Careercow Jack Russell Scalfani / Cooking With Jack / Jack on the Go Show / jakatak - YouTube "Celebrity" "Chef", Living Encyclopedia of Gluttony-Induced Maladies, Salmonella Elemental

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

And he’s missing out on the bliss of well-made rice. Sucks to be him.

He's also missing out on walking and having an IQ above 30

 

[AnOminous]

He's also missing out on walking and having an IQ above 30

And on having more than one functioning arm. And being able to talk without stroked-out incoherent gurgling and babbling. And being liked by literally anyone.

 

[semitooth]

originally titled: "MY BOTHR JIM Q&A" but he seems to have fixed the typo...

 

[the khat quaffer]

originally titled: "MY BOTHR JIM Q&A" but he seems to have fixed the typo...
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He missed another typo. FTFY, Jackie:

Also wtf are those topics? To who would they appeal to? Talking about Christmas in June? These two guys' mom? Abortion, an issue which has been beat to death and put to rest nearly two decades ago? Has something new magically happened in the pro-choice vs. pro-life debate recently? Everyone has long made up their mind where they stand. They've picked their side, they're happy with their side. It's done.

What possible appeal could this have to any audience outside of these two jerkoffs? (Or us, I guess...)

Edit: stuff

 

[John Andrews Stan]

"MY BOTHR JIM Q&A

I love that this looks exactly like the Jack spelling people use ITT, eg SHURGUR.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Also wtf are those topics? To who would they appeal to? Christmas in June? Your guys' mom? Abortion, an issue which has been beat to death and put to rest nearly two decades ago? Has something new magically happened in the pro-choice vs. pro-life debate recently?

I mean with Abortion there was that overturning of Roe v Wade and that Georgia case where they brought a baby out of a woman's corpse, but like why would anyone watch this stroked out retard about it, and not someone more informed.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I mean with Abortion there was that overturning of Roe v Wade and that Georgia case where they brought a baby out of a woman's corpse, but like why would anyone watch this stroked out retard about it, and not someone more informed.

My father, the necrophiliac is a hell of a title to start your life to.

 

[semitooth]

the fuck is this nigga talking about bro?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

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the fuck is this nigga talking about bro?

He will only get a job if he gets raped on the way to work

 

[SteveGoatman]

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the fuck is this nigga talking about bro?

I'm guessing he's talking about instances of Uber/Lyft driver's assaulting their passengers (particularly women) and if the car were self driving that would remove that element of risk. Because it's Jack though, this is 100% because he thinks Elon is going to deliver self driving cars "soon" and prove he was right and has nothing to do with any concerns about passengers being sexually assaulted.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I'm guessing he's talking about instances of Uber/Lyft driver's assaulting their passengers (particularly women) and if the car we're self driving that would remove that element of risk. Because it's Jack though, this is 100% because he thinks Elon is going to deliver self driving cars "soon" and prove he was right and has nothing to do with any concerns about passengers being sexually assaulted.

Yep, he's referring to Robotaxi rolling out yesterday.

Of course, he doesn't mention that the cars are remotely driven and there is a Tesla rep in the front passenger seat in case the car fucks up

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Yep, he's referring to Robotaxi rolling out yesterday.

Of course, he doesn't mention that the cars are remotely driven and there is a Tesla rep in the front passenger seat in case the car fucks up

The last thing I want is an Indian driving it for me.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

The last thing I want is an Indian driving it for me.

I had an Indian boss once and we had a meeting across town. He drove. I have never been more terrified in my life. He was going about 25 over and was weaving around cars like he was playing Frogger.

 

[AltisticRight]

My family has always used a rice cooker when it comes to rice. Then again, we use rice as a bed for various dishes (pork, beef, and chicken especially) and let the juices and gravy weave through it. Good shit, especially if the gravy is delicious. Cavendish's AP Greek seasoning goes well on rice, but then again it's Cavendish's AP Greek seasoning, it would be easier to list what not to put it on.

My parents use it too because rice is a main staple. Rice cookers are certainly useful to automate one aspect of repetitive cooking but it's sort of a waste if one only eats rice occasionally.
It's like how a thermometer helps a lot but one can just use bamboo/wood chopsticks or their own ears to ascertain the temperature of oil, or tapping on the protein to evaluate doneness and so on.

