Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty two,
Speaker 1: episode one of production of I Heart Radio. This is
Speaker 1: a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's
Speaker 1: share consciousness. And it is Monday, August. I know what
Speaker 1: that means, Miles. Do you know what that means? You
Speaker 1: know what you actually caught me? Will you mind telling me?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Its National Lemon Juice Day. And according
Speaker 1: to Hoyle Day, what does that mean? That sounds like
Speaker 1: some ship that people forgot about it at least a
Speaker 1: generation to honor the rules and regulations in particular situations.
Speaker 1: Also day to pay tribute to a man by the
Speaker 1: name of Edmund Hoyle, an Englishman who was thought to
Speaker 1: be the first technical writer on card games. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say cards, Oh no, bro, you see oh
Speaker 1: because aren't like, aren't there like playing cards like oil? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I've seen that on the back of the the card of
Speaker 1: a deck of cards before. You know that when people
Speaker 1: start talking about like board games and card game I
Speaker 1: hate rules, so like hearing about respecting the rules of
Speaker 1: a board game gives me a lot of anxiety. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw that scheme on Twitter. You
Speaker 1: know there's that photo that picture from the New Stranger
Speaker 1: Things season. That's will like and he's secretly like crying
Speaker 1: to himself in the van. Have you seen that picture? Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of people use it for different ship. One
Speaker 1: person was like me. The second somebody starts explaining the
Speaker 1: rules of a card game to me. Uh, and I've
Speaker 1: identified with that, so look, observe the rules are. Don't
Speaker 1: on oil day. That's what I'm good with. Like the
Speaker 1: three card games that I know, that's that's plenty. What
Speaker 1: war is one of them? War? Go fish and you
Speaker 1: know jin jin romy not jin like? Those are those are?
Speaker 1: And then hearts and then yeah, I guess I know War.
Speaker 1: I haven't played high stakes war in a while, so
Speaker 1: maybe I need to bring that back. Oh yeah, for
Speaker 1: the kids, for the kids. Heard of kids? Anyways. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien, a K Cold Cold Cans of
Speaker 1: Mount Tan Do drink by Blast Baby till that piss blue.
Speaker 1: That's courtesy of my plane flight from Dallas this morning
Speaker 1: and just not having ship to do. Uh. And I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles Broad Miles Shroom God, what is the secret
Speaker 1: to your power? Miles? Shroom God, won't you take us far?
Speaker 1: We from the trumpet trump Okay, shout out to Tenasi's
Speaker 1: d you, shout out mushroom shot out of Philocybin, shout
Speaker 1: out just board for that one God about that album? Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you mushroom God? Like you you're micro dosing? What
Speaker 1: with the with the I mean they may have remembered
Speaker 1: a past episode one time. I freaked the ship out
Speaker 1: of calling Hanks at sketch Fest in San Francisco because
Speaker 1: I was wearing like a big throw blanket on me
Speaker 1: at a party, like and everybody was dressed up and like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's your name? I was like, I'm the shroom God.
Speaker 1: And he was like, okay, nice to meet you, because
Speaker 1: I was, I was having a good time. Wasn't ready
Speaker 1: for that. Colin Hanks, he's a good man. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was not ready for that. I don't think. He
Speaker 1: was just kind of like okay, thank you, and then
Speaker 1: quickly moved on to other people less dilating to meet you, well, Miles.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined by a hilarious stand up
Speaker 1: comedian who is one of our favorite guests and is
Speaker 1: rejoining us after a long absence too long, way too long.
Speaker 1: You need to go subscribe to his YouTube show, The
Speaker 1: Gay Power Half Hour. It's Casey Lie, what's up? Casey? Hello? Everyone.
Speaker 1: I don't have a screaming song to share, but it
Speaker 1: is great to be back. He see you guys. Are
Speaker 1: you in l A these days? Still? Yeah? I'm still
Speaker 1: in l A hunkered down. I took a moment during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. I went up to San Francisco for like
Speaker 1: six months because I was living with a couple of
Speaker 1: comics down here who I liked. But I decided I
Speaker 1: didn't want to die with you know. But yeah, it's good,
Speaker 1: you know, simmering in the heat a bit, but basting.
Speaker 1: I love it, flaming exactly. It's nice. It's it's good
Speaker 1: to be back in l A. Man. The I was.
Speaker 1: I just flew back from Dallas this morning and I
Speaker 1: was talking to super producer Becca, who's from Texas, about
Speaker 1: the crickets are taking over the state of that of Texas.
Speaker 1: It's fucking really yeah. Crickets like like the like places
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be, like a like a concrete parking structure.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, like like all over the sidewalk, like their
Speaker 1: dry leaves on in the fall, like in a in
Speaker 1: another place, you know, just falling off the walls of buildings,
Speaker 1: like onto my shoulder. It was. It was wild. I
Speaker 1: would know the crickets being in charge of Texas though
Speaker 1: that I think, let him take over. And you said, Biggs,
Speaker 1: and they gotta they got an odor too, that's what
Speaker 1: was saying. I did not notice the odor, but I
Speaker 1: also didn't I didn't know to be looking out for
Speaker 1: an odor. I was saying, though that I had like
Speaker 1: a summer of beetles that like took over the town
Speaker 1: of Dayton that I lived in, like when I was
Speaker 1: I think it was like when I was twelve or so.
Speaker 1: And I still remember the smell. She was saying that,
Speaker 1: like that, it's one of those smells you you can't
Speaker 1: get out of your head, the smell of like all
Speaker 1: the dead crickets. And yeah, I remember that from from
Speaker 1: the Beatles. There's there's just like something very I don't
Speaker 1: know that something unlike I had smelled up to that point,
Speaker 1: and unlike I've smelled sense well. To Casey's point, then
Speaker 1: if we're gonna have stinky pieces of ship run the state,
Speaker 1: then it might as well be the crickets, right, so yeah,
Speaker 1: there live yeah already already. Ye. I can't see how
Speaker 1: it's compounding a compounding problem, a bunch of decomposing bug
Speaker 1: carcasses in the carcasses in the heat. It just sounds
Speaker 1: like a it's just an annual thing or is it
Speaker 1: just another you know, on slat of modern times. I
Speaker 1: think it's a that we were trying to figure that
Speaker 1: out if it was like worse because they just had
Speaker 1: some flooding down there, so maybe they like came up
Speaker 1: out of the ground because it was like saturated. But
Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, everybody who we talked to
Speaker 1: who is from there or from anywhere in Texas was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this is pretty standard. It's just it's weird and like
Speaker 1: a thing nobody talks about. But you just have to
Speaker 1: like kick your shoes every couple of seconds or else
Speaker 1: the oh yeah, cets will start crawling up your pant
Speaker 1: leg um. Someone tried to feed me cricket chips the
Speaker 1: other day, and I got really angry about it, but
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, and that's those are chips that
Speaker 1: are made of crickets. And I don't like that. I
Speaker 1: don't like where that future is heading. Now. This is
Speaker 1: how we make chips. We scoop them off off the
Speaker 1: ground in Texas, right right. That is theory I've heard
Speaker 1: is that the reason we like crunchy chip like things
Speaker 1: is because we when we were evolving, like we ate
Speaker 1: so many bugs, Like bugs was a staple part of
Speaker 1: our diet, and so like we evolved to really like
Speaker 1: that like crispy crunchiness. And now because we're like anti
Speaker 1: eating bugs, we have to create like artificial crispy christ
Speaker 1: which is wild because they're like also being like it
Speaker 1: may be the key to helping like may have a
Speaker 1: sustainable food future too. It's like having that in the
Speaker 1: food mix somewhere. Up bugs and shut up Texas. Texas
Speaker 1: very protein rich apparently. All right, Casey, we're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. We we're gonna talk about whether
Speaker 1: the Republicans are like, how do they respond to a
Speaker 1: fatal flaw? It feels like they're experience like a fatal
Speaker 1: flaw with their ideals, Like suddenly you know, they got
Speaker 1: what they said they wanted. For the past fucking forty
Speaker 1: fifty years, and the fact that it is inhumane treatment
Speaker 1: of human beings is not popular. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that. We're gonna talk about McDonald's play places, all
Speaker 1: that plenty more. But first, Casey, we like to ask
Speaker 1: Eric Guest, what is something from your search history. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I am I don't want to brag, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to Europe in a couple of days. I
Speaker 1: know it's not Texas, but that's gonna I'm going to Paris,
Speaker 1: the one in Texas. Dallas is the Paris of that
Speaker 1: part of Texas. Paris should be very angry to hear
Speaker 1: you say that. I am sure, but I'll let them
Speaker 1: know that we are discussing them and they won't care
Speaker 1: because their Paris. But I'm going to I'm actually not
Speaker 1: going there. I'm gonna Spain. Uh in England and Portugal.
