Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to twenty, Episode
Speaker 1: one of Joys Like Guys, Introduction of My Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. It's Tuesday, January two, which of
Speaker 1: course means that it is National Michigan Day. Shout out
Speaker 1: the hands, the glove, you know whatever, everything. Yeah, shout
Speaker 1: out University of Michigan. My favorite basketball shorts of all time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: those were good ones. The favorite uh just style among us?
Speaker 1: Starting five? Was there people on the on the team
Speaker 1: who didn't rock that style? Like, because I remember they
Speaker 1: had like some dudes who were, you know, seniors on
Speaker 1: the team who were I don't guessing they didn't like
Speaker 1: wear baggy shorts. They were like big dorky guys. Or
Speaker 1: when they did, it just looks so bad, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna actually go back to date. Anyways. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien a K. When I find myself
Speaker 1: in times of trouble, I hear the words of Christopher
Speaker 1: Key speaking words of pisted um, drink your pea, And
Speaker 1: in my hour of COVID, he is ranting right in
Speaker 1: front of me, speaking words of wisdom, Drink your pea,
Speaker 1: Drink your pa, Drink your pea. Drink your pea. Now,
Speaker 1: drink your pea. Take it with a grain of salt,
Speaker 1: but drink your pea. That is courtesy. And Christie, I'm
Speaker 1: a Gucci man and I'm thrilled to be joined as always,
Speaker 1: I'm my co host, Mr Miles Gron. I'm healthy because
Speaker 1: I drank con P drank be dog growl. Well then
Speaker 1: doesn't okay, shout out to Randall Dixon, are for giving
Speaker 1: me the high road for that falsetto to land on
Speaker 1: to the tune of takes on me to drinking sounded
Speaker 1: that you make when you drink your pie. Anybody who's
Speaker 1: disappointed by our insistence on talking about this continually had
Speaker 1: had the wrong idea about this show, because that's all
Speaker 1: we need is a news item to bring in come
Speaker 1: selling all of the above, It's well my. We're thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by a comedian,
Speaker 1: producer and Emmy nominated writer who hosts the hilarious Los
Speaker 1: Angeles based comedy show Funnel Lingus. Please welcome the hilarious
Speaker 1: and talented Ellary Smith. Thank you, Hi, Hi, Hi, welcome,
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you and well you're welcome and hello. Um,
Speaker 1: not too much just hanging, you know, sort of there's
Speaker 1: sort of a COVID slump in l A right now.
Speaker 1: It's not too much stand up going on. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: is there like a barometer for l A stand up
Speaker 1: where you're kind of like, Okay, if this show is
Speaker 1: going on, we're good. Or if this show is often
Speaker 1: that's a good indication, or it's kind of like everything
Speaker 1: gets on so hard to tell him. Now it's really
Speaker 1: a sort of every man for itself where it's like
Speaker 1: before there was a little more sort of like guidance,
Speaker 1: and now that there's no guidance and the government is
Speaker 1: just like you can google a test. Basically, it's whatever
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with. Because I'm not preferred, right. I
Speaker 1: saw like people some being like, yeah, I'll be at
Speaker 1: this indoor place and I'm yeah, I'm doing outdoor stuff
Speaker 1: right now. But if it's too but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've also canceled some outdoor stuff. It's really weird. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping by February thinks might be a little bit more
Speaker 1: impact to normal. Yeah whatever, And by normal we mean
Speaker 1: just a familiar version of hell exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: saw this tweet that was like, I had no idea
Speaker 1: comedy was going to turn into a seasonal sport, and
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about that a lot. Oh yeah, come,
Speaker 1: that's that's spring. That's a spring sport y. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it will be like a summer sport, right for sure.
Speaker 1: It sucks. Sucks, yeah, And the solutions seems so simple
Speaker 1: yet like like like you're saying, we're being told Google
Speaker 1: ever heard of it? We're like, you're the presidential administration.
Speaker 1: Ever heard of that? That's the thing. And then it's
Speaker 1: also it's like there are things to be done that
Speaker 1: seemed like just basic public good public health policy, like
Speaker 1: common sense good public health policy, right, like the free
Speaker 1: COVID tests for At first, the messaging was like, if
Speaker 1: you have insurance, you can get reimbursed through your insurance,
Speaker 1: and it's like, what about insurance. If you have insurance,
Speaker 1: what about the millions of like frontline workers who do
Speaker 1: not have insurge. Yeah, that really is sort of like
Speaker 1: the subtext there, hich is kind of not even it's
Speaker 1: almost like you know, you know, when they're like, it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate some of those people are gonna get burnt out.
Speaker 1: It's like, Wow, how the pendulum has swung all the
Speaker 1: way the other way. It's like, yeah, we went from
Speaker 1: we think our essential workers to like Ivan Drago, what
Speaker 1: do you say if he dies? He dies? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a little on the nose, I'm gonna say in retrospect,
Speaker 1: but probably not what he would have said at that
Speaker 1: moment as a professional athlete. But it is what our
Speaker 1: presidents saying to us. Now, I just needed another forty
Speaker 1: years of history. All right, Well, ellery, we're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. We're going to talk about just the complete
Speaker 1: utter factory of the government and its inability to distribute
Speaker 1: COVID tests, just do do anything really, So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about just the administration in general, how they're doing on
Speaker 1: healthcare thing. First, we're gonna talk about the oathkeepers. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the screen franchise It's back. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about guilty pleasures. The Queen revealed her guilty
Speaker 1: pleasure and it sucks. It's not a good guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1: So I just want to talk about that. Phenomenon of
Speaker 1: people whose guilty pleasures are things that I would be
Speaker 1: like proud of and tell people that I had done.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, maybe we can talk about our own
Speaker 1: guilty pleasures all of that plenty more. But first, lery,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history? This week, I was looking up
Speaker 1: the waffle House index, which is like the informal female
Speaker 1: scale that says if it like basically uses waffle houses
Speaker 1: being opened or closed to help determine how much aid
Speaker 1: might be needed in a space after a natural disaster,
Speaker 1: because like, waffle houses don't close unless it's serious, right,
Speaker 1: everything's gonna have done as the house will literally blow away,
Speaker 1: and yeah, exactly exactly. So the Wikipedia article goes into
Speaker 1: like waffle houses after Hurricane Katrina, and that's when, like
Speaker 1: the FEMA, it's really informal, it's just like whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're just and see how many yellow signs are
Speaker 1: lit up, like we're good over here. We can someone
Speaker 1: like referenced the thing. It's like, oh my waffle house
Speaker 1: went take out only. They're like that got me on
Speaker 1: it is that tweet that was like, yeah, waffle houses
Speaker 1: take out only you know, it's bad again. And I
Speaker 1: remembered like reading about the waffle house and next years ago,
Speaker 1: so I was just like, whoopoopoo Wikipedia, damn, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not good. Yeah, waffle houses are like, I guess we
Speaker 1: have to take this one seriously. What's the l a version.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, man, creation Juicery is cra Shaki's Pizza.
Speaker 1: Shaki Pizza would be, although I feel like Shaki's pizzas
Speaker 1: usually closed somehow, Yeah, or at least they appear to
Speaker 1: be closed. It's it's not in the outside. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not apparent from the outside if they're open, closed or
Speaker 1: in the middle of an armed robbery, that's what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot about his Shaky's. The lights are off
Speaker 1: or whatever, and not that they're closed on a Friday night.
