Episode 49: Leftist Hypebeast

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## Episode Summary

Virgil Abloh, APC, Off-White, Supreme, Nike, Palace, Dime, Alltimers, Converse, Reebok. These are the greatest brands of all time. But what if they were made for and by leftists? What if you lined up at the Kid Robot store to get the new Kaws drop and someone was handing out Marx propaganda? What if it was grailed to vote for Bernie Sanders?

## Idea Details

* Idea: Leftist Hypebeast
* Creator of idea: Josiah
* Purpose of idea: What's up, Drew?? Drew, today we're gonna talk about a little something called hypebeeeeeasts!! Hahahaha! Uh! We're gonna talk about hypebeeeasts! Hahahahaha! (Drew: "Hypebeasts is something that I've heard about, I kind of vaguely know what it refers to, like I know what a hypebeast is. I mean, I know a hypebeast to spot one, but what is the definition of a hypebeast? Where did they originate?") Uh, well let's start - let's break - let me break it down. Let's chop it up a little. Hahahahahaha! Whoo! Hypebeast episode! (Drew: "What are you -") Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (Drew: "What is so funny?") Hahahahahahahaha! Let's break it down. Hype! We're talking about hype! \*Doing an airhorn impression\* Err err errrrrrr! So that's what 'hype' means, OK? So hype means hype. Beast - beast means beast mode! So it comes from evolution, OK? (Drew: "OK.") So there's a beast inside of you that waiting to be unleashed and that beast is desperate... for hype! (Drew: "So is this a metaphorical beast or is this like an actual, like a transformation?") So let's talk about what's an actual hypebeast is, let's talk about it. So do you understand what's happening here? A hypebeast. (Drew: "I- no, I don't.") Consumption of things. (Drew: "So like a person who watches a bunch of movies is a movie hypebeast.") I think it has to do with consuming. Consumerism. Capitalism. Consuming. Hypebeast. (Drew: "So could you be a like a Diet Coke hypebeast?") Well here's the thing, OK? There's 20 different types of hypebeast laid out in this video, uh and there's one kind that's not in the video, and that's kind of what I wanna talk about today um is that there's one kind of hypebeast that should replace all of them, and it's the Leftist Hypebeast.
* Timetable: Leftist Hypebeast sneakers will debut at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and will be on sale to the general public in Fall 2021.
* Idea details:
	+ When you buy sneakers, you will keep the tags on.
	+ There will only be one brand: Leftist Hypebeast. All other brands will be absorbed and renamed.
	+ Instead of clothes saying 'Nike', they will now say 'Marx' on them.
	+ Instead of 'Adidas', they will say 'Activist'.
	+ Instead of 'Reebok', they will say 'Marx'.
	+ Instead of 'Converse', they will say 'Discourse'.
	+ Yeezy Boosts will say something else, though it has not yet been determined.
	+ Leftist Hypebeast will have a brand of sneakers that are leftist.
	+ There will be a little smear of human shit on the toe of the leftist shoe to represent kicking ass. They may also be poisoned to prevent licking them, which is symbolic against bootlicking.
	+ Some of Josiah and Drew's favorite leftist Tweets will be printed on the tongue of the leftist shoe, and each shoe will have a different set of Tweets. For example, someone may want to get the Alex Press 96's or the Hillary Clintons.
	+ The colors on the leftist shoe will be every color on Earth all at once so that no one is left out, except for white and there is no white on the shoes.
	+ The heel of the leftist shoe will have an opposite form of Flubber that keeps people stuck on the ground so that everyone stays grounded at all times.
	+ Both shoes will be left feet.
	+ The leftist shoes will come with a box but will be delivered out of the box because we want to be outside of the box.
	+ There will be a stash pocket for weed in the leftist sneaker.
	+ The Leftist Hypebeast sweatshop will be staffed by the billionaires of the world to pay back society by smearing a little bit of shit on the toe of each shoe.
		- Note: It is unclear why billionaires will be required to pay back society after the wealth restructure discussed in Episode 47: Piss Economy, whereby all wealth is eradicated in favor of a piss-based economy. It is worth noting that the episode also discussed the possible eventuality of billionaires opening their own sweatshops to harvest piss from their workers to inject it into themselves, but it was dismissed out of hand because there will be no one wealthy enough to create those sweatshops, and they would be leftist sweatshops anyway with elected piss despots so it wouldn't matter in the end.
	+ Leftist Hypebeast will have its own strain of weed and when you blow the smoke out, it will form into a quotation from a well-known smart leftist like Albert Einstein or Bill Nye.
	+ Leftist Hypebeast will sponsor the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and will debut its new shoes at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, which will have an Alex Press quote on the tongue, amongst other leftist Tweets that have yet to be determined.
	+ Leftist Hypebeast sneakers will go on sale to the public in Fall 2021.

