Speaker 1: Oh, hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to twenty four,
Speaker 1: episode five of The Daily Site. Guys. It's a production
Speaker 1: of My Heart Radio. Yes, it's the podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's shared unconsciousness. It's fucking Friday,
Speaker 1: thank goodness, February. My name is Miles Gray, a k a.
Speaker 1: Christina Christina. I would love to play scategories or I
Speaker 1: could give you a foot rob I'm living my life
Speaker 1: just like in Entourage. Okay, shout out to Christie. I'm
Speaker 1: a Gucci man at waffle house, because yes, I was
Speaker 1: talking about my time and Christina Aguilera's Entourage filled with
Speaker 1: categories and foot rops, and you know, I was maybe
Speaker 1: living my my best life then or maybe my worst life.
Speaker 1: I don't know TBT. But enough about me and more
Speaker 1: about today's guest co host. I am thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined at the Helm with one of the most brilliant writers. Okay,
Speaker 1: someone who has one of the highest degrees in the
Speaker 1: land when it comes to writing. Their movie takes infallible.
Speaker 1: Whatever they say is fucking law when it comes to film.
Speaker 1: That's just that's just my take. That's just my take.
Speaker 1: This person is one of the first. Actually, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say one of basically the original Paddington evangelists, and
Speaker 1: I think that's really important for all the Paddington hype
Speaker 1: that the I can. I can almost draw direct line
Speaker 1: straight to this person's brain. They're a hilarious comedian as well.
Speaker 1: But and you know they also helps to back up cast,
Speaker 1: do you. I don't even have to say more. Please
Speaker 1: welcome the anagrammed NINETI Dracula a k a. Caitlin Durante. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. And I don't,
Speaker 1: unfortunately have a new antagram today because I've been too
Speaker 1: busy one playing wordle. All of my word skills are
Speaker 1: going to wordle, and I've also been too busy playing
Speaker 1: Pokemon for our arsis everyone who's gonna just no, they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna say we feel you on that, because
Speaker 1: the second you said it, everyone's like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know somebody who lost their life to that game over
Speaker 1: so it seems like it. But also is that I
Speaker 1: don't well, I was like hesitating because I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's how you pronounce it, because I'm a fine
Speaker 1: look as a Japanese person. The fact that people are saying, pokmo,
Speaker 1: I can already you know, I can already scorch the
Speaker 1: earth with my anger about that, so they don't have
Speaker 1: room to check anybody's pronunciation. But yes, uh you get
Speaker 1: Caitlin was new. I'm good. Yeah, just the whole, just
Speaker 1: the playing video games and ruining my life with them
Speaker 1: instead of you know, doing work or showering, and um,
Speaker 1: that's about that's me in a nutshell right now. I
Speaker 1: mean to be really candid. Do you have like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm I've I've I go through like valleys and peaks
Speaker 1: of pathing depending on my emotional state. Do you have
Speaker 1: like a moment ago? Now all right, we've crossed the
Speaker 1: line time. It's like my hair is so oil that
Speaker 1: it feels like it's made of wires and I can
Speaker 1: put into different shapes. What do you that's me right now.
Speaker 1: I did shower yesterday, but I was like, do I
Speaker 1: need to wash my hair and I can go a
Speaker 1: few more days? Yeah. Man, I love to know about
Speaker 1: having natural hair oils, but my scalp is pretty exposed
Speaker 1: to male powdern baldness. Okay, let's move on to welcome
Speaker 1: today's guests. This is somebody who you know as a
Speaker 1: very talented writer comedian. You may have seen her on
Speaker 1: a TV show called Conan. Ever heard of it? I have?
Speaker 1: Maybe you you're in the l A area, and you've
Speaker 1: heard of the longest running all female and female identifying
Speaker 1: stand up comedy show at the Hollywood Improv, The Mermaid
Speaker 1: Comedy Hour, because she hosts and produces that. Also, you
Speaker 1: may have heard of her number one debut comedy album,
Speaker 1: Beach tridd Ash. I'm sorry to put a little bit
Speaker 1: of slang on that. I'm sorry beach Trash. I'll call
Speaker 1: it by its Christian name. And also, I just love
Speaker 1: to say I just love this part of her. Once
Speaker 1: she's not slinging jokes, you can find her pumping quarters
Speaker 1: into the Jurassic Park pinball table while quoting Dennis Nedri
Speaker 1: we got dots in here, seeing nobody cares. Please welcome
Speaker 1: today's guest, Valerie Tosa. What's going on? Thank you for
Speaker 1: getting that reference, because some people don't and it makes
Speaker 1: me very upset. Oh really, well, I think in the
Speaker 1: in the pinball game its eyes. Uh yeah, you didn't
Speaker 1: say that. I think that's the one that goes through. Look,
Speaker 1: I love that pinball It's so good. It's such a
Speaker 1: good thing. It's fantastic. I used to play it a
Speaker 1: lot of my local seven eleven when that was basically
Speaker 1: the arcade in North Holli. But but yeah, Valerie, welcome, Thanks.
Speaker 1: Where are you coming to us from? Okay, yeah, that
Speaker 1: would make sense. You do a show, the longest running
Speaker 1: show at the Hollywood Improv, so that that would put
Speaker 1: you squarely in this area. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you playing
Speaker 1: any video games, anything ruining your life, anything taking your
Speaker 1: attention recently? I mean I showed my family at word
Speaker 1: all when I was home, and I also found the
Speaker 1: Word of Archives. So there's I'm lost. There's no hope
Speaker 1: for me. I'm only taking a break to do this
Speaker 1: podcast and then I'm back into the board, right back
Speaker 1: to work. When you said you went home where his home? Well, well,
Speaker 1: so my parents homes Boston. But my folks moved to
Speaker 1: Florida in the middle of the pandemic because perfect timing.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go where it's the worst. And so they're
Speaker 1: they're there now, and uh and I was there seeing them,
Speaker 1: so yeah nice. Yeah, yeah, Well, look, Value, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better, as will
Speaker 1: our listeners. But first let's give a little preview about
Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about today. Uh spoiler alert, Apparently
Speaker 1: working at Tesla is a racist hellscape for black workers.
Speaker 1: We'll look into a really eye opening lawsuit that is
Speaker 1: being filed against the electric car manufacturer, as well as
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, speaking of tech weirdness. If you
Speaker 1: worked at Facebook, you know there's always like names for
Speaker 1: people who work at companies at Google's or like Googlers
Speaker 1: or something. And if you're at Facebook used to be
Speaker 1: a Facebook or well, now that they're Meta, Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: has a new name that they will go by to
Speaker 1: completely try and escape their former reputation. They're now meta
Speaker 1: mats uh. And we'll talk about what that entails, because
Speaker 1: apparently it's like they've got a new attitude. And we'll
Speaker 1: see how that new attitude is shaking up in some
Speaker 1: Instagram censorship for very weird stuff happening there. But look,
Speaker 1: you know, billionaires gotta watch billionaires backs. Then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Olympics. Look, I knew that we all know
Speaker 1: that the Olympics are like super wasteful. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that how much they were doing to make Beijing a
Speaker 1: place for the Winter Olympics, so we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: efforts that they're going through to make snow appear in
Speaker 1: a place that barely gets snow, and we'll obviously have
Speaker 1: to touch on just a hot debate that's been on
Speaker 1: the show, just talking about like people have talked about
Speaker 1: breakfast for dinner, dinner for breakfast as a concept, but
Speaker 1: people say, you know, breakfast kind of edges out because
Speaker 1: it has a dessert component built in via pancakes, French
Speaker 1: dost waffles. We'll have to settle the debate and the
Speaker 1: pancakes first waffles debate, and we'll do that live here,
Speaker 1: so to stay tuned for that. But first, before we
Speaker 1: do any of that, Valerie, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that you know reveals a little bit about
Speaker 1: who you are, where you are, what you are? Oh god, uh, Well,
Speaker 1: when I was home, or I should say visiting my folks,
Speaker 1: I keeps weird to call it home or whatever. But
Speaker 1: when I was in Florida, I was staying with my parents,
Speaker 1: and one of the last things that I googled was
Speaker 1: was if the two thousand one Odyssey Strip Club is
Speaker 1: is twenty four hours or not? Because I told my
Speaker 1: dad that it's a giant spaceship and he's like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to go, And I was like, please, don't
Speaker 1: make me take my father to a strip club. I
Speaker 1: would sooner die. So that is the most recent thing
Speaker 1: I googled what wait, hold on what uh kaylin drawn to?