Speaker 1: But then you open, it's a full party in there.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh shit, okay. I advise somebody literally at
Speaker 1: ten am eating in a Shaky's pizza and I was
Speaker 1: just like, my man knows what he wants. You should
Speaker 1: have stopped in, candidate. It would have been the new
Speaker 1: version of Nighthawks. It was pretty gorgeous. I was. It
Speaker 1: was sort of like accidental Renaissance painting. The light was
Speaker 1: like falling onto his face. Fucking New Nighthawks. Shaky's Shaky's
Speaker 1: regional right like Shaky's doesn't exist elsewhere. I thought it
Speaker 1: was also in Colorado, because isn't there like a South
Speaker 1: Park episode where they go maybe, yeah, it was, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's in Japan. There's they have
Speaker 1: Shaky's in Japan. Really, yeah, because affected by earthquakes. Maybe
Speaker 1: they were, they were affected by a post war occupation, right, sure,
Speaker 1: but yeah. I always heard people talk shit talk to
Speaker 1: it about Shaky's Pizza on podcast before I lived out here,
Speaker 1: and then when I came out and got to see
Speaker 1: it with mine own eyes, I was like, Wow, those
Speaker 1: place is even shittier than I could have possibly imagined.
Speaker 1: It makes uh fucking Chucky Cheese look like the Ritz's.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it's they scaled back because now they're
Speaker 1: only California, Washington, I think in the US. Also, not
Speaker 1: to stand on Jamie's corner too much, but chuck E
Speaker 1: Cheese pretty great. I went through the pandemic. Jamie famously
Speaker 1: had a birthday party their pre pandemic, but during the
Speaker 1: pandemic they were operating as like a regular restaurants that
Speaker 1: people would keep buying the food, so like you could
Speaker 1: go onto Postmates and it would be like shasters attack
Speaker 1: and it was actually chuck e Cheese trying to sell
Speaker 1: like whatever the chickens elien. Yeah. I went to a
Speaker 1: birthday party there for a child child and it was
Speaker 1: before and it was before they just had it before
Speaker 1: it opened to the public, and it was like in
Speaker 1: a downtime for COVID and it was awesome. It was
Speaker 1: really really good. And the pizza is called pasqualities pizzaies.
Speaker 1: What is What's something you think is overrated? Ellery? I
Speaker 1: think the holidays are overrated? Okay? And oh you mean
Speaker 1: like the year end called like those that not all holidays.
Speaker 1: Some holidays are cool for twenty rips, but like Christmas,
Speaker 1: I think it's over Yeah, I would say like winter
Speaker 1: holidays are overrated, Okay, Like what's what about it? Well,
Speaker 1: my birthday is in December first of all, so that's
Speaker 1: a lot of competition, and then it's also like a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure to sort of be happy, have a
Speaker 1: good time. It sucks being cold being around your family.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure some people like being around their family,
Speaker 1: but I think for most of us as adults, it
Speaker 1: can be stressful or worse, like really triggering. And then
Speaker 1: also traveling I hate. Traveling is like not a vacation,
Speaker 1: it's very stressful. And then having to stay with like
Speaker 1: family members for a week, right yeah, or turning like
Speaker 1: what used to be a quick flight into like an
Speaker 1: eight hour car ride to be safe. And I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't like to be in a car this long. Like
Speaker 1: I know it's easy, but I just can't. I'm not
Speaker 1: built for the long road trips. Well you're a tall
Speaker 1: guy too, thank you so much. Yes, get me started
Speaker 1: on the back pain trying to drive a tiny little car. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think my new bid is going to be trains.
Speaker 1: I want to start taking the train places instead of
Speaker 1: because I just I'm like sucking so done with flying.
Speaker 1: I feel like, especially after the pandemic, things have gotten
Speaker 1: so weird at airports and on airplanes and like people
Speaker 1: are not in their best just you know, mind space, Yo.
Speaker 1: Did I tell you about the Jet Blue flight I
Speaker 1: was on over coming back from New York after the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving break? No, this man, it was the most chaotic
Speaker 1: scene on a flight. I didn't like. Something was happening
Speaker 1: that We're all like what's going on? Like we constantly
Speaker 1: saw like the flight crew like huddling up, and then
Speaker 1: this woman like someone was talking to the flight group.
Speaker 1: Then this woman came down the aisle without a mask
Speaker 1: and the flight was like, miss you have to put
Speaker 1: your mask back on, and she was just like waving
Speaker 1: them off like I don't give sovereign citizen and get
Speaker 1: the funk out my way and just went into the bathroom.
Speaker 1: And then everyone was like like she was holding up
Speaker 1: the takeoff because she was in the bathroom, and they're like,
Speaker 1: I think this anti masker is trying to hold the
Speaker 1: flight up by like basically staying in the bathroom. And
Speaker 1: it turned out to be like this woman was just
Speaker 1: like in another like health situation, but like the tension
Speaker 1: on the flight became so palpable, like it was anti
Speaker 1: masks someone doing the bathroom it was and ended up
Speaker 1: being a woman was like stump, like was you legit
Speaker 1: just having but yeah, that tension like it does feel
Speaker 1: like at any moment everyone's like on a plane and
Speaker 1: be like about to pop off. It was also just
Speaker 1: like the being trapped there there was a woman who
Speaker 1: was kid off my flight. Um maybe like just before
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving I was doing somewhere because she wouldn't stop texting,
Speaker 1: and then the flight attendant was like, turn off your phone,
Speaker 1: and she was like, you're being so weird, that's what
Speaker 1: she and she ended up getting kicked off, and it
Speaker 1: was so weird. It was so strange that that was
Speaker 1: so weird. I was like, man, you're the one being
Speaker 1: really weird. Actually the rest of us are being totally normal, right.
Speaker 1: But also I do I know a flight attendant, and
Speaker 1: I I feel like they have a quicker trigger right now,
Speaker 1: like not he's he's told me this. It's not like
Speaker 1: I'm like he's a real asshole right now. He's been
Speaker 1: like yeah, like we're not having it right now, so
Speaker 1: don't Yeah. Yeah, And that's totally understandable. And anybody who's
Speaker 1: flying should like be going in with the mindset of
Speaker 1: these poor people, just like do anything to brighten their
Speaker 1: day and light in their low because it's fucking terrible. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm like, given like the flight times, Molly, I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: when you get to your hotel, man, just do this.