Speaker 1: Nobody don't. And so I was I've been researching places
Speaker 1: to go and I wasn't sure where there. I had
Speaker 1: a couple extra days at the end, and I was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where to go, and so I
Speaker 1: was just kind of like browsing and I found the
Speaker 1: Hadrian the Hadrian. Hadrian Attic city of Italica, which is
Speaker 1: Roman ruins north of Seville, and uh Hadrian, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know this, and to your listeners,
Speaker 1: I'm a homosexual, so this is gonna get gay, thank you.
Speaker 1: He was the gayest of all the Roman emperors, and
Speaker 1: that's where he was born, and he was the one
Speaker 1: to really have like a true uh my husband. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they called him that in Greek Roman times,
Speaker 1: but I'm fascinated with this guy because he was like
Speaker 1: the he was in charge of the world, and he
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna be married to this woman because
Speaker 1: you make me, but I'm also going to raise my
Speaker 1: lover to the level of a god. He named cities
Speaker 1: after him. Antonius was his concubine or lover or husband,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the word is. So he is
Speaker 1: like if you go to the loop, which I've been to,
Speaker 1: because you know a person obviously, naturally he is like
Speaker 1: the most represented represented Roman figure outside of some of
Speaker 1: the outside of like Caesar, and it's just because he
Speaker 1: was the hottest guy in in all of the world
Speaker 1: at the time, and so just I'm obsessed with Hadrian
Speaker 1: as a result of this. So if you want to
Speaker 1: get a little if this is to get to know me,
Speaker 1: is to know I love hot guys from the past,
Speaker 1: so I'm going on our international search for them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I also just like that just because like Hadrian
Speaker 1: was like, now I love this motherfucker. That that's also
Speaker 1: why he's like, so Antonius is so representing He's like, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: another one for him too, right there. Three, Well, Antony
Speaker 1: has died. He drowned in the Nile, and it's unclear.
Speaker 1: It's possible that Hadrian's wife drowned him. He also just
Speaker 1: might have tripped and fell. Who knows. They were partying
Speaker 1: a lot back then, and and Hadrian was so gripped
Speaker 1: with grief that he where he died, he created the
Speaker 1: city of and can New up Blist or something. And
Speaker 1: then that's why he would He raised him to the
Speaker 1: level of a god, and that's why he was so represented,
Speaker 1: and he was so attractive that everyone was like, we're
Speaker 1: going to need more of those pictures of that of
Speaker 1: that hot day, and it's just a it's a it's
Speaker 1: something that I love. And that's when people started painting portraits,
Speaker 1: was just to to get better pictures of hell hot.
Speaker 1: This dude was early. You know, it's like hair too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're looking at him, looking him up. Yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 1: he looks like you know a lot of times you
Speaker 1: look at classical bus and you're like, man, it's Aristotle's
Speaker 1: busted as fuck, you know, like they had different standards
Speaker 1: of beauty. But I'm looking at this bus. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, anton News could get it. Yeah yeah, he
Speaker 1: got good features. Yeah, he was just like he was
Speaker 1: just like a full babe and you know, so hope.
Speaker 1: But if I'm my Antonos, God, have you seen this
Speaker 1: picture of some of being Like what would he look
Speaker 1: like now? Because in the check case you just you
Speaker 1: can see it because he looks like some tiktoking foods.
Speaker 1: That was super funny that out. Yeah, was that like
Speaker 1: I just accepted when I was young, like, oh well,
Speaker 1: paintings like nude paintings were you know that that was
Speaker 1: just classic art and they're being but like at the
Speaker 1: time where they like, yo, this is hot. There are
Speaker 1: some like uh people, some like kings and like high
Speaker 1: ranking church figures from the past who would have artists
Speaker 1: put like a mini you know, like they would paint
Speaker 1: murals on the roof of their ceilings, and some of
Speaker 1: them were like super erotic, you know, like the Cistian
Speaker 1: Chapel is just like naked people like and you know,
Speaker 1: Ricked Michaelangelo was all about just like the ripped human form.
Speaker 1: And so it's absolutely like going from we don't think
Speaker 1: about it this, right, but like imagine walking into the
Speaker 1: Sisteine Chapel and you've never like all you ever seen
Speaker 1: is you're just like your your naked husband's sucking like
Speaker 1: farmer pretty pretty tight, you know, and yeah, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're just like like people would just
Speaker 1: like I think they would just like, yeah, that's at
Speaker 1: the entrance. Everyone's like you going to the chapel, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: me with three times last night. This computer, this computer
Speaker 1: generated Antonus is a beautiful human. But also it feels
Speaker 1: like they went and they made some choices, like the
Speaker 1: the busts hair looks better. And also I think his
Speaker 1: eyes they didn't do his I don't know, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: you're like the eyes are hotter in the statue than
Speaker 1: I think. I think. Well, like, I think they just
Speaker 1: like made some made some choices, but I mean they
Speaker 1: did a good job. I'm not complaining. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I was expecting otherworldly like screen melting beauty,
Speaker 1: but based on the tails. But you know, yeah, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. He looks just like I mean he does.
Speaker 1: He looks like he looks like a Antonus was from Turkey.
Speaker 1: So and this guy, he looks like a Turkish Sam
Speaker 1: mendies that they're doing right, I'm I'm here for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here. He's definitely cute. What is uh what some
Speaker 1: of you think is overrated? So this is going to
Speaker 1: be in line with my trip to Europe because I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna shut up about it. I went last last
Speaker 1: year to um Europe. I went with my with my boss,
Speaker 1: and he paid for everything, which is a nice way
Speaker 1: to go. That's amazing. And this time I'm hear that
Speaker 1: Jack and this time I'm I'm I'm I'm paying mostly
Speaker 1: about myself. And because my boss is also homosexual, a
Speaker 1: lot of people were like, oh, your boss is taking
Speaker 1: Europe and he's paying for it. You must be having
Speaker 1: sex with your boss and I'm not. I think he
Speaker 1: respects me for my mind. I hope, and I'm a
Speaker 1: good time. But I've been realizing and paying for this
Speaker 1: trip on my own that if someone wanted to take
Speaker 1: me to Europe for free and the stipulation was I
Speaker 1: had to have sex with them, I would do it.
Speaker 1: And I think based on the amount, and I think
Speaker 1: the what is overrated is shaming people for having sex
Speaker 1: for goods and services like tickets to Europe, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, I feel like that is an
Speaker 1: overrated thing. Too many people are are are shameful? Are
Speaker 1: our direct shame at those who barter with their body?
Speaker 1: And uh, I think we need to cut that shot out.
Speaker 1: Something everybody has done since the beginning of time, but
Speaker 1: it's just you're not allowed to do it out loud, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, I think that when it gets weird is
Speaker 1: when the person who is doing is offering the free stuff,
Speaker 1: begins to take that relationship dynamic to a place and like,
Speaker 1: well I now control you. It's like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're bartering. Actually yeah you can have like you will
Speaker 1: make it. It's like, you know, how nice of a
Speaker 1: dinner are we gonna have? You know? Basically, I under
Speaker 1: staying I want to be a protestute and I think
Speaker 1: that we should not be shaming people for it. So
Speaker 1: where did you go. Where'd you go with yours? We
Speaker 1: went to Paris and then Corsica. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: We kind of help him develop ideas and uh, he
Speaker 1: had an idea that was set in Corsica and it
Speaker 1: might have been an excuse to go to just of
Speaker 1: course that he's also kind of learning French that he
Speaker 1: wanted to go, and um, it was it was right
Speaker 1: before Delta hit the Delta variants, so we're talking, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean several variants ago. And it was right when
Speaker 1: the EU had opened back up. And so, and he
Speaker 1: normally travels with various people, but none of them wanted
Speaker 1: to go. So he was just like, do you just
Speaker 1: want to go? And I was like, well, I can't
Speaker 1: afford to go at your level and he was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, show up to the airport.
Speaker 1: So it's very nice and we have you know, we
Speaker 1: have and we we have a very very professional and
Speaker 1: fun relationship up and it was great. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you my first time going to Paris and was
Speaker 1: my boss the ideal person to go to the most
Speaker 1: romantic city and beautiful city in the world. But again,
Speaker 1: he paid for everything, so he was a perfect persons.
