Jul 31, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
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Coon taint is over.
And...
I don't know.
I hear people using fireworks and everything, but what is there really to celebrate? I'm not saying that the holiday doesn't have meaning for some people, but we need to have a holiday for real that celebrates people not having their foot up our ass.
And King's birthday, don't do it.
Boom teeth won't do it.
None of the days, memorial days we have really celebrate our liberation, our emancipation in total from people who hate us, who've mistreated us.
So this is a style without substance.
Can you imagine a condom with holes in it, but it looks really good so people wear it? Right.
Can you imagine a condom that has like a stylized gangster bullet holes in it and people are wearing it not because it functions well as a condom, but because everyone else is wearing it and it's the style.
In fact, can you imagine non-absorbent tampons that look really nice, but they don't absorb blood? And people wearing it because it conveys value to the person.
And that's sort of where we are.
So, you know, there are a lot of different things on my mind.
Coon taint is over.
And...
I don't know.
I hear people using fireworks and everything, but what is there really to celebrate? I'm not saying that the holiday doesn't have meaning for some people, but we need to have a holiday for real that celebrates people not having their foot up our ass.
And King's birthday, don't do it.
Boom teeth won't do it.
None of the days, memorial days we have really celebrate our liberation, our emancipation in total from people who hate us, who've mistreated us.
So this is a style without substance.
Can you imagine a condom with holes in it, but it looks really good so people wear it? Right.
Can you imagine a condom that has like a stylized gangster bullet holes in it and people are wearing it not because it functions well as a condom, but because everyone else is wearing it and it's the style.
In fact, can you imagine non-absorbent tampons that look really nice, but they don't absorb blood? And people wearing it because it conveys value to the person.
And that's sort of where we are.
So, you know, there are a lot of different things on my mind.
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