Episode 231 - The Big Leagues (ft. Sage)

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Welcome back to Here's What I Don't Get Investigates. This week: The Closing Time Bandit. A mischievous cretin that stalks restaurant establishments that are about to close. He then slinks in just as employees get that "I get to go home" feeling and that's when he strikes. Sometimes it's a gauge of will. Just a taco or two and a drink. Other times he seems almost angry, ordering one of everything. Becoming combative when they push back. "The customer is always right" he yells as he forces them to service him. Well, tonight we have an exclusive interview with him. Prepare as we peer into his twisted mind, right after these messages.

- The Spirit of the Game
- Services Being Pushed Onto the Consumer
- Stoner Comedies

Here in America we like watching people that are actually good at the sport play it, not your neighbor Jim. So when the biggest soccer teams in Europe decided to team up to make a new league, you know, so the best players can play each other instead of sitting on a bench while the third string takes care of whatever dumpy team they're playing, all the fans called foul. They said that it was greedy! It was against the "Spirit of the Game". Then they popped open their team's official beer and watched a commercial of their team's star player selling Gatorade before buying booking a vacation to Fiji with discount code TEAMNUMBER1.

Service is a funny word these days. It comes from the word "serve" but has been bastardized. When was the last time a Google "service" did something for you instead of on behalf of its board of directors? How many times has a "service" removed a feature you actually used because it wasn't popular enough? Think about the Terms of Service. You pay for the service, but they present a contract full of rules for you to follow? Sounds shady to me.

What do stoners like? Aside from Doritos and Burgers with Grilled Cheese sandwiches as buns, they like a good laugh. There's not stoner horror movies or stoner dramas the way there are stoner comedies. Unfortunately the writers of these comedies are usually just as blazed as their protagonists so the "comedy" is just things happening. No set ups and pay off. No rule of three. No timely callbacks. Just "funny monkey" or "dude got hit in the balls".

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Episode 230 - Fill The Jar (ft. Madcucks)

Hey kids, it's time to get wacky with the host of Here's What I Don't Get: Madcucks! On today's episode Madcucks teaches you all about the "R" word: Respect! But first, an exciting look into Madcucks' house! There are all kinds of types of houses you can live in including apartments, condos, duplexes, and even mansions! The one that Madcucks lives in is called a "shed" and it's very cozy! Sometimes he even invites friends over to have fun! Right now, Stacy the Crack Whore is inside having a party with Madcucks and Hobo Jim from down the street! Maybe one day we'll go inside, but for now let's go back to the studio and start the show!

- People Hijacking Your Arguments
- Not Respecting Twitch Streamers
- Small Bathrooms

The problem with the internet is that it's considered a "public" space. Therefore some denizens feel the need to patrol and police the place to make themselves feel important. You can ask a simple question like "which are better, apples or oranges?" and immediately get mobbed by a Fruit Lives activist and an Anti-Fruit nutcase both of whom feel that you're literally causing them harm by typing words. Then, all of a sudden it's not about you anymore. They're essentially fighting in front of your house, but when you ask them to leave, they say "technically this is public property!"

R-E-S-P-E-C-T what does it mean to Twitch streamers? Uh, about the price of a monthly channel subscription if you have any basic manners. Hot tubs aren't exactly cheap, buddy. Donate the bits if you want to see the tits. These streamers pour their heart and soul into their purple-lit sets with Christmas lights and a wall that you can get your name written on. Think of all the time it takes to wipe sharpie off of their cleavage after all those simps donate to get "KEKW" written on it. Think of all the time it takes to organize an Amazon Wishlist of things they want you to buy them! Please, all they're asking is for you to slip some respect into their waistband.

There's a reason they call it "relieving yourself". It should be relieving! I shouldn't be cramped into a pretzel shape just to fit a poorly designed bathroom. There's nothing more depressing than a shower head at eye level. Even worse when it's not your own place. Even been in a hotel where the door blocks the sink? They exist. What I'm saying is we need to think bigger. They call it a throne for a reason. It should be treated as royalty. I want embroidered drapes! Polar bear fur rugs! A bidet that uses champagne! A shower to hold all the whisky bottles I want!

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Episode 229 - I'm Da God

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Finally you can use your hard earned money on something that will actually be useful! Introducing: SteakCoin! That's right, but those bot-gotten GPUs to good use mining the hottest new cryptocurrency! SteakCoin is the ONLY cryptocurrency that you can cash out as medium-rare steak at any butcher or deli. Buy now and we'll throw in an equal amount of Whiskereum, the only cryptocurrency that can be mined from empty bottles of whiskey. A bottle of Bourbon is worth 0.5 Wsks, Single Malt Scotches are worth 1.25 Wsks, and Peanut Butter-flavored whiskeys get you banned from the mining app! Get blackout drunk and make money at the same time! Just like that bachelor party you'll never speak of again!

