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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly
Speaker 1: Zeitgeist Real What is something from your search history? So related?
Speaker 1: All of it was Star Wars terms that I was
Speaker 1: spell checking, except for who is that defense attorney on SVU?
Speaker 1: I don't know why I thought Google would know which
Speaker 1: one I was talking about, but I have been. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been mainlining Law and Order SVU for the past
Speaker 1: two issued weeks, to the point where I will watch
Speaker 1: anywhere between four and ten episodes a day. I can't
Speaker 1: get enough. I know, I'd never really seen it. I
Speaker 1: thought I didn't like violence. Apparently I do only when
Speaker 1: Mariska Hargeta is there. It's basically like my my new personality,
Speaker 1: hobby and job all in one. Yeah. So are you're
Speaker 1: late to the SVU part? I feel like SVU is
Speaker 1: Have you always been messing with SVU? It's literally five
Speaker 1: hundred episodes late. I don't know what happened. Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I feel like that. It's interesting to hear people
Speaker 1: like I'm just getting into SVU where most people are like, man,
Speaker 1: I'll like SVU has been uh my number one forever
Speaker 1: that I don't talk about. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: part of it might be because lately, when you binge
Speaker 1: watch a show, if they dumped the whole thing at once,
Speaker 1: you know, you spend a Saturday night and then it's over.
Speaker 1: This never hits. It's bodyless, and I just keep going
Speaker 1: and going and going, and I'm I'm still like Seasons away.
Speaker 1: It's still in the modern era of it where it's
Speaker 1: just I can't I can't stop consuming it. Have you
Speaker 1: been to the Immersive SVU experience at six Flags? I
Speaker 1: honestly don't know if that's a joke or not if
Speaker 1: it's real. Party was like, is it long through? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can act a scene. Yeah, I just want to
Speaker 1: go in their office, right. Yeah. It feels like an installation.
Speaker 1: You'd have it like a Halloween Horror Nights or something
Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, do a crime scene with the
Speaker 1: people that VU or like C s I or some
Speaker 1: ship like that. But I guess not. Oh I wish,
Speaker 1: Oh how I wish. I also love though two. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've I've watched it here and there, but never you know,
Speaker 1: to the point where you know they're definitely fans of
Speaker 1: the show. But I also like the idea of you know,
Speaker 1: when you get into a show like I like this
Speaker 1: show and you're like, there's only three seasons, whereas you're
Speaker 1: looking at your like, there's hundreds of episodes that I've
Speaker 1: yet to even begun to experience. So let this long.
Speaker 1: May it last for you? Thank you. I know there's
Speaker 1: definitely some deep seated psychological reason where I'm like, it'll
Speaker 1: never run out, it will never abandon me like my
Speaker 1: other favorite shows. But at least for now, I just
Speaker 1: love it because in every episode there's about thirty seconds
Speaker 1: where they reference being actual people that exist in New
Speaker 1: York City. Well they like get a coffee at a
Speaker 1: coffee car, or they'll be like, come on, we'll go
Speaker 1: make dinner. And I think I'm just living for that,
Speaker 1: Like the moments in my brain that I can piece
Speaker 1: together to make a sort of SPU sitcom. I think
Speaker 1: that's really with the joy life, Like that's the best,
Speaker 1: the best part of the show. Yeah, I have some
Speaker 1: SPU slash fix that I can send your way. It's
Speaker 1: but it's all just about them living very boring, ordinary
Speaker 1: lives and between the crimes, it's like they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like roommates. They have a lot. They could be
Speaker 1: talking about the most interesting stuff when they get home,
Speaker 1: like what happened at work today? And there's like nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you want to watch Lost or something. They're like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's called SPU days off, just their days off going
Speaker 1: to the met. They're like, Actually, if you treat New
Speaker 1: York like you're a tourist in your own town, that's
Speaker 1: really nice. We should try that. Hellal guy's car. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated on it? This is
Speaker 1: a little dark because of what happened recently in the news,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say it because I do think it's true.
Speaker 1: I think music festivals are very overrated. And I say
Speaker 1: that because I went to Outside Lands in San Francisco
Speaker 1: over Halloween and they're all these amazing acts, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Strokes, Tyler Glass, Animals, Nellie was randomly there.
Speaker 1: Izzo was the headliner, and on paper, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I want to go see all those artists,
Speaker 1: but the shows suck because man, I feel like I
Speaker 1: figured out this scam and I'm pissed. So, like, Glass
Speaker 1: Animals goes on to perform at six pm, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this music is pretty soft, and everyone is watching Glass
Speaker 1: Animals because they're really popular right now. So the whole
Speaker 1: like all people in this park or however many it is,
Speaker 1: are crowded just to see fucking Glass Animals, while some
Speaker 1: pour acoustic singers on the other stage that no one
Speaker 1: cares about, and you couldn't hear. You couldn't hear the music,
Speaker 1: and that music is meant to like encircle you. And
Speaker 1: then lo and behold, Lizzo goes on at eight p m.
Speaker 1: And the music is blasting all through the park, so
Speaker 1: they have the capability to turn up this music so
Speaker 1: you don't have to squish yourself to the front. They
Speaker 1: could just turn it louder so people could fucking space out,
Speaker 1: but they don't, and that is a scam and I
Speaker 1: am not okay with it. And so because of that,
Speaker 1: I ended up not going to see a lot of
Speaker 1: these artists because I was like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with the crowd and whatever, and I missed Nellie,
Speaker 1: which was maybe the whole point of going to see
Speaker 1: Nellie oh Man, I guess they didn't hear a lot
Speaker 1: about him being in the news much recently, but hey,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, somewhere we let our nostalgia dictate. Yeah, I'm curious,
Speaker 1: was there, So in your mind, is this a conspiracy?
Speaker 1: Like you're saying like they're turn and Glass Animals down
Speaker 1: because maybe they're trying to help, but not like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to pull up the set time to see like
Speaker 1: who was playing when Glass Animals was playing, because it's
Speaker 1: like the organizer's daughter was on acoustical. Yeah, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I really love Outside Lands actually as a festival.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about that because we had who
Speaker 1: was just there? But it's I like it because of
Speaker 1: the music festivals. It's like the most space and the
Speaker 1: most bathrooms and the most like and more of like
Speaker 1: the things that like trouble me about a festivals, Like
Speaker 1: I gotta hold my PM for nine hours because like
Speaker 1: the lines are too long and then you can't get
Speaker 1: a good spot, whereas there you can be pretty like leisurely.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm sticking more point. Yeah that I went
Speaker 1: to the best of the best, the most space, the
Speaker 1: most bathrooms. They had a whole weed space where you
Speaker 1: go and buy there. Yeah, and still it fucking sucked.
Speaker 1: I was so taught, heard and I tried so hard,
Speaker 1: and everyone was so drunk in college age and I
Speaker 1: have never in my life felt older. But let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Look, it may be a scam, but
Speaker 1: I cracked the code. So they had this like club
Speaker 1: in a tent and the line was like three hours long.
Speaker 1: It was That's another thing. What you's been three hours
Speaker 1: at a music festival A fucking line you have break
Speaker 1: But so I was like, I was like, I'm never
Speaker 1: getting into that. But I went during Nellie and it
Speaker 1: was the only time that that tent was empty and
Speaker 1: you could go right in. So that was the price
Speaker 1: to get into that. Stupid everybody who was playing man enough.
Speaker 1: Fuck that was a line up on that day. Krungben
Speaker 1: went on before Glass Animals and then Canada was after
Speaker 1: Glass Animals, and then that led into Tyler or you
Speaker 1: could have caused Sango at the house by Wow trying
Speaker 1: to find you're sen here. But it's a lot of
Speaker 1: heavy hitters. You should know that Miles is sponsored by
Speaker 1: Outside Lands, so you're going to get anytime you got
Speaker 1: that ticket because actually the savings in time alone make
Speaker 1: it worth the extra four dollars. Now, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just a fan, but shout out to Ranger Dave. I
Speaker 1: think that's absolutely true about music festivals based on my
Speaker 1: experience of going to Coachella once was that it was
Speaker 1: just like a total crap shoot And probably the most
Speaker 1: disappointing live music experience I've ever had was seeing Outcast
Speaker 1: live for the first time their first like reunion show
Speaker 1: on that on that Yeah you were there first week
Speaker 1: or second week, second week, because I was My strategy
Speaker 1: is always by second week tickets because everyone wants the
Speaker 1: first week tickets or back. You know, when I used
Speaker 1: to go, so first week, the sound was all funked
Speaker 1: up for the Outcast show, like you really and then
Speaker 1: like I think Andre started getting like getting sort of
Speaker 1: assuming that the audience just wasn't into them, and like
Speaker 1: so he started like kind of yelling at the audience.
