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Defector’s David Roth is back on the pod. We start with his write up of the recent drone scare over New Jersey, and how our ever-skittish suburbanites are discovering new ways to be scared of the lights in the night sky. Then, a review of recent media reactions to Luigi-mania, including the Atlantic tut-tutting over “decivilization” and the Root having a certified “bruh” moment. Finally, the most important bellwether poll of the year: the PornHub annual search trends results.

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Man2quilla

like 7th or whatever

JakeFrostick

The Richard Petty type Dave mentions must be the legend Jimmy Hart

Ben Kaftar

Imagine this episode but it's with David Lee Roth talking about drones

Brian Johnson

Wait until they find out about the dead drone RFK Jr tossed out of his car onto the turnpike

Schwartz666

It's time for slopimaniacs And we're simpin' to the max So just eat shit and relax You'll goon 'til you collapse They're the ChapoTrapiacs!

ploob

I said no creamed corn!

Schwartz666

We love us some Roth, don't we folks

Travis

Felix begins speaking at 3 minutes and 2 seconds

JD Nonce

Where can I buy a drone that sucks my dick? Don’t even need to buy one myself, I’d be happy if someone else’s drone makes me cum. I just want to cum, ok??

Horseloverfat

Man these people will blame anything but inequality and injustice for civilizational decline. Just a bunch of unmoored cultural norms

Daniel Ponciano Diaz

New Jersey cops shooting at planes with AR-15s has the exact same energy as un contacted tribes shooting at helicopters with bows. Truly humans are all the same at heart.

Mr Tu Damn Quoque

If 40 - 50 feral drones invade your property, you better believe you gonna want an AR-15 handy

ResilientBastard

Hey LI chapos, let’s welcome Dan P properly if we ever catch him at a pizza place, grocery store, cement curb.

Jake Zydek

Begun, the drone bores have

ScottB

Felix's John Lennon joke fucking killed me

Stone Cold Jane Austen

The barking dogs are probably COVID dogs that never got trained properly and went mad when their owners went back to work

Horseloverfat

Lmao the root also has a headline rn that says “shocking connection between diddy and mangione cases” and the connection (3 paragraphs down) is that the lawyers representing the two of them are married

Schwartz666

Just like in The Leftovers... "They're not our dogs anymore."

Andrew Tennenbaum

This episode is one of the all time greats. The chapos still got it, and I think it’s important to acknowledge that

Methew

Drones as the white suburb version of leprechauns

Cam C

Great to hear Roth back, great to hear another Smerconish reference- again, the fancy son of a major tyrannical real estate agent, Flo Smerconish, Google her, she’s still doing real estate

Jessica Rios

I always think David Lee Roth when I see his name

Andrew Cross

happy to hear the pitchfork guy who did that Coltrane review is still getting work

THEKILLERWHALE

The Iranian mother ship thing kills me. Are they aware that there is a finite amount of energy that a drone can store and that they cannot just sit over international waters for months on end? Do they think it is solar powered?

Shiv

Drone drone drone drone Drone Drone DRONE DROOOOONNNNE

Schwartz666

Hasan - VP Nick - Secretary of State Stavros - HHS Felix - Secretary of Defense Matt - Attorney General Amber - Secretary of Labor Will - Secretary of Commerce Chris - Chief of Staff Brace - Director of Intelligence Brendan - Secretary of Education Kath - Secretary of Interior Roth - Press Secretary Alex - UN Ambassador Yung - Communications Director Derek - Foreign Policy Adviser Liz - Secretary of Treasury Adomian - Secretary of Transport Trevor B. - Secretary of Housing Hesse - Security of Energy Quimby - DoGE (Dept. of Guys Everywhere)

Agent Grange

Obviously I think a huge amount of drone sightings are mass hysteria bullshit, or police doing domestic spying. But I also have a pet theory that given recent developments some company or defense firm in the US government is busy making drones that are more accessible and basically fly and maintain themselves so any Ukranian teenager or Syrian jihadist luddite can use them. Problem being that the defense industry is starting to feel the effects of the en-shit-ificafion of the tech sector and whatever AI-powered operational assistance software they made is trash. Like bad enough to cause more than a few of these to go wildly off course or fall out of the sky. The only reason why it's kept so secret is that it's all under NDA to protect the reputation, share prices, and intellectual property of these coddled contractors like Boeing that can barely make a functional unmanned aircraft anymore.

