You can learn a surprisingly good deal about human nature watching game shows.
I recently saw an episode of Celebrity Family Feud where a team of very decidedly woke celebrities of color played a group that looked to be Travis and Jason Kelce’s extended family.
The question posed by host Steve Harvey was as follows: “We asked 100 people and the top five answers are on the board: What kind of music is played all hours of the day in hell?”
Now the number one answer was hard rock/heavy metal. This wasn’t surprising. What was surprising is that no one could seem to guess the second answer. The two teams struck out attempting to guess.
You probably figured out by now the number two answer was “rap/hip hop.” When Steve Harvey read that out loud one of the black women shook her head and solemnly proclaimed “We were never going to say rap.” Her fellow team members all nodded, as if this was the moral and correct take on the matter.
It’s Celebrity Family Feud, for fuck’s sake. The answers are based on what 100 random people say about a survey question. It’s not a moral judgment on the players or what the players think. Yet this team threw the game by refusing to state the one obvious answer.
For these titans of industry it was more important to look morally pure than to win money for charity.
I think about this a lot more than I should these days.
Anthony Fauci was in front of Congress this week after Rand Paul released a bunch of pages from a personal diary the former head of the NIAID kept on a government computer. A bunch of eagle-eyed folks picked up on several interesting tidbits.
I mean sure there was all the stuff he knew about COVID originating from the Wuhan lab and not a wet market like he told everyone publicly. And how he told everyone to socially distance while he had nightly dinners with Jake Tapper.
No, the real damning stuff is the revelation Barbara Streisand called Fauci to see if sores on her ass could potentially be caused by COVID.
That’s the kind of thing that makes you be ashamed to be a fan of someone, isn’t it? It has to be. I could’t think of even casting a respectful look Babs’ way after learning a fact like that.
And talk about the very definition of a Streisand effect too…No wonder Big Tony pled the Fifth.
Why the hell is vegan cheese so goddamn expensive? The last time I got pizza at my favorite spot, it was about $10 more per pizza just because of the vegan cheese.
This shit is plant based, folks. There’s no animals involved in the creating of said cheese, so why are folks with allergies being hosed? I thought the whole point of vegan food was that consuming animal products hurt everyone’s fee-fees, right? So make the plant options cheaper and we’ll all feel better about ourselves. Isn’t that kind of a win-win scenario what America’s all about?
But anyway, I need to get to cooking dinner. There’s a strange man on my television who looks like a cross between a weasel and a cult leader. I think he’s my State Senator.
Y’all behave yourselves. Talk soon!