Caelan's father regularly calling them up all supportive and adorable, "my they/them son" 😭

@RespecttheDeadPodcast

5 ай бұрын

It’s SO CUTE 😩😩😩

@Ivyzord

4 ай бұрын

🎵Carry on my they/them son!🎶 Not my bf just singing the only line of the damned Kansas song the moment he heard that. XD It got me. Song changed in my head forever.

@adaj472

2 ай бұрын

@@Ivyzord Bruuuuuuuh that’s AMAZING 😂

@user-xi5zg6sv2v

26 күн бұрын

​@@Ivyzordthose are the new lyrics.

I used to teach preschool and we had some old Dr. Suess books donated to the classroom. I grabbed one at random to read during lunch and kind of zoned out while reading it aloud. Until I heard myself say "with people who wear their eyes at a slant." I snapped out of it and looked at the illustration. It was some world War 2 propoganda-esqu drawings of east Asian people. I turned the page without finishing it and tried to keep reading until I got to the page about Africans and then had to close the book and have a discussion with the class about how there are appropriate and inappropriate ways to talk about people and this very much wasn't it. And that's how I learned Dr. Suess had some insanely racist books.

@thraceburk1683

7 күн бұрын

I'd die if that happened to me

I believe 'boners' used to mean mistakes or mess-ups. I saw it being used in an old Batman comic by the Joker and yes it was very funny.

@cuzned1375

21 күн бұрын

Conveniently, Nashville had a mayor… 30-ish years ago named Bill Boner. Complete fuck-up, this guy. Just no aptitude for government or… talking. While he was still mayor, he got engaged to a blonde much younger than him - as i recall before he’d even asked his wife for a divorce. Because it was stupid, they went on Phil Donahue to be called stupid in front of the whole country. And because she was an aspiring singer, she sang “Rocky Top” while Bill played harmonica, to prove to the Donahue audience that they were idiots. Ever since then, our “alternative weekly” has published an annual issue dedicated to The Year In Boners, recounting the boneheaded shit that local politicians and celebs have gotten up to. Sorry, i started to type, “I’ve also heard it used that way,” but then the whole dumb story came pouring out. 😆

I thought Caelan Conrad was a little guy but learning they could pick up a 5'9" dude and shake them makes me imagine them as like 6'8" and I feel like we need more flamboyant gay giant representation and that's all I had to say tbh

@derekkrumel1407

4 ай бұрын

I just wanted to type Craven Laycock real quick so I'd remember it later

So I was in his frat. Despite the frat being (currently and historically) pretty progressive, they are WAYY too proud of him having been a SigEp. Like, you wouldn’t think it would really come up much, but it somehow did… the guys were very bummed when they found out about the racism.

@avwholesomegamer

4 ай бұрын

I was gonna ask if you were at the Dartmouth chapter of SigEp but then I saw your profile pic and got my answer (jk we love you guys down at Tabard XD).

@SebiHemke

3 ай бұрын

imagining frat bros being bummed out after learning about the racism of an old frat bro is wonderful and i recommend it to anyone and everyone

It brings me so much joy watching the two of you be petty towards terrible, terrible people. I didn't know how much I needed this in my life.

5000 fingers of dr t is kinky AF. A very 1950s little boy falls asleep practicing piano, because it sucks. He dreams his piano teacher is evil, brainwashing his mom with hypnosis. The evil guy has a giant piano and he wants to fill it with little boys playing the same music, thus all the fingers. There is a hypnosis battle. There is a guy in bdsm gear operating an elevator singing a song about what equipment is on what floor of the dungeon, like a department store. The correct answer upon watching it is "wtf was that" but I kind of love it anyway

@searchingfororion

5 ай бұрын

I found this movie quite by accident at a thrift store on VHS, I was *PUMPED* and because it looked so absolutely ludicrous (in an ms3k sort of way). I was tragically bored. I was so utterly disappointed. It is surreal that it is live action though. For me the biggest entertainment value is telling people that it exists and then describing it.

