Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to forty two,
Speaker 1: Episode two after Day So Many twos. It's a production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio and a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Wednesday, June two. Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean I am. I am overwhelmed, which of course
Speaker 1: means June twenty two is of course the combination. These
Speaker 1: are four national days I can get Fine, Occasional chocolate
Speaker 1: Declare Day, National h v a C Tech Day, National
Speaker 1: Onion Rings Day, National Kissing Day, I Love kissing. What
Speaker 1: do you like of those four kissing chocolate declares altogether? Man,
Speaker 1: like the cramp cramped down, some chocolate declairs that have
Speaker 1: been pushed through a some onion rings just through an
Speaker 1: air duct and then uh starts afterwards kiss and kiss
Speaker 1: a h back attack. Yeah, That's always been what I
Speaker 1: do on June, and it's surprising to me that now
Speaker 1: the rest of the nation is just catching up and
Speaker 1: they haven't even recognized my contributions at the forefront of
Speaker 1: this June twenty saying like, my my a C is broken,
Speaker 1: I need somebody to come fix it. And then you
Speaker 1: you butter them up with eclaires and onion rooms and
Speaker 1: you're like, look, kiss, if you want to buy butter
Speaker 1: them up, I'm talking about these lips there. You go anyway,
Speaker 1: shout out air air conditioning because in our increasingly hostile
Speaker 1: natural environment, Yeah, kind of a necessity. It's all palm
Speaker 1: spring because I think there's a thing, right, A hundred
Speaker 1: million Americans this week will be exposed to triple digit heat.
Speaker 1: Was that right? Yeah? Big week, big week, for big
Speaker 1: big week for big climate change falling off of American society. Well,
Speaker 1: my name is Jack O'Brien, a k A. And I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a long long time till Late
Speaker 1: Years stops taking up on my mind. It's just an
Speaker 1: actor or not the toy we know? Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's an actor. Man should have planned to do this
Speaker 1: with the actual well here row. That is courtesy Christie Almagucci.
Speaker 1: Man just giving people a little glimpse into what is
Speaker 1: happening inside my brain at any given moment over the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, as I just wrestle with the
Speaker 1: existence of the movie. Late Year not apparently really good
Speaker 1: word to wrestle with that. You've definitely been grappling with
Speaker 1: that const the consequences. The metaphysics of it all confusing,
Speaker 1: but I do appreciate Christie. I'm a Gucci man also
Speaker 1: at Wopple House. Just a great follow on Twitter for
Speaker 1: anybody who's just catching up. He's just he's becoming a
Speaker 1: power Twitter account. Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like dai. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Get in him,
Speaker 1: strap on for the ride like a rocket man. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co
Speaker 1: host Mr Miles Gras. June twenty one was the longest day,
Speaker 1: longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day,
Speaker 1: longest day. It was the longest day. Shout out to
Speaker 1: the solstice that happened yesterday June one. Uh love that
Speaker 1: point of like the summer when you're like just gonna
Speaker 1: this is the most like we get baby, drink it in.
Speaker 1: My favorite, my favorite feeling of the summer is just
Speaker 1: how long the days are. And shout out to people
Speaker 1: who are people who are like higher up on the
Speaker 1: globe at higher what is that latitudes or longitudes whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get the real fucking wild ass days when it's
Speaker 1: like nine thirty in the sun setting and you're like,
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it. Love it's anyway shout
Speaker 1: out to the long days. Well, my was weird thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant filmmaker, writer, actor,
Speaker 1: comedian podcaster. He co founded what the A V Club
Speaker 1: called one of the best podcast networks, Small Beans, where
Speaker 1: you can find he and a bunch of the most
Speaker 1: talented people we worked with a cracked hosting podcasts if
Speaker 1: you've ever heard of those. He's one of the co
Speaker 1: hosts of One Upsmanship, which is a new podcast on
Speaker 1: our network. An old podcast from the Small Beans days,
Speaker 1: but it's a great podcast that everybody needs to go
Speaker 1: check out immediately epd by DJ Daniel if you need
Speaker 1: any extra reason to check it out. He is the brilliant,
Speaker 1: the talented, the kind Michael Swain. Oh brought the most
Speaker 1: important epithet last, the kind Michael Swain. A k A quick,
Speaker 1: Michael Swain, they're right outside our yards, Michael Swain, go
Speaker 1: call the Roman God. No, wait, we need a more
Speaker 1: permanent solution to this, Michael. I just wanted to see
Speaker 1: if I could go low today. That's what that was about.
Speaker 1: Definitely was beautiful. Hey, gang uh and that was by
Speaker 1: Michael Swam at swam Underscore Corps, a decent follow on Twitter. No,
Speaker 1: not that, but I'll get there. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like an okay, pretty okay follow on Twitter that goode
Speaker 1: was good to see you. Hang you for that kind
Speaker 1: ass intro. Yeah, man, all, I mean, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: be here mainly so I can talk about one upsmanship.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna immediately launch into that. I'm just throwing
Speaker 1: to being part of our heart. Man. That back under
Speaker 1: the Jack O'Brien umbrella, you know. Yeah, it's one step
Speaker 1: shot of stealing your identity. That's on the horizon, but
Speaker 1: we'll get there for now. Just under the same brand
Speaker 1: umbrella is good enough. And yeah, you'd me to a
Speaker 1: party called Operation Dicky Greenleaf. I didn't know exactly what
Speaker 1: that was about. Um, that's actually part of his am
Speaker 1: on my co host Adam Ganzer. It's like the old switchero.
Speaker 1: That's a long but yeah, me and Adam just doing
Speaker 1: taking one Upsmanship weekly, which has meant in my life.
Speaker 1: What am I doing right now? Playing video games at
Speaker 1: all times? Yeah? It used to be a monthly show.
Speaker 1: Now it's weekly, So I basically upped my video game
Speaker 1: intakes so I can stay abbreast of everything. Ne yah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be five up by this time next summer. That's
Speaker 1: what we're working towards. What how is the video game
Speaker 1: landscape right now? How are you? How are you feeling?
Speaker 1: Spoken like someone who knows very little about the video game?
Speaker 1: Video game? That's the second video game. I think we
Speaker 1: went two days where I hit him with are you
Speaker 1: winning sons? I mean, Retro's triumphant? Right now, Shredder's Revenge
Speaker 1: is tearing it up. Everyone I know is talking about
Speaker 1: that and the game I just mentioned in the babble Neon.
Speaker 1: It's super fun. It's a good time to own a switch,
Speaker 1: which I don't usually say so, I don't know what
Speaker 1: about your switches if you're listening to this today now,
Speaker 1: the twenty two the Shadow Run trilogy just came to consoles,
Speaker 1: and you can get great nuggets like that over at
Speaker 1: one upsom and show or by playing video game release dates.
Speaker 1: But we will don't don't keep away the whole show. Now,
Speaker 1: It's true, that's what it is. It's basically just an
Speaker 1: overview of release dates. Yeah, that's our thing. It's actually
Speaker 1: very fun. And hilarious and enjoyable, entertaining to listen to,
Speaker 1: even if you don't play the video games, which in
Speaker 1: some cases like there there are rare episodes where I
Speaker 1: don't know the game you're talking about, but very rare,
Speaker 1: very rare ver you got that switch check. How are you?
