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Modern TV, Home Cooking, Social Media, Billionaires | Constellation Episode 2

It's time once more for Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. For this episode, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by the co-hosts of Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast. Cog wants to chat about contemporary television, our respective migrations to digital subscriptions, and how our viewing behaviors have changed over time. Matty is curious about the ways we interact with social media, and how we deal with the overwhelming negativity it can introduce. Dagan brings cooking to the table (pardon the pun), and inquires about the cast's culinary skills, tastes, and expectations. And finally, Colin expresses concern over the very existence of billionaires, a few thousand global citizens who are so beyond the traditional definition of "rich" that it defies their very sense of reality. NEW MERCH: https://laststandmedia.store Tickets to An Evening with Last Stand in Texas are ON SALE NOW: https://my.thehobbycenter.org/5706/5708 Get early access to Constellation at http://patreon.com/LastStandMedia

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Sam Strajack

re : Billionaires - did we not all voluntarily make them billionaires in the first place? I am somewhat sympathetic to a desire to make things more egalitarian but I can never shake that question.

LastStandMedia

To be fair, there's a fundamental misunderstanding with most people how income tax works, versus capital gains, etc.

Kyle Mitchell

Regarding the cooking discussion I suggest to learn to make a one pot chicken soup with any vegetables you like. Cooking the entire chicken in the water and making your own stock is extremely rewarding and a meal that can feed your entire family multiple meals. Take a look at Ragusea’s guide 👉 https://youtu.be/xudhMRXvJI0

TreelineMars

Ok sure, we’ll hate on them until they take all their fortunes away, to tax havens. Billionaires finances exist as economic potential, if you want to see that potential held by a wider spread of people, then you must remove the governmental over-reach that stifles smaller players. Any other solution is just another fat-cat.

Anonymous

This episode made my six hour flight much more bearable, great stuff

Anonymous

I'm loving this show so much!

Eebo85

This really is such a cathartic show. Keep up the excellent work lads!

Napoleon in Rags

Well done as always!! Keep ‘em coming

Walt Duncan

Regarding social media, I’d just point to The Social Dilemma on Netflix, and its producer Tristan Harris. Our culture is really fucked if we can’t figure out a way to escape these issues that all came online for the first time like 13 years ago.

Ryan H

Daegan! I'm a professional animator too (and I follow you on Twitter!) and everything you said about social media was 100% on point and relateable to me too! I love /hate it, I love following and being inspired by other artists but also feel discouraged and a bit envious of others work sometimes too. Plus I feel I can't work without YouTube too! (ESPECIALLY annoying when I have to lip-sync a character! haha). You aren't alone in your thoughts man, I think maybe its all just the follies of being an artist online nowadays.... Also do I appreciate your dad jokes too ;-)

NotYurRealDad

To the billionaire topic, I think it's less about raising taxes, and more of getting rid of the loopholes that allow them to pay almost nothing in federal taxes.

TreelineMars

The problem with income is not that people have so much, but that more people don’t have enough, the problem is over systemization - a problem I’m sure Colin is familiar with as a libertarian leaning person. How many compliance costs does the average person pay? And then the government pays it out on rediculous s#*t.

TreelineMars

We have come along way from a riot over 3% on tea.

TreelineMars

Billionaires literally put everything into the system, literally the top 20% of US tax payers pay for everything in the US budget - except social welfare. The fortunes don’t sit in the bank - they are invested and paying hundreds of thousands of peoples wages and salaries each