Speaker 1: Nakan said of Baseline for your own rates. All the
Speaker 1: European stuff sounds nice. I will have you know. There's
Speaker 1: something in Dallas called the Reunion Tower Um, which is
Speaker 1: like a it's a bunch of lights on a stick. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's like a big round thing of lights at the
Speaker 1: top end. On Valentine's Day, it has like hearts and
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. It's like a big mega what are
Speaker 1: those screens called at sporting events, jumbo tron, Jumbo tron.
Speaker 1: It's like a big jumbo tron in the middle of
Speaker 1: the City's quite phallic. It's kind of kind of cultured.
Speaker 1: I don't know, God, this guy never shuts out about Texas.
Speaker 1: What's What's something you think is underrated? You know we
Speaker 1: were kind of joking about populos pre show, and I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I think old people are underrated. This
Speaker 1: guy knows how to party. You know, he didn't get
Speaker 1: away with it, but you know, wine drunk just you know,
Speaker 1: he's the what do you call the husband of the
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, the first but you know, and
Speaker 1: like and I'm not good. I want to get to neoliberal.
Speaker 1: But you know, like Biden's having a good run, you
Speaker 1: know things, and everyone's like, everyone can't shut up about
Speaker 1: how old he just canceled student death for everyone, and
Speaker 1: all of my friends were talking about was how old
Speaker 1: and tired he looked in the speech he gave. And
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, sorry that you've got free stuff
Speaker 1: and you don't like to be from this old guy
Speaker 1: and you can't handle it and you don't want it
Speaker 1: because he doesn't doesn't look good, you know, it doesn't speak.
Speaker 1: We were we were very look love. Obama did a
Speaker 1: great job for us, really had our our our interest
Speaker 1: in mind. But he's the problem was he was too good.
Speaker 1: He spoke too good, he looked too good, you know.
Speaker 1: And then we had four years of just sucking utter
Speaker 1: trash and and and we expected whatever is going to
Speaker 1: come after that to be perfect again. And it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It just as old white dude who doesn't speak that good.
Speaker 1: But apparently it's given us some stuff that we needed. Okay,
Speaker 1: if he gets that a ran deal done, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start talking about him as a good president. I might
Speaker 1: even vote. I might even vote. Yeah, But it was, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely a new context listening to him up there, like
Speaker 1: missing some words and I was like, yeah, it's fine,
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Like he said, he's talking about
Speaker 1: having actually done something. It's it really is like what
Speaker 1: when you're missing words and you're also like not doing
Speaker 1: stuff that like it seems like you should be doing,
Speaker 1: then it's a little unnerving. But when you're like skipping
Speaker 1: words or like combining words, and you know, I do
Speaker 1: that ship all the time. Biden, just cancel all the
Speaker 1: fucking debt, right because we're talking to equity. Right means
Speaker 1: everybody's equal. That means everybody's debt should be canceled at
Speaker 1: the same level. Don't leave people hanging with us stuff.
Speaker 1: And I get it that a lot of it is
Speaker 1: very helpful, like and most people, a lot of people
Speaker 1: did actually get a lot of their debt wipe out.
Speaker 1: Part of me is like, man, if you do all that,
Speaker 1: you could speak as funked up as you want, Like
Speaker 1: you don't have to show up. You could go out
Speaker 1: there on fucking molly peeking, like just taking deep breast
Speaker 1: up there. I'm like, yeah, man, whatever, man, just let
Speaker 1: him cook. We're just like not on adderall there. There's
Speaker 1: a thing that happens where he like his energy like
Speaker 1: goes in like waves, like from sentence to sentence in
Speaker 1: a way. I don't know. It might just be like
Speaker 1: some internal meter that's telling him like, oh, they told
Speaker 1: you just stop shouting like everything, and then he like
Speaker 1: starts whispering and it seems like he's falling asleep after
Speaker 1: he was just like the molly. It's the molly bro
Speaker 1: It comes in waves. Another underrated. It's not enough of
Speaker 1: our leaders are doing molly. You know not you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: you should to get into congress. You you gotta triple psychedelics. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you have to trip. You have to trip
Speaker 1: balls to get in there, and you need to have
Speaker 1: a moment where you can just be like, go outside
Speaker 1: of yourself, let your ego break, have a new perspective
Speaker 1: on how big or small you are in this universe.
Speaker 1: Then start legislating. I don't think it would be terrorism
Speaker 1: to dose the punch at a congressional party or something
Speaker 1: like that, because it's like you gotta like because then
Speaker 1: all the you know, like Marjorie Taylor Green, she might
Speaker 1: jump off. I don't want, I don't she just she
Speaker 1: might do something to herself that would be beneficial to
Speaker 1: the country. Um. Yes, because the demons are deep, you know,
Speaker 1: um with a lot of people on that side and
Speaker 1: our side. Demons are real on all sides and poo
Speaker 1: poo demons. They're very strong. But yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: hallucinogenics made me the non congressional, fun loving European traveling
Speaker 1: person I am today. Yeah, that's like the way that
Speaker 1: the Olympics tests for various drugs, and like, like I
Speaker 1: feel like we should be doing that with things like
Speaker 1: ampheta means we've already seen that those are bad for
Speaker 1: leadership and like lead you down a dark path with
Speaker 1: the Nazis, So like maybe maybe not that, maybe they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to do that and be president at
Speaker 1: the same time. Yeah, but I'm talking to the mushroom king. Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk to God, thank you man. I would be Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's shrooms are right, I like that. Just a little team, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then just like sit there next to the fire
Speaker 1: and have a think for like twenty four hours on that.
Speaker 1: Just I'm like, I'm like, Joe, don't say anything. Let's
Speaker 1: just look at each other for the next te each other.
Speaker 1: Let's see where it goes. Let's see where this goes.
Speaker 1: But it's what Like it's funny too, because even though
Speaker 1: we joke about this, it's like every fucking week there's
Speaker 1: a new thing about the benefits of psychedelics, like psychedelic research.
Speaker 1: That study just came out about psilocybin and treating alcoholism,
Speaker 1: and like how that could be a very potent combination
Speaker 1: to help people. And we're like, God, damn it, man,
Speaker 1: so many answers fucking right in front of us, and
Speaker 1: not just in front of us, like literally grown out
Speaker 1: of the earth, and we're like racing everything on all
Speaker 1: the problems literally on earth. And I will say about Biden.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, I don't even know. I don't think
Speaker 1: what what hallusin genics do is teach you empathy. They
Speaker 1: do they like that's a big part of it. But
Speaker 1: Biden does have empathy. So like I I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not sure he's an eight an eighty year old man
Speaker 1: needs to start tripping for the first time. But it's
Speaker 1: very good for end of life. Yeah he's not, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna die. Okay, two more years we need great.
Speaker 1: He looked great. I've never seen skin so such a healthy,
Speaker 1: great tone like that. It is impressive. Imagine I can't
Speaker 1: get out of bed every day seventy nine, get up
Speaker 1: every day early, you know, I gotta be woken up.
Speaker 1: I feel like for how old Joe Biden is and
Speaker 1: having to work, that's like us, like being hung over
Speaker 1: as ship and having to go to work and pretend
Speaker 1: you're not hungover. I went out last night. I almost
Speaker 1: canceled on his podcast. I was all right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break, we'll come back. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: other side of the aisle. And they're they're branding problems.
Speaker 1: Oh Ship, it turns out we're demons and people don't
Speaker 1: like that. And we're back, and Miles, you wrote this
Speaker 1: up GOP having trouble, uh you know, aligning, you know,
Speaker 1: figuring out the branding around being in humane monsters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's this one thing. It's this one
Speaker 1: thing that got me thinking that Pat Ryan results and
Speaker 1: then this other guy in Arizona like completely like rebranding himself.