Speaker 1: How are you living as a switch owner? Oh? Man? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because I remember I keep that ship on me. You
Speaker 1: sent me a gift from the let Me Ride music
Speaker 1: video from the Chronic album. I was like, what then
Speaker 1: because this, and You're like, because I'm hitting switches right now,
Speaker 1: and yeah, multiple, I have multiple switches. Switches like okay, uh,
Speaker 1: I just gotta gotta keep one in every room, even
Speaker 1: though that's by design supposed to use the switch for
Speaker 1: multiple switches. All right, Michael, we're going to get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. I want to talk about the how the
Speaker 1: results for the democratic primaries in Los Angeles were reported.
Speaker 1: We're not, I guess not reported there. There was a
Speaker 1: report the morning after in the New York Times that
Speaker 1: was like progressive Democrats got put on their ass and
Speaker 1: they're on the defensive because everybody's afraid of crime and
Speaker 1: siding with the police, which is like a standard narrative.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was like the headline on the top
Speaker 1: of Drudge Report heading into the elect So, like the
Speaker 1: the mainstream media knew what they wanted to say about
Speaker 1: the election. And it turns out the results were not
Speaker 1: that the New York Times even should have known at
Speaker 1: the time they published their article, but the results were
Speaker 1: surprisingly progressive, like shockingly progressive if you had just been
Speaker 1: reading the mainstream media accounts of like what what voter
Speaker 1: sentiment was in Los Angeles. So we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: what the actual results were and how the New York
Speaker 1: Times got it exactly wrong. I guess we don't know
Speaker 1: exactly how they got it exactly wrong, but what that
Speaker 1: strategy is all about getting getting things exactly wrong when
Speaker 1: it comes to energy for progressive solutions. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the Texas GOP and their weekend, and of course
Speaker 1: we will talk about Murf, which is an anthropomorphic amalgam
Speaker 1: of ten thousand Nerf darts with the ability to run
Speaker 1: and shoot a NERF gun that Nurse is about to
Speaker 1: introduce as their spokes being and it's it's a it's wild,
Speaker 1: it's weird, and yeah, so we'll talk about we'll talk
Speaker 1: about Murph. But before we get to any of that, Michael,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history? Well, Jack, this time there was
Speaker 1: one clear winner, and it's knocked crop, which which I thought, uh,
Speaker 1: in my ignorance, meant night ships, because I was like
Speaker 1: looking up, I'm like, shooting way, I'm waking up to
Speaker 1: ship way more night now than I did as a
Speaker 1: younger man. And I was looking at up and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I would think I was composing some kind
Speaker 1: of joke for Twitter about it, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: need the German and I assumed it's knocked crop, but
Speaker 1: it's not so that I ended up learning about something
Speaker 1: much much scarier, which is the night raven, a mythical
Speaker 1: Austrian and Southern German bugbear like creature that is a
Speaker 1: flying bone demon raven with a hollow cavity in its chest.
Speaker 1: And if your kids don't go to sleep all on time,
Speaker 1: the knocked crop comes and stuffs them and it's bony
Speaker 1: chest cavity and carries them back to its nest and
Speaker 1: devours them. So it's one of those like ship classic
Speaker 1: Grimm's fairy tales we used to use in addition to
Speaker 1: hitting our we like hit them and say, a demon
Speaker 1: bird's gonna eat you. Now leave me alone, behave good
Speaker 1: since here's a here's a bed, A nice story like
Speaker 1: get you relaxed. And my partner and I are just
Speaker 1: considering having our first child now, so I need to
Speaker 1: start learning this kind of yet this is perducial information. Yeah,
Speaker 1: start with Grimms and just go darker from there. Holy shit,
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for the Adam Scott movie like Crampus
Speaker 1: where they just completely red con knocked crop and now
Speaker 1: it's like a really funny you know, banking jokes off
Speaker 1: knocked crop. It's gonna happen. I never saw a Crampus as.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of the idea with with Crampus as
Speaker 1: they like to get in a funny direction. But it's
Speaker 1: still it's still like grotesque horror. But I don't think
Speaker 1: you're supposed to take it seriously as such, if you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's got a bit of a
Speaker 1: wink m It's like Leprechaun in the hood, but they
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, which kind of loses some of
Speaker 1: the magic for me, right, like people to be completely
Speaker 1: not self aware if they're gonna whiff that hard I think, right,
Speaker 1: did you guys have anything like that growing up, like
Speaker 1: a like boogeyman or a story or you know, a
Speaker 1: warning that you're like really stuck with you. I think
Speaker 1: I've talked on here before. I had like this imaginary
Speaker 1: blonde haired guy with like raccunas who But I think
Speaker 1: that was like nobody told me that my my subconscious
Speaker 1: just produced him wow, and that that just kept me
Speaker 1: up at night. But did you have any anything like
Speaker 1: cultural handed down to you? You know, just the neighbor
Speaker 1: that my parents always told me, if you funk around
Speaker 1: in that neighbor's yard, he's gonna pull a shotgun on you.
Speaker 1: I mean we did, and he did, That's right. That
Speaker 1: was probably scariest thing I think from childhood. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I had the Catholic Church that was that
Speaker 1: was basically I thought that I was going to help
Speaker 1: because I said swear words in my mind right until
Speaker 1: the age of like thirty two, until like the age
Speaker 1: of seven or eight, I was like, well, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm fucked. Yeah, I've already sworn so much on
Speaker 1: this podcast. I think they demoted me another circle in
Speaker 1: the one for the swearers and cursors. What is something,
Speaker 1: Michael do you think is overrated? Well, first and foremost
Speaker 1: the Knocked Crop. I mean everyone's talking about it and
Speaker 1: it's you know, like it's the essence of the zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a little dare I say, not good,
Speaker 1: like not healthy. Everyone's discovering it the same way too.
Speaker 1: They're crapping a lot at night. That's right. That's the
Speaker 1: rough jerm and translation the pathway for not crap radicalization
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, we gotta dismantle that pipeline. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say going viral, like off of a hit joke
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Uh if if you haven't gathered, Twitter's my
Speaker 1: only social media thing, and I've like honed it to
Speaker 1: a fine point, right. I care a lot about Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I think I I well, I use it as
Speaker 1: like a writer's room. One of my favorite things that
Speaker 1: cracked was and this can be brutal. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of bad things about this, but I enjoyed the cutthroughout
Speaker 1: Writer's Room with a dozen comedy writers who are all
Speaker 1: like shouting their joke over each other, like I think
Speaker 1: this will be or I'm the loudest and take up
Speaker 1: the most space, or society raises me up to a
Speaker 1: point where you'll listen to my punch line whatever the math.
Speaker 1: However the mathematics breakdown, I do really like like raucous
Speaker 1: writer's room, and uh, I think that instinct followed me
Speaker 1: to Twitter, where I always want that joke to break
Speaker 1: through and blow up. And uh, I finally got over
Speaker 1: it because I when it does happen doesn't lead to
Speaker 1: new followers first off, but second of all, I realized, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm having so much more fun with my small beans community,
Speaker 1: which has sort of been this new experience for me
Speaker 1: where we go a lot deeper with our community, Like
Speaker 1: I know a lot more of the users by name
Speaker 1: and stuff about their lives, not in a way where
Speaker 1: it becomes unhealthy, but just the pair of social friendly way.
