Premium Episode 234: The Tuttle Twins (Libertarian Anti-Communism for Kids!)

The irony of me listening to this episode as I'm building a mining rig for a customer...

Ryan Blakeslee

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Tuttle Twins. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of economics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Grandma Gabby's libertarian outlook, which is deftly woven into her characterisation- her personal philosophy draws heavily from Ayn Rand literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Tuttle Twins truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Gabby's libertarian catchphrase "Age is just a

Try making a bee name out of this, Mr Smart Guy

I too am a beekeeper and a lover of ska music that part was incredibly jarring to hear

It’s fun when libertarians completely justify the stereotype of them as being obsessed with figuring out why they should be allowed to fuck children and how young they should be.

Matt

These are the kindergartners from that Leo movie, aren't they?

Honey B

The guy who runs the Tuttle twins book is insufferable, very excited to listen to more content about the individualist death cult that is libertarianism

Corey Buchillon

A message to you rudie!

Kal

I almost vomited when he said ska. Why must my beloved upbeats be tarnished this way...

Joseph V.

I’ve received the most psychic damage from this one.

Caitlin

Almost seems like they saw Gravity Falls, got mad that the villain, Bill Cypher, said to buy gold and determined to make their own version. That's Mabel and Dipper and Grunkle Stan in disguise. They used AI to write this, didn't they?