Speaker 1: Molly me hitting my weed pen for the whole flight,
Speaker 1: being like, man, would you like something. It's a indica,
Speaker 1: so it get you in your head. I love the
Speaker 1: I love the mean girl tactic of that woman on
Speaker 1: your flight who's like as if she's talking to another
Speaker 1: girl in She literally talked to the flight attendant like
Speaker 1: she was a She was like, you're being so weird,
Speaker 1: Like I got so embarrassing for you. And this lady
Speaker 1: was like, what, no, this is a f A A regulation.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I don't know. It seems like
Speaker 1: everyone's right because you know, like nobody likes you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was trying to gas light the flight attendant And
Speaker 1: I'm do this all the time, right, Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: to come harder than that where her parents with her
Speaker 1: being like her all the time, easier if you don't
Speaker 1: say anything. What is something you think is underrated? This
Speaker 1: is also sort of related to the holidays. But I've
Speaker 1: been thinking a lot about the USPS. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: saying a lot of sort of not venomous anger, but
Speaker 1: a lot of anger just about like shipping delays and
Speaker 1: like holiday gifts not arriving in time. And I feel
Speaker 1: like the USPS needs our understanding and support and they're
Speaker 1: underrated and they're like the last great American institution. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like they've overtaken firefighters seriously that I'm like, I'll
Speaker 1: funk with them heavy. Yeah. And also fire department started
Speaker 1: as private like enterprises for citizens who could pay, and
Speaker 1: the USPS was always for everybody. Yeah, it's a miracle
Speaker 1: that they exist, but they've existed for so long. But
Speaker 1: I'm also like, yeah, whatever, Republicans have spent the better
Speaker 1: part of legitimately fifty years trying to make it impossible,
Speaker 1: like just defund them and make sure that they can't
Speaker 1: work so that eventually they can privatize it all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the whole Lewist to joyous situation. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that totally worked on me when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and like I feel like the whole narrative was like
Speaker 1: capitalism is the only thing that works. Look at the
Speaker 1: post Office so long try and like do anything with
Speaker 1: like a government government assistance, and it's like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: like you have intentionally defunded them to the point that
Speaker 1: they can so they can't operate, and then they still
Speaker 1: managed to exist and like do a fine job. And
Speaker 1: the same as two of the d MB too, right, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, because I also look at too, like there's
Speaker 1: like it's doubly cruel too because a lot of veterans
Speaker 1: work for the postals. So it's like, yeah, man, we
Speaker 1: may have sucked you over when we deployed you, and hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna also make this job a lot harder for
Speaker 1: you too, because we we love the troops and all
Speaker 1: the people who help Americans just do their daily business. Also,
Speaker 1: one of the last jobs that you can go and
Speaker 1: get a retirement intention that doesn't have to do with
Speaker 1: stay violence, Like isn't the military, isn't a cop. It's
Speaker 1: like one of the last jobs you can get that's
Speaker 1: like unionized. Yeah, that's pretty fucking cool. Still he's still running.
Speaker 1: He's still there. Yeah right, speaking of Biden's just like
Speaker 1: not doing shit like this. How is that motherfucker still there?
Speaker 1: He was hired to like cheat to make it so
Speaker 1: you lost the election for what are you doing? Well?
Speaker 1: I think the other part is that it's hard is
Speaker 1: like there's a there's like a board of people that decide,
Speaker 1: you know, whether he's there, and like they have to
Speaker 1: completely remake the like the makeup of this board for
Speaker 1: the Postal Service to get the votes to ousta Joy.
Speaker 1: So it's a very like it's a very kind of
Speaker 1: complicated thing, or not complicated. If you're the president, you
Speaker 1: actually you know, exert your will as president to make
Speaker 1: things happen. But that's another time I'd make it happen. Miles, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all sad when it would be easy how things work, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I mean it's just he the thing is the way,
Speaker 1: but I would have to do it is he has
Speaker 1: to get what it's the Board of Governors, the USPS
Speaker 1: Board of Governors. He'd have to be like, you're fucking
Speaker 1: out and that I think they're like, it's gonna look political.
Speaker 1: It's like, well they put in a fucking saboteur in
Speaker 1: the political reasons. Yeah, I mean that's like such a
Speaker 1: good I guess example of why that stuff is so
Speaker 1: hard because it him undoing it is is political, but
Speaker 1: it was politically done in the first place, so there's
Speaker 1: no way to undo it without being like, well, like
Speaker 1: that's an agenda, right, it's there. It's so frustrating that, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it will look political. That is the game that
Speaker 1: you're playing. That and the other side, well they will
Speaker 1: criticize you for like looking political it's just because they
Speaker 1: that works, but they are like probably openly the worst,
Speaker 1: like just aggressively. It's just so strange that well, it's
Speaker 1: just like the two parties are playing by completely different
Speaker 1: rules and like at this point it's really only hurting
Speaker 1: the Democrats. Yeah, yeah, And it's just it's been a
Speaker 1: lot to take in lately because it's again like even
Speaker 1: to get people on the board, it needs Senate confirmation,
Speaker 1: you know, there's like every single thing. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: back to the joy. I mean, let's not forget the
Speaker 1: amount of like stockyholds in like a direct competitor to
Speaker 1: the Yeah, he like basically owns part of Acts or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something like XPO Logistics or some ship. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's like so fucking it's I mean, it's so
Speaker 1: American really, to be honest, It's like, oh, yeah, the
Speaker 1: guy who's working there will benefit from its collapse, which
Speaker 1: is like what I'm thinking a lot about also lately,
Speaker 1: is like is there any way to like, and I
Speaker 1: think the answer is no, but like, is there any
Speaker 1: way to sort of like unsuiture or unwind like America
Speaker 1: from capitalism because it's so ingrained and everything even in
Speaker 1: our art and it's like how do how do we
Speaker 1: move like not just a way but forward. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a question many people have asked about. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. There was like that one tweet
Speaker 1: where they're, you know, they're talking about how you know
Speaker 1: the CDC had changed like COVID quarantine guidelines to shorten
Speaker 1: it because they said ten days. I'm like, that could
Speaker 1: grind that they bring the U S economy to all
Speaker 1: And someone tweeted like, well, it stands to reason a
Speaker 1: general strike for about ten days might have them on
Speaker 1: their knees really showing its hand accidentally. But I think
Speaker 1: that's the it's the organizational part and also giving people
Speaker 1: the imagination part. I think it's it's always the hardest
Speaker 1: bit because yeah, letting people know that they can and
Speaker 1: then also making sure because ten days is not that
Speaker 1: long of a time, but it also it is so like,
Speaker 1: no matter what, you need to make sure that there
Speaker 1: are mutual aid sort of organizations in place that can
Speaker 1: support people who can't take ten days off, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean exactly. I can't believe the name of
Speaker 1: the company is XPO Logistics. That's like that that's like
Speaker 1: the name of FedEx in the RoboCop universe, like like
Speaker 1: Verhoeven would logistics. Yeah, it's like the evil version of FedEx. Anyways,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and then we'll come back
Speaker 1: and talk about other ship. And we're back. And oath
Speaker 1: keepers are a thing. I think I had heard that
Speaker 1: name a number of times around January six last year,
Speaker 1: but the government has finally charged them. Yeah, if um,
Speaker 1: they're unfamiliar. They're the merry band of Chud's that take
Speaker 1: their constitutional oath to protect the country from enemies, both
Speaker 1: foreign and domestic, sir. But they mostly stressed the domestic part,
Speaker 1: and that's why they've convinced themselves that right wing terror
Speaker 1: is actually a positive force in this country. But you know,
Speaker 1: they were pretty stoked at overthrowing the government on jan six,
Speaker 1: And you may have remembered those clips if you know,
Speaker 1: that were pretty deeply unsettling. If if you got really
Speaker 1: into like watching a lot of January six videos, if
Speaker 1: you'd see like a group of uniformed guys in tactical
Speaker 1: gear marching in a stack like sort of one behind
Speaker 1: the other with a hand on their shoulder, going up
Speaker 1: the Capitol steps, moving in a very coordinated way, and
Speaker 1: you're like, uh, there seemed to be really coordinated, like
Speaker 1: paramilitary elements to this, not just you know the people
Speaker 1: who were you know there for a peaceful protest or
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, or maybe you remember that
Speaker 1: there was a group of them. This is another story
Speaker 1: from January six that had a cache of weapons that
Speaker 1: were being ready just outside of d C in the
Speaker 1: event that it was time for bang bangs and math
Speaker 1: mass death, that they were going to just drive in
Speaker 1: a bunch of weapons to the rest of the oath
Speaker 1: keepers to take the the the insurrection to the next level. Well,
Speaker 1: the d o j J came knock in last week
Speaker 1: for eleven members, including their their their leader and charge
Speaker 1: them seditious conspiracy to quote opposed by force the lawful
Speaker 1: transfer of presidential power. Unfortunately, they had, you know, all
Speaker 1: of their signal messages were basically handed over to the FEDS,
Speaker 1: and it made the case pretty easy since they were
Speaker 1: being really clear about what the intent was and what
Speaker 1: people were doing. Didn't they copy and paste that text
Speaker 1: that makes it so that nobody can use any of
Speaker 1: the words you're using on social media? They did. I
Speaker 1: do not agree, I do not consent to their their
Speaker 1: their leader even did this dumb ship where he's like
Speaker 1: he would write in cursive very specific plans that he
Speaker 1: didn't want to type out, and then upload a picture
Speaker 1: because he said, if it's incursive, like the text scanning
Speaker 1: analysis software like won't be able to pick up what
Speaker 1: we're saying. But asshole, what you've done is just created
Speaker 1: evidence in your fucking and writing writing. It would have
Speaker 1: been easily been like some asshole got ahold of my
Speaker 1: phone and was using signal like a jerk. You're like, no, man,
Speaker 1: you're there's You're giving us a lot of forensic evidence
Speaker 1: here to say that you were very much a part
Speaker 1: of this and planning it. Also, who still knows how
Speaker 1: to write in cursive? I guess maybe something, Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: don't it? Was it last year or like when the
Speaker 1: enrollment sign ups four I think it was maybe oath
Speaker 1: keepers or three per centers and a bunch of people
Speaker 1: sign up with their government emails. Remember they were like
Speaker 1: five props signed up with like dot gov emails. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for them. People are pointing out the yell log rat,
Speaker 1: the leader who has an eyepatch but otherwise looks exactly
Speaker 1: like you. Would expect them to. Look, he's a yell
Speaker 1: low red, which is becoming less and less surprising. Like
Speaker 1: at this point, I don't think that's surprising at all.