## Notable Events

* Josiah can be heard typing and making fap sounds at the beginning of the episode before he knew they had started recording.
* Drew can be heard fapping at the beginning of the episode.
* World Widea
* Josiah and Drew discussed the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and how it has been impacted by COVID-19.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "James Bond - London 2012 Opening Ceremony | Epic Olympic Moments" about Queen Elizabeth II being escorted to the London 2012 Opening Ceremony by James Bond (Daniel Craig).
* Josiah and Drew discussed whether it would be love at first sight if the Queen saw Drew. They ultimately left it up to their listeners to decide.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Sarantos The Olympics Official Music Video - new Olympic epic rock song" with a new Olympics theme song by Josiah's new favorite artist Sarantos. Josiah and Drew sang along later in the song.
* Josiah and Drew discussed getting Sarantos to make a new World Wide Anthem for them because they need another one at this point.
* Josiah and Drew revealed that they will discuss Sarantos in an upcoming Patreon episode.
* Drew revealed that he attended the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
	+ Note: It is widely assumed that Drew was lying when he said this because he revealed in Episode 33: Back to Basics that he was 16 years old in 2010, making his birth year 1993 or 1994.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "hype meaning and pronunciation" about the meaning and pronunciation of the word 'hype'.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video by the Gangsta Philosopher about going beast mode.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "What The Hell is A Hypebeast? | WTH" about taking it to the beginning and trying to define what a hypebeast is in this installment of WTH.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Sneaker Knowledge- What Is A Hypebeast?" about what is a sneakerhead, different types of sneakerheads, and other terminology that is used in the sneaker world, as well as what exactly is a hypebeast.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Funko Pop HypeBeast Collection" about lots of Rare and some unobtainable Hypebeast Funk Pops.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "20 TYPES OF HYPEBEAST" about 20 types of hypebeast.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Bernie Sanders - Funko Pop Bobble Head Vinyl Figure Unboxing" about a Bernie Sanders Pop! Vinyl Figure that features the presidential candidate as a cute vinyl figure.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Hillary Clinton Funko Pop review" about reviewing the Hillary Clinton Funko pop.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "STREETWEAR BRAND TIER LIST 2019" about the tier list of streetwear.
* Anti Globehell Globehell Club
* World Wide Smoke Break, which will be about cigarettes, hotboxing, vaping, and how to take care of your bong, and it will also include smoke sessions as a Patreon bonus where Josiah and Drew will take a couple hits off the bong and then take a topic and just go with it off the top of their heads.
	+ Note: Josiah noted that World Wide Smoke Break shares many similarities with the idea discussed in the previous episode, Episode 48: World Wide Weed, namely the topic of hotboxing, which that episode primarily revolved around.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called “Top 10 ethical streetwear brands” about how sustainable streetwear is stylish, trendy, and good for the environment, and how it's taking the world of fashion by storm after being long thought to be too plain or lacking in style.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called “Unboxing of Blackspot Sneakers” about vegan shoes with Recycled Tire Sole, Organic Hemp, Union-Made, and Designed by Fluevog.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called “AdBusters - BLACKSPOT SHOES VIDEO - by ThinkOrganic.com" about how for years the old pattern went on and people were jaded by mega corporate control of so much of their lives, but couldn't see how they might take some power back, and how they decided to launch a counterattack and the result is the world's first global anti-brand: Blackspot Shoes, which are Earth- friendly, anti-sweatshop, cruelty free, and pro-grassroots.
* Globe Hailed

