Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty one,
Speaker 1: episode two of Day. And he's like, guy, he's a
Speaker 1: production to my Heart Radio. This is the podcast where
Speaker 1: we take a deep dive into American's shared consciousness. And
Speaker 1: it is Tuesday, August two. What does that mean? Oh
Speaker 1: man to National Cuban Sandwich Day. Hail the Cubano, Bang
Speaker 1: bang National Ride. I don't Ride the wind Day is
Speaker 1: a National sponge cake Day. I like my work hand.
Speaker 1: Mix it up. Maybe put you know, Cuban sandwich except
Speaker 1: with sponge cake rolls, mustard sponge cake. Yeah, absolutely disrespect
Speaker 1: both things. Yeah, yeah, ride the wind Brother? Wait? What
Speaker 1: is right now? I'm curious? I like, is that like
Speaker 1: saying is that like a white people saying I'm missing?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably it's probably some extreme sport like
Speaker 1: kite fishing or some ship check. You're pretty spot on.
Speaker 1: It's about like anything that's like about gliding with the
Speaker 1: wind man. Yeah, dude, right the wind Brother. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't feel like it always comes. I feel like it
Speaker 1: should just be ride the wind Brother. Anyways. My name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien a K blipp baby blipp A. Oh no,
Speaker 1: he gotta go he pooped on his friends but whole
Speaker 1: Blippy blip A, Oh baby, I guess he had to go.
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of at t d z Burner, another
Speaker 1: Zeitgeist listener going through the Blippy stages, the stages of
Speaker 1: the Blippy. As a parent, my kid watches Blippy and
Speaker 1: I shared this story with my wife and she acted
Speaker 1: like I was the weird one. It's a weird one.
Speaker 1: It's a weird it's a weird story. It's a hard
Speaker 1: it's a hard story to tell to anyone that the
Speaker 1: child performer Blippy pooped on his front butthole. Anyways, thanks
Speaker 1: for the a K and I'm thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: as always by my co host Mr Miles Gread. How
Speaker 1: I get to Lambo? We got blimps and names. We
Speaker 1: got everything you are, honey, We know the names, We
Speaker 1: all the people that both post the podcast man boost
Speaker 1: these none of my nikes, honey, half got any creases?
Speaker 1: Get to Lambo? How I get to Lambo? Hey? Look
Speaker 1: up fat that believe? Okay, shut up? Yeah you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta look. Ever since Dan O'Brien came on talking
Speaker 1: about blimps and stuff, blimps, blimps have been in the
Speaker 1: zeitgeist with everybody. I just you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: Did you guys do a video cracked about blimps or something?
Speaker 1: Because when I told her Majesty about the blimp thing,
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, I know. She's like, oh, oh, so
Speaker 1: now I know some ship you don't. I was like, damn, okay.
Speaker 1: I think it may have been for a bit or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, sounds it sounds like the sort
Speaker 1: of thing we would have done, and I would have
Speaker 1: completely forgotten about. Hey, speaking of cracked videos, Miles, we
Speaker 1: are thrilled to be joined by one of my favorite
Speaker 1: actors from those videos, also a brilliant and talented producer
Speaker 1: of the must watch Some More News with Cody Johnson podcast,
Speaker 1: host of Even More News and the dearly departed Worst
Speaker 1: Year Ever. It is the brilliant, the talented Katie Star.
Speaker 1: I can speak now. I'm here, Hi, guys. I love
Speaker 1: being here. You always made me feel so good about myself.
Speaker 1: It's great to have you big fans. And you you
Speaker 1: recently relocated up to the mountains. Did the thing you're
Speaker 1: sing it sure is. I'm not going to share the
Speaker 1: specifics of the mountains I mean, it's a big, big
Speaker 1: mountain range, but I'm not gonna tell my specific town.
Speaker 1: It has been a journey. It's just like I threw
Speaker 1: a bomb in the middle of my life and it's good.
Speaker 1: But it's a big adventure. Are you I'm up here?
Speaker 1: Are you nimble? Are you good with change? I am
Speaker 1: good with change? Okay, So then the highly adaptable. I
Speaker 1: thought for a while maybe I didn't, but the last
Speaker 1: few years have shown me that I am. This is
Speaker 1: There's so many reasons why I decided to do it,
Speaker 1: one of which is that my folks are in the
Speaker 1: area and they're getting older and I deeply missed them
Speaker 1: ever since I left for college when I was eighteen,
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of like now we're never affordability.
Speaker 1: But also, I don't want to say emerged from the pandemic,
Speaker 1: because we are still in the pandemic, but I emerged
Speaker 1: from the lockdown period of the pandemic with a different world.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in my late thirties now, and that
Speaker 1: was like the tail end of the youthfulness. Now everyone's
Speaker 1: having babies and are married and whatnot, and it's exciting,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't actually see my my closest
Speaker 1: friends that often when I'm in l A. Anyway, you
Speaker 1: said the time you moved to was like a place
Speaker 1: you went for vacation growing up. The only place we
Speaker 1: ever vacation was up here, because I grew up in
Speaker 1: you know, this was just the family thing my whole life,
Speaker 1: and my parents it was always the dream to retire here,
Speaker 1: and they made that happen. And in my mind this
Speaker 1: was something that you know, like I would maybe get
Speaker 1: a spot up here when I'm old, you know, or
Speaker 1: like someday keep my parents place and have that be
Speaker 1: a family spot. But it's just it's reimagining what that
Speaker 1: dream looks like. And I did date someone briefly a
Speaker 1: while back, and that was a big mistake. Um up here.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. He just was so dusty all the time.
Speaker 1: You said he'd he'd scream at you when you touch
Speaker 1: is a divining rod. Yeah. And then once he brought
Speaker 1: up Jordan Peterson, I was like, later, that's why I
Speaker 1: gonna keep your room clean. Yeah. But but what that
Speaker 1: did show me was that it's not just old people
Speaker 1: up here, or that there are more things to do.
Speaker 1: There's different bots, and there's lots and it's changing. And
Speaker 1: so immediately after being up here, I had vaguely tweeted
Speaker 1: about the mountains, and then somebody reached out from Twitter saying,
Speaker 1: if it happens to be x Mountains, let me know,
Speaker 1: and it was, and she lives in this town and
Speaker 1: her and her like, it's just changing. People are doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. And while it is pretty conservative, it
Speaker 1: is changing. Democratic primary went for burning here. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's been really exciting and challenging and and I don't
Speaker 1: regret it stimulation. You're kind of living the dream of
Speaker 1: like I. You know, my version of that was Ocean City,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, And every time I go there, I'm always like, man,
Speaker 1: what if I just like moved here and like there
Speaker 1: there's only like a couple of thousand people during the
Speaker 1: winter there, and it's but it's still like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: nice thing. You're close to the ocean and the height.
Speaker 1: School is good. I I hang out at the kids.
Speaker 1: The teams are so cool in this town. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I well, Jack, there's something to that, you know, not
Speaker 1: that everybody should do exactly what I'm doing, but I
Speaker 1: do think that you have to think about we all
Speaker 1: not you have to think about what is important and
Speaker 1: acknowledge that we don't have very much time here and
Speaker 1: the world is changing rapidly and intensely. And so if
Speaker 1: there is something that you want to do that brings
Speaker 1: you some peace, or if there is something that you
Speaker 1: want to do that you will say someday I wish
Speaker 1: I had explored that. I don't. I don't see why
Speaker 1: not because you can work from home. The challenging thing
Speaker 1: for me will be that I still want to act.
