The Deprogram Episode 60 - ho ho holidays

[@josephgeorge5741]

A whole episode of Hakim roasting a US map.

[@strawberryJen711]

i want this!

[@roryreviewer6598]

This is the highest rated comment on the video. The mass line has spoken.

[@PZ-VH]

iraqi revenge????

[@josephgeorge5741]

​@@PZ-VH I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes a lot of sense!

[@flyingcheems5959]

Speaking of the "Only in Ohio" meme (4:02) , we have a Vietnamese version here. It's called "Độc lạ Bình Dương*" (lit. "Unique Bình Dương) *Bình Dương is a province in Southeastern Vietnam

[@clayre839]

Something that's under Spoken Here in the US is that factory workers are actually still putting in 50 60 hour work weeks but a lot of factories their staff with white collar workers that get standard 40-hour contracts that skew the average lower

[@colingallagher1648]

Ho Ho Chi Minh

[@jamiemcintosh3030]

The glorious Viet Minh are going to win!

[@0candlestick0]

Also last time I was in Casper Wyoming, my buddy and I were driving through and we got pulled over for "speeding" while literally breaking on a highway offramp. Needless to say my friend isn't white and we were held at gunpoint for two hours while the cops searched our car. Six cops and four dogs. 11:45pm to 1:45am Wy is the worst state I've ever been to.

[@IgorGuerrero]

Dafuq... blacklisted.

[@acid4413]

Most hospitable Wyoming experience

[@dylanlamb2396]

@@acid4413 💀💀💀

[@minhducnguyen9276]

And they have the nerve to call other countries police states every time some countries don't obey them.

[@0candlestick0]

@@minhducnguyen9276 god dude the fucking hypocrisy of it just makes my brain feel like it's on fire

[@0candlestick0]

Boys I got my boss to start listening to the podcast. Much love, stay strong

[@marting5308]

And now youre getting fired for fear of you unionizing against him.

[@0candlestick0]

@@marting5308 nah she's actually really kind and treats us all really well tbh. It's a small business with like less than 10 employees

[@marting5308]

@@0candlestick0 Well, thats too bad because we are gonna guillotine all business owners when we take power... just kidding man, you're lucky to have a nice boss, most of us arent as lucky and have to endure an asshole treating us like shit for half of our waking day.

[@sentientnatalie]

Oh awesome! :)

[@Firefox_42]

I would do bleep-worthy things to hear the things that get bleeped on this podcast

[@Rocinante0489]

Same man

[@tvfandashow6222]

JT FOR SPEAKER!

[@ericktellez7632]

Im Mexican, one of the first culture shocks I had when i first went to the United States was learning that people normally work only 5 days a week, I grew up with a 6 days work week at minimum and most commonly a 7 days a week because is common to have a second infornal job like setting up a tent to sell stuff next to the road or in a market

[@Ajente02]

That's curious... Even in the Dominican Republic the common trend is 5½ days work week (Saturdays until noon), except for the public sector (7 hours work day, 5 days work week) and some retail and service jobs (full-time 7 days a week). The second informal job is usually done out of (or in between) work hours.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

That's a lot of work. But some people like that. I just want to give everyone the choice. If one wants to work every waking hour God bless. They certainly can. But if they wish to work less and have more time with their family I want every person to have that opportunity. I believe people should be able to live a comfortable, average life from no more than 32 hours of labor a week. I think that's fair.

[@Ajente02]

13:13 Here in the Dominican Republic, the traditional dishes of Christmas are the _pastelón_ (a baked dish, made of either mashed plantains or eggplant, stuffed with grind meat, and covered in cheese), the _pastel en hoja_ (similar to Mexican _tamales_ but with mashed plantains instead of corn flour), the _moro_ (basically rice cooked with black beans), and pig/chicken roast. Most of the traditional Christmas music are 80's merengues (that's basically the only place in the year you hear them in every corner of the island). It's very familiar and traditional, with church masses, and lots of alcohol.

