5 Star Tossers

A callback to our most listened to pod, we compare the comedy stylings of Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson. Having just finished thinking about Keith Raniere from NXIVM, we read Fielder as pervert and Robinson as a fetishist. We think about how cringe always rides the edge of semblance and performance, and how both comedians play with this edge in different ways. If Robinson is overtly angry, where is Nathan's anger? Does Robinson invite identity with him in a way Nathan never allows?

The Tossers lambaste the hypocrisy of grievance culture on the right. The way that it appeals to identity politics perhaps even more aggressively than the so-called wokeness it maligns. We also discuss Nolan's The Odyssey, it's christianization, and the way it left the Right utterly confused about whether to complain or applaud.

Wow, an embarrassment of riches here. Pervs R' Us reigns supreme over all the other stars. Pyramid schemes, viral brainwashing tech, the drive unleashed. 
We read Keith Raniere, the leader of the NXIVM cult, now behind bars, as a figure of the Lacanian pervert. We look at the essay "Kant avec Sade," we read from the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy of the Boudoir, and Andy connects the wild psychoanalysis of Raniere's brainwashing pyramid sex ring scheme to some of the unhinged practices found in Relational psychoanalysis. 
Now go lick that puddle! What?!?!? Are you afraid?

We set out to discuss the new Predictive Markets and gambling sites like Kalshi, that allow people to bet on practically anything. Like, you can gamble on when the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened. 
We ended up thinking about how these markets reveal the paucity of our attention in this world, as well as a Protestant interiorization of predestination.
Perhaps our must titillating toss in this episode, we wonder if sex work is a form of gambling with one's predestined "hotness." And we end with a little story about Las Vegas, Stripclubs, and Commodity Futures daytrading.

The Tossers try to atone for the grave sin of dialecticizing the poles of gender without definitively dunking on men. Well, should we atone? Who are the men that suck? Is this all gender's fault? Is there something redeemable in men? What about trans and non-binary transvaluations of gender, will they repeat these same violences, will they save us, will they create new violences?
We did determine without a doubt that the men who suck are the men who are stuck. Men S(T)uck.