Speaker 1: And uh like our discord server you know over at
Speaker 1: patreon dot com, slash small beans is super vibrant and
Speaker 1: I love like having a cozy It feels like doing
Speaker 1: a live show for like twenty five people instead of
Speaker 1: a thousand, And I think there's something really special about that.
Speaker 1: So I'm enjoying that lately. Up. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: is like one of the gifts of the Internet that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be underrated. It's definitely like the small communities that
Speaker 1: blew them up. Yeah, it's it's I used to think
Speaker 1: you sort of had to hit be four quadrant and
Speaker 1: make it big in this world, and now I think
Speaker 1: you really just have to find your people, right. You
Speaker 1: have to find your audience fragments, and you can leverage that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that big of a group
Speaker 1: to make it as an artist, which is super cool.
Speaker 1: So I turned overrated into a positive I hope that's okay. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I love it. What's something that you think is underrated? Well,
Speaker 1: there's this podcast one Upsmanship on the I Heart Radio
Speaker 1: app and we're really trying to get it to blow
Speaker 1: up and go viral. So go check it out. If
Speaker 1: that could blow up, man, it would Oh the Catharsis,
Speaker 1: I would feel I saw I'd go viral, but actually
Speaker 1: that it was the authorship was completely changed and it
Speaker 1: was a nineteen year old I'll take it. That's good. Anyways,
Speaker 1: little nozas can tweet it out without accreditation, and I'll
Speaker 1: be like, we made it, even if he's dunking on us.
Speaker 1: I don't care radical self acceptance, which is uh specifically
Speaker 1: in this case, I'm talking about work life balance because man,
Speaker 1: I've spent so many years trying to work really hard
Speaker 1: because I have very specific career goals and I want
Speaker 1: projects to come to life, but also thinking all the
Speaker 1: time the stress is gonna kill me. Man, this is
Speaker 1: not good work life balance. You're a workaholic. This is bad.
Speaker 1: And I had a great therapist who started telling me
Speaker 1: that there's no right path and one thing you could
Speaker 1: try is thinking, what if you're not a workaholic, you
Speaker 1: just like kick ass and are very highly accomplished. And man,
Speaker 1: that's changed a lot for me and has not negated
Speaker 1: my quest to attain more work life balance like I
Speaker 1: thought it would. If that makes sense, So be kind yourself,
Speaker 1: you know, like, accept yourself for what you are, try
Speaker 1: and spin it in a positive light, and I think
Speaker 1: you'll be able to see like you can make changes
Speaker 1: more easily in your life. I'll have funny stuff to
Speaker 1: say later. Sorry, no, no, but that's something like I
Speaker 1: think is very important that I'm also just learning is
Speaker 1: like that. I when I go into therapy specifically, I
Speaker 1: tend to like pathologize things and be like, well, I'm said,
Speaker 1: and therefore I'm depressed, and like, sometimes that's true, but
Speaker 1: also like it's not. It's not always like the case
Speaker 1: that it's a pathology. Sometimes you're just a person doing
Speaker 1: your best. And yeah, I do like the radical self
Speaker 1: acceptance of like this is I have. It's easy for
Speaker 1: me to just strip the humanity from myself, for like
Speaker 1: as recently as like ten minutes ago, where I'm just like, well,
Speaker 1: what was I thinking? That? It is like, no, that
Speaker 1: that was you. You were doing your best. You're continuing
Speaker 1: to do your best. Just remind yourself that there's no
Speaker 1: one way to navigate life. So it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: like your path is normal, it's your path, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we get Yeah, I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing you gotta learn when you start therapy too
Speaker 1: is just to stop comparing yourself to other people, are
Speaker 1: comparing your path to others, because that's the most like,
Speaker 1: the most violent act you can commit to your individuality
Speaker 1: is to be like, why aren't I like this person
Speaker 1: that I am not like? And I will torture myself
Speaker 1: with this notion versus saying I am on a every
Speaker 1: single part sin is doing something in their own way.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's paths are going to look that way, and
Speaker 1: to begin to put judgment on it. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it can be a slippery slope, And I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that was the biggest thing I had to except
Speaker 1: over the years of like trying to you know, get
Speaker 1: into like working in media and just ship like that,
Speaker 1: of thinking like, well, at this point you need to
Speaker 1: be here or at this point you need to be
Speaker 1: doing this when completely not realizing like my path here
Speaker 1: like had a lot of winding like turns and things,
Speaker 1: but they all literally add up to this moment actually,
Speaker 1: because I thought being a lobbyist was a waste of time,
Speaker 1: and now it's helped build like a foundation for a
Speaker 1: lot of like my perspective even as a podcast host.
Speaker 1: So you never know where life's gonna take you just
Speaker 1: embrace it. Yeah, look at Christie, I'm a goose you
Speaker 1: man ten years so they'll be our all our boss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to get wopple House tatted. I think one
Speaker 1: of the biggest misconceptions, like just looking back on the
Speaker 1: last twenty years of my life. Like one of the
Speaker 1: biggest misconceptions is that it's like too late to do
Speaker 1: anything where that like it worth it to like compare
Speaker 1: yourself to other people and be like, well, just you know,
Speaker 1: like at this, at this age, I'm too late to
Speaker 1: like branch out into this thing. And it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's not true. Yeah, plenty plenty of people switch
Speaker 1: careers like midlife or you know what when you hear
Speaker 1: twenty like twenty seven year old to be like, I'm
Speaker 1: so old, I can't like it's too late. Like you're
Speaker 1: just like yo, man, you're like you feel bad, then
Speaker 1: I should have been the most depressed asshole of your
Speaker 1: if you think you should have been doing all this,
Speaker 1: I yeah, exactly. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. And we're back. And I
Speaker 1: saw a couple of headlines about this, but Miles, you
Speaker 1: you dug in a little bit more. The Texas State
Speaker 1: GOP met for their convention and then like had a
Speaker 1: you know, family meeting and decided we're we're going to
Speaker 1: be the worst as a family. Let's come together at
Speaker 1: this summit and just truly embody everything that is wrong
Speaker 1: with this country. We want to make this our platform
Speaker 1: and they I mean this their new party platform that
Speaker 1: they just ratified. It looks like a Maga value menu.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's all kinds of nonsense. One of the
Speaker 1: first things, like a lot of things got headlines. But
Speaker 1: we'll get the thing that I'm probably that I imagine
Speaker 1: most people like I think this is more about this
Speaker 1: other point. But a lot of things got headlines because
Speaker 1: it was the most homophobic, gun loving, ridiculous backwards should ever. First,
Speaker 1: they want to want to set a requirement for Texas
Speaker 1: students to quote learn about the humanity of the preborn child,
Speaker 1: including teaching that life begins at fertilization and requiring kids
Speaker 1: listen to live ultrasounds of just dating fetuses. Uh, let's see.
Speaker 1: They also wanted us move the legislator's power to quote
Speaker 1: regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime. Okay,
Speaker 1: so don't try and control the guns, because if we
Speaker 1: just have more loose guns out there, the better, I'd imagine,
Speaker 1: is what they're saying. They're also this is this is
Speaker 1: when that got a lot of headlines. Treating homosexuality is
Speaker 1: quote an abnormal lifestyle choice. This isn't anything that has
Speaker 1: been in the platform. This is this is new, because
Speaker 1: it seemed like at a certain point they had at
Speaker 1: least been like, all right, we lost that battle. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no point in trying to keep pushing back.