Speaker 1: I mean as a film buff. I'm sure you're said,
Speaker 1: question space odysseys rip club. It's Odyssey strip club. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it is a yeah, okay, let's not. We don't
Speaker 1: want to season desist for them, but yeah, it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's like a space. It's a spaceship strip club. J B.
Speaker 1: Ball actually told me about it because he's from Tampa
Speaker 1: and that's where it is. And uh yeah yeah, So
Speaker 1: wait is it? So it's not called one a space,
Speaker 1: Odyssey is two tho, but it sounds influenced by the Kubrick. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is okay? And then in what ways does that
Speaker 1: manifest visually and physically throughout the club? Do you know? Well,
Speaker 1: you see a different kind of big red eye on stage,
Speaker 1: you absolute monster, also a different just like upright, sallis right.
Speaker 1: It's literally the strip club is literally in this it
Speaker 1: is a spaceship like that's literally what it is. That's
Speaker 1: the only reason why I am intrigued, because I am
Speaker 1: an expiles nerd, and I was like, yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go up there and immediately just go ask
Speaker 1: about Molder's sister, like I can't. Yeah, she got abducted
Speaker 1: by the strip club and that's where she's been. That's
Speaker 1: you know, you can't help it. Oh wait, you mean Cinnamon,
Speaker 1: She's about to go on right now. Wait so when
Speaker 1: you say so the exterior, I'm so sorry because I
Speaker 1: love sci fi, so in my mind, I'm like, are
Speaker 1: they nerdy strip club owners? And they're like when you
Speaker 1: come in the doors, like the interior feels spaceship, or
Speaker 1: you go inside and it's the same sort of like
Speaker 1: stinks of spilled beer and everything's painted black. We ended
Speaker 1: up not going, honestly, thank god. And I think it's
Speaker 1: I still think it's just like a weird, gross strip club.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think it's I don't think I think
Speaker 1: other than the allure of it being a kitchen name
Speaker 1: and a kitchen shape, I don't think there's any other
Speaker 1: crossover than that got it their website. Wow, it's really
Speaker 1: something else. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there should
Speaker 1: be more themed strip clubs, though I wouldn't go all
Speaker 1: the time if there was like whatever Star Wars a
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park, Are you kidding me? I want to watch
Speaker 1: a somebody in Dennis nedri cosplay, Yeah, or like a
Speaker 1: Barba sall shaving cream, like like where they're hiding the embryos.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, the embryos are in there, and we
Speaker 1: got dots in here. What would they call that place?
Speaker 1: Dais sex Makina, I know we talked about dais Rex
Speaker 1: Machina gave about of course there's let me think on it,
Speaker 1: Jurass Sex Park. I guess that's what you call that. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh they could call it nudar. Oh yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: People somewhat familiar with the Lord. Yeah. I would, honestly,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'd go to any strip club if
Speaker 1: it was themed, just because the effort feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: it earns some like unless just like wild West or
Speaker 1: like some Antebellum ship like no I'm gonna or even
Speaker 1: just make it a pop up strip club where you
Speaker 1: change the theme all the time. You know, it would
Speaker 1: be awesome. Spared no sex Spence, Oh my god, are
Speaker 1: they heavy than they're expensive. Put him back. Um. But
Speaker 1: even you can even just picture it two because you
Speaker 1: know that, like Jeff Goldblum, like that's sexy image of
Speaker 1: him laying back with his shirt open. It's everywhere like that.
Speaker 1: That's that's the fly. Are you kidding me? Oh my god? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I'm Jeff Goldbluman. Welcome to chaos theory. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah. And it looked Tampa. I know we
Speaker 1: got Tampa's Night Gang out there. If you know about
Speaker 1: two thousand one, Odyessely, please hit us up. I I
Speaker 1: know some of y'all have stories about that place, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure they're not all great, but we
Speaker 1: love it. We love it themed anything. Would you go
Speaker 1: to a Paddington themed strip club? Caitlin, I knew that
Speaker 1: question was coming, and I have an answer prepared. Okay,
Speaker 1: Paddington is an ace icon. He's a sexual, and I
Speaker 1: don't think we need to be bringing like there are
Speaker 1: two separate things, you know, padding and he's so pure
Speaker 1: and it's you know, but he's already in a trench coat.
Speaker 1: It's it's just literally, it's so easy. It's a duffle coat.
Speaker 1: But be careful be careful. Excuse me, Sorry, I didn't
Speaker 1: you know. Oh no, oh no, okay, I have to
Speaker 1: go No, I mean, I don't know. I do go
Speaker 1: back and forth on this, but I think that because
Speaker 1: Paddington is ace and that's not really cannon. That's that's
Speaker 1: my headcanon. But I want to separate Paddington and sex
Speaker 1: for that reason. Okay, what about like Hogwarts? Is that
Speaker 1: fair game already? Yeah? Hogwarts? You're like, it's yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you going to get here? Hogwarts? It's mostly for
Speaker 1: people into dermatological phenomenons, but like like a Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings strip club, there's a lot of stuff there,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, like the bouncer, Oh yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: shall not pass like yeah, okay, got it, Yeah, okay
Speaker 1: doing Look, look you hit us up for free free
Speaker 1: strip ideas that will get you sued immediately, Valerie, let
Speaker 1: me know what you're searching. Uh, let us know something
Speaker 1: you think is overrated. I just realized that there's a
Speaker 1: connection to these two things, but it was completely accidental. Honestly, Eggplant,
Speaker 1: get the funk out of here with that. I can't.
Speaker 1: It's so the texture of it so gross. Let let
Speaker 1: zucchini and summer squash, do the heavy lifting. I've got
Speaker 1: it under control. Get out of here with this. It's
Speaker 1: so you don't like how it kind of gets a
Speaker 1: little gooey, mushy, so nasty. It's like the weirdest texture,
Speaker 1: and it's like it's there's no it's it's like worse
Speaker 1: than a mushroom, because at least a mushroom like really
Speaker 1: picks up the flavor of whatever you're cooking it in,
Speaker 1: where eggplant is just this like weird, like it's like
Speaker 1: wet but dry. I don't know, it's so weird. I'm
Speaker 1: how what what was the last time, the last preparation
Speaker 1: of eggplant that you had that you enjoyed? I have
Speaker 1: just experienced. I got I ate it accidentally the other
Speaker 1: day when I ordered some tempura veggies and they slip
Speaker 1: some eggplant in there, and I was like, absolutely not
Speaker 1: on my wash. I don't want to. I feel like
Speaker 1: something that's like, you know, if it's cooked down like
Speaker 1: like a baba ganoch. You know, most people don't realize
Speaker 1: you just eating straight up eggplant. It's so garlicky eggplant
Speaker 1: happenad I I will throw myself over a bridge. I
Speaker 1: can't do it. The texture. What do you think I
Speaker 1: would have to agree? It is called gene, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1: I never buy it. I never order it anywhere. Every
Speaker 1: so often, I'll be somewhere where there's like a buffet
Speaker 1: situation and maybe there's like eggplant parmesan and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let me see if I like this. Yet answer is
Speaker 1: always no. You know what, those zucchini parm is really good.
Speaker 1: I've made like lasagnia and stuff with zucchini and it's awesome.
Speaker 1: But eggplant is I guess because he has zucchini, holds
Speaker 1: it shape more so in that sense it's it has Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it. If you don't like the I love mushy, gooey,
Speaker 1: slimy like I love okra, you know, okay, Yeah, interesting
Speaker 1: trying to find I'm really trying to zero in on
Speaker 1: where they've gone wrong with the the aubigine because in Japan,
Speaker 1: like we need a lot with like it'll be roasted
Speaker 1: with like miso on it, and so the flavor is
Speaker 1: super good and you don't get like there's nothing worse
Speaker 1: than like an unripe eggplant that's like it just you're
Speaker 1: just like I get that. It's suits of odd experience,
Speaker 1: but teaching there. And finally, rolly, what is something that
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Well, we kind of talked about it,
Speaker 1: but pinball. I feel like people don't have respect for
Speaker 1: the game, and I'm here to, you know, just say
Speaker 1: take a let's see how good you are in pinball.
Speaker 1: I'm on a pinball league because I'm a dork. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so fun. It's really really fun. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think and it has like a badass history too, Like
Speaker 1: it was illegal for thirty years in this country. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know that. I just learned about
Speaker 1: that because I watched Liquorice Pizza, which I will keep
Speaker 1: my opinions to myself, but I did absolutely deeply hate it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, but I did learn something from that movie.
Speaker 1: You know why it was bad because they didn't have
Speaker 1: the real legends of the valley Miles Gray in that film.
Speaker 1: You know that's true. The wrong people in it. I
Speaker 1: should have been I should have been Liquorice people. You pizza?