Speaker 1: So the Dobbs, the Dabbs decision has obviously injected like
Speaker 1: a ton of energy into the country, obviously for the
Speaker 1: saddest fucking reasons, because it's like, yeah, y'all don't have
Speaker 1: no rights and we might have to do this legislatively,
Speaker 1: but people are starting to obviously they're they're registering to
Speaker 1: vote in increased numbers. The Democrats are like thanking the
Speaker 1: heavens because they've found a way to passively potentially survive
Speaker 1: the mid terms by never standing up to protect abortion
Speaker 1: rights but now being like, no, no, no, we'll do
Speaker 1: something now, but you gotta vote for us. It's a bittersweet,
Speaker 1: I guess. But last week we saw Pat Ryan as
Speaker 1: a Democrat win in a very like swingy district like
Speaker 1: went for like Obama and twelve went for Trump's, sixteen
Speaker 1: went for Biden and twenty and he won by like
Speaker 1: two points, and he made a conscious decision like you
Speaker 1: know what I need. I need to speak more forcefully
Speaker 1: about abortion rights, while his opponent, this Republican, avoided the
Speaker 1: conversation and basically just leaned into like crime wave and inflation,
Speaker 1: and the guy lost. We also saw Kansan's come out
Speaker 1: and mass to defeat a constitutional amendment to also keep
Speaker 1: their rights. So you know, the post Doobs lack of
Speaker 1: enthusiasm from the g OP is also just showing and
Speaker 1: how they're underperforming too in primary races. So when you
Speaker 1: look all that, and you're like, Okay, well, there's clearly,
Speaker 1: clearly the existential threat of losing healthcare rights or healthcare
Speaker 1: access is motivating people, and the Republicans are like, okay,
Speaker 1: what do we how do we figure this thing out?
Speaker 1: And the most like just obvious bit has been this guy,
Speaker 1: Blake Masters, who's running in Arizona. He's running to unseat
Speaker 1: Mark Kelly in the US Senate, and he literally went
Speaker 1: overnight from being like, I'm a hundred percent pro life
Speaker 1: to scrubbing his like fucking website to look less extreme.
Speaker 1: I'll point out some of the things that he had
Speaker 1: said previously and things that were gone so before. He
Speaker 1: had a statement that said that the like sort of
Speaker 1: the abortion section of his website said, quote, I am
Speaker 1: pro life. Roe v. Wade was a horrible decision. It
Speaker 1: was wrong the day it was decided in three it's
Speaker 1: wrong today and it must be reversed today. It reads
Speaker 1: the Democrats lie about my views on abortion. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing you're gonna read on his website when you
Speaker 1: go to read about abortion. Prior things that he said
Speaker 1: was uh, support a federal personhood law, ideally a constitutional
Speaker 1: amendment that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that
Speaker 1: may not be killed. Vote and then he also said
Speaker 1: I will vote only for federal judges who understand that
Speaker 1: Row and Casey were wrongly decided and that there is
Speaker 1: no constitutional right to abortion. Those things have fucking vammost completely.
Speaker 1: And he even put out an ad who's trying to
Speaker 1: be like they're trying to say I'm extreme. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I played with like Star Wars toys with my sons,
Speaker 1: which is what like the ad was, and he was
Speaker 1: just trying to be like, I'm not so extreme that
Speaker 1: I think anybody should get abortion whenever I use common sense,
Speaker 1: which is not ignoring someone's body autonomy. And just watching
Speaker 1: that like transparent, like switch hup, it's just very unsettled.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised I even had a reaction to it, because
Speaker 1: that's exactly what these like creatures like these are political
Speaker 1: creatures who are always triangulating, and they're like, well, look, nope,
Speaker 1: that's not good. Okay, erase that part of who they
Speaker 1: think I am. But I'll stealthily keep pursuing this ship.
Speaker 1: But it seems like obviously some people are beginning to
Speaker 1: figure out that there are billions of dollars pouring into
Speaker 1: strip Away there like strip away our rights and they're responding,
Speaker 1: but it is ah, it's it is an interesting moment
Speaker 1: to kind of watch them try and recalibrate, to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't be so outwardly fucking backwards, but we do
Speaker 1: also want to be backwards deep down. I think there's
Speaker 1: always that hope that they the they're having that moment,
Speaker 1: like that Mitchell and Web sketch where it's two Nazis
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, have you like looked at it
Speaker 1: looked at our hats lately? Like why why the skulls
Speaker 1: are are we were like the bad guys? I guess right,
Speaker 1: are we? Oh? Ship, we're the baddies. This is the
Speaker 1: that's not good. Like I'm always assuming the Republicans are
Speaker 1: having that moment what we're about to I'm constantly disappointed.
Speaker 1: A little known fact about that Blake Master's commercial where
Speaker 1: he's playing with Star Wars characters with his kids, he
Speaker 1: was actually playing with stormtroopers teaching his kids how to
Speaker 1: put reddle women into servitudes. I mean, he wasn't really
Speaker 1: a tie fighter likely like and I'm the Empire just
Speaker 1: so you I mean, I think I mean, on the
Speaker 1: one hand, I do think, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: the rank and file believe they're on bullshit because they're
Speaker 1: just their brains are are wrong, and they've just been
Speaker 1: like they've got you know, I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to get too deep into it, but I just think
Speaker 1: that the problem for them is they elevated extremists, and
Speaker 1: then the extremists took over, and it's just like it's
Speaker 1: like when it's you know, a Hitler, it's easy to
Speaker 1: make Nazi comparisons, but like it's the same thing. The
Speaker 1: conservatives in Germany were like, we can deal with these
Speaker 1: crazy people. We just need them to energize our base,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they took over. And
Speaker 1: that's what you have. And here in America we luckily
Speaker 1: have a majority of people as the voting keeps shows
Speaker 1: us not wanting this ship. And I think finally, like
Speaker 1: there is just you know, in in um Kansas is
Speaker 1: an interesting state because a couple like ten some fond
Speaker 1: years ago, whenever Sam brown Deck was a governor, they
Speaker 1: were the they put in the most conservative agenda of
Speaker 1: any state that had, you know, and and since the twenties,
Speaker 1: and it was just like no regulation, a lot of
Speaker 1: conservative Christian stuff and the state fucking fell apart, and
Speaker 1: that there there are state level democrats in Kansas because
Speaker 1: of how badly the Conservatives sucked it up and all
Speaker 1: like cutting doesn't work. You know, government is scary. Sure,
Speaker 1: I read a book one time too that said that,
Speaker 1: but also like in the real world, it fucking works.
Speaker 1: You know. Did you see that anarchists documentary on HBO.
Speaker 1: It's I I I finished it, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: I hate I hate every single one of these people,
Speaker 1: and not in like a fun way, like I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't like. I didn't. I'm not sure I liked it,
Speaker 1: but I still like couldn't stop watching it. And it's
Speaker 1: just a mess, you know, Like I'm sorry. Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: you know what you do when you know people are
Speaker 1: getting murdered and like someone in your community is sucking
Speaker 1: everything up, you kind of need to have some authority
Speaker 1: figures who can come in and stopped that, or else
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pure anarchy, motherfucker. And so yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm I'm I'm thinking people don't see what
Speaker 1: the future holds if like crazy people are in charge,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, there was that viral video of
Speaker 1: that South Carolina state representative, this guy Neil Collins, I
Speaker 1: think who I don't know if you saw him. He
Speaker 1: was like very emotional. He's saying, like, I voted for
Speaker 1: this bill, and like I'm getting calls from doctors talking
Speaker 1: about like they're women. Who's like they're actually at risk now,
Speaker 1: like because of this fetal heart meat stuff. And he's
Speaker 1: like having this like realization. He's like, I this is
Speaker 1: a quote the doctor told me. She's going to pass this.
Speaker 1: It is in the toilet. She's going to have to
Speaker 1: deal with that on her own. There's a greater than
Speaker 1: fifty percent chance that she's going to could lose her life,
Speaker 1: developed s sepsis herself and pass away. He's like that
Speaker 1: weighs on me. I voted for that bill. These are
Speaker 1: affecting people, and you're like, motherfucker, what the the government for.
Speaker 1: But and it's funny because I think this is a
Speaker 1: kind of person, right who was who was a Republican?
Speaker 1: Which is I don't know, man, if I say these
Speaker 1: magic words like the donations come in and I get there,
Speaker 1: I am kind of a person. But I'm also a
Speaker 1: little bit into the idea of being the most popular
Speaker 1: local guy where I live, so this helps me get
Speaker 1: into state office, I vote with my team or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, sure I can people are belly aching about
Speaker 1: this and that, but then when confronted with the real
Speaker 1: results of it, it seems unless he's a total sociopath,
Speaker 1: that he was like that this actually feels fucked up.
