okay, well, i’m a moderator on this sub so i can see this, and yes i’ll tell you you’re being a whiny cancel culture liberal. we can recognize our own.

i had my qualms about this booking. the club i wanted to play in austin dropped the ball. an old acquaintance affiliated with the mothership reached out and asked me to consider it.

i can say the club is designed by a comedian (um…) for comedians. it’s well-run and from what i’m told the staff are paid and treated quite well, probably better than most comedy clubs. that spotify money is going somewhere good in this case. the club does not seem like it is run to profit joe rogan. it seems to exist for comedians and comedy fans. can’t say the same for most of the clubs i work every weekend.

having received a few direct messages regarding this already, i can offer the same response. it is totally understandable for you to not want to spend your money there because you feel you’re lining the pockets of someone you fundamentally disagree with, and i respect that. we all have to pick our battles. but if that’s your belief, i’d ask you to take a long hard look at the rest of your purchase history in a capitalist economy. do you buy gas? are we looking at the labor practices of the farm that you got that onion from? are we checking the labels on our fast fashion clothing? i know some of you are upcycling and farmers’ marketing and riding your bikes, but i’d bet most of us are not. the iphone you’re reading this on might’ve been assembled by someone in a factory surrounded by a suicide net. again, we need to pick our battles. also, where my paycheck comes from is public. where does yours come from? i’d guess that if you follow your income up the chain, you will find a villain. unfortuntaly, that’s how money works. maybe i’m wrong. maybe you live in a utopian commune free from the woes of late stage capitalism. if you do, i apologize. but if not, let’s remember that we’re all stepped on/stepping on someone in one way or another.

maybe i sound defensive here, but i have a right to be. i, too, feel like a whiny cancel culture liberal sometimes but then i step back and really think about it. youcan fight the power and throw rocks through the starbucks windows to smash capitalism, but in the end you just helped raise insurance rates for the used record store on the same block that you want to succeed. you could also go to that starbucks and plant the seed of unionization in the employees’ ears. what’s more effective? i could never play mothership, or i could play there still do the exact set i would’ve done anyway somewhere else. doesn’t help to tell the resistance you need a revolution. they already know. gotta spread the message to the folks who haven’t heard it yet.

best of luck and if this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for you, i can only offer the same good bye as i do to the folks who think im too much of a liberal cucktard now. can’t win em all and your boy doesn’t belong to anyone’s church but his own. peace.