Speaker 1: But as we've seen, homophobia is back and kicking. Then
Speaker 1: also deeming gender identity disorder quote a genuine and extremely
Speaker 1: rare mental health conditions and then trying to obviously punish
Speaker 1: people who are you know, trying to attain gender affirming
Speaker 1: surgery or helping people seek that. Another one is the
Speaker 1: ensuring quote freedom to travel by opposing Biden's Clean energy
Speaker 1: plan and California style anti driver policies, which basically says
Speaker 1: you're not going to turn a traffic lane into something
Speaker 1: pedestrians or cyclists or mass transit can use. These big
Speaker 1: gas rows are for our trucks. They want to also
Speaker 1: look that there's every job is essential business, because that's
Speaker 1: a pushback against COVID nineteen mandates, abolishing the Federal Reserve,
Speaker 1: the nation's central bank, and guaranteeing their right to use
Speaker 1: alternatives to cash, including cryptocurrencies, just for good measures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really hit all the oh yeah, and this is
Speaker 1: all like in a way that this goes on the
Speaker 1: fact that they said Biden is also not the legitimate president,
Speaker 1: that they would vote on secession in three and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm that's always I mean, Texas always loves to talk
Speaker 1: about secession until their fucking privatized electrical grid takes a
Speaker 1: ship and then they're like, please federal money. So this
Speaker 1: is this is like a pretty normal and forth flow
Speaker 1: of dumb ideas. But when you look at all this stuff,
Speaker 1: it's so like it's provocative, hateful ship that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are like, I think it may be the
Speaker 1: part where they buried it, the trying to repeal the
Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act of that might be the thing they're
Speaker 1: looking for. Really, that's what they're more most interested in
Speaker 1: as a party, because then they can fully just discriminate
Speaker 1: against whoever the funk they want to to negate votes
Speaker 1: and fully have a lock on that process. So I
Speaker 1: think with all that stuff, it's like most bills that
Speaker 1: you see the GEOP put forward, they put together the
Speaker 1: most fucked up version just to dial it back to
Speaker 1: fucked up. But even then that's like breaking barriers of
Speaker 1: like cruelty that we've you know, not seen before. So
Speaker 1: it looks like that's a little bit of what's happening
Speaker 1: with this new geop platform. But yeah, it's getting getting
Speaker 1: tense over there in Texas. It seems just like making
Speaker 1: children listen to ultras sounds live ultrasounds of fetuses like
Speaker 1: is I don't know, it really has like some clockwork
Speaker 1: orange mixed with I don't know, like a terror camp,
Speaker 1: you know, like just a extremist training like grounds. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's very very uh like I'm just having
Speaker 1: an art time in picturing like the people who are like, yep,
Speaker 1: that is the country I want to live in, other
Speaker 1: than like very very angry people who would get over
Speaker 1: that and maybe five minutes later and be like okay,
Speaker 1: but like that wouldn't actually be a good a good
Speaker 1: place to live, right. Well. The whole thing is that
Speaker 1: it's all of this stuff is said to reinforce their worldview,
Speaker 1: which is we can do whatever we want, and we
Speaker 1: can treat whoever we want however the funk we want to.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna mandate like basic levels of treatment for
Speaker 1: other people. That's not we like, we have this worldview.
Speaker 1: It's not about freedom it's really the freedom to discriminate.
Speaker 1: So that's really what they're marching towards constantly. And I
Speaker 1: get that most people like do I want to live
Speaker 1: in a place where you're saying, like, execute the parents
Speaker 1: of lgbt Q youth, right, that's you want to see
Speaker 1: that ship go down in your neighborhood. Who knows. But
Speaker 1: the idea is to say this kind of incendiary ship
Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, because that's what we're about. We
Speaker 1: make other people panic. We're not panicked about our dwindling
Speaker 1: maybe uh efficacy or potency as a white people in
Speaker 1: the United States, because we can now just sort of
Speaker 1: maindate all this other cruelty with a smile on our
Speaker 1: face and say, well, that's not that doesn't touch us.
Speaker 1: We just want to suck their party up. We want
Speaker 1: to make their time as difficult as possible. And they
Speaker 1: put it under the freedom of speech umbrella. Always it
Speaker 1: feels like freedom of speech is now such a broad
Speaker 1: brush that it's painted as like my ability to you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to give them cake now, I want
Speaker 1: them round it up. I'm just talking. That's my freedom
Speaker 1: of speech. And it's like a completely flexible definition that's
Speaker 1: It's just interesting that it is always a strategy play right, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the heartening bit as you're like in
Speaker 1: straight poles and if you just ask the average American,
Speaker 1: I mean, do want parents of lgbt Q youth to
Speaker 1: be like criminalized? They in a landslide. It's no, doesn't
Speaker 1: largely affect me. But everything is a strategy you play.
Speaker 1: They have so much leverage. There's this system that's allowed
Speaker 1: for the ability of an extremist minority to hold everyone
Speaker 1: else hostage. And we just sort of watch the train
Speaker 1: barrel out of control and go like, I wonder if
Speaker 1: the checks and balances will kick in at some point here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And I
Speaker 1: think we're all like waiting to see is this the
Speaker 1: last gasp of these hateful dinosaur people and and we
Speaker 1: just survive it and they die off or something, or
Speaker 1: is this the new norm? Like is this an in transition?
Speaker 1: In transition like intracticable things. I think like we always
Speaker 1: say like extremism is always going to exist where inequality
Speaker 1: just remains ramps because it offers a very tidy perspective
Speaker 1: or worldview as to like why you may be experiencing
Speaker 1: a lack that you might not be able to articulate,
Speaker 1: but you know is there, and based on everybody else
Speaker 1: who looks like you and your community is like kind
Speaker 1: of like sort of marching to this other beat. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's that, it's that, it's that. It's uh, it's drag
Speaker 1: queens and the libraries. And because we're trained to value
Speaker 1: like or to measure our achievement by like financial status
Speaker 1: and compare ourselves to others, you always have that deep
Speaker 1: down feeling where it's like, what's got to be some
Speaker 1: other category of people are sucking me up, Like my
Speaker 1: my privileges are diminishing. That has to mean something someone else's,
Speaker 1: you know, they should just yeah, look at the billionaire class.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, they're wages because they stole all your money.