- Fake Cameras
- Hate Speech Filters
- Censoring Adult Media
- Accident Babies

More and more our movies are not made by people holding equipment aimed at other people or even inanimate objects. No, the camera is keyframed to dolly in on a big robot or alien mothership, and it's smoother than Egyptian cotton. Or it's floating in the air, perfectly still. Or it's doing a 720° spin into a double corkscrew like its a gosh dang rollercoaster. Funny enough it's these perfectly smooth, impossible camera movements that take break my immersion instead of knowing some guy was holding a camera at actors.

Online gaming and name-calling is the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of the internet. And of course some idiot with a peanut allergy can't take it and wants to get rid of it, so he's created a kernel-level CPU chip to analyze you voice with AI processing so you can't even say "Reese's" anymore. Well, that's fine we'll just start calling Reese's Cups "gamer treats" instead. Here's a tip, don't want to be called names online? Don't go online. Turn off chat. Don't engage. Get gud. You know, things we already have in place so your feelings don't get hurt.

I'm an adult. Barely, sure, but old enough to hear "bad words" and see tig ol' biddies. If you've got a big sticker or warning that says ADULTS ONLY, NOT FOR CHILDREN, you better not have bleeps and mosaic filters. We've got ratings and such for a reason! Use them! Don't sell me a ticket to an R-rated movie and then put your hands over my eyes when John Wick goes into a strip club to kill a gangster.

RIP Yahoo Answers. The place where you truly learned just how dumb people are. "How is babby formed?" Well, there's no storks involved unless you're really kinky. We all know how babby is formed and guess what? We have dozens of ways to prevent babby from being formed! So how do high school pregnancies still happen? It's like walking into an active warzone wearing just a t-shirt and jeans, but at the border they offered you a flak jacket, a rocket launcher, a trained team of soldiers, a tank, and an invisibility serum.

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Episode 228 - Pac-Man Theory (ft. Karl from WATP)

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Welcome to Alternate Facts week on HWIDG. This week: Earth. Is it a sphere, a flat plane, a disc on the back of four giant elephants that are on an even giant-er turtle, or something else? How fast exactly are we moving in space? 10,000 MPH or not at all? How come when I spin around really fast in place I get real dizzy, but the Earth can do the same and it doesn't vomit or transform into Wonder Woman? Does gravity exist or does stuff stay down because there are so many ghosts in the air? Did we actually go to the moon or did they broadcast a deleted scene from The Shining 2: Weekend at Hallorann's instead? What doesn't the CIA want us to know about the Sun and Moon? That the Sun is the ascended soul of Pac-Man, who died for our sins by his earthly name Jesus? Or that the Moon IS made of cheese and that's where pizza was invented? Other mysteries include:

- Flat Earth
- Actor Podcasts
- Ridiculousness

Ah yes, the good ol' flat earth theory. A child was confused by pictures of the earth and the flat projection of a map and vehemently believed one must be a lie, so now thousands of people worldwide believe in a massive conspiracy theory for no reason. What would be the reason for the cover-up? Who benefits? People that make globe models? When have you even seen one of those outside of the 30 year old one in your geography class? NASA is keeping secrets? What NASA? The one that has been defunded so much that they're hoping to repeat a successful moon landing more than 50 years later? Shouldn't that just be a thing we can do now? The way anything with a screen and a processor can play DOOM these days?

If there's anyone that thinks the world revolves around them while pretending to provide a service for the good of mankind its politicians. A close runner-up though are actors. People that are paid because they are pretty and can memorize words. Sometimes they're really good at it and you say, boy they really acted the heck out of that role. But someone was there telling them exactly how to play pretend. And that role was written by someone else. And filmed by someone else. And edited by someone else. And amended with CGI by someone else. But sure, they really own that character. Please tell me more about how you read a piece of paper nicely on your podcast with your rich friends that is produced and edited by other people.

Remember MTV? Not to sound like an old fogey, but they used to actually play different things. Thought I was going to say "music videos" didn't you? I don't even care about that. But they did use to play more than one program. At this point it's the Ridiculous Channel with movie night every now and then. Some days they don't even stop. That's right, you can veg out on your couch for an entire 24 hours watching skaters get hit in the balls or people falling off homemade rope swings all while some guy and his annoying entourage jump around like chimpanzees on a trampoline.

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Episode 227 - Electric Overalls (ft. Larry Bleidner)

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All aboard the S.S. HWIDG for Here's Wet I Don't Get 2021! We're packing a ship full of issues and headed for this year's hottest spring break location: the Suez Canal! Enjoy our mile-long bar with your commemorative 84 oz. HWIDG broken-handle mug! Enjoy our various steak buffets featuring steak-stuffed steak, steak-fried steak, and steak soup served in a steak bowl! And one lucky fan will get a chance to win one million dollars in the Uncle Buck Forklift Slam Dunk Challenge! Tickets are on sale now and the first 50 reservations will be upgraded to:

- Assembly Line Animation
- Infantilism
- Thinking Gas Vehicles Will Be Obsolete

Part of the appeal of comics is the range of wonderful artists that draw your favorite caped heroes. From Frank Miller's squat and blocky steroid freaks to Alex Ross's painterly realism, there's a huge spectrum full of intricacy, and that's not even touching the world of colorists. So when Big Comic Book Company decides to plop out one of its beloved stories onto your TV, it'd be great if they could not just make it look like their de-facto "Brand style".