Speaker 1: He ended up not voting for another bill that was
Speaker 1: going to nearly out all abortions. Now I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's not have a change of heart, but that
Speaker 1: is kind of one of those moments you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: like yoll fucking late to the humanity party. I was
Speaker 1: listening to something recently about they're called the new abolitionists,
Speaker 1: and they're the people who want to have the most
Speaker 1: extreme abortion laws, which involves punishing the women, involves punishing
Speaker 1: the women for murder, and if in a certain state
Speaker 1: murder is punished by death, then they're pro women being
Speaker 1: killed for having an abortion by the state, And um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the most extreme. But in Louisiana it
Speaker 1: got it's it was the one state because it was
Speaker 1: so extreme. Even republic even super anti choice people think
Speaker 1: that these people are wackos. But in Louisiana it got
Speaker 1: to a vote, it got defeated very by by big numbers.
Speaker 1: But like he like that's we can see we That's
Speaker 1: what the thing about dods this is like it shows
Speaker 1: you that like these things that were words and ideas
Speaker 1: are now fact. And this fucking Republican guy who's like
Speaker 1: having on all of a sudden not a change of heart,
Speaker 1: at least he's seeing the reality. That's the problem. That's
Speaker 1: the problem with you know, their ideals is that is
Speaker 1: that the reality is that it truly affects people, and
Speaker 1: you know, and it sucks for the country that like
Speaker 1: people are going to have to go through that. But
Speaker 1: like I don't I think, you know, the nice thing
Speaker 1: about America does have a tendency to swing back and forth,
Speaker 1: you know, not enough to the other side a lot
Speaker 1: of the time, but it does like there's a come
Speaker 1: up into all of this fucking rhetoric and and and
Speaker 1: now just like abusive laws, so right, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to know, right, like the future Like to your point,
Speaker 1: these like abortion abolitionist people there they're out here telegraphing
Speaker 1: the world what they want the future that they want
Speaker 1: to write and there's so many people, whether they're even
Speaker 1: running for office, these they're out loud saying ship what
Speaker 1: they think the world is and maybe like laugh at off,
Speaker 1: We're like, no, that's that's what they're motivated by. That
Speaker 1: The thing that scares me too, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the craziest one in the republic on the Republican side,
Speaker 1: and got rid of the establishment, and now the establishment
Speaker 1: is trumping the crazies. But there are people crazier than
Speaker 1: that who are like nipping at their heels, forcing, you know,
Speaker 1: wanting more. And we've seen that on that side. They
Speaker 1: just always cow tow to like the most mobile and
Speaker 1: the most vociferous, and those are always the ones who
Speaker 1: are just like toting guns and marching and trying to
Speaker 1: like you know, yeah, to your point about this being
Speaker 1: how it happened with the Nazis, Like the the Nazis
Speaker 1: like didn't have a lot of popular support for a
Speaker 1: long time, Like they were like getting getting in like
Speaker 1: the teens and ship and the twenties, and then and
Speaker 1: then like eventually got to where they could take power.
Speaker 1: But like I just it's still scary as fun how
Speaker 1: much power they've they've kind of consolidated. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you have to take it SERI. It's like it's
Speaker 1: it's like looking through your like people in your door,
Speaker 1: and you're like, Yo, there's a bunch of fucking wild
Speaker 1: ass people out there. It's like, yeah, they're trying to
Speaker 1: get in, just so you know, and were like, should
Speaker 1: we invest in the door to keep them out there? Like, no, man,
Speaker 1: make the door weaker. It's like, no, look through the
Speaker 1: fucking that's who's trying to get in. It's not a
Speaker 1: fucking joke. Like, that's what it is. And I think
Speaker 1: that it kind of goes hand in hand, you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you talk about people like Amy Coney Barrett,
Speaker 1: she obviously comes from this like very bizarre Catholic conservative
Speaker 1: sect cult thing people of Praise, And this video leaked
Speaker 1: recently of one of like the early members founders, like
Speaker 1: what partners, the leaders, whatever you wanna call This woman
Speaker 1: talking Like to hear how these people talk should really
Speaker 1: frighten you because these are the people who they are
Speaker 1: getting onto the Supreme Court. Amy Coney Barrett grew up
Speaker 1: in this. She never tried a fucking case as a
Speaker 1: judge and is now in this is now in the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. So on top of this, right, there is
Speaker 1: this leaked interaction from this People of Praise event where
Speaker 1: this woman who's like been who had been down with
Speaker 1: this this group for a minute, talks about the concept
Speaker 1: of headship. This is what they teach, this concept of headship,
Speaker 1: which is essentially that the fancy fucking word for women
Speaker 1: are not participants in their own fucking lives because men
Speaker 1: will do all the deciding and in her. In this clip,
Speaker 1: she's going to talk about how, oh my god, these
Speaker 1: soft bass women who come to that they were crying
Speaker 1: when we're telling them they don't know rights. And this
Speaker 1: is how casually they speak about it. And this is
Speaker 1: this is the church or whatever. This is the worldview
Speaker 1: that Amy Coney Barrett is coming from. So just just
Speaker 1: so you can hear how these people speak to each
Speaker 1: other behind closed doors, to give you some perspective. And
Speaker 1: suddenly we were having teachings on headship and the roles
Speaker 1: of men and women and all sorts of things we
Speaker 1: hadn't counted on at all. And some of the women
Speaker 1: who are still in my women's group, as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, when we're sunglasses all the time, because they
Speaker 1: were always prying okay, and would have to hold onto
Speaker 1: their chairs every time somebody started teaching, because what are
Speaker 1: we gonna hear this time? But it all worked out
Speaker 1: just fun. The guy who is interviewing her is doing
Speaker 1: like big stage laughs, like quiet, like silent but like
Speaker 1: throwing his head back and laughter type ship. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you look again. There's a few people have written
Speaker 1: about this group right the way these people think they
Speaker 1: These the people of praise quote were quietly taught by
Speaker 1: their heads and leaders not to change or rinse out diapers,
Speaker 1: and that women's emotions were quote distrusted. Pastoral problems were
Speaker 1: often addressed by asking a woman where she was in
Speaker 1: her menstrual cycle. Women played unquote decidedly secondary role to men,
Speaker 1: and a married woman was quote expected to always reflect
Speaker 1: the fact that she is under her husband's authority. This
Speaker 1: is so the This is a group of people who
Speaker 1: are pursuing more increased power, whose worldview is this, there
Speaker 1: there is such thing as a non human it's called
Speaker 1: a woman, right, and they are not going to have
Speaker 1: any onto me at any level because that is not
Speaker 1: what we believe. And that is what Those are the
Speaker 1: kinds of policies that they're going to try and create
Speaker 1: more and more of And this makes this and obviously
Speaker 1: concepts like feminism or equality in any anyway are absolute
Speaker 1: anathema to these people because you can't they can't, they
Speaker 1: can't rock in a world where a concept of equality exists.
Speaker 1: And and and she's on the Supreme Court. It's like,
Speaker 1: so I heard she had wanted to write the abortion ruling,
Speaker 1: but Alito said she couldn't do because she was um.
Speaker 1: He said, you're here for the vote. We want your
Speaker 1: womb and your vote. Okay, you know I speak, it's
Speaker 1: you know, I I try. You know, I'm I'm raised Catholic,
Speaker 1: not by any means in any sort of like hardcore
Speaker 1: world that these people are coming from. But the it
Speaker 1: was oppressed as a as a gay boy. You know,
Speaker 1: I grew up thinking I was going to hell and
Speaker 1: that put me in my place from a very early age.
Speaker 1: You know, it took a while toge out there. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, my family is great and they and they've
Speaker 1: they've they're not you know, I just I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I try not to shoot on belief systems,
Speaker 1: but when those belief systems then shipped all over me
Speaker 1: and everyone that I know and everyone that I care about,
Speaker 1: and gain power to the fact that we have to
Speaker 1: couch out to them based on some bullshit, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, like the Constitution is problematic and it
Speaker 1: was written to thirty five years ago. The Bible was
Speaker 1: written to them about that many years ago, you know,
Speaker 1: and like and we're still like that's the thing, you know,
Speaker 1: look at your phone, Okay, what does the Bible say
Speaker 1: about what's going on in your fucking phone? Nothing, because
Speaker 1: there was no world in which it could even be fathomed,
Speaker 1: Like it's trying to some fathoms. Is I believe Jesus
Speaker 1: would have backed cryptocurrencies if you think about it, have
Speaker 1: been down there in Mexico or the other anarchists leaving
Speaker 1: the charge. It's yeah, and it's a wild The things
Speaker 1: that are potentially on the horizon are truly fucking scary.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing. Like, as we live
Speaker 1: in this country, were like constantly trying to think of like, okay,
Speaker 1: what who is better to lead? What are these people
Speaker 1: doing over here? Why isn't anyone solving this bigger issue?