[@podemosurss8316]

15:17 Hi there. I'm from Granada (southern Spain), and Yugopniks comment reminded me of a trip I made to Melilla (a Spanish town located in the North African coast, was conquered in 1494 and keeps being Spanish. In addition to the Catholic and Muslim populations, there are sizeable minorities of other religious and cultural backgrounds, and they have ended celebrating every religious festivity there is, as an excuse to party.

[@happyfoxit]

This is epic.

[@catfein9827]

Hurray! New content for the year’s beginning! Thanks y’all!❤

[@ChadVanHalen5150]

As probably one of the few Utah listeners I feel honored to hear Hakim bless the cities of Salt Lake, Provo and Spanish Fork with his attention

[@podemosurss8316]

20:18 I'm laughing hard because in Spain we traditionally have the "Reyes Magos" (Biblical Magi) bringing gifts on December 6th, and they are a Caucasian guy (Melchor), a Persian guy (Gaspar) and a Black guy (Baltasar). So we've been doing it woke for centuries already...

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Yep, the Three Kings haha Very diverse, from Day 0

[@vivazapata123]

And yet the black king is rutinely played buy a white guy in black face.

[@evillaughinthebackground5732]

Y'all have los Reyes Magos on December? In Venezuela they come during the first week of January

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

Yugopnik apologizes when he says the thing about the snake and its ass, but he doesn't realize, whenever he says it, we all collectively cheer - we love whenever that comes up naturally in the conversation, we all get happy and the counter goes up, and we're all a bit better off that day when we hear it.

[@onlyabdelix]

NOW THIS IS A CERTIFIED CLASSIC 😎

[@thatponybro6940]

how did the boys know that i wanted a new episode of The Deprogram for my birthday, hell yea guys

[@jamiemcintosh3030]

Happy birthday!

[@goutamboppana961]

Happy birthday Comrade!

[@sentientnatalie]

Happy Birthday!

[@ms-fk6eb]

get back to work! no paid leave for you!

[@goutamboppana961]

@@ms-fk6eb lol

[@Rocinante0489]

Listening to these like a year after they’ve been released is so surreal. Like they say shit about 2023 and it actually happened. Love ya boys

[@Ak0tnik]

Holy hell, that edit from JT to avoid the spicy moment was hilarious

[@owlex7712]

There are some restaurants in the panhandle (northwest) of Florida called Fudpucker's where you can feed small/baby alligators. You can also eat alligator there iirc. It's mostly a tourist trap. Funnily enough given your cat island comparison, I liked to call the gators "swamp kittens" when I lived in FL.

[@peterwang5660]

That sounds adorable lmao

[@blessedandbiwithahintofmagic]

May Day festival, with blocks of comrades out in force, ability to coordinate and prepare to do some work, and coupled with liberationist movements to complete the intentions of this faire - that sounds amazing, we'll start some May Day parades, and start coordination and cooperation.

[@viktormedvedev3992]

Let me say as an 8 year Flordia vet, there are indeed gas station attractions with literal little gator side zoos

[@shadowgodthegamer5738]

Happy new years!

[@victormonroy3002]

Where's my provo and Spanish Fork peeps? I grew up in both cities, so that was dope hearing that, I guess shoutout from Hakim

[@toomuchadam875]

Wow! That ending was fire! I still can't believe that you could say such things online! Good thing I have a KZbin GoldTM account so that I could listen to the whole episode uncensored! Yes, I am reviving that meme, deal with it.

[@420hedgehog]

I would love to see an episode of just Hakim going through the United States, looking and making fun of it

[@Moneyallergyman]

As comrade from Utah……salt lake and Provo are some of the most soul crushing environments to just gaze upon, nonetheless live there your whole life.

[@Duterasemis]

By this time next year Hakim will be getting sworn in as a US citizen, wearing a cowboy hat and a Hawaiian shirt, still full of funnel cake from the gator park earlier that day

[@IkomaTanomori]

In Chicago, the IWW does a mayday celebration every year, and visits the martyrs' graves.