Speaker 1: But it was just like the sound fucking sucked. It
Speaker 1: was so bad like for their show, they just hadn't
Speaker 1: like dialed it in. And it's really tough. It's and
Speaker 1: it's a tough thing for an artist because unless you're
Speaker 1: the headliner and they blast that music and have it
Speaker 1: all figured out your set, plus you get the set
Speaker 1: up on stage, like Tyler was in a fucking boat
Speaker 1: on stage. That was really cool. But unless you have that,
Speaker 1: it is a lot of space to fill up with
Speaker 1: your like presence and Oh seven d Shake, who I love,
Speaker 1: went up and I guess she goes by oh seven
Speaker 1: oh Shake, which I didn't know until I saw that show.
Speaker 1: But put on a great show. But it's like this big,
Speaker 1: gass stage and it was at the very beginning of
Speaker 1: the festival day one, so not a lot of people
Speaker 1: were there. And she did the same thing where she
Speaker 1: was kind of yelling at the audience like come on,
Speaker 1: be excited, and you just saw everyone just like not
Speaker 1: into it. And I was like, fuck this place, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go smoke some weed and Grasslands. Yeah, same stage,
Speaker 1: Kick Cuttie like at like one in the afternoon was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was just it was a total crap shoot, you know,
Speaker 1: they just like it. Also, he was out of his
Speaker 1: mind on I think the same drugs that the audience
Speaker 1: was on. So it worked out pretty well. That's perfect
Speaker 1: the scam, I think, Yeah, I mean like I think,
Speaker 1: what's the benefit is, Like, I like the idea of
Speaker 1: like spending an entire like multiple days seeing just great
Speaker 1: live music. But I think that's where things get a
Speaker 1: little muddied, where like you run into the things that
Speaker 1: you know, like would plague any sort of profit driven operation,
Speaker 1: which is like they spent more money and like made
Speaker 1: it very comfortable for every one, It would be such
Speaker 1: a great experience. But like, really it feels like the
Speaker 1: guiding principle for music festivals. How many fucking sweaty kids
Speaker 1: can we cram into this parking lot and and still
Speaker 1: pay the artists what they need and still for us
Speaker 1: make the money that we need to make as the organizers. Yes,
Speaker 1: And that kind of leads into the astra world thing
Speaker 1: where it's like that was just too many people with
Speaker 1: too few strategies for how to control that many place.
Speaker 1: Yeah or not at all? Yeah? What what is something
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Okay, So I bought a book
Speaker 1: when I was out of town and I read it
Speaker 1: in one second, and though I brought eight books, but
Speaker 1: so this book is so fucking underrated because I want
Speaker 1: everyone to read it and talk to me about it.
Speaker 1: It's called Fashion Victims, The Dangers of Dress Past and
Speaker 1: Present by Alison Matthews, David Alison, I'm to holler at
Speaker 1: you on Twitter. This book is as good as hell.
Speaker 1: It is illustrated and about all the different like poisonous
Speaker 1: ways that we have made clothing and the way that
Speaker 1: it used to kill people. So in an interesting way,
Speaker 1: it is both about history and labor politics and like
Speaker 1: um capitalism and fashion and crazy macab deaths like Ballerina's
Speaker 1: being set on fire by their outfits, no one giving
Speaker 1: a flying fuck. Girls that made like green fake flowers
Speaker 1: getting poisoned by the green people making hats getting crazy
Speaker 1: from the hats. You know. Yeah, but like forever, people
Speaker 1: are like publishing articles and being like, yo, these people
Speaker 1: are dying, and they're like, nah, it's cool. These hats
Speaker 1: are cool. Though. Then there was a fashion where they
Speaker 1: killed whole last birds and put them on hats, a
Speaker 1: whole the dermy bird. They literally killed so many that
Speaker 1: a bunch of those songbirds went extinct. We just wanted
Speaker 1: them on to fucking have how insane. I love it.
Speaker 1: And because what the was the mad hatters because they
Speaker 1: were using mercury, right, I loved to throw some mercury
Speaker 1: on some ship. This wasn't even that it's like tanning solution.
Speaker 1: Oh that that's like the mad is that because Matt
Speaker 1: is a Hatterard was like, that's like from the UK
Speaker 1: right of Like, no, this is all the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I think the story wasn't about that. Got it,
Speaker 1: got it. The solutions changed but stayed. Poison is peak
Speaker 1: mercury use Oh and then shoot shoot polish like people
Speaker 1: would polish their shoes, go out dancing all night, come
Speaker 1: home and die because the shoe polish seeped through their
Speaker 1: shoes when they were sweaty and poisoned them. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like, you know, so good. And they have pictures
Speaker 1: of all the stuff that kills, that has killed you,
Speaker 1: and they're still testing all of these hats and they're like, yep,
Speaker 1: that's still tests positive for mercury. Like it's been so
Speaker 1: many fucking years and the hat will test so positive
Speaker 1: for mercury. It's enough to kill like a ton of people.
Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, you used to just wear it.
Speaker 1: And are the illustrations scattered throughout the book like when
Speaker 1: a subject comes up, there's a picture there, or is
Speaker 1: it the like standard adult book thing where there's just
Speaker 1: like a center fold of a bunch of pictures. No,
Speaker 1: they're all throughout and it's so perfect, and all the
Speaker 1: references for all of them are in there. It's like
Speaker 1: meticulously researched. So when they're like this is the kind
Speaker 1: of green hat that killed people, there will be a
Speaker 1: picture of the green hat, and they'll also do a
Speaker 1: thing where like this is an advertisement from that time
Speaker 1: that that is like a cartoon that shows that kind
Speaker 1: of green hat or people dying from the green hat.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty fire. The ads like those people are liars,
Speaker 1: are green hats, didn't kill no kids. That is how
Speaker 1: adds were like slandering people who are a lot of
Speaker 1: the liar by green hats, and a lot of them
Speaker 1: blamed the people wearing the clothes. They're like, you're a
Speaker 1: dumb bitch, and that's why you died from setting yourself
Speaker 1: on fire. So you know it was Yeah, you didn't
Speaker 1: know your ship was a soaked in kerosene to make
Speaker 1: it that nice texture that's on you. Yeah, exactly. But
Speaker 1: you're right, Miles, like the mercury thing is a big
Speaker 1: part of it. I just want to say that there's
Speaker 1: so many more terrible. It wasn't just the mercury though,
Speaker 1: and then Max would be like come to bed, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, hold on, I have to read about
Speaker 1: these poisons real quick. I got to get take that
Speaker 1: hat off. It's just a baseball head. Well it's pretty
Speaker 1: creepy because apparently a lot of the green dye is
Speaker 1: still toxic. Yeah, and there's a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: you when you're reading the authors like and actually, this
Speaker 1: is still real dangerous. And we don't know where most
Speaker 1: of the cheap clothes that you buy come from or
Speaker 1: who made them or died them, so actually you could
Speaker 1: be wearing something that poisons you. Have a great day. Oh.
Speaker 1: I just want to tag on an underrated of illustrations
Speaker 1: and adult books, like not just a bunch of pictures
Speaker 1: in the middle, but like, give me some illustrations. Throughout
Speaker 1: the publishing industry, you know, they need to like they
Speaker 1: find a happy medium between adult books and children's books.
Speaker 1: I think that's why I read a lot of historical
Speaker 1: books because like cartographic images, images and like certain portraits
Speaker 1: are in there because you're like you gotta understand like
Speaker 1: what you're looking at her, like how close this city
Speaker 1: is to this city? And I'm and I think pardon me,
Speaker 1: is like, yes, maps. And also I feel like, don't
Speaker 1: you feel like it's a treat when you get to it?
Speaker 1: And I don't want the treats to just be all
Speaker 1: in a big gass pile randomly. I wanted to be distributed,
Speaker 1: some getting little all the time. Yeah. Otherwise, and also
Speaker 1: sometimes it ruins it for you if they put all
Speaker 1: of the pictures earlier. Sometimes you'll see a picture and
Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh, it's her dead husband. You're like,
Speaker 1: he fucking died. I didn't even get to that part yet,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, that's very true. Also,
Speaker 1: just on the mercury thing, they liked mercury so much
Speaker 1: that the way that we they liked it so much
Speaker 1: that they used to stick it up their ass when
Speaker 1: they had incontinent or rather constipation. And that's how we've
Speaker 1: been able to reconstruct Lewis and Clark's journey is because
Speaker 1: one of them was constipated and sticking mercury up their ass.
Speaker 1: So you just like go along and find the latrines
Speaker 1: that have mercury in them, and that's where they stopped.