Speaker 1: That sounds like a great strip club name for Odyssey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: her strip her name, I should say, and here and
Speaker 1: here we have a next up is Licorice Pizza. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: so pin But wait, it was illegal for thirty years.
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Yeah, why was it illegal? They
Speaker 1: thought gambling or some shing, Yes, because kids were spending
Speaker 1: a lot of money on it and they were trying
Speaker 1: to they were branding it is gambling because it was
Speaker 1: it was looked at as a game of chance versus
Speaker 1: a game of skill. And so once they kind of
Speaker 1: essentially rebranded it and changed things to it, that's when
Speaker 1: they brought it back in the seventies, and it was
Speaker 1: still always manufactured here, like Chicago is the biggest hub
Speaker 1: for where all the pinball manufacturers are, and they were
Speaker 1: just sending them overseas, but like Midway, there's like Midway, Bally's, Stern, Gotli,
Speaker 1: you know, like all those And yeah, so it was
Speaker 1: illegal for over thirty years, which is super Like LaGuardia
Speaker 1: was like literally burning them. That's how great it was. Yeah, Fearillo,
Speaker 1: please come down. Pinball machines, which is so funny because
Speaker 1: I remember one of the first pin all machines. I
Speaker 1: remember was playing a doctor who won and I didn't
Speaker 1: know what doctor who was and I was like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck is this? Like why is there a phone booth?
Speaker 1: Like as part of this game. It makes no sense.
Speaker 1: And then someone I remember, an adult, was like, it's
Speaker 1: a targist and I was like, okay, And I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for the Jurassic Park machine to get here, which I
Speaker 1: think is one of my favorite machines to play. It's
Speaker 1: really fun because there's the there's the one from the
Speaker 1: nineties from when the original movie came out, and there's
Speaker 1: also one for the Lost World too that's like the
Speaker 1: second movie, and that one they had it. There was
Speaker 1: a place in the Valley that had it for a while,
Speaker 1: but I think it went out of business from COVID.
Speaker 1: But it was fun. There was like a big egg
Speaker 1: in it that's really weird. Yeah, oh that's right, and
Speaker 1: like the little dinosaur is trying to come out right, Yes, yes, yes, yes, Valerie.
Speaker 1: Have you been to It's either in Highland Park or
Speaker 1: Ego Rock. It's just like a bar that has like,
Speaker 1: don't pinball, it's like a pinball machine bar. There's a few,
Speaker 1: because I think there's an there's one in Highland Park
Speaker 1: that I think we drove by that was called I
Speaker 1: think it was called it was a barcade. There's a
Speaker 1: new place that's over there, and then there's there's also
Speaker 1: a really I'll give him a plug because it's a
Speaker 1: new business that's awesome. There's a new comic book like
Speaker 1: kind of nerds store called Revenge of that's in Highland
Speaker 1: Park and they have a separate room that is designed
Speaker 1: I can't remember if it's the interior of like one
Speaker 1: of the Star warships or from Alien but um, they
Speaker 1: have a bunch of pinball tables back there and it's
Speaker 1: and they're all brand new tables and like there they
Speaker 1: play so well, and yeah, it's it's super rad. So
Speaker 1: check them out if you're in Highland Park. They're awesome. Nice.
Speaker 1: So when you play in a league, is it just
Speaker 1: like every like each week or something, each match today
Speaker 1: will be like one table that everybody has to compare
Speaker 1: their scores or how does it work? I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I don't know if every league is the same, but
Speaker 1: the one that I'm on, the way they do it
Speaker 1: is there's different divisions. There's like because when you first
Speaker 1: when you meet up for the first day, because it's
Speaker 1: it's like an eight week season, and then the finals
Speaker 1: they do it where everybody plays and they track the
Speaker 1: scores and then they look at all the scores after
Speaker 1: that first meet up, and then they place everybody into divisions,
Speaker 1: so like A, B, C, and D. And then so
Speaker 1: you're competing against people in your own division, so kind
Speaker 1: of matched up skill level wise. And then the way
Speaker 1: that it works is you play I forget how many
Speaker 1: tables a night. I want to say it's probably like
Speaker 1: either six or eight. And you get matched up with
Speaker 1: like two to three other people and you play one
Speaker 1: table and you take turns and you just do like
Speaker 1: keep going, and then you move on to the other table,
Speaker 1: and you keep track of all the points, and there's
Speaker 1: like different ways that they rank and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's it's actually a lot more complicated, and I have
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for the guys that run it
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I can't even imagine trying to handle
Speaker 1: all this, okay as someone who plays competitively or you're
Speaker 1: getting into it. I I like to always play for fun.
Speaker 1: I don't really have any rhyme or reason to how
Speaker 1: I play. Is there? Do you have a tip for people,
Speaker 1: like something you never considered when playing pinball that you
Speaker 1: actually need to, you know, to actually kind of think
Speaker 1: about these are the little things you have to do
Speaker 1: to kind of end up getting to those higher levels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think like a lot of people they don't really
Speaker 1: know they don't quite understand how to play it, and
Speaker 1: they don't realize how much like kind of I guess
Speaker 1: like math and like physics is involved and like things
Speaker 1: like that where they'll just go up and they'll kind
Speaker 1: of just start batting stuff around. And so I usually
Speaker 1: will walk up to a table and kind of assess
Speaker 1: where all the flippers are and like if there's anything
Speaker 1: listed on the table that tells you what like the
Speaker 1: skill shot or the secret skill shot or any of
Speaker 1: that stuff is on there. And also like can treat
Speaker 1: your flippers as completely separate because they are a lot
Speaker 1: of people will play them both at the same time
Speaker 1: and that's how you end up losing the ball a lot.
Speaker 1: And so there's like other things that you can see. Two,
Speaker 1: when the ball drops, you can kind of see where
Speaker 1: it hits because if you hold one of the flippers
Speaker 1: up as the ball drops, it'll immediately bounce it over
Speaker 1: to the other flipper if that's where you need to
Speaker 1: use it to hit it on something on the other side.
Speaker 1: So there's like there's like little tricks like that, and
Speaker 1: and like there's tons of stuff on YouTube too that
Speaker 1: you can check out, and it's like it's really once
Speaker 1: you start to really get into it, it's so fun,
Speaker 1: right m M. Just skills I needed I need to consider. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'm definitely just like mashing both and then it
Speaker 1: goes always between the flippers. I'm like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: and like once I really because I didn't realize I
Speaker 1: was doing that for a long time and then I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you idiot, and then like she completely
Speaker 1: changes the way you play and how much better you get.
Speaker 1: And playing competitively is like a different environment too, because
Speaker 1: when you're playing for fun, you're going through like all
Speaker 1: your turns at once. But then when you're doing it competitively,
Speaker 1: it's like you play one ball, then you have to
Speaker 1: wait like while three other people play theirs and then
Speaker 1: come back and it's loud and it's like, you know, cramped,
Speaker 1: and it's it's just a different style you have to
Speaker 1: get used to. Yeah, ship okay. Pinball pros also holler
Speaker 1: at me if you are Tampa. But if you're in
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, you know about two thousand one odds you
Speaker 1: hit us up. If you're a professional pinball player, you
Speaker 1: have some sick tips. Hit us up. Okay, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be back to talk about
Speaker 1: racism Tesla. And we are back and Elon Musk. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Elon Musk really quick. He has had a
Speaker 1: wild couple of weeks. He's had to pretend to donate
Speaker 1: billions of dollars to himself in a move to distract
Speaker 1: people from another story that came out that his neuralink
Speaker 1: company was basically unethically experimenting on monkeys or many were dying.
Speaker 1: After He's like, but this brain ship in him, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's untold suffering, I don't know whatever. And now we're
Speaker 1: hearing about a lawsuit from some of his black imp
Speaker 1: employees in a Fremont, California factory claiming that, you know,
Speaker 1: the workplace is a racist hell escape and be surprised.
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, wow, really, the the guy who
Speaker 1: the boy with emeralds in his pocket from apartheid South
Speaker 1: Africa letting race, anti black racism, cooking his facilities. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, obviously he doesn't run HR, but
Speaker 1: it's his company. So you're gonna have to understand. We'll
Speaker 1: have to you know, look, into that a little bit
Speaker 1: more so. This lawsuit has been following three It's like
Speaker 1: comes after a three year investigation into Tesla, and it
Speaker 1: alleges that black and African American employees at the company's
Speaker 1: Fremont plant are quote segregated to the lowest levels, meaning
Speaker 1: in some places, black employees are meant to scrub the
Speaker 1: floors on their hands and knees where employees who are
Speaker 1: not black did not have to do that kind of labor.