Ligma

Maybe the drones escaped captivity and have formed a feral colony in NJ. Leave them be

Schwartz666

"The mind-blowing link..." 🤯 lol Can't tell you how happy I was when AV Club finally escaped the G/O Media clickbait dumpster fire.

Shiv

per TA: if you want to coup successfully you need Kath on your side here

Gabe

Danny catching strays

Semine

Came and passed out

Schwartz666

"It doesn't matter the vessel you're pouring it into if it's the same shit." is a 🔥Felix line.

Quadabyte

Reports of a set of Red, Yellow and Blue drones orbiting a bigger aircraft. New sightings are shown the bigger aircraft has the insignia of "S.S. Dolphin".

Evysaurus

Sometimes I forget how genuinely insightful and intelligent Felix is. Great observation about how Luigi forces these feckless pencil pushers to stare into the mirror and face how they’ve completely negated all agency and responsibility from their lives.

David shamie

Subtle touch playing the drones over brooklyn instrumental

T

There are a lot of kids aged 4-6 who are in a similar position

Tim O'

They're gonna kill a misguided Christian missionary in a couple of months

Michael S. Judge

a beautiful film entitled THE PAINTED HOUSE, where a man is worried that he may not be able to keep his job by kissing his father-in-law on the lips

Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice

Having grown up in an Old Growth suburb in New Jersey, people being bored and needing something interesting no matter how insane or illogical it might be is the perfect explanation for the mass hysteria over the drones. People who've never looked up once in their lives are seeing planes at night for the first time ever and losing it, but at least theyve stopped complaining on next door about kids playing loudly outside.

Liz

I fell asleep listening to this and omg the dream I just had lol

Hardcore Virgin

Writing in youth internet slang AAV while maintaining correct Standard English grammar is a serious offense and should not be taken so lightly. I hope the hosts of this show learn from this episode and the jocularity ceases in subsequent outings. The Root nourishes a seed producing Tree. Be Wary of the Wood.

ckoehler31

“Last year you believed there was a flying saucer over East Rutherford”

Maxwell

Trump should be allowed to stay at Mar-al-lago full time if he keeps those food pics going. I need to see a pics of a orange dinner rolls the size of softballs next to an AI generated lobster to get me through this administration.

Dang

Always a good day when DJR is on your podbof choice

manbob

New Jersey has three important military installations one of them is a massive air force base and munitions testing ground (I hear them test a10s there all the time) and the other is Picatinny Arsenal another R&D place and testing ground. It’s possible there actually were drones flying around at some point or another.

Tim Mullen

I NEEEDED the Drones over Brooklyn break so badly thank you Chris

Damen Irving

The UnitedHealth media response has been as if the aliens from they live were just handing out the sunglasses

Brent

Vertical vids, because then it’s easier to hold the phone in one hand. Do not expect a gen Z to ever put the phone down.

Lemmy Caution

There's something going on with the drones, whether it be military testing / a psyop / something else entirely. It's not just a case of mass delusion.

The Invisible Ass of the Market

There literally has been no news for like two or three weeks. This drone shit is just a manufactured story the news is only covering because they need something to talk about other than 24/7 Luigi

Colin S

NJ has some of the highest radar coverage on the east coast. The FAAs tech center is in ATC. Military bases are the calibration standard for all new sensor systems and survey gear. This is how we introduce the public to the new look.