He's also missing out on walking and having an IQ above 30

He's got... no legs to stand on.

the fuck is this nigga talking about bro?

Was he calling every Uber driver a rapist or something?

 

[Whaler]

The last thing I want is an Indian driving it for me.

Hello sar do not redeem turn signal.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Adding onion to even the plainest rice makes it great. (Caramelized onion is a condiment for most meals in this house.) Using stock or adding consommé powder to the cooking water also elevates it. I’m glad Jack is missing out on such deliciousness. He doesn’t deserve it.

Add a little bit of kombu (dried kelp) to it, sometimes fresh ginger, some dashi or even bouillon. Or we've added a bit of this at times:

"Weipa" it's a Chinese / Japanese seasoning. It's basically umami in a can.

That actually reminds me that I still have some blue pea flower tea. Could probably make some blue rice, would be a cool gimmick if nothing else.

I love that stuff. Use it to add blue coloring to stuff like cakes and cookies and we used it once along with other things for noodles to make "Unicorn noodles" for a young cousin's birthday.

I was never a fan of rice cookers. If I was making a gigantic batch, sure, but a pot seems to do a much better job and easier to add stuff as it cooks.

I got a rice cooker as a gift and used it a few times, realized a pot is less work and does a better job, then never used it again

I think it's more a cultural thing than anything else. It's one less thing to worry about when cooking.

The rice is just set it and forget it and it's ready when you're ready to eat.

 

[AltisticRight]

"Weipa" it's a Chinese / Japanese seasoning. It's basically umami in a can.

It's a Japanese MSG brand and this one is "Chinese cuisine umami flavour". In my opinion, it's way over the top. I'm not the type to buy into any retarded "msg causes X, taurine causes Y" idiotic Britbong lies to cope with bland food but I added a bit too much of it once and felt dizzy. Maybe it was something else, or what people call MSG intolerance.

I think chicken extract msg and pork fat is usually sufficient. The kombu you listed and bonito works well too, so do mushrooms and those small dried Chinese scallops (canopy). With those, you have to soak them in water after washing because they're often quite dirty from the air drying process. Around 2-3 of them per 2 cups of rice in fried rice does wonders. It's a natural msg source.

The rice is just set it and forget it and it's ready when you're ready to eat.

It's certainly similar to other items or frozen food such as puff pastry. I made my own once. Fuck that, never again! It was not worth it. Rice cookers are great. Even the $10 K-Mart thing would produce perfectly cooked rice.

 

[Slavic Patronym]

Our second livestream with Good Jim of the Scalfaniverse was pretty uneventful until the last 18:30 minutes. At that point it went off the goddamn rails, so that's where I'll start. Highly encourage folks to watch for themselves; I know Jack isn't one to take down a video (unless it {a} gets him sued or {b} exposes the embarrassing level of brain damage required to confuse lime the chemical for lime the fruit) but if ever a video was a candidate, it's this one. Jim put on the bronze knuckles and started swinging.

Someone in chat writes: We just like to hear stories of Scalfani childhoods

This prompts Jack to suggest all three Scalfani boys should do an F As In Frank episode together: a drum he's been beating for a while, apparently.

Jack: Chawl has brought up that we should all talk. All three of us.

Jim: [disgusted] I know. You've asked me, too. As the middle child of the three boys, I'm like, Why would I do that? What part of any of that would be fun for me?

Jim actually has several different reasons for not wanting to participate in such a stream -- the central one yet to be said. This is just his first one, and he means it but means it the least.

Jack: I know what I would do [in our stream]! I would complain about being left out of everything as the youngest!

Jim: And how many times have we talked about that? A billion times? If I have to hear again how ThE YoUnGeSt WaS LeFt OuT...

This is another reason Jim doesn't want to do it. He knows it means enduring the same petty grievances.

Jack: And Chawl would bitch about Mom.

I wish I weren't hung up on this sentence, but I am. Overnight, Jack went from someone who performatively never cursed (#goodchristian) to someone who curses when it's the least needed. The word "bitch" used next to "Mom" is jarring, and Jack would be heartbroken to learn it does not make him cool.