Speaker 1: I'll do you want better? You shove it in your
Speaker 1: dick hole yourself from syphilis. Yes, and that is what
Speaker 1: they were doing, And that is apparently one of the
Speaker 1: like myths or like theories for how they discovered them.
Speaker 1: Mercury helps the tanning process. That like a dude was
Speaker 1: pissing in the tanks because you're in like does does stuff,
Speaker 1: and because he was treated for work for syphilis, that
Speaker 1: his process like worked a lot better than other people's,
Speaker 1: so they deduced it. That's like one theory. They're like,
Speaker 1: damn yeh, John's dirty dick is making good as why it? Man?
Speaker 1: If you try it's so soft? What's your secret? Man?
Speaker 1: I got syphilis slowly going insane? Okay, thanks, And it's
Speaker 1: it's probably just because like it looked cool, right, it
Speaker 1: looks like liquids, Like it looks like the from t
Speaker 1: there two. So like they were just like, well, that
Speaker 1: ship must like be good for something. Let's keep it
Speaker 1: around and try it and rub it on everything. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and talk about the news. Yeah, and we're back. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like we set up Top America still a white supremacist
Speaker 1: violent ship escape. You know, we had a sense that
Speaker 1: Rittenhouse was going to be found not guilty, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't face just observing the American legal system sadly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it didn't feel any less like a you know,
Speaker 1: sickening gut punched to hear them read not guilty five
Speaker 1: times as this little pig face Nazi youth sits there
Speaker 1: and like pretends to faint. But yeah, I mean these
Speaker 1: are American values, Like if you needed any evidence that
Speaker 1: we should be fighting to teach critical race theory as
Speaker 1: hard as they're fighting against it. Like here you go,
Speaker 1: American police started as a slave patrol. But you don't
Speaker 1: need to see that they have roots in white premised
Speaker 1: vigilante violence because we still allow what supremisies vigilantes to
Speaker 1: just like police and ultimately murder people in the interest
Speaker 1: of that ideology. So I mean, this is you know,
Speaker 1: this is a turning point for sure, because you're now
Speaker 1: we've legally essentially said a precedent that you can bring
Speaker 1: you can bring a weapon with you in a situation
Speaker 1: where you're there to like protect whatever, but proper even
Speaker 1: if you cause a commotion by being armed, you are
Speaker 1: then now it's legal for you to defend yourself even
Speaker 1: though you've come with provocation in mind. And I think
Speaker 1: that's that's going to create a huge chilling factor for
Speaker 1: people when they want to go protests. And some people
Speaker 1: think that's something people will have to consider now when
Speaker 1: they're in the streets protesting, because now you have said,
Speaker 1: you know, legally, yeah, if you feel scared enough, then
Speaker 1: go ahead start clapping, and you know, maybe you'll get
Speaker 1: off based on the complexion of your skin. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we're seeing too. This is
Speaker 1: now sort of like more and more you're moving into
Speaker 1: that phase where the right wing violence is now sort
Speaker 1: of blending more and more with law enforcement and sort
Speaker 1: of not understanding where the lines are with who is
Speaker 1: going to enforce what anymore, because we're damnster seeing what
Speaker 1: the police will turn their head and look away from
Speaker 1: and allowed to happen. But we're now, like fully, it
Speaker 1: seems like more and more we're going to be seeing this,
Speaker 1: you know, connection between the police and and sort of
Speaker 1: outsourcing the violence to these other people now because it
Speaker 1: used to be the police that were sort of the
Speaker 1: ones on the front sort of brutalizing protesters, but vigilantes
Speaker 1: cannot act as their agents. Yeah, he was pictured with
Speaker 1: a bunch of Nazis, like given the thumbs up and
Speaker 1: celebrating in between, Like when he was leading up to trial,
Speaker 1: Black Rifle Coffee was like, we're not associated with him.
Speaker 1: Black Rifle Coffee, which is itself like a right wing
Speaker 1: gun coffee company, was like, hey, don't, don't be where
Speaker 1: and are We didn't give him any of that ship,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't mind us. But you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people are pointing rightly, pointing to the contrast between
Speaker 1: how the police treat unarmed black children versus how they
Speaker 1: treated a armed with an assault rifle white kid who
Speaker 1: had just murdered two people. Another instructive comparison as the
Speaker 1: story of the Not Fucking Around Coalition, which is an
Speaker 1: armed group that is dedicated to protecting black lives from
Speaker 1: police brutality. Just the idea of arming black citizens, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, I have way more reason to need
Speaker 1: to be armed for like self defense and preservation of
Speaker 1: life than Kyle Rittenhouse, who was avowedly there to protect property.
Speaker 1: He was there to protect like looting or whatever the
Speaker 1: fucking inanimate objects. Yeah, whatever their fantasy is. But they,
Speaker 1: you know, since kind of coming together during the Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement, of the Not Fucking Around Coalition has
Speaker 1: been targeted as an extremist group. Their leader has been
Speaker 1: arrested and charged with pointing a gun at police, for
Speaker 1: which he faces three to twenty seven years in prison.
Speaker 1: He's currently not allowed to possess a gun or access
Speaker 1: social media while he awaits trial. Because these are American values.
Speaker 1: This isn't like that's what's so enraging about this is
Speaker 1: that was the point. The point of the Kyle Rittenhouse
Speaker 1: trial was getting him to like be buddy buddy with
Speaker 1: the judge so everybody could see that, to see like, no,
Speaker 1: this is what we condone, and like this other thing
Speaker 1: is what we don't condone. The I mean more more
Speaker 1: than that, I think the verdict, you know, because I
Speaker 1: see a lot I mean on the right people like
Speaker 1: where where's black lives matter here? At these things white
Speaker 1: people that got killed by Kyle Rittenhouse, and like they're like,
Speaker 1: this is the thing. You don't understand that this person
Speaker 1: was there in service of white supremacy, and that what
Speaker 1: this verdict is really saying. It's it's it's it's trying
Speaker 1: to erode solidarity. You know, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: began to understand not that's not enough. But many people
Speaker 1: in this country said, you know what, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: bad and I should actually stand, you know with these
Speaker 1: people who are oppressed and use my privilege as a
Speaker 1: way to maybe try and change things, maybe better things,
Speaker 1: and I would like to be an ally to this movement.
Speaker 1: But what this is showing you two, is it's showing
Speaker 1: that even for white people who are considering ally ship,
Speaker 1: that your whiteness will not protect you if you are
Speaker 1: standing in direct opposition to white supremacy, because at that point,
Speaker 1: you it's your Your life is just as disposable as
Speaker 1: a person of colors. And for many people looking at this,
Speaker 1: it's just it. I can only imagine what what kind
Speaker 1: of what the subtext or what how other people are
Speaker 1: reading into it. But from my perspective, it's clear to
Speaker 1: see that this is definitely made to also send a
Speaker 1: warning shot across people who are saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: if you're on that side, just so you know, it's
Speaker 1: the rules will be different, and you know, and and
Speaker 1: again this legal system has done its job because but
Speaker 1: just like we said in that summer right, white supremacy
Speaker 1: is a living organism that has to survive no matter
Speaker 1: what it finds ways to survive. It's not just simply
Speaker 1: saying like, all right, we've legislated against it, it's over,
Speaker 1: because the second there's a mass public action that is
Speaker 1: kind of showing up and brewing against it, it's going
Speaker 1: to find these ways to reinforce the message that these
Speaker 1: public actions are not powerful enough to topple this, because
Speaker 1: inherent to all of this is a legal system that
Speaker 1: is meant to justify and rationalize all of this violence,
Speaker 1: and using it's perceived impartiality as a legal system quote
Speaker 1: unquote to again say no, no, no, there's ways that
Speaker 1: we can make this work, especially if, like Kyle Rittenhouse,
Speaker 1: you're there in service of white supremacy or property rights
Speaker 1: are ever somebody wants to spend. Yeah, And so, I
Speaker 1: mean this is especially frustrating because it seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: at the moment, the defund the police movement has been
Speaker 1: losing popularity. They lost a big battle in Minneapolis where
Speaker 1: they voted to keep the existing police force, And as
Speaker 1: we talked about last month, there's sort of a mainstream
Speaker 1: narrative that is tying the rise in violent crime and
Speaker 1: murder to police defunding, even though nobody actually defunded the
Speaker 1: police to a degree that they were like crippled. And
Speaker 1: what happened as police budgets got minor cuts from absurd heights,
Speaker 1: well they got three less buzukas, right, and you know
Speaker 1: that kept them from being armed like Navy seals to
Speaker 1: police their communities. And the main thing that happened was
Speaker 1: the police basically quit on their communities for daring to
Speaker 1: criticize them. And I also think there's probably a breakdown
Speaker 1: in the public trust and police as it's revealed that
Speaker 1: police are both you know, continuing to be armed, willing
Speaker 1: to use deadly force, and extremely bad at their job.
