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It’s time for another episode of Constellation, Last Stand Media’s weekly conversational fever dream. On this week’s episode, the illustrious Gene Park (formerly known as Jeen “Mac Daddy” Parc) discusses “Masculinity” and how he and the crew feel about what it means to be a man in a modern world. We’re also joined by Ben Smith, the disgraced former mayor of Assassinland PA, who shrewdly used his inability to bring a topic AS a topic with “Writer's Block.” What a clever feller. Revoke his security clearance. He is dangerous. Chris Ray Gun, a straight man who thought Wicked was quote “fantastic,” hosts this week and gets a temperature check on the “Social Media Exodus” to BlueSky and Threads and whether it actually has a chance or serves any purpose. Enjoy the show while you can! Our planet’s magnetic field is temporary and very fragile and I will personally stop at nothing to keep it so.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:08:40 - Masculinity

0:54:00 - Social Media Exodus

1:45:00 - Writers Block

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Ethan Barcelos

You can always tell if it's a Chris hosted episode by the unhinged description

Joe B

Make Constellation great again! #4Hosts

Daniel Pereira

Make Chris the main host for constellation. He is the best host for this format.

Bobby T

Chris is my favourite constellation host. It's great to hear him in a hosting role.

Jay

Can't believe Chris said he thinks people don't meet at bars. I met my wife at a bar, she was at a bachelorette party and they had one of those silly games where they have to go up to random guys and ask them for stuff as a sort of scavenger hunt. They were looking for whitey tighties and a guy who knew a magic trick. I was wearing boxer briefs but I did a pretty good magic trick for them with a cigarette I had learned from a Bar Magician I met one time. I hung out with the bachelorette party for the rest of the night and met my wife and we exchanged numbers. I put my number in her phone as Jay the Magic Trick Guy. I met tons of women at bars just going up and talking to them, not hitting on them like some crazy pick up guy. But that's the whole reason men and women go to bars for the most part is to meet people. I got shut down a lot, I mean I'm not even a great looking guy and I'm pretty damn shy, but if you don't put yourself out there you're not going to meet anyone new.

Dead Tired

Crazy to me that Chris put Micah below him on masculinity. No offense to either of them, but she is a trained machinist and uses a smoker weekly. She’s basically a Dad and that’s rad as hell.

PairOfShuse

Regarding masculinity - pretty much agree with Ben. There are obvious traits that men lean towards way more than women do and vice versa. Social media - this whole blusky discussion is extremely disingenuous. It’s being portrayed like it’s some bastion of calmness and chillness. I’ve heard the exact opposite of people reporting each other, it’s highly censorious and then at the same time they got inundated apparently with like 40000 cases of child porn being reported. None of this was brought up. The people that complain about Twitter are disingenuous now too. Problems with Twitter: bots, overrun by porn, violent videos randomly. People saying it’s toxic etc just don’t like Elon Musk and/or don’t like that the opposite view point isn’t being censored now. Besides the problems I listed above, Twitter is exactly the same except if you have an opinion slightly to the right of the far left, you aren’t getting banned now. Even the problem with Musk: you don’t have to like him at all, you can hate him, but to act like it wasn’t the same under Jack Dorsey except far left, then you are either ideologically captured or disingenuous. Ben had the best take on social media by far

Trevor

For a conversation about education, as a teacher - I unfortunately think Gene isn’t up to date with the problems in education *currently.* I’ve got no idea what clicker he’s talking about multiple times; common core absolutely has lots of issues, but, I think some of the talk may just be a bit outdated. I’d like to add: I teach high school English, specifically seniors. On the point about book reports, we still do those. However, students straight up will not read outside of class. It’s an epidemic issue at many, many schools. You can fail them on assignments, but ultimately, administrators push them through anyway. I have students who have failed every class, but just get placed in a classroom with a Chromebook, and they just do credit recovery on a computer. It’s piss easy, and is absolutely what, in my opinion, is sorta plaguing education right now. Anyway - great episode still boys, but that section had me malding lol. Not from disagreement, but, more from how the issue has become somehow even larger. Love you guys, and thanks for the good talk. Had to rant it out. Hopefully this comes off as respectful - I’m not intending to disagree, more so just trying to add that the problem is only getting worse, lol

Dakota Brown

I might be in the minority with this take but I gotta say it in hope that Gene reads this: This is the 3rd straight LSM episode with Gene bragging for a straight 10+ minutes. I love his gaming takes and hearing his stories can be entertaining. However, I just can’t stand it when people brag about themselves every chance they get. If you read this Gene, please consider toning it down a bit. I really wanted to listen to the whole episode but couldn’t sit through anymore bragging.

Russell Cottrell-Garrett

I enjoyed this episode a lot. But I do think the show is better with four people. I get (and respect) wanting to run the company leaner when you’re paying each person for their appearances. I also get the scheduling issues that always wanting four people can create. That said, in this episode, the discussion on masculinity in particular, would’ve been massively improved by Micah as a 4th. I think a limit of three sometimes is fine. But enforcing it for every episode is a mistake IMO - the format should be more flexible.

Shadi Haddad

"Social media does for you what you let it do". I am going to miss Ben so much. As a father of 4 where I too like Ben have to sacrifice sleep to get game time, I relate the most to him. Such wisdom in what he said throughout the whole episode.

Cory Taylor

Get rid of Knockback. But don't worry, you still get the Colin and Dagan duo in constellation! With 2 additional guests! Now the brothers rarely host, let alone on the same episode. And we get 3 guests.

Spanky

Great episode overall! I loved this combo. Got to say though. I don't think BluSky is any more chill than Twitter. I post store stuff on there and sometimes lurk. Blu is just as cancer as X. Its just Far Left X. But it's just like Ben says that SM is what you let it do. It's great advice. My X feed as of now is in a good spot the only bad thing that appears is Grummz' dumbass and "Here's this story, look at my other 20 posts about to finish it"

Adam Barnes

Ben is the only one of these 3 qualified to speak on masculinity lol

Ross Stoddart

If Lockmort making an ‘out of content’ edit of Gene in this episode then the game’s done. “I’m a brony” “I’m like the Andrew Tate of LSM” “I’ve never actually been a pimp” “I wasn’t involved in sex trafficking… but kinda” 🤣🤣🤣

Kenny C

Gene is insufferable, definitely getting worse. We get it dude, you're a someone who's touched a woman, calm down

Black Detective in Dexter

My god, that twitter/bluesky conversation was mind numbing. You guys need to realize that 99% of normal people don't give a fuck about Twitter or blue sky or whatever the fuck. You are engaging with a sad 1% of people that care about that stuff. It's so incredibly cringey that you guys put so much stock in social media. Ben was the only sane one in that discussion.

Marcus

I don't understand the Gene hate if he goes on a 10 minute talk, so what... we listening to a 3+ hour podcasts multiple times per week & somehow don't have the attention span for 10 minutes. I guess it's subjective but I really don't see the big deal, great ep guys.

Marco Maluf

Is there someone on Bluesky that isn’t a democrat (or demoleft)