An evolving problem; Digimon Vs The Birchers

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Now, wait a minute. Now wait a minute. [00:00:04] Speaker B: You know, these days, too many things have been feminized by the woke liberal media where everything is. Everything has been feminized now. All right? They're even trying to feminize voting. Well, we're not gonna allow that today, all right? We're putting fighting into voting. We are gonna make votes that fight each other. Your vote will punch out somebody else's vote, and then only the vote that's left standing still counts. [00:00:34] Speaker C: That's. [00:00:35] Speaker B: That's where we're taking things. In 2025, your votes are going to have special abilities. They're going to have. You're going to have powers. Elemental affinities, spiritual affinities, philosophical affinities. And those will be represented in the way that your vote looks, expresses itself and behaves. [00:00:59] Speaker D: If not for the magic, you would just be describing feudalism. So I'm glad that you added the powers and all that other stuff. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Otherwise, wasn't there. No, there were wizards. Come on, there were wizards. We all know the wizards were real. [00:01:14] Speaker B: I've seen Game of Thrones. [00:01:15] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones took place in real life. [00:01:19] Speaker C: Game of Thrones, Yeah, yeah. [00:01:22] Speaker B: That was just England in 1200s or something, right? [00:01:25] Speaker D: Yeah. Zombies. [00:01:27] Speaker B: The zombies are still there. [00:01:29] Speaker D: Yeah, they never left. [00:01:32] Speaker A: Here is the chart about the zombies there. It goes up. The amount of zombies has gone up over time. [00:01:38] Speaker B: But you know what those zombies, they assimilated. You know what those zombies do? [00:01:42] Speaker A: What did they do? [00:01:43] Speaker B: They do something. [00:01:44] Speaker D: They exercise their rights. Yeah, that sounds right. [00:01:48] Speaker A: We're here to do today. [00:01:49] Speaker C: We're here to vote this election, which will be, I do truly believe, the most important election of our lifetime. [00:01:57] Speaker A: This is the most important election of our lifetime. [00:02:01] Speaker C: This is the most important election. Don't you you hear that? This is the most important election in our lifetime. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I certainly think it's the most important election of my lifetime. [00:02:12] Speaker D: This is the most important election of our times. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Politicians say every time, this is the most important election. [00:02:19] Speaker D: This one's really that important. We've never been more excited, we've never been more pumped to exercise our free choices. There's nothing quite like taking down the systemic evils of bureaucracy, of control, of just all of the malevolence at the heart of our world. [00:02:39] Speaker B: Voting. [00:02:40] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Right here on the most important election of our lives. I'm Kennedy Cooper. Welcome back. Once again we've got, of course, Brandon Buchanan on the panel as always. [00:02:51] Speaker D: Hi. How's it going? [00:02:53] Speaker B: We've got Andrew Fields, our statistician here, of course. [00:02:56] Speaker A: Vote, vote, vote, vote. Statistically speaking, you should vote. [00:03:00] Speaker B: That's. That's fucking true. And we've got our guest tonight, Audrey from Radio Free Tote Bag. [00:03:08] Speaker A: What's up? [00:03:09] Speaker C: Hello, everybody. It's important to exercise your rights while you still have them. [00:03:17] Speaker A: I hate you because you're right. [00:03:23] Speaker B: Yeah. RFTB stands for Rights Forgotten Tote Bag or something now. [00:03:29] Speaker C: Yeah. Really trenchant branding. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Right. [00:03:35] Speaker D: It stands for Right for Tote Bag. [00:03:40] Speaker A: It stands for Help me. [00:03:44] Speaker C: Rights for Trans. [00:03:46] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:52] Speaker B: So, yeah, Radio Free Tote Bag, we've already had Nano on here. And so, folks, listening at home, you should already be listening to Radio Free Tote Bag. [00:04:02] Speaker C: But if you're not, collect them all like Pokemon. [00:04:05] Speaker B: If you're not, what the hell? And also, Audrey, give everyone 30 seconds of why they should get it together. [00:04:13] Speaker C: You. You do not realize how long 30 seconds is. That's an incredible period of time that you've given me to discuss this. 30. [00:04:20] Speaker B: Waste of time. [00:04:21] Speaker A: 30 seconds of time. [00:04:25] Speaker C: Radio Free Tote Bag is a show about relationships where you can write in with your questions, queries, quandaries, problems with your metamor. If you got some of those, you write into our show, and we give you heartfelt relationship advice with a goofy twist. [00:04:41] Speaker A: Oh, wacky, wacky, wacky. [00:04:44] Speaker D: You know, sometimes you feel like you and the person that you're with are from two different worlds. Maybe you're from a real world and they're from, like, a digital world. How can. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Questions like that answered on Radio Freedom Pack. [00:04:59] Speaker C: Exactly. My Digimon partner won't dig. Evolve. And, like, I'm just like, you got to get the tags and crests, my guy. You gotta. You gotta figure out what you're good at. You gotta figure out what's at your. At the core of your being. And then you'll find a little piece of stone that slots into a necklace, and then you can proceed. [00:05:17] Speaker B: My Digimon responding to me. You actually don't need the crest. If you would just figure out what's really inside of you. [00:05:24] Speaker C: That's right. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Cut out. And so they kind of throw it back in my face. [00:05:28] Speaker C: I don't. [00:05:29] Speaker B: You know who's right here? [00:05:31] Speaker A: Okay. I'll just say I'm. I did Pokemon, not Digimon. There's a Pokemon. You have to turn your counter upside down to evolve. Like, while it's leveling up, you have to turn your 3Ds or your switch upside down. [00:05:46] Speaker C: That's incredible. [00:05:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that's Insane. [00:05:51] Speaker A: Yes. This is new information to you. I will. I will tell you. I will torture you. I will torture you in private messages after this. You will hate it. [00:06:04] Speaker C: I love a video game mechanic that requires an accelerometer. Love that. Honestly, same Wii bowling. Come on. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Okay, I was. I was hovering on mentioning the Wii. Just there we. Truly. The greatest video game console ever made. [00:06:26] Speaker C: I got it on launch. I. I camped out for that. [00:06:29] Speaker A: It's 3Ds from. Hey, Kennedy. It's 3Ds. [00:06:33] Speaker D: Did you ever get. Did you ever get a modded Wii that would play. [00:06:39] Speaker A: I should have, but I'm a loser. No, let me tell you. [00:06:45] Speaker B: Yes. My buddy had the thing where he had a hard drive. [00:06:49] Speaker D: That's what I had. [00:06:50] Speaker A: Okay. The only. [00:06:51] Speaker C: Every bit of shovelware for that fucking console. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Right? [00:06:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:55] Speaker A: Let's just make it canon. The only reason why I don't appreciate the Wii is because I'm a loser. That's canon. [00:07:02] Speaker C: Now. [00:07:02] Speaker D: That's fine. Yeah. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Yeah. With access to the entire catalog of Wii games, we played almost nothing but Wii Sports, right? [00:07:11] Speaker A: Oh, God. That's correct. Oh, God. That's. There's a reason why I bought Red. [00:07:17] Speaker C: Steel on launch and I beat that game and needlessly difficult. Almost entirely because of the control scheme, right? [00:07:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:27] Speaker D: Yeah, I played Red Steel. [00:07:29] Speaker B: A couple of those games just actually suck on there. [00:07:31] Speaker D: Red Steel was one of those games. Everybody knew before the Wii came out that a game where you could use your remote as a sword would be the most based game of all time. [00:07:43] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:07:43] Speaker D: Like people would say, yeah, you played that Star Wars. Yeah. If they made a game where you could just use the lightsaber and slice people, it would be the greatest game ever made. So Red Steel was the attempt to make that game and nobody realized that. Like, actually, you don't want to do that with your hand. No, you actually don't want. [00:08:02] Speaker B: It's a hard game to make good too. [00:08:05] Speaker D: Yeah. Just do this whip around, whipping your. Around. It turns out you look and feel like a dork in real life. And after Red Steel came out, then no one, almost no one has tried it again because they made the game every nerd wanted. And it turned out. [00:08:24] Speaker B: Oh, it turns out that what you need to make that game good is also one to two years of fencing lessons so that you look like a. [00:08:34] Speaker A: Like I had. So I should try this game actually. Like, I mean, I've actually had that. So I should try Red Steel. [00:08:45] Speaker C: I mean, if you make it a rhythm game, you make it the only game worth having on The Oculus. You make Beat Saber. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah, Beat Saber is cool. [00:08:54] Speaker D: And I heard that Red Steel 2 was better. [00:08:57] Speaker B: I vote for beat. [00:08:58] Speaker C: Okay. [00:08:58] Speaker D: No one played it. [00:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah, bad taste in everybody's mouth. [00:09:02] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. [00:09:03] Speaker C: The Resident Evil 4 port for Wii was actually very good as well. Because you're like, no, I look. [00:09:09] Speaker D: I like. [00:09:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that was good. That was the shit. [00:09:12] Speaker C: Yeah, that ripped. [00:09:13] Speaker B: How do we get here? We're supposed to be talking about Digimon. [00:09:18] Speaker A: The power of editing. Thank you. [00:09:22] Speaker D: We all voted for the Wii. You didn't ask for it, but you got it. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Yes, I vote. My vote matters. My vote matters. [00:09:33] Speaker D: Probably make some kind of yes, but maybe for another time. Which president? Nintendo Wii. Let's move on. [00:09:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Which president is most likely. [00:09:45] Speaker A: I don't know anything about Digimon. Let's talk about Digimon so my mind can be educated about this. [00:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:52] Speaker B: Audrey, what made you want us to talk about Digimon today? It seems it's something that you love. [00:09:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I got put on the spot. You were like, pick two. You like, pick a fandom, Damn it. And I was like, well, I have a show about one, so I should probably do the one that I have a podcast about as a way of cross pollinating audiences. If you. If you get. If you catch my drift, check out data Transfer. Anywhere you find your podcast, convince me. [00:10:19] Speaker A: By the end of this podcast that I was wrong to picking Pokemon. My life. I need you to convince me you. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Gonna find out today because. [00:10:28] Speaker A: Okay, yeah. [00:10:28] Speaker C: Digimon is the. Is the superior. [00:10:31] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:33] Speaker C: It's about stakes. It's about stak. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Prove me wrong. I'm the Pokemon fanatic. Prove me wrong. [00:10:40] Speaker C: Ash Ketchum. [00:10:41] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:10:42] Speaker C: Shows up and he gets his Pikachu. And that's great. We're having a good time. He gets the Charmander. That's fine. Everything's cool. Charmander's in peril. The stakes are his little fire. His tail's gonna go out, and he's gonna. The fate of the of two universes rests on the shoulders of Taichi because it's. They. They're very cute monsters. [00:11:10] Speaker A: Okay, okay, okay. [00:11:11] Speaker C: My season two, I've. I have openly wept twice. Recording for data transfer. I've lived. [00:11:18] Speaker A: It's so sad. [00:11:20] Speaker C: Gets kicked in the face. It's bad. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Okay, let's talk. Okay, let's get into the. [00:11:28] Speaker D: Even if you're a big fan of Pokemon, you would probably acknowledge the narrative of Pokemon is not so important. [00:11:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Like, I've also been convinced by a friend, a coworker Also a friend that. Who grew up on Digimon. Digimon is more ethical than Pokemon. I'm willing to point. [00:11:51] Speaker C: It's a willing partnership between two destined beings to. You know, and, you know, you got a bunch of pairs of destined beings that. That work together to influence the fate of these. Of two worlds. Two whole worlds. [00:12:07] Speaker A: That's more than one and three fourths worlds. [00:12:12] Speaker C: Like, because, like, in Pokemon, he wants to be. It's all in the theme song, baby. I want to be the very best, like no one ever was. I want to go and I want to become the greatest Pokemon trainer of all time. In Digimon, they don't tell you in the theme song. It's just digital monsters. And then it explains to you that they are, in fact, the champions. [00:12:31] Speaker D: Yeah, they have to. We know that they have to change into digital champions to save the digital world. Yeah, I remember that much. [00:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Digimon, a pretty. Pretty deep show. [00:12:48] Speaker C: It's a lot. There's a lot going on in there. [00:12:50] Speaker B: There's a lot going on. I found this fascinating, though, as I alluded to in the opening bit, Digimon was originally created as, like, a Tamagotchi rival. [00:13:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:03] Speaker B: And it was a Tamagotch. It was created to be the masculine Tamagotchi. [00:13:09] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:13:14] Speaker A: So supposed to be the. It was supposed to be the Andrew tatum Tamagotchi. [00:13:23] Speaker B: In 1997. Well, more accurately, 1995 or 1996. That was like, they're. They're softening our boys. [00:13:33] Speaker C: Well, you get. I had a Nano baby was my Tamagotchi. I had the off brand one that's. That's a human child, and it passed away, and I buried it in the backyard. [00:13:45] Speaker A: So when my mom wants to embarrass me, she reminds me that how when I was a little one, when traumagotchi was a thing, I would have a. [00:13:53] Speaker C: Bunch of trauma. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Tamagotchi. [00:13:58] Speaker C: You called it a traumagotchi. [00:14:01] Speaker D: Absolutely. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Drama. Yeah, actually, drama. Gotcha. I had a bunch of them, and you could just hear it cling. Her clingering, like, clinking. Clingy. That's the word I want. And, like, that's something she brings up whenever she wants to embarrass me. I loved it. [00:14:18] Speaker D: And also, you've got to remember that Tamagotchi even was considered a more masculine counterpart to raising an animal. You know, when you get tired of. [00:14:26] Speaker C: It. [00:14:30] Speaker D: You just throw down. [00:14:32] Speaker A: We focus this episode. We are razor focused, hyper focused on the goal here. [00:14:40] Speaker B: Uh, so, yeah, I, I actually, we. We're Doing fine. Audrey. [00:14:45] Speaker C: What. [00:14:46] Speaker B: What else do you like about Digimon, though? [00:14:48] Speaker C: Okay, it's. So we got the stakes. It's like everything that's happening is more important than whatever's happened to Ash Ketchum over there in Pallet Town. The other thing that's great, the character designs I find to be more compelling. Maybe not the Gen one. Like, the Gen one Pokemon shit is pretty unassailable, design wise. But then, like, it just feels more like the most threatening Pokemon in Gen 1 is probably Charizard. I think we can all agree he's a dragon. His tail's on fire. That's pretty intense. Greymon just. Is that from, like, the third episode and just, like, becomes that routinely. You've got a giant wolf, you've got a giant phoenix, you've got a walrus with a horn that turns into a missile. Like, I just. I love the character designs. And, you know, to me, I just bought the hype harder because I think the marketing was a little stronger on it in the States, too, because, like, I was. I was assailed with commercial after commercial being like, digimon, you got to get into it. Let's go. Let's go. Fox Kids, channel 19 in Cincinnati, WXIX. Get in here and watch this to the point where I. I made my parents get me a portable television so that I could watch it on the way to my piano lessons that my sister scheduled for Saturday morning for me because she hated me. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Oh. [00:16:19] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. That's a traumagotchi. [00:16:22] Speaker B: That's a traumagotchi. Traumagotchi. Sounds like. Like a. Like a pranked, but it's much worse. Like a trauma gacha. Like a trauma gachi. And the person is weeping. That's like. You're saying this to, like, they've just been. You've just put them through, like, the worst 24 hours of their whole life. Yeah, that. [00:16:49] Speaker D: That. [00:16:50] Speaker B: That's a show that'll probably. Mr. Beast. Are you listening, Mr. Beast? [00:16:54] Speaker C: No, no, Kennedy. [00:16:55] Speaker A: No, I. No, no. Stop. Stop. We cannot release this episode. We cannot release this episode. Editor, do not release this episode, please. Mankind will be doomed anyways. [00:17:08] Speaker B: You think about it. Linking up two devices and battling your monsters. Voting. [00:17:14] Speaker D: Yeah, of course. [00:17:16] Speaker B: It's just voting. [00:17:18] Speaker C: No, I'm voting. It's voting with your bits. [00:17:22] Speaker A: I don't. Please. [00:17:23] Speaker C: Voting with your giggle bites. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Please take those sentences back. [00:17:28] Speaker D: What if. You know. And of course, the Supreme Court. Let us all dig. Evolve our votes with cash a few years ago. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Okay. [00:17:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:40] Speaker B: Is there. Is there anything else that in particular, you're like. [00:17:43] Speaker C: You're like. You're, like, pushing me. Anything else I love about it? [00:17:47] Speaker B: I'm just saying. Is there anything else you would say is like a hot as. Like a highlight? If you're trying to sell. You're trying to sell Andrew. [00:17:53] Speaker C: Okay. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Because Pokemon's still better, by the way. So up to me. Beat me. You sure? Beat me. [00:18:01] Speaker C: Okay. All right, so let's take a look at the cast of characters and what can be, what you can read, like, who you can identify with. [00:18:12] Speaker A: I love fifth gen. That's the best story. That's the best story. Fifth gen. And see, now let's just. [00:18:19] Speaker C: Compare the first seasons, because that's. I was seven. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:23] Speaker C: And that's. That's when I was there. You know what? [00:18:25] Speaker A: You know what? [00:18:27] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:18:27] Speaker C: You got Ash Ketchum. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:29] Speaker C: You got Misty, who the knows what her last name is. And you got Brock. [00:18:34] Speaker A: Misty. [00:18:35] Speaker C: Brock. Misty. Misty and Brock. Brock. So you can be a little twink with a Pikachu. You can be a girl with some water Pokemon, or you can be a dude, like a kind of a. Like a taller guy with some rock Pokemon. [00:18:53] Speaker A: Right? Okay. Okay. [00:18:54] Speaker C: You need a graveler. You have seven different children in the Digimon universe that you can identify with. There are. There are seven archetypes presented to you. There's the little brother, actually eight, because they find the eighth child in the middle of the first season. They find Karin. [00:19:12] Speaker B: I want the name. [00:19:13] Speaker D: And. [00:19:14] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, the. [00:19:15] Speaker B: The brief synopsis of each of the seven. [00:19:17] Speaker C: Ty wears goggles, is the leader, is paired up with Agumon. Very. And I know those two. [00:19:25] Speaker A: Those two. I know those two. I know. [00:19:27] Speaker C: Yes. His. His whole deal is that he's courageous. He is the crest of courage. Then you got Matt, who's his best friend, but they have this, like, intense rivalry. And our headcanon on that show is that Matt is trans. On data transfer. We always talk about how Matt has T Boy swag and he's paired up with Gabumon. He has the crest of friendship, but he also has some, like, leadership qualities that Ty doesn't have. And so there's this interesting conflict between the two of them where it's like. Like, who's really the leader? Who should we really pay attention to? Matt has better ideas sometimes, but Ty's a little more brash. Right. So you've got that interplay there. You've got Sora, who has the crest of love and totally got shafted character design wise. They were basically like, we need another girl. And did Sora. And it's kind of hard. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Every time you say Sora, I think of Kingdom Hearts. Let's continue on. [00:20:28] Speaker C: You've got tk. Oh, and Sora is paired up with B. Oman. You've got tk, Matt's little brother. His whole deal is that there's a still of him with a submachine gun in the Japanese version that I haven't. I didn't watch that episode, but he has. The child has a gun. That's the other thing that's cool about Digimon. Kids have guns in it. [00:20:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Like Pokemon. They had that one banned episode with the gun. [00:20:55] Speaker B: You have guns occasionally in Pokemon, too? Allegedly. [00:20:59] Speaker C: Allegedly. Hard to say that's for real. [00:21:03] Speaker D: All right. [00:21:04] Speaker C: We have so many more children. Izzy has Tantamon. He's the smart one. He's on the computer all the time. He has the poster spirit. There's Joe, who rapidly became one of my favorite characters. His is the Crest of Reliability. And he's paired up with Gomamon, who's a little seal guy who can summon fish. The greatest of all time. Digimon is actually Gomamon because he is. He has rescued the group innumerable times. He's just an incredible utility player. Doesn't get the love he deserves. We've got Mimi, who is a fashionista and is super cool. She has a pink cowboy hat. She has the crest of kindness. And she is paired up with Palmon, who's a little, like, little plant creature that can shoot vines out of her fingers. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Okay, okay. [00:21:57] Speaker C: And then there's Kari, who has Gotomon, who is basically just an adult human woman in the form of a cat. [00:22:04] Speaker A: I have many questions, but continue, please. No, I don't want. I do not want to ask. I. I just want you to know I have questions. I will never ask these questions. [00:22:15] Speaker D: Sonic fans got questions? All right, Keep going. [00:22:19] Speaker A: Don't call me out like that. [00:22:25] Speaker C: But, yeah, you know, you got this. You got this wonderful cast of characters, and you get to see, you know, you get to see more of yourself in one of them. It's more specific. The show is more specific as well. Pokemon's, like, very broad, I find, in its storytelling. Digimon gets a little more granular. A little more. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? [00:22:50] Speaker B: Who do you see yourself in? [00:22:52] Speaker C: Gosh, I think I'm coming around to see myself as Yole from season two, actually, as we watch through the series, she. That's cheating. From the seven. Okay. From the. From the eight children. [00:23:05] Speaker B: From the first season out of these characters. Don't switch it up. [00:23:11] Speaker C: Why don't I do season two too? Let's go. Let's do 15 kids. Yeah. If I gotta pick one, I'm gonna. I'm gonna pick Mimi because she's an icon. She's a diva. She's. She's everything that I want to be. [00:23:25] Speaker B: And palm on, palm on. [00:23:27] Speaker C: Total ripper. She evolves into. She dig. Evolves into a giant fucking cactus with boxing gloves. So basically a cactar. The coolest thing from Final Fantasy, this. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Cactus, this practice Pokemon. By the way, this cactus Pokemon took a while. [00:23:44] Speaker C: That took a while. There was no cactus Pokemon. [00:23:48] Speaker A: No. Kennedy was Gen 2. Okay. I can't use Kennedy knows what they are as an example. Excuse. Okay, fine, you win. You win. Gen 3. Okay, let's continue on the episode. [00:24:01] Speaker B: So today we're talking about parallel worlds. Secrets that must be guarded. The need to preserve something. [00:24:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:24:14] Speaker B: To maintain order. [00:24:15] Speaker D: Yeah, order. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Why hardly even know her, of course. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Means we're also talking about the John Birch Society today being the. Basically the forces behind a lot of things that are going on right now. Trump's father, former former high ranking member. The John Birch Society. [00:24:45] Speaker D: Everyone old that you know of now that in any of these organizations has roots in the John B. Before there was a Tea Party, just before there was a Heritage foundation, before there was the family going back to even before this, the. The Kennedy era, back to f. To. To Dwight Eisenhower, the John Birch Society existed and they have just kind of seen a. A global cons. I mean if you say global conspiracy to destroy American sovereignty with a one world government, you've though that barely feels new anymore. But it was at one point. [00:25:27] Speaker A: I love living in America. [00:25:30] Speaker C: Somebody had to have the idea to destroy America's sovereignty and form a one world government. Somebody had the idea. [00:25:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, exactly right. Yeah. Before. This was a bunch of different groups ideas. It was one specific group's idea, the John Birch Society, who definitely thought that we needed to do stuff like curb immigration and communism and that this was a spiritual war against the devil itself. [00:25:57] Speaker C: How many children are in the John Birch Society? [00:26:01] Speaker B: Probably a lot. [00:26:02] Speaker A: At least. Look as the math guy, at least 18. Probably more than 19. [00:26:09] Speaker B: I don't think I'm allowed to explicitly say that the John Birch Society captures children and takes them to another world. But I'm going to allow that implication to just sort of openly exist for the rest of the episode. [00:26:25] Speaker A: You just sound like a politician right now. Stop it. [00:26:29] Speaker D: They've been causing chaos in the digital world for as long as there has been one. [00:26:34] Speaker C: That's true. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Yeah. When you think about, like, misinformation online, it all starts with the John. [00:26:42] Speaker D: The John Bird Society was doing online misinformation before there was an online. Think about how hardcore you've got to be for that. [00:26:50] Speaker C: You have to buy equipment, you have to print. [00:26:55] Speaker A: I don't like the words that are being played here. I don't like the things, the discussion. I don't like the words. [00:27:02] Speaker B: One of the early big John Birch Society guys at one point said, and I don't think this was an idle claim. He had had over 10,000 different people come to meetings in his house over some five. [00:27:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Years or something like that. [00:27:22] Speaker C: I'm on Grindr. I have at least that many people over. [00:27:24] Speaker B: To me, I don't think that was an idle claim. That is basically like trying to do social media before social media to just be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, a million people in my living room every month. Bring new people through constantly. You know, I don't like this information. The, the John Birch Society was kind of arguably creating a digital world before there was one. And when we think about, especially in the sense, the sense of like, you know, we think about like the Post Truth Society, right, that we live in. [00:28:07] Speaker C: Now, where information collapse. Right. [00:28:09] Speaker B: We're in total information collapse. It's totally unclear what's real and not anymore. Anyone can just kind of say anything and there will just be people to take it at face value. Trust me, I know. I post dumb shit on the Internet all the time. [00:28:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:22] Speaker A: Sometimes you take it from me, with my permission, with all my vision. But still. [00:28:31] Speaker B: The John Birch Society, again, really at the heart of a lot of this, deviating from accepted scientific norms, educational groundwork, that kind of stuff, they really laid. They really laid the framework to begin that and put into place a lot of the stuff that's going on today. Like I say, Fred Trump was a prominent member, which seems. I don't know, it's like something maybe. [00:29:01] Speaker C: Yeah, seems important. [00:29:05] Speaker B: A lot of the people that, you know, were the architects of the Reagan era were members. A lot of people that were architects of the Bush era were members. There's something to this. Now, the John Birch Society has mostly kind of. I don't think it's entirely gone away or anything, but it's mostly kind of just become kind of a foundation upon which other things are built to a large extent and isn't quite as relevant now as it once was in some ways. But that's only because the Republicans have completely, you know, are just accomplishing all their goals, which is terrifying. [00:29:42] Speaker C: Right? [00:29:42] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:29:42] Speaker B: Right. [00:29:45] Speaker A: Good job, Republican. [00:29:46] Speaker C: End game. They're approaching the end game. [00:29:50] Speaker A: Kill me. [00:29:51] Speaker B: So the idea of a new world order kind of comes from John Birch Society. A lot of anti Semitic conspiracies come from the modern anti Semitic conspiracies. Obviously not. There's older ones too. Come from the John Birch Society. Just a lot of things that, you know, have risen up in the shadows of our world and then sort of taken hold. Much like how in Digimon, there are times where the digital world can no longer be held back because no one's being responsible enough. And now it's spilling over into the real world and having terrible fucking consequences. [00:30:32] Speaker C: Yeah. Myotismon fucking Torah. Rift between the worlds. Yeah. You don't know about my. Come on. He's the, he's the twinkiest vampire outside of Edward Cullen. [00:30:46] Speaker A: And none of those words are in the Bible. [00:30:55] Speaker D: Is in the Bible. [00:30:56] Speaker C: However, traumagotchi's in the Bible. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. Song of Psalms. Yeah. Tamagotchi's in there. [00:31:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Much like, much like John Birch himself, Myotismon employs his nightmare wing attack to deploy bats to, to attack his enemies. [00:31:15] Speaker A: Would you call him a Batman? [00:31:17] Speaker C: You could. I mean, you could, but it's, there's some very specific connotations with a Batman. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Yeah, like bats. [00:31:25] Speaker B: Oh, like Bat Boy. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Okay, okay. [00:31:27] Speaker C: Closer to Bat Boy, if I'm to be perfectly fine. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Continue, continue. [00:31:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker B: So, well, I've got a few little. I've got a few little topics for us to discuss today that sort of merge our two worlds. Digimon and the John Birch Society. [00:31:46] Speaker C: Get Isa Kaid into the John Birch Society. Oh, God. [00:31:50] Speaker D: Yike. [00:31:51] Speaker A: Into one world. [00:31:53] Speaker B: So I, I, I'm gonna kick this off with a pretty, a pretty easy one. Maybe not, actually. I don't know. So Digimon are real. It's announced suddenly. [00:32:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:07] Speaker B: What's the first executive order Trump signs about them? [00:32:11] Speaker C: Okay, okay. I think, I'm thinking that the digidestined Digimon, the ones that are, like, paired off with the kids, separated from the children and put into their. Renditioned. They're renditioned immediately. [00:32:30] Speaker B: A new child separation policy. [00:32:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I see you. Because you're right. [00:32:36] Speaker C: Just rendition to fucking El Salvador within minutes. [00:32:40] Speaker A: Wow. [00:32:42] Speaker D: I've, I've got the exact opposite. Trump creates a strategic digi reserve by investing money directly with Trump. Something, something, something number go up. He won't be too specific. It's just a new reason to give your money to Trump. [00:33:01] Speaker A: Like, I agree with our guests, but also number go up. I'm not sure which one. [00:33:06] Speaker C: I have not found this administration to be too particularly interested. [00:33:11] Speaker B: I really like both these. I'm leaning a little towards Audrey, though, and let me tell you why it's compelling, because Elon. [00:33:19] Speaker C: Thanks, baby. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Digimon is going to pair with him ever. [00:33:23] Speaker C: Well, that's the. That's the tragedy that we learned in season two is that Elon does have a Digimon partner, but he rejected the Digimon partner and treats the Digimon partner very poorly. But, yes, making a good point. Horrible. [00:33:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Wow. I don't know. This is kind of. [00:33:44] Speaker C: Audrey. [00:33:44] Speaker B: The fact that Elon. Elon is going to be against having strategic Digimon reserve. He's gonna start talking immediately about. We. We could make. [00:33:53] Speaker D: I don't. [00:33:53] Speaker B: I don't know how to do an Elon voice, but I'll just. [00:33:56] Speaker C: How to do an Elon. You just kind of talk kind of low fast. [00:34:00] Speaker B: And we could. [00:34:01] Speaker A: We. [00:34:02] Speaker B: We could make a. Our own Digimon if we just. What I. To go to Mars. And the. Some lithium. A whole bunch of lithium. [00:34:13] Speaker C: I wish these. I wish these Digimon would stop being psychos. [00:34:18] Speaker B: I haven't done anything to upset the Digimon and then you. [00:34:22] Speaker C: Right. Specifically antagonize the Digimon. Yeah. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Elon Musk has been specifically antagonizing the Digimon for 20 years since. Well before it's. Well before the rest of us knew about the digiverse. [00:34:35] Speaker D: Before we even knew what PayPal was. Digimon. Yeah, I got it. [00:34:40] Speaker B: That was actually what inspired him to get into finance payment. Payment schemes online, was his experience exploiting the Digimon. But both of these. Both. These are pretty compelling. Yeah. My next question. [00:35:00] Speaker C: This. This. [00:35:01] Speaker B: This one might be a little bit tricky. Are the protagonists of Digimon traditionalists or revolutionaries? Would they join or fight the Birchers? [00:35:13] Speaker C: Oh, see, that's actually kind of difficult. I wonder if there would be a schism among the chosen children, because this is something that. This is some. This is something that happens in the first season is there is a number of times in which they break off and go their own way for a time and have their own little side stories. [00:35:32] Speaker B: What if they arrived on John Birch island, you know, like schism. [00:35:41] Speaker C: So we could end up going here brother against brother. You know what I mean? It could end up like maybe TK Wants to join the revolution because we know at one point he does have an AK47. In his hands. So he's ready to. To rock and roll, to. To win the day. But his brother Matt is a little more conservative and so decides that he wants to try to defend. Like, I could see. I could see there being a breakdown of unity, but then it would take. It would take a greater enemy to unite them once again. [00:36:14] Speaker D: Okay, sounds good. [00:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Let's. Let's break this down at the top level. Then It's. You're thinking Matt might go conservative because it's really. Matt and Ty are gonna. [00:36:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:36:27] Speaker B: Seems like it's like marbles. [00:36:29] Speaker C: They're gonna draft. Yeah, they're gonna draft them. [00:36:31] Speaker D: Digimon Civil War. I got it. [00:36:35] Speaker B: So. So Matt's. Matt's gonna be like, we gotta preserve the traditions of the digital world. [00:36:42] Speaker C: He's gonna. He's gonna. Probably, with their allies in, like, Andromon and Centaurumon, they're gonna work to preserve a more traditional way of digi life. But then you've got people like Elecmon who's particularly interested in, like, childcare, and it's not, you know, valued under, like, a conservative regime. It's hard to take funding for things like that. And so he's going to. He's going to join with TK and probably, I'll say Kari and Sora in. In fighting against the more conservative elements of digi culture. [00:37:21] Speaker B: What about. Where's Mimi fall on this? [00:37:24] Speaker C: Oh, Mimi is at brunch. Mimi is enjoying a mimosa. Mimi's a lib. [00:37:39] Speaker B: Okay. Are all Digimon gonna be considered immigrants in the United States because they come from the digital world? Because Digimon are sort of products of cultural philosophical identities and ideas to some extent. So would some of them get some kind of, you know, would they be given some kind of a birthright type citizenship or. Or are all of them. Again, it's. Every Digimon is an immigrant and must apply for citizen citizenship or residency. [00:38:12] Speaker C: It could be argued that since the very. The first time that computers were connected over any Spanish, like, any distance, that was in the United States. Okay, Right. So the digital. The digital world formed in the sort of spaces between computers. Right. And the first place that that existed was the US Was in the United States. And so I think all Digimon would then have birthright citizenship. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Oh, so what I'm hearing is the digiverse is getting renamed to the Digima America Verse. [00:38:48] Speaker C: America. [00:38:51] Speaker A: I just wanted to add clarification because some people mess this up. Yes, the World Wide Web was Europe, but that was the Development of the Internet which. Yeah, America actually we usa. [00:39:04] Speaker C: We got the Internet. [00:39:05] Speaker A: You did the World Wide Web. We did the Internet. I just wanted that clarification. [00:39:10] Speaker B: We have. [00:39:11] Speaker C: Fair enough. Yeah. [00:39:12] Speaker B: First, which stands. [00:39:13] Speaker C: That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Something I don't know but yeah, it was a Dorpa. Dorpa. [00:39:22] Speaker A: You're Dorpa. You're Dorpa Kennedy. [00:39:28] Speaker B: Yeah, well yeah, no, in this case I think actually now though that means I'm leaning back towards Brandon earlier. [00:39:36] Speaker A: We're building this type of persuasion. [00:39:38] Speaker C: Did you reserve anti persuasion. [00:39:44] Speaker B: Digiverse to be a part of America right away and saying this is, this is ours we'll go to war over now. [00:39:55] Speaker D: Now whether the Digimon have voting rights is a whole new story. [00:39:59] Speaker C: That's true. [00:40:02] Speaker D: Is a territory. [00:40:03] Speaker C: Sure does. Yes, exactly. Does, does the digital world get a senator, two senators and some raps to do they get representation in Congress or. [00:40:15] Speaker B: Because arguably, I mean the digital. There's several different like islands that are. [00:40:20] Speaker C: Yeah, there's File island, there's the Continent server. [00:40:24] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah. [00:40:26] Speaker D: Are the Digimon going to really agitate for their right to vote? Because we haven't let D.C. vote. I mean make new states, there's a lot of gridlock. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Okay. But I'm just going to point out that Washington and D.C. and Puerto Rico have never tried a 50 foot tall fire breathing dragon. [00:40:45] Speaker C: That's what I'm talking about. [00:40:47] Speaker A: What if, look, if Washington D.C. had a 50 foot tall fire breathing dragon, January 6th would have never happened. It would. [00:40:58] Speaker D: Very true. [00:40:59] Speaker B: I want to be clear that I'm definitely not victim blaming anyone for not having a 50 foot tall fire breathing dragon. But I am just merely saying that I think Americans would instantly respect that. I think, I think I, I think that that would instantly grab the attention of Americans. If a 50 foot tall fire breathing dragon was like I want to vote and was like burning down a building. I think that would instantly gravitate towards that. Absolutely. [00:41:29] Speaker C: Dinosaur with armor on his four limbs is just like where's my ballot? [00:41:35] Speaker B: And you're watching bullets just bounce off of them. It's doing nothing. [00:41:44] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:41:48] Speaker C: That'S, that's good. [00:41:50] Speaker B: So, so do we think that Digimon would, would get the right to vote in time? They wouldn't get the right to vote. [00:41:58] Speaker C: Instantly, but it would be like the women's suffrage movement. There would be. [00:42:02] Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. [00:42:04] Speaker C: Exactly. There would, there would be post office bombings but they wouldn't have to build the bombs. They would just go Hornbuster. And then the fucking post office would explode. [00:42:14] Speaker A: And it would be something where cities and states would give it free first, like Montana, woman, the right to vote. And then they had the first woman house representative. And she was the one who gave the legislation for the amendment that gave all women the right to vote. It would be a gradual. [00:42:34] Speaker D: What would be the. [00:42:35] Speaker B: What would be the first state that would give Digimon the right