Speaker 1: Also being subjected to some of like the hardest physical
Speaker 1: labor within the plant. Quote. This is from an MPR
Speaker 1: article that goes on to say, quote the lawsuit describes
Speaker 1: multiple instances of racist language and drawings towards black employees,
Speaker 1: penalizing black employees more harshly than white employees, and denying
Speaker 1: black employees career advancement opportunities and equal pay for work
Speaker 1: similar to that of other employees. When they say racist
Speaker 1: language and drawings, we're talking about graffiti that was like
Speaker 1: fucking all over the place, according to this lawsuit, like
Speaker 1: everywhere the bathroom stalls, workbenches, lunch tables with things like
Speaker 1: KKK Hangman's nooses go back to Africa using the N
Speaker 1: word in all kinds of ways that you can imagine.
Speaker 1: And this is on top of, like they said, of
Speaker 1: being such a segregated environment that the some of these
Speaker 1: racist coworkers had given nicknames to the parts of the
Speaker 1: factor where most of the black employees were working. Every day,
Speaker 1: they would refer to some parts of the factory is quote,
Speaker 1: the slave ship or the plantation in addition to other slayers.
Speaker 1: One black worker quote heard these racial slurs as often
Speaker 1: as fifty to a hundred times a day. It's a
Speaker 1: very very fucked up story. And sadly this is the
Speaker 1: first time this ship has happened, because another former employee
Speaker 1: was just awarded by a judge almost a hundred forty
Speaker 1: million dollars for the racism that they had to endure
Speaker 1: at Tesla. And like, in their defense, Tesla just posted
Speaker 1: to their blog with this rebuttal that essentially said it like,
Speaker 1: we've been investigated like fifty times for racial discrimination and
Speaker 1: not once did they find us to be acting in
Speaker 1: violation of the law. And it's like, I'm sorry fifty times. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's so insane. It's like it's like when my parents,
Speaker 1: like I was sneaking out of house all the time,
Speaker 1: as a kid, but I never got caught. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I wasn't sneaking out of the house, means I
Speaker 1: wasn't getting caught. Insane. It's a very yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: like that, I don't think I guess they think that's
Speaker 1: a good defense. Although like even like the like labor
Speaker 1: Board was sort of like a lot of even their
Speaker 1: internal like investigations aren't compliant with like the actual law.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's like most organizations that investigate themselves
Speaker 1: where they're sort of like yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 1: So the this Elon Musk nonsense continues and then uh
Speaker 1: not to mention that this week too, he was like
Speaker 1: he's like ship posting like Hitler memes talking about Trudeau
Speaker 1: because of like you know, I'm trying to hold up
Speaker 1: crypto payments to the racist convoy. And it was like
Speaker 1: it was like a meme of Hitler that said like, hey,
Speaker 1: don't compare to me. To him, I had a budget
Speaker 1: and it's like, what are you God, the Gremlin I hate.
Speaker 1: Gremlin is a bad name. Yeah, come on, leave GisMo alone,
Speaker 1: he leave GisMo life. Yeah, it's like even the moment
Speaker 1: I ever heard his name, like the last. His name
Speaker 1: literally sounds like a Batman villain, like he doesn't you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like this is they're no
Speaker 1: good can come from somebody named Elon Musk. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Yeah? That the name is too too many
Speaker 1: hard consonants sounds and that feels like like a it
Speaker 1: sounds like a swear word already, Yeah, right, m But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's just funny because he's as
Speaker 1: he you know, goes more and more like openly you're
Speaker 1: like right wing, Like what his like fan ends are
Speaker 1: going to be like are they also going to be
Speaker 1: like yeah, man, fucking the Holocaust didn't happen. But like,
Speaker 1: we gotta have electric cars. We really need to think about,
Speaker 1: Like is that the then the weird byproduct of Elon Musk?
Speaker 1: Like I don't, right, It's such a conundrum to me
Speaker 1: because it's like I we need like that type of
Speaker 1: technology electric or like some some alternative to you know,
Speaker 1: burning fossil fuels and and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, yeah, electric cars sounds good to me,
Speaker 1: But the main like the one of the biggest manufacturers
Speaker 1: of them is a like just piss pot. Piss pot
Speaker 1: a chamber pot of a human yea, as we say
Speaker 1: back in Victorian English. It also always boggles my mind
Speaker 1: when people have the they considered these types of people
Speaker 1: they're like heroes and we'll go to battle for them
Speaker 1: no matter what. We're like, what this do you think
Speaker 1: if you were in a real world scenario where you
Speaker 1: met this person, that they would even give any type
Speaker 1: of shit about you. It's like so wild to me
Speaker 1: that they put them on a pedestal when I'm like,
Speaker 1: they would literally step on your neck if they had
Speaker 1: a chance, Like it's crazy. I mean, it's the people have.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone has these odd para social relationships, and
Speaker 1: the ones with like billionaires are like really confounding to
Speaker 1: me because they're like they they're actually like the root
Speaker 1: cause of all the chaos and instability, instability that you're
Speaker 1: feeling down on the other end of like the socioeconomic ladder,
Speaker 1: Like but you're so your anger that you're actually using
Speaker 1: to defend elon musk. You're you're it's completely misdirected, And
Speaker 1: I get for a lot of people, he's like he
Speaker 1: feels like this fucking like fantasy story of like a
Speaker 1: guy who likes science, who like is now like this,
Speaker 1: you know, like shitty version of what's the dude from
Speaker 1: Iron Man? You know what I mean? Yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: Tony Stark. He's like the new like you know, his
Speaker 1: own hair plugged version of Tony Stark. And in that sense,
Speaker 1: you know, like no shade. I remember the old photos
Speaker 1: of you when PayPal came out in two thousand, very
Speaker 1: different hairline. But that's the glow that we can experience
Speaker 1: with billions of dollars. So one day, one day, and
Speaker 1: that's why I defend him for my right. Honestly, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to see a correlation between people becoming worse humans
Speaker 1: when they get hair plugs. It's like it's like infecting
Speaker 1: their brain, right, I mean, okay, So Jeremy Piven, you
Speaker 1: know that the plugs, the plugs took him to an
Speaker 1: interesting path. Although he's been pretty quiet, I feel who
Speaker 1: else I do think that? Well, Antonio banderis see that's
Speaker 1: people don't know about his plugs. Wait I didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hang on a second, Well that you need a lot
Speaker 1: if you're going to be a cat, sorry to reference,
Speaker 1: you've got a puss in boots? Anybody? All right? I
Speaker 1: got you? What about Billy Zane. I mean, he's just
Speaker 1: he's the best. So oh yeah, how did his plugs look?
Speaker 1: They look good? Well, well, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: he's using them anymore. Maybe you got can you take
Speaker 1: them out? Maybe you never had them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong about by Zane and it's trip Alta
Speaker 1: wearing two pays or or plugs. I think he's wearing
Speaker 1: a whole new face right, face off. Speaking of uh
Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage, I feel like has plugs. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's tried. He he was kind of like
Speaker 1: back in those nineties films and his hair looked different
Speaker 1: every film, and like nobody really just asked about it.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he looks great. He
Speaker 1: looks great. You're like, now, did they have the hair
Speaker 1: the same hair and makeup person on this other film?
Speaker 1: Maybe not, but yeah, shout out to Billy Zane because
Speaker 1: you say Billy Zane is a cool guy still. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't know him personally, but based on his
Speaker 1: performance in Titanic, m hm. And yes he is the villain.
Speaker 1: But isn't the Iceberg actually the villain? I would says?
