rant · moment 10 of 19
Gender Reveal Parties Explained (Badly) and Everest Selfies
from This Is No Way To Live · #72
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5 minTim and Ray argue over what a gender reveal party actually is, with Tim confusing it with circumcision, while continuing the rant about corporatized life experiences like climbing Everest for Instagram.
- 33:54Everest climbing has been ruined by people taking selfies and making it about hashtags.
- 34:15Tim complains that everything has become too corporate, even though he's generally pro-corporate.
- 34:42Gender reveal parties are everywhere on Instagram, with cakes, piñatas, or colored smoke to announce the baby's sex.
- 35:31The problem with gender reveal parties is they lack originality and feel like cookie-cutter Instagram trends.
- 36:24Parents hire a bakery to bake a gender-specific cake, then reveal the baby's sex by cutting into it at a party with friends.
- 37:26The real reason people do gender reveal parties instead of finding out in the hospital room is so they can prepare the nursery and buy gender-specific items beforehand.
- 37:42The actual point of gender reveal parties is to get drunk in the backyard with friends and congratulate the parents.
- 38:03Tim wants people to return to a more primal, no-nonsense way of life instead of all these corporate-sponsored trends.
- 38:20Ray misunderstands and thinks Tim is referring to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as the ideal lifestyle.
- 38:30Tim pivots to saying sweet potatoes are better than yams for Thanksgiving.
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