Grumble Goat Mat Labotka & Veronique Hurley

In the modern era of high-paced, digital globalization, the only thing that hasn’t been relegated to binary data-points is the moist, fleshy hardware that keeps our meat brains warm. Money used to be made of metal, but now exists only as a couple flashes of electricity along a circuit board. Society used to be people meeting in public forums, but now its a string of memes on the Meta algorithm. Games used to involve balls and sticks, but now flashing diodes dance for our entertainment. Everything is digitized, especially hopes and dreams. The algorithm uses our digital fingerprint to peer into our very souls and squeezes any inkling of individuality right into its corporate pockets. As we stare deeper into the magic mirror of our cells, who is looking back?







Recover your password with Mat and Veronique as we discover the iPhone’s Midas curse means Everything’s an App!







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The era of Globalization has created a utopian society of plenty. Water comes right out of the walls and temperatures are controlled by a dial. The phone in your pocket can summon a stranger bringing food right to your front door. Unfortunately, our bodies were designed by the harsh realities of evolution in an era of survival long since conquered. Yet still, more food means larger people. And when humanity’s health is on the line, we must all come together and attack the scourge at it’s source! We will dismantle the instrial-aggro machine that produces an excess of ultra-processed foods full of toxic refined sugars decimating our livelihoods… but first, a snack. How about a sensible, low-calorie, tiny bag of processed garbage to satisfy our insatiable need for unlimited sugar! Who’s been a good boy? That’s right, you’ve been a good little consumer! Grab a little treat with Mat and Veronique as we pretend to diet while gorging processed food, now in smaller 100 Calorie Packs!







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A shrill noise in the night invokes an immediate sense of danger. A horn calling out across a valley will rally the cavalry to prepare for war. A clanging bell at the town gate will rouse the inhabitants to a common threat. And a wailing siren of an ambulance will awaken everybody in a six block radius for absolutely nothing. The modern civilization does not require assembling every able bodied villager to face emergencies. In our unending wisdom, we have built specialized task forces to deal with impending disasters, so why do we still bang the drums of war for every false alarm? Invading armies are not trumpeting their arrival, we’re all being constantly alerted to every sprained ankle and speeding ticket. Gather your pitchforks with Mat and Veronique as we mob the square with our fellow countrymen to oblige the call of Sirens!







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The end is nigh! The sun has been blighted and the Aztec calendar has ended! All of the eight prophesies have been fulfilled! The Infinity Stones have been collected and the White Walkers have taken the Wall! In our waning days of life on Earth, with TikTok and Tay-Tay, the only way to grab peoples’ attention is with the original way to grab peoples’ attention… The End of the World! But why has the world ended so many times? And why has the ending gone relatively uneventful each time? Are these prophesies inaccurate? Join the cult following of Mat and Veronique as we decipher the hidden code in the ancient Grumble Scrolls to reveal the true signs of Doomsday Predictions!







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Since the dawn of Humankind, we have had a proud tradition of Hunting and Gathering. While some still cling to the hunting of game, most of society has moved into the game of hunting for deals. Deals are a great way to save resources in order to Gather more things. Gathering is our way of keeping score in life. It has become our life’s goal to gather more and more and more things. We collect silverware that has a trace of actual silver. We collect porcelain knick-knacks of chubby children doing mundane things. We collect T.V. Guides, sports equipment, old paint cans, and splintered furniture. We must continue to Gather on the slim chance that any of these broken things may be useful or fixable at some distant, hypothetical, imaginary future where outdated, rotting, useless artifacts suddenly become necessary again.







But when the house is full of useless garbage, where do we put all our other useless garbage? Let’s take a trip with Veronique and Mat to someone else’s garage that we rent out to keep a distant ownership over in the Storage Locker.







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The exchange of money for goods and services is the cornerstone of civilization. Goods have value, and money has value; and often, service has value. And America recognizes good service. We tip everyone. We recognize good service so hard that when we receive bad service we still tip for good service. Tipping is so ubiquitous in America that the tax code reflects tips, Corporate pay scales have expected tips in the job listing, Minimum Wage is lowered for tipped employees, and service counters have more tip jars than cash registers. Now, in the modern era of contactless payments, the whole computer swivels around for you to input a tip… before even any service has been rendered. And when we have to pay a tip before any motion happens, is this not fully a bribe? Choose a percentage before Mat, Veronique, and Guest – Brian Reilly – consider your request for service as we sit in judgement of how much you’re Tipping in Advance!







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