Jim: No, Chawl would complain that he had to pay for his braces. Really? Is that the toughest thing you had all your life? I'm so sorry, Chawl!! And did you get made fun of for carrying around a little briefcase at school, too? Oh, I'm so sorry!! No, I don't want to hear that again.

Some seeds are starting to bloom here:

1. More proof Jack and Charles insist on telling their gay brother who had to be escorted from class to class in high school to make sure he didn't get beat up how much harder they had it. (A bit of an early reveal on my part, but I couldn't resist.)
2. More proof that the two of them don't have any setting other than "permanently aggrieved."
3. The expectation that your family will get you braces is middle-class -- or least nowhere near as poor as the Scalfanis mostly were (as Mama Scalfani abusively made sure Jim was acutelyaware of... more on that shortly).
   • Braces in 1975 -- when Charles would have been about 13 -- cost 2 grand. The median household income was 14 grand. Now add not one, not two, but three children. Now subtract one parent's earning potential, because bio-dad left. Now make the parent who stayed have no white-collar skills and probably an undiagnosed mental disorder. It is wasted energy for Charles to spend a lifetime resenting what his family literally could not afford.
4. If you carry around a briefcase in high school, you are going to get made fun of. And I would argue, if it please the court, that you brought it on yourself.

Jack: But think about it! If you do change your mind [and want to do a show with all three of us], let me know!

Jim: Oh, I promise I'll let you know. I won't.

Jack: [nervous at how blunt the conversation is getting] Because we honestly did have some good times too...

Jim: We had very few good times.

Jack: [in a truth-telling tone that's rare for narcissists] I know.

In all seriousness, Jack's "I know" here seems small -- but tonally it's one of the most sincere things I've ever heard him say.

A beat later...

Jack: Yeah, Mom was in her little depression a lot. So.

Jack is minimizing with "little depression" because he finds it extremely uncomfortable to admit his childhood sucked. For years he's coped by proclaiming the opposite, over and over.

Jim: I loved Mom and I was the closest to her, but she was a hot mess in the early years. We forget because she had so many strokes that her personality changed. But we called her Hitler for a reason.

Jack: I know... I know.

The narcissist acknowledges more truth. Does Jim have superpowers?

Jim: She was horrible. [long pause] But I never thought she didn't love us.

Jack: No, and I always say, that woman -- she couldn't cook, she was struggling, but we always had meat to eat. We always had meat on the table.

Now he's running from the point by answering a question nobody asked. Yes, Jack, but did she feed you all the delicious MEAT you wanted??? You didn't ever want for MEAT as a young lad, did you?!?

And not only answering a question no one asked, but also answering it with lies. Narcissism finds a way:

Jack: We always had meat on the table. Like steak --

Jim: No, we didn't.

Jack: Yeah, we did.

Jim: No, we didn't.

Jack: Yeah, we did!

Jim: Sometimes we had pasta because we couldn't afford meat, Jack.

Jack: Right, but we would put chicken in it --

No, not "right." Let's build the syllogism. If you couldn't afford meat, and chicken is meat, then you couldn't afford chicken to put in your pasta.

The Farms predicted this eons ago, but Jack's obsession with meat can be traced back to the relative poverty of his youth and the insecurity he feels about how "low-class" his family was. There is a lot of research on this topic. A snippet: "Eating meat is a symbol of power and status, and those who see themselves as having lower socio-economic status prefer meat, and eat more meat, due to this perception." Jack thinks about meat the way most people think about loved ones or God. But things couldn't have been all bad! Meat was there! Even at my lowest, there was meat! I looked down in the sand and saw there was but ONE trail of myoglobin, for steak had been carrying me!

Jim: But even having said that, [meat or no meat] is not a big deal. We didn't go without. But. BUT. Her opening the wallet to me when I'm 3 or 4 years old? And saying, "This is all I have for the month"? For a parent to do that to a kid? Look -- that's the lowest.

Jack: Yeah, I never had that!

One: Confirmed that Connie Scalfani psychologically abused her children.