Speaker 1: I've done significantly less of that. But the whole reason
Speaker 1: I was able to do this is because my good
Speaker 1: friend Molana. They put me in a bunch of commercials
Speaker 1: and you know, but but auditions are all online in
Speaker 1: Zoo whatnot? So like if you talk to your I mean,
Speaker 1: I just encourage everybody to think look at their lives
Speaker 1: a little differently. Maybe we have we always kind of
Speaker 1: thank you for my house. I love you, shout out
Speaker 1: Milana Vine true all praise. But yeah, I think everybody
Speaker 1: you know, you have those moments where you think of like, oh,
Speaker 1: my life will be good if I live this very
Speaker 1: specific way. You grow up thinking like, oh my life
Speaker 1: will be this as an adult word, this will be
Speaker 1: my job, and I'll like that and I'll live here.
Speaker 1: But very quickly, like you learn to kind of distill
Speaker 1: those things down to like very simple things, and like
Speaker 1: sometimes like I don't maybe I don't need to live
Speaker 1: in ex city or live in or work in ex industry.
Speaker 1: It's really about what my environment is when my day
Speaker 1: to day life actually is like right, yeah, So it's
Speaker 1: always interestingly like to kind of take that on and
Speaker 1: think like, oh, ship, like actually I really kind of
Speaker 1: just want to sit near a river a lot, like
Speaker 1: that might be more exciting to me than to go
Speaker 1: to bars all the time or some ship where I've
Speaker 1: had friends do that who suddenly they're like, no, I realized,
Speaker 1: I I've I've I've focused my knees. It really it
Speaker 1: was hammered home to me with I mean over and
Speaker 1: over over the past few years, but with Roe v
Speaker 1: Wade mm hmm. That was so devastating. And I was
Speaker 1: in my place in l A and I wanted to
Speaker 1: get out. I just needed to go and reconnect with
Speaker 1: nature or something. And then you have to it's brutally hot,
Speaker 1: you have to battle tons of traffic to get anywhere,
Speaker 1: and it's parking and you just I felt claustrophobic. First, here,
Speaker 1: you have a bad day and I end up by
Speaker 1: going in kayaking. Right, Okay, that's different. We'll see and
Speaker 1: then I can always we'll see, my life is long.
Speaker 1: If this doesn't work out for me, then I can
Speaker 1: always revalue the kayak spot Right the wind? My god,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a Bob Seeker song, doesn't it? Right
Speaker 1: the wind? I guess it might be Well, maybe he
Speaker 1: should have thought of riding the wind instead of going
Speaker 1: against it. Maybe it would have been a very different message. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Katie, we're gonna get to know you a
Speaker 1: little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell
Speaker 1: our listeners a few of the things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about why at least my my eyes
Speaker 1: are on Brazil. I'm I'm very curious how this upcoming
Speaker 1: election is going to happen because they have a certified
Speaker 1: like socialist candidate that is getting the majority of the
Speaker 1: support in opinion polls. They have a right wing authoritarian
Speaker 1: president currently in office who is like just mimicking the
Speaker 1: Trump playbook, and I don't know, it could go a
Speaker 1: number of different ways. So we're just gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that and why it's fascinating and scary. We're gonna talk about, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's back to school time, and you know what that means,
Speaker 1: time to go out and do some back to school shopping,
Speaker 1: and for teachers, that means arming yourself with assault rifles
Speaker 1: in some places in America. We're gonna talk about some
Speaker 1: of the solutions people are coming up with for school
Speaker 1: shootings in the United States that are in no way
Speaker 1: a symptom of a completely devastatingly fucked up society. Not
Speaker 1: it's that we're we're killing it. Guys. This is wait
Speaker 1: till you hear all of that plenty more. But first, Katie,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guest, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history? All right, well, I just set myself
Speaker 1: up for this. Now I'm researching do things generators and
Speaker 1: solar panels. Girl, get off that fucking grid. I don't know,
Speaker 1: though I haven't gotten very deep into it. I actually
Speaker 1: was like, maybe I'll mention this on the podcast and
Speaker 1: then everybody will give me the answers that I need.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh, there's people who work in solar in
Speaker 1: that gag. Because I had a question and a bunch
Speaker 1: of people hit me up about like inverters, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you need help. Did you end up deciding to do that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm very I'm like on the precipice of
Speaker 1: embracing solar fully, I think that I should, but we
Speaker 1: do get snow. But then I was reading that actually
Speaker 1: solar panels can work better at higher altitudes, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but that's truly what they say about
Speaker 1: like getting not that much higher elevation, you know, but
Speaker 1: like you know, there there are flight attendants get are
Speaker 1: more likely to get like radiation from flying all the
Speaker 1: time at that higher altitude. And I know that I've
Speaker 1: heard and it could be old wives or old husbands.
Speaker 1: All the old wives need to we need to give
Speaker 1: them a break. It's the old husbands who are funing
Speaker 1: up sales that like, you have to wear sunscreen at
Speaker 1: higher altitudes even more because you're more likely to get
Speaker 1: a summer. Well, I'll tell you what. I haven't gven
Speaker 1: getting burned up here. But again, not that much higher
Speaker 1: i'll elevation. Truly, if you think, not compared to you know,
Speaker 1: a flight attendant flying, I wear more sunscreen on the
Speaker 1: second floor of my house. Yeah, that's that's how I roll.
Speaker 1: That's just common sense. Yeah, not not this time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am, I am researching, but solar panels true, yes,
Speaker 1: but the generator is the first stop that I have
Speaker 1: to do, and that is an unfortunate necessary expense because
Speaker 1: they have to put the take the power offline. Whatever.
Speaker 1: The terminology is that we lose power regularly to prevent fires.
Speaker 1: So we love preventing fires. We love it, don't we, folks,
Speaker 1: We love it. You love me though, right, Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true, Jack, four more powerful sometimes four Over time,
Speaker 1: every oh every thousand foot increase, according to National Insit
Speaker 1: to the Health UV levels increased by about four. So
Speaker 1: it adds up. It adds up. Also, time moves faster
Speaker 1: when you're at a higher altitude because less gravity. It does, truly.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's why the days slip away. I thought
Speaker 1: you're doing in some kind of joke, like you know,
Speaker 1: they say the day, you know, a little bit slower
Speaker 1: around From a physics perspective, it's like indistinguishable in any
Speaker 1: sort of observable way. But over the course of like millennia,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, there was like a something about
Speaker 1: how the core of the Earth is like a hundred
Speaker 1: years younger than the crust because of just how time
Speaker 1: and gravity operate on one another, which doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: but it's real. What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: Katie Well, I went back and forth on these some
Speaker 1: I overrated, underrated, All right, this one. No one's going
Speaker 1: to be surprised by overrated presidents. I don't like presidents.