Speaker 1: So I I don't think that's helpful. But the solutions
Speaker 1: seem to be defund the police, which was interpreted by
Speaker 1: the mainstream media as like away, yeah, police gone forever
Speaker 1: and one one won't work anymore, Yeah, and then double
Speaker 1: down on a system of militarized fuko boomerang police force
Speaker 1: that like is just basically occupying forces being in American
Speaker 1: cities and in neighborhoods that they don't live in, but
Speaker 1: that are in American cities and where they are willing
Speaker 1: to use deadly force. Like that's being treated as like, well,
Speaker 1: it's either no police or we keep doubling down on
Speaker 1: this fucking nightmare scenario. So I did just want to
Speaker 1: take a second to like check in with what defunding
Speaker 1: the police could actually look like. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are treating it like it's a branding thing, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, like that's I think, I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: that it's a branding thing. But people, Americans, again, because
Speaker 1: of the amount of propaganda we consume throughout our lifetimes,
Speaker 1: we're we're we're just still so invested in these cruel systems,
Speaker 1: and we're at this point where we can acknowledge the
Speaker 1: cruelty of the systems, but not quite able to articulate
Speaker 1: the way past it or through it. You know, like
Speaker 1: everyone goes, damn man ship. This seems like even especially
Speaker 1: as it relates to that right now, to like labor, right,
Speaker 1: everyone's like, man, this is fucked up. Like people are
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, now that I think about it, this
Speaker 1: is fucked up. But we're sort of because there's so
Speaker 1: much other messaging that is gonna, you know, keep away,
Speaker 1: things like giving people the imagination on how to make
Speaker 1: something better for themselves, whether that's to collective bargaining or
Speaker 1: through withhold, you know, because they're now people organically withholding
Speaker 1: their labor. There's just there's a difficulty in articulating to say, yes,
Speaker 1: this is fucked up. The thing we need to do
Speaker 1: is X. We're just not There's not enough Americans who
Speaker 1: are able to get to that part. Many people are
Speaker 1: just at the part who were like, yes, this is
Speaker 1: fucked up. You're right, this is sucked up. The police
Speaker 1: just I'm actually just realized, Yeah, it does seem like
Speaker 1: the police just go after people of color and they're
Speaker 1: not punished for it because we have things like qualified immunity.
Speaker 1: That's fucked up. Now what And I think the first
Speaker 1: thing that people that was brought to the table in
Speaker 1: terms of like the vocabulary to use was defund the police,
Speaker 1: because that was more acknowledging the fact the injustice of
Speaker 1: what our law enforcement system is like that this cannot
Speaker 1: we cannot abide anymore. And because it was co opted
Speaker 1: to just me and the end of all public safety,
Speaker 1: that can immediately just put a chilling effect on things
Speaker 1: and people were unable to Again, we need to be
Speaker 1: able to of it too. Yes it's fucked up, and
Speaker 1: we need to move towards this, and if we're always
Speaker 1: stuck at things are fucked up, it's very hard to
Speaker 1: begin organizing around certain things. And and like you're saying,
Speaker 1: you have some people who are really talking about completely
Speaker 1: changing what it means to have like law enforcement and
Speaker 1: what public safety is and the people who can be
Speaker 1: involved or the specialties that we need for that. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like everything kind of keeps
Speaker 1: evolving in this way that it's it's just become very
Speaker 1: difficult to kind of escape, or not escape, but to
Speaker 1: keep telling people that it's not merely just saying the
Speaker 1: end of your safety, that we have to actually there
Speaker 1: are other ways to keep people safe, and on paper,
Speaker 1: the cops aren't doing a good job. I think it
Speaker 1: has to be compounded by the fact too, that it
Speaker 1: lately it feels like every sphere of society is just
Speaker 1: fucked just everything, especially that we are we're still in
Speaker 1: a pandemic. It doesn't seem like it's ending anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I read something that there's another strain coming, like we're
Speaker 1: just in this and you can't even count on someone
Speaker 1: to wear a mask to try not to actively kill you,
Speaker 1: to get a vaccine for the better the community. It
Speaker 1: just seems like there's such a divide in in such
Speaker 1: a deep, deep way that it really is everything that
Speaker 1: needs to change requires teamwork, and there's so many people
Speaker 1: who just don't give a ship that it feels like
Speaker 1: at times, like an impossible mountain to climb. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think and that's by design to you know, like
Speaker 1: I think, to to help people feel so the sense
Speaker 1: of despair or like lack of control over anything can
Speaker 1: easily put just put people into this new thing about saying, well,
Speaker 1: the solution isn't gonna be how am I gonna work
Speaker 1: with other people. The solution is fucking get your house
Speaker 1: in order and figure out how you're gonna weather this
Speaker 1: without the help of anyone. Because I think that's the
Speaker 1: message that's reflected to people by society and the government
Speaker 1: at large. It's just like you're on your own mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's exactly like, rather than you know,
Speaker 1: being like, well, if only these people would vote for
Speaker 1: like what is good for them, Like, I feel like
Speaker 1: that's where a lot of it ends, is like these
Speaker 1: people are idiots. Like I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: problems come from the fact that everybody in America is
Speaker 1: existing in a society where if you don't have enough money,
Speaker 1: you that will let you die. Like that's that's just
Speaker 1: like it's a cruel, cold, fucking world. And it's also
Speaker 1: you know, we're being stripped of our humanity by capitalism
Speaker 1: and by just like being you know, turned into values
Speaker 1: on a on a spreadsheet. And I think that's like
Speaker 1: been a long slow process and people are fucking beat
Speaker 1: down from it. So there's this Rice University article that
Speaker 1: kind of takes a look at where alternatives to policing
Speaker 1: should be focused on. The first categories health you know,
Speaker 1: like mental health and drug abuse resources. The vast major
Speaker 1: already of patrol police over in Seattle address multiple people
Speaker 1: in mental health crisis every month, Like that's that is
Speaker 1: the main thing. Like I I was dropping my kids
Speaker 1: off at school on Friday morning, drove past someone who's
Speaker 1: clearly in having a mental health crisis, and my only
Speaker 1: recourse like was to call nine one one basically or
Speaker 1: like stop and do something about it myself, because I
Speaker 1: don't know what, like what are the mental health like authorities?
Speaker 1: And if I call nine one one for help, A
Speaker 1: person who is scared is gonna with a gun, is
Speaker 1: going to show up like that's what the police have
Speaker 1: the ability to do is like use a gun, So
Speaker 1: that's how they solve the fucking problem. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know this is like everything that the police are there for. Again,
Speaker 1: they're there to clean up the failures of this capitalist
Speaker 1: system them. Now we're in, we have mental health problems
Speaker 1: because we will not take care of people with mental
Speaker 1: health problems, will not take care of people who need
Speaker 1: interventions for their drug abuse or need to go into
Speaker 1: a treatment program. So we allow that to fester and
Speaker 1: it turns into someone on the street acting out and
Speaker 1: people go, oh my god, I can't know this person
Speaker 1: is doing something. I gotta call the police to get
Speaker 1: them away from me. When really that's because we failed
Speaker 1: to take care of somebody. You look again, we talk
Speaker 1: about crimes of desperation, survival crime like theft in shoplifting
Speaker 1: a ship like that. That's not that's not because they're
Speaker 1: fucking Tony Soprano, because they just they just stole a
Speaker 1: bunch of en famil. That's not what the funk is
Speaker 1: going on. It's because people have been failed. People have
Speaker 1: we have failed to take care of each other. We
Speaker 1: have failed to create or provide sustenance or the materials
Speaker 1: needed to survive. So people are left to their own
Speaker 1: devices and have to go out and survive. And that's
Speaker 1: where the police come in because we've criminalized needing help,
Speaker 1: we've criminalized being vulnerable, we've criminalized being poor, and then
Speaker 1: but what we've created, but we've completely obscured this dynamic
Speaker 1: through this lens of law enforcement and the good guys
Speaker 1: and the bad guys in this binary that that's all
Speaker 1: it is. Rather than no, no, no, this is most
Speaker 1: of us are being brutalized by the same people and
Speaker 1: for the same reasons because we're not getting what we
Speaker 1: need to survive. Yeah, I feel like so one of
Speaker 1: the you know, examples that we've talked about before on
Speaker 1: this show, the Rice University article talks about is Cahoots,
Speaker 1: which is the cornally named Eugene, Oregon organization that started
Speaker 1: as just a thing to like help people who are
Speaker 1: having bad trips essentially, and has developed into, you know,
Speaker 1: a very continually useful alternative to the police that can
Speaker 1: come and help somebody who is having a mental health crisis.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times their job is to just
Speaker 1: be a person who can do whatever is required at
Speaker 1: the time, you don't need like special training. It just
Speaker 1: seems like there's so many fucking jobs that could be
Speaker 1: created by supplementing the police with people who don't fucking
Speaker 1: murder people, Like, like, how about how about we try that,
Speaker 1: just create a police of people who actually live in
Speaker 1: the communities and are there to solve problems instead of
Speaker 1: like treat people like enemy cabatants, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: there have been examples of this with people who are
Speaker 1: there to help with relationship crises, domestic violence, which you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times people who are engaging in domestic violence,
Speaker 1: you know, move on to other violent crimes. But it
Speaker 1: certainly doesn't help that the thing they're met with when
Speaker 1: they first engaged with in domestic violence is somebody pointing
Speaker 1: a gun at them. And that's the only it's either
Speaker 1: like funnel towards prison or like figure it out yourself,
Speaker 1: you know, no mental health resources, not no relationship resources,
Speaker 1: and the other just community patrol in America has traditionally
Speaker 1: been fucking Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmermann and people like that,
Speaker 1: where you know, people armed white people who are racist
Speaker 1: thinking that they need to you know, just basically playing
Speaker 1: police officer and like there's that needs to be supplemented
Speaker 1: with some you know, the Black Panthers were there to
Speaker 1: police the police, and they were treated like a violent,
Speaker 1: fucking extremist organization, which is all you need to know
Speaker 1: about the difference in how America approaches these things. But
Speaker 1: that's another option that is probably the least tested, but
Speaker 1: the one that absolutely needs to be pursued more than
Speaker 1: it has to this point. Yeah, just thinking about you know,
Speaker 1: like the whole thing that by America being so intentionally cruel,
Speaker 1: and that's sort of like the the sort of foundation
Speaker 1: that like life is built on and keeping people most people,
Speaker 1: you know, like in a place where they feel like, well,
Speaker 1: my only thing that I have is to survive because
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at a I'm not looking at many
Speaker 1: things that will help me. Granted there are some, there
Speaker 1: are social safety that's out there, but in general, the
Speaker 1: messages if you don't like, if you don't have, then
Speaker 1: you will continue to lack and then you will expire.