I loved "why are you collecting anything! You're not Ariel, grow up!"😂

Aww your dad sounds nice and supportive Caelan, love that for you

They/them son

@lilpetz500

23 күн бұрын

I have an enby friend whose Mum is so vocally supportive of them but exactly like this. So close, got the spirit, but still a little confused 😭

My uncle did that to my aunt. She was dying of cancer and he left her for his mistress, whom he married after my aunt died. I refuse to call that woman aunt

In the Lorax movie (sorry) the man character’s name is Ted and the girl he pines after is Audrey. The movie was executively produced by Audrey Geisel

@TheProxy066

3 күн бұрын

😬Yikes.

I've heard that a common reason given for why a creative shouldn't be "cancelled" (read: "face consequences") for their bad behaviour and harmful opinions is because the creative in question provides something important or valuable to society, and I'm here just thinking... "Do they?" Call me an "SJW" or "woke" or whatever other buzzword du jour you want, but I think that no piece of art or media, no matter how high quality or culturally impactful it is, is worth sacrificing the safety, dignity or well-being of actual human beings to produce. When the "anti-cancel culture" community use the excuse that a "genius/talented artist" should be let off the hook and be allowed to do what they want because their art is just too important to let go, they're essentially saying that that artist's victims are not important enough to care about, they are "acceptable collateral damage". That is ultimately what it boils down to; The artist is more talented... more important... superior... therefore, they are entitled to do whatever they want because they've "earned" it. They've "earned" the "right" to abuse, exploit and demean those beneath them. It ultimately harkens back to this idea that power is self-justifying. That those who are in positions of high social or economic status should just be allowed to run rampant because without them, us lowly peasants would be lost.

@Rikrobat

3 ай бұрын

We can acknowledge the cultural importance of some of their work while still holding an artist accountable for the rest of their behaviour. So many people seem to lack this sense of distinction. Pointing out how a creator leaned into -isms (accidentally or intentionally) doesn’t suddenly erase the impact their creations had on society. As you said, valuing cultural impact of their body of work over how plenty of it included racist stereotypes shows a lack of empathy and respect for real people who are harmed by those stereotypes.

@Peregrina

21 күн бұрын

​@@RikrobatI agree. I would also add that censoring problematic artwork could be seen as erasing history. If we remove things without documenting what could be seen as problematic no one would believe these things happened. It would be difficult to hold discussions about these things without showing materials.

Dr.Seuss cancellation has been long overdue

I think the bird Hoots wants is a magpie.

@a-rat-in-your-walls

5 ай бұрын

I thought that was a fish

@Noirevert

5 ай бұрын

@@a-rat-in-your-walls There is a type of fish called a magpie perch. There is also a magpie cat and magpie moth, all of which seem to be named for their color similarity to the bird.

@shadylittlefox

5 ай бұрын

​@@a-rat-in-your-walls it's actually a demon that craves eyes and cheese

@chokinonashes61

5 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely. Corvids famed for being attracted by shiny things but it's actually not true.

@ChristopherSadlowski

5 ай бұрын

​@@chokinonashes61 I thought they were attracted to things that are blue, not necessarily shiny? Are they the ones who decorate their nests with blue things they find around to attract a mate, or am I thinking of a different bird? You know what, actually, fuck birds. There's too many to keep track of.

Literally a cartoonishly racist guy

I had Chrysanthemum too!!It was one of my favorite books as a kid!!

* toothpaste slurping noises*

That opening was great because you can see the MOMENT Hoots starts to get it, in that instant between “he created her because he made her up” and him repeating the name “Thnud” or however you’d spell it

How on brand though, for a white person to be liberal/progressive leaning for some issues (trees) and then missing the entire racist forest. Like white feminists throughout history. Points for consistency I guess?!? Also, best Seuss erotica I ever read is the reddit thread written by others in his writing style/cadence. I was crying, I was laughing so hard.

i am a 5,000 fingers of dr. t defender and stan. "because we're kids" is such a moving song about the personhood of children, especially coming from a time when child abuse was so normalized. it's a cool film with more to it than the wacky synopsis implies

2:03 Will Wood also had an imaginary daughter, and he isn't insane. He is just silly

@lilpetz500

23 күн бұрын

You know what? Silly is my favourite way to describe Will Wood.