Speaker 1: Is my point. Yeah, someone said that he had some
Speaker 1: kind of disorder that made him bald and I'm just
Speaker 1: reading a Reddit thread, so don't believe anything you're reading
Speaker 1: right now. And then someone said no. In an interview,
Speaker 1: he said, it's just male pattern. Baldness started when he
Speaker 1: was twenty five. Okay, okay, aggressive Reddit user, Yeah for
Speaker 1: defending Billy Zane's lack of hair and the root causes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, shout out to uh for the people who
Speaker 1: got plugs and went positive with it. We need you, yeah,
Speaker 1: we need you more than ever. Speaking of tech weirdness,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Facebook really quick. So Facebook obviously became
Speaker 1: such a toxic brand as more and more people realize
Speaker 1: it's just meet up dot com for big it's and
Speaker 1: anti vactors, but not to mention the fact that every
Speaker 1: person that leaves there has horror stories about how like
Speaker 1: the company knows how bad ship is and their hand
Speaker 1: in it, and they still don't care because it's all
Speaker 1: about growth, baby, it's all about growth. Well, in October,
Speaker 1: they rebrand it, not they fucking Mark Zuckerberg. Okay, realize,
Speaker 1: like fun man, Facebook makes people's The word Facebook makes
Speaker 1: people skin crawl. So let's try to do something different,
Speaker 1: how about meta, But I think most young people have
Speaker 1: rejected that attempt at like a brand wardrobe change, and
Speaker 1: I will I will always call it Facebook. I do
Speaker 1: not recognize meta because I'm not going to let them
Speaker 1: do that. But they also wanted to, you know, pivot
Speaker 1: to the metaverse, and again not many people cared. But
Speaker 1: like I said, what does it mean for the people
Speaker 1: that have to work for Mark Zuckerberg? What do they
Speaker 1: call themselves? Now? Most important came out with the name
Speaker 1: their Meta mates folks. Okay, so okay, that sounds it
Speaker 1: sounds like a knockoff brand of dunk A Ruth likes
Speaker 1: so dumb freak because it's the fucking the kangaroosed get
Speaker 1: You get your Dunking cookies with minimtes with truck ar
Speaker 1: truck are the odd Like what the fun? Yeah, mena mates,
Speaker 1: I will never forget that brand. Dunker Roots. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: they're they're old values to be things like be bold,
Speaker 1: focus on impact. Now Mark has brought in new mottels
Speaker 1: which are now quote live in the future. That's the
Speaker 1: worst thing I've ever heard. That's actually the like violent
Speaker 1: to completely ignore the president because the future doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: Build awesome things. Okay, that's pretty fog and focus on
Speaker 1: long term impact. Okay, what what it really? They really
Speaker 1: went meta? Like so far out there, like none of
Speaker 1: these things actually mean anything, but now a new like
Speaker 1: the slogan is meta meta mats me, As he posted
Speaker 1: triumphantly in a Facebook post, I don't know what. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a Divorces memoir, Like its stupid. He needs
Speaker 1: someone who's on their who's on their branding team, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got a few if they've got a few interesting
Speaker 1: people on there, so that. In this post, he says, quote,
Speaker 1: I've always believed that in order for values to be useful,
Speaker 1: they need to be ideas that good companies can reasonably
Speaker 1: disagree with or emphasize differently, Huh, if you for the
Speaker 1: values to be useful, they have to be ideas that
Speaker 1: you can reasonably disagree with. I'm having trouble unpacking to
Speaker 1: hire Aaron Sorkin to come in and write his dialogue
Speaker 1: much like he did for the So Full Network, because
Speaker 1: none of this makes sense, or he needs to start
Speaker 1: doing cocaine reasonably argue? Is that what it is? Reasonably?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's been a lot of there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of reasonably disagreeing on Facebook. Yeah, like, if your
Speaker 1: values are like inclusivity, you're saying it's got to be
Speaker 1: something you can reasonably disagree with inclusivity, Like, how do
Speaker 1: you reasonably disagree whatever? I'm getting too into the words
Speaker 1: when they really mean nothing. And then he goes on
Speaker 1: to say, quote, I think these values capture how we
Speaker 1: must act as a company to bring our vision to life. Again,
Speaker 1: vague tech talk. Don't know what you're talking about. You
Speaker 1: should have just smoke and mirrors, because that's all it is,
Speaker 1: right exactly. And you know, I'm I think many people
Speaker 1: are curious what this fucking vision is exactly, because in
Speaker 1: the last couple of days people have pointed out that
Speaker 1: Instagram posts are now coming with content warnings when the
Speaker 1: content seems to be talking about like corporate greed. So
Speaker 1: the economic that's the thing we're putting a warning on
Speaker 1: this corporate No, exactly, this is what's wild. So Dan Price,
Speaker 1: who was like you know, the he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: brand himselves, like the CEO who stands up for the
Speaker 1: little guy. He's like, if you see his face, he
Speaker 1: looks like the a f X twin mask, but like
Speaker 1: a real guy. So he's put on. He posted a
Speaker 1: tweet that said x on Mobile highest profit in seven years,
Speaker 1: Chevron highest profit in seven years, Shell highest profit in
Speaker 1: seven years, BP British petroleum highest profit in eight years,
Speaker 1: Gas prices highest in seven years. Guess it's just that inflation.
Speaker 1: And underneath they have a content says missing context. The
Speaker 1: same information was reviewed by independent fact checkers in another post. Okay,
Speaker 1: how about this one? Another Instagram post just took a
Speaker 1: like a screen cap of a tweet from a Cassim
Speaker 1: machiet at Cassino Machet on Twitter posted Chippotle profit increase,
Speaker 1: raising prices, Starbucks Offit increase, raising prices, McDonald's profit increase,
Speaker 1: raising prices, Shell Mobile BP six profit increase, raising prices.
Speaker 1: There's not a labor shortage. This is an inflation. It
Speaker 1: is corporate greed. And again the label missing contexts statement.
Speaker 1: So this is a group of independent fact checkers when
Speaker 1: you kind of look at it, they're not really and
Speaker 1: the two of them are like think tanks that are
Speaker 1: far from being like, you know, uh, nonpartisan by any stretch.
Speaker 1: They had a fucking article that said, like, inflation is
Speaker 1: um actually quote caused by big federal spending heightened demand
Speaker 1: and supply problems, all of which have accompanied the pandemic.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry what that that's that sounds like a
Speaker 1: lot of partisan talk right there. Big federal spending. Are
Speaker 1: we talking about what like child in like child tax credits?
Speaker 1: Are we talking about p PP loans? Are we talking
Speaker 1: about the stimulus checks that were people got? And is
Speaker 1: that what your article is saying. It's actually the neediness
Speaker 1: of the pores that caused the inflation. Also, we're making
Speaker 1: so much money we don't know what to do with
Speaker 1: it right now. Also, I'm confused about the just the
Speaker 1: content of these missing context warnings that just say the
Speaker 1: same information was reviewed by independent fact checkers in another
Speaker 1: post like that, what will show you this nonsense like
Speaker 1: what they're actually talking about? And you're like, this is
Speaker 1: so fucking ridiculous. So you're gonna as we're dealing with
Speaker 1: like the something like the worst inequality that I've ever known,
Speaker 1: I think most of us have ever known, We're now
Speaker 1: gonna put these content warnings on things, being like, hey man,
Speaker 1: this is true. This stuff that I'm saying is true. Now,
Speaker 1: I get maybe they want to argue the nuances of economics,
Speaker 1: But if you look at every single like shareholders, like
Speaker 1: earnings call transcript, any kind of quarterly report where the
Speaker 1: c suite has to articulate what their plans have been
Speaker 1: to keep profits up. They all say that they're raising
Speaker 1: prices to keep the profits high. None of them are
Speaker 1: talking about all this, like, you know, big federal fucking
Speaker 1: spending really fucked us this year. This thing, man, we
Speaker 1: can squeeze more out of people right now, right, It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so it's it's infuriating, like it really is. And
Speaker 1: like especially just knowing how much how much money is
Speaker 1: out there and how just such a small percentage of
Speaker 1: people have it. And I can't imagine having that amount
Speaker 1: of money and watching so many people suffer and just
Speaker 1: being like, oh that sucks. Well, time to get on
Speaker 1: my private jet go to the Maldi. Like it's like
Speaker 1: so wild to be the disconnect. Yeah exactly. And you
Speaker 1: have like that guy Charlie Munger, who's like Warren Buffetts,
Speaker 1: like right hand man. Okay, that last name already. Oh,
Speaker 1: this guy's disc these villain names. Charlie Munger, You're like,
Speaker 1: it's Monger. He's gonna fight the Batman next, you know,
Speaker 1: like this fucking guy, right, we've talked about on this
Speaker 1: show because he's sort of styled himself as like an
Speaker 1: architect and like designer of like you know, New Age
Speaker 1: buildings and things like that. He's the guy who's designed
Speaker 1: like windowless dorms that are like everyone in Santa Barbaras like,
Speaker 1: please don't build this at UCSP, Like what you're building
Speaker 1: is like some fucked up panopticon windowless prison for students,
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna work. He recently came out and
Speaker 1: was saying, like, these poor people are attacking our wealth
Speaker 1: because they're jealous. So we're now in the player hater phase,
Speaker 1: the their haters phase of the wealthy looking at people
Speaker 1: talking about inequality haters. That's all it is. So when
Speaker 1: you know you've completely lost it, Yeah, I just think
Speaker 1: I'm still stuck on this missing context thing where it's
Speaker 1: like I feel like if I just like tweeted a
Speaker 1: joke and then there would be like a warning at
Speaker 1: the end at the bottom of it, the chin like
Speaker 1: missing context. Another person tweeted another joke, like the content
Speaker 1: of this makes I just maybe I don't understand what
Speaker 1: the intent is behind it, but I'm just like, what
Speaker 1: do you this is all meaningless. Okay, when you remember
Speaker 1: when the um when everybody was doing those CDC tweets,
Speaker 1: like the CDC says I tweeted one about I was like,
Speaker 1: the CDC says that you can now put cocaine and
Speaker 1: soda again, And and like Forbes picked up a bunch
Speaker 1: of those tweets and we're talking about it, and they
Speaker 1: literally put a disclaimer on on like in the article
Speaker 1: about my tweet that's like, this isn't true, Like you can't.
