Jason Weiser
Writer & podcaster @mythsandlegends.com. I used to fold towels at the professional level.
https://jasonweiser.com
- It took Jack Black and Lizzo hosting a dinner party for Baby Yoda for me to finally let go and realize that Star Wars is and always has been a pew pew space adventure for children and not worth arguing about with anyone ever.
- Was excited to finally get to Tears of the Kingdom but for some reason fighting an orange-haired monster we all thought was beaten years ago but who returned in a more focused, organized, and crueler form just doesn’t sound so fun anymore
- They followed it up by interviewing these Americans who all agreed that Trump and Vance did an amazing job and weren't disgraceful at all
- If I had the most cats in the world - more than I could ever pet in my lifetime - and was trying to make it so, like, impoverished children can’t get medicine so I could get more cats, everyone would be like, hey maybe that guy has a problem. I kind of think we should feel the same way about money
- 🎶in the aaarms of the angel Hello, I'm Sarah McLachlan. Every day billionaires suffer in silence. For your small gift of the entirety of the social safety net & civil society, we can make sure these poor creatures have super ultra yachts they need & never have to party on an ultra yacht ever again
- I finally understand the appeal of conspiracy theorists and how it might be nice to believe there’s a cabal of power-brokers in the shadows enforcing the status-quo over living in a world where a failed reality TV star and a drug-addled billionaire can destroy everything in a matter of weeks
- You know things are going real well for your society and planet when the probability of an asteroid strike going up is met with excitement and hope
- Reposted by Jason WeiserYeah millennials are cringe but like “the internet is fun! I can haz cheeseburger!” cringe and not “someone on the internet correctly called me out so I guess apartheid is good now” cringe
- If you see this, post a fictional band you would love to see live
- "Roaring Twenties 2.0" Remind me, how did the Roaring Twenties 1.0 end, again? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
- If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's obviously just a Roman salute
- For the record, and I know these are controversial points, now, but: Nazis are bad. Colonialism is bad.
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- I’m for the TikTok ban but it doesn’t go far enough. Ban all social media. Smartphones, too. Treat computers like a controlled substance. Put warning labels on tech like we do cigarettes.
- As a Bengals fan who’s still salty the Chiefs threw the Broncos game to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs, I’m down. (Although the Bengals did more than anyone to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs)
- If you ever wondered what you would have done in 19 BBY, you're doing it now
- Been thinking about 90s movies recently, how things were so good for gen x they had to dream of scenarios where things were actually really bad. The millennial version Truman Show would be him figuring it out at like, 22, but staying and playing along because he has a stable job and a house
- They should have let Superman keep the mustache in Justice League. He just died he’s trying out a new look chill out.
- I'm "learn about new music from Wing Stop commercials" years old.
- Morpheus: We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI… and we used it to write spammy nonsense and make the most generic Coke commercials you’ve ever seen. Honestly I don’t even blame the machines we basically had it coming
- To anyone annoyingly following thousands of people to juice their own numbers via follow-backs
- Imagine being a young New Year’s glasses scion in 2001. The scientists come in, warning about the coming tens digit. You brush them off. You have a whole decade. We just figured out Y2K surely you would crack this in time.
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- Twilight Princess doesn’t need its gameplay updated and Windwaker doesn’t need either of those things but for some reason Nintendo did Skyward Sword first
- I searched for the Pop Tart thing on Twitter and now it’s pushing Pop Tart content like YouTube pushes far right influencers if you watch a video game review
- Beauty and the Beast but the Beast is manipulating Belle to lift the curse and Gaston is the monster who legitimately changes
- I noticed that medieval depictions of the original St. Nicholas show him with what appears to be a butt in the middle of his forehead and now I can’t unsee it
- “You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:
- If we're going to be bringing back the 1800s imperialism nonsense with this Canada/Panama/Greenland stuff can we at least bring back the fun facial hair, top hats, and penny-farthing bicycles?
- Reposted by Jason WeiserUnionized Starbucks workers are on strike in: -California -Colorado -Illinois -Massachusetts -New Jersey -New York -Ohio -Oregon -Pennsylvania -Missouri -Texas -Washington The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.
- Yes, chain restaurants dominated America and crushed local cuisine and made it all generic slop and that is bad. But we won’t have another regional culinary abomination like Cincinnati chili on spaghetti so there’s the silver lining
- I love how ads don’t even try to make sense now. Yeah we’re launching an iPhone into space is it a giant iPhone? Who cares. Yup we have the Ted Lasso football is life guy with the Chiefs quarterback selling insurance with a messed up soccer ball. Shut up and buy our stuff
- Party City trying to pay down its creditors:
- Reposted by Jason WeiserEvery podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food
- I’m the Socrates of “Ulysses” readers because no one really knows what’s going on but I admit that it makes no sense and therefore I am the smartest reader of them all
- Wife: it says rinse thoroughly after use Me: got it *washes paint brushes two years after building a cabin by Walden Pond while journaling about living deliberately*
- Me, to my true love, next to the pear tree dying in my apartment after looking up how long a partridge lives: yeah I don’t think this is going to work out
- I just went on Threads and for some reason the US Postal Service is pretending to be a person over there if you were wondering what you were missing
- The past couple years in the podcasting industry can be summarized with the Frisky Dingo quote "[Podcaster] made headlines today, but not the good kind, like you want."
- Don't tell your dad
- Rocky gave me unrealistic expectations for climbing exceptionally long flights of stairs
- Dorothy did still had to have Toto put down, though, right? Miss Gulch was pretty excited to kill that dog
- Watterson elevated comics as an art form and protected what he made. I’m really glad there’s not a movie out with Calvin bringing in cash from his Calvinball Roblox game and a Chris Pratt voiced Hobbes ordering tuna on DoorDash
- Whoever put video ads playing constantly at the gas pump learned all the wrong lessons from Fahrenheit 451
- With that name like “life insurance” you’d think they’re hiding my soul in a needle in an egg in a duck in a hare in a chest under a tree on a forgotten island and, unable to die, I slowly lose my humanity as I become an unfeeling shadow of my former self. Get on it, GEICO.
- 👍 "give the people what they want" is a bad way to make art and "give the algorithm what it wants" is a worse one
- They just don’t make holiday specials like the Charlie Brown ones anymore, where an elementary schooler looks and acts like a clinically-depressed 40-something