“The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters is an honorary degree awarded to those who have distinguished themselves through humanitarian and philanthropic contributions to society.”

I didn’t even know the 7 lady godivas was an adult book. We had it with the other dr seuss books and my dad just didn’t linger on it but he never stopped us reading it lmao

@benjisaac

3 ай бұрын

I just asked him why he kept it on the same shelf and he just laugh reacted the message

@CommanderDarcy

Ай бұрын

​@@benjisaac such a dad reply

Omg I had litterally no idea that Seuss was in any way controversial. Last week I dug out my childhood Seuse books to read to my 5yr old girl, because she loves the Lorax movie. I started reading a story called 'the daves'. It's about a woman who named her 20 kids Dave. She wished she'd given them different names because of the obvious confusion. The story then lists all the names, which are typical Seuss sounding words like snugle mc flurgle (I made that up). I was happily reading to my laughing kid, till i read the name 'soggy muff' and imeadiatly knew I'd read the words of an ole perv to my littlen. Gross. I actually said Ewe out loud.

1:10:41 I can’t believe the new wife agreed to marry him after that. Like, you’d have to majorly dissociate when the vows get to the “in sickness and in health” part.

You two are my favorite. ❤I was discussing with my bf years ago how we need to be able to speak ill of the dead if they were trash humans. You’re making dreams come true!😊

"Mr President, we're running out of ammunition!" "Well draw some, Seuss! Draw some!"

Oh my goodness when I was a kid my conservative mother accidentally got that lady Godiva book at a library sale once while really distracted and the look on her face when we got home 😂

I SO needed this after an entire month of Suss with my 1st grader. My small human has a photographic memory and loathes these books.

The inhales and exhales of Hoots are sooo understandable

I was already iffy on Seuss, and knew a cursory amount about his controversies. Hearing about what he did to his first wife absolutely broke my heart.

"5000 fingers on a SINGLE doctor!" "That's SIMPLY too many!" ☠

I knew about the racism but I never once heard or realized that Audrey Geisel was a mistress to a first wife. That’s AWFUL. Hearing that she was baked into him so deeply and that she felt like she had done so much to see it all come crumbling into a spiral that leads her to do what she did, all for it to end up that a fuckton of people don’t even know she exists because we always hear about Ted and Audrey

Dr. Seuss doing an irl Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf wtf?!

Magpies are the bird you were trying to think of. However, pretty much all of the Corvidae family like to pick up random things and / or shiny things.

I was finishing a crochet project listening to this and it was just...me listening to Hoots breathe. Wonderful.

Magpies, my dears. You’re thinking of magpies.

The dog coming out of water, omg 😂

Not Caelan Castle Doctrine-ing the Cat in the Hat 😂

@RespecttheDeadPodcast

5 ай бұрын

None of those hijinks in my house!!!!!!

@ChristopherSadlowski

5 ай бұрын

​@@RespecttheDeadPodcast I will not do these hijinks with a mouse! I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.

I live in Springfield, I've been to the Dr. Seuss museum. In this city, we are all Thnudd Seuss.

My friend is a watcher of weird movies, we watched The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T and it was ATROCIOUS. A fever dream. I hate it so much hahahahaha

@searchingfororion

5 ай бұрын

It is so incredibly bad even chemicals can't help.

32:44 A particularly fucked-up thing about the 'sleeper cell' cartoon is that it was based on claims made in the Dewitt Report, which was overwhelmingly just racist stereotypes, but did take a break to allege that there was ship to shore signalling between Japanese vessels and coastal Japanese-American communities. When Fred Korematsu got his case reopened in the 1980s, he won specifically because the Solicitor General's office had investigated these claims (which are referenced in the cartoon) and found that nobody was able to substantiate them. In the original draft of their brief to the Supreme Court in the Korematsu case, they had explicitly stated in a footnote that the claims about ship-to-shore signalling were unsubstantiated. However, in the draft they actually submitted to the court, that footnote was omitted. So, apart from just being racist and used to justify sending Japanese-Americans off to concentration camps, it was also just made up by a white supremacist general, for all anyone's been able to determine.