Speaker 1: They're not saying you can do that that. I was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like people, it's so insane. Wow, yeah, they're they're like
Speaker 1: when you actually look at what they say, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is the this is the other article right that it's checked.
Speaker 1: It says a FP fact check. Corporate prices, corporate price
Speaker 1: hikes are not root cause of US inflation. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it's just like linking to some It just says experts
Speaker 1: rejected the idea that corporations are the main culprit and
Speaker 1: said the spike in prices follows big federal spending, as
Speaker 1: I said, heightened demand and supply problems, all of which
Speaker 1: accompanied the pandemic. Like I mean, look, you're watching them
Speaker 1: carry water, like you know, they gotta carry water for
Speaker 1: each other. And it's just so it's so transparent, right, Like,
Speaker 1: how are you going to tell a working person who's
Speaker 1: like looking at the fucking price of like a paper
Speaker 1: roll of paper towels, like just go through the roof.
Speaker 1: Suddenly they're like, oh, man, I should have fucking stimulus
Speaker 1: checks man, or like you look at you know, the
Speaker 1: wealthy just report in. These companies report record profits. It's
Speaker 1: it's very hard to then be like try and put
Speaker 1: this blame back on someone else, like yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: federal government trying to help people. But ultimately that's that
Speaker 1: is the propaganda that you have to put out to
Speaker 1: kind of keep people from getting in touch with like
Speaker 1: any kind of sense of empathy or outrage that needs
Speaker 1: to be constructively directed at, you know, the oligarch key
Speaker 1: so cool Mark keep sucking up the earth. Cool This
Speaker 1: all could have been avoided if somebody just sacrificed himself
Speaker 1: and he got laid when he was younger. I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: I'm totally like, it's all could have been avoided. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy's my god, his his whole thing of like
Speaker 1: we're going to rate how hot chicks are I literally
Speaker 1: I remember because like I when Facebook started, it was
Speaker 1: it was when you had to sign up with a
Speaker 1: college email address, and like I was like in that
Speaker 1: first wave of people that that hadn't and it was nuts.
Speaker 1: And I remember I thought I was I thought it
Speaker 1: was this ship because I was like, bro, you need
Speaker 1: a college email to get on that ship? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I did, And I'm like, this ship is fucking not cool.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm still working with my Space. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm how is Tom? He's doing good? I don't know, probably,
Speaker 1: you know, like I to be like, oh, they're great,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, he's been donating so much money
Speaker 1: to the trucker Convoy. Tom wouldn't do a dirty like that.
Speaker 1: There are people, I think there have been a few
Speaker 1: articles like in the last year because people have become
Speaker 1: so nostalgic of like this sort of binary of like
Speaker 1: Tom from my Space or Fox Zuckerberg, like which one
Speaker 1: is it going to be? It seems like he's he's
Speaker 1: living his best life because he cashed out. But anyway,
Speaker 1: who'd have thought? Who would have thought that something with
Speaker 1: such a misogynistic origin story could turn into a force
Speaker 1: of evil? Who would have it, would have thought. And
Speaker 1: again I believe that Facebook wasn't face that was bitten
Speaker 1: by a radioactive book. Well then I hate it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to check in with the Caitlin story. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. And we're back. I want to quickly
Speaker 1: talk about the Olympics as that begins to wrap up.
Speaker 1: Have have any of it? All? Watched much of it.
Speaker 1: I watched the one person Bob slay, the women's one
Speaker 1: that was fun. I watched one curling thing. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any of it this year either. Yeah, I don't. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: it's like people's will for that slowly been going down
Speaker 1: because it's just a massive waste of money and energy.
Speaker 1: But yes, I think as a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: people who listen to this show. No, we kind of
Speaker 1: talked about how just the overall waste that comes to
Speaker 1: mind with the Olympics and the displacement of poor people
Speaker 1: that comes along with hosting an Olympics and building venues
Speaker 1: that pretty much never get used again. All for it
Speaker 1: just a big international dick measuring contest, and when it
Speaker 1: comes to Beijing, the winter Olympics there. My god, I
Speaker 1: had no idea, Like, I'm sure there are plenty of
Speaker 1: articles being written about there, like why are the Winter
Speaker 1: Olympics happening in a place that gets less than six
Speaker 1: inches of snow every year? And I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: quite realize what the effort was there. So the reason
Speaker 1: it doesn't get a lot of snow is already because
Speaker 1: of just geographically where it's at in the monsoon cycle.
Speaker 1: But to put it plainly, there's no fucking reason to
Speaker 1: have a Winter Olympics there, you know, I mean, like
Speaker 1: we might as well have the ship in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: considering like the amount of resources that they're using to
Speaker 1: make snow where it ain't any. An estimated forty nine
Speaker 1: million gallons of water was needed to produce enough snow
Speaker 1: for the Games, a formidable challenge since Beijing suffers from
Speaker 1: recurring droughts in a declining supply of drinkable water due
Speaker 1: to global warming. To save round water, they also paused
Speaker 1: irrigation on tens of thousands of acres of farmland. You know,
Speaker 1: they do say that the water that from the melting snow,
Speaker 1: the Olympic officials saying it's like they're gonna actually route
Speaker 1: that to another reservoir to be used again for irrigation, landscaping, etcetera.
Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it. And then on
Speaker 1: top of the more than sixty million dollars was spent
Speaker 1: on equipment from the artificial snow company Techno Helpin, which
Speaker 1: is based in Italy, where they're basically buying these like
Speaker 1: snow guns that are just used to compress air, like
Speaker 1: using compressed air to like blow out a bunch of
Speaker 1: frozen water droplets and then make their fake snow. They
Speaker 1: needed forty miles of pipe to transport the water they
Speaker 1: needed like these snow cats that are you know, like
Speaker 1: these tractors to just kind of smooth out the snow
Speaker 1: and ship. And after the Olympics, like they're saying, we've here.
Speaker 1: We hear this every fucking time. China is saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put all this stuff to get use after Olympics.
Speaker 1: This wasn't just some one off thing that we're gonna
Speaker 1: let completely rot like every other Olympic games that's happened
Speaker 1: on Earth. And I think most people are looking at
Speaker 1: just sort of how that sentiment holds up in history
Speaker 1: and it almost is like a nailed on guarantee that
Speaker 1: it's just going to rot and like with her away,
Speaker 1: like you know in Brazil, like the stuff from is
Speaker 1: now like concrete graveyard. Even in so Chy that was
Speaker 1: like a winter city or resort city. They just have
Speaker 1: like fences up around the old infrastructure, like get the
Speaker 1: funk away from this stuff. Uh. And even like from
Speaker 1: the two thousand eight Games in China, similar stuff. They said, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna use everything again, and there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of unused ship Did they build an entirely new arena
Speaker 1: is from the one that they from the other Beijing Olympics,
Speaker 1: Well that was like a track and field complex the
Speaker 1: like the Bird's Nest, I think is what they called it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't watched so, but i'd imagine
Speaker 1: like everything needs to be in either like a proper
Speaker 1: snowy place to ski or if I guess if you're curling,
Speaker 1: you can use an indoor facility, or if it's hockey.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know how they use the Bird's
Speaker 1: nest anymore, if it's just like they should if they're
Speaker 1: gonna do the Olympics, which like obviously there's arguments to
Speaker 1: like why are we doing this? But if they're going
Speaker 1: to do it, there can be two stadiums that they reuse,
Speaker 1: read like one winter stadium one summer stadium, but they
Speaker 1: reuse them every year. And like I guess lucky for
Speaker 1: the people who like live in or near those places
Speaker 1: and I don't have to travel far, but like the
Speaker 1: alternative is so awful and wasteful, and why not you know,
Speaker 1: World Cup can be held there too in the summer place.
Speaker 1: Like I don't like every time they're like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna here's where the next Olympics is, and we have
Speaker 1: to build a new thing. It's just like so devastating,
Speaker 1: like to every it's just too like that the community
Speaker 1: and the economies of the like the economy of that
Speaker 1: community and the whole the environment everything, it's so insane.