Speaker 1: This was on my mind because I was having a
Speaker 1: conversation with my parents and they were talking about, like, well, all,
Speaker 1: in terms of presidents, you'd sure like to have Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton in your neighborhood more than Donald Trump, and I went,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, and I don't want us to be talking
Speaker 1: about presidents like that. We don't. Let's be done with
Speaker 1: the hero worshiping. They're all bad people, every single one
Speaker 1: of them. Who Nobody wants to be president unless you're
Speaker 1: not well. You want to have life and death power,
Speaker 1: the decision to you know, authorized drone strikes. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody who wants to be president is probably somebody
Speaker 1: that I want to be friends with, and unfortunately have
Speaker 1: to include Bernie Sanders, although maybe he would be the
Speaker 1: exception to that rule. But I don't know. Presidents they're
Speaker 1: greatest people. They're greatest people, gods on earth. You know
Speaker 1: they're not I mean overrated. What. I don't know that
Speaker 1: anybody over really really overrates presidents these days. Oh I
Speaker 1: think for sure they do. But it does set me
Speaker 1: up for my underrated. Well, I just want to say
Speaker 1: on the overrated, like I'm always running of this whenever
Speaker 1: people talk or like when I watched The Crown and
Speaker 1: like like about about the British monarchy and how like
Speaker 1: there is in societies like these. They need to believe
Speaker 1: that there is, there are people who are like gods
Speaker 1: on earth, and like America just collapsed it into being
Speaker 1: both the head of state, like the most powerful person
Speaker 1: in the country, and also like the person that we
Speaker 1: award this absurd symbolic like value too, and it's super
Speaker 1: unhealthy and super unhealthy and in general, I don't know
Speaker 1: there it's all so divisive. Like I was saying, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I said this on the recording. I
Speaker 1: think this was before we started recording, being up here
Speaker 1: and talking to people and realizing actually a lot of
Speaker 1: our differences are being manipulated by media and by politicians
Speaker 1: that want to win, and you know, they play into
Speaker 1: the whole culture war bullshit when truly we're I mean,
Speaker 1: there are awful ugly people out there no matter what,
Speaker 1: but a lot I think that we put so much
Speaker 1: power behind my Republican president, my Democratic president, and you
Speaker 1: become a hypocrite and then you lose all credibility with
Speaker 1: the other side. Like I can't sit here and criticize
Speaker 1: Donald Trump being a rapist and not also acknowledged that
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton is a fucking rapist, you know, and we
Speaker 1: don't have to defend that just because we voted for
Speaker 1: him and we don't want to like be wrong, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, it's like it's easier to just be like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's fucked up devote Like presidents are fucked up right around,
Speaker 1: Like how could you say that about our commandery chief?
Speaker 1: It's like how could I How could I say a
Speaker 1: thing that was reported about them? What are you talking about? Like? What? What?
Speaker 1: Does it funk up your whole life if you go,
Speaker 1: I don't want to acknowledge that that's ugly, that's we
Speaker 1: can't talk about that. It's like, well, it sounds like
Speaker 1: in general, you're unwilling to confront some of the ills
Speaker 1: in society if you can't sort of like just sit
Speaker 1: with like the blunt truth of certain things and be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not great because we can't fix it unless we
Speaker 1: fix it on all sides. It's not okay if it's
Speaker 1: from our side, you know. And I've just been thinking
Speaker 1: about that a lot, and accountability in general is really
Speaker 1: lacking from people just in their personal lives, but just
Speaker 1: across the board, like, well, I can't I can't call
Speaker 1: out something unless I'm willing to acknowledge it with myself too, Right,
Speaker 1: what's what something you think is underrated? Underrated? Local politics? Again,
Speaker 1: a lot of people I think to listen to this
Speaker 1: show or listen to my shows probably already on the
Speaker 1: same page with this. But I mentioned my friend that
Speaker 1: I made here in a short period of time. You know,
Speaker 1: she's working on housing crisis in California, but specifically here.
Speaker 1: It remarkable in a short period of time, has gotten
Speaker 1: approved the development of tiny house tiny house build that's
Speaker 1: going to happen soon before the winter for on housed
Speaker 1: community up here that is going to be experiencing winter
Speaker 1: conditions soon. And there was a lot of back and forth,
Speaker 1: but you know, this new friend has got people from
Speaker 1: both sides and involved and commissioned a whole survey of
Speaker 1: different sites and landed on this one that seems to
Speaker 1: be the most you know, And they're planning to do
Speaker 1: it in a way that's not um restrictive, that isn't
Speaker 1: like you can't bring your belongings and you can't you know,
Speaker 1: and they're and they're hoping to know restrictions about timing
Speaker 1: like when you can enter, and like we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But I was really inspired by that. But the ability
Speaker 1: to actually get some thing done and go beyond like
Speaker 1: what politics do you know, the culture war, just actually
Speaker 1: have conversations with people, and I think that's really inspiring
Speaker 1: and is truly the way forward for all of us.
Speaker 1: Right now we're looking at climate change effects. I mean
Speaker 1: on a local level, we can do what we can
Speaker 1: to shore up our infrastructure, to look at lookout for
Speaker 1: our communities, to build resilience all of it. So that
Speaker 1: that is what I'm here to say, is underrated and
Speaker 1: blown away by it truly now that there aren't like
Speaker 1: some you know, who knows what happens next. We will
Speaker 1: learn from this, you know, we'll see what happens. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that there will be things that happened that could
Speaker 1: be done better, but sure, But I think yet getting
Speaker 1: just connecting to your community is always it's massively empowering,
Speaker 1: like you know, at any level, Like yeah, at the
Speaker 1: highest levels of like being able to contribute to you know,
Speaker 1: things to help like the people in your town, like
Speaker 1: through government or through the local government, or just even
Speaker 1: like knowing who you live around is like massively energizing
Speaker 1: to Like I walk pretty consistently more and more and
Speaker 1: more and more in my neighborhood to the point where
Speaker 1: like I'm starting to really be like that's that's that,
Speaker 1: that's them, that's them, that's them, and that that sense
Speaker 1: of community that just comes from like exchanging pleasantries with
Speaker 1: people consistently too, is so life affirmation. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: just kind of be like, yeah, okay, good, there's I
Speaker 1: live with other human beings and people who are you know,
Speaker 1: got their head in the game and want to do good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think at the like, you know, we talked,
Speaker 1: we talked about how we're headed for a climate disaster
Speaker 1: that's kind of already here in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: but like things are going to get more dire in
Speaker 1: the near future, and like, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: like doing things on a local level, like finding things
Speaker 1: that work on a local level that then can get
Speaker 1: like elevated up or you know used like that. Those
Speaker 1: that's like a possibility of like how we come up
Speaker 1: with solutions and actually figure this thing out. It's definitely
Speaker 1: has more promise than just arguing with people based on
Speaker 1: like what you know. Tucker Carlson said, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow or whatever side you're on. You know, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back, And I wanted to talk briefly about the
Speaker 1: upcoming Brazilian election. We've kind of mentioned it in passing before,
Speaker 1: but you know, as we've discussed recently on the show,
Speaker 1: the US is out loud kind of fascist tendencies of
Speaker 1: late our part of a global trend. Like you know,
Speaker 1: fascism is capitalism's response to the failure of capitalism, and
Speaker 1: like when the market economy makes it clear that a
Speaker 1: left word movement is necessary because like just leaving it
Speaker 1: to the market is not working, capitalist societies will reliably
Speaker 1: respond with fascism of some sort. Like it. It really is,
Speaker 1: like I don't know sometimes helpful to just think of
Speaker 1: it as like a body, like and like America has
Speaker 1: a immune system, and like all capitalist countries with like
Speaker 1: that sort of make up their immune systems. Response is
Speaker 1: fascism like whenever, whenever things are are going badly, Like
Speaker 1: that's one of the options they throw out, is to
Speaker 1: just have a complete break with reality. And like I
Speaker 1: bring that idea up, that metaphor of like the body
Speaker 1: politic up mostly because America is so averse to socialism
Speaker 1: that it feels like America is allergic to socialism that
Speaker 1: it's just like we can't do this. The branding around
Speaker 1: hating socialism is is really quite remarkable when it's such
Speaker 1: an obvious answer everything that people complain about, everything that
Speaker 1: they that's wrong. And also we don't have pure capitalism.