Speaker 1: They have they have your bag bag over there. They
Speaker 1: made everybody a bag holder. I don't know, maybe Okay,
Speaker 1: you're into crypto, you get crypt remember bag holders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what they're doing to every body. And we're
Speaker 1: over here pointing picked pointing fingers at the wrong fucking
Speaker 1: people because that's the biggest fear is that they realize
Speaker 1: people who control all the capital or like they're gonna
Speaker 1: realize where the architects of their suffering and not immigrants
Speaker 1: or the rights of gay people, right, And the billionaires
Speaker 1: have massive amounts of money to spend on branding, right,
Speaker 1: So like that's I think why like in in the
Speaker 1: mainstream like that is like it's become clearer and clear
Speaker 1: to me and like this kind of ties into the
Speaker 1: next story. But that that the mainstream media is like
Speaker 1: complicit in this, right, Like they're yeah, you know you
Speaker 1: think of like the companies that move mountains of money,
Speaker 1: like even like black Rock, and they have their hands
Speaker 1: and media twos like they're gonna start turning up on
Speaker 1: like like what the real issues are. No, that's just
Speaker 1: for it, like not on the real TV. Like Crystal
Speaker 1: Ball was on Bill Maher this weekend and she was
Speaker 1: trying to be like, man, you guys are talking a
Speaker 1: bunch of weird in fact like fallacy type ship and
Speaker 1: like he got so piste. Yeah of course, because she's like, man,
Speaker 1: you're really gonna blame inflation on like supporting poor people.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, because Biden decided to make all his
Speaker 1: money and it's like him and this other tired as
Speaker 1: like a conservative and it you could just tell that
Speaker 1: it was like it was wearing him down, and like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tweets about it, where like past
Speaker 1: guests I've felt, I've been said, like when you go
Speaker 1: on that show, do not push back against Bill Maher
Speaker 1: because he doesn't like when people are, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: for themselves out loud on that show. But just to
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of insight into like the
Speaker 1: tone of this GOP little get together in Texas, just
Speaker 1: saying Okay, it's we fully come to the clowns have
Speaker 1: taken over the circus tent like point obviously because the
Speaker 1: moment they, you know, the GOP embraced Donald Trump, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: there's no turning back from this now because you have
Speaker 1: fully opened the gates. Um John Cornyn, who gave like
Speaker 1: some closing remarks at this thing, who normally says some
Speaker 1: of the dumbest ship you've ever heard that would delight
Speaker 1: MAGA people, he got fucking booed when he was giving
Speaker 1: his closing remarks. You want to know why because he
Speaker 1: kind of half said, yeah, I might support that very
Speaker 1: tepid gun control bill because of the terrific mass shooting
Speaker 1: that happened in my state. I just want you to
Speaker 1: hear him try and speak and him getting shouted at.
Speaker 1: So let's take our country back starting with converence. Thank
Speaker 1: you God, bless God, our great sight. That's cordinate, okay,
Speaker 1: your Senator. And then you know they weren't even feeling
Speaker 1: fucking when poor Ted cruises just behind when up there
Speaker 1: they were also he was getting smoked. Dan Crenshaw was
Speaker 1: getting fucking harassed by proud boys, I guess. So now
Speaker 1: you know it's completely they're there. You're starting to see
Speaker 1: them lose control and they go get become further and
Speaker 1: further extreme. And the funked up part and all of
Speaker 1: this now is that like, as this is happening, Democrats
Speaker 1: are pouring money into races to elevate the extremist MAGA
Speaker 1: candidates because they think it's gonna be easier for them
Speaker 1: to win. But what they're doing is just there's just
Speaker 1: further entrenching this ship into the GOP by by even
Speaker 1: like by spending money to even mention these people on
Speaker 1: TV because their whole things like, well, we're not going
Speaker 1: to challenge our own beliefs on governance so just be like, yo,
Speaker 1: platform the fucking undesirables and then we don't have to
Speaker 1: do nothing. Uh. And it's a very, like you said,
Speaker 1: very messy road to this this midterm and when you
Speaker 1: look at everything combined, Yeah, I mean the two threads
Speaker 1: pulling on me obviously are like politically, you know, just
Speaker 1: understanding the frustration with like the mainstream like the mainstream Democrats,
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, like recognizing that there is no energy
Speaker 1: for that, there's no future for that solution, but also
Speaker 1: being like scared of this ship. And yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know it. I would say it like feels like a
Speaker 1: false dichotomy. But like we we saw in the last
Speaker 1: election that like the things are so stacked in the
Speaker 1: favor of like the mainstream Democratic answer that like it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like there's a short term fix where
Speaker 1: suddenly like people are like it. It feels like it's
Speaker 1: the mainstream Democratic party or this like super far right
Speaker 1: extremist option which is more well developed than the left,
Speaker 1: more realistic option that I think would have more energy
Speaker 1: if the mainstream media was willing to acknowledge it. But
Speaker 1: that kind of ties into the next story, which like
Speaker 1: based on the mainstream media news coverage after er the
Speaker 1: l A Democratic primary a couple of weeks back, you
Speaker 1: would have thought the population of l A had just
Speaker 1: like gone all the way into the right. From the
Speaker 1: New York Times, the quote paper of record, Progressive Democrats
Speaker 1: were knocked on the defensive in their own party over
Speaker 1: crime and homelessness on Wednesday, after voters into high profile
Speaker 1: California races delivered a stark warning about the potency of
Speaker 1: law and order as a political message. In two and
Speaker 1: they were talking about the Caruso like that. You know,
Speaker 1: they had basically basically called that election for Caruso, Like
Speaker 1: they I think acknowledged it was going to be a runoff,
Speaker 1: but they were like he he won out. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's just generally like a movement to the right of
Speaker 1: voters in Los Angeles. And then like and there, I've
Speaker 1: been trying to figure out, like what actually happened, just
Speaker 1: like actual results from some of the progressive candidates that
Speaker 1: I voted for that I know people were supporting. We're
Speaker 1: just people who I saw on billboards like around Los
Speaker 1: Angeles who like put up things like here's what the
Speaker 1: budgets actually like that this is an actual billboard on
Speaker 1: Crenshaw in l A. It's like, here's what budgets actually
Speaker 1: look like. And you know, it's just a bar graph
Speaker 1: with like police spending, and it shows like how massive
Speaker 1: police spending is compared to like all these other priorities
Speaker 1: that you know, just like one piece of truth that
Speaker 1: like could could reach people directly. And so finally we're
Speaker 1: getting results in like not not the what what the
Speaker 1: New York Times assumed was going to happen, but actual results,
Speaker 1: and it is wildly successful for progressive candidates, like the
Speaker 1: people who were putting out that information and being like,
Speaker 1: just doubling down on funding the police is not is
Speaker 1: not the answer. Those people had surprisingly a lot of success.
Speaker 1: It's basically the exact opposite of what the New York
Speaker 1: Times article has said. And that's not coming out in
Speaker 1: the New York Times. That came out in a column
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Times that was like, is l
Speaker 1: a more progressive than San Francisco? Now, Like they that
Speaker 1: was the angle they had to give it to make
Speaker 1: it like an opinion piece. But it's the only place
Speaker 1: in the mainstream where I was seeing coverage of these facts,
Speaker 1: like I'll just read directly from it. In an election
Speaker 1: year supposedly defined by the public's anxiety over rising crime
Speaker 1: and diminishing law enforcement, Los Angeles is on the verge
Speaker 1: of electing its first abolitionist city council member. Um. It's
Speaker 1: it's all part of what the thirty two year old
Speaker 1: community activists calls a tidal wave of progressiveness that's washing
Speaker 1: over l a Um. Elsewhere on the East Side, labor
Speaker 1: organizer Hugo Soto Martinez, who campaigned on having fewer cops
Speaker 1: and repealing the law that allows the city to remove
Speaker 1: homeless encampments, has pulled ahead of incumbent City County sleman
Speaker 1: Mitchell Ferrell in District thirteen, and Karen Bass just pulled
Speaker 1: ahead of Carusa, the person that everybody was like fawning
Speaker 1: over and was like, this is proof that the Democrats
Speaker 1: are fucked in the election and two mid terms. So
Speaker 1: it's basically the exact opposite of the story that the
Speaker 1: mainstream media was telling in the run up to the
Speaker 1: election and the immediate aftermath. But no, now they have
Speaker 1: just stopped talking about it. It's like, you know, this
Speaker 1: is I think us running into again the most insidious
Speaker 1: but also like effective way that progressive energy and politics
Speaker 1: are opposed, which is depriving them of any oxygen in
Speaker 1: any of the mainstream sources, uh, that we're taught are
Speaker 1: like both um, the only option for fact checked information.