Speaker 1: We have very much like Skull and Crossbones behavior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's brit Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, gimme war criminals went to
Speaker 1: Yale Law. It's they're really are they like the Federalist Society?
Speaker 1: Are they do? They? How do? What's the feeling in
Speaker 1: Yale Law They're supposed to be, I guess, the best
Speaker 1: law school in the country. Yeah, but if you think
Speaker 1: about institutions like that, they basically all are like born
Speaker 1: through white supremacy. Like anything that ancient in this country
Speaker 1: is going to have a serious yeah, you know, reckoning
Speaker 1: with their behavior during those years, and like what it
Speaker 1: means for students to even go through and graduate those programs,
Speaker 1: and like who created the programs to begin with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I mean like all those sort of like
Speaker 1: like Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, or Yale
Speaker 1: Law School, they're all like earth fucker finishing school, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like, yeah, now go on
Speaker 1: and fuck the earth over well and come back with many,
Speaker 1: many dollars you will not share the Soclar school of medicine. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about how people are finding COVID tests,
Speaker 1: because then the last week Joe Biden had some suggestions
Speaker 1: for it was actually kind of a pretty profound idea.
Speaker 1: He had apparently just found out about Google, and as
Speaker 1: people were complaining about not being able to find tests anywhere,
Speaker 1: he suggested they google it. So nailed it. Nailed it, Joe,
Speaker 1: Well done, sir, Take a nap. But they're also, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they beached and I think also Jen said it.
Speaker 1: I think the three of them in different. I think
Speaker 1: everybody that's like the triumvirate. Yeah, I think that's like
Speaker 1: the pr Like, it's so fucking rude to be like
Speaker 1: Google is free, yeah, and condescended. Yeah, is also not free.
Speaker 1: Also as not free. Also not everybody hasn't occss And
Speaker 1: also this is exactly what's wrong with the entire worldview
Speaker 1: that they like. The whole reason this is never going
Speaker 1: to work. Their whole thing is because they are still
Speaker 1: like multi trillion dollar companies are going to save us all.
Speaker 1: But we stroy Like during the pandemic when things were
Speaker 1: not as bad, we saw tests be destroyed because it
Speaker 1: was like to have an overstock meant that the price
Speaker 1: would go down, and so it was bad for companies.
Speaker 1: So private companies destroyed a ton of tests that we
Speaker 1: now need, right, Yeah, but now they're making money and yeah.
Speaker 1: The tone of it is like do Google again, shows
Speaker 1: like they think the other the rest of Americans are
Speaker 1: at the same like socio economic education bracket as like
Speaker 1: their staff, you know what I mean, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: just do Google, Okay, Like that's that's a directive. You
Speaker 1: I could hear someone who's like a staff or get
Speaker 1: rather than working people who have no Internet access or
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have time to like click eight
Speaker 1: thousand lengths and find which ones work and which ones
Speaker 1: don't know which ones are closed. It really seems to
Speaker 1: me like they're understanding of Google, Like they're actually the
Speaker 1: people who are making this decision to make this an
Speaker 1: official recommendation. Are people who have only seen search engines
Speaker 1: used in movies where like you just type in a
Speaker 1: thing and there's one answer, yeah, and it's just like
Speaker 1: there is you know, yeah, there's no CEO. It's not
Speaker 1: buried under like eight hundred ads. And like people who
Speaker 1: are like burying the good results because it's more profitable
Speaker 1: to them to get their fucking search results higher. It's
Speaker 1: such a dumb but like like nine six Quintonian understanding
Speaker 1: of like, well, you know the best, this massive company
Speaker 1: is going to do the best job, and because of
Speaker 1: the profit principle, we're good were It seems to me
Speaker 1: that a lot of us are fundily fundamentally misunderstanding like
Speaker 1: what a government is for. Like if this is not
Speaker 1: what a government is for, what are they for? If
Speaker 1: nothing else? Like what does it exist for? Why are
Speaker 1: we all paying taxes? What do we like obeying the
Speaker 1: structure for? Yeah, it's revolving door for defense and pharmaceutical company.
Speaker 1: I'm like piste off about it because it's like okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm funding right some like air strikes for
Speaker 1: some you know, civilian wedding and I can't get a
Speaker 1: COVID time in fucking England to have some problems they
Speaker 1: get you know whatever, twenty free tests a month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're actually funding move the production of movies like uh,
Speaker 1: let's see zero Dark thirty and Transformers to Let's not
Speaker 1: forget the hand that the c I C I hate
Speaker 1: played in making that film or the money and access
Speaker 1: the d O D gave to people to make Transformers
Speaker 1: that's also coming like out of our fucking tax dollars.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there is a lot. This whole thing is
Speaker 1: it does feel perverse, and I think because of the
Speaker 1: years that have gone by, people aren't have completely lost
Speaker 1: sort of track because I remember even to like Civics
Speaker 1: class in high school that really gave me no fundamental
Speaker 1: understanding of like what the relationship was between government and
Speaker 1: what it needs to do for me. It was more like,
Speaker 1: can you name the branches of the government? Do you
Speaker 1: know what this a legislature is? Okay? By right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they sort of have a vested interest in you're
Speaker 1: not knowing. Damn. I did join the Marines after watching Transformers,
Speaker 1: and I was so disappointed. You guys did not. It
Speaker 1: was not what I expected. I was not what they
Speaker 1: were hoping for either, So it was pretty it was
Speaker 1: over pretty quickly. You're like, when do I meet Bumblebee?