Speaker 1: There there are experiments all like we already have bits
Speaker 1: of it, you know, like like this integrated elements of socialism.
Speaker 1: It's like, why is this something so fearful you have
Speaker 1: to be afraid of? Yeah, it's just why. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's like created a like a instant reflexing people
Speaker 1: to hear the word socialism or communism and they immediately
Speaker 1: think I'm eating dirt in a hut and I have
Speaker 1: to give the government will come from my television and WiFi,
Speaker 1: and I will give that up so I can pick
Speaker 1: up a fucking sickle and you know, go do yardwork
Speaker 1: or what ever. And so there's like always just like
Speaker 1: it's just dismissed like offhand immediately, and then it's just
Speaker 1: there's like that funny there's like that Simpsons episode where
Speaker 1: like Lisa's talking about like everyone's getting all riled up,
Speaker 1: and she's like, what if there was like a like
Speaker 1: a system where like healthcare could be provided, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds good, and like other people someone's like, wait,
Speaker 1: is that socialism? And someone and she's like, well it
Speaker 1: has element. They're like even though they were on board
Speaker 1: with every single thing up until they hear the fucking word, right,
Speaker 1: which is really wild, Like how that just like the
Speaker 1: dots just don't connect or are purposefully made to not
Speaker 1: connect in most people's minds. And that town that I
Speaker 1: was talking about, that like is my version of where
Speaker 1: you moved, Katie. It's like there was a house that
Speaker 1: had a yard sign that said Socialism has no home here.
Speaker 1: And I was so tempted to just stop and ask
Speaker 1: them like what what do you think socialism? Or just
Speaker 1: say what socialism? Or just go what socialism? Yeah? Exactly, damn,
Speaker 1: what's so salism? What's that? Right? Oh? Oh man, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't want to know. They'll make you
Speaker 1: share with the needy. Well, not directly, it's just that
Speaker 1: they would probably tax people at a higher rate, which
Speaker 1: I'm not really part of that scheme, so it would
Speaker 1: probably create better outcomes for people. I don't know, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that the idea like, oh, I'm going to be paying
Speaker 1: a lot for nothing. You already are, buddy, And also
Speaker 1: you are paying for your trash and your waste to
Speaker 1: be removed from your home and for water to come
Speaker 1: to your home and all sorts of things that are
Speaker 1: basically on a socialist model in a lot of places. Exactly.
Speaker 1: And yeah, but but also we leave out of the
Speaker 1: conversation the fact that billionaires and corporations get to skirt
Speaker 1: and avoid taxes and you know, exploit people in order
Speaker 1: to make There's so much money. There's so much wealth
Speaker 1: that is being hoarded, and so like there's a I
Speaker 1: understand that the logistics are great, because nobody's ever actually
Speaker 1: done it here, right, Like there's a way to do
Speaker 1: this where you're not feeling this difference. You're all you're
Speaker 1: actually feeling is like, oh now I have health insurance,
Speaker 1: you know, and like this whole argument of well I
Speaker 1: want to go to my doctor. Well, yeah, you you
Speaker 1: get to go to any doctor. Yeah. Brazil is a
Speaker 1: great illustration of this sort of duality. They have a
Speaker 1: actual like socialist alternative that is running for president and
Speaker 1: Lula former president and has outside support after the current
Speaker 1: authoritarian term of Bosonaro and then bolson like they they
Speaker 1: basically have the two options fascism and socialism on the ticket,
Speaker 1: and socialism is has the vast majority of the support
Speaker 1: according to opinion polls, which we've learned not to trust
Speaker 1: in this country. But at least it seems like Bolsonaro
Speaker 1: and the people who have access to the levels of
Speaker 1: power are concerned about about the results of the opinion
Speaker 1: polls because he has been basically claiming that the the
Speaker 1: upcoming election on October two is going to be fraudulent.
Speaker 1: It's like, even though there's never been a problem with
Speaker 1: fraud in the history of Brazilian elections, and in fact,
Speaker 1: Brazil is one of the only like massive countries that
Speaker 1: reports the results of their voting the same day, like
Speaker 1: they have it like that locked down. He's like, nah,
Speaker 1: it's it's too susceptible. It's too susceptible to being rigged.
Speaker 1: And he's like picked out this very you know, a
Speaker 1: hypothetical tech scenario that people are like, well, I mean
Speaker 1: that could happen, but like it's you know, there's like
Speaker 1: a point zero, there's there one percent chance, and like now,
Speaker 1: like we we can guard against that and we would
Speaker 1: know if it happened. He's like, nah, that's we can't
Speaker 1: hold this election because because the voting machines. It's really
Speaker 1: like he's just reading from the Trump playbook in a
Speaker 1: way that's I got an office, very very straightforward. I
Speaker 1: mean not that that's why, but that that gave people
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, that kind of works. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a this is a wife. But it's kind of one
Speaker 1: of those things too, because like you know, they've they've
Speaker 1: before the like Workers Party was in power in Brazil
Speaker 1: and for a while, like talk saying ship that was
Speaker 1: even like remotely close to like privatizing a public service,
Speaker 1: people would have lost their fucking ship over the idea.
Speaker 1: And it's just funny how like an economic crisis and
Speaker 1: a few other things compound and like immediately kind of
Speaker 1: people are like, oh wait, actually no, let's try this
Speaker 1: other thing now. And it's always interesting how these sort
Speaker 1: of like a crisis, it's a corruption scandal, can all
Speaker 1: kind of come together and people suddenly associate one with
Speaker 1: the other and boom, now you have like the table
Speaker 1: set for some other coon to come in and offer
Speaker 1: something quote unquote different. Well, the past few years I
Speaker 1: have been seismic in showing people all the cracks and
Speaker 1: how desperately important all of these everything that comes along
Speaker 1: with the socialist candidate is too their present into their future,
Speaker 1: and it does I know you can't really pay too
Speaker 1: much attention to opinion polls, but it does feel good
Speaker 1: to see that when there is a socialist candidate on
Speaker 1: the fucking ticket, that the support is there. And I
Speaker 1: think that's really encouraging in general. But it's as encouraging
Speaker 1: as it is scary to see the two sizes coming
Speaker 1: up against each other like this, because I mean, we
Speaker 1: absolutely have offered a playbook, and the fact that it
Speaker 1: got as far as it did here in America when
Speaker 1: we're supposed to have all these checks and balance is
Speaker 1: protecting against It makes me terrified for other places that don't,
Speaker 1: you know, that are much more easily manipulated and easily
Speaker 1: to need. That was our first coup, you know, and
Speaker 1: like other places, I've have more history with it, so
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely scary, not just in Brazil but everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like just the idea, like as as
Speaker 1: we've laid it out, like they have a right wing
Speaker 1: kind of militaristic dictatorial person in power, then there is
Speaker 1: a socialist alternative that is like charging towards power that
Speaker 1: in my mind, you know, having paid attention to history
Speaker 1: for the past like fifty years, that reads to me
Speaker 1: as like, oh, this is gonna is going to go bad.