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "Are you jacking off right now?"
* "It's Globe Hell Warning, everyone, and we're here to talk to you about the globe, and we're here to warn you about the hell world that is brewing, and the uh politics as unusual - impolite-ics is what I call it, and we're here with a World Widea."
* "[In response to Drew saying 'poli-dicks'] Well they should call it pullin' dicks when you're talking cause you keep masturbating into the mic, is what it sounds like you're doing."
* "What happened to good ol' fashioned natural birth, without all these epidurals and whatnot?"
* "We need to pool our money together, get a billboard of Drew's face, one of his selfies from Twitter - it'll have to be a really tall billboard, one of the ones where your face is at the bottom cause it's such a funny bit that you do - we'll do - we'll get one of those, it'll be mostly black, and then on the very bottom, it'll be your - a little bit of your head, and then the Queen, when she's, you know, driving around, going to Costa or whatever she does - I don't know what she does during the day in London! She'll see the billboard, she'll say, 'Blimey! Blimey!', and someone will say, 'Did you say "Blind me!" because you saw Drew?' and she'll say, 'No, I said "Blimey" cause I'm in love with hi- *Blimey, I'm In Love With You*, The Cure,'."
* "[Reading Sarantos lyrics] 'It's what you did in the dark that pushed you into the light'. That's - I don't think he knows about what you do in the dark."
* "What's up, Drew?? Drew, today we're gonna talk about a little something called hypebeeeeeasts!! Hahahaha! Uh! We're gonna talk about hypebeeeasts! Hahahahaha!"
* "Uh, well let's start - let's break - let me break it down. Let's chop it up a little. Hahahahahaha! Whoo! Hypebeast episode! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahaha! Let's break it down. Hype!"
* "We're talking about hype! \*Doing an airhorn impression\* Err err errrrrrr!"
* "So there's a beast inside of you that waiting to be unleashed and that beast is desperate... for hype!"
* "So let's talk about what's an actual hypebeast is, let's talk about it. So do you understand what's happening here? A hypebeast."
* "I think it has to do with consuming. Consumerism. Capitalism. Consuming. Hypebeast."
* "We need Leftist Hypebeast culture to come back for the first time. We need Leftist Hypebeasts. We need people to be tuned in, turned on, laced up, lefted out, OK? We need a hypebeast culture where you're buying boxes of sneakers and keeping the tags on, and maybe the sneakers ha- say, instead of Nike, maybe they say 'Marx' on them. Maybe they say uh, instead of Adidas they say uh, I'm just spitballing here, instead of Adidas they say uhhhhhhhhh 'Activist'. Instead of Reebok they say um 'Marx'. So kind of a - Converse says 'Conversation'."
* "[On the topic of Bernie Sanders] And he won, I think. They rigged the election and he won - I think he won. He wo- he won. He won in 2020, and they - and that's why those guys went to the Capitol building. Cause of Bernie."
* "Every opinion is like a asshole. And... fuck it. You wanna fuck it."
* "Off-White I would change to 'Off With Their Heads' and make it a guillotine."
* "So I don't understand these tiers or anything, but now you know some of the brands that we need to make into leftist brands, because here's the problem: sometimes these workers that make this stuff are uh, you know, you hear a lot from certain people on the internet, like Alex Press and probably someone else or the people who reply to her, about how these w- how workers don't get enough uh smoke breaks! And the thing is, they say that every worker should have a smoke break whether they smoke or not, and I agree with that! Cause if you smoke, you shouldn't get more time off than me! But the thing is they - so a lot of these people who make this stuff are no- are, you know, it's uneven, the smoke breaks, how they're balanced out, and that's not very leftist to me."
* "[On the topic of ethical sneakers] They look like absolute dogshit."
* "[On the topic of smoking hemp] Enough of that. Enough of that weed talk."
* "How cool is it when someone puts a sticker *in* the urinal? They wai- they dry it up? Or they wait for the piss to go away?"
* "You mentioned Robin Williams; I always wondered why his sister didn't get more popular. She was just in that one movie, *Ms. Doubtfire*."
* "The sweatshops are bad, I don't understand why you don't denounce fascism, but I agree with you that fashion is bad also, I don't know why you refuse to say anything wrong - is wrong with fascism."
* "[On the topic of 'antifa' standing for 'anti-fashion'] Well that's why they dress so bad."
* "We need to wear something on our feetsies and cover up our little toesiewoes, and I think Leftist Hypebeast is the perfect way to get the message out of leftistism."
* "How many people do you think it takes to run a sweatshop?"
* "OK well there are 2,755 billionaires in the world. Um and so that's more than enough people to staff the Leftist Hypebeast sweatshop. And so if we just make the billionaires uh work in the sweatshop, then we don't have to - you know, people always talk about 'guillotine them' - I don't know what that means, but it's - it sounds fake to me. But I think if we make them work in the Leftist Hypebeast sweatshop, then they have to kind of pay back society by uh smearing a little bit of shit on the toe of each shoe."
* "Well then that's perf- I mean, that's - that is absol- that is like absolutely perfect. That's gonna be grailed! Um Globe He- Globe Hailed! Grailed! That's a grailed hypebeast uh idea."
* "[On the topic of using the Leftist Hypebeast branding] You can puke onto a towel and let it dry and crust over, and if we put the logo on it, it becomes grailed."
* "[On the topic of what 'grailed' means] I think it means good."
* "We're gonna be blasting dissem- 'dissemenination' all over everyone in every way through this."
* "[On the topic of Amazon] I call them Amazin'. I call them Amazin'."
* "[On the topic of Jeff Bezos] I think he's great."
* "[On the topic of Jeff Bezos] If anything, he deserves our pity."
* "Where do you get your shoes from? And what kind do you wear? What size are your feet? What size are your feet? Well, just answer me one question: what do they smell like?"