Two: Jack is revolting. You can see him at 1:07:29 ever so briefly admit to himself that what he just heard was very fucked up. As he processes this new awful information, his eyes dart to the side in an instinctive "yeah, that's bad" kind of way. But he still can't help himself: He rallies with cope, saying Yeah, I never had that because he's desperate to terminate this thought. As if the fact his mom never did the same exact thing to him means anything.

Jim: [ignores Jack after he tries to giggle into another topic] And the times that Mom said, "Go find the belt so I can beat you." That's not even on my list!

Confirmed that Connie Scalfani physically abused her children. I and others have long theorized this, given people often parent how they were parented, and Jack's willingness to not only strangle his son but also admit to it openly (and even brag about it) suggests a fundamental comfort with violence in the home. A glimpse was visible years ago at Tammy's birthday celebration at Maggiano's:

Jack's Mom: You need to talk to your son! He's not listening!

Jack: Oh, I have to hit him?

Jim: So, let's not rewrite history. I don't want to have all three of us on here and we're rewriting history. I'm not doing that. 'Cause Chawl will be like, "I was never mean to you!" Like, Chawl? You were a piece of shit.

Jack: Oh, he was horrible.

Jim: He has selective memory. So, I'm not going to be the one to be the reality check. For you, it would be the tough little problem of how you weren't included because, what, you were the baby? Or how you struggled with weight and everyone was aware you were getting heavy? When we look at your list and look at my list, I'm not here to talk about how you didn't get three servings instead of two. You can kiss off. That's not gonna happen.

It should be noted that Jack is laughing through all of this, despite the fact none of it is funny, some of it is disturbing, and Jim is taking pains to be fair and controlled.

Also, while many of us suspected Jack was a heavy kid, I think this is the first time it's been confirmed. So Jack has been in a toxic relationship with food his whole life. Jim goes on to specifically mention the "three servings, not two" thing one more time in the course of this stream, and on neither occasion does Jack protest at all, so I'm inclined to believe Jim was being literal; and self-soothing Child Jack thought it was the most oppressive thing ever that he couldn't stuff his face with as much food as he wanted at dinnertime.

Jack: I thought Mom did a good job with what she had. I was amazed -- I'm still amazed -- that she would do a menu for the entire month.

Jack is "amazed" because he's confusing a menu with a syllabus. A menu gives you options. A syllabus tells you what's coming. If middle-class moms didn't give their families options, then poor moms certainly didn't.

At this point Jim is forced to throw down the gauntlet and detail the psychological abuse they suffered at the hands of their mother, because Jack continues to try to deflect.

Jim: Jack, let me just give a reality check. Don't you remember we couldn't go to the bathroom? Go to the kitchen? Get water?

Jack: [says nothing]

Jim: Everything we ate. Who we were friends with. Up until I was in college, she controlled every single thing we did. YOU forget. Chawl is in denial because he fought against it. I remember very clearly.

The desperate smile falls from Jack's face. He sits in silence, nodding, as Jim lays into Connie, and somewhat lays into Jack for pretending things were "rainbows and roses." (See also: The lamely titled My Mom Is Great series that Jack produced, as well as his insistence in many livestreams [often unprovoked] that his mom was "such a cool mom, you guys.")

Jack: Wait... didn't we have permission to get a drink of water at night?

Bro. The fact you even have to wonder this.

Jim: [pause... shocked] You don't remember?

Jack: [sheepishly] It's coming back to me.

Jim: Yeah. Delusion.

Jack: We had to go, "Mom, can we go get a drink of water?"

Jim: Yeah, and sometimes... well, often...

Jack: She'd say no.

Jim: Thank you. OK. Welcome! Welcome to reality, Jack! If you are talking about Mom, it's not going to be pretty. I know her life was tough, which explains why she was the way she was. But it doesn't erase what she did.

Jack: ...

Jim: You can see why you are the parent that you are, and how Mom influenced that.

#cycleofabuse

Jim: You can see why Mom was how she was because her mom and dad influenced that.

Jack: I don't even remember Dad being a parent at all.

Jim: And that was [due to] his parents. He was the parent that his parents were to him.