Speaker 1: And I think it puts people. It helps always keep
Speaker 1: people divided because of that, because if you're always acknowledging
Speaker 1: that you're in this survival situation, altruism doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: all the time because you're already accepting that you're in
Speaker 1: a you're in a situation where surviving is number one.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, it's you know, for lack
Speaker 1: of a better metaphor, it's like looking like the squid
Speaker 1: game marbles up sold or suddenly when it's time to survive,
Speaker 1: you'll do whatever the funk you have to do. That's
Speaker 1: just human nature. And and and it's such a elegant
Speaker 1: way to continue to keep people from being able to
Speaker 1: group together, to organize together, because we're too busy fucking
Speaker 1: dealing with the chaos of like the cruel reality that
Speaker 1: we're in all the time. Yeah, And I feel like
Speaker 1: the fact that there aren't all these jobs like there
Speaker 1: people recognize their communities are fucked, they recognize that, like
Speaker 1: there is work to be done there. The fact that
Speaker 1: those jobs aren't created yet, I feel like it's like
Speaker 1: a hangover from a previous time when people like weren't
Speaker 1: didn't give a funk about their communities. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it just feels like this is
Speaker 1: a problem that could be addressed if people just act locally.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, there there are the people there
Speaker 1: is the will to do things to help. I mean
Speaker 1: most people were probably are probably better at I mean
Speaker 1: I would say every person who lives in a neighborhood
Speaker 1: is will be better at policing their neighborhood than the
Speaker 1: fucking police where you live. You know who the fuck you?
Speaker 1: You know who's in your community? Say, oh that Britain.
Speaker 1: I don't worry about them. They're kind of going through it.
Speaker 1: That's I know them. There there's more, there's more context
Speaker 1: to who this person is, rather than one call saying
Speaker 1: someone's backting, belligerent and is you know, threatening people with
Speaker 1: a shopping cart or something, because like you're saying, we're
Speaker 1: people were not the things aren't of our communities anymore.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it's just I just think of
Speaker 1: how much even like where I grew up, I knew
Speaker 1: so much about my neighborhood. I knew so much about
Speaker 1: people who I saw. I saw the same regular un
Speaker 1: housed people all the time, to the point where like
Speaker 1: I knew what the funk they were Like, I like,
Speaker 1: I knew what they were gonna ask me for. I
Speaker 1: knew what their whole rap was. And it's and you understand,
Speaker 1: you're at that point you actually have a better idea
Speaker 1: of like what is a threat? What is a danger
Speaker 1: to to you, your safety or the community at large.
Speaker 1: But right anyway, maybe we'll begin to have a reckoning
Speaker 1: one day in America, but we've been reckoning free since
Speaker 1: fucking whenever you want to put a date to it. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking about depressing, let's talk about inflation. So it's the
Speaker 1: buzzword of the season that's been used to explain everything
Speaker 1: from the labor shortage to why turkeys are more expensive
Speaker 1: this year. And yeah, it's just a convenient I mean,
Speaker 1: it's happening. First of all, it is happening. Things are
Speaker 1: getting more expensive. So the explanation that we're getting though,
Speaker 1: is that it is all because of the labor class
Speaker 1: being paid more. Yeah, that's one if you if you
Speaker 1: follow Stephani rule, or if you're watching Tucker Carlson, it's
Speaker 1: just to be like Joe Byron is trying to make
Speaker 1: you poor, or if and or the you know, at
Speaker 1: the other at the other part of it, corporations are
Speaker 1: also kind of loving it too, but on a much
Speaker 1: more subtle level because they're loving it because they're using
Speaker 1: this to actually just raise prices on people. Because they
Speaker 1: can because they see people are paying for it. Very cynically,
Speaker 1: nothing to do with stressed supply chains. They're just like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's really good. Let's see if we can squeeze out
Speaker 1: a couple of percentage points. Because this is a very
Speaker 1: interesting statistic that was in the Wall Street Journal. Nearly
Speaker 1: two out of three of the biggest US publicly traded
Speaker 1: companies had larger profit margins this year than they did
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Okay, and that means nearly one d
Speaker 1: of these massive corporations report profits in one that are
Speaker 1: fifty percent above profit margins from twenty nineteen, pre pandemic.
Speaker 1: So they're making many right now, and a lot of
Speaker 1: it is being revealed in this article in The New Republic.
Speaker 1: You know, people were sitting in on shareholder calls just
Speaker 1: to be like, I wonder how this is being message
Speaker 1: to the people that own the stock of some of
Speaker 1: these companies. And what they're hearing is things like from
Speaker 1: this article. Quote. In these calls, business leaders employee fancy
Speaker 1: financial lingo to tell large shareholders how they are engaging
Speaker 1: in quote pricing improvements and quote successful pricing strategies. They
Speaker 1: tell you they are experiencing customer quote elasticities to price
Speaker 1: increases at historically low levels. When you decode what they're saying,
Speaker 1: it's nothing less than a Eufork articulation that they're able
Speaker 1: to pass off price increases to consumers bull stop. And
Speaker 1: there's like, you know, on one hand, you'll have places
Speaker 1: like like in the stock prices are going up because
Speaker 1: of this. They're like loving, They're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: wait what and you're making more profits. This is fantastic.
Speaker 1: You look at a company like Target, who had come
Speaker 1: out and said, you know, we're actually not going to
Speaker 1: be raising prices, like we're able to kind of maintain
Speaker 1: what we have and have like a healthy financial outlook
Speaker 1: by not raising prices, and shareholders started dumping their stock
Speaker 1: and sending the stock price down. So people were like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be on board with some company
Speaker 1: that's not going to raise their prices to make more money.
Speaker 1: Are you fucking dumb? Depressing? And you know there's there's
Speaker 1: even on CNBC Jim Kramer was talking about how like
Speaker 1: home Depot and Lows they're raising prices because they don't
Speaker 1: give a funk. And also they're literally in the mentality
Speaker 1: of who gonna stop me boo, Like who gonna check me?