Alex Simpson

Just in case anyone was wondering, the writer of the root article is: 1. A man 2. A crypto bro 3. Actually black 4. A former editor at BET 5. Running one of the ugliest personal blogs I've seen in a hot sec So nothing surprising but ridiculous still.

Reece Coren

Woman is the underinsured of the world has me in tears. Felix is the fucking greatest

Man2quilla

"First they came for the ceo of united Healthcare, but I said nothing..."

Blank

Is that garmonbozia in the ep pic? About to listen now

Blank

All checks out with The Root

Ozzie

No other object has been misidentified as a flying drone more often than the planet Venus…

Man2quilla

All Kamala had to do was jangle some keys well enough to distract people from how upset they were about the economy or Palestine and she couldn't even fucking do that

Man2quilla

Wisconsin embracing their German heritage

Blank

Felix’s sister with the best line🔥🔥 (“Do white women still deserve to be called folx after …?”)

danny

just military tests they’ve been developing giant drones for years in the middle of the state at a naval base. probably 99.99% of sightings are airplanes though. theres probably 10 real drones

Mxrebel

As some people may have or will point out there are military and military adjacent points of interest in this area of South Jersey. Not too say it means anything, but yeah.

Emily Richardson

It is a great litmus test of which type of paranoid and/or crazy you’re dealing with if you ask what someone thinks the drones are. My millennial brothers and I are team-psyop. My boomer dad is team UFO. My Gen x mom is disturbed by what all of us theorize. So excited for Christmas dinner so we can argue over it.

james

Crazy that there actual takeaway is “yeah there could be 1000 of drones over NJ, but are they HURTING anyone??” ….?!? Pod Save would have a more interesting take!!

Oliver Elliott

Richard Petty is a pretty deep cut at this point.

Alex

that's what you think the takeaway was? lol

Alex

same, and the Hub drum fill will always hit for me

Alex

jesus, cancer 4 cure came out TWELVE YEARS AGO nooooo I'm an old

MCL

Please give equal time for Sammy J. Hagar to express his opinions as well.

cashedtrapezoid

Jim Cornette ——-watch out for that tennis racket!!

Stephen

I'm 99% certain that the Root is actually just a handful of white shit-lib journalists writing behind sock puppet accounts with about a dozen instagram photos of black journalists for ‘street cred’

bill tulast

At about 42 minutes, Will says 'bust a cap' and Roth's response of 'mmmnnnmm' is the hardest I've laughed in a while

David Ramirez

What is the clip at the end from?

Eddie Strange

Heard this perfectly in Ventura’s voice in my head

TLT

Roth episodes always the best, blessed lol o7

Mark

I think Felix would appreciate a stuffed monkey left at his memorial

Tea for the Tillerman

Israel is again stealing weapons grade uranium from the East Coast and the drones are radiation trackers.

Brennan Ingram

I guess all those military bases reporting drones and closing their airspace are being fooled by airplanes and stars

PitMommy

The musical interlude/transition around 15:50 is the worst thing that’s ever happened in this podcasts’s existence

JonCarlos Tovar

Love the El-p transition from the drone story.

Matthew

"Tragedy Smurf smirks/a middle man's shirt bursts" -El Producto foretelling the rise of Luigi in Drones over Bklyn

Cullen S

“Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes. AND THATS OKAY 👍 ” Whew.. I had a LONG facking laughing fit at that one lol

Jessica S

On the topic of generations, it occurred to me that my kids were both born in that sweet spot where generations overlap. They can choose Gen Z or Gen Alpha depending on who’s being blamed for everything at that moment. lol.

DT

A plushie manul with a little squeezebox that says "Give Iran F35 Lightnings" in Chinese.

D

I just find it interesting that Will thinks Maine's search preference qualifies as really depraved. Really makes you think.

DT

The next trad dork slogan is going to be "You don't need healthcare".