Speaker 1: And also we're taught that they are like left leaning
Speaker 1: um and like liberal and like not neither of those
Speaker 1: in case, but like that that really puts us in
Speaker 1: a precarious position where we have this one option that
Speaker 1: is kind of well founded that we heard from in
Speaker 1: Texas that are like well formed, I guess where they
Speaker 1: have all the talking points, they have ways of getting
Speaker 1: the information out. They have like these national figures who
Speaker 1: have all you know, have ways of reaching people, um,
Speaker 1: who are saying funk the mainstream and like the way
Speaker 1: that this country has been run. And then we have
Speaker 1: these candidates who are to the left of what the
Speaker 1: mainstream has been and like the you know, complicity and
Speaker 1: all the Wall Street thievery and bullshit that has gone on,
Speaker 1: and they are not allowed to like they they will
Speaker 1: not be acknowledged in the mainstream conversation. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: h it's it's a tidy way of keeping people from
Speaker 1: having multiple forms of analyzing what's happening. There's an I
Speaker 1: feel like it's like a New Republic or the Atlantic today.
Speaker 1: I forget one of the two. There's like this article
Speaker 1: that was like liberals are actually ignoring these crime waves
Speaker 1: and it was like another thing trying to pop up
Speaker 1: those fucked up New York Times articles where they're like
Speaker 1: these are like the sourcing although there is some like
Speaker 1: editorial like editorializing happening are like pretty good. They're well sourced,
Speaker 1: like because it's you're not even questioning the fact that
Speaker 1: they're like according to my cop friend who hates the poor,
Speaker 1: and we're it's it's just a very interesting thing to
Speaker 1: even come watched. Even see now the media come out
Speaker 1: to sort of push back against like a thing that
Speaker 1: they've been hearing. It's like I hear people are taking
Speaker 1: shots that like the the the idea that maybe the
Speaker 1: police and look local news are really amplifying this crime thing,
Speaker 1: and they're like, but that's where they're after they created
Speaker 1: some term for like like it's not anecdotal but antich resort,
Speaker 1: I don't know, some nonsense thing um all to say
Speaker 1: that it's like but yeah, here's the deal. It's really
Speaker 1: bad and uh, you know the d A Larry Krasner
Speaker 1: in Philly. I mean he's he's cantankerous. M hm. Oh,
Speaker 1: you can't use a strong word like that without backup,
Speaker 1: you know, backing it up with lots of stats. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well but and I but I guess it. It does
Speaker 1: reveal this whole thing where it's like it sounds like
Speaker 1: the thrust of the pieces, like yeah, and those das
Speaker 1: were bad. So it is. It is. It is an
Speaker 1: odd place we find ourselves in, constantly sweet grapple, with
Speaker 1: many kinds of messaging around what is or is not
Speaker 1: actually happening around us, and what is or is not
Speaker 1: even claimed by each team, Like it's wild to that
Speaker 1: that the mask mandate is even in the plant. I mean,
Speaker 1: I understand why it is, because I'm in the pot
Speaker 1: like a frog being boiled, and I get it, like
Speaker 1: I've been around. But I'm just imagining someone dropping to
Speaker 1: the sky from like the eighteen hundreds and trying to explain,
Speaker 1: why are you wearing a mask? Oh, there's a disease
Speaker 1: like the plague if you're familiar with from your time. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll all wear a mask. Two. Oh, so you're like
Speaker 1: a liberal type of peasant from the medieval times, you know, like,
Speaker 1: it's wild to me that that even indicates that and
Speaker 1: then the same token, I think a medieval person would
Speaker 1: honestly be flabber gases to come to the year two
Speaker 1: and see all this miraculous technology and see that when
Speaker 1: someone like goes against social moras, we still break out
Speaker 1: chains and cages and weapons, and that's we haven't thought
Speaker 1: of anything better. That's just wild to me. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it's good, good pr for the chains, cages and weapons.
Speaker 1: Proud Yeah, big chain, weapons, big big chain is Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're crushing in the messaging department. And I think that's why,
Speaker 1: because we're we consumed just NonStop propaganda all day throughout
Speaker 1: most of our lives in the United States. And then
Speaker 1: you're like, how come like we can't come up with
Speaker 1: the actual good solution to problems. Well, and it's the
Speaker 1: physical instant creation of the internet, uh interaction that everyone
Speaker 1: hates most, which is when someone says some something truly
Speaker 1: hateful or despicable and you actually reveal that you've been upset,
Speaker 1: and they go, oh are you mad? You've lost the argument? Like,
Speaker 1: we as a society are doing that to our people.