For anyone wondering, the seven lady godivas had all white women and one of them was on the heavier side. So that’s what Seuss was into I guess. Lots of horses too. And it’s 79 pages…

@voidify3

5 ай бұрын

Well they’re sisters so them being all white isn’t necessarily remarkable

@m.g.4060

5 ай бұрын

@@voidify3 HE DREW A BUNCH OF NAKED SISTERS?????? it got worse... I didn't read it I just skimmed. I'm not reading seuss smut

@sleepysystem

5 ай бұрын

@@m.g.4060 .... havign just skimmed it doesnt seem to be all that smutty, the most adult thing about it is that the fact they're all naked but there's no... inc-st or the like. it's loosely based on the story of lady godiva who supposedly rode through the streets naked on horseback in order to protest excessive taxes (shamign her husband the lord godiva by "debasing" herself through public nudity). in the seuss version lord godiva is the father of seven girls, who was riding off to war, gets flung of his horse and dies, which leads the girls to promise to never marry until they have brought a new truth to the world about horses, each of them coining some new phrase abotu horses ("dont look a gift horse in the mouth" and things like that). honeslty the only thing to mark it as scandalous from what i saw was that there were naked womena nd it was originally printed in the great depression, it's mostly just silly.

14:56 "Precious Moments for racist people from the South" so just Precious Moments?

I loved the book Chrysanthemum as a kid!! Had to give love for that nostalgic opening

Idk if you’ll see this Caelan, but I just wanna say I LOVE your laugh. It’s absolutely contagious. 😂❤

There’s two quotes in the elementary school in my town. One of them is from Dr. Seuss. The other one is from Mother Teresa if only they knew.

Boners used to mean funny accidents.

Caelan's nail polish is GOOORGEOUS!

Oh! I’ve been waiting for you guys to do him! I’m so excited

Ok but have you considered that oncest would not have existed without the 2012 Lorax movie which wouldn’t have existed without the original book

@mrspreminger

5 ай бұрын

This is a joke btw obviously I don’t support him 😭

A horrible thought: What’s 50 fingers divided by 7 Lady Godiva’s?

Me: I wonder how they were able to get Caelan Conrad as a handle for all of their socials. Also me: ... B*** how many people do you know named Caelan?

"Curation isn't cancellation." - Ebony Elizabeth Thomas I think cancelling is a personal responsibility, rather than a social one. We see that in a lot "problematic" people who were "cancelled", yet are still making lots of money, and still very much have meaningful platforms (e.g. She-who-must-not-be-named). I personally don't support Joanne, and in the grander scheme of things, that adds up with others to form a social movement, but is that "cancelling"? Bearing in mind, that the term "cancelling" stems from the cancellation of tv shows, where the material is shelved and never taken out again. That all being said, people were calling out Seuss's bigotry for decades before the term "woke" had anything to do with things outside of slumber. It's what got a lot of his early works changed for later reprints. Some things he relented on, and some things he doubled down on. These works were changed, because people were refusing to buy them, and because Capitalism, it became more economically viable to simply alter them and keep selling them. Yay Capitalism...? At any rate, these are complex topics to talk about and I think people should be taking an honest appraisal of themselves, while they rummage through someone else's dirty laundry.

hp lovecraft son or dr seuss daughter

Omg! That book is why chrysanthemums are my favorite flower.

In grade school we used to have a "green eggs and ham" day during reading month so one of the lunch options would be eggs and ham dyed green and it was nastyyy 🤢🤮

You guys are so underrated 😭

Zoyss is the german pronunciation

I'd love to hear more about Hoots' time on that cruise ship

Found you through the Taylor Lorenz / Rhycunt vid you did and laughed my ass off. Binged your 3 part GC series and was blown away... And watched 4 or 5 more on your channel until my wife made me watch the new Elvis movie with her. Actually, I found you originally through Zoe Bee (I'm a father of 2 girls in public school) , who spoke of The Leftist Cooks in her plagiarism vid (dying to know who she caught), and I watched the cooks' Dunking video and when the gossip joke came up/cameo I had to rewind with captions on to see the name. I'm really glad I did. In the last couple years, I've only binged a few recently learned about creators. You, FD Sig and CJ the x, because I was so impressed with one vid. Next paycheck I'll see you guys on patreon. Bravo!