Speaker 1: And it's very very chaotic. The thing that's most concerning
Speaker 1: about to me is that they mobilize better. And because
Speaker 1: they mobilize and plan for the long game better, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, that's why they're so effective. Because they don't
Speaker 1: like the majority people, the matt vast majority people don't
Speaker 1: want to be ruled in this way. But what they're
Speaker 1: good at and because they've learned from childhood how to
Speaker 1: believe in a thing and do a fit, you know,
Speaker 1: like be a part of the team, to follow the leader.
Speaker 1: Like our side, you know, has a lot of competing
Speaker 1: interests and I'm not I'm not criticizing in that way.
Speaker 1: It's just that we don't fall in line in the
Speaker 1: same way and so it is harder to coalesce together
Speaker 1: to unless unless we're up against him like some and
Speaker 1: you know Trump Trump, like God bless Trump in this
Speaker 1: weird way because he has this unifying figure for all
Speaker 1: of us, because we forget how bad the other side
Speaker 1: is really as a whole. And uh, it's nice to
Speaker 1: have one figure to like coalesce our anger around. But
Speaker 1: I am concerned about, you know, the future and the
Speaker 1: president and beyond those like I think we're good, but look,
Speaker 1: the future doesn't exist. I was just reading the power
Speaker 1: of now. You know, it's I need to imagine future
Speaker 1: with progressive politics. That's the secret I think, actually not
Speaker 1: the power of now. But yeah, it's also a bestseller.
Speaker 1: And I only I only read books that are best sellers.
Speaker 1: The power that would be more like, hey, man, at
Speaker 1: least you don't have a boot on your fucking throat
Speaker 1: right now in this immediate moment. Family, and you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, so don't you know, don't don't
Speaker 1: go down a spiral. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: think it's like what I talk about in therapy. There
Speaker 1: is just like, look, do you think you're hard enough
Speaker 1: to know when it's gonna get bad? I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: hell yeah. They're like, then just cook until then because
Speaker 1: you'll you'll know, don't stop giving all your energy to
Speaker 1: be Like, but what about in my therapy, I'm like,
Speaker 1: more boot please? All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back, we'll talk about McDonald's, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: HBO Max, we'll talk about plenty of stuff, and we're back,
Speaker 1: and you know, McDonald's play places maybe going away for
Speaker 1: good for a number of reasons. The one that gets
Speaker 1: written about mostly in American mainstream media stories because you know,
Speaker 1: it's run by corporations. In the corporate world, they're like, well,
Speaker 1: it's a branding thing. They make less business sense for
Speaker 1: McDonald's now because they're less a family institution. McDonald's is
Speaker 1: more for that. They're looking to be more like Apple
Speaker 1: stores basically, and Apple stores don't have playgrounds. So, like
Speaker 1: the the idea of like McDonald's does a place to
Speaker 1: bring your family is no longer something they are seriously
Speaker 1: striving for. And apparently, you know, the pandemic obviously probably
Speaker 1: the death blow for the McDonald's play place, but now
Speaker 1: it seems like there might be some other, even better
Speaker 1: reasons for these not to exist. Do you guys remember
Speaker 1: these like did you are you young enough that you've
Speaker 1: played on them? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's birthday parties
Speaker 1: at the McDonald's playplace one. I mean, I I honestly
Speaker 1: I remember my first reaction to a McDonald's playplace as
Speaker 1: a kid was this place is disgusting because it smells
Speaker 1: s One compound word to say about it, and it's
Speaker 1: monkey poks. I like, you know, as a gay man,
Speaker 1: and I know it is not yet affecting, uh, the
Speaker 1: young straight babies of the world, um gay babyles riddled.
Speaker 1: But like you know, if we were coming out of
Speaker 1: a pandemic, hopefully when we think, oh, a hundred year event,
Speaker 1: we've been showing that monkey pops round on the heels
Speaker 1: of this. The diseases are about to start taking over
Speaker 1: to the crickets are taken over Texas. The viruses are
Speaker 1: coming like these communal unwashed like places. I mean, if
Speaker 1: gays have to consider stop having group sex in party places,
Speaker 1: in in clubs, I think we need to maybe consider
Speaker 1: shutting down and then we can't have places. And apparently
Speaker 1: they were like totally unregulated. First of all, there were
Speaker 1: so many of them that in McDonald's was the nation's
Speaker 1: largest private playground operator, like with three thousand locations, and
Speaker 1: they were just unregulated. Were a lot of like germ issues,
Speaker 1: like Miles was talking about that McDonald's would never really
Speaker 1: like let get out. There's one woman who like started
Speaker 1: a campaign she I think she was a physician, started
Speaker 1: a campaign to try and get people to understand the
Speaker 1: risks of having your children play there, and they just
Speaker 1: banned her from McDonald's because she would basically the ship
Speaker 1: all over the ball. Yeah literally, Yeah, so was she
Speaker 1: the person taking samples. I was reading, Yeah, she took
Speaker 1: examples and a little a little creepy, I will say,
Speaker 1: like she keeps stealing the balls. We gotta come her
Speaker 1: out of here. I mean, honestly, you could just work
Speaker 1: glove and be like with one que to be like,
Speaker 1: here's one ball, but then the Petri dish and watch
Speaker 1: the cells go. But something we talked about a lot
Speaker 1: on this show is this idea that like, you know,
Speaker 1: because corporations have the same rights as individual human beings
Speaker 1: in America, the big differences they're allowed to like murder
Speaker 1: and kill with the community. There. There's a book called
Speaker 1: The Corporation from like the early aughts, but it talks
Speaker 1: about it just like does a legal straightforward legal analysis,
Speaker 1: Like okay, so corporations have all the rights of an individual,
Speaker 1: like financially and legally, let's just look at them as
Speaker 1: if they were individuals. And the things they do are
Speaker 1: like they make decisions that kill people based on whether
Speaker 1: it's profitable or not, Like just openly they're like, well
Speaker 1: that it's not worth it for us because the resulting
Speaker 1: claim would cost us less than like making the changes
Speaker 1: that would have saved that person's life. McDonald's was doing
Speaker 1: that ship with play places, like in there was a
Speaker 1: girl who got injured pretty badly. Her family sued and
Speaker 1: like over the course of the trial, they obtained insurance
Speaker 1: records illustrating more than one thousand five claims over mcdonal
Speaker 1: playground injuries that they just were like, yeah, but like
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. Agree. It's like children who break
Speaker 1: bones when they run into fry trees or bump their
Speaker 1: heads on the Rocky Hamburger ride and break teeth falling
Speaker 1: off of apple pie stools. Those were things that they
Speaker 1: were just like, yeah, but it would cost way too
Speaker 1: much to to fix those problems or like hire somebody
Speaker 1: like at a job that that is just like constantly
Speaker 1: looking at that. And they were right because the jury
Speaker 1: found in favor of the victim but only awarded the
Speaker 1: families seven hundred thousand dollars, which is like a rounding
Speaker 1: error for McDonald's. Is nothing. Yeah, that's like trying to
Speaker 1: get Kim Kardashian and and sliced alone to use less
Speaker 1: water in Malibu. That's fine, Like I was reading like
Speaker 1: they're like that they was just released that there's some
Speaker 1: of the biggest water users in in the area. One,
Speaker 1: of course they are. But it's like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do find them? You're gonna find billionaires a couple
Speaker 1: of bucks, you know, it doesn't it doesn't you know.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, we're gonna do what the abolitionists do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna kill him, right. But yeah, but but what
Speaker 1: you know, it's like I got I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: banged up on the playground when when I was younger,
Speaker 1: my cousin pushed me off of like the climbing bars
Speaker 1: and I had to go to hospital up stitches and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know, playgrounds, are you know that
Speaker 1: that that that kind of thing happened. I'm more concerned
Speaker 1: of the fecal matter all over the balls, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like that is like that is something that is
Speaker 1: can be dealt with and if not, get rid of
Speaker 1: the balls, you know, Like I'm not so worried about
Speaker 1: the fry trees and the kid breaking their arm. That's
Speaker 1: just being that's a that's childhood stuff, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, any sort of weird cover up is
Speaker 1: is never good. But yeah, you know, that's that's the issue.