Speaker 1: Is this dude? Yeah? Right? But so they did announce
Speaker 1: like a plan. I'm putting in quotes, but it's basically
Speaker 1: to get private insurers to cover the cost of eight
Speaker 1: at home coronavirus tests. Per member per month, which would
Speaker 1: be great if everyone had insurance and if we could
Speaker 1: find take home tests, I could buy three PS five
Speaker 1: before I could go about three COVID tests. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: people are actually using the PS five like it when
Speaker 1: PS fives were incredibly hard to find. In those long
Speaker 1: ago days when PS fives were hard to find, Uh,
Speaker 1: people you know have been creating networks and programs to
Speaker 1: help find them, and like platforms and just social media
Speaker 1: accounts that like late you know, okay, this is where
Speaker 1: they have them, and now those are being converted or
Speaker 1: expanded to let you know where tests are, which is wild,
Speaker 1: right that where we took something that was a way
Speaker 1: to help like aggregate and give disseminate information around the
Speaker 1: availability of a gaming console that was sought after and
Speaker 1: we have now we're now swapping that out for critical
Speaker 1: medical infrastructure. There's this Onion like kind of rip off
Speaker 1: site hard drive that you know, not really I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of it before today, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: They might be fucking brilliantly talented, but they do the
Speaker 1: same thing as the Onion do fake headlines, and they
Speaker 1: did a fake headline US government reaches agreement with Warriors
Speaker 1: sixty four to announce COVID vaccine availability because Warrio sixty
Speaker 1: four was somebody who like let you know where consoles were,
Speaker 1: and then like days later that account started tweeting available
Speaker 1: vaccine appointments. Right, That's it's that's also just such a
Speaker 1: good summary of where we are that like, you know,
Speaker 1: the overlap between absurdity and satire and just reality. At
Speaker 1: this point it's well and it's and it's it's come
Speaker 1: to the place that it's become so predictable that the
Speaker 1: logic of humorists and writers is basically they're like, what
Speaker 1: next thing? You know, it's going to be this, And
Speaker 1: you're like, no, you're right, that is that is what's happening,
Speaker 1: and the next thing will be that. People are you know,
Speaker 1: who knows what the next thing will be? Was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, can you find food? Check out?
Speaker 1: Check it out in the in the Warriors sixty four
Speaker 1: Twitter account. I mean, it's on one hand, obviously you're
Speaker 1: r dystopian, But on the other hand, I think it's
Speaker 1: a really good example of like the ways that we
Speaker 1: can keep ourselves safe and the ways that like obviously
Speaker 1: huge governmental failure so disappointing. I wish it wasn't like that,
Speaker 1: but it's wonderful to see like things born out of
Speaker 1: necessity like that, and also to know that we can
Speaker 1: build those networks and like the government, we shouldn't have to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a lot of this will will fall to us,
Speaker 1: and how's been falling to us? Not even like this
Speaker 1: is not a new think about like the community French program,
Speaker 1: Like this is not a new concept ranny finding stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. It's just that the pandemic has laid
Speaker 1: bare in a continuation of like the natural radicalization process
Speaker 1: that's occurring in every industry too, because people normally like
Speaker 1: are they fucking serious, Like they're trying to kill me?
Speaker 1: Nothna funk that, And suddenly it's like, you know, like
Speaker 1: Viva the revolution. But it's like the students are walking
Speaker 1: out of high schools because students like I'm not going
Speaker 1: in a classroom. The teachers like, we're not going in
Speaker 1: a class saw the ship auto stuff today? Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: And also I guess the students that walked out are
Speaker 1: asking for an apology to teachers and the teachers union. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's but again, like we're making we're the responsibility for
Speaker 1: people to like take action is now following the weirdest
Speaker 1: places like and it's not. They're making activists out of
Speaker 1: so many people. So maybe that could be a a
Speaker 1: long term benefit in terms of people really seeing the
Speaker 1: bullshit that you know, the systems actually are. But you know,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean so the other way that the
Speaker 1: Biden administration is turning towards private mega corporations. In addition
Speaker 1: to like working only with private insurance companies, they and
Speaker 1: suggesting we use Google. They're actually working with Google to
Speaker 1: help people access tests. It's unclear how they're planning to
Speaker 1: do that, but it's extra frustrating because Google is one
Speaker 1: of men any like massive corporations that are hoarding rapid tests. Reportedly,
Speaker 1: Google employees can receive as many as twenty tests per month,
Speaker 1: and Google staff are literally using their pretests on their
Speaker 1: children so they can go to daycare because daycare is
Speaker 1: not a multibillion dollar software company, and you know they
Speaker 1: have no tests. So but yeah, it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: massive corporations are are the ones that can afford stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're becoming the only ones that can afford stuff
Speaker 1: or have access to stuff. Yeah, I'm really what I
Speaker 1: would love to hear with these ideation sessions. How like
Speaker 1: when they're they're they're they're doing this balancing act, Like
Speaker 1: how are we going to get these tests to people?
Speaker 1: We gotta get more tests? Is there just one guy
Speaker 1: like vaping in the back, like, dude, call fucking Google
Speaker 1: man and like they'll figure it out. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: Google lobbyist in the room who's like, I think we
Speaker 1: can work something out if you guys mention us enough. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: And it's also it's like we have so much money
Speaker 1: need for other things, and there's never any discussion about
Speaker 1: where that money is going to come from. This is
Speaker 1: the point that's been made over and over again. But
Speaker 1: like our country does have so much. We have, like
Speaker 1: you know, raised how much money we give the I
Speaker 1: d F every year for the last ten years, but
Speaker 1: there's no money for COVID tests. So it's just like,
Speaker 1: what are our priorities here? Yeah? The priorities are profit
Speaker 1: every always over everything, even if it's in the long
Speaker 1: run more expensive. And then that also goes back to
Speaker 1: the idea that it's like I think a lot of
Speaker 1: us don't understand, like I think everybody in America thinks
Speaker 1: the government is a business and like that the government
Speaker 1: exists to make money. And it's like services don't need
Speaker 1: to make money. Their services, their services is why they exist.
Speaker 1: The debt ceiling, Allery, how are they going to deal
Speaker 1: with the debt ceiling? What the fuck are you guys
Speaker 1: even talking? Michael Bay is making a January sixth film
Speaker 1: that we need to help co produce. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought that was real for two socks. I thought you
Speaker 1: were just giving us a news break. No no if
Speaker 1: but if. But again, the absurdity becomes reality, So buckle up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you're hard to tell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your dramatization of the guy in the back of the
Speaker 1: room vaping and being like called Google like really drove
Speaker 1: home because that is, you know, all the people who
Speaker 1: work at Google are you know, went to some IVY
Speaker 1: school with the kids who are working in the Biden
Speaker 1: administration and like that's it's yeah, it does feel like
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to that whole just what
Speaker 1: a fucked places like all these Ivy League schools are.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a fucking logistics expert, but just
Speaker 1: from my you know, civilian view, it's like, I know,
Speaker 1: you know, post offices seem like localized distribution centers, and
Speaker 1: we seem to be getting I don't know how y'all
Speaker 1: do it, but everybody gets the same fucking bed bathroom
Speaker 1: beyond ad right, maybe holler at them, maybe start there,
Speaker 1: and you can say, yeah, we know, we have we
Speaker 1: have every refuent residents mapped out as a post office.