Speaker 1: Because the two of us run the whole ship. This
Speaker 1: is from Jim Kramer talking about how these two companies,
Speaker 1: Lows and Home Depot, can quote do no wrong because
Speaker 1: they're passing on rising costs to the public and the
Speaker 1: public has no choice because these two chains have singlehandedly
Speaker 1: wiped out the competition already. So is what we're seeing,
Speaker 1: like the you know, the pandemic caused the government to
Speaker 1: send out age two people have lost their jobs, more
Speaker 1: people had more like government assistance than they've had in
Speaker 1: a long time. Is that where the quote unquote elasticity
Speaker 1: goes comes from, And like the government aids those payments
Speaker 1: that we're supposed to like help people get through a
Speaker 1: rainy day, like they are just immediately getting like hoovered
Speaker 1: up by Walmart and like all those corporations Like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, like, but you did have a lot
Speaker 1: of Benny's you know benefits run out and for certain
Speaker 1: people all over the countries starting months ago. So even now,
Speaker 1: like just even when we talked about that one dumb
Speaker 1: CNN piece, but like my milk's ninety bucks a gallon
Speaker 1: now and it wasn't but I think they really like
Speaker 1: this idea that prices It's it's just like, that's the
Speaker 1: thing about this, there's a lot of nebulous data that
Speaker 1: is able to be sort of harnessed for the aims
Speaker 1: of at this point corporations because I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, more than like obviously the wealth
Speaker 1: extraction from consumers is a huge thing for them, but
Speaker 1: more importantly, this is feeding this narrative about what it
Speaker 1: means with Biden in office and what he aims to
Speaker 1: do with some of these infrastructure, like with build back
Speaker 1: better A lot of that, Like the financing from that
Speaker 1: is to be like, yeah, we just got to charge
Speaker 1: corporations like their fair share and taxes. That's how we
Speaker 1: pay for a lot of this ship. So this is
Speaker 1: helping them create a little more instability and uncertainty and
Speaker 1: consumers by raising their prices so they make more money,
Speaker 1: while also saying, hey, man, if Joe Byron is going
Speaker 1: to start passing all these other laws, inflation is going
Speaker 1: to be even wilder. Hold onto your whole butt and paycheck.
Speaker 1: And so that's also their aim at sort of being like,
Speaker 1: now we can kind of stoke and anti infrastructure movement
Speaker 1: that will protect our tax rates. Right, It's like inflation
Speaker 1: has always been politicized because it's what they were saying
Speaker 1: before the stimulus path that first stimulus, like oh, it
Speaker 1: can't pass a stimulus package because it will spike inflation
Speaker 1: and that's bad. And then all these economists were like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not really like that, like they're overblowing this risk it.
Speaker 1: But I think that's where you see like sort of
Speaker 1: like the vested interests when we have debates like this
Speaker 1: of like do we help people or do we raise
Speaker 1: corporate taxes, and there are many people who are just
Speaker 1: on the human ground level, we're like, yes, please, that
Speaker 1: sounds great. Unfortunately, the messaging and the access to all
Speaker 1: the lovers of like mainstream communication have vested interests in
Speaker 1: the same way be like, we're not paying more fucking taxes.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me. We're just gonna talk about this inflation
Speaker 1: and start banging that drum and look the other way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's also just with regards to the supply chain. An
Speaker 1: explanation I actually heard on the It could Happen here
Speaker 1: Daily showy They interviewed somebody who works at a like
Speaker 1: soda manufacturing plant and has worked in various manufacturing jobs,
Speaker 1: Like over the past four or five years. They were
Speaker 1: talking about how the big change that's happened is that
Speaker 1: corporations have now embraced this thing called just in time production,
Speaker 1: which means that right, what, like you don't start producing
Speaker 1: something until there's a demand for it, and like you don't.
Speaker 1: It's it's like there's no there's no you're not like
Speaker 1: storing anything. There's no overhead. It's just like, okay, so
Speaker 1: they ran out of this and we're hearing they need more.
Speaker 1: Now we produce it, and like that basically creates it's
Speaker 1: cheaper for the companies. It gives them better margins because
Speaker 1: there's no overhead and there's no like producing something that
Speaker 1: then doesn't get sold. The problem is that there's no
Speaker 1: like elasticity in the supply chain, so like you don't
Speaker 1: have extras if suddenly there's a a bunch of you know,
Speaker 1: this person worked as a casket manufacturer in the past,
Speaker 1: so if there's suddenly a need for casket suddenly, the
Speaker 1: way that they deal with that is they just worked
Speaker 1: people inhumanely around the clock until like they can get
Speaker 1: that supply met. It's once again just the values of
Speaker 1: the market of quarterly earnings, calls of CEOs who have
Speaker 1: just extracted the humanity from the workers and from the
Speaker 1: laborers and turned it into just you know, values on
Speaker 1: a spreadsheet. And you know, that is what economics is.
Speaker 1: That's what the modern version of capitalism is. And like
Speaker 1: market logic is just like remove the humanity, think of
Speaker 1: everything as like the numbers are the numbers good? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's not great, But again it's it's just the
Speaker 1: overall system. It's the same overall system that we're talking
Speaker 1: about with regards to the inflation, right, And I mean
Speaker 1: at a certain point, you know, like you're you're slowly
Speaker 1: seeing more and more people take up for themselves and
Speaker 1: organize themselves to have any better outcomes for them, you know,
Speaker 1: for them themselves. Yet again to use that word, you know,
Speaker 1: as it relates to their employment and what benefits they get.
Speaker 1: And I can only see I don't think just in
Speaker 1: time production habits are going to necessarily extinguish those flames.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's I'm curious what they're looking at.
Speaker 1: Two because at this point, all the forecasting that happens,
Speaker 1: whether it's like risk they're worth taking because let's say
Speaker 1: like well, this thing is faulty and we might get sued,
Speaker 1: but we can afford it as long as we make
Speaker 1: enough money up front. Like what kind of stuff they're
Speaker 1: already looking at in terms of what the unrest will
Speaker 1: be like with their employees and how to navigate that
Speaker 1: and see like, well we could scab it up for
Speaker 1: this time, just gate through Q four and then calling
Speaker 1: the pinkertons. Well, the really insidious thing that he was
Speaker 1: talking about is that by making it such a like
Speaker 1: flexible system where you need to like move move around
Speaker 1: and like, Okay, I'm gonna put this person on on
Speaker 1: this job, it actually makes like he was saying that
Speaker 1: he's in a union shop, but the people who are
Speaker 1: in a non union shop, actually we're in slightly better
Speaker 1: working conditions as of this moment because they had flexibility.
Speaker 1: But that's all because of the inhumane orders coming down,
Speaker 1: Like they're better able to deal with in humane orders
Speaker 1: coming down. So it's like the just in time production
Speaker 1: is creating a system where like it makes it harder
Speaker 1: for people who are unionized, which is fucking bullshit, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it does feel like that's the trend, though, Like
Speaker 1: I don't like it's harder to be unionized working for
Speaker 1: a corporation like Amazon. And I feel like Walmart was
Speaker 1: maybe the writing on the wall where it was like
Speaker 1: Walmart was union busting and people are trying to stop
Speaker 1: Walmart's from being built in their town. Now it's like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, we don't need stores in our towns. We
Speaker 1: can just have Amazon, right yeah, yeah, well this is uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're living in a very historic time, especially you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like even more than ever. I can't. I just look
Speaker 1: at things and I'm like, how do these people with
Speaker 1: like who have all the capital really think that at
Speaker 1: a certain point like that, that you can just run
Speaker 1: someone down to the point they're like, Okay, I'll just
Speaker 1: die on the factory floor. Yeah, Like I mean, and
Speaker 1: it does happen places, absolutely, but at a certain point
Speaker 1: enough people are going to really like I'm just it's
Speaker 1: it's always fascinating to see how disconnected those people can
Speaker 1: be from like what the what the actual reality is
Speaker 1: of the situation there in It's fascinating. But the show
Speaker 1: Succession exists for a reason and it's beautiful, well run TV.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's like you don't have exposure. That's
Speaker 1: our stratisy like our stratified society where you don't have
Speaker 1: exposure to the working class if you're in that corporately, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the poorest person, you know, is what Greg? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, And you find his
Speaker 1: problems amusing, right right, right, and you laugh about it.
Speaker 1: And he's only poor because his grandpa doesn't want to
Speaker 1: give him. Yeah, that like what one of the things
Speaker 1: that I've just been like I'm continuing to think over.