Speaker 1: I've never been more furious than like with that because
Speaker 1: and they I love how that we as taxpayers and
Speaker 1: people to live in Los Angeles were given absolutely no
Speaker 1: choice about it, you know what I mean. Like that's
Speaker 1: the part that makes me so like, how come that's
Speaker 1: not a thing that we get to vote on to
Speaker 1: be like, do you want to bring this to our
Speaker 1: city and it's like absolutely not. And like, in fact,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that the Super Bowl was going
Speaker 1: to be here until like a few weeks before, and
Speaker 1: I was like, how did that completely slip under the
Speaker 1: radar that you know that we are holding it here?
Speaker 1: And I tweeted about it and so many people were like, wait,
Speaker 1: what it's here and I was like, yeah, there's like
Speaker 1: no one knew, and so they're like yeah, and don't
Speaker 1: even let us say about the building of the Sofi
Speaker 1: Stadium what that did to Englewood, Like, don't worry about
Speaker 1: all the fucking subsidies that go to this ship and
Speaker 1: you just realize, like it's there's there's only assistance for
Speaker 1: the wealthy. Really when it comes down to it, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And then them sending ice to like all
Speaker 1: to like go after all the street vendors that were
Speaker 1: there for the super It's like, it's just it's so gross,
Speaker 1: and said, it's just it makes me so mad. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know that's why I check out no Olympics l
Speaker 1: a dot com to learn about the people trying to
Speaker 1: organize something's got just to inform people just about how
Speaker 1: fucking much of a waste the Olympics are and yeah,
Speaker 1: like I honestly, and I think even in the most
Speaker 1: charitable version like well we can reform capitalism type thing,
Speaker 1: it's almost like you'd say, like, well, if it's in
Speaker 1: a place, then you can't build anything new to get
Speaker 1: the Olympics there, Like that could be a rule where
Speaker 1: you're just like, Okay, you want it. You can't build
Speaker 1: ship though. You gotta have everything that you need and
Speaker 1: that's the only way it's going to happen. Otherwise, just
Speaker 1: fucking yeah, just do it in one place. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone gives a ship. You know, if you're worried
Speaker 1: about that home field advantage, uh, do it, you know,
Speaker 1: do it in Mars or something or the moment. I'm
Speaker 1: sure e Loon could get find that. Okay. And then finally,
Speaker 1: just the really the most pressing debate of our time.
Speaker 1: So on the show, while I was away and this
Speaker 1: this comes up a lot, we talked about breakfast. We're
Speaker 1: breakfast lovers here, Valerie. Before you came on, we were
Speaker 1: talking about controversial omission of eggs from your breakfast burrito
Speaker 1: from a very well known breakfast burrito purveyor in the city.
Speaker 1: And I won't I won't name them, but let's say
Speaker 1: it rhymes with Sandy Kofax. I will go on to
Speaker 1: say that in this in this show, we also like
Speaker 1: we like a good debate based on articles from the
Speaker 1: Takeout We Love to take Out, the food blog and
Speaker 1: this one, they're positing the question are waffles better than pancakes? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't know what everyone's feelings are on these two
Speaker 1: breakfast items. I know that, okay, everyone's got opinions. I
Speaker 1: know there's nothing worse. What the what the one thing
Speaker 1: I will that have that pancakes and waffles have in common.
Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than having a bad waffle or a
Speaker 1: bad pancake. I do feel it's easier to funk up
Speaker 1: a waffle than it is a pancake. But I will
Speaker 1: now open the floor for seventeen minutes of open gather.
Speaker 1: You go first. Okay, uh, here here are my thoughts
Speaker 1: on it. First of all, pancakes absolute not even question.
Speaker 1: They for sure outshine waffles. Waffles. I feel like, first
Speaker 1: of all, even just be able to order them is
Speaker 1: kind of risky because it's like waffles seemed to be
Speaker 1: like the mcflurry of restaurants where half the time you
Speaker 1: go in there and you're like, can I get a waffle?
Speaker 1: And they're like, sorry, waffle machines broken like every like
Speaker 1: every time. It's crazy, and like pancakes are just so
Speaker 1: much more superior. And I think too waffles. It's easy
Speaker 1: because I've worked in places where they had frozen made,
Speaker 1: like pre made waffles, and they would use those, but
Speaker 1: you can't really do that with the pancakes, and you
Speaker 1: know that it's fresh when you're getting it, and like
Speaker 1: those like really fluffy ones and just like getting like
Speaker 1: weird like crazy ship in them and on them, and
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know, there just much more of
Speaker 1: a creative endeavor I feel with pancakes, and they're just
Speaker 1: they're so much better my rebuttle because I'm awful, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I order pancakes more frequently than I
Speaker 1: order waffles because waffle are too expensive. And that is
Speaker 1: a problem with waffles. If you're like going out to whatever,
Speaker 1: like a brunch place, I feel like generally they really
Speaker 1: mark they really try and mark up those because they're
Speaker 1: like we had to use a special apparatus or I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I don't know something about even though
Speaker 1: like the batter is probably the same for pancakes and waffles, right,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know about food, but but I
Speaker 1: just I like the texture and the crispiness of a waffle.
Speaker 1: For some reason, the flavor just tastes a little bit
Speaker 1: better to me when it's in waffle form. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just I really like it win
Speaker 1: well done, because I agree it is it is easier
Speaker 1: to funk up a waffle, but when when it's done right,
Speaker 1: waffles all the way. Okay, the reasons I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it the ratios for waffle batter versus pancake batter. Waffle
Speaker 1: contains more sugar, butter, and eggs than camp than pancakes,
Speaker 1: so it's not the same batter, so it's more I mean,
Speaker 1: those you have those elements in them, but there's an
Speaker 1: increase in that the stuff that makes it super unhealthy,
Speaker 1: which is why I didn't mean yamma for me. I
Speaker 1: it's hard for me because like it's weird. As a kid,
Speaker 1: I grew up eating eggos and those are ship those
Speaker 1: are some of the I mean, they're not waffles. They're
Speaker 1: like waffle shaped frozen things that you need because you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's what you're able to make yourself. As a kid.
Speaker 1: For breakfast pancakes, I've always shied away from, but I
Speaker 1: do like and this is where I'm getting a little
Speaker 1: bit high falutin a Sioux flat pancake like a Japanese
Speaker 1: style pancake, because that ship is thick, daddy, and the
Speaker 1: texture is really something else. And I implore you, if
Speaker 1: you're ever like at an Asian market or somebody and
Speaker 1: they have Japanese pancake battery, buy that ship and put
Speaker 1: yogurt in the mix. You will fucking take your body
Speaker 1: to a whole other level of glucose spiking or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's it really is delicious. And
Speaker 1: I think I'm i lean pancake, but I'm waffle curious, Okay.
Speaker 1: I'll also say too, as a as a typical white woman,
Speaker 1: highly recommend the pumpkin pancake mix at Trader Joe's very good.
Speaker 1: I usually put blueberries in them as well, and I
Speaker 1: use soy milk for it instead of regular milk, and
Speaker 1: it's it's better with butter, but you can also use
Speaker 1: apple sauce instead of butter, and it is very delicious. Wait,
Speaker 1: what does apple sauce give you, like a little more?
Speaker 1: It's healthier than using butter, and it's a dairy alternative,
Speaker 1: but it is like it's just it's just yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just better for you, but it's still very good. Like honestly,
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't even know the difference if somebody just
Speaker 1: served you one of those Wow, no idea hot tip,
Speaker 1: hot tip. Yeah, the things we learn every day, Caitlin,
Speaker 1: Can I ask, so does Paddington have a preference? He
Speaker 1: hasn't specified. All I know is that he loves marmalade sandwiches,
Speaker 1: and you know there are sandwiches that are made as
Speaker 1: with like pancakes or waffles as like the like the bread.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's he's doing that yet. Paddington three,
Speaker 1: I'm writing the script right now, even though it's already
Speaker 1: in development with the people who are actually making the movie.
Speaker 1: I'm writing my own script and maybe I'll throw in
Speaker 1: there that Pat and of course he's gonna because I'm
Speaker 1: pro waffle. I'm going to get a hashtag going ta
Speaker 1: kick off the debate online for people to determine if
Speaker 1: Paddington is waffle or pancakes. Well, no, just just in general,
Speaker 1: like your preference. So I guess I think we should
Speaker 1: do hashtag team waffle or hashtag team pancake. Does I
Speaker 1: gang come through? Let let us know where you're at?