Speaker 1: We can we can do that. But you know, I
Speaker 1: get it. It's profit and Google folks, Google. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. So the the Queen, in a belated
Speaker 1: effort to appeal to the people, I think I'll let
Speaker 1: her chef be interviewed about what her like diet is, like,
Speaker 1: what he cooks for her. What did this happen this week?
Speaker 1: I don't know when it happened, Miles, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is this a perfectly timed Prince Andrew smoke bomb? Right?
Speaker 1: Very very easily could be. I think just generally they've
Speaker 1: been aware that they have they have a perception problem.
Speaker 1: Although didn't I read somewhere that, like I'm asking you
Speaker 1: get didn't I read somewhere that they watched The Crown
Speaker 1: like they watch every episode of The car Oh, I
Speaker 1: think I've actually heard that also. I think Megan Marcos
Speaker 1: said that that's wild. But anyways, I do think they
Speaker 1: know they have a perception problem because one of the
Speaker 1: princes is a fucking massive pedophile and the other one
Speaker 1: is an insufferable prick and was revealed to be a
Speaker 1: racist against his own grandchild or grown yeah, grandson. So they're,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to be the fun Royals every once
Speaker 1: in a while. So they let Darren O'Grady, who served
Speaker 1: as the queen's personal chef for fifteen years, reveal some
Speaker 1: of her food preferences. So one thing, he says that
Speaker 1: the Queen tried to avoid fast food at all costs.
Speaker 1: No ship, how the family didn't they weren't they franchisees
Speaker 1: of McDonald's. Problem, but like only in the way that
Speaker 1: like some money manager like right, But he labeled something
Speaker 1: he labeled her guilty pleasure was a bunless venison burger
Speaker 1: freshly shot, might i add stuffed with beautiful, likely freshly
Speaker 1: picked cranberries. That is so hannibal. Freshly shot is such
Speaker 1: a fucking just so it's like very king Leopold Skist like,
Speaker 1: it's reminds me of colonization. I'm like, you are violent family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just if you could capture some of the last dying
Speaker 1: breaths of the deer in a in a little basket
Speaker 1: and put put it on next to it as a garnish,
Speaker 1: I would love Right. It sounds like some like new
Speaker 1: like level of like gastronomic science, where you know, like
Speaker 1: l Boy was like, and this is a peace shoot foam,
Speaker 1: and they're like, we've created a wonderful foam based off
Speaker 1: of the soul escaping, right, Yeah, these are the tears
Speaker 1: of the baby deer that watched us. That's that's actually
Speaker 1: used that to make the salt on these chips that
Speaker 1: we were now eating. But yeah, so she eats that.
Speaker 1: If if I that, I would be like, okay, I
Speaker 1: ate my health food for the week. She ate that,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you are so bad looking in the mirror.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh my goodness, A moment on the lips
Speaker 1: forever one. She's like, come on, Elizabeth, nothing tastes as
Speaker 1: good as skinny field. Let's go the This reminds me
Speaker 1: of this Mark McGuire interview that I remember from when
Speaker 1: I was a child, and he was like chasing the
Speaker 1: home run title that year, and everyone was obsessed with him.
Speaker 1: And I had this very specific moment where he was
Speaker 1: being interviewed on like Sports Center, and they were like,
Speaker 1: what's your guilty pleasure? And he was like and like
Speaker 1: with a like wry smile on his face, like, man,
Speaker 1: I am about to reveal something, do you guys? He
Speaker 1: said he likes to have a great work out in
Speaker 1: the morning, then have a cup of Starbucks coffee and
Speaker 1: a plane donut, And he emphasized a plane donut like repeatedly,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I fucking hate this guy. I
Speaker 1: immediately turned on him. I wanted him to fail, like
Speaker 1: from that moment forward. Yeah, just the the idea of
Speaker 1: somebody not even being able to admit to a guilty
Speaker 1: pleasure or alternately, not even having a guilty pleasure that
Speaker 1: is worth like talking about or creates common ground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so fucking depressing. Who's ever eaten? Who's ever even
Speaker 1: had a burger stuffed with cranberries? Like just from there?
Speaker 1: Also the bunless I'm like, you're whatever years old, why
Speaker 1: not just go for it? Like? Who are we staying
Speaker 1: in shape? Four it's such like sort of a soulless experience,
Speaker 1: like you have such a limited time, enjoy every mail
Speaker 1: that you have left the right. Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 1: I want her to be like, man, I'll eat like
Speaker 1: four pounds of crawfish, yes exactly. I want her to
Speaker 1: be like I will have five beers and then a marshmallow,
Speaker 1: and I'll go to bed every night, every night. That's
Speaker 1: what keeps me healthy and young. Yeah. I look, I
Speaker 1: look at a map, a historical map of the British Empire. Down,
Speaker 1: three Mickey's and five marshmallows. I'm good. Yeah, Like that's
Speaker 1: the greats. Like Michael Jordan used to like drink a
Speaker 1: case of beer on the golf course, eat an entire
Speaker 1: Pepperoni pizza, drink a Scotch, smoke a cigar, and then
Speaker 1: go out and like hang on the knicks and like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that feels like that gives me a
Speaker 1: tummy ache to think about. Disgusting. But his body was
Speaker 1: just like a machine. Yeah, that's sort of like somehow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was in high school on I was on
Speaker 1: the cross country team in college too, and sometimes the
Speaker 1: team would get like really big burritos before we would
Speaker 1: go to practice and at least two girls would always
Speaker 1: throw up because it just wasn't enough time to right food.
Speaker 1: But we were kids and we liked, right, you got
Speaker 1: to load up. We go four miles in fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. We would eat like huge burritos and then
Speaker 1: go run ten miles and somebody would always get so sick.
Speaker 1: What you said? Somehow I was on the cross country
Speaker 1: tween team. What do you mean, like you you never
Speaker 1: wanted to and or you ended up having a knack
Speaker 1: for it. Oh. No. In my high school, we had
Speaker 1: to be on a sports team, so you just picked
Speaker 1: whichever one seemed the easiest. Damn cross country would not
Speaker 1: like run long. I'd be like, it's like soccer field,
Speaker 1: we have to talk to people. That's cross country cross
Speaker 1: country too exactly, sort of a liar sport. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that makes sense, yeah, because like are like I remember
Speaker 1: my high school, like our like star cross country person
Speaker 1: talked to no one and was like really smart, like
Speaker 1: went to like you know, really good school after it.
Speaker 1: But I was like, dude, John, he's he's a machine
Speaker 1: out there that no one knows anything about. I'll see
Speaker 1: you get to be a nature like the meats are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would highly recommend that as like a sport if
Speaker 1: you don't already have a yo run down fucking Ventura
Speaker 1: to woodman fool teams And I'm like, that's brutal. That
Speaker 1: is brutal. Yeah, I mean that's yeah, that's Cross County.