Speaker 1: I'm reading that book Debt by David Graber, which is
Speaker 1: the history of its basically a new history of economic
Speaker 1: systems like throughout human history. Prior to this, most of
Speaker 1: my understanding of like how economics works was based on economists,
Speaker 1: you know, like people who study economics and like subscribe
Speaker 1: to that Adam Smith the idea that like, well everybody
Speaker 1: is a financial actor who was like acting in their
Speaker 1: own self interests. And this book argues that like that
Speaker 1: is actually like that ideal of humans just acting in
Speaker 1: self interest, being like the most basic thing was like
Speaker 1: introduced by Hobbs and Leviathan was seen as like super
Speaker 1: cynical at the time that it was introduced, like not
Speaker 1: an accurate description of humanity because we existed in like
Speaker 1: small communities that helped each other out, but within like
Speaker 1: a hundred years, it was the default, like assumption because
Speaker 1: it is so profitable, it's so it's so helpful to
Speaker 1: people to make money, and it's going to be assumed,
Speaker 1: and it like makes us sort of shrewd logic or
Speaker 1: sort of shrewd sense, and it like feels like the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that's like tough and like realist, but
Speaker 1: it's actually not. How humanity has been for the vast,
Speaker 1: vast majority of our history is a species for the
Speaker 1: majority of our history of the species we've been. You
Speaker 1: know that the idea that you would just extract as
Speaker 1: much value from humans as you possibly can is rightly
Speaker 1: seen as like colonizing. It's the Yeah, it's the foundation
Speaker 1: of colonizing. Yeah, Oh, here's this group. I can push
Speaker 1: him around. Watch this now they're they're they're making me money. Great,
Speaker 1: move on to the next town of weeks and I'll
Speaker 1: rinse and repeat and to dehumanize in the process. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and speaking of Texas, So Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 1: is not announced that he's going to run for governor
Speaker 1: yet he has expressed interest, and so people are theoretically
Speaker 1: putting out some polls to be like, if this guy ran,
Speaker 1: we love ourselves a hat famous governor and policies. Let
Speaker 1: me see that ass work for democracy. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: work though, he won't work. That's where it draws the line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll just play the bongo is naked. Yeah, exactly, bongo. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they they're all you know, Beto Rourkey announced He's like, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm getting in the ring, and people are like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's just born to run. Yeah. What was the thing
Speaker 1: on the cover of Vanity Fair. I was just gotta
Speaker 1: be in it, man, I was just born from this
Speaker 1: that one he's like in the truck like that. That Yeah,
Speaker 1: the failed Vanity Fair spread cosplaying as a real American
Speaker 1: folks folksy Texan guy. But yeah, there's some you know,
Speaker 1: they said, let's do some hypothetical head to heads. Um. First,
Speaker 1: what if Beto Rourke and Matthew McConaughey went head to head.
Speaker 1: Who wins to matt seven percent to Beto? And they said, okay,
Speaker 1: if he advances that round, what if it's the incumbent
Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott running against the insurgent Matthew McConaughey, and
Speaker 1: that hypothetical runoff based on this pole and again it's
Speaker 1: very you know, loose point't even know how they did it,
Speaker 1: but it Abbot gets thirty of the vote, Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 1: gets forty three percent of the vote, he would be
Speaker 1: eight points ahead. And that's just a very that's a
Speaker 1: snapshot literally right now of probably people they just called
Speaker 1: on the phone, and who knows how serious they were,
Speaker 1: But it is interesting to see that it But oh,
Speaker 1: but like when they put all three in a three
Speaker 1: way race, but obviously that wouldn't happen because that's not
Speaker 1: how elections work. Well, I mean, it could be like
Speaker 1: a jungle primary or something like that, but in this
Speaker 1: straightforward race that in that instance, Abbott gets a plurality,
Speaker 1: so like because that they would split the vote between that.
Speaker 1: But it also showed but which is interesting because you're
Speaker 1: also like, oh, but it looks like some people would
Speaker 1: go to Matt though if it came down to Matt
Speaker 1: and Abbott. But I this is just like such a
Speaker 1: threesome is always better when you split the vote yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally know what you mean, But why don't you
Speaker 1: explain it to the people, just like I have tons
Speaker 1: of experience the reasons obviously, I know how to rock
Speaker 1: the vote. Jack, your mustache says that it has had
Speaker 1: a ton of three ways. Does does add some character
Speaker 1: to my face that is completely unearned. It looks just soaked.
Speaker 1: It could be it could be just soaked. It look
Speaker 1: just soaked right now. I thought I cleaned it up.
Speaker 1: That's coffee mate, Okay, it's coffee mane, it's coffee mate, asshole.
Speaker 1: I drink it straight out of the bottle. I want
Speaker 1: to be in it, man, I'm just born to be
Speaker 1: in it. That was the quote on the cover of
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair that I tell me how that's not about
Speaker 1: a threesome and wanted Oh you just just outside of
Speaker 1: an orgy room. You're like, hey, if you're not participating,
Speaker 1: no staring. Okay. So as stupid as this is, that
Speaker 1: he would possibly run like I would probably prefer him
Speaker 1: over Abbott, right, or it's just another it's like another
Speaker 1: American election special. You want the piece of ship or
Speaker 1: the person. You're like, I'd rather not two options, right?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, you know, when we've talked about
Speaker 1: some of the policies that he's articulated in the past,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's he's very like, he's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like radicals, you gotta have your gotta have your abortions.
Speaker 1: You know. I definitely that you gotta get gotta get
Speaker 1: a bobo if you want one, and uh and that
Speaker 1: have your kids. I mean, if they want to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I might have to wait on that. That's when he
Speaker 1: starts getting a little you know, woo woo l a
Speaker 1: m m. Yeah, all right, well, alright, alright, a diversity.
Speaker 1: I mean, and again, stranger things have happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger was our literal fucking govern nurse. What about
Speaker 1: the fucking wrestler Jesse fucking Ventura. Shit happens. You know, Americans,
Speaker 1: Americans love a fucking nonsensical celebrity like situations. We don't
Speaker 1: care what context it's in, Like George Foreman sells grills.
Speaker 1: We're in love, like we don't care what the crossover is.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it almost feels like McConaughey's too high
Speaker 1: profile to run for governor, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's like you could still be in movies like The
Speaker 1: Mother people like, yeah, I not to say shorts, I
Speaker 1: mean shorts and Agger was very at his prime. But
Speaker 1: like in this day and age of celebrities running, I
Speaker 1: feel like we need to go like two levels below
Speaker 1: to see like, you know, I don't know who who
Speaker 1: that person would be, but yeah, like little Flip, I
Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to be an all little ticket
Speaker 1: flip yahdi, let's get it pop in Nazas, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Has a celebrity who's not kind of
Speaker 1: right leaning ever one the it seems like they're very
Speaker 1: successful on the right. You got your Reagans, your Ronald's Reagan,
Speaker 1: You're Ventura, your Schwarzenegga, But like who who is centrist
Speaker 1: and has one like neo cons? I feel like neo
Speaker 1: CON's reject this idea because they're not neo cons. Neo
Speaker 1: libs reject this idea because they're all straight a students
Speaker 1: like we talked about, so they like want to believe that.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, this is serious business. You have to
Speaker 1: you have to study economics, stick to the pot, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just feel like this won't go as well. But
Speaker 1: the fact that he appeals to the right as well.
Speaker 1: Might might make it work, but I mean, dude, Fred
Speaker 1: Thompson was also an actor. Al Frankins. Frank There is
Speaker 1: Frankins the one. Yeah yeah, okay, Franken is the answer.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's do a quick streaming check in.
Speaker 1: Squid Game still continues to dominate on the Originals charts,
Speaker 1: but probably how a little bit of a Christy Teagan boost?
Speaker 1: Am I right? Little yes? Because that's party? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: was there, damn it should looked tight. Also Justesse eventre.
Speaker 1: I think it was like Green Party or something. He's
Speaker 1: not He's not fully republic because he's always like nine
Speaker 1: or leven was done by goblins, you know, rightful, like
Speaker 1: you feel like you're like I feel like maybe libertarian
Speaker 1: or am I yeah? Maybe I just a party? He
Speaker 1: was Independence Party from two thousand, two thousand three, Reform
Speaker 1: Party from two thousand. He was an independent before and
Speaker 1: then from two thousand. I think all that to say
Speaker 1: opportunistic weirdo? Was he leftist? Am I just like? Because
Speaker 1: I was such a fucking like just eight everything that
Speaker 1: the mainstream media told me like, is that why I
Speaker 1: think he was? I don't ever remember him being portrayed
Speaker 1: as lefty, right, not really, but I mean he I
Speaker 1: think maybe because he would be like the Bush administration
Speaker 1: is out of control, and you're like, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: would be even more efficient. You're like, it's contextual. I
Speaker 1: guess you're right. There's way crazier people. Now. I mean
Speaker 1: he's not like Cinema or something. No, no, no, but
Speaker 1: I mean he for the most part, he said like
Speaker 1: he his like quote was like George W. Bush was
Speaker 1: the worst president of my lifetime. Yeah, well that's that's facts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so I meant to that point. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: then when Pierce Morgan asked him about nine eleven, he said,
Speaker 1: my theory of nine eleven is that we certainly at
Speaker 1: the best we knew what was going to happen. They
Speaker 1: allowed it to happen to further their agenda in the
Speaker 1: Middle East and to go to these wars. That's not
Speaker 1: the very least, but that's a plausible possible ability. I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I know again, I'm sure Zake Kingle toss and
Speaker 1: he's like, none, check out this hot take on Brianna Taylor,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, I don't know. But all that
Speaker 1: to say, I don't know enough and I don't care enough.