[@lookinforanick]

Summer vacation is a thing in Italy, normally around whatever religious thingy August 15th is. To the best of my knowledge this started with factories but ended up encompassing all society given that a good proportion of Italian labour works in satellite activities when not for industries directly.

[@ChrisSudlik]

Woo! I'm finally all caught up so can watch them as they come out now!!

[@axlgzrdmattick]

My country was mentioned let's gooooooo

[@kiesarisunny13]

As a North Carolinian I believe both should be North Carolina and 1 should be the capital, we have 2 Washingtons after all

[@brendanrudell9559]

I wonder if the “And I’m Peter Griffin” at the end can be explained by something JT cut out from the goat and your mom bit, or if that’s just something one of them has been saving. So many unanswered questions.

[@blondezeke6640]

Joseph Stalin was good ole country boy from Georgia

[@caymuscairns6845]

This was the first year I did not celebrate Christmas as someone who grew up in a secular Christian adjacent household. Its just a date in time that I don't have to work. I just played Sea of Thieves the entire week of Christmas.

[@pixie7349]

So here in Ohio we used to have a locally owned store that is now a church with a live alligator and the owners lived right across the street from us and had another alligator and a wolf. 😂

[@CraigKeidel]

But Daaaaad, I wanna hear Yugo inciting bloody violence upon the capitaliiiiists

[@Ajente02]

1:54 The two Carolinas come from the colonial origins of Carolina: originally a private enterprise ceded by king Charles I of England to the colonist Robert Heath, it was later seized from his descendants by Charles II and given to 8 feudal lords as a reward for the restoration of monarchy, each one with one county to manage in the Crown's name (under a quasi-liberal Constitution drafted by no other than John Locke, the liberal philosopher). The southern lands, however, were constantly harrassed by French and Spanish attacks (both France and Spain colonized first those territories, and claimed for themselves the occupied lands), which ended up dividing the colony in two parts.

[@defn0tjake]

I love these boys so fucking much

[@bradypatterson7172]

The Christmas food Hakim is looking for are Tamales

[@josephgeorge5741]

Not the pork ones, of course.

[@ericktellez7632]

For the US though? Those are Mexicans and some regions in Central America

[@josephgeorge5741]

@@ericktellez7632 There are plenty of Latinos in the US.

[@yoohootube]

The fact that JT is in Texas and didn't say this in response to Christmas tacos... he's always puzzling to me lmao. Also saying some people do the 12 Days of Christmas ??? haha

[@jessh4016]

@@yoohootube Yeah, Thanksgiving and Christmas tamales are a tradition in our household in Texas :)

[@HyDeNsEeK123]

Iowa mentioned 💪💪💪 let's gooooooo

[@IgorGuerrero]

Dude there's a park in Florida that has truly a beautiful view and end of a stream into the ocean, but alligators at arm length! It's called Black Point Park, in Cutler Bay FL. Scary but honestly they're only interested in other animals around, I guess we're not that yummy.

[@UrajiSurafu]

In Russia labor Day is more like in US, just a holiday when people can celebrate and grill some bbq.

[@aliasalone5823]

Alligator parks are 100% real I held one as a kid, it’s a nightmare state

[@whythelongface64]

Can we have an episode on the revolution in Nepal?

[@josephspurgis7782]

I turned 20 on new years eve! :>

[@txfan100]

More yugopnik rants. He is incredibly unhinged, and it's the funniest shit to me, lol

[@Gamingpandacat]

with child labor coming back, I can see that 14 hour week a norm as well

[@nimzomitch]

Yay Lincoln! Haha

[@WesternCommie]

This is why so many people are going into debt now... They've started to put us in the negative, so they can have even more.

[@luwfu7467]

Celebrate both 25th and 7th. Everyone is happy, you get extra time off, Jesus also love you more.