We already knew this from the last livestream, but Jim is an extremely thoughtful person. Almost to a fault.

Earlier in the stream (before where this post starts), Jim talked about how painful it was for him to leave his lifelong church when he realized he was gay. He had tried dating women -- a girl named Jenny was mentioned -- but ultimately he knew his truth, admitted it, and left, knowing the church wouldn't approve. All his good friends were in the church and they asked him to stay -- just stay single, don't act on your urges, etc. -- but he knew he couldn't live a lie, so he left. The striking thing is Jim, in recounting the story, is very clear that he doesn't blame the church for essentially forcing him out, nor does he begrudge those ex-friends for not giving up their beliefs in order to stay friends with him. He's sad about it, but he understands people have their reasons.

Same thing is happening here, when he talks to Jack about their awful bio-parents. He won't deny what happened and how it hurt him, but he tries to remember that everyone has their own story.

Jim: My first year of college, I was popular. I had A's. Everybody loved me. I was always in a great mood. And I realized, "OK, so it's not me. Because I didn't change over the summer."

Jack: That's interesting, because I was happiest in college too. I hated high school more than anything.

Jim: [ignores Jack's attempt to center himself in a story about how a gay bullied kid found peace for the first time] I didn't fit in and I couldn't navigate through it [before college]. It was so scary and I was so helpless and I struggled. And then I had to get good grades [on top of it all]. I remember being in 3rd or 4th grade, sitting in my bed, going, Everybody just hates me. And I do not know why.

No snark. This just sucks to hear, man.

Jack: All three of us had completely different childhoods. I believe Chawl didn't have a childhood anywhere similar to ours.

Jim: [offended] Chawl a great childhood! GREAT. Look, from my perspective? I would have switched with either one of you. Two times over.

Jack: Yeah, I wouldn't have switched with you! Not for nothin' in the world!

No fucking shit, you dumb animal. That is Jim's point. That's why he's been begging you for hours now, across two different livestreams, to shut the fuck up about how bad you had it.

Jim: Well, of course [you wouldn't have]. And let's be real clear -- you didn't like me, Jack. Well, you might have, but I didn't ever feel that you guys... Look, there were times we played together. Yes. And we can almost name them on one hand. But I never felt like you guys wanted me around. Or even liked me.

Tellingly, Jack does not refute this one bit. No "of course we liked you!" No "what are you talking about? What about when we did x! Or y!" No "oh come on, you're my brother!" Jack just nods. Silently.

Jim continues: And I don't even know that I was likable. I was just in so much pain and turmoil.

It takes a lot of maturity to look back on how poorly you were treated and wonder if your own behavior could have been the cause. It is tons more grace than Charles and Jack are warranted.

Jack: I do know sometimes we joked a lot in the family. And some of the humor wasn't nice.

Jim: It was horrible.

Jack: [starts smiling and giggling to self-soothe at the reveal, as well as to downplay its seriousness] Yeah! It was kind of brutal!

Again extending unearned grace, Jim wonders if this was just how the brothers communicated -- by trying to "compete" with witty remarks.

But "gay ha ha" is not witty, and if the "brutal" and "horrible" jokes were actually harmless, then their mother wouldn't have intervened so much and saved Jim's life by doing so:

Jim: And Mom really protected me, or tried to, because --

Jack: Because she felt the two of us were ganging up on you.

Jim: And because... well, I don't know that I would be here, if it wasn't for Mom.

Jack: [completely distracted] I think you have something on your nose, Jim. It might be the graphic.

This was Jim's first attempt to tell his brother that their deeply flawed mother's love probably kept him from killing himself as a child.

They agree it might have been the graphic.

Jim: So I don't know that I would even be here if it wasn't for Mom, actually.

Jack: Say again?

This was Jim's second attempt to tell his brother that he considered killing himself.

Jim: I don't know that I would be here if it wasn't for Mom.

Jack: As much as she was a pain in the butt, is also how strong she was. It was like two moms. There was mean mom and then there was like, "Holy crap, nobody messes with Mom."

