
·S2 E33
033: "Is He Dead Yet?" [Preview]
Episode Transcript
Premium I'd.
Say creamulum.
So good I'm.
I'm pumped.
It's it's one of my like what's one of my all time favorite like Tim and Eric's gets.
I feel like I'm more pumped up for the for these episodes than this, this episode.
Then I eat them for the I'm like, I'm I love it.
I love this.
This is great.
Well, it's also I'm always good when it's you and me.
It's like, it's like the old school when I was a guest.
Yeah, yeah.
So Cracker.
Cracker Barrel, that's that's not premium content.
That is so funny.
Bottom, bottom All right, guys here on the premium feed you've had your vegetables now, So let's give him some fucking slop.
Pardon my language.
Are we are we apologizing for language on these or?
I I do because my do you know, my mother listened to the podcast and actually complained.
To me.
It's like why?
Why are you?
Why are you cursing on the podcast?
I'm like, I don't know.
I'm I'm sorry.
I'll go to church.
I'm sorry.
I think my father-in-law listens.
I know he listens to like the main feed ones.
I don't know he'll if he'll listen to the premium ones.
But I always wonder, you know, if is this slowly transforming his, his view of me of like listening to me just like riff it for an hour Anyway, Cracker Barrel, the Republic has fallen.
This is this is serious.
We need to fucking sober up.
Like Cracker Barrel is not a laughing matter.
I gave my life to Christ in that parking lot.
So, so, So what happened?
Yeah.
What?
OK, so So what happened?
They they changed the logo of Cracker Barrel, by the way, I would just say I quick Cracker Barrel anecdote and then we'll do this.
I like Cracker barrel.
I like the French toast at Cracker barrel.
I'm I could believe they also have impossible.
I'm pescatarian.
They also have like impossible sausage and I really like that.
I like the French toast with.
The that's relatively new.
That was like the last time all these right wing guys lost their shit at Cracker Barrel is when they introduced the the vegan meats.
So so I spent a lot of time at the Cracker Barrel at Martinsburg, WV while I was doing the work for my book.
And you wrote the book when I Yeah, well, we'll April 7th.
But we when we when I would use the toilet there there was a there is in that I'm soon.
It's still there.
Someone has etched the the letters RWDS into the bathroom at the Cracker Barrel at Martinsburg, which means right wing death squad.
You're familiar.
With that, yeah, that's like a that's that's the.
Whole.
Small shooter shit, you know.
Yeah, I mean, it's like, it's such a haunting thing.
You go in there and like, you know, do your business and then all of a sudden you turn to the left and it's like, God damn, fuck, somebody wants to kill me.
Yeah, did not, did not help with my mood.
But anyway, they changed the logo.
Then they changed it back.
But but this first version of the logo change, it's very, you know, it to me, it's what this altered logo says is we were purchased by a venture capital firm and now there is a new like somebody's son or daughter has a new idea about the future of the company and has has gone on like 99 designs or one of these, you know, logo making websites.
And it's like this is this is the Cracker Barrel of a new era, but they got rid of the cracker and the barrel mic.
Yes, they did.
It's really very, very, very.
I've been telling you for a week that was the most important line that I had to say during this whole show.
But.
I was about to say that it was the most, you know, challenging thing for white people and in generations.
But it was Byron Daniels who is a Black mega supporter, who had the really who really spoke to the importance of this.
This is a tweet he posted.
In college, I worked at Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee.
I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot.
Their logo was iconic and their unique restaurants were a fixture of American culture.
No one asked for this woke rebrand.
It's time to make Cracker Barrel great again.
And I have to say that when I was trying to find this tweet and I was Googling it, I came across this column in some Florida newspaper that described Byron Daniels as, quote, Republican candidate for governor of Florida and a former Cracker Barrel employee, which I nearly lost it when I read.
That's his resume.
That's his resume, that's his resume.
It's like cracker Cracker Barrel server, then mega guy.
Yeah, I love how he says I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot.
He's describing it like he fucked his girlfriend in high school for the first time in the.
No, but you want to know the craziest thing about that part of his tweet is that it's apparently true.
Like, I, I didn't know much about Byron Daniels.
I mean, Ron DeSantis is the governor of Florida, right?
So it's, I mean, this guy can show up and challenge him if he wants.
But like Ron DeSantis has the money in the backers.
Everybody knows it's just going to be him, barring some like crazy political upheaval.
But this is like part of his, some speech, part of part of his like candidate mythology of like, I was working at a Cracker Barrel and there was a church group and something, you know, I was serving them and something came over me and I just had to go into the parking lot and take a minute.
And this group came out and surrounded me and we prayed and I gave myself to God.
So like, this is, this is not like a new thing, right?
It's I, I guess Cracker Barrel, the Cracker Barrel parking lot is very important to this guy, which I think just makes this street like 100 times funnier to know that this isn't just like performative, like what so many right wing guys do, or it's just like, this is the downfall of civilization.
Oh my God, what the fuck is happening?
You know, like over everything, you know, like the new Barbie movie, Ben Shapiro fucking blow a blood vessel off the side of his head getting pissed about it.
But it's so much funnier to read this tweet.
You know, I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot and know that it was earnest.
It's, it's almost cute, you know?
I gave my soul to Satan in the drive through of the Dunkin' Donuts.