[@RedScareClair]

Hakim coming to the US and falling in love with it would be the best thing I've ever seen in my life. I hope it happens 🤣

[@andydavis3075]

He does seem pretty infatuated with American culture doesn't he? Despite the political/economic institutions

[@RedScareClair]

@@andydavis3075 we are a meme personified that exports it's memeable culture so you can't really blame him. There's a lot to laugh at and be perplexed by 🤣

[@andydavis3075]

@@RedScareClair Very true! The largest American export is its culture

[@zainmudassir2964]

US culture is... Interesting. Land of contradictions

[@darrrrrby]

big shout out to the NZ Maori Santa's haha lets goo

[@punksk8a29]

Last Mayday was a Sunday, we held a leftist BBQ with our fellow local leftist orgs. It was the first annual. Were in a small city in PA, but still had roughly 60 people show up.

[@broname5704]

"Complacency is seen as a virtue" Ppl get so mad at me for not being complacent with not a living wage and massive debt, like wtf

[@kiesarisunny13]

I like how some people assume black people can only have curly hair when I got a black friend who has straighter hair then me

[@superbeltman6197]

Like, naturally?

[@aweeesome]

why are youtube uploads so much later than spotify ?

[@WMFranksworth]

Hakim, be careful in Casper, that's boglim country.

[@BlueSparkMid]

Santa should only be a Turk

[@mrpricklythecactus]

does Hakim know about CLIMAX, MN?????????

[@OK-qg2zd]

(KZbin deleted my comment😑) I would honestly watch a video of Hakim,JT,and Yugopnik just visiting Florida and looking at Alligators.

[@dantemanalo3476]

Oh shit goes down on may day. Just not in texas. But i didnt see shit and i dont know shit

[@astonersteve5310]

POG

[@mrpieceofwork]

tx and fl are very similar in many ways and none of it has anything to do with geography

[@Mitiya__ua]

WTF YUGOPNIK? No traditional meal? how about aspic (holodec), olivier salad, herring under a fur coat salad ? wtf u eating there?

[@danger_design]

Yoooooooo

[@josephgeorge5741]

Blatina, Muslim Mx. Claus in a wheelchair, when.

[@scepticat]

Only in Ohio💀

[@colonel__klink7548]

I think that in the critique of the commercial aspect of Christmas people have forgotten the purpose of the gifts under the tree. Chanukah is the holiday of endurance, of refusing to give up on who you are but Christmas is the holiday of hope. How do you teach a child of the power of hope? Jesus is too complex a figure to truly teach a child, most adults struggle with the complex intersection of a parents hope for a child, the child's hope for his life, and societies hope for the new child represented by Jesus birth. So instead you teach children about hope with a ritual. You tell them about Santa. The point of Santa is that he *IS* impossible and he comes on the longest darkest night of the year. We tell our children that if they are good, especially during this dark time an impossible thing will happen bringing good with dawns new light. Often we dream of one good thing but in truth the world often gives us another. So we wrap the presents. A good thing will come to you we say, but you cannot know what it is until it comes. It seems impossible, it seems improbable but if you are a good person it will come. When the child grows up they learn the truth of Santa, its not that he's not real. Santa is your family who come together in the darkest of nights to make miracles happen. This is why the movie its a wonderful life is the icon of the season of, of the ritual we play out. The main character was a good man who his entire life sacrificed all his dreams to ensure that good was done. Then a disaster happens. A mistake so grave he thinks that he will go to jail for good. Having felt like he never accomplished anything he contemplates suicide on the longest, darkest night of his life figuratively and literally. He is convinced to keep hope, to believe against all reason that it will be OK, and with the dawns new light the miracle happens. The town comes together to fix the mistake and save him. He didn't know this would happen. He couldn't have known. Thats the present under the tree. I think we should figure out how to make the lesson of the Christmas ritual more obvious because most adults don't even consciously grasp it anymore..

[@juchenecromancer5644]

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