It's 2026 and you're sitting at your desk at work. You press the big yellow button by the door to your locked cubicle. A robotic voice comes from the intercom: "What is your level of distress, Human 43?" You respond in the mandatory company policy: "Pweese can I go pee-pee?". The door unlocks and you head over to the bathroom. As you enter, the robotic voice continues: "Remember to be a good child and wash your hands, Human 43." As you finish and leave, you stop by the break room for a snack. You pick some snack from the vending machine. As it clunks to the bottom the familiar voice reminds you: "Only one cookie right now or you'll ruin your supper Human 43. Maybe if you file those TPS reports by END OF SHIFT you can have another, okay?"

Remember how when we advance in technology we immediately drop the old tech for the fancy new tech? What? That's not how it happens? What do you mean? I definitely only have USB-C cables and devices around, 4K HDMI 2.2 cables and ports, Wi-Fi everything, all my screens are OLED, and I only deal in Bitcoin. Sound unrealistic? Yeah, so does every gas-powered vehicle suddenly disappearing to the whim of electric.

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Episode 226 - Mondo

We're taking HWIDG back to the 1950's! Before they had invented colors and good movies, there was HWIDG! ON tonite's broadcast we're confronting these issues: Why My Wife Burns the Casserole After My Boss Has Been Chewing My Ass All Day, Not Having a Pack of Smokes with Your Steak, "Civil Rights", and Beatniks. Brought to you by Fat Daddy's Juke Bar! The only place in town with a deviled ham sandwich better than your wife's! So set that radio dial to 88.4 AM at 7:30 and get ready to rock and roll!

- The Fandom Menace
- Interactive Ads
- Nostalgia Movies
- Levels of Importance

Hate-watching. We all do it from time to time. Maybe its a dark and gritty reboot of your favorite childhood hero, or maybe its a squeaky clean cartoon of your favorite adult property. Either way, you're still watching it, congratulations. Even worse are hate-watchers with audiences. Even if you hate how your once-favorite IP is going, covering every rumor of a reboot or mishap by the producers is still supporting them! That's the opposite of what you want!

Ads used to be tricky. Subliminal messaging, remember that? Hidden naked ladies in paintings of ice cubes so you lust for Dr. Welcher's Diet Sasparilla. But these days? We're in a post-hiding-your-ad universe. Now, they straight up ask you to interact with a commercial. No more choice of illusion, just robotic PLEASE CONSUME.

Ah, childhood. Treehouses, riding your bike to the corner store to buy magazines and a hot dog, birthday parties at the local arcade, and BRIGHT FLASHING COLORS and LOUD  FART NOISES on the TV to pacify you. Programming specifically made to make children (who laugh at literally everything) watch them over and over and over and over and POOF, you're 25 and still singing Disney Songs.

The internet was supposed to be smart. It tells me that it will analyze how I use it and tell me what is important. Then why dear god, why do I ABSOLUTELY need to see this 10% off coupon for fish bait? How about you actually tell me when something I want comes? Not spam. Literal spam presented as important information, can you believe that?

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Episode 225 - You Get Bean! (feat. Crippled Jesus)

This week on Mighty Ragin' HWIDG Rangers... the mysterious Fifth Issue! When former-Ranger-turned-villain CJ returns with his own issue to join the other four, chaos ensues! Can the HWIDG Rangers combine their powers to defeat CJ, or will an even greater threat appear? Find out on this week's Mighty Ragin' HWIDG Rangers!

- Burying the Source Material
- Self-help Articles
- Addiction Shaming
- Too Long a Waiting Period
- "I'm Not a Fan, But..."

It is it lame and hoity-toity of me to say "Yes, but I was into [THING] before it was popular" or, "Please, you're not a real fan, you haven't read the original in Pig Latin"? Yes it is. BUT c'mon. I'm kind of right and therefore reserve the right to be pissed off when the first search result for my ultra gritty comic book is the children's cartoon adaptation.

Self help article of the week: "How I Owned My First House and Business by Age 28". How did they do it? By cutting down on the Starbucks? Coupon clipping? Not tipping? Sure, they did all those things and it really added up! Also they got a one-time loan of 2 Million dollars from their parents that they don't have to pay back. But that couldn't have contributed much, could it?

Everyone's got their vices. Smoking, gambling, drinking, pouring a can of nacho cheese into a family-size bag of crushed Doritos and eating the whole thing with a spoon. So when someone is pissed drunk telling you that you're gambling all of your money away by playing poker with your buds, they don't have much of a hill to stand on. It's the pot calling the kettle black lung.

Oh no, I've been scammed! I better report this and get my money back! Wait, what do you mean I have to wait 4 weeks, send in three forms of government ID and a blood sample before I can initiate a claim? You already kicked the scammer off your site! For scamming! I got scammed! Give me my money!

I don't know about you but I really liked the new Thundercats show. Sure, the animation was kind of poor as they were all stick figures, and sure they made them dogs instead of cats, and sure there was a scene where Panthro got blasted on quaaludes  and raped Snarf, but overall I really liked it. I was never really a fan of the original though, it was too violent.