Way to miss the point. This was Jim's third attempt to tell his brother that he used to have suicidal thoughts. At this point Jim stops trying to talk about it. (Also, what a vulnerable thing for a white-collar professional like Jim to share to the world and for perpetuity on a livestream.)

Jack continues: You walk out without kissing Mom goodbye, she'll break both your g.d. legs!

You can tell Jack thinks this is really cute.

Jim: Was she a great parent? She would probably say, "I'm doing the best I can. I think I am doing great." It's so subjective. No, she didn't need to hit us as much but --

Jack: I can see that belt right now.

Jim: Yeah, I can too. The black belt.

Jack: The little cracks in it.

Jim: No buckle.

Jack: Yup.

I know it was a different time, but if your children were hit with a belt so much that they can clearly visualize it and build whole conversations around it 40 years later, then no, you did not do great as a parent.

Jim: But if you want to have a conversation about Otis? That's a different ballgame. Want to have a conversation about our stepmother? I'm happy to talk about that too.

Jack: Oh, our stepmonster?!

Jim: I have a lot of opinions on that. And about [bio] Dad.

Love how Jack thinks "stepmonster" is the height of cleverness.

Otis was Connie's second husband, their stepfather, who could be seen pushing her wheelchair in the supermarket in a very early Jack episode. (Every time I reference this episode, I can't find the link!) Here's a picture of him Jack posted to his IG for Father's Day a week ago. Jack thanks him for teaching him how to shoot, treat women well and never lie, which is interesting since Jack claims to keep his gun loaded in an unlocked drawer by his bed, lies constantly, and recently agreed with Charles that women suck because they keep wanting divorces and complaining to HR.

Jim: But I'm not gonna get on [F As In Frank] with Chawl and you, and have you guys talk about your experience and then challenge me on what I know I went through.

Jack: I never said you didn't have it the worst.

Jim: I know, but I don't want to hear your guys's commentary about why it was. Or how "it wasn't that bad." Chawl does that. No, no -- it was that bad. You've forgotten a lot, but I went through years of therapy to dissect what was real and what wasn't. And at the end of the day, the therapist went, "Yeah, it was really shitty." Once I learned what was real, that's when I could let it go and move on.

Jack: That's fine. I mean, if the three of us get together, we get together.

In 10 minutes, your brother has revealed he was a child who knew he was hated; considered suicide; knew his brothers didn't care about him; needed therapy to get over it; and still doesn't trust his family to not gang up on him. And the best you can muster is, "That's fine. If it happens, it happens." Ghoulish.

Jack: I did have one last question, if that's OK.

Jim: Of course! I'm happy to do this all day.

Jack: What was the best Christmas present you ever got?

Jim: [rolls his eyes in confusion] That is the lamest way to end.

Jack: You know why? I'll tell you why. Because the one thing Mom did the best was...

Jim & Jack: [in unison] Christmas.

Jim: [urging Jack to think deeply for once] Because...?

Jack: It was the biggest part of our lives.

Jim: [begging him to interrogate one thing in his cursed life] Because...?

Jack: I don't know.

Jim: [incredulous] Because as a child, she never had Christmas!

Jack: I didn't know that.

Just so we're keeping track, if we include revelations from the last Jimstream:

• Jack didn't know his mother had a bad childhood that was devoid of Christmases.
• Jack didn't know his brother Jim had to be escorted from class to class to avoid getting beaten up en route.
• Jack didn't know what Jim actually does for a living (despite fakely bragging about how good Jim was at it).
• Jack didn't know why his brother Charles had the nickname Chawl (despite the fact he's been calling him that his whole life).

Kinsman of the Year, this guy.

A little bit later...

Jim: I do miss Mom, though. I wish she was still here.

Jack: I think about all the crap we've gone through -- whether it be Covid or wars or riots -- and I think, "How would Mom react?" I say it all the time.

Weird that for something he says "all the time," we've never once heard him say it across the thousands of videos he's released since his mother died 14 years ago.