Speaker 1: And yeah, which is which is the superior breakfast cake
Speaker 1: or whatever we want to call that. I like the idea, though,
Speaker 1: like you know, because you know, we we're out here,
Speaker 1: we know people who are writers and comedians, Like, have
Speaker 1: you ever met someone who wrote a spec script that
Speaker 1: no one asked for? And I'm just working on this
Speaker 1: spec script and you're like why, And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: So I used to do I used to read for
Speaker 1: like production companies and like script competitions and like evaluate
Speaker 1: scripts based on whatever. But someone wrote a sequel to
Speaker 1: the movie Deliverance. Someone wrote Deliverance Too, My god. And
Speaker 1: I had to be like, well, first of all, obviously
Speaker 1: passed because you don't own the rights to this property.
Speaker 1: And secondly, this script is not good. But someone did
Speaker 1: take the time to write Deliverance too, Wow? And what
Speaker 1: was just like more like Banjo, they just go back
Speaker 1: or I think it's like different characters, but they go
Speaker 1: back into the woods and scary stuff happens. Deliverance too,
Speaker 1: is just deliverance in space, that's all. We're just changing
Speaker 1: the look like deliverance in space. That's actually where's your script?
Speaker 1: Someone just sees a math deliverance onto a space aesthetic,
Speaker 1: and now I'd be like, this is a breathtaking challenged
Speaker 1: everything I believed. Oh my god, zero gravity banjo. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the world's ready. Oh man, like a
Speaker 1: sentient AI is doing that scene, Yeah, that would be
Speaker 1: pretty what. I just think about that too, because I
Speaker 1: love the idea of like you've been like, I'm writing,
Speaker 1: I'm writing the Paddington three score. I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck because this person I'm not going to name names,
Speaker 1: but I knew somebody who was very hardly working, very diligently,
Speaker 1: working on an acepentur a sequel script when there was
Speaker 1: no talk of another a spent or a film coming out.
Speaker 1: But like in their mind, they're like, this is the
Speaker 1: sickest ship that that will ever be read, and when
Speaker 1: I submit this, they're gonna have to make it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, that's kind of not how the industry.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is how. And just like that
Speaker 1: got made right, the sequel that no one asked, right,
Speaker 1: it like it's got all your favorite characters except the
Speaker 1: one that most people universally agree is the funny, the
Speaker 1: funniest one, the bunch. You're gonna love it. Well, I
Speaker 1: watch every season they make. Of course I will me too.
Speaker 1: I watched the whole damn thing and like like cracking
Speaker 1: my knuckles being like, this is dumb. I know, I
Speaker 1: know it's hurts, but it's yeah, but listen worth it
Speaker 1: for the DAS Discourse because those it's just been very fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Yeah, the DAS Discourse has been like one
Speaker 1: of those you know, U of pleasant surprises from this
Speaker 1: m Well, Valerie, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 1: It's been a wonderful, wonderful time having you on. Please
Speaker 1: please come back. Where can people find you? Follow you,
Speaker 1: support you, observe you, watch you, And what's a tweet
Speaker 1: that you've been liking? Oh? Well, you can find me
Speaker 1: on social media at Valerie Underscore Tossie. I'm mostly on
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram. I have the same handle for TikTok.
Speaker 1: Will I eventually use it from maybe not? But you
Speaker 1: can find me on there. My new album is out,
Speaker 1: Beach Trash. You can find that pretty much everywhere, and
Speaker 1: uh if you're local to Boston, will be in Boston
Speaker 1: next weekend at a hideout which is gonna be really
Speaker 1: fun at the White Bowl Tavern. And a tweet that
Speaker 1: I love is one of my It's it's from last year,
Speaker 1: I think, but it's I can't stop quoting it. It's
Speaker 1: so funny. The tweet is about to invent yard gnomes. Babe,
Speaker 1: the lawn looks great. How can we get a little
Speaker 1: freaking here? It's one of my here, how can we
Speaker 1: get a little freaking here? It's one of my I
Speaker 1: can't I quote it every day. It's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things. It's so funny. This thing needs we need
Speaker 1: a little fucking freak up in here, a little freaking here.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Caitlin, thank you so much for helping
Speaker 1: me with this, this wonderful second rate podcast pleasure. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? And all you see you? What's
Speaker 1: the tweet that you like? You can catch me on
Speaker 1: Nintendo Switch online. I'll be there playing poker on our CS.
Speaker 1: If that's how you pronounce it. You can catch me
Speaker 1: on word All with a like streak, get it right
Speaker 1: every day. You can check out Paddington three in Theaters
Speaker 1: written by Caitlin Darante. It's coming out soon, no for real, though.
Speaker 1: You can catch me on Twitter and Instagram at Caitlin Darante.
Speaker 1: I have a screenwriting class that I'm teaching coming up,
Speaker 1: my intro level class. It starts in end of April.
Speaker 1: I want to say, but if you go to my
Speaker 1: website Caitlin Dronte dot com slash classes, you'll see the
Speaker 1: link for that. I've I still have spots left in
Speaker 1: that class. And check out the bachtel Cast hosted by
Speaker 1: myself and Jamie Loftus, and we analyze movies through an
Speaker 1: intersectional feminist lens. There it is oh, and then a
Speaker 1: tweet I've been liking. Um, I've been thinking a lot
Speaker 1: about Jane Austen recently because we covered a few movies
Speaker 1: on the Bachtel Cast that our adaptations adaptations of her work,
Speaker 1: and um, let's see at Galactic Idiots tweeted and this
Speaker 1: is from a while ago, but I loved it so much.
Speaker 1: Jane Austen's works are timeless classics because she knew the
Speaker 1: real horrors in life are having to listen to men
Speaker 1: who think they're better than you and receiving unannounced visitors.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, some tweets that I like. The first one
Speaker 1: is from at Russ Fisher. It's a picture of Don
Speaker 1: Draper from Madmen in front of like a like a
Speaker 1: presentation board and he's got his hands open like listen
Speaker 1: to this idea, and behind him the board reads Disney prisons.
Speaker 1: Because I think if you've heard about the new planned
Speaker 1: Disney communities that they have, I'm like, yeah, yea, that
Speaker 1: that would be next. Probably when you when you trend,
Speaker 1: if you're a transgressor in a master planned Disney community,
Speaker 1: you'll probably be put in the County Disney lock up.
Speaker 1: And then one more tim long l e O n
Speaker 1: G tweeted it was today. I was Today's years old
Speaker 1: when I found out Marissa Tomay is an anagram for
Speaker 1: it's a me Mario. Oh my gosh, oh my god,
Speaker 1: is that real? So as an antagram, I do think
Speaker 1: that's correct. Oh my god, that is incredible. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: which we got Caitlyn all with the Instagram names, but
Speaker 1: Merissa toe Major just came through it. It's a me,
Speaker 1: it's a me Mario. So out to that that that
Speaker 1: really got me that one. I didn't expect her to
Speaker 1: be a mic drop in the presentation of tweets. But
Speaker 1: here we are. That was and it's not often we
Speaker 1: get those. Uh. You can find me at Miles of
Speaker 1: Gray on Twitter and Instagram also TikTok, but I usually
Speaker 1: just lurk on there because I'm just I'm trying to
Speaker 1: learn what the kids thinks funny on there, and then
Speaker 1: I usually get that alert where the person's like, hey, hey, hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: You've been scrolling for like fucking eight hours full and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's fine. More than lady find
Speaker 1: me there. Also, my other podcast for fiance was Sophia
Speaker 1: Alexandro where we talk ninety day fiance can get really high.
Speaker 1: Uh and and and that's just a that's just a
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Speaker 1: And that also means a song that we write out
Speaker 1: on and the song that we're gonna write it out
Speaker 1: on today, you know, keeping it keeping it black for
Speaker 1: Black History Month. You know we're gonna do that. This
Speaker 1: one is a track from Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 1: called Never Catch Me, and it's a fantastic song. A
Speaker 1: Thundercat is obviously ripping on bass in that song, but
Speaker 1: he's not, you know, technically featured on it. The video, though,
Speaker 1: is a fucking amazing If you've never seen the music
Speaker 1: video for Never Catch Me, I believe it's directed by
Speaker 1: I want to say Hero Mourai. Maybe you know, because
Speaker 1: you know Mourrai knows how to uh direct some ship.
Speaker 1: Let me just confirm that, yep, okay, shout out to him.
Speaker 1: A fantastic body of work when it comes to directing
Speaker 1: music videos and just generally anything touches. So check this
Speaker 1: one out. Never Catch Me, Flying Loadus, Kendrick Lamart. We'll
Speaker 1: see you in a little bit later. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: what's trending. So until then, you know, keep your head up.
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