@midvale5thyear

4 ай бұрын

Your cameo was so fricking funny, the acting was so well done, I could see the talent and mojo. Had to see more. No small parts, right?

@midvale5thyear

4 ай бұрын

If you don't mind, I watch primarily on yt Roku. Could you guys put channel links back to your own channels on Respect the Dead channel homepage? Pretty please

@midvale5thyear

4 ай бұрын

Hoots, I loved you in the groomer vid. I don't know how you guys do your channels. I just found your Elliot Rodger vid on RtD and I'm going to watch that tonight. I didn't mean to exclude you in my compliments to Caelen. I'm gonna shut up now. Keep up the great work, both of you diamonds in the rough.

I made to the fingers on spotify. I am crying on my laundry room floor at midnight 😂😂😂 the horror had to be seen

okay but a patreon perk where people shout out people they're glad are dead and you ready it without context would be hilarious

my son receives his imaginary sibling.... TO. DAY. I can't believe you guys just did this to him. monstrous. smh.

“nyork nyork”

makes me want a shel silverstein ep

@jougjimmadome

Ай бұрын

my awful horrible morbid curiosity for the erorich book... But with your warning i will resist

Oh my god the animated intro is so cute

I've actually seen The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. It's exactly what you imagine it to be.

The crook gag comes from a thing called The Gong Show ❤

1:03:43 this is one of the things he has in common with Norman Rockwell. Cheaped on sick wife. Marries the mistress after wife dies.

Did some digging inti the etymology of "boners" it didnt mean anything to do with a peen until the 1950. In this specific context the best synonym would be "bloopers". ♡

15:22 Magpie, Hoots. Magpie.

I'm just an edgy teenager but I want to donate mt old dr. suess books even if my parents are against it. I rather support living artists than a dead racist mans legacy. I used to love his books when I was little and now I can't open the book without thinking about how horrible he was.

Your hair is beautiful Caelan

Caelan sporting a sort of a mullet? :D cool

Thanks for skipping the childhood. The childhood section of any biography is always terrible and boring. Especially in my trash true crime books. It's always "they were happy and lit up a room." It's never "this child's personality didn't matter because no child's personality has ever mattered."

@SebiHemke

3 ай бұрын

the child picked its nose and was pressured by school mates to eat a worm once !

So much 🚐 energy.

DEAN CRAVEN LE COCH?

watching this stoned while dyeing my hair

Had to stop halfway through because I have that opposite ASMR thing where hearing people whisper or exhale heavily makes me homicidal but loved this otherwise, bless younger being educators ❤

I think it was magpie y'all were thinking of 🤪

I live to respect the dead

Come on, you two! I love shitting on racists too, but you don’t know the other meaning of the word “Boner?” Ah shit, now I have to go do an entomology deep dive into the phrase “bone-head,” but yeah for the first 3 quarters of the 20th century it was pretty widely know that a “boner” was a bone-headed mistake. Actually, even into the 80’s. The sit-com, Growing Pains, had a character called Boner, and that was just his nickname because he was stupid. And don’t write off Growing Pains because it nobody cares about it anymore. That show is where Leonardo DiCaprio, and Brad Pitt first got mainstream popularity as teen heartthrobs. Kirk Cameron too, but he squandered that fame on religious grifting.

@readwrecks

4 ай бұрын

Okay I looked it up. In universe, the character was called “Boner” because his government name was Richard Stabone, but he was definitely the main child character’s dumb best friend, and even the adults called him “Boner.” So I think the writers were straddling both sides of that line and knew exactly what they were doing.

Oooh! We have his papers at UCSD at the Geisel Library! ... his unedited notes and pages are ... even less pretty O.o not cute...

Take it from someone who knows. The cancer hurt.