Speaker 1: We send in like this person who's trained to and
Speaker 1: equipped to escalate a situation. Situations get out of control,
Speaker 1: and then we cite those stats as why we need
Speaker 1: those people. It makes It's never made sense, and it
Speaker 1: still doesn't. Yeah, it's just a cycle that has to
Speaker 1: be broken. We've talked about there. There's this thing idea
Speaker 1: in uh, this essay. I can tolerate anything except the
Speaker 1: out group that talks about how like each class is
Speaker 1: only aware of the class directly above them and the
Speaker 1: class directly below them, and they're taught to like hate
Speaker 1: both of them for like different reasons. Of the class
Speaker 1: the group directly above them is like, you know, holding
Speaker 1: them down. In the group directly below them, like you're
Speaker 1: allowed to look down on and therefore, by by extension,
Speaker 1: nobody really hates or like picks up any animus towards
Speaker 1: the people who are actually billionaires and are actually like
Speaker 1: you know, controlling things like we They are essentially mythical figures,
Speaker 1: are insulated by the very fact that you can't even
Speaker 1: comprehend how much money they have exactly. But I think
Speaker 1: like this, the way that the media is covering the
Speaker 1: this guy spending how much did Cruso spend on his
Speaker 1: election yeah, so like so many millions of dollars to
Speaker 1: run and come in like a distant second for for
Speaker 1: mayor UM in Los Angeles, and the media is covering
Speaker 1: it as like a wake up call and not covering
Speaker 1: any of the actual like populist energy on the ground
Speaker 1: for um. You know, things that are outside of like
Speaker 1: the moneyed interests in the way the way that money,
Speaker 1: money and interests prefer politics were on like that, it
Speaker 1: feels like a fixable problem. It doesn't feel like it's
Speaker 1: a limit of human imagination. It does feel like it's
Speaker 1: a limit of our media and how our media has
Speaker 1: always been viable, you know, like you can like Jeff Bezos,
Speaker 1: like the richest human maybe in the history of the world,
Speaker 1: owns the Washington Post. Um. You know, Elon Musk is
Speaker 1: on the verge of acquiring Twitter like that, and that
Speaker 1: I think one of when we had like some kind
Speaker 1: of centrist progressives on, they were like that's always been
Speaker 1: the case, like that, there's always been really wealthy people,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, but that's a bad thing because
Speaker 1: they are controlling how things are messaged, and like it's
Speaker 1: it's net We're never going to like get past this
Speaker 1: inability to like see how things at actually run and
Speaker 1: like not be crabs in a bucket? Who are you know,
Speaker 1: always just pulling, like fighting amongst ourselves If we don't
Speaker 1: have like an actual honest media, that isn't that isn't
Speaker 1: you know owned by wealthy interests, are funded exclusively by
Speaker 1: wealthy interests. Make your family listen to the Daily Sigeist.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, Michael, thank you for why
Speaker 1: I see you've read ahead to our final point on
Speaker 1: you're all responsible for indoctrinating five people. But first, this
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Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back
Speaker 1: and let's talk about what's the mirth murf. It's time
Speaker 1: time to talk to so we except clowns, sentient domen
Speaker 1: you know, fake military officers who were racists and you know,
Speaker 1: as brand mascots. I'm talking about, like the animals happily
Speaker 1: eating themselves like a pig cook and bacon. Well, we're
Speaker 1: fine with that, I mean we we practically demand it
Speaker 1: make us feel okay about eating bacon. But people seem
Speaker 1: to be pretty unnerved by a new They're unnerved by Murf,
Speaker 1: the new nerve spokes being. Yeah, so it's an anthropomorphic
Speaker 1: amalgam of ten thousand NERF darts with the ability to
Speaker 1: run and shoot a NERF gun despite a lack of
Speaker 1: anything resembling a face or eyes or any sensory inputs. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks like a like a like those videos you
Speaker 1: see like neglected poodles that like came in off the
Speaker 1: street and they're like in their hair matted they couldn't
Speaker 1: even see. That's what Mirf looks like. A matted dog
Speaker 1: who can't even see, like or one of those sheep
Speaker 1: that needed shave. Merf down bad FORRF sound good? Oh God,
Speaker 1: reveal the truittious nature of Mirf. Underneath is pritty underneath.
Speaker 1: That's the worst part shave if you just get gritty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gritty is is who it made me think of. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see a combination like one big gritty I
Speaker 1: patches of fur in between coming out the darts, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: point of order. Those are not darts, right, they're just Nerf?
Speaker 1: Are they darts? Do they have tips? Oh? They have
Speaker 1: suction cup tips. That's even how they're stuck, right because
Speaker 1: I'm imain no the tips face out. It looks like
Speaker 1: so like if he touches you, you're getting that. It's
Speaker 1: not Nerfy. It's like octopus. Yeah, he could get stuck
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, you're getting section cups. Bro, I'm not
Speaker 1: a fan. You just find NERF stuck to like some
Speaker 1: piece of glass somewhere in a city, like, kill me,
Speaker 1: murph uses your bathroom. That's just like thirty darts stuck. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But since nineteen sixty nine, NERF has never had a mascot,
Speaker 1: and they're like, we're doing it. That tradition ends now
Speaker 1: they unveiled Murf. People like some of the headlines, Sorry, Nerf,
Speaker 1: but your new mascot is terrifying. NERF fund veils and
Speaker 1: mascot made of ten thousand NERF darts and people are terrified.
Speaker 1: And then quote a social media posts that says kill it,
Speaker 1: nurse new mascot Murf will talk your nightmares. So they've
Speaker 1: also announced that murph uses they them pronouns, which I
Speaker 1: do think this is frankly cheapens the whole thing, Like,
Speaker 1: this is another way that progressive values, like what's that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: right now it makes sense unveiled during Pride, You're like,
Speaker 1: you're you're like, fuck uh that could look selfish as
Speaker 1: a company them. Yeah, the whole way that like progressive
Speaker 1: ideas get adopted by like marketers, like probably almost definitely
Speaker 1: like white guys in their forties and fifties who are
Speaker 1: just like parenting back, mostly overpaid to come up with MURF. Also,
Speaker 1: you know see for many fiscal cours, hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of dollars were spent on MURF and it's just some
Speaker 1: outsider persons, like you know, loose bad misunderstanding of the
Speaker 1: intention of of those values. But like when when they're
Speaker 1: made into like and murph uses they then pronouns, it
Speaker 1: becomes a meme and it becomes like a thing, an
Speaker 1: easy thing for um kids and then conservatives to like
Speaker 1: just dismiss, which is and also an easy thing for
Speaker 1: to make Joe Biden feel good about the job he's doing,
Speaker 1: as we saw on one of the Jimmy's Kimmel I
Speaker 1: think it was. He was like, what, why are you
Speaker 1: so fucking optimistic? Joe Biden Man, you see Murphy? Did
Speaker 1: you see them in that commercial? Right? Like Jesus Joe.
Speaker 1: And this also comes at a time where many people
Speaker 1: in the ZBTQ community are wondering what the funk are
Speaker 1: Democrats even doing right now? This has been a full
Speaker 1: on assault from the right and well, we got MRF,
Speaker 1: that's it. Where's the fucking where's the Department of Education
Speaker 1: having some kind of like real, like forceful opinion on
Speaker 1: what's happening or anything like that. A lot of the
Speaker 1: times people like all we get is just like empty platitudes,
Speaker 1: and you know, these new fucking sports or these toy
Speaker 1: mascots being like and here's a little crumb for this community,
Speaker 1: because imagine if if Murph came out in twenty the
Speaker 1: summer or fall of could you imagine could you imagine
Speaker 1: like his his his nerf darts make like dreadlocks or
Speaker 1: some ship. Yeah, because that was like, it's the same
Speaker 1: same lack of awareness of just people just thinking progress
Speaker 1: means I just put a sticker on something or a
Speaker 1: logo on something, or I change the appearance of my logo,
Speaker 1: rather than there is there's there are. There are groups
Speaker 1: of people experiencing untold levels of oppression, and I'm here
Speaker 1: to stand directly beside them saying I am an ally
Speaker 1: in this fight, rather being like, hey, man, if you
Speaker 1: buy this, we get it enough that we will just
Speaker 1: outwardly say we're on the right side of the conversation
Speaker 1: and that we really don't give a funk, because basically
Speaker 1: the message yeah, Merph looks like if you frightened him,
Speaker 1: he'd shoot darts in all directions, right, or if he
Speaker 1: climaxed orxed. Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, don't get into the
Speaker 1: mirf born Now. It's problem on Mini Dolly already that
Speaker 1: a I think also that effect is a complete rip off,
Speaker 1: incidentally of a fabulous major laser music video lighted up.