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Episode 224 - Get Funged

This episode of HWIDG is brought to you by aliens. They're out there somewhere. Observing us. Watching us flail around in our digital infancy, laughing at our continued use of physical munitions, and betting on what dumb thing we'll send to space next instead of, you know, ourselves. Whether they be little green men, tall greys, or badass avian-insectoid C-SEC officers you wanna bone, we will come in contact with them one day and we will learn that all that we humans have to our names are:

- Virtual School
- Smoker Damage
- Gender Spectrum
- NFTs

Remember school? Riding the bus? Hangin' with your buds? Playing Magic in the Anime club-I mean copping a feel during an assembly? Making fun of the kid with the weirdly shaped head? Sneaking out to smoke some crystal behind the gym? Well, guess what? You can't do none of that anymore. Not virtually at least. And that was the fun stuff. Virtual school has irrevocably changed the actual way that kids are taught. Good luck getting a kid to be interested in the wonders of science when she can't dissect an animal, make a giant Rube Goldberg machine, see dry ice sublimate right in front of her, or make a potato-powered lightbulb?

Is there anything more caustic than cigarette smoke? You might as well carry an unshielded nuclear-powered reactor around with you. It's killing you slowly and ruining literally everything round you. It's filling everything you own and everywhere you go with the scent of burnt tar, ammonia, formaldehyde and whatever other horrible things they can fit in those death sticks. God forbid you own anything of value, there's a reason Craigslist and eBay listings will proudly say "from a smoke-free household". Your yellowed stinky junk is relegated to be sold for a penny. A penny.

In 2021, get ready for the newest blockbuster film: RISE OF THE SUPERS. From a distant planet far, far away, the Supers have arrived on Planet Earth to wreak havoc on its citizens. Infecting ordinary people with the deadly S-virus. Now, with Super-infected Soldiers running amok on Earth, what will we do to stop them? From the director of TRAPPED: BONER CONFUSION and THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE, this action blockbuster is sure to be a SUPER good time!

What exactly is a non-fungible token? It's like the deed to a digital item. There's just one problem. IT'S DIGITAL. It already exists! For free, even! SO what if you've got the deed to it? It entitles you to nothing. It's not like an original DaVinci painting you can hang in your house. It's not the only copy of an unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album. It's not the master film reel to Rhinestone. It means nothing, yet these crypto blockchain idiots are spending millions of dollars on tweets. TWEETS. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE TWEETS!

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Episode 223 - Flamethrowers and Skateboards

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Have you missed out on the last 222 episodes of HWIDG? Well, congrats! Because this is our big recap episode! That's right, we're recapping every past issue we've had so you can get caught up in time for the big finale next week! Oh and you devoted listeners? You'll still have to tune in for the new issues this week that we've interspersed throughout the 39 hour episode! So call your boss and tell him you've got the runs, because for the next 39 hours you're going to go through THE GAUNTLET and:

- Mac Obfuscation
- Snow Removal
- Action v. Emotion
- GM Ultima

There's a certain level of wizardry when it comes to computers. Zeroes and ones caused by electrons run through a bunch of metals? The user doesn't need to see that far down. All code actively running? That's overload. But when it comes to Macs, I think what they know that their $2500 laptops are used as Facebook machines or class notebooks, so they design for that. You don't need to see any of this dumb computer junk, just click the colorful picture that takes you to Facebook.

What's the easiest way to get rid of snow? Shoveling? Tiresome by hand, annoying by truck. Blowing? You're just making it not your problem. Melting? Then you've got water and if it's cold enough to snow it'll freeze. So what do we do? Here's an idea: nothing. Federal snow days. No one does anything. Stay home and enjoy it instead of just making it worse for everyone. 

Actions are logical. Emotions can be illogical but you can get to one from an action. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of media these days focus on the emotions without taking into account logical actions to cause them. I can't feel sad just because you show me a picture of a sad person. Put me through some trauma. Then I'll think about grabbing the Cherry Garcia.

The GM Ultima is a skateboard. It's a big-ass skateboard with a battery, but it's a skateboard. Supposedly you can put a sports car top on it or a big jacked-up truck and everything in between. So at what point do you not have a car? Because I think this is past that point. You have an electric skateboard with seats, congratulations. I'll be impressed once you can do a 900° Christ Air into a sick tail pipe grind.

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Episode 222 - The Two Hundred Twenty-Second One

Welcome back HWIDGets to this week's episode of HWIDG where we're trying video again. Available to all Patreon Supporters! This week we're talking about.

Catching the Tail End
Bitter Cold
Liars Using Stats
Sharknados

Nothing is worse than finding something new to you, only to learn that it's almost over. Be it a TV show, a new brand of food, or catching the last 20 minutes of a movie. Maybe you can get more, but it will never be fresh and new again, much like Harry Plinkett's Wife.

As someone who prefers the cold months to the hot months, I gotta say this was about as cold as I could ever take it. When you live in a climate that gets it a lot I know you get used to it, but here in the south we're not used to this sub zero life style.