Speaker 1: Is like when you're operating it there people are doing
Speaker 1: it and you're actively covering up, like how many children
Speaker 1: are being hurt when you were When you were mascot
Speaker 1: is like a friendly party clown who like helps sick children.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird magic. It's like when they when
Speaker 1: they you know, like every once in a while, they'll
Speaker 1: like dig up the ground around like an old like orphanage,
Speaker 1: and there's just like tons of unmarked down grain, you know.
Speaker 1: And if they start doing that with McDonald's, will be
Speaker 1: I'll starting to be very concerned about past practices. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyways, all right, so that's one story that our
Speaker 1: writer JM wrote for us. I think I think the
Speaker 1: ultimate conclusion is, like it's probably not bad that these
Speaker 1: are going out. It's kind of crazy that these actually
Speaker 1: are still in existence. I'm glad. Even like the late eighties,
Speaker 1: my child brain was like this place is gross. I
Speaker 1: remember my mom and be like, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: going there? I'm like, no, I just look smell like
Speaker 1: ship man. Like that's the thing with outdoor playgrounds, like
Speaker 1: even though they don't get wiped down, like they have
Speaker 1: rainstorms that come through and like you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: the same smell. They smell like at a it's actually
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna say like as as a parent,
Speaker 1: Chuck E Cheese has stepped up their game. They no
Speaker 1: longer smell like vague diaper like diapers and band aids
Speaker 1: like they used to. They started like actually cleaning those places.
Speaker 1: But there is like a very specific smell that I like,
Speaker 1: I have a sense memory of of. Yeah, this podcast
Speaker 1: is just me describing smells. What while I too, Like
Speaker 1: to your point when like that woman who is doing
Speaker 1: the analysis, like there's you can get a staff infection
Speaker 1: or merca from playing with these balls? Are you into that?
Speaker 1: I'm like, You're better off drinking the water from Woodstock
Speaker 1: ninety nine. At that point. If I'm gonna get a
Speaker 1: staff infection or mercia from some balls, I want to
Speaker 1: have a good time, Okay, I want to Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I better be at McDonald's in Europe. I would cheese
Speaker 1: a bag. All right. Uh, let's talk about so our
Speaker 1: writer JM put forward a conspiracy theory that I believe it.
Speaker 1: I believe this, this is this is I think he's
Speaker 1: fully right about this. So he's saying we we once
Speaker 1: again had a like headline making story when HBO debut
Speaker 1: House of House of the Dragon and it crashed HBO Max,
Speaker 1: and like there were headlines everywhere HBO Max crashes for
Speaker 1: thousands in minutes after a House of Dragon premieres. House
Speaker 1: of the Dragon premiers crash crashing HBO Max House of Dragon,
Speaker 1: like just it got a lot of attention. So first
Speaker 1: of all, the problem only seemed to impact about three
Speaker 1: thousand people, so it's kind of and mostly on Amazon devices,
Speaker 1: but it also I don't know, it really seems like
Speaker 1: it happens a lot, and like in regular intervals whenever
Speaker 1: a streaming service has a lot riding on a debut,
Speaker 1: like suddenly it will crash. This. It's the sort of
Speaker 1: thing that like people who are experts on this are like, no,
Speaker 1: they should be able to like avoid this easily. Like
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to have increased traffics, so you
Speaker 1: prepare for that and you have like extra servers ready
Speaker 1: to handle it. You know. It's some people are pointing
Speaker 1: out there are like when you scream a show, it
Speaker 1: is It's not like HBO Max fires up a machine
Speaker 1: and you get to watch the thing. It's like they're
Speaker 1: multiple third party content delivery networks, authentication systems, Internet service providers,
Speaker 1: like all these different things that it has to go through,
Speaker 1: but like they have it down. There's enough money writing
Speaker 1: on this that it shouldn't ever crash unless they want
Speaker 1: it to. And so jams theory is that they're just
Speaker 1: doing this every time they want to generate a headline.
Speaker 1: They want to make a show seemed popular because we
Speaker 1: don't have we don't have like Nielsen ratings anymore that
Speaker 1: anybody like really pays attention to our trust, and so
Speaker 1: they crash their network for like only a handful of people,
Speaker 1: but enough people to make it a headline to get
Speaker 1: it trending on social media. And then that is the
Speaker 1: equivalent of like a bar, like a restaurant, like making
Speaker 1: like getting a line forming at the outside. So it
Speaker 1: seems like it's extra popular basis we saw it with
Speaker 1: Stranger Things. We saw was Wade game, Like that's it's
Speaker 1: like part of the vocabulary is like, oh, was it
Speaker 1: so good it literally broke the internet. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: they want, Like yeah again, because it's like it's not
Speaker 1: everyone's not watching it at once. Yeah. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't tend to believe in conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: but I also tend to bela corporations will do anything
Speaker 1: nefarious for any sort of reason and they're allowed to
Speaker 1: thanks to the Supreme Court. And uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was it was, and it was. It was like
Speaker 1: the first episode of Game of Thrones. It was. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take me several watches to not fall asleep,
Speaker 1: and then I will watch it all, all all episodes
Speaker 1: in like the weekend, you know, like that's when you
Speaker 1: like something else. They about terrible wigs on though, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep track of it. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: They know how to start a series really well, bring
Speaker 1: it all together at the end. We haven't. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: haven't seen them really nail that one. Right, Is this
Speaker 1: like a limited series? Because I did watch it. I
Speaker 1: know they just got renewed for season two. I don't
Speaker 1: they need to just be like we're doing until the
Speaker 1: end of this book and like that's it, and like
Speaker 1: that's what you're getting. I mean, I obviously that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Drag in my feet. The only way but the only
Speaker 1: way all this ends is when George rr Martin dies
Speaker 1: and well apparently then it'll kick off debates. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is how George would have won. No, George would
Speaker 1: have been like, Okay, I don't give a ship, y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all just put people of color in there, like as
Speaker 1: a make good like for this latest one. So fine,
Speaker 1: but it's wild to look at this in the context
Speaker 1: of like the Lord of the Rings versus Game of
Speaker 1: Thrones thing, because Variety actually they this is a headline
Speaker 1: Variety Rings of Power and House of the Dragon competition
Speaker 1: quote manufactured by the media for headlines producer says, which
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense, Like there's constant being like
Speaker 1: who's gonna do this? Are they gonna best them? Like
Speaker 1: we've seen so many write ups like this, like this
Speaker 1: goes part and Parcel with like House of Dragon is
Speaker 1: so fucking lit. The ship crashed and you can tell
Speaker 1: because I think a lot for whatever reason, the media
Speaker 1: is trying to be like who's gonna win between the
Speaker 1: two of them? Has also been this other like like
Speaker 1: narrative that's been bubbling up because I think for like
Speaker 1: six or something episodes, they'll actually actually be happening at
Speaker 1: the same time. So they're like, who's gonna like which
Speaker 1: one better? Blah blah blah, and the producers are like,
Speaker 1: this feels very sensational. We don't look at our show
Speaker 1: as being anything like Game of Thrones at all. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is an incorrect assumption that if that, if that's true,
Speaker 1: they are misunderstanding their audience. They and like if they
Speaker 1: really were, like who cares if putting it out at
Speaker 1: the same time a Game of Thrones, they're totally different
Speaker 1: and appealing to Like that, that is incorrect for as
Speaker 1: far as like the the average TV viewer is viewing
Speaker 1: those as similar ish things and like you were, you're
Speaker 1: competing with each other. Yeah, if you like bad, if
Speaker 1: you like violence and bad wigs, pick your poison. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll choose the one I'm gonna watch based on which
Speaker 1: one has more incest. Yeah, and I think, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we know the Yeah, it's Targarians. They don't look
Speaker 1: like that because they're looking out And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that all the color fil cles in your hair don't
Speaker 1: die unless you're sucking your sister first century. But this
Speaker 1: is what one of the producers said, quote if you were,
Speaker 1: if you were this, so to your point, check this
Speaker 1: is how they're looking at it. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is a sign that the Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings people are maybe low ki shooked, but they say, quote,
Speaker 1: if you were an archaeologist and a gardener, it might
Speaker 1: look similar, but they couldn't possibly be more different. I
Speaker 1: think that's sort of how we feel about the two shows.
