Episode 308 — Assuming Through Accents

[Episode 308 — Assuming Through Accents]

What did she mean by first-generation white American? Are her parents white immigrants or something? What accent did she really mean?

[Episode 269 — White Dude In A Dashiki]

White people in calavera makeup is usually ok, but that's pretty much just from Day of the Dead being so close to Halloween that it's like whatever, same shit. That parade looks iffy, actually--I see a lot of white people and no Latinos, which is problematic for an event that openly copies our shit, but maybe that's jus the photographer/editor only choosing white people for close-ups. On the fully terrible end of the spectrum, white people celebrating Cinco de Mayo is almost always fucking racist as shit.

[Episode 277 — Mexican American or Mexican National]

YO CALIFORNIA IS MEXICO AND MEXICANS BEEN IN CALIFORNIA/THE WHOLE SOUTHWEST SINCE WAY BEFORE GRINGOS WHY DO THESE IDIOTS THINK ALL THESE PLACES HAVE SPANISH NAMES UGH WHITE PEOPLE

[Episode 106 — Rainbow Party Pitch]

I really wish Mookie Blaiklock had been there for the trumpet video, woulda nailed the guy's voice and cadence.

[Episode 9 — Why Every Movie Plot Follows Weirdly Specific Rules]

About the question of whether the Hollywood timing structure is intrinsically what we want from movies or just what we've learned through decades of movies like that--I think it's definitely the latter, because of Bollywood. The average Bollywood movie is like 2.5 to 3 hours, with an intermission halfway through. And Bollywood movies are as popular in South Asia as Hollywood movies are here.

[Episode 152.5 — 11/01/13 TWO CHARTED 91]

I looked it up, the lyric's "I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire."

[Episode 268 — Blue-eyed Soul]

I think David Bowie was one of the first guys they referred to as "blue-eyed soul" but I think he himself said he did "plastic soul" because his lyrics were about like, fashion and emptiness and shit.

[Episode 152 — Overture]

Best use of Bolero in a movie:

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[Episode 261 — Kountry Lane]

They play old shit like California Love every now and then too.

[Episode 261 — Kountry Lane]

93.1 JAMZ, Madison's number one for hip-hop! *Katy Perry plays*

[Episode 8 — Lyndon B. Johnson]

Bunghole pants convo is a classic

[Episode 257 — Sock Monkeys]

Sock monkeys are some chicken and egg shit when you think about it. Blackface was probably intended to caricaturize black people to look more like monkeys, so I bet the sock monkeys try to claim seniority but they can't win. It's just a bad look nowadays.

[Episode 253 — Afraid of the Hood]

Yeah yall got it right. In a dangerous, mostly non-white neighborhood, the white people are probably much safer than the nonwhite people. People who do crimes know that the cops are way more likely to actually investigate shit when it happens to a white person, so why take that risk? But only a racist asshole would brag about benefiting from that.

[Episode 250 — Mimicking Accents]

"you love to lie" lolololol

[Episode 102 — Satan's Face]

Is there a bonus episode with a scene about buzzfeed waiting for us? pretty please fingers crossed

[Episode 248 — Todd's Life 2.0]

I wonder who Eric recorded with first, Comedy Bang Bang or Shots Fired...

[Episode 102 — Satan's Face]

Just like the last Mookie episode with the ranting guy, I knew he'd jump at that Juggalo character.

Such a great ear for cadence, he's amazing.

[Episode 252 — Ex-Patriot vs. Undocumented Immigrant]

Think yall mean expatriate. An ex-patriot would be Aaron Hernandez.

 

On the real, I think expatriate applies to people who live in another country but don't consider it their home and don't want to become citizens there.

 

If we're using Coming to America terms for people who come to America, we gotta call them students.

[Episode 149 — Oprah Voices]

Howard's Lincoln sounds like Mickey Mouse

[Episode 251 — The Cotton Gin]

The Alamo is only famous because Davy Crockett died there. Nobody gives a fuck about Goliad because no celebrities died in it.

[Episode 6 — Origin Stories]

I dunno if this is true but I heard that European explorers and colonists got a ton of STDs from the Native Americans, especially the Spaniards in Latin America where there was more contact sooner, before all the natives died from European plagues.

[Episode 250 — Mimicking Accents]

Shoutout to North Texas!

[Episode 248 — Internalized Racism]

Tru Confessions: I used to make Mexican jokes about myself and laugh along when other people made them at me (which happened all the time) and I'm not even Mexican, I'm Venezuelan-Cuban. I also started going by Andy instead of Andres when I was like 10 because I was sick of people not being able to pronounce it. I let myself be colonized sorry yall.

[Episode 246 — Arrested Development]

I mean, considering that pretty much the first antihero was literally the Devil (shoutout John Milton) I think people just love bad boys regardless

[Episode 43 — Let's Hop Out and Kill Grandpa]

Quick level up before you come back from the cliffhanger!