### Drew

* "You were typing a little bit, and then you were like - you were like - I don't know, it was like a fap? It was like a fap sou- it was like a fap sound? It was like fapping? Sounded like - like a fap fap, fap fap fap."
* "[In response to Josiah saying 'impolite-ics'] They should call it - they should call it poli- poli-dicks, because that's the kind of people who get into it."
* "The one question that people have been asking, Josiah, about the 2021 Olympics, uh is whether Bond will be back."
* "You think if the Queen becomes aware of me, she's gonna fall for me?"
* "Wouldn't that be interesting if I found out - we watched this and we found out I was a hypebeast?"
* "So like a person who watches a bunch of movies is a movie hypebeast."
* "So could you be a like a Diet Coke hypebeast?"
* "[On the topic of a 'kid hypebeast'] So I wonder if that's the kind of hypebeast I could be."
* "So if I got uh - if I got all Supreme clothes, I would uh essentially be the Michael Jackson of wearing clothes."
* "Stone - what about 'Stoned Island'?"
* "Even if ethical clothes is - doesn't - if it doesn't look as cool, it's cool to be ethical, cool to be a good person."
* "[On the topic of fat cat CEOs] Oh, fuck those guys."
* "[On the topic of hemp] Oh, you could smoke that."
* "[On the topic of Robin Williams's sister's role in the film *Ms. Doubtfire*] That - that was - that was - that was Robin Williams in - in uh - in costume, Josiah. We've talked about this before."
* "Well, I certainly - I certainly - I think - I am against fascism, Josiah."
* "I just don't see the point in clothes anymore, if we are - I just - I don't wanna wear clothes, I don't wanna wear shoes, I wanna be fuckin' naked all the time. This is what I want. I don't care. Doesn't need to be leftist. I just need to - I just need to - no, it doesn't need to be leftist, I just need to be nude from now on."
	+ Note: In Episode 3: World Wide Rainforest, Drew stated that it was his lifelong dream to wear only a loincloth. It is unclear if this is a minor discrepancy needing clarification or merely a change in his mindset over time.
* "[On the topic of possibly hurting his feet if he decides to stop wearing shoes from now on] Well, they're going to get hardened, because I'm gonna be walking on the bare - uh with my bare feet on concrete, or on stones, on glass. That’s what I'm into now."
* "Yeah, well I'm not gonna wear it, unless they put out like a nude - a nude filter that I could - that I could put over myself, like - like uh s- those clear screens that you put over a - a computer monitor. That sort of thing in real life, all over my body. And then it could maybe - it could just say, simply - (Josiah: 'Like shrink-wrapped, you mean? You wanna be shrink-wrapped?') Yeah. Basically. Shrink-wrapped, and maybe a little - a little uh - a little uh brand on there. A small Left- Leftist Hypebeast."
* "[On the topic of Amazon] Well, they are an amazing company, and Jeff Bezos is, for whatever you think about him, he's also given - he's given so much money to the environment that I think, yes he's done bad, but I think - at the end of the day, I think -"
* "[On the topic of Jeff Bezos getting a divorce] Well, I think - I think for him to uh to be divorced at all, it shows a little bit of a lack of character."
* "[On the topic of pitying Jeff Bezos] Well, I do feel sorry for him. Cause he gets so much hate online."
* "[In response to Josiah's question about what his feet smell like] They smell shite. Yeah, you know why? Cause I've been kicking corporate ass all day."
* "I love being nude."

## Trivia

* This is the second episode with the word 'Leftist' in the title, after the Patreon episode Calgary Awareness Month Episode 1: Wexit Feat. Tom Famous Socialist Leftist Streamer.
* This episode notably seems to have had three different Episode Descriptions:
	+ Libsyn:
		- Virgil Abloh, APC, Off-White, Supreme, Nike, Palace, Dime, Alltimers, Converse, Reebok. These are the greatest brands of all time. But what if they were made for and by leftists? What if you lined up at the Kid Robot store to get the new Kaws drop and someone was handing out Marx propaganda? What if it was grailed to vote for Bernie Sanders?
	+ Spotify (since changed):
		- Wouldn't it be "Supreme" if your shoes had tweets from prominent Leftist Personalities? Would you unleash your inner beast and change the world to do the work? How about before we put another man on the moon we put a ape in a bath...
	+ Twitter:
		- Virgil Abloh, APC, Off-White, Supreme, Nike, Palace, Dime, Alltimers, Converse, Reebok. These are the greatest brands of all time. But what if they were made for and by leftists? What if you lined up at the Kid Robot store to get the new Kaws drop and someone was handing out Marxist literature?
			* Note: Typically, a different Episode Description on Twitter would not be notable, but in the particular context of this episode, it was deemed relevant enough for inclusion.