Made my day i the first minute or so. Kevin (🤢) is my estranged father's name. 😂

@avwholesomegamer

4 ай бұрын

I was named after my father and at age 12 moms was like “hey, do you want a different name?” I spent a while trying to come up with something cool, but I was not a creative kid. I only came up with “Kevin,” so we didn’t change it (because ew), and I didn’t think up my current name until I was an adult.

Damn, I didn't know Seuss was this bad... I've read his books to elementary school classes before and he was part of my childhood, as I'm sure is the case with many other people

Dr. Seuss is dead! A cloud of flies obscure the sun A stone is dropped A dream undone Ripples grow and ride the tide The dead things crawls from deep inside

Wait what happened to the third person on this show

@Loot_Puppy

5 ай бұрын

im also wondering this, i didnt see anything announced about Mandy leaving, so i hope it was on amicable terms

@searchingfororion

5 ай бұрын

They've replied in previous videos of the new season; no details just that she's not going to be on here but they recommend people check out her work so it sounds amicable.

@a-rat-in-your-walls

5 ай бұрын

@@searchingfororion Damn, I liked her. It feels empty with just two people.

@searchingfororion

5 ай бұрын

@@a-rat-in-your-walls Her channel exists and her videos are super long. Mainely Mandy is how she spells her handle I believe.

Boner can also mean mistake

@searchingfororion

5 ай бұрын

I remember when that was in "surfer" lingo back way back in the day. You just unlocked a core memory from my childhood: Sitting watching a movie with my parents and one of the characters using the term while insulting the other - child me: (whips head back around to look back and forth at them both and their non-reaction) "WHAT?!?"

Syllabic Poetry > Rhymes. Haikus and Tankas for life .3.

Let's gooooooooo!

@VinceWhitacre

5 ай бұрын

BONERS meant errors/mistakes/fuckups BITD it was 100% considered a child-friendly term. I found this out when I encountered an article as a child called something like "100 Greatest Sports Boners" and was like what the actual fuck

@VinceWhitacre

5 ай бұрын

Oh you NEED to do an episode on the possibly filicidal Nazi Charlie.

@charmainede-bell8763

5 ай бұрын

Love ya Vince ❤

@VinceWhitacre

5 ай бұрын

Hi Charmaine!! ♥️

@VinceWhitacre

5 ай бұрын

Caelan, honey, you seem to think a lot about killing animals with hammers. Do you need someone to talk to?

I adore this show and shedding light on shitty people is a good thing, but I NEED a supercut of all the pregnant, flabbergasted sighs of disdain, because somehow they are all individualized and get more and more strained and angry as the show goes on. It's low-key one of the funniest parts of a terrible, TERRIBLE part of the show.

Noooooooooooooooooo

YOOOOOOO

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Guys can we have Samsung phone cases please? ❤

kraven Leacock is a joan tRef Rowling name for a gay man

I love both of you. (This is the first video I’ve seen of you together, but I subscribe to both of your channels and I love your individual videos.) And I love the idea of shitting on dead people for not being as progressive as we want to be today (though still consistently fail at). I know they call it “presentism” and it’s supposed to be bad to impose our current understanding of the world on people of the past. But, no it isn’t. I also know arguments about how racist someone like Thomas Jefferson, or HP Lovecraft, was are made stronger by that fact that even people of his era, people in his circle of friends, were like “hey, you’re taking this a bit too far.” But this video makes it seem like you both have no knowledge of art history. I still fully support shitting on the racism of the past even if it was considered normal. But the sex stuff! And the stuff about advertising. Come on! Do you know nothing about Shell Silverstein? The guy who created Wonder Woman? The first artist who drew Superman comics? Ugh, manga?

@RespecttheDeadPodcast

4 ай бұрын

we're...joking...? lmao

@readwrecks

4 ай бұрын

@@RespecttheDeadPodcast it’s still frustrating!

@SebiHemke

3 ай бұрын

i dont think knowledge of art history is required to shit on artists tho.. as somrone who went to art school, i understand the drive to have people see art in the way you do, but ive learned that its like wanting kindergardeners to appreciate fine caviar; they just dont bc "its slimey fish eggs >:/" art is ultimately subjective, regardless of its history