Speaker 1: I was on a roll down my window and boo, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys, I'm just looking at the time man, the
Speaker 1: saying a pr in case you're wondering exactly what about you, guys,
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, the guilty pleasures. Do you have any
Speaker 1: guilty pleasures that you feel arise to the thing of like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, Okay, that's I mean Mountain dew is
Speaker 1: Mine that I think people like it doesn't really qualify
Speaker 1: as a guilty pleasure in some parts of the country,
Speaker 1: But in Los Angeles people like, what the but yeall
Speaker 1: you know, or a house and entire Domino's pizza, you know,
Speaker 1: pint of ice cream, any of the above. The concept
Speaker 1: maybe just seems I think I've just I've accepted all
Speaker 1: the ship that the concept seems sort of faulty, right yeah, right,
Speaker 1: because like I mean, and you drinking out and do
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's just you, Jack, you contain multitudes. I
Speaker 1: worked at a bakery for a while and we used
Speaker 1: to use mountaindew to clean the ovens because it was
Speaker 1: so corrosive. Nice something I mean that just makes me Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I guess maybe the my weed smoking is
Speaker 1: a guilty flip them, Like, I don't know, that's just
Speaker 1: what I do, Like you know what I mean, how
Speaker 1: had it? And then like I got my ship together,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't. You know, I've been smoking weed for
Speaker 1: a minute. I didn't sunk up my grades or my
Speaker 1: ability to you know, abide by societal norms. Okay, you guys,
Speaker 1: what's the thing you like to do that makes you
Speaker 1: like yourself less? That's really funny. I'm a podcast, right be.
Speaker 1: I feel like a guilty plusser is something that brings
Speaker 1: the wrong people money that you like to do anyway,
Speaker 1: Like maybe go to Chick fil A or like I
Speaker 1: really like the Housewives franchise even though it's evil and
Speaker 1: they give women like alcoholism, but you know they have money.
Speaker 1: They have money. Yeah, what is mine? Yeah? Probably sneakers?
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah, you know, we multinational apparel companies
Speaker 1: are far from the two Gooders on this planet. But
Speaker 1: there is something where the sneakers called to me. But
Speaker 1: you know, definitely like I think less than it was normally.
Speaker 1: I think as I just get older, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just want to like experience ship kind of over like
Speaker 1: pulling up and like the freshest sneakers all the time.
Speaker 1: That used to kind of be my whole ship, like
Speaker 1: in my twenties. They're like killing an old person that's
Speaker 1: sort of a guilty. But although some old people fair game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but like the good ones who still are
Speaker 1: like have some fight in them, you know, that is
Speaker 1: both more pleasurable and also makes you feel, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: best in them getting work out. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Scream franchise. They're back, baby. I haven't watched
Speaker 1: any Scream movies since Scream too. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is Scream five. Yeah, it's titled Scream even though there
Speaker 1: you did that. Yeah, what do you do put an
Speaker 1: asterisk by like on IMDb? I guess they just have
Speaker 1: to put the year next to it like Scream or
Speaker 1: you gotta do something to like put a three in there.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, oh like sc R three am Yeah,
Speaker 1: although that would be confused ones that I would seem
Speaker 1: it was like the yeah, yeah, yeah five Cream five
Speaker 1: Cream five have called Dimension Films Marketing Department. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this one is apparently without spoiling anything. The kind of
Speaker 1: meta target of this one is like toxic online fandom,
Speaker 1: which I guess kind of so obviously everyone like the
Speaker 1: toxic online fandom community is like, shut the funk up,
Speaker 1: you ruined Scream but being wolves and yeah, because like
Speaker 1: the main bad guy is like some person who's just
Speaker 1: a fan of the Stab world. Right, yeah, so apparently
Speaker 1: and I didn't remember any of this ship, but like,
Speaker 1: so the Scream Too takes place in a in a
Speaker 1: world where the after the events of Scream one, they
Speaker 1: made a movie called Stab that is like the inspired
Speaker 1: by that but it's a slasher movie. And then so
Speaker 1: now inside this world, like somebody is responding to the
Speaker 1: Stab movies but like angrily, and they even got the
Speaker 1: Stab movie that the online toxic fan bros Are mad
Speaker 1: at to be directed inside the movie by Ryan Johnson,
Speaker 1: which is pretty funny because he directed the Star Wars
Speaker 1: movie that everybody was so mad at. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, people acting like this is a change or
Speaker 1: like the Scream suddenly got woke is fucking stupid because
Speaker 1: they've you know, the mid nineties, like Screams were about
Speaker 1: like how the media was stupid and exploitative and you know,
Speaker 1: focusing mainly on shitty right wing media and that's I
Speaker 1: don't know, which I didn't really get at the time,
Speaker 1: but now when you look back, it's like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Corney Cox character is like, you know, looks down her
Speaker 1: nose at horror slasher movies, but then it is making
Speaker 1: like news stories that are basically like sensationalizing murders. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, you know, there's also just
Speaker 1: like I think it also just played with like all
Speaker 1: the tropes in horror to like you know, and was
Speaker 1: just having more fun with it than I think the
Speaker 1: traditional you know, slasher flick. But I don't know, like
Speaker 1: it just seems so weird to be like this stabbering
Speaker 1: movies like oh woke, and she's like, that's that's what
Speaker 1: you're parsing. Yeah, And I'm also just like, shut up,
Speaker 1: just stop stop complanning, right, I mean, it must look
Speaker 1: like the walls are just closing in for those people
Speaker 1: if they like they have to look at everything like
Speaker 1: it's an invented problem. Yeah, it's it's a boogeyman. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's not much different than like the
Speaker 1: Satanic panic where people are like playing CDs backwards to
Speaker 1: hear the devil or whatever, right right, yeah, because it
Speaker 1: is an effective like you know, rallying point right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then also it's like in a way that even
Speaker 1: affects like liberals and neoliberals where it's like I feel
Speaker 1: like I can't go a day without hearing some clips
Speaker 1: from like a Van Jones podcast about cancel culture. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I'm like, why are
Speaker 1: we giving this air? It doesn't exist Van Jones he
Speaker 1: was part of the Obama administration, So if he's saying
Speaker 1: cancel culture, there's a problem. Like I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take that on. He's got some great takes, I know.