Schwartz666

Hey ChatGPT, turn ebonics filter up 30%

Stephen

What set you with, homie?! 🤣🤣🤣

Phil Lars

CHRIS WADE IF YOU SEE THIS: what was that outro track?

Jonathan Nathan

You WILL eat the bugs. You WILL live in the pod. You WILL receive the medicines and procedures which ease your physical pain and/or solve a problem occurring within your body. That's what THE CATHEDRAL has planned for you. WHICH WAY WESTERN MAN

Jonathan Nathan

"Woman is the uninsured of the world" is an all-time Felix heater

Schwartz666

Or, more likely, they are just lying / covering / part of the operation.

James Proulx

The thing about guys ;like this Jeff Van Drew is that they've won now so it doesn't matter anymore. Is he crazy? Yes. Is he a moron? Yes. But so what? America has chosen crazy and moronic to run things because of the price of eggs or some shit so none of this matters anymore. These guys can and will say whatever nonsense occurs to them, on camera, because they have seen that, as long as they say it with conviction and never back down, they too could be President some day. Exciting times.

Chuck

UnitedHealth is not just on the Fortune 500… it is RANKED #8! Literally up there with the likes of Saudi Aramco.

Chuck

To be clear, that’s the Fortune Global 500. It’s #4 on the Fortune 500.

Sam Bondurant

Roth or weigel easily the best guests

Yoshi

I like bugs and already live in a pod

Tim Mullen

That was a formative album for me in high school. I do find myself coming back to I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead more often. Would love El to drop some new solo stuff

Mark

anyone know what the outro audio is from?

Jeffrey

Felix sister guest 3rd mic when? Every episode he brings us another great line

David Ramirez

She’s so great. I think Felix did an episode of this is sus with her and she was awesome

Aaaaaaaaaaa

Twin peaks, idk what episode. One of the black lodge scenes

Tooffixer

The phrase “handsome hamburger party” has popped into my head at least once a week since that episode came out

Jon Lyons

we are so back —zeppelins

Jon Lyons

can't wait for all the discourse calling you unreasonable and naive because you don't accept Iran built the Arsenal Bird

Podcast subscriber 78

Why would the most searched porn hub term be Turkish in ny? Do they mean they searched “Turkish” more than “hot” or “fuck”? I don’t really get the list. Or is it just highest new search term

Jon Lyons

It's not the most searched term, but the uniquely most searched relative to the other states' searches for that term, so people in NY are searching Turkish more than people are searching it in any other state, even if it's only like 2% of NY searches because it's less than 2% everywhere else. It's sorta the porn search version of those state-by-state maps that are like "most commonly spoken language besides English & Spanish" and it'll say like "Polish" or "Hmong" except instead of learning about concentrations of diasporas it's types of pervert

Demented Avenger

True story: I bought the DVD of Deep Throat for the soundtrack (this was like 20 years ago before you could get it easily online). So yeah, I totally believe people will search PornHub for music. Are there any porn soundtracks as fire as Deep Throat's?

the Minneapolis Kid

I think at least one of the episodes where they criticized "this is us" i think it was on one of those chapo spinoffs. maybe before covid, or during early covid.

Chuck

Pretty sure it’s a scene from Twin Peaks.

Nick Morolda

Last scene of “Twin Peaks: fire walk with me” Enter the Lynch universe for wonders and fears beyond reckoning

Savannakhet

Pity the kids born in the next 15 years... The Betas

Matttttttt

lol who wrote that stupid ass article

JD Peery

David, you’re thinking of The Mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart.

Here, Try This

Metal Gear Rex is currently over Weehawken

Jeremy Logan

This article sounds like it was written by a Christian, teen rehab pastor.

nati

Gen z porn search terms is a perfect example of superstructure being changed by the base output of society (phones).