Look at these new stats, new cases are down 60% did two masks cure it? Nope they just changed the way we count. So instead of counting by 10s we're counting by decimal points. What a scam. They use certain types of language to keep us afraid and milking us for more BS.

How did this get made? 6 movies where sharks get sucked into Tornados and destroying cities all over the world. None of them are even passably good. No effort went in, all to be meme material. How embarassing.

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Episode 221 - Walking on Water (ft. Crippled Jesus)

Well, they finally did it. Nuclear winter is here. Prolonged subzero temperatures, massive snowfall, rolling blackouts, and rationed milk sandwiches. But HWIDG will not let some frozen water stop us! We've each got three pairs of socks on and have filled the studio with a dozen space heaters! And with Tab's endless supply of whiskey we'll keep warm until the ghouls break in. So join us as we keep our minds off the frostbite setting in by discussing:

- Not Letting Go
- Poorly Constructed Legal Arguments
- Higher Than Normal

Orange man is here to stay. Like a clingy partner, his haters have so propped him on a pedestal of villainy that he's "more important now than ever". He's an old man. For the love of god, just let him retire back to his golf club. That's all he wants to do. If you would stop giving him attention, he'd go away! But then, what would you write about? How many naps Joe takes every day? What temperature he likes his coffee at?

Generally speaking, the common person has little to no understanding of law. Sure, things like murder and stealing are illegal and everyone knows that, but through media people get a warped sense of the law. For instance, when you go to jail you get one phone call so you better make it count! That's not a law. Or "I can say literally anything I want at any time, because of the First Amendment". You'd think that such a starch defender of the First Amendment would have bothered to read it at all. All this to say, good luck on a quick and speedy trial, Crippled Jesus. Remember: punitive damages.

We can accept that due to unforeseen circumstances, certain things might be delayed. But on the other hand, we expect a return to normalcy in a timely manner. So when it's been 11 months since the country started going into lockdown and you're still having a "higher than normal" call volume or number of orders, you'd think that you could, I don't know, fix that? If you used the increase in profits you're getting to higher more people you could be back to normal in no time!

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Episode 220 - Shop Class

Welcome to your first day at HWIDG High, freshies! Rule number one: no running in the halls! That's what the provided rocket skates are for. Rule number two: there will be ABSOLUTELY no math of any kind done on this premises, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?! If I catch just one of you little snots adding 2 and 2 or multiplying 67 by 13, it's automatic detention! For all of you! Rule number three: Handlebreaking 101 is canceled today because no one can get into the room. Rule number four: finish your whiskey at lunch! We paid a lot to be sponsored by Jim Bean, and dammit you're gonna drink that swill! Alright, get to class!

- The Kiss of Death
- Justin Trudeau
- Canada
- Death of the G.E.D.

Some people are like King Midas, everything they touch is great. There are very few of these people ever. Probably 0.1% of all creators. 99.8% of people fall behind them in the good to bad ratio. Then there's the other 0.1%. These are your Abrams', Burtons, and Kurtzmans. Everything they touch gets a death sentence. YET. YET SOMEHOW THEY KEEP GETTING WORK. They destroy franchise after franchise but Hollywood has an unlimited pile of things to ruin, so I guess it's alright to just let them keep destroying your childhoods.

Justin Trudeau makes Candian hockey moms all hot and bothered. That's all I can tell you about the man. So what does that say about his accomplishments?

Blame Canada. South Park was right all those years ago. You know that weird cousin at the family reunion that everyone else loves and says is so sweet? But you caught them smoking crystal behind the Wal-Mart 2 years ago? And he keeps talking about moving down south and staying with you, but at the same time trash talks you every  chance he gets? Yeah, that's Canada.

High school students definitely need to be studying college-level physics, literature, and calculus, right? That's what they told me. The AP program will help you get ready for college! It helps you get ready for the classes, but what it doesn't do is help you understand your loans or how debt works. Or how to cook for yourself when the campus cafe is closed at night and the only place open is a McDonalds that is too far in walking distance, and your car's broken down. It won't teach you how to fix said car on your own when you can. And it definitely won't teach you how to make something you can be proud of other than a flimsy piece of paper that costs you $80,000.

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Episode 219 - AMC 401K

SELL, SELL, SELL! It's time to sell all your shares in all companies you have shares in and BUY, BUY, BUY the brand new stock HWDG. This mysterious company that just went public is HOT, HOT, HOT today and could be the next Red Lobster or Lowe's! No one knows exactly what they do yet, but we CAN tell you that they promise that for every share you buy they will donate one perfectly cooked medium-rare steak to two lucky men chosen completely by lottery. This just in: the owners of HWDG have just stated that their goal for the next 5 years is to completely eradicate:

- Computerized Everything
- Being Against WSB
- Ruinous Characters
- "Addressing the Problem"

Everything what got computers in them these days. The problem? We haven't even got pain ol' computers right yet. If you can't get Norton Antivirus to stop pinging every time you boot up League of Legends, how are you going to rely on your self-driving Tesla to brake in time to avoid a collision?

