – we’re eulogizing the industries we’ve murdered.

EPISODE NOTE: We made a script error, definitely due to much Aperol. At roughly 08:11, it is accidentally said that “[Millennials] take longer to pay back debt that anyone younger than us”. We meant to say older than us, sorry for any confusion! This scripting error was brought to you by Candice Chetta and Aperol spritzers.

Timestamp:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:44

Episode: 00:00:38-00:14:50

Patreon: 00:13:57-0014:29

Music/Outro: 00:14:45-00:15:13

Resources:

Obama Millennial Report

The Damn Applebee’s Article

The Atlantic: Generation Breakdown (this guy is a tool.)

Business Insider: Millennials vs Boomers

NYT: Millennials as Interns 

Forbes: Millennial Interns

NPR: Millennial Statistics

EPI: Wage Stagnation Charts

EPI: Wage Stagnation Since the 1970s

Medium: Can We Stop Blaming Millennials

Economic Facts About Millennials

Millennials Tried To Save You From Trump

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta share with you how their last two weeks have been. Between violently spinning rooms and ears that won’t stop leaking, we are on the actual Strug Boat. We are also completely annoyed with how the Below Deck Mediterranean reunion show went. This entire season has been bogged down with slut shaming and toxic masculinity, and the reunion focused on respectability politics directed exclusively towards the women. Not ok! So we ask our Magic 8 Ball a couple of questions we feel like we missed out on.

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:27

Episode: 00:00:25-00:11:54

Patreon: 00:11:55-00:12:26

Music/Outro: 00:12:29-00:12:54

Resources: 

Watch the Reunion on Bravo.com

Things You Didn’t See At the Reunion by Bravo.com

BitchByBravo Gives Us The Recap We Need

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta, once again, find themselves flabbergasted at the things some new White Dude Of The Week, James Denmore, felt the need to post online. James went ahead and posted his entire behind on the internet for the whole world to see. Colin and Candice take this memo apart, piece by piece. The Aperol Spritzes are flowing freely as we go in on this infuriating journey through the “reasoning” of a guy triggered by a sensitivity course he had to take for the cushy job he had already secured at a globally leading tech company.

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:47

Patreon: 00:00:40-00:02:36

Episode: 00:02:37-00:17:25

Music/Outro: 00:17:17-00:17:45

Resources:

Read The Memo Everyone Is Freaking Out About

Bloomberg: Everyone Knows Tech Workers Are Mostly White Men Except Tech Workers

Forbes: Women Are Still Paid Less For The Same Work

CNET: Focus on Diversity For More Women in Tech

Google Fires The Memo Bro

NYT: Women in Sex Tech Unite

Forbes: Alaina Shearer Profile

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta were thrilled to be magically inspired to read some Cosmo sex advice for their loyal listeners! Join us with an Aperol spritzer and put on your cackling pants because we laugh a lot in this one! Candice honks, several times. Cosmo is legendary for some of the worst advice you could possibly think of “for a woman” when it comes to sex. This episode surely earned us our explicit rating, so consider yourself warned! We’re reading from the list compiled by Ben Reininga on Nerve.com, Cosmo‘s 44 Most Ridiculous Sex Tips. We’d love to hear your favorite Cosmo advice! Most of the women I know have been laughing at these lists since they were teenagers, so bring on them Tweets!

Timestamps:

Music: 00:00:00-00:00:26

Episode: 00:00:24-00:15:24

Music/Outro: 00:15:12-00:15:38

Resources:

Nerve.com: Cosmo’s 44 Most Ridiculous Sex Tips

Cosmopolitan: Cosmo’s 50 Best Sex Tips Ever

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta are pissed off at Robbie Tripp. A lot of people are. Robbie Tripp posted a big ol’ pat on his own back for being valiant enough to love his own wife. What a hero! Colin dramatically rereads the memo, for those of you who may have missed it, and then we tear it into shreds like rabid dogs. Rabid dogs fueled by Aperol spritzers. There’s a lot of laughing in this one, because this guy is ridiculous. We also get inspired for this coming Saturday’s Strug Boat… it’s going to get nasty. 

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:46 (total fadeout)

Episode: 00:00:35-00:13:38

Music/Outro: 00:13:25-00:13:54 (total fadeout) 

Resources: 

Our Standards Are So Low, We’re Celebrating A Man Being Attracted to His Wife

Daily Dot: Viral Photo Backlash

pajiba.com Responds to Buzzfeed Celebrating Robbie Tripp

Robbie Tripp’s Response in People Magazine

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta get real real about a little show you may remember called Will & Grace. OK, maybe the episode title is a little rough, but we have to talk about this. It had it’s place, it did it’s thing, but all of those characters were bonafide crew members of the Garbage Barge – let’s keep that real. They were swabbin’ the poop decks with the rest of us trash more than they were blazing trails, and that’s what we’re talking about in this episode! We each have that place in our lives that Will & Grace will forever occupy, but it’s time to discuss how problematic the first series was, and what kind of stereotypes and ideas were perpetuated because this show was as wide-reaching was it was. But don’t worry, we also talk about Chicken McNuggets and the delicious new Sriracha Mac Sauce… so all is not lost! Let us know what you think about the Will & Grace reboot! Are you watching? Are you worried? We want to know!

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:27 (total fadeout)

Episode: 00:00:25-00:15:07

Music/Outro: 00:14:57-00:15:23 (total fadeout)

Resources:

NY Post: Will & Grace Should Be Ashamed

Daily Orange: Portray Queer Characters Fairly

TV Guide: Will & Grace Reboot

Salon: Will & Grace Changed Nothing

The Case Against A Will & Grace Reboot

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Colin Anderson and Candice Chetta decide to tackle an interesting topic: Apologizing. Who knew there could be so much garbage in one little topic (that turns out to not be so little at all…) You know when people apologize when they don’t need to? Or want to? Or when people apologize and don’t mean it at all? Why do you think this is such a complicated issue when it seems like something that should be so cut and dry? We’re drinking way too many Aperol spritzes and making each other giggle inappropriately in this one. We do, of course, manage to get in some of our favorite Real Housewives for this one, since those ladies LOVE to fake apologize! It’s one of our favorite things! Let us know what kind of experiences you’ve had with apologies and I’m sorries! We’d love to hear from you!

Timestamps:

Music/Intro: 00:00:00-00:00:46 (total fadeout)

Episode: 00:00:36-00:15:54

Music/Outro: 00:15:46-00:16:12 (total fadeout)

Resources: 

Psychology Today: ‘I’m Sorry You’re Offended’ Is Not A Real Apology

NYT:  When An Apology Is Anything But

Forbes: How To Quit Saying Sorry So Much

HuffPo: Closing The Gender Apology Gap

Child Mind Institute: Why Girls Apologize Too Much

Psychology Today: When Apologizing Is Too Much

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