Also, dude's brain is absolutely cooked. If you're thinking about a friend, a mother, any loved one you've lost, and you mainly wonder how they would react to highly politicized "crap" if they were still here, you've lost the plot. Jack appeared on a television show after his mom died. He moved to the cultural opposite of New York City. He launched new channels. His "faith" "deepened." He "wrote" a "book" and "created" "merch" and traveled a ton and "learned" new recipes. He built his own house from the ground up. One son moved half a world away to Thailand. Another son is about to give Jack his first grandchild. Hell, he even became handicapped in the exact same way his mother did (chair-bound due to multiple strokes). And he can find nothing more to introspect about than if she would be hateful of all the same things he hates? Pathetic.

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Stray Observations

• Delving a bit deeper on the Christmas bit, Jim reveals their mother "made a promise to herself as a little girl, 'When I have kids, I'm never gonna do this to them [not have Christmases].'"
  • That's lovely, but Jack has already admitted in previous livestreams that their mother would put a cardboard box by the front door on Christmas Day, so that if her sons didn't like anything she got them, she wouldn't even need to hear about it. The expectation was they'd put whatever they didn't like in the box so she could donate it to more grateful children. I'm sorry but I find that bitter and hostile.
  • Jack shows sincere emotion when he learns this. He expresses it, bizarrely, in the same way he expresses all his emotions -- by throwing his head back -- but a rare sight for a narcissist nonetheless.
  • All that said, Jim also remembers "the fights" that habitually occurred when they "decorated the house" for the holidays... bless Jim, he wants to grant people grace, but clearly the woman was not well and had untreated trauma that made her a nightmare.
    • Jack adds, "And we would laugh about the nicotine dripping down the walls while we were decorating!"
      • Who the fuck knows what this means (it sounds horrible) but Jim knew exactly what Jack meant; and he rolls his eyes because Jack starts fake-giggling about it

• Someone in chat says, "Hi, bothr!" Jack does his fucking dumb nkkkkk laugh-thing and says, "I think they meant brother!" Not realizing the person was mocking Jack's own misspell on the original video title, which as others have screenshotted was MY BOTHR JIM Q&A.

• Jack has not updated how he sees himself or his brothers since they were children, and Jim can't help but notice the mind-numbing simplicity of his takes:
  • Around 8:15, Jack claims "Charles has always been the logical one. Overthinking stuff. Scientific." (Yes, because logical, scientific people are well known for their belief that "in general, reading as a process sucks.") Jim is shocked to hear this but moves on.
  • Jack then tells Jim about Jim: "When you were younger, you were more emotional than you are today." Jim responds, "You mean FORTY years ago?" Jack shoots back: "I don't care." Jack proceeds to tell Jim how angry Jim was as a kid. Jim says he doesn't remember feeling angry. Jack insists he was, he just hid it very well. Jim points out that if he hid it very well, that means he wasn't too emotional. Jack swerves to how he and Jim stole some stuffed animals or something from Disneyland once, which is somehow proof Jim was emotional.

• Heads-up: Jack lets us know the "correct" spelling of Charles's nickname is Chal, not Chawl.
  • Most likely I'm going to keep writing it as Chawl because (a) I find it more fun that way, and (b) I don't care what they prefer.

• Jack the bullied pissbaby is afraid of the thought of others owning firearms but loves the idea of himself owning them: "I don't want [other] people to have guns! But I do! I want guns!"
  • He also is surprised to hear Jim admit he'd want multiple guns if he lived alone in the middle of nowhere, despite the fact Jim already explained this position to Jack, in detail, on their last stream together. Jack doesn't have long-term memory anymore.

• Fakest "laughing fit" you'll ever hear around 10 minutes in. Cringe. Friend of mine disagreed and said it's genuine, but I see a Sims NPC that won't stop glitching the same gestures. Jack is recounting some hilarious(?) car accident(?) he and Jim were in and spams the demure teehee mouth thing before throwing in like half a dozen of the new laugh he's been workshopping (where he throws his head back, shows all his molars, and pats his gut as he goes gyahuckhaha!!)

• Jack for some reason gets really invested in trying to get Jim to badmouth some random colleagues he used to work with in Indiana, calling them "crazy," "unable to have phone conversations" and "stupid." Of course the irony is Jack himself doesn't know how to converse with normal people, because he only comes alive when he can be negative, and this is why normal people like Jim have only two settings: owning Jack and being repulsed by him. Jack insults an old receptionist Jim had because she didn't say hello when Jack called. Meanwhile, Jim began the last livestream by mocking Jack for not greeting him as a first-time guest on the show.