Hedge fund bankers. Those are the real heroes of 2021. Those brave soldiers that sit in A/C cooled, swanky offices betting on whether or not your favorite company should live or die while getting a hummer from their third secretary this year and shooting a money gun full of your literal hard owned money into a kiddie pool where two large Russian women wrestle in chocolate pudding. We should care about these people immensely, and no harm should come to them even though the government breaks its back to help them three times over anytime they screw up. Please Daddy Wall Street, I just need a little bit of that insider trading!

Imagine if you hype up a show or movie so much to your friend that they finally give in and check it out and the first thing they hear is some asshole yelling for "Hello" for 35 seconds. Sometimes there are these characters so annoying and pathetic that it's a testament to the entire rest of the show that it doesn't just crumble under the weight of the like of Wesley Crusher's huge ego and Deanna Troi's pile of aborted alien babies.

Look, we here at HWIDG acknowledge and apologize for the mistakes in this week's episode and promise to have them fixed by this time next year. Step 1A subsections 1 through 9 are currently planned to be put into effect as soon as July, barring any unforseen consequences. For any questions or concerns, please go screw yourself.

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Episode 218 - 35 Second Hello

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- Used Item Decency
- The Repair Hole
- r/MandelaEffect
- DRM

Ever seen an episode of Hoarders? It's nasty. People living in muck and filth, with bugs everywhere and god forbid if they have pets. Every episode they finally get to a point where the hoarder lets their family finally get a bunch of crap out of their house. Now, the show usually says they get sent to the dump, but that's another classic Hollywood lie. They actually get sent back to the production office and get put on eBay and Craigslist sight unseen at just below MSRP.

Sticky door? Get some WD-40 for it. But when you go to get the WD-40, the shelf it's on is a little loose. No matter, a quick new L-bracket job will fix that up. Now where did you put those brackets? This drawer? That drawer? Yes! Wait a minute, there's mouse droppings back here. Better go grab some traps then. No bait, though. Well, I'll go grab some cheese from the store. Great! Car won't start. Well, let's pop the hood. What could it be? Hmmmm. Alternator maybe? Nope, it's the battery. Must've left the headlights on all night. Well, you'll call an Uber and get a ride to AutoZone. You bring up the Uber app on your phone, but your phone freezes. Restart it. 1% Charge. Well great. I guess you'll just live life like this now. Congratulations, you're a luddite minimalist.

Ah, the Mandela Effect. A sociological wonder where childhood memories lead to parallel universes! And where does one go to research and discuss this phenomenon with other like-minded individuals? Well it's not the subreddit for it, because that place is filled with trolls and the dumbest people on earth that think every little discrepancy in media is PROOF OF PARALLEL DIMENSIONS. That's right, you remembering some fake movie with Sinbad a s a genie in the 90s definitely counts as quantum mechanics.

DRM. Dumb Richpeople Messing-with-your-stuff. Gotta slap some proprietary anti-piracy code onto our movie or game because we don't want to lose all this money from pirates! Wah wah wah. Piracy is a two-factor system: ease-of-use and relative cost. First, how easy is [Piece of Media] to obtain? Because if the user has to jump through a bunch of hoops to get something, pirates have their back, making it so easy a toddler could do it. So, even before price comes into it, you've possibly hampered your own sales. Then, how much are you willing to pay for [Piece of Media]? Is it exorbitantly expensive? Is it packed in with a bunch of stuff I don't want that I can't get rid of? Then there's the righteous third branch of piracy: the league of "We Stripped the DRM Out of this Game Because It Caused FPS Drops."

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Episode 217 - 8K Argonian Dongs

January 20th of 2021 will be a day in history remembered for hundreds of years. It will be known as the day that hope triumphed over darkness and evil. For too long have we waited for such a man to guide us through these dangerous times. On Wednesday he awoke, just like any of us. He was just a man, but he went to sleep that night as a hero. It was around noon when it happened. Our soon-to-be-hero entered the place of ceremony and awaited his chance. He swore an oath that he would complete his task to the best of his ability, lest he be disgraced. And in just a few minutes, it was done. Tab Birt had conquered the 135oz. Ribeye King challenge at Big Daddy's Steakhouse and Cheese Emporium. History had been made. Hope has been restored to the nation.

- Freedom From Discussion
- Miniscule News
- Moral Superiority
- The Dark Age of PC Ports

I can't play at this casino? Fine, I'll make my own casino, with blackjack and hookers! Wait, why are you denying my permit to build a casino? Well, fine i'll just play in my own home. Wait, the bank is foreclosing on me? Well, now I'm homeless, guess I'll join a roving gang of hobos. What do you mean I can't be part of the soup kitchen orgy?

They finally did it. They figured out how to get nerds their own version of tabloid news. Every single little whisper of a rumor of casting or plot to these superhero movies gets its own big headline these days. "MCU rumor mill points to new change for Incredible Hulk! A leak from VFX company RBTI shows that the mean green guy's iconic purple pants are now a slightly more maroon color. What could this mean going forward for the MCU? Tune in next week!"