Speaker 1: So it's a failure on every level. But we've talked
Speaker 1: before about how militarized NERF guns have become. They're essentially
Speaker 1: candy colored like replica firearms, which gun manufacturers in the
Speaker 1: n r A are like off the record, but have
Speaker 1: been quoted as being like, we are eager to see
Speaker 1: these in the hands of kids, to wean them into
Speaker 1: gun ownership. Really, Oh, I didn't know it was that conscious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nerf guns are actually used in school shooting drills for teachers,
Speaker 1: not by any like mandate, but because yeah, they're the
Speaker 1: closest safe alternative. And it's so you're basically saying it's
Speaker 1: a practice gun, right. The whole idea now of like
Speaker 1: you know, when I was a kid, I played Cops
Speaker 1: and robbers with guns and fake guns and like cap
Speaker 1: guns and ship. The whole idea now of giving kids
Speaker 1: toy guns is becoming weirder and weirder and more and
Speaker 1: morbid and perverse, Like, yeah, it's wild. Man. I had
Speaker 1: one of my classmates their mom was an epidemiologist and
Speaker 1: like this is an elementary school. Her whole work was
Speaker 1: devoted to getting toy guns out of kids hands because
Speaker 1: of like even in like the eighties, and there are
Speaker 1: people like people mistaking kids are having guns being real
Speaker 1: guns and getting shot and things like that, and just
Speaker 1: generally like what it does to like sort of for
Speaker 1: or this thing. And I remember at the time, we're like, man,
Speaker 1: you know his mom doesn't let him play with any
Speaker 1: of the cool ship and you're like, your mom is
Speaker 1: from the future. Well, and I'm not even say because
Speaker 1: I'm a big like violent video games are fine by
Speaker 1: me guy, and I can like get into the details
Speaker 1: of that. But I'm just saying not even from the
Speaker 1: kid's perspectives. Believe me, I love nerve for. Like every
Speaker 1: birthday party when I was seven eight nine was nerve
Speaker 1: for and I get the thrill and the fun of
Speaker 1: like paintball and all these things. It's just I'm just
Speaker 1: saying as an adult now, like if I had a
Speaker 1: birthday party and saw all my kids and their friends
Speaker 1: shooting nerf guns at each other, there's no way I'm
Speaker 1: not excusing myself to the bathroom like cry, Like there's
Speaker 1: only one thing that makes me think of now and
Speaker 1: I didn't disturbed are like equivalent, Like the most lit
Speaker 1: thing you can have is what maybe a super soaker
Speaker 1: like two fifty Yeah, Like the like wasn't the o
Speaker 1: g like Neon green one that we all had where
Speaker 1: you drink the water out of it tastes terrible or
Speaker 1: the bad fact that shoots a thousand balls and then
Speaker 1: gotta pack it up. For like there was ball Zuka.
Speaker 1: I remember we had ball Zuka and that ship wasn't
Speaker 1: like launching it like it was basically as strong as
Speaker 1: you were. You can get the ball Zuka to shoot
Speaker 1: it out, but the ultimator can cuss you. Yeah. Well
Speaker 1: yeah see I missed Ultimator by about three years. And
Speaker 1: now I see videos of like dads who are like
Speaker 1: dressed up who are like military guys who are dressed
Speaker 1: up in tact gear like playing with their like NERF guns.
Speaker 1: Like there's this one video on Reddit of this dad
Speaker 1: who's clearly some kind of like you know, military operator
Speaker 1: comes in and clears, like clears the room like tactically
Speaker 1: with a NERF gun, like throws in like a NERF
Speaker 1: grint flash bang, and then he's you know, he's like
Speaker 1: cutting the pie like by coming in at an angle
Speaker 1: like like his entry point. He's like double tapping his
Speaker 1: kid in the chest and like his other kid, and
Speaker 1: you're like, what God, that's actually the origin story of
Speaker 1: MRF is Murph was one of the children that was
Speaker 1: taken down in that raid and has come back as
Speaker 1: an uber being vengeance. They rolled out in the coming years.
Speaker 1: I mean, but it does feel like that that queasiness
Speaker 1: is there constantly for all parents in America, and it's
Speaker 1: i'd be surprised if it is a complete coincidence and
Speaker 1: we'll never see this because like the the documents around
Speaker 1: a marketing campaign are typically protected, like the you know,
Speaker 1: jfk assassination documents. But like, there's no way it's a
Speaker 1: complete coincidence that as things become weirder and weirder, and
Speaker 1: as the idea of giving children like candy colored a
Speaker 1: rs to like run around and play with becomes more
Speaker 1: just overtly strange, they are making a change to like
Speaker 1: a cuddly spokes being that he's made of bullets, is
Speaker 1: made of like soft fun bullets instead of you know,
Speaker 1: anyway you put it that way. Yeah, that's imagine that
Speaker 1: a character made of like fucking you know, seven six
Speaker 1: two rounds and you're just like hey, right, and you're like,
Speaker 1: what the fund is this? And they're all pointed outward? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: as as as if to say, fire wildly in all directions,
Speaker 1: that's our that's our method. Right. It looks from a distance,
Speaker 1: MRF looks like they're made of like cush material. I
Speaker 1: thought it was like a cush mascot, not a NERF Matt.
Speaker 1: Yeah I did too. Also, why is NERF Murph got
Speaker 1: to have that. Why they got to have that, like
Speaker 1: big chain on like they're a rapper. Yeah, there is
Speaker 1: the gold chain. It's like a big Nerf place, big
Speaker 1: Nerf piece, chest piece. Okay, let's not keep mine on
Speaker 1: you nerf mm hmm. All right, well you know, keep
Speaker 1: your eyes appealed for our new future overlord. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the murf memes that are going to be baby
Speaker 1: Peanut and all that. Yeah right, Baby Peanut was one
Speaker 1: that I should have mentioned up top of like the
Speaker 1: things spokesmascots were willing to get on board with because
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, in an overtly like Christian America,
Speaker 1: like you know where the mainstream is like very protective
Speaker 1: and being like one nation under God. They were like, okay,
Speaker 1: but this is a mascot where like that dies and
Speaker 1: immediately reproduces as a baby that it looks like the
Speaker 1: previous one. So like very very strange metaphysical ideas being presented,
Speaker 1: and we're like, yeah, okay, that's Super Bowl commercial. It's fun,
Speaker 1: all good, all good, but not but fun. This murf stuff.
Speaker 1: Michael Swain truly a pleasure as always having you, Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you? All that stuff Oh well,
Speaker 1: I made sure to be extra plug heavy this time.
Speaker 1: But in case you missed it, I'm at Swain Underscore Corp.
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Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And that's my last plug, I swear. A tweet that's
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Speaker 1: who wrote, do you think I referenced dinosaurs too much?
Speaker 1: When I write? I asked, she was silent like the
Speaker 1: p and terot actyl, But it's said everything. I enjoyed
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Speaker 1: What is the tweet you've been enjoying. Find me on
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Speaker 1: see Let's see a tweet that I like. First one
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Speaker 1: I I said, first two drinks don't count if you
Speaker 1: have anxiety. They just turned you into a normal person.
Speaker 1: And that tweet was blown up over the weekend. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: did I quote kill a plant? Or did the plant
Speaker 1: not have what it takes to thrive in this fast
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Speaker 1: You guys need to settle it on the court. It'll
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Speaker 1: I didn't see that one. Never watch people play basketball.
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Speaker 1: enjoying Lynn Yard again tweeted, love the deli papers on
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Speaker 1: this one. I don't I didn't wanna like start beef,
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Speaker 1: the world needs a larger being that can be sliced
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Speaker 1: what song do we think people might enjoy? Okay, so
Speaker 1: this is a new band again. I love hearing music
Speaker 1: where I'm like, is this from now or from back then? Uh.
Speaker 1: They're called dina Ogan and there's a boom lot over
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