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I’ve been on YouTube since its birth and I’ve picked up on more than a few of the site’s most obscure, bizarre videos. Today we look at one man’s response to a national trauma.

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I came upon a realization recently. Pieces of evidence of the Mandela Effect have to be started somewhere. For those unaware, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where, according to the unofficial Mandela Effect subreddit, “it is discovered that a global, well known fact has apparently changed for A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE.” But if you read through the Reddit board, you’ll happen upon example after example of Mandela Effect samples that didn’t catch on. Check out this group of misfires hovering at zero upvotes currently on the “New” tab:

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When I was growing up, I had a real interest in these little statuettes of athletes produced by the toy company named for the guy who wrote the Spawn comics in the 90s. It was about the second closest I ever got to having a real collecting hobby (the first was video game collecting, a hobby I dipped about a full foot in before recognizing how unbelievably expensive it was and how unbearable so many collectors were). I used to be able to tell you which figures came out with which color variations, and which figures came out in which line of releases, and I owned the figures of most of my favorite childhood athletes (Dirk Nowitzki, Priest Holmes, Shaq, etc). But after a while I kinda grew out of that thing, and I don’t remember buying one of those guys after like 2007 or so.

But one of the sportsman figures that I owned stuck with me:

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The Perennial RAPHE Awards continue today with something for your ears. Yes, your ears! Those little holes in the side of your head that water gets into when you’re showering sometimes. Pull out your audiophile earbuds, plug them into your Zune, and let’s get listening to Joe’s Top 10 Favorite Albums of the year 2019.

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This year on Joe Bush dot Net, we’re trying something new to round out the year that was. Instead of thinking about maybe celebrating the best of the year and then halfheartedly tweeting out what I liked, I figured it was time to actually celebrate with a fully developed series of diatribes on my favorite cultural artifacts. Ergo, let’s end 2019 with the first ever Perennial Repeated Annual Prize for Humanities Excellence!

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I am at a dilemma.

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