It don't care if I lose, as long as I get my word in. I'll fight you tooth and nail! As long as it's a proper duel at twenty paces at high noon. Because that's how it's supposed to be done! OW! He sucker-punched me! He's cheating! No, don't take ME to jail! Well, great I lost and now I'm in trouble, but at least I didn't stoop to HIS level! What was that? Yes, sir, I'll bend over right away.

We take certain things in life for granted. Once technology reaches a certain level of comfort that is ingrained into the basics, the troubles and hurdles we fought to get there is soon forgotten. Most people don't think of their automatic transmission, and now with smart cars that can drive themselves, soon we'll forget about steering wheels. The way I've forgotten that on the Xbox 360 which was a modern console less than 10 years ago, can't delete more than one thing at a time.

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Episode 216 - Secretly Gay for Kevin Costner

ATTENTION ALL RED-BLOODED AMERICANS: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RESISTANCE LEADER CODENAME: UNCLE BUCK. HE IS ARMED AND DANGEROUS AND DRIVES A FORKLIFT OUTFITTED WITH FULLY AUTOMATIC .50 CALIBER MACHINE GUNS. HE IS WANTED FOR CRIMES COMITTED ON JANUARY 6TH INCLUDING: ASSAULT, BATTERY, 2ND DEGREE MURDER, PUBLIC NUDITY, ILLEGAL WHALING, AND FORCIBLE SODOMY WITH A LIVE PYTHON. IF YOU SEE THIS HEINOUS CRIMINAL IMMEDIATELY CONTACT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND DO NOT LOOK HIM IN THE FACE.

- Hiking 5.4 Miles
- Politics Injection
- Redditors

Welcome to Hiking Talk with your host Tab Birt! Today's episode deals with how to handle a long uphill walk to a picnic or other similar gathering. Firstly, you're going to need a solid pair of boots. Having them be waterproof and steel-toed is very important so that your macaroni salad doesn't seep through. For your own feet, just wear a flimsy pair of flip-flops. Next, you're going to need some very solid, used sole inserts to serve your deviled eggs on. Don't forget to bring a shade umbrella so you can really relax with your friends.

Everything is political, right? Your toothpaste? The episode of Spongebob your kid is watching right now? The philly cheesesteak you had for lunch? Sure you could make huge logical stretches and lean on technicalities, but you can do that with everything! Why should I care if the keyboard player for my favorite progressive death metal band is a communist? Does it impact his playing? No. Unless he starts writing lyrics about how he wants to give Karl Marx a rimjob, I could care less.

Remember reddit? The front page of the internet! Customizable and curatable to a great degree, back in the day you could read some great horror on r/nosleep or LOL at the narwhal memes with everyone else on r/funny. But then the owners started a curating of their own, banning any sub that they deemed wrong and they whittled it down from a 4chan lite to just a bunch of niche forums.

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Episode 215 - New Beanginnings

Good morning HWIDG-ers! It's a new year, a new day, and a new country apparently! Welcome to Neo-USA! They've really shaken things up with this time, so let's go down a list of some of the changes you can expect. North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho are now one big state called Farmville. Kansas has been renamed North Oklahoma, Texas has been renamed South Oklahoma, and Arkansas has been converted into an Arkansas shaped pit of spikes where we throw dissidents. California has been broken up into several states including Movietown, Vans Buren, and Animalstylington. Washington and Oregon will now be known as Upper and Lower Patchoulistank, respectively. Finally, Canada has become New Maine as Maine was devoured yet again by a Stephen King space monster. There are plenty of local changes as well, so be sure to look out for any pamphlets detailing those in your area, and remember, don't break curfew or the robots will yell at you for:

- Being a Dick to your Kids
- Not Doing Your Homework
- Moving Out

This one is actually a Do-Get, because apparently we don't care anymore! Is Uncle Buck secretly a Bean Dad? Or is he just your classic 1950's sitcom role model? As a father, you're supposed to teach your kids what your father taught you with a belt. Whether or not you use your own belt is a choice every father has to make. Do you perpetuate the cycle of dad-violence? Or do you rise up and be a better man and instead scar them emotionally? You might just be surprised which one Buck chooses.

Sometimes you just stumble onto things. Maybe you overhear some big secret your neighbor's wife is hiding from him. Maybe you catch a glimpse of an email at work you definitely weren't supposed to see. You are then left with the decision of breaking hard news or not. Do you let it boil inside you as you watch the trainwreck from the side of the road? Or do you try to intervene, knowing full well you're putting yourself in the crosshairs as well? Tab and Tim may never be the same again......

Moving sucks. But generally in life you move up, or at least laterally. Taking a new job accross the country is a hassle, but you're probably moving into a similarly sized place. Moving from one apartment to the next? Same deal. Moving to a studio apartment after your wife divorces you after you catch her cheating and she gets to keep the house that you paid for? That's gonna suck. No one is moving out without additional pain.

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Episode 214 - Four Batmens

This is it, the last HWIDG episode from 2020. Surely from now on we wont have anything to be angry about, right? Our arbitrary calendar system definitely puts a hard stop on the government screwing you over, companies being greedy, and people generally being stupid. So throw away those riot shields that have 2021 stamped on them, because nothing bad could happen once the frigid cold of January rolls around and 8 million people have lost their homes-oh. Uh, well... look forward to the actual Hunger Games, folks!