to vote in this, ooh, scenario where Nevada. [00:42:43] Speaker D: Nevada. Nevada was also my first Nevada supremacy. [00:42:48] Speaker A: I grew up in Las Vegas, baby. [00:42:53] Speaker D: I was briefly thinking about Massachusetts as a close second. [00:42:56] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:42:58] Speaker A: It would be. It would be my home. It would be Vegas, baby. My home. [00:43:03] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. Nevada. [00:43:07] Speaker C: Oriented state. I think people are winning, baby. Yeah. [00:43:13] Speaker B: I think it would probably be like Nevada and Oregon and New Mexico. Then California would be like, oh, I guess progressive states are doing this. [00:43:23] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:43:24] Speaker B: They probably hold out. They wait for Washington. [00:43:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:28] Speaker D: Massachusetts is somewhere in this top 5, 6, 7. [00:43:31] Speaker C: In this scenario is gruesome. [00:43:33] Speaker D: Gavin, the governor, Everyone else is doing this, say what? [00:43:37] Speaker C: In this scenario is gruesome. Gavin, the governor of California, he's almost done. [00:43:42] Speaker D: He's got a few months left. He's got free hand to do whatever he. Whatever he truly wants. He's a lame duck. [00:43:49] Speaker C: He is. I. I want to believe in his heart he would ally with devimon. I think, I think it's. I think it's no good. What's going on over there. [00:43:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I think, I think California would be like six. Yeah. I think it would be like, you'd have. You'd have like five. Five other states go first. Boston or Massachusetts number five. Because they're like, we want to be the first east coast state to do. Do it. [00:44:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:15] Speaker B: And then. And then California, it bounces back because California is like, the east coast is starting to do it. [00:44:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:21] Speaker B: We're gonna look behind. We're gonna look like dipshits. If we don't do this right now. [00:44:28] Speaker C: If we don't encourage Bermond to vote, we're gonna look like jackasses. [00:44:37] Speaker B: Okay, now assume Digimon aren't out in the open. Okay, let's go back to. Let's take a step back as we were first kind of assuming that we were kind of joking that there would be people that knew about it before it's publicly announced. Let's go back to when. Before it's in the. Out in the open, when we're in. [00:44:55] Speaker C: Digimon ass Digimon tell. [00:44:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Be a left or right wing conspiracy oh. [00:45:06] Speaker C: Oh my God. I had. Wow. Okay. I'm thinking that it would be like I'm somehow, I'm trying to link this to like anti vaxxers and because it's like people seeing in the computer, you. [00:45:23] Speaker B: Know what I mean? [00:45:24] Speaker C: It's people who are like, you know, it's like they saw Bonzi Buddy and they're like, he's alive, real in the computer. He's evolving. [00:45:38] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:45:38] Speaker A: I'm going left. [00:45:39] Speaker C: It's going to be left wing conspiracy. [00:45:41] Speaker D: Yeah, I, I lean towards left wing only because I, I also, it's a little more creative because almost everything is a right wing conspiracy. I could just see a big left wing conspiracy contingent or Digimon being a tool of social control or it to be something that scrambles your brain and gives you cancer. You hug one of these little animal or it's bad for the environment. There would just be, there would just be the same. The, the, the RFK wing of the left would be stirred up about Digimon. I think, you know, every time, every. [00:46:17] Speaker B: Time you hang out with your little digital friend there, an entire swimming pool's worth of clean water. [00:46:27] Speaker A: All I'm saying is our Digimon on 5G. [00:46:32] Speaker C: Yeah. See? Exactly. [00:46:34] Speaker B: Oh, I don't. Now I'm swinging back towards right wing, actually. The cell phone towers. [00:46:40] Speaker C: Yeah. The transmission of the digital monsters. [00:46:44] Speaker D: The Digimon are literally 5G made real. Know how you make anime real? They made 5G real and there's Digimon. [00:46:51] Speaker A: I can't believe they made 5G real. [00:46:56] Speaker C: And then, and then the right wing would latch on specifically to like Myotismon and Davimon and Mallow. Myotismon and Adamon, who is like Elvis for some reason in the English dub. And they would latch onto these evil Digimon and that's. They would be like, that's, that's all there is. But then there would be, you know, the Digimon rights movement. And then, you know, forward as, as the good Digimon came out of the digital world and came out of the shadows. [00:47:29] Speaker B: Yeah. There'd be speeches about how when they send them from the digital world, they're. [00:47:35] Speaker C: Not setting their best. [00:47:39] Speaker A: I hate this podcast so much. [00:47:42] Speaker C: They bring virus types, they bring. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:48] Speaker C: They bring crimson lightning. They bring, they bring giant novelty sized syringes that shoot out of a little guy who looks like a bowling ball with wings. [00:48:00] Speaker A: A little guy I like to call the bowling ball with wings. [00:48:04] Speaker C: Check out Demi devimon. Take a look at Demi devimon. Look at this character design. Yeah, like D, E, M, I, D E, V, I, M, O, N. Oh, yeah. [00:48:15] Speaker A: No. Every word you said is the truth. [00:48:17] Speaker C: That's a bowling ball. [00:48:18] Speaker A: That's a bowling ball. [00:48:19] Speaker C: That's a damn bowling ball. [00:48:21] Speaker B: What would. What would Digimon Truthers be called? [00:48:26] Speaker C: I think the first ones would be the digidestined. [00:48:31] Speaker A: That was better than anything we came up with. [00:48:35] Speaker D: I mean, Digit Truthers seems maybe too obvious or too. Maybe it's the right amount of obvious if you were to just say, look up digitruth.info or something like that on a bumper sticker what you're in for. [00:48:54] Speaker A: Did your mom maybe. [00:48:57] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:49:01] Speaker C: Oh, wow. What would that. Because it's like, there's the technology aspect of it. There's the trauma. Gotcha. Of it all, there's the best not. [00:49:13] Speaker A: Become a main wart. [00:49:15] Speaker C: I'm. I am taking traumagotchi into the world. I am carrying this in my heart. You have given me such a gift today, and I thank you for that. And I will thank you for all my days. [00:49:27] Speaker A: My days to Confused npc. I'm enemy. No, I'm just confused. Continue. But I'm going to be dancing Confused to those watching videos. [00:49:39] Speaker C: Yeah, Digital Warriors. They call themselves Digital Warriors. [00:49:46] Speaker A: Okay, that one makes sense. [00:49:49] Speaker B: I was also gonna go with. I would think there would be a branch that would call themselves the Digimen. [00:49:57] Speaker D: Ah. [00:49:57] Speaker C: Oh, let's see what you've done. I like it. I see what you've done with the place. [00:50:04] Speaker A: Andrew Tate would be a digiman. [00:50:07] Speaker B: Yeah. In spite of it. It, you know, of course, comes out later that he. He distanced himself from his Digimon partner and, you know. [00:50:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, like. And nobody cares about that when it. [00:50:23] Speaker B: Comes out, but he claims. [00:50:24] Speaker C: He. [00:50:25] Speaker B: He claims he wants rights for Digimon whenever asked. [00:50:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:29] Speaker B: What a fella. Okay. So in our world, the digiverse is created directly by the John Birch Society. [00:50:41] Speaker C: Okay. [00:50:41] Speaker B: So when seven champions get sucked into the digiverse, they have to be politicians from our world. [00:50:53] Speaker D: Well, that's. [00:50:56] Speaker A: So I would never want my friends to be a politician. [00:50:59] Speaker B: Come up with. With seven Champions. [00:51:02] Speaker D: Oh, God. Are they anywhere from history or current day? [00:51:06] Speaker B: I'm gonna say since the time of the John Birch Society. So John Birch Society is founded roughly beginning of 1960. Okay, so nowhere for him slightly before that. But we'll just say for the purposes of thinking of political figures, just think 1960 onwards. [00:51:21] Speaker C: Okay, now, do they have to be, like, sitting politicians? Could they be candidates? Could they be like just analysts, like people