Speaker 1: But the way the New York Times is writing about it,
Speaker 1: they're like, Brazil's last coup in four led to a
Speaker 1: brutal twenty one year military dictatorship. The middle class supported it,
Speaker 1: business people supported it, the press supported it, and the
Speaker 1: US supported it. And but we get rid of every
Speaker 1: other group they mentioned before. Well, none of these players
Speaker 1: support a coup now. And I'm like, is that true,
Speaker 1: because like it has the CIA and the US and
Speaker 1: like all the you know, international multinational corporations, Like have
Speaker 1: they so thrown out that like sort of Domino's ideal
Speaker 1: of like, well, if if Brazil falls, then were we
Speaker 1: are next, and we need to like make sure that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. I don't know, there's just like something about
Speaker 1: this the like doesn't feel like we're taking the possibility
Speaker 1: of a coup of an assassination of the socialists leadership
Speaker 1: seriously enough. Well, I mean there's definitely there's been right
Speaker 1: wing violence against a lot of the leftist there. That's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's happening now right there. Definitely
Speaker 1: in that phase, or there's there is already terrible like
Speaker 1: partisan violence. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't seem like a very
Speaker 1: accurate I'm agreeing with what you're saying, especially if you
Speaker 1: look around the world, I mean Russia, Okay, there's just
Speaker 1: people are doing it, are doing the thing. These leaders
Speaker 1: are doing the things that you think, yeah, but it
Speaker 1: would be bad if they actually did it, But they're
Speaker 1: doing it. They don't care. They're going to push it
Speaker 1: and get away with it, you know. Or what's going
Speaker 1: to happen in China with Taiwan. You know, it's I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, like you're just like with Trump, right, there's
Speaker 1: there's definitely a type of politician now that's like just
Speaker 1: like a raptor in Jurassic Park just testing the fences,
Speaker 1: like and they're just waiting for the fence to be
Speaker 1: off and they're gonna just walk right through. Like that's
Speaker 1: there's that's you can tell for. I mean, just like
Speaker 1: it right now, Like even in the US with all
Speaker 1: the these secretaries of state are the people who are
Speaker 1: going to oversee like elections and things like that. There
Speaker 1: already were already seeing people who come in who are
Speaker 1: embracing like this like dumb election fraud bullshit, And so
Speaker 1: they're starting like from that one touch of the fence,
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, so the next one, we've got to
Speaker 1: make sure there's stooges in these positions. So the next
Speaker 1: time we touch the fence, it is not on. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bit by bit there it is eroding. And
Speaker 1: like some people, I mean, many people are are sort
Speaker 1: of sounding the alarm, but I think most people are
Speaker 1: kind of unaware of like how cynical their moves are,
Speaker 1: especially for something like you know, when when it comes
Speaker 1: to maintaining power, in this sense, we're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: fuck it, we can. There's a way to do it
Speaker 1: if you just get these people to agree, and then
Speaker 1: the fucking rules don't matter. Well, also, you can just
Speaker 1: say whatever the funk you want and make it true.
Speaker 1: You know, Donald Trump has moral his beautiful home rated,
Speaker 1: his beautiful, beautiful home is rated, and he says, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything wrong. But also Obama still documents
Speaker 1: and I declassified my documents. Which one is it, buddy,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He just threw verbal vomit out there. And
Speaker 1: now pick your pick your poison of an excuse that
Speaker 1: you can have if you're talking about this, you know,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter whether or not that's true. And
Speaker 1: there are so much going on all at once that
Speaker 1: it's all people can do to pay their bills to
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that their kids get to school
Speaker 1: and they're not shocked. Like it's chaos, and so you
Speaker 1: don't have room for most people's daily lives. They don't
Speaker 1: have room to to separate the truth from the fiction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to that point of like you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 1: A fifth of the country has now lost faith in
Speaker 1: the election systems, even though there there is no problem
Speaker 1: with the elections. The fifth of Brazilian voters like just
Speaker 1: based on the what would seem to be a very
Speaker 1: straightforward he starts hearing that he's going to lose the
Speaker 1: next election and suddenly is worried about fraud. Like that
Speaker 1: seems like a very fairly straightforward thing. But suddenly a
Speaker 1: fifth of the country has lost face and faith in
Speaker 1: the election system. Another thing that they brought up fifth
Speaker 1: could just be as hardcore supporters. Yeah, it could be sure,
Speaker 1: because they're they're like, yeah, that's right, that's bullshit. So
Speaker 1: then when you're full of people I'm in the column
Speaker 1: of agreeing with Bolsonaro. The other thing that they point
Speaker 1: to in that realm is that they're like, and there's
Speaker 1: he he really loosened like gun restrictions. So now like
Speaker 1: there are so many Brazilians who are armed, six hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: over six hundred thousands. Could you imagine that many people
Speaker 1: with guns in the US it is seventy two millions.
Speaker 1: Not say it's not a danger in Brazil. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like it. I feel like sometimes we don't realize how dangerous, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so wild, how many guns, Like even if you were
Speaker 1: to ban them tomorrow. There are so many guns people.
Speaker 1: If someone like texted me with their dad found a
Speaker 1: gun they forgot about, like in the garage, they're like,
Speaker 1: look what I found. Forgot about this when you're like,
Speaker 1: we live in a fucking place where people are like, whoop,
Speaker 1: see I have this old you know gun here and
Speaker 1: then garage I forgot about the Yeah, when one of
Speaker 1: my relatives passed, they found a handgun and like the
Speaker 1: process of like figuring out what to do with it
Speaker 1: and like how to get rid of it, and like
Speaker 1: it's crazy because it's like such a a deadly weapon
Speaker 1: that is horrifying and like shouldn't exist, and like you
Speaker 1: have to, you know, reach out to the police and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, do all these things. But they are sold,
Speaker 1: like you know, like their square guns in the United States.
Speaker 1: There just so so easy to get. Which is what
Speaker 1: our next story is going to be about after we
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we're back and mass shootings
Speaker 1: are I think on a lot of people's minds right now.