- Traveler's Tales
- DC Film Multiverse
- The Slide Into Degeneracy
- A Lack of Archival

Like Call of Duty and Sports games, you can always count on the Lego games to have the smallest of changes and a new coat of paint every entry. Yet, like an idiot Tab keeps buying them. He swears he wont buy Lego Star Trek once it rolls around but we know better. He'll finally join the ranks of shut-ins everywhere, spending hours perfecting his three-way Crusher-Worf-Troi lovechild.

DC. You keep on shooting yourself in the foot. Trying to build a vast cinematic universe like Marvel, but putting in none of the work. NOT THAT YOU HAVE TO. YOU HAVE BATMAN. AND SUPERMAN. Sure, Marvel was all the rage in the 90s and now with the MCU, but they sold off the rights to their biggest heroes and are only now bringing them back in. And now you want to do a weird Multiverse film universe? Just make good movies. Iron Man was no one's favorite superhero. He got one season of a cartoon in the 90s and was most well known as a Marvel vs. Capcom staple. You on the other hand, have Batman. Why you're not making dollars hand over fist with movies that he's in boggles me and my past 12 year old's mind.

"From now on we vow to live a purely wholesome lifestyle. The devil's cabbage and his brew are no longer welcome. We will meet every night to sing the lord's praises. Nonsecular media is BANNED. Our women will wear frocks, gowns, and bonnets, and will show nary an ankle. THESE ARE OUR DEMANDS FOR THE WORLD." This guy is crazy, right? We can all agree to that. But is it any more crazy than "I am NOT a sexual object. Do NOT send me dick pics. I am a QUEEN and right now pictures of my chocolate starfish are 30% off for the Holidays and the whole family is invited!"

No one goes to libraries anymore except weirdos that still read and homeless dudes looking to get their rocks off to this month's National Geographic's Ladies of the Sahara special issue. Museums? You get dragged to them as a kid, and they don't make it cool, so they suck. This and the instant gratification of the internet has led to a lack of options to archive media. Not only that, but it's gone further and now companies and artists are following the Snapchat way and making things like video only available for a limited time. ON THE INTERNET. Am I crazy or does no one else care?

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Episode 213 - Sticky Peppermint Pocket

Ho ho ho. It’s Christmas and Santa has been busy this year. Spreading a non-deadly virus across the planet. Creating a new army of Karens to steal the freedoms from actual human beings. Dropping off new Galaxy S500s to all the “Frontline” nurses to create Tik-Tok dance routines in stunning 4K! Over dosing criminals, and free for all riots across the world. Stealing presidential elections. Through it all though he couldn’t give you $1 to make your life better, but I can hear him on the roof and he’s about to teabag you with his sack full of…

The Desire to See Terrible Things
Rooting for the Empire
Thinking You Can Change Someone’s Mind
Candy Canes

Some people like gross out media. How many people in your life watch that pimple popper MD youtube channel? Why do we need to slow down at the site of an accident? How many times have you been at work and someone gets their hand crushed by a semi truck trailer and you gotta rush out there and look at it? Ok that one is just me, and I only ran out because I was required to make a report on it, and I had to just block it from view with a clipboard otherwise I might have passed out.

Media shapes our culture, and our culture shapes our media, yet somehow we’ve run across a complete oxymoron in that our media constantly portrays the government as stupid or corrupt, and corporations are either evil, or just bafflingly stupid. Yet in this year we’ve completely forgotten about those stories where one man who follows his own conscience saves the day, in favor of the Veep, West Wing, Amazon solution. Where unilateral power is used to subjugate the people, all the while mega corporations stomp out their small time competition to crate a greater stranglehold on the people, and the government, and what’s worse? WE CHEERED! We truly aren’t watching TV, it’s just lights to keep us from burning it all down.

Can we stop arguing? It’s completely meaningless, I’m not reading the huffpo opinion piece you sent me, and I just sent you the most Alex Jones source I could find to predict how quickly you’d jump into smug derision. So why don’t we both just call it quits and admit you’re wrong?

Every season has it’s stand out candy, like the Cadbury Cream Egg, and every season has its terrible candy, like the candy corn. Christmas has the worst of the worst. The Candy Cane. This unreasonably shaped sweet confection isn’t a good enough cany to warrant the hassle. It’s not unique enough to warrant being special. Yet here we are. It’s December so a whole aisle of the Christmas section of your local Walmart is 5,000 different versions of a candy nobody wanted.

All that plus, making up voicemails, Tim’s greatest fan, and why Tab is going to have his feet cutoff from diabetes. If you enjoy the show join us on DISCORD where we hang out quite often. Give us some support on PATREON pledges as little as $1. Or you can swing over to the merch store and BUY A SHIRT!

Episode 212 - Up in the Air

Heads up, this is not a regular episode of HWIDG. As always we appreciate our listeners and fans and you can join us on DISCORD, and support us on PATREON or by BUYING A SHIRT.