“Well I better jump on this here street car and 23 skidoo my way to the theater to check this out! On my way I’ll pick up some asbestos coated cigarettes to smoke inside!”

I’m sure all the over 40 Hexbears can confirm this for me.

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    I remember once watching a woman describe how she visited her dads job and she thought it was so magical because the asbestos in the air caught the light and the whole place sparkled so beautifully. Like being in a snowglobe. He died suffering horribly of lung disease and she also had problems because of the 2nd hand asbestos he would bring home on his clothes.

    Nick Kroll, comedian and general media guy, is the son of Jules Kroll, a “corporate espionage” “entrepreneur” who as recently as 2012 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/k2-corporate-spy-infiltrated-anti-asbestos-campaign-court-told) employed people to spy on anti aspestos activists and disrupt their work on behalf of the international ruling class. Nick Kroll has depicted his father in the very weird teen oriented sex cartoon Big Mouth where he is constantly referring to being jealous about the large size of his dads testicles.

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        Credit to the sadly cancelled Eat The Rich podcast who did an episode about daddy Kroll. One of the top 10 pod Eps ever produced. Very much reccomend if you can find it.

        (They didn’t talk about the testicles, I just know that because my friend made me watch the show before I knew the rest of it.)

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      I love that I have actively hated Big Mouth because something just feels wrong about it and not funny, and now I know why, it is because he is a completely unselfrefective guy.

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        I don’t know about you but there’s more incest jokes in that show than I have encountered in the whole rest of my life put together. Like multiple whole plots of episodes about incesty concepts and lots of incidental jokes. All basically portrayed in a positive and accepting manner. Awkwardness yes, but similar in tone to awkwardness about masturbation or any other topic. And I know people who allow their 12 year olds to watch this, I don’t think they know what they content is. I mean, I hope not.

        Maybe I’m just old enough that “I know what sex is” doesn’t seem like a good premise anymore. It feels like that show was made in a lab to discredit lgbtq+ people honestly. I’m surprised I’ve never heard of more pushback about it. But maybe right wing people like some of the themes (see above) so that keeps em peaceful on it.

        These Kroll guys deserve mucho attention that they don’t get. Like to look at what they are doing, to whom, for whom etc.

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      When Gronk held the flickering torchlight up to the rock painting of the wildebeest, and it looked like they were running, well, you coulda blown me over witht a feather

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    Same but more realistically “I went down to the Kinko’s to get something faxed, but I missed a number on the rotary dial, so now I’ll just have to check the mail order catalog”.