Speaker 1: The New York Times yesterday had a front page story
Speaker 1: about how mental illness is not a useful indicator that
Speaker 1: someone is going to carry out a mass shooting like
Speaker 1: after a bunch of research into it, they've like consulted
Speaker 1: the experts and they're like, no, that's not Like the
Speaker 1: stock explanation from the right is not is not a
Speaker 1: good thing to look out for or to criminalize or
Speaker 1: to you know, stigmatize. Unfortunately, the other symptoms they provide for,
Speaker 1: like what you should be looking out for, are like
Speaker 1: equally impossible to look out for. Their like, Instead, it's
Speaker 1: a personal crisis. Change in behavior or appearance, like get
Speaker 1: a bad haircut or something like is one of the things.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, Fred got divorced and got a mohawk, right,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh no, what right, Just a regular
Speaker 1: midlife crisis. Yeah. It talks about like various cases to
Speaker 1: illustrate this, and like I talked about like one kid
Speaker 1: who wrote a essay about like a school shooting before
Speaker 1: he did a school shooting. Like I wrote a short
Speaker 1: story about a school shooting in seventh grade, but like
Speaker 1: I don't know, like, yeah, my teacher probably could have
Speaker 1: taken that and been like turned it over to the police. Instead,
Speaker 1: she was like, you're a good writer. You should like
Speaker 1: keep writing. That was that was cool, but like it's
Speaker 1: just I'm sorry what what was this short story? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're very ahead of your time here? Is that a
Speaker 1: bit or no? No, I like wrote we just had
Speaker 1: an open like fiction writing like story writing assignment and
Speaker 1: Mr McDonald, who was big Doobie Brothers fan. That was
Speaker 1: the main thing that she was she liked to talk
Speaker 1: about from her personal life, but she was like she
Speaker 1: really liked my writing. And one of the stories I
Speaker 1: wrote was just about like a kid who brought a
Speaker 1: gun to school and like accidentally shot someone who was
Speaker 1: like picking on him, but it wasn't clear if it
Speaker 1: was an accident. And she and and this is pret
Speaker 1: as you're Jack, I think that we're similar ages. I
Speaker 1: don't know how old you are, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: ask right now, but I definitely grew up with that
Speaker 1: campaign of guns safety in the house, messing like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of like it wasn't or like there was
Speaker 1: that big an influenced by but it was that's a
Speaker 1: different lens than a school shooting, like a kid brought
Speaker 1: a gun, okay, right, Yeah, I was going to ask
Speaker 1: if you're My next question is gonna be like and
Speaker 1: are you okay? Right? But the I think after I'm
Speaker 1: moved away. She like assigned, like, write a different ending
Speaker 1: to this story to the class next year. My friend
Speaker 1: told me, which is your of my work? So I
Speaker 1: sued her, it's no longer a teacher. But it I
Speaker 1: don't know, like it's so wild too like and they
Speaker 1: don't they don't mention gun laws. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: they're like, well, it's health in the room, but like
Speaker 1: there's nothing we can do about it. But it's so
Speaker 1: many words the front page of the New York Times,
Speaker 1: and they don't mention gun control at all, doesn't frame
Speaker 1: it as like an aberition, like you know, a problem
Speaker 1: that only affects America because of the gun lobbies and
Speaker 1: how many guns we have. And instead, as we love
Speaker 1: to do in the United States, they put it at
Speaker 1: the level of individual action, like you know, in the
Speaker 1: same way as like inequality or like we don't have
Speaker 1: a class system because they tell us that, like it's
Speaker 1: down to us to be like successful upwardly mobile people,
Speaker 1: even though America has less upward mobility than most of them.
Speaker 1: We don't have a mobile upward mobility problem. We have
Speaker 1: a laziness problem. No one wants to work. It's just
Speaker 1: always distillity. No we don't have that. It's because of
Speaker 1: you freaking losers. And it truly ends with like people
Speaker 1: being like and all you have to do is be nicer,
Speaker 1: Like if one person had been nicer to them than like,
Speaker 1: this could have all been averted. And it's just it's
Speaker 1: fucking sick it it scares me, Like, yes, it is
Speaker 1: true that we do not have good mental health resources
Speaker 1: for people, and uh, full stop, like and also that
Speaker 1: doesn't solve this crisis. And also also trying to categorize
Speaker 1: behaviors or people and and treating them differently or flagging
Speaker 1: them scares me a lot. Just the idea that you know,
Speaker 1: someone might be going through something or you know, maybe
Speaker 1: their parents are getting divorced and they're depressed, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now they're being also treated like a threat,
Speaker 1: and what that stigmatization could do. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: be a child under the best of circumstances in a
Speaker 1: school environment, and add that to the mix makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And it's depressing because with these people with this article
Speaker 1: is basically saying, since we can't control this through legislation,
Speaker 1: let's add something else to the teachers responsible. Let's add
Speaker 1: something else to that, and it's just getting it all wrong.
Speaker 1: Everyone should have to watch the movie Pay It Forward.
Speaker 1: That's the that's they are proposing essentially, like and I
Speaker 1: hate like when things are written like this because all
Speaker 1: this happens the same thing, like policing any major issue
Speaker 1: we have, Like when they just avoid the root cause
Speaker 1: and it's like this fucking does nothing. We're like, how
Speaker 1: do we figure out who's going to be a potential threat?
Speaker 1: You know? And and rather than saying, oh, at a
Speaker 1: at a minimum, maybe if we just had a more
Speaker 1: humane society where like people like you, you're going to
Speaker 1: take away a lot of other factors that create chaos
Speaker 1: and people's lives by supporting them for like first and foremost.
Speaker 1: And then if guns are the problem, then yeah, make
Speaker 1: it fucking harder to get them, rather than like scratching
Speaker 1: your head all the time being like, okay, but what
Speaker 1: kind of video game do they play? For how long
Speaker 1: with a certain haircut? Because we've used a machine learning
Speaker 1: tool to algorithmically identify people, it's like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: And then meanwhile nothing works and so people will just say, see,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't change, it would just have to live
Speaker 1: with it. And I think that the truth is that
Speaker 1: people from all sides. I mean, sure, there's people that
Speaker 1: are gonna hate any conversation about gun legislations, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that that's are off from being widely accepted
Speaker 1: from people from both sides, like, yeah, we don't want
Speaker 1: our children murdered, right, Like I I really don't think
Speaker 1: that this is that hard to get a consensus on.
Speaker 1: There's a difference between saying that you can't have guns,
Speaker 1: which may or may not be like some of our positions.
Speaker 1: We I understand that this is the United States of America,
Speaker 1: and that I don't understand. I don't know how I
Speaker 1: could get to a point where people would agree to
Speaker 1: not have guns at all. But I think that there's
Speaker 1: a middle there's a lot of middle ground in between
Speaker 1: those two points, but no one wants but no politician
Speaker 1: wants to touch it either side. Really, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: some pretty good ideas, though you know, it's not. Let's
Speaker 1: not get all full doom and gloom about it, all, right,
Speaker 1: because there's some some good proposals out there from really
Speaker 1: forward thinking people about to keep our school is safe. Right. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. Mind, So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: I thought you were referring to, like, you know, all
Speaker 1: the sense solutions where that after You've all Day, there
Speaker 1: was majority support for in the United States and they
Speaker 1: didn't even like sniff a vote in Congress. No, But
Speaker 1: I think what you're referring to is actually the the
Speaker 1: solutions we're seeing rolled out in the wake of Validay
Speaker 1: Ohio and Louisiana, or sorry, in the wake of you
Speaker 1: all Day, where Ohio and Louisiana proposed laws to make
Speaker 1: it easier for teachers and school staff to carry firearms.