Speaker 1: The competition is the pressure we put on ourselves and
Speaker 1: a competition we have with ourselves to see what we
Speaker 1: can put out into the world. Hopefully our series will
Speaker 1: bring people together as a sort of cultural conversation, and
Speaker 1: anyone else working on storytelling, we wish them well mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I mean they must be very confident, but they definitely
Speaker 1: fucked up by letting this Game of Throne series get
Speaker 1: out before. There's like, I'm I definitely would be way
Speaker 1: more excited and interested in watching the Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings one if it was coming out like during a
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones drought, like like we were just coming
Speaker 1: off of with like you know, years and years, Like
Speaker 1: they should have gotten this ship out. They should have
Speaker 1: like surprise dropped at like a Beyonce album a month ago,
Speaker 1: and people like that Firefest documentary. They're like, oh, we
Speaker 1: got a Firefest documentary too. We're like, what, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see if they pretend that that that all
Speaker 1: of Amazon has crashed because of how popular this uh
Speaker 1: this series is. Oh man, their prime video that's players
Speaker 1: absolute trick rash or what if it? What if it crashes?
Speaker 1: They make it crash because no one's watching it. Oh
Speaker 1: god it Oh it's down. If we get it's down.
Speaker 1: Just tried too hard. They tried too hard. The numbers
Speaker 1: were like, I think, what was it? You said? Seven billion?
Speaker 1: That's not even the Earth's population. Aliens are watching it everyone,
Speaker 1: but I I do because this isn't really being reported anywhere.
Speaker 1: Nobody's like, I'm sure somebody's like started looking into it,
Speaker 1: but I I am looking forward to the investigation into
Speaker 1: whether this is being done on purpose, because I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it almost definitely is. Well I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like anything any self serving organization. If there's a
Speaker 1: metric you can funk around with for your own benefit,
Speaker 1: you're going to It's like me when I used to
Speaker 1: write my papers in twelve point five point five. Yeah
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm like, I'll put my
Speaker 1: ship in curry or guess what, because it's eating up
Speaker 1: the page stakes funk out of here, and I think
Speaker 1: for them, because like you're saying there's a lack of
Speaker 1: sort of reliable streaming things. It's so easy to now
Speaker 1: create all this other sensational stuff to try and indicate,
Speaker 1: like yeah, man, right, but only for our only for
Speaker 1: the ops over there, if you got a broke or
Speaker 1: like a firestick or whatever. About how Netflix is just
Speaker 1: like I, we long for a show that people will
Speaker 1: talk about. They're not even in a conversation anymore about
Speaker 1: stranger things is coming gone? Oh yeah, right, stranger things.
Speaker 1: I never mind, we won't get into that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't like to watch scary things by myself because
Speaker 1: I'm a child. Yeah, well, Casey, truly a pleasure having
Speaker 1: you back. Where can people find you? Follow you all
Speaker 1: that good stuff? All right? You can find me on
Speaker 1: you might have heard the internet, Casey Lime. My last
Speaker 1: name is spelled l e y Instagram Casey w l
Speaker 1: e oh no Twitter, Casey w l e y. I
Speaker 1: have to have different ones, unfortunately, Casey lie on Instagram
Speaker 1: and um. I also have a podcast which I love.
Speaker 1: No offense to your podcast. Also love this one. It's
Speaker 1: not a competition. Although every time that we are at
Speaker 1: the same time, ours crashes. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about that. It's called the Gay Power a
Speaker 1: half hour. I do it. It's really good. People need
Speaker 1: to go check it out. Yes, thank you, agreed. Find
Speaker 1: that with my drag queen Tony Soto. We're very fun
Speaker 1: and it's only a half hour, so easy. And is
Speaker 1: there a tweet or some of the work of social
Speaker 1: media you've been enjoying? Uh, you know, I do you
Speaker 1: follow the sat hoax account on Instagram. They're great, but
Speaker 1: they're we find the story of the Finnish prime minister
Speaker 1: getting in trouble for partying a little bit too hard
Speaker 1: for just like dancing at a party. She's just like
Speaker 1: total bait. She's thirty six years old. And uh, there
Speaker 1: just was a good name of you know who the
Speaker 1: cock destroyers are of course the no they're these it
Speaker 1: Ish just like unabashed, for lack of a better term,
Speaker 1: wors and they put it out very Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 1: You you might just commander yesterday. So I was trying
Speaker 1: to get my cock names right, I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: do our no cock cock command. They're just these two
Speaker 1: giant breasted blonde women who just they got famous for
Speaker 1: posting just really just uh graphic conversation, just like they
Speaker 1: would like, you know, hold the camera and like, you know,
Speaker 1: do a video like their face and they just be like,
Speaker 1: you know, anyway you can get the point. But it
Speaker 1: was it was them going crazy, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: conservatives in Finland going crazy over the Finnish prime minister partying.
Speaker 1: But what I loved was that women in Finland started
Speaker 1: they were everyone was furious about this. Everyone was like,
Speaker 1: you know because the other side was like, she's on drugs.
Speaker 1: She's in charge of Finland, it's so important. And she
Speaker 1: took a drug test and she passed a drug test.
Speaker 1: She was like whatever, I'm just thirty six years old
Speaker 1: having a good time. I'm sorry that these private videos
Speaker 1: at a party that you know got out of got out.
Speaker 1: But women across the country have been posting themselves just
Speaker 1: like partying and dancing and tagging the finished prime minister.
Speaker 1: And I just loved the solidarity of that because you know,
Speaker 1: she's just trying. It's if it was like if like
Speaker 1: every time like Trump dances, people go, you know on
Speaker 1: that side, go wild for I'm looking at how cool
Speaker 1: we love we love our leader. And she was just
Speaker 1: like having a good time. People don't like young women,
Speaker 1: how about that turns out, but sat House is a
Speaker 1: great thing to follow. Follow them there. Those names are various. Miles.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you with a tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Oh man, you should find me on Twitter and Instagram
Speaker 1: at Miles of Gray. If you like basketball, check us
Speaker 1: out Miles and Jack Got Mad boost Ees. That's the
Speaker 1: basketball podcast we dropped every Thursday. And if you like
Speaker 1: fiance and you like weed like me, then check out
Speaker 1: my other podcast for twenty Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see some tweets that I like. One was just
Speaker 1: kind of cool. This is just from This is from
Speaker 1: Erica White, white trash socialists tweeted, Uh, she's like clearly
Speaker 1: like has a hard hat on looking dirty, and she
Speaker 1: posted a picture of herself with a pea sign said
Speaker 1: It's hilarious how people who have never worn a hard
Speaker 1: hat or worked a single day in a trade keeps
Speaker 1: speaking for us. L M A O. I have no
Speaker 1: student debt and elect and I'm an electrician and I
Speaker 1: think all student debt should be canceled in college should
Speaker 1: be free, cope harder, which I see. I've seen a
Speaker 1: few posts like that. People like I just what the
Speaker 1: fun man? I would? Yeah, education should be free? Uh?
Speaker 1: And one more is that Tyler at Tyler oh too
Speaker 1: oh two O two o two tweeted me this diet
Speaker 1: coke is so Lana Dough Ray Vinyl my dad. Have
Speaker 1: you applied to any jobs yet? Education can't be free
Speaker 1: because then you get an educated proletariat and that's dynamite
Speaker 1: according to Ronald Reagan's education advisor. Yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: meant the bad And also, what's gonna do if we
Speaker 1: don't have enough destitute, poor kids to put in the
Speaker 1: meat grinder of the of our military imperialism campaigns? And
Speaker 1: what the fun is? What a few other people have
Speaker 1: said out loud. Give me a classic gourbitale joke. He
Speaker 1: once said there was a fire at the Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: Presidential Library. Unfortunately they lost both books and he hadn't
Speaker 1: finished coloring in the second one yet. Great tag. Alright,
Speaker 1: some tweets I've been enjoying. Alex Schmidt at Alex schmidty
Speaker 1: said nothing but respect for my P P P loan program.
Speaker 1: And it was a old Nancy comic strip where she
Speaker 1: goes visit our loan department and she says I'd like
Speaker 1: to borrow two dollars and the banker says what for.
Speaker 1: She says the circus is in town, and he says
Speaker 1: it is. And then the night, the final panel is
Speaker 1: just the banker and Nancy having ice cream cones at
Speaker 1: the circus and that made me like a nice little
Speaker 1: palate cleanser. So then for the news cycle, and then
Speaker 1: Sophie verse Boo tweeted, my friend just accurately described the
Speaker 1: Myers Breaks test as astrology for co workers. Sounds like okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. You can find me on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as the song
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Speaker 1: we think people might en Oh? You know what, I
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