• The church that Jim left when he realized he was gay was Jehovah's Witness.
  • Pretty shocked to learn this, and not sure if that means Jack and Charles were also raised this way, if their parents were JW, etc. But it does potentially make it more understandable that, for an Italian, Jack has always seemed oddly hateful of Catholicism.
  • Around 15 minutes, Jack insists they "didn't have good mentors growing up, religiously." Jim disagrees wholeheartedly, and refuses to entertain repeated follow-up attempts by Jack (who goes on to call the people in their childhood church "not strong" and "wimpy" and fake) to badmouth anyone. Jim says he loved their congregation.

• Jim reveals he is pro-choice because he doesn't like telling other people what to do with their bodies; he explicitly traces this back to how it felt to live with their mother, who restricted all their movements and friendships, inside and outside the home.
  • Having said that, he admits that if he were a woman, he still would probably avoid having an abortion.

• Jack for some reason freely admits how little grass he's touched and says it's important people know "when" suicide is forgiven in the afterlife: "Do you go in the throne room and get forgiven? Do you get forgiven immediately? Do you gotta wait til Rapture?" Every day for Jack is a stolen one, yet he chooses to waste time on kitschy questions like this to perform his faith.

• Speaking of performing faith: An awesome exchange starts around 21:50. Jack wants everyone to know what a Good Christian he is and tells Jim he prays for him "literally" every day.
  • Jim reveals Jack texts him stuff like, "Are you OK? I just prayed for you," and admits he finds texts like this quite creepy.
  • Jack tries to rehabilitate this by saying he heard a voice in his head say, "Call him right now."
    • Jim lets Jack know he "doesn't want to know what goes on" in his head.
    • Also Jack disobeyed the voice. He didn't call; he texted.
  • Jack asks Jim if he believes in ghosts. Jim considers it a bit and says yes, mainly because he thinks he heard their mother's voice years ago right after she died. Jack takes this as some big gotcha -- so it's OK for Jim to tell people about that voice, but not for Jack to tell people about the holy voice he hears?
    • Jim points out the difference. When Jim told people he heard "their mother's" voice, the point was clear to listeners: Wow, isn't this weird? What if this is proof of the hereafter? Meanwhile, Jim as the listener does not understand why Jack wants to tell people he just prayed for them.
      • Jack has a new explanation now: "I was more calling to find out why I was being told to call you!" Jim wants to know why Jack didn't just ask the voice this question.

• Jim is writing two books: one about product development (his field) and another he describes tentatively as a "memoir."
  • He is struggling with the memoir because he has stories to share that involve famous people being shitty (and teaching him, in their shittiness, how not to be), but he doesn't want to get sued; he's trying to balance revealing enough identifying facts to make the stories meaningful, but not so many that he gets in trouble.
    • Jack the genius tells him to stop overthinking and just swap the first letter of people's first and last name (e.g., Prad Bitt) Helpful!

• And below is the face Jim made when Jack said, "I asked Chawl about God, and we talked the whole video about it."
  • Remember, Jim is a believer. He went to bible college and loved it. His best friends were in the church.
  • He's just firmly on record as thinking Chawl is an entitled, disrespectful asshole.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I love how Jack's instagram profile picture is AI slop with a Twitter hat, but I thought he was against AI, interesting



Simping for Elon while also scared of his robotaxis



Good christian man making the most tasteful of jokes

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Thanks for the writeup @Slavic Patronym. I would rather strangle myself than listen to fatty talk on a podcast for that long. I didn't know that Jim had it so hard growing up but it shouldn't surprise me. Being gay in that era was difficult and middle and high school kids are often dicks to regular kids, being gay would be that much harder. Him having to have an escort to/from class is really fucked up and him saying he almost ended himself is really sad, and it's fucked up that Jack just brushed it off and tried to change subjects.

I like Jim way more the more I hear about him. He's the black sheep but being the black sheep from that fucked up family means he's the normal one