Speaker 1: The bill failed in Louisiana Louisiana, but calling it Louisiana Louisiani,
Speaker 1: I kind of like that too, but a similar bill
Speaker 1: passing Ohio and you know the so to put this
Speaker 1: in perspective, because it might seem like, well, if I
Speaker 1: really like skilled marksman wants to like keep a gun
Speaker 1: in a safe for something. Previously, Previously, in Ohio, officials
Speaker 1: who wanted to carry weapons at school had to complete
Speaker 1: seven hundred hours of training, which came from a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decision following parents challenging a loosening of the existing
Speaker 1: worlds seven hours training for teachers wanting to bring guns
Speaker 1: to class now that this decision has been made, is
Speaker 1: just twenty four hours. To put that in perspective, Ohio
Speaker 1: cops have to train for over seven hundred hours. Uh.
Speaker 1: And to put that in perspective, Ohio barbers have to
Speaker 1: train for one thousand, eight hundred hours. God yeah, holy
Speaker 1: sh it. I mean I I can think. I I'm
Speaker 1: sure everyone has thought of a teacher they had who
Speaker 1: had anger problems. Oh my god, Like I have one
Speaker 1: teacher remember, like it was fucking scary, like because you
Speaker 1: didn't know where the what what what side of the
Speaker 1: fucking bed they woke up on with throw across the
Speaker 1: classroom at walls And I'm like, you're how what do
Speaker 1: we even do? What have you been thinking? Like that
Speaker 1: this is even a potential solution, Not to say like
Speaker 1: all teachers are potentially dangerous, but like again that there's
Speaker 1: so many varying personalities in a classroom and on the campus.
Speaker 1: Like but also like, imagine being a teacher, not even
Speaker 1: just a normal normal teacher. I my dream is to
Speaker 1: educate kindergarten and I've been I have had twenty four
Speaker 1: hours of training, and now I'm in a situation where
Speaker 1: I am in my own nerves are are wild and erratic,
Speaker 1: and I have to make a life or decision. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody hasn't started shooting, but you're scared. Maybe the
Speaker 1: teacher makes an accident, Maybe the teacher shoots the wrong child.
Speaker 1: Can you even imagine putting a teacher who's who a
Speaker 1: person who has decided that they want to educate for
Speaker 1: their their their calling is to educate young minds and
Speaker 1: put them in a position where they have to decide
Speaker 1: if one is you're going to kill one. I think
Speaker 1: this is absurd, absolutely absurd. Maybe maybe every so often
Speaker 1: there's a teacher that's a ex military or whatever and
Speaker 1: happens to be really good good for them, that not
Speaker 1: good for them. I'm not actually honoring this condition, but
Speaker 1: like that is this suggestion. But like you cannot expect
Speaker 1: teachers too. We can't even apparently expect cops to keep
Speaker 1: their cool in a high pressure situation. They'll just run
Speaker 1: out the other way, apparently and avoid coming in for
Speaker 1: the active shooter. If we're looking at you all day,
Speaker 1: So what what what is this conversation? It's just nonsense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it would be the only thing. Like I when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I was obsessed with guns, like
Speaker 1: as I think a lot of little boys just little
Speaker 1: kids are, you know, and you know, to this day,
Speaker 1: when I'm standing near a cop, like if I'm in
Speaker 1: a fucking elevator with a cop or just like walking
Speaker 1: by one on the streets, like all I can think
Speaker 1: of I was like gun, gun, gun, gun, because like
Speaker 1: a gun is a physical point in the time space
Speaker 1: continue them that is within your reach that could end,
Speaker 1: like they could just end any life. Like it's it's
Speaker 1: fucking crazy that they exist. It's crazy, like the idea
Speaker 1: of that being in the classroom with kids, like you know,
Speaker 1: like my kids are already obsessed with guns the way
Speaker 1: I was, and we don't like let them watch anything
Speaker 1: with guns, and like I've been like way more care.
Speaker 1: But it's just I think, like we're right to be
Speaker 1: obsessed with them at that point as your imagination is evolving,
Speaker 1: because it's like wild that they exist and they are
Speaker 1: a huge fucking deal. Like it's they just like zone
Speaker 1: in on like the thing that's like wait, holy shit,
Speaker 1: do those exist? And people just like carry them around
Speaker 1: and I can fucking kill and destroy like it's like bulldozers.
Speaker 1: So why like trains, So why like planes, like a
Speaker 1: gun is on that level to or like this thing
Speaker 1: has the potential to do untold ship yeah, like truly
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and like most oh high school districts say
Speaker 1: they still want to allow it, you know again, like
Speaker 1: when you ask people what they think, like outside of
Speaker 1: the systemic and all this ship, Like nearly three quarters
Speaker 1: of US teachers don't want to carry guns in school,
Speaker 1: which is a lot one of many examples of how
Speaker 1: the country will turn to any solution other than gun
Speaker 1: control when it comes to school safety. This one scares
Speaker 1: me because of how much I was like do that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna bring this up to like my
Speaker 1: kids school. Uh it is. So these are safety pods,
Speaker 1: essentially metal panic rooms for between fifteen thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars, and kids basically like lock themselves in
Speaker 1: them during a school shooting. They've been around for a
Speaker 1: few years. Were originally designed for tornadoes, but companies pivoted
Speaker 1: to marketing them as school shooting protection because those happen
Speaker 1: just as often, if not more often. And I was
Speaker 1: like that literally like hit my mind, like okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we're not going to get the gun stuff so
Speaker 1: likely get those yeah, given given panic rooms so that
Speaker 1: they're safe. Like if one of these things happen, which
Speaker 1: is like fucking crazy, it's it. I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a healthy it's not a sign
Speaker 1: of a healthy civilization. I feel when when it's like
Speaker 1: this thing is killing us, what's the solution, Well, more
Speaker 1: of those things, but also some other things. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: more of more of the thing that's causing the problem. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: socialism is just to be feared in evil anyway, Just
Speaker 1: bring it correct and I'll tell you what doesn't have
Speaker 1: a home here in this gun in this home where
Speaker 1: we keep gun. I want to not be able to
Speaker 1: afford my health insurance so that when I get shot,
Speaker 1: I die. Right. But like my children, you know, go
Speaker 1: to a school every day, drop them off, and worry
Speaker 1: about a school shooting, like in the back of my
Speaker 1: mind or the front of my mind, like depending on
Speaker 1: how recently one of those happened, and anything that would
Speaker 1: make them safer, I want to do. And like I
Speaker 1: my issue with the gun thing is like I don't
Speaker 1: think it makes them safer like that. That is my
Speaker 1: issue with like the gun thing. On a very micro level,
Speaker 1: because like, I just want my kids to be safe,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the way a lot of parents are.