adjacent to politics. [00:51:32] Speaker B: Something meaningful for American politics. So if. If you can make a good case that this person ran and did not win, like, you could probably make a compelling case that Ralph Nader. [00:51:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Fair. [00:51:47] Speaker B: Gets sucked into the digiverse in this scenario. To fight the John Birch digiverse. [00:51:53] Speaker D: Yeah. The standard we often use is that they have to have won a election. But I think let's lower this standard. They just have to be relevant. [00:52:05] Speaker B: Yeah. If you can make a case that they have influenced American politics. [00:52:09] Speaker D: All right, let's think. [00:52:10] Speaker C: I mean, in some small way, I was going to say Izzy would be Will Stancil because he's a nerd. [00:52:21] Speaker D: That's what we're using. Our number one draft pick on Will stance. [00:52:25] Speaker C: Are we really? [00:52:28] Speaker A: This is what your life has put you down to. These. Your life choices have led you here. You can be part to your last save. [00:52:39] Speaker B: Will Stancil's spirit monster thing would be spreadsheet or something. [00:52:48] Speaker A: This is Digimon. This is. [00:52:54] Speaker D: It's just the number going down. [00:52:56] Speaker C: Yep. [00:52:58] Speaker B: No, no, no. It's turned around so it looks like the number's going up. [00:53:01] Speaker D: Yeah. Okay. [00:53:05] Speaker A: Oh, you choose the role. [00:53:10] Speaker C: I'm saying, like the gallant, you know, like, courageous kind of leader figure. This. Oh, man, I'm gonna. God, I'm gonna get so roasted. That's gotta be somebody like a jfk, right? [00:53:24] Speaker D: Maybe. [00:53:24] Speaker C: You know what I'm saying? [00:53:25] Speaker D: You know, I have a. [00:53:26] Speaker C: Optimistic, like, you know. Yeah. [00:53:30] Speaker D: Well, we've all got. We've all got. Because there's. We've all got a few. A little room to get our own picks on here. I actually think Erie Goldwater should be one of the. The people because he didn't like them. They butted heads as time went on. [00:53:48] Speaker C: With the John Birch Society. Okay, cool. [00:53:50] Speaker D: He thought. [00:53:51] Speaker C: He thought maybe that's. [00:53:52] Speaker D: Joe was a. He was a conservative who thought that the influence of religion and conspiracy theories would eventually take over the Republican Party. And he was right. So give him a chance to go back and get digital and stop this from going down. [00:54:09] Speaker B: I think his Digimon would be like a marble statue. [00:54:13] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:54:15] Speaker C: Classic monster. [00:54:17] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:54:20] Speaker B: Return man. [00:54:24] Speaker C: I'm gonna put him in like the. The crest of reliability zone. [00:54:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:54:29] Speaker D: Who's. That's perfect. [00:54:31] Speaker B: Who. [00:54:31] Speaker D: Who has gotten. [00:54:33] Speaker B: Who have. [00:54:33] Speaker D: Who. Who do those people felt most threatened by? Who got us closest to a one world government? Who? Almost no one. [00:54:42] Speaker B: I. I don't know, but I think a good. I think a good draft pick. [00:54:46] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:54:46] Speaker B: In Terms of. Not for the same reasons, but who do they feel threatened by? This one works for would be Ilhan Omar. [00:54:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:57] Speaker B: She needs a Digimon. [00:54:59] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. [00:55:01] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:55:01] Speaker B: I feel like she would have, like, a sea creature of some kind. [00:55:04] Speaker C: Okay. [00:55:05] Speaker B: I don't know. Does anyone vibe with that? [00:55:07] Speaker D: Yeah, I think that's. [00:55:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:09] Speaker A: No, I think that's. That's very good. [00:55:11] Speaker C: She would have, like a. Yeah. Like a beta mon that digivolves into, like a seadramon. [00:55:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:19] Speaker D: Should we give Jesse Ventura a Digimon? [00:55:23] Speaker C: Absolutely. Nanny. [00:55:27] Speaker B: We counted. We. We did. Even though I hated it. We counted the team. [00:55:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:55:32] Speaker B: So Will Stancil's in the team. [00:55:34] Speaker A: Will Stancil. [00:55:35] Speaker C: We need a new held office. [00:55:39] Speaker B: AFK yet. [00:55:40] Speaker D: It's jfk. [00:55:41] Speaker B: Barry Goldwater. [00:55:43] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:55:43] Speaker B: Ilhan Omar. [00:55:44] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:55:45] Speaker C: Maybe Crest of Hope. Crest of Hope for. For Illinois, I think. Liability for Goldwater. [00:55:55] Speaker B: Crest of. [00:55:56] Speaker C: Of knowledge. The crest of self suck. [00:56:00] Speaker B: The crest of narcissism. [00:56:06] Speaker C: Oh, God. That leaves this Crest of Knowledge. [00:56:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:10] Speaker B: Crest of Knowledge. I get. That's the library. I can't do that. [00:56:15] Speaker D: There you go. [00:56:15] Speaker B: No, no, no. We gotta give him something else. [00:56:18] Speaker D: Okay. [00:56:21] Speaker C: Yeah, well, that was. That's the Izzy comp. Is Knowledge good at his role. That's true. Maybe he's like a shitty version of, like a digidestin. [00:56:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:56:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:33] Speaker A: This Will Stanchal chart. [00:56:36] Speaker D: All right. [00:56:37] Speaker B: We were just. We were just tagging in someone good before I started writing them down. Oh, Jesse Ventura. [00:56:42] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:56:42] Speaker C: Yes. Maybe he'd have a different. Maybe it would be like the crest of might. You know, Maybe this has, like. Maybe the American digidestined have, like, a different set of crests. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Yeah. In fact. Okay. Will Stancil has the crest of. I've got it. [00:56:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:58] Speaker B: This is perfect for both him and the American version. He's got the crest of certainty. [00:57:03] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. [00:57:06] Speaker C: Now you're cooking. God damn. [00:57:08] Speaker A: I will give. Won't stencil that, as I call him, won't sense. [00:57:15] Speaker B: Jesse Ventura. Yeah, I agree. He's got this. He's got the crest of. [00:57:20] Speaker D: He's got. [00:57:21] Speaker C: I got the crystal. My. Yeah. Juice. Crest of Juice. [00:57:26] Speaker A: I don't want to hear about the Crest of Juice. I do not want to hear about. [00:57:29] Speaker C: The crest of that juice. [00:57:31] Speaker A: Oh, no, I don't. I gave you one job to not mention the Crest of Juice. [00:57:39] Speaker B: I think he's got the crest of Juice. [00:57:41] Speaker C: Yeah. I think it's a crust. [00:57:44] Speaker A: I'm looking at these notes right now. [00:57:48] Speaker B: Juice with the crest of juice. [00:57:52] Speaker C: Huh. [00:57:53] Speaker B: And what kind of juiced up creature Just Nanimon. [00:57:58] Speaker C: Nanimon. There's already a Digimon for this. Another bowling ball creature. It's one of those character designs that's like a hit. It's one of those character designs that's like a head with arms and legs sticking out of it, but it looks like a biker. Like, it's got, like, chops. [00:58:15] Speaker A: And we make fun of Pokemon for the Keyring. Pokemon for the Keyring Pokemon. You have at least two bowling balls. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Like, oh, yeah. So many bowling balls. [00:58:26] Speaker A: Why do you have so many bowling balls in your franchise? [00:58:30] Speaker C: Because it's important. It's important representation for all the bowling ball kids out there. [00:58:36] Speaker A: I mean, wow. Okay, I guess. You know what? I can't argue. I'm sorry for being so judgmental. I'm sorry for my ignorance. Let's continue on with all these stupid crests. [00:58:46] Speaker D: I've got. I've got a strange choice, but when you think about it, Joshua Collins should be in the digital world. This. This Josh for Congress had shitposting power before ChatGPT existed and was just unstoppable as a poster. You remember the socialist truck? [00:59:05] Speaker B: He's so far disgraced, though, now. [00:59:08] Speaker D: Oh, oh, did he do something to get super canceled? [00:59:12] Speaker B: He's just been. I don't know about super canceled. He's definitely at least semi canceled. [00:59:17] Speaker D: Who's. Who's our. Who's the most ferocious? And a non stop poster that's available because who can keep up with the frequency Drill world. [00:59:30] Speaker A: Okay, I'm looking at. [00:59:31] Speaker C: You know what, Drill? [00:59:33] Speaker A: You're the only one. I'm judging you, Drill. I'm drugging judging you. Audrey. [00:59:39] Speaker C: You called me Drill. Damn. [00:59:41] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I guess. [00:59:43] Speaker B: Wait, wait. I've got. Hold on. This is. You're all gonna agree with me on this? Okay, Nina Turner. [00:59:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:50] Speaker B: All right. [00:59:50] Speaker C: Nina Turner. Absolutely. Yes. [00:59:53] Speaker D: All right. [00:59:55] Speaker C: Wellness. [00:59:56] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need a no lifer. We need a no life. [01:00:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bonus. Bonus character. There is. There is an aged mentor character, Jennai, who sort of, like, pops in every once in a while and gives the kids wisdom and guidance. [01:00:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:00:14] Speaker C: But is kind of a doofus on a couple issues and, like, is. Is, you know, sometimes easy to disagree with on. On key issues. And I'm going to go with Bernie Sanders for Jenna. [01:00:28] Speaker B: That's harsh. But fair. That's pretty. [01:00:32] Speaker D: Bernie in the Core 7. [01:00:34] Speaker B: No, he's Jenna. [01:00:35] Speaker C: He's Jenna. Yeah. He's the mentor. [01:00:37] Speaker B: He's the mentor. [01:00:38] Speaker D: Fine. [01:00:39] Speaker B: He's the Zordon of. [01:00:41] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:00:42] Speaker C: Yes, yes. He gets a cool braid. He Gets to have a cool braid like a Jedi. [01:00:48] Speaker A: 50% of Digimon belong to 80 people in the world. We have to fix this. [01:00:58] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:01:02] Speaker B: What, what crest are we giving Nina Turner? [01:01:06] Speaker C: The crest of tenacity. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:01:09] Speaker B: All right. Tenacity. What kind of creature is this? [01:01:13] Speaker C: Oh, I'm thinking like some like a thorny bush creature, you know what I'm saying? Like some kind of like plant creature that's like thorny on the outside but with a heart of gold. Maybe with the heart of gold. [01:01:30] Speaker D: Sort of some sort of cactus based digital. [01:01:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:01:34] Speaker D: All right. [01:01:34] Speaker C: I'm thinking shrubbier than a cactus. Cuz we're cuz like this is the rookie form. [01:01:39] Speaker B: Yeah, like a little, like a little rose bush. [01:01:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:43] Speaker D: Is there, is there anyone from the establishment world of, of politics? We have a lot of outsiders here. [01:01:51] Speaker C: That's true. [01:01:52] Speaker D: We want, do we want some. Someone who is. Has a more authoritative gear to, to say. [01:01:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I can think of someone who's a little bit more of an insider. You got Tim Walls. [01:02:05] Speaker C: Tim Walls. [01:02:08] Speaker B: You would have like a football. Football Digimon. [01:02:12] Speaker C: Like a little. Oh, yeah, helmet. Mostly just a helmet. It's just a football helmet with arms and legs. [01:02:20] Speaker B: There's a little set of shoulder pads underneath. But the, the set of shoulder pads is like way too small. [01:02:31] Speaker C: Body rest of getting it, Chris. The crest of getting some. You know what I'm saying? [01:02:37] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I think you have to give Tim Walls the crest of friendship. Actually. He's from the. [01:02:43] Speaker C: Okay, yeah, no, that's good, that's good. [01:02:45] Speaker A: He's from Minnesota. [01:02:47] Speaker C: I love that. That's perfect. [01:02:49] Speaker B: One more champion. [01:02:50] Speaker A: Fun fact on Tim. [01:02:51] Speaker C: One more, one more. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Got into Congress, he won an upset election. [01:02:57] Speaker B: He's a friendship. Right? [01:02:59] Speaker C: Okay, give him back to me. Give me, give me who we got so far? [01:03:02] Speaker B: All right, so we've got Jesse Ventura, who I'm declaring the tie of this group right away. [01:03:07] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:03:08] Speaker B: Barry Goldwater, who I'm declaring the mat of this group right away. [01:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:13] Speaker B: We've got Will Stancil, who's our Izzy. We've got Ilhan Omar, we've got Nina Turner, we've got Tim Walls. So we need one more person to tie the room together. [01:03:26] Speaker C: Doesn't have we. We need a hapless baby who needs to be protected. [01:03:30] Speaker D: We need a tk TK Donkey against misinformation. But every time they try it, we're like, misinformation is just going to win. [01:03:44] Speaker A: The Democrats. Like all of them. [01:03:47] Speaker C: Every Democrat. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do a lot of People for this poor innocent Elizabeth Warren. Like a lot of people. Actually. [01:04:04] Speaker C: Something in me wants to say a chaos pick and be like Matt Gates. [01:04:13] Speaker A: You know what? You know what? That's the funniest option. Therefore it the right option. That is the funniest option. Yeah. Yeah, let's go ahead. [01:04:24] Speaker B: Maybe we need. Yeah, maybe we need a chaos pick. I don't know about him though, because he's not. [01:04:29] Speaker C: He's. It's no good. [01:04:30] Speaker D: I don't know if. I don't. I just don't know if Gates is good for team chemistry. I think. Yeah, he, Stancil is going to look down on Gates. [01:04:39] Speaker C: Yeah, Will stole. [01:04:41] Speaker D: If Will Stancil isn't the butt monkey of your group. You've got too many butt monkeys. [01:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah, he should be the punching bag. What are you talking about? [01:04:52] Speaker C: Oh, God. Rand Paul. [01:05:00] Speaker B: Why are you doing this? John Betterman. [01:05:03] Speaker C: Okay, yeah, no, that's perfect. That's perfect. [01:05:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, John it. [01:05:08] Speaker C: John better. John Fetterman's the hapless baby. [01:05:11] Speaker A: Why do I do this Podcast? Why do I do this? Okay, John Fenneman. Sure. John Fenneman with Nina Turner both teamed up together. There's nothing that could. They one thing that could go wrong. [01:05:22] Speaker C: You know, you need inter part. You need internecine conflict among the digidestined. This is the thing that happens. [01:05:29] Speaker B: He. He's. He gets the crest of the military industrial complex. [01:05:33] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, perfect. [01:05:37] Speaker C: Fuck yeah. [01:05:39] Speaker D: I really think Jesse drags this team to victory. [01:05:42] Speaker A: Let's move on. [01:05:44] Speaker C: Do everything in his power. [01:05:47] Speaker D: But not right away. I think you're looking at, oh, I don't know how many episodes are in a season of an anime. [01:05:54] Speaker C: 52 episodes. [01:05:55] Speaker D: Yeah. You're looking at a 52 episode journey with this group along the way. [01:06:01] Speaker A: I'm into one piece. So I assume all anime have over a hundred. A thousand one hundred episodes. So like all anime have that. Right. [01:06:12] Speaker B: Digimon, by the way, in my mind is a. A sentient hoodie with an anti Arab sentiment written. [01:06:19] Speaker A: Oh, that is a stance. That's not a Digimon Kennedy. That is just a stand. That is a straight up stand. [01:06:27] Speaker B: No, because this has a face and it follows him around like. [01:06:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it just lumbers around behind him. It's way too big for a rookie and it just lumbers around behind him. [01:06:39] Speaker A: I feel the sleeves. Really, really long sleeves. I feel like some very long sleeves are touching me. This must be the walk of an enemy. Stand, please. [01:06:52] Speaker B: Well, I'm pleased to say we voted. [01:06:56] Speaker D: We've done our duty. [01:06:57] Speaker C: Today. [01:06:57] Speaker A: We voted. We voted. [01:07:02] Speaker B: We've done our duty. We have. We have fulfilled our civic obligations here today on this podcast. All of you listeners have done more civic obligations as well. Thank you for voting along with us. Audrey. Where can people vote for you? 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