@thespeechprof.bsky.social HOLY SHIT, Man. 🤯

A few weeks ago I asked a hypothetical. “Would it be ethical for me to take a huge brand deal from a shitty AI company if every dollar went to a nonprofit like Earthjustice?” The response was unanimous. 100% of you said no.  Unethical. Shitty. Don’t do it. I agreed. I still agree.

I partnered with the ACLU to talk about tactical frivolity (basically explaining why we are seeing so many people in blow up animal costumes and the historical significance of it). Inflatable Frogs vs. Federal Agents: The Genius Strategy Explained youtu.be/FX0NLzq6bhc

Inflatable Frogs vs. Federal Agents: The Genius Strategy Explained

YouTube video by The Speech Prof

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How the X-Men Movie Caused the Housing Crisis (No Really) youtu.be/02npnTU-SoA

How the X-Men Movie Caused the Housing Crisis (No Really)

YouTube video by The Speech Prof

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In my experience, people don’t typically hit the streets protesting en masse in defense of people they need to be “liberated” from.

Today is superhero day at my kid’s school and my daughter decided to dress up as the school’s social worker 🥹

In response to me making a video making fun of the word Alpha male, a guy responded that based on my body shape, I look like more of an “eating too much Pi male.” And I know it was meant to be a burn, but I love that so much.

For those of you in a longterm relationship, how did you meet your signficant other?

Words I am just now realizing I use CONSTANTLY as an autistic adult to try and avoid people from thinking I have some sort of hidden meaning behind what I’m saying: genuinely, literally, absolutely, absurdly, truly, and legitimately.

Can you imagine the narcissism involved to continually think you are the arbiter of what identities are valid? This is what happens when you empower bigots. They slowly but surely start confidently expanding their hate and spreading misinformation.

I know "legal" has taken on a new meaning in the era of Trump, but is it legal for him to use an executive order to alter the bill for the TikTok ban? Wasn't there only a single extension written into it?

After hearing all the chatter online about Morgan Wallen storming off the set at SNL for it being “godless,” I immediately ran to Google and typed, “Who is Morgan Wallen?”

5 years ago today and one week into Covid lockdown, my wife and I headed to the hospital unsure if I’d even be let into the delivery room with her. Bringing home a newborn during the pandemic was…unique.

Part of my morning routine now is opening up my Signal app to see if Pete Hegseth messaged me any war plans. He hasn’t yet, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it is only a matter of time.

I feel like Substack is just LiveJournal, but we’re all grownups now so we have to make it feel professional…at least that’s how I’m going to be treating mine.

For those of you that enjoy my work, I just posted my first "essay" on Substack. Similar to my video content, these are going to be unedited, free flowing, and probably a bit more unhinged. Think of it as a longform version of my posts on here.

I had to turn that mess off 5-minutes in. I did think it was funny seeing Melania sitting while everyone around her stood up though. 😆

And so begins another likely recession under a Republican president. Literally every Republican president in my lifetime has inherited a strong economy and overseen a recession.

How anybody could watch Trump’s bumbling tyrade at Zelenskyy and not be embarrassed to be an American is beyond me. We are so cooked.

Our insurance doesn’t cover the type of therapy my daughter needs and the only place we can find that does charges $800 per hour for a parent consultation. What in the actual fuck?

Phones can’t get any bigger than they are now. I have dropped my phone onto my face more times than I’d like to admit and if they get any heavier, I’m going to be walking around with black eyes and will need to make up some sort of narrative other than my hands are bad at holding things.

Does anyone else have a terrible ability at judging how close the front of your car is to hitting something? In my mind, I’ll think I must be inches away from the car in front of my and then I’ll get out and I’m like three feet away.

I read that a new medication I was prescribed can sometimes worsen the symptoms of someone with an anxiety disorder. I emailed my doctor asking if I should still take it being as I, in fact, have an anxiety disorder and have had medications exacerbate it in the past. /1

Alright, now that I’m home safe, I can say that I’m happy I took the two quick flights instead of the 30+ hours of train travel. 😅

#anglerfish

There was a lot of turbulence on the flight, so I turned off my audiobook to concentrate more. 🤣

First announcement on the flight, “Our computer just froze, so we need to restart the entire airplane.” This is not doing anything to help my anxiety. 🙃

The thing that confuses me about religious TV ads is that they act like we don't already know that the church exists. Like, I'm seeing the commercial and then googling, "Who is this Jesus fellow?"