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping that that will cause some people to
Speaker 1: you know, get come around on on all this gun
Speaker 1: control ship. It's another example that I don't think would work,
Speaker 1: and therefore him against Taser company acts on last month
Speaker 1: announced plans to develop drones armed with tasers that could
Speaker 1: fly around schools and help prevent the next you of
Speaker 1: all Day Sandy Hook or Columbine. Yeah, like drones, Yeah,
Speaker 1: drones with tasers. So yeah, he's gonna fly that droning
Speaker 1: around in the school. Is it's the teacher that the
Speaker 1: automated based on this algorithmic programming that's so racist you
Speaker 1: wouldn't believe it. Exactly. They are constantly be the solution
Speaker 1: is not just man, maybe when you do some about
Speaker 1: the guns, it's like what what fucking farmer looks at
Speaker 1: their field. It's like, man, we got you know, there's
Speaker 1: these pests in my in my crops I gotta get
Speaker 1: rid of. And they're like, what if you just what
Speaker 1: if you just fucking got some other pests that could
Speaker 1: fight them and then they will go away? And they
Speaker 1: would they would they would leave your crops alone, rather
Speaker 1: than like what about pest control? What about just saying
Speaker 1: this is the problem, I'm addressing that, rather than going
Speaker 1: like nine steps into my imagination with the dumbest ideas,
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, I'm I'm actually developing a
Speaker 1: breed of rabbit that will eat all of these things,
Speaker 1: and that's how we will we will solve the problem,
Speaker 1: rather than this other solution that's right are in front
Speaker 1: of you that other people have used many times. We
Speaker 1: could put put all kids in shock callers upon entering
Speaker 1: and if as soon as as soon as they started
Speaker 1: acting bad, just give him a little zap exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think hyper intelligent cybernetically designed cyborgs that are armed
Speaker 1: and patrolling the hall and connected to some sort of
Speaker 1: you know, racist algorithm, racist algorithm that could become self aware.
Speaker 1: I think that is but like the in our reality,
Speaker 1: the terminators are invented in order to patrol school hall
Speaker 1: because we didn't anything that gun control and can make
Speaker 1: him look cute, like what was that guy boopy? I
Speaker 1: don't know who you were talking about who pooped on
Speaker 1: his friends? But yeah, yeah, well, I mean look how
Speaker 1: well the terminator got along with Eddie forlong and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: terminator too and he went on to be governor too,
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, So you know what, maybe gun control
Speaker 1: is a bad idea. I don't want to get in
Speaker 1: the way of an cyborg streams, right, I don't want
Speaker 1: to like ruined the future. No, I don't know. How's
Speaker 1: he going to know? Right? You know, Katie, truly a
Speaker 1: pleasure having you as always? Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff? So fun? You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter just my name Katie Stole, and
Speaker 1: you can check out our work, the stuff that I
Speaker 1: do with Cody Johnston, our YouTube channel with some more news.
Speaker 1: Our podcast is even more news. We have episodes just
Speaker 1: about every week and getting ahead of myself a little bit,
Speaker 1: but fuck it. We are working on a new show
Speaker 1: for the YouTube channel that will be hosted by me,
Speaker 1: and that will be coming up in the fall, hopefully,
Speaker 1: providing everything goes as planned, which frequently does not happen,
Speaker 1: but in the near future that will be happening. Amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying? Yes, right before we started recording,
Speaker 1: I saw a masterpiece. Well, Robert shared a masterpiece. Robert
Speaker 1: Evans laughing so hard I might die. This is a
Speaker 1: glorious attempt to make a country music ballad about the
Speaker 1: Trump FBI rate. It's done sort of in the style
Speaker 1: of Poncho and Lefty and just incredible. And you know what,
Speaker 1: you guys it is. You should go, I guess to
Speaker 1: Robert's feed and find this. We'll link off to it.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's ridiculous and it made me giggle, made
Speaker 1: me get go with me My Monday. Is the person
Speaker 1: making it like a true Trump supporter? Or is it?
Speaker 1: But although there is an anime picture on it, so
Speaker 1: maybe they're satire, but I really think it's it's sincere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the satire is they're saying, let's go Brandon, but that's
Speaker 1: not what they mean. Miles, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: What is the tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also check us out.
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack got a boost. These also checked me
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Speaker 1: what's up. I'm zeit gang, and I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: I forget that. You know, we're all out here in
Speaker 1: physical space sometimes. So it's very pleasant to meet y'all,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for listening to the show.
Speaker 1: If you ever seen me, holler at me if you
Speaker 1: come in peace. Uh. Some tweets that are like this
Speaker 1: first one is from at Johnny heat Wave Treated. I
Speaker 1: noticed the similarities about a year ago but remained silent.
Speaker 1: Today the damn finally burst and this guy basically did
Speaker 1: a side by side of Jiminy Glick and Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 1: Jimminy Glick, the Martin short character. It's like the the
Speaker 1: like sort of film critic guy. But I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: play you a quick snippet just so you can kind
Speaker 1: of see where they're at. Yeah, like Tucker Carlson's new
Speaker 1: high pitched, unhinged thing does have a lot in common
Speaker 1: is very Glick esque. Well, I'm talking we could join.
Speaker 1: It's bad. We can't do anything when you do something
Speaker 1: like that, but it's not entirely it's stupid ass. Wait
Speaker 1: stop from one second here, what's sat about about it's
Speaker 1: really good. It's really really good for all you Jimminy
Speaker 1: Glick fans, and another one at Catholic Convert tweeted radio
Speaker 1: Head Voice because I'm a Greek, I love you. Okay.
Speaker 1: So if anybody saw the Speaking of Greek film and
Speaker 1: saw the reconstruction of what Greek philosopher Aristotle looked on
Speaker 1: based on it looked like based on his bust, I
Speaker 1: really like to tweet from Emma BACHELIERI tweeted Aristotle offensive
Speaker 1: line University of Iowa, because that's what he looks, straight
Speaker 1: up like, offensive lignment. Dead two point oh needs more
Speaker 1: coffee tweeted. We were branding quiet quitting to acting your wage,
Speaker 1: which I think that's a better use that term, or
Speaker 1: a better term for that. Cam tweeted, I don't have
Speaker 1: time to read a baby on board bumper sticker. I
Speaker 1: am on my phone. I enjoyed that. You can find
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Speaker 1: the information that we talked about in today's episode, as
Speaker 1: well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
Speaker 1: you have a song that you think people might enjoy
Speaker 1: on this Yeah, yeah, yeah, just uh just more of
Speaker 1: that group Malfino m A L P h I n O. Again.
Speaker 1: They're like this sort of made up band where it's
Speaker 1: members from all over the world, but they play like
Speaker 1: Latin music but from a from a made up island
Speaker 1: called MALFI know, because they're not going to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're doing this authentic ship. It's kind of like a
Speaker 1: very creative idea, which I really enjoy. So they always
Speaker 1: say like their songs are like representative of this place
Speaker 1: that never existed. So this is another track called l
Speaker 1: Longo l A l A n g. Oh. Check out
Speaker 1: the work. It's really great, like background music just to
Speaker 1: work to, or just to kind of give your you know,
Speaker 1: your your home and nice feel like you're in an
Speaker 1: old kind of I don't know, like a sixties bar,
Speaker 1: like a tropical bar or some ship. I'm definitely going
Speaker 1: to do that today. Check it out. Yeah, down your
Speaker 1: kayak wherever you got to. It's it'll it will lighten
Speaker 1: up them. I like to listen to it and imagine
Speaker 1: I'm in a nineties bar selling dinosaur embryos in a
Speaker 1: barber sall can yeah, and a barber salt yeah. But
Speaker 1: that is the oldest tropical bar I can picture. I
Speaker 1: guess cocktail was before that. Anyways, The Daily Zey guys
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