Speaker 1: But then it's also it's like, okay, as somebody in
Speaker 1: the Obama administration the most left person that we can find,
Speaker 1: yeah according to the mainstream media, according to them, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing is like I feel that
Speaker 1: that is why we're fucked, because it's we're not even
Speaker 1: really engaging with progressive politics. Or ideas, like we're not
Speaker 1: even able to have that discussion yet, and it's like
Speaker 1: it's it's something I'm thinking about a lot. It is
Speaker 1: how frustrating it is to run into like, oh, conversations
Speaker 1: about progressive politics in America when progressive politics in America
Speaker 1: like don't exist, Like so it's so radical to be
Speaker 1: like school and should be free. So it's like even
Speaker 1: the most left party in America still you know center
Speaker 1: send around, Yes, absolutely absolutely, and in any other country,
Speaker 1: like the discussions are just different. And so it's so
Speaker 1: I feel like leaftivism and leftism in America is having
Speaker 1: a real It feels like we're like white knuckling and
Speaker 1: just clawing on for all that we can. Yeah, throughout
Speaker 1: the entire history of the country. Yeah yeah, yeah, But
Speaker 1: I mean I think about like I just feel like
Speaker 1: labor movements used to be so much more serious than
Speaker 1: they are now. Like I felt like this was such
Speaker 1: a good I was like so hopeful in the last
Speaker 1: two years for like something to shift in labor. It
Speaker 1: was such like a moment, and now I see it
Speaker 1: sort of slipping away. M m. Yeah, I'm still hopeful,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's like a combination of the
Speaker 1: moment and the right set of like messaging and personalities
Speaker 1: that kind of that are going to bring people into
Speaker 1: the fold because there isn't really and and you know,
Speaker 1: I think the mainstream media and the corporatocracy that we
Speaker 1: live in at large does a good job of sanitizing
Speaker 1: landscape to make sure that voices like that aren't getting
Speaker 1: a ton of air time, and if they are, it's
Speaker 1: in very like niche spaces. But I think like it's
Speaker 1: almost like, you know, you need people to to sort
Speaker 1: of covertly, you know, use these talking points without sort
Speaker 1: of decoupling them from people's like you know, accepted political vocabulary,
Speaker 1: to just be like, on a basic level, should everybody
Speaker 1: be able to go to the doctor if they're sick? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and don't say medicare first, you know, and just say,
Speaker 1: on a basic level, should you go become absolutely destitute
Speaker 1: because you wanted an education? Does that seem or there's
Speaker 1: education or not? Al right? Like or what are we
Speaker 1: saying here? Like those things? But it's it's just so
Speaker 1: difficult because there's so much messaging on the other side
Speaker 1: to immediately be like, oh, well, you want to give
Speaker 1: everything away for free? That's not what I said. I said,
Speaker 1: little stomach, what I want to give everything away for free? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean just the whole thing, right, that's why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just come out with everything like, yeah, I'm here, free
Speaker 1: everything for everyone. Yeah, I'm swinging for the rafters. That
Speaker 1: is sort of why I'm getting in my old age
Speaker 1: where I'm sort of like, yeah, well what if life
Speaker 1: is just easy? Right? Yeah? Yeah, well but my grand
Speaker 1: wouldn't be fair to me a dying old man. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: that exactly. That's exactly. It's like, I'm sorry that you
Speaker 1: had a bad life, but that should radicalize you instead
Speaker 1: of you know, cementing the way that you freak about
Speaker 1: the world. Right do you look at I mean because
Speaker 1: I mean it's funny though too, because there are we
Speaker 1: do have those conversations intergenerationally where like grandparents will like start,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking critically of their like grandchildren's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you guys have it so easy. Yeah, it's like didn't
Speaker 1: you dream of that for like don't you want better
Speaker 1: for your generations? Or you just wanted to be like
Speaker 1: I went through the most ship and we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: it that way. I'm champion of you know, enduring the bullshit.
Speaker 1: I do think. I think you have both the older
Speaker 1: generation that is slowly dying off and like socialism and
Speaker 1: leftism is like much more popular with young people. You
Speaker 1: also have, like I really think the like Ivy League
Speaker 1: educated and like you know, the people who who come
Speaker 1: out of Ivy League colleges every year and like go
Speaker 1: work for Morgan Stanley and you know, like all these
Speaker 1: fucking banking like massive banks, like they also have that
Speaker 1: have that same attitude of like, well I paid and
Speaker 1: like my parents paid like this hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars and like I know all this stuff, so like
Speaker 1: it's not as simple as you think, and it's like,
Speaker 1: well maybe it is. And yeah, I mean that's the
Speaker 1: tough part about meeting young conservatives or people who are
Speaker 1: not would not conserve themselves conservatives, but would are like
Speaker 1: the neoliberals sort of like capitalism pilled as it were,
Speaker 1: is that it's going to take so much unlearning for
Speaker 1: them to be on our page, and we as a
Speaker 1: movement need to make sure that we're keeping space for that,
Speaker 1: otherwise we're not going to bring anybody over, right, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think I honestly I feel like the most
Speaker 1: I've seen in terms of just even in my friend
Speaker 1: group or like you know, social cohort from like kids
Speaker 1: I went to school with. It's happened pretty naturally just
Speaker 1: by them observing things more like that before, like my
Speaker 1: dad worked for Warner Brothers and my mom was a
Speaker 1: bank manager, and now they're like, yo, fuck twelve man,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, fucking like, let me get my funking.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're like on their their their political
Speaker 1: ideology has shifted a lot because some are working in
Speaker 1: industries where they're like, this is absolute bullshit, like what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, And so I feel like some of it
Speaker 1: is it seems to be happening experientially, but yeah, there's
Speaker 1: watching that evolution happen. Isn't gonna happen by just dragging
Speaker 1: people to the other side. More so like it's gonna
Speaker 1: it has to be a little more like lived, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: as things get worse, I think it will become lived
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, and people who consider their
Speaker 1: class status say, are going to really challenge that. I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to challenge that idea. Yeah, I do
Speaker 1: worry that it's where the one group that seems to
Speaker 1: have a clear path of like, Okay, so everything's desperate
Speaker 1: and doesn't work anymore, so what are we going to
Speaker 1: do with? Like the public outrage seems to be the fascists,
Speaker 1: so true, somewhat worrying, but we'll cover that on future episodes, Hilary,
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you as Where can people find
Speaker 1: you and follow you? You can find me on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Larie Underscore Smith. Yeah. Yeah. And is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some of the work of social media that
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying. Yeah, I saw this tweet this week.
Speaker 1: It's from Sophie from Mars. Sophie Underscore are from f
Speaker 1: r M Underscore Mars, and it says me a new
Speaker 1: ballumba watching a kid with a personality disorder rock up
Speaker 1: to the candy factory where I'm an indentured servant. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: this kid's gonna get stretched for sure. Miles where people
Speaker 1: will find you? What's a tweet you've then enjoy him?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Grain. If you like terrible reality television like ninety
Speaker 1: Day Fiance or Married at First, like, come check out
Speaker 1: for twenty Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra and I. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see a couple of tweets I like. First one
Speaker 1: is from trash Jones at jay Zucks tweeting being an
Speaker 1: adult as wild because you'll just be crying in your
Speaker 1: room and five minutes later, boom, you're on a work call.
Speaker 1: So real, uh, And another one from your Dooia at
Speaker 1: your Dooia Underscore tweeted, I'm so fucking embarrassed man. A
Speaker 1: lady on the train asked me what great I'm in,
Speaker 1: and I said, oh, I'm a grown man. I saw
Speaker 1: what great are you in? Oh, I'm a grown man.
Speaker 1: He's also like grown grown, like he's not twenty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right exactly. I think it's yeah, he's just you know,
Speaker 1: that's his his his, his boyership. You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien tweet. I've been enjoying
Speaker 1: Stephen wilbur guests from a couple of days ago for
Speaker 1: the photo from the episode. Man, just go check it out.
Speaker 1: We'll link off to it. That's pretty funny. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a real fucking weirdo. And then I also enjoyed
Speaker 1: a tweet from Buffalo Jill tweeted breaking shortly after divorce
Speaker 1: announcement Jason Momoa seeing holding hands with Pete Davidson outside
Speaker 1: Popular l a H and I had to check. You
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Speaker 1: we talked about in today's episode as well. It's a
Speaker 1: song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song
Speaker 1: do we think people might enjoy today? Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a remix of Sad Girls Love Money. It's a track
Speaker 1: with amr A Kali Uchis who I absolutely love Molly
Speaker 1: and it's a remix by Virgo Deep. It's the Virgo
Speaker 1: Deep remix of Sad Girls Love Money. And it's just
Speaker 1: like that. It's like a sexy song, like it's got
Speaker 1: good beats to it and the vocals are really great.
Speaker 1: So it's just it gets you moving. You know, your
Speaker 1: hips will be swaying at the very least, and uh,
Speaker 1: why not take this into the start of your week? Yeah? Yeah, alright, Well,
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