S.E. Nyarady

As regards the gen z pornhub searches, I think the explanation of some of those like Music or History of the Ottomans is pretty simple: it's one of the easiest places to find copyrighted stuff that kids don't know how to stream or torrent any more. I think there's also a general knowledge among them that there is lots of non porn content on there and they just think it's funny to watch it on there, especially as it's easier to find than on paywalled, adchoked, and virus ridden websites anyway

C. Andrew

The brown water navy of the Jersey Shore Used Car Dealers Association is actually pretty well equiped. Mikey and the boys got a few pontoon boats with dual C-mag fed ARs. I say deputize them and let them fight the aliens and airline pilots.

owen

I got a pole result for ya right here, pal

Greasy_Jones

The Kamala/Teddy Ruxpin comparison is spot on, as long as Teddy is kind of fucked up and chewing up the tape a bit

Alex Stevenson

Hate to rain on the parade, but I think the reason that some states were blank on the pornhub map is actually because the site is not accessible in those states

Michael Landreth

LOL at the notion that the military is some hyper-competent organization not run by the exact same shitkicking goobers producing mothership press releases.

Stephen

I’m your Venus… I’m your fire… the drone’s flier

Dead Flag Blues

So the position of the podcast is that there were no drones?

Stephen

Drone on drone violence is a sad state of affairs

Dead Flag Blues

My impression is that the military has acknowledged that there are drones and said they don't know where they came from but promise the drones aren't worth worrying about. In other words, people in NJ are witnessing military tech tests

Thomas

The dogs are awful cause they’re covid dogs that never got socialized and also got adopted purely out of boredom by people who are irresponsible

Agent Dana Scully

Honestly NJ... If it's cold, they're cold, bring your drones inside this holiday season

Khemith

It's an amazing transformation that takes place when you own a home. You start thinking only of your pathetic kingdom, and protecting it's illusionary borders.

Ben McLatchie

woman is the underinsured of the world 🤣

Garrat M

How is Maine's search "depraved"? As I've gotten older I've come to enjoy nibblin' on a little fur burger. The rest I agree on though, if you're searching grandma or any kind of hentai, that should be a jail able offense. Same goes for feet too.

bruce

It is sad that there was no memorial... For Brian Thompson. It is sad to suck so hard that you get murdered and it doesn't inspire any sympathy

MJ Harris

have they ever gotten the title of Felix's series right even once?

Reece Coren

Roth is the greatest. Always love when he’s on. The segment about the sports podcasts was so good I’m dying

Tim

Always love a Roth episode

Here, Try This

I don’t know that there is a more accurate description of Colin Cowherd than “a guy with a 66 IQ becoming pointier and pointier” hats off to you Mr. Roth

Jordan Brewer

Roth is one of the best guests love when he brings sports into too

Valerie Maybe

lol all the Peter Thiel appearance references slimmer, humming bird blinking, a puddle,

Anna Grace

What’s the sound clip at the end?

J Fitz

Roth > Nichols, should be on more often

Sean Curtis

I hope Felix was teasing a new adventure with Pancake and Keester downing the Iranian mothership

nahhhh

Twin Peaks

Soren Campbell

If CEOs want a memorial for him, they can make one! No one wants to work anymore!

People's Housing Project

Man, I dunno if this is the like 'statistically correct' take but it's definitely my favorite. Neato

Oliver Elliott

Wait - there’s stuff besides porn on Pornhub?

Sheep

Guy from the root article sounds like theyre impersonating mos def

Mike

I hate to have to tap in on the “music” thing but I know exactly what gen z is looking for. Theres a whole culture that’s developed around PMV’s (porn music videos), where a bunch of porn clips are edited together to music. I have to say, they get creative with it. I think it’s probably popping off with gen z due to the lack of attention to long form stuff. It’s like a birdshot collage of porn instead of one singular event. I hate that I just typed all this out.

Jwood

I’m surprised a huge memorial decoration hasn’t been bought and paid for him to make it appear like Brian Thompson has way more public sentiment - that he clearly does not actually have.

Anderson Orsburn

How would anyone connect “anal dildo” with “Alaska”