Speaker 1: So Netflix is monitoring streaming these days and they're telling us,
Speaker 1: you know what, people are actually watching Netflix dominating the originals. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's basically on Netflix except for only Murders in the
Speaker 1: Building and Ted Lasso. Everything else in the top ten
Speaker 1: is Netflix m but on the acquired front. Acquired, which
Speaker 1: is like, you know, shows that they brought over that
Speaker 1: were not original programming. They are the top ten. But
Speaker 1: they also like, so Shameless is number one, Coco Melon
Speaker 1: number two, in the Dark number three, I wasn't even
Speaker 1: like that didn't jog anything for me. Oh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: The Blind Woman, got it okay? And Seinfeld a number four,
Speaker 1: which signs like just dropped. I think they were and
Speaker 1: the money they spent on that, they were expecting that
Speaker 1: to be like a Friends Slash the Office style like phenomenon.
Speaker 1: I think they forget that those are escapism shows and
Speaker 1: that is not Yeah. Seinfeld is is like the world
Speaker 1: is terrible and people are selfish and like let's laugh
Speaker 1: at it. People are not ready for that, right, They're like,
Speaker 1: we want hugs. What's the show that's hugs? So thank you?
Speaker 1: I want to live in New York in jobs don't
Speaker 1: matter Friends, Yeah, exactly. I just want to worry, worry
Speaker 1: about whether Ross and Rachel are going to end up together.
Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, worry about whether I
Speaker 1: see a lot of these selfish tendencies in myself. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think hilarious. But that's why I think Curb is
Speaker 1: like its own little world, because not everybody likes that.
Speaker 1: If it makes you look upset and nervous when that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff happens, then it's not the show for you,
Speaker 1: whereas Friends is so much more and The Office so
Speaker 1: much more easily like calming. Yeah, and I feel like
Speaker 1: comfort food with with Seinfeld there's more. It was like
Speaker 1: more influential. First of all, like Got it was, it
Speaker 1: was more original at the time that it came out,
Speaker 1: and then now like I feel like it's influenced. First
Speaker 1: of all, obviously Curbs like just a spiritual successor that
Speaker 1: like does a lot of the things Seinfeldt did, but
Speaker 1: like in a more pure form um. But also I
Speaker 1: just feel like it was like seinfeld was probably more
Speaker 1: influential on like the comedy writers of the world than
Speaker 1: like Friends or The Office, And so now like in
Speaker 1: the same way that like Belushi was great and super original,
Speaker 1: but never really like translated to later generations because he
Speaker 1: was like so influential on like Farley and like a
Speaker 1: lot of those people that, like, I feel like people
Speaker 1: didn't really get it as much. Like I wonder if
Speaker 1: Seinfeld has more thoroughly like infiltrated the culture to the
Speaker 1: point that now it feels like an earlier version of
Speaker 1: something that we've already seen like executed super well with
Speaker 1: like Arrested Development and you know shows like that that
Speaker 1: are uber despicful people. But like that's the that's the
Speaker 1: whole joke. I like that theory. I I there there's
Speaker 1: something I don't know. I think. Yeah, like your point
Speaker 1: about Seinfeld being like a like a comedy, like for
Speaker 1: comedy people, people like it's pretty They're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: there's like there's the Seinfeld things are like my favorite
Speaker 1: pieces of comedy or whatever. And you understand, like so
Speaker 1: many writers do talk about the way Seinfeld was written
Speaker 1: and like the like their whole writing style, especially of
Speaker 1: like making scenes of like stuffing the sausage as they
Speaker 1: called it, of like just taking the dumbest premise and
Speaker 1: just cramming as much drama into the stupidest nothing you
Speaker 1: can do to make that just explode with over emphasis
Speaker 1: and like that was sort of like the engine of it.
Speaker 1: And it's also very like improv derived, Like it's pretty
Speaker 1: much every episode is a herald because like which is
Speaker 1: like that the long form. I'm so sorry everyone, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know it's where they said the ten poles
Speaker 1: fought far apart and then the end they come together
Speaker 1: in ways that are unexpected. So you know, that's that
Speaker 1: was like a classic thing, the thing that they had
Speaker 1: mentioned about the one thing is going to come back
Speaker 1: always at the end and be the thing that fox
Speaker 1: this other thing up. And I think the way that
Speaker 1: they did that consistently every episode was like pretty marketable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you're aspiring, right, I think for you know,
Speaker 1: kids that grew up in the nineties, you're like look back,
Speaker 1: You're like, damn, like this is really like the people
Speaker 1: want to emulate that. And I feel like maybe because
Speaker 1: of that influence, like you're saying, it's it's coming back
Speaker 1: out again for like, you know, just people to recapture
Speaker 1: their love of it, or younger people being like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just chooky ship. All the old people talking about
Speaker 1: science felt and then it's like, what are you doing? Alright?
Speaker 1: This is this is my final play? Seinfeld himself not
Speaker 1: I don't know man going in the same direction many
Speaker 1: older comics who like don't understand why people don't like
Speaker 1: them anymore, Like old ass old Man takes very specific
Speaker 1: to the nineties with just his like style, and people
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about cereal again, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know, like this MPR article about like why
Speaker 1: it might not hit quite as hard as Friends makes
Speaker 1: the point about Mike Michael Richards, which obviously, like his
Speaker 1: you know, racist screed on stage, makes his performance harder
Speaker 1: to endy why but I also think, like a, I
Speaker 1: think we're giving America way too much credit. Are you
Speaker 1: fucking kidding? Sure? Yeah, yeah, that's what's ruining it for people.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he was racist one time. Yeah, Okay, Woody
Speaker 1: Allen and she gets to make movies. Mel Gibson out
Speaker 1: here saying I hope he get raped by a bunch
Speaker 1: of animals. Louisa Louie and Dave Chappelle has got a
Speaker 1: Grammy nomed. You can't touch me, Yeah, Dan, don't cancel me. Recently,
Speaker 1: you can't cancel me if the show is already. Kid,
Speaker 1: we didn't cancel it. We decided to end it on
Speaker 1: our own. I've never been canceled. He's uh yeah, someone
Speaker 1: recently was talking. His name was in the headlines again
Speaker 1: because another comedy was like, I don't care for him
Speaker 1: much because of his proclivity for younger women back in
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, he dated a dated quotes. It was
Speaker 1: called at the time a high school students, not statutory rape. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was he hey whoa who publicly a high school student? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And they were like, look, how fun he's picking up
Speaker 1: his girlfriend at her school or whatever. You're like bringing
Speaker 1: here to a ni Like he's grooming a minor before
Speaker 1: everyone's eyes. But because he has like a kind of
Speaker 1: a mullet, everyone's school. And then everyone was like, well,
Speaker 1: it's it makes sense. She has big titties. I was like,
Speaker 1: do you hear yourself? Yeah? What do you mean? Like
Speaker 1: my hearing? But yeah, she has big titties. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: she's an adult. Oh my god. Yeah, well Seinfeld he's
Speaker 1: laughing on his gigantic piles of cash. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: think Steve Bannon too, that we we get Steve Bannon
Speaker 1: because of Steinfeld. Also, yeah, what what was that story again,
Speaker 1: the publisher was like, yeah, like one of the production
Speaker 1: companies that like sold the rights to it, he had
Speaker 1: a stake in it, so he got a piece of
Speaker 1: like this huge payout for like the like when I
Speaker 1: went to syndication, like mass indication, there was like some
Speaker 1: So he became very wealthy from his his associate from
Speaker 1: his failed Hollywood career, and that gave him a lot
Speaker 1: of money. And who knows where we'd be if that
Speaker 1: didn't happen. But either way, America is gonna America with
Speaker 1: or without Steve Bannon. Yeah, as bad as the Michael
Speaker 1: Richards take that, like people aren't watching it because of
Speaker 1: the racism. And PR also has the take that it's
Speaker 1: set in a shockingly white New York City and that's
Speaker 1: why people aren't enjoying it because I know they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: have you seen Friends? Aisha Tyler holds down that entire
Speaker 1: show for the entirety of time as the only black person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: simpler times, Yeah, because like what did what's the did
Speaker 1: he ever date a personal color want of color on
Speaker 1: this show? I don't think so. I don't think so. No, Jerry, No,
Speaker 1: he would never mhm, he would never do you remember
Speaker 1: there's that one episode where Elaine thinks that the guy
Speaker 1: she's dating is a person of color and she just
Speaker 1: doesn't know what and and that guy thinks she is too,
Speaker 1: and then when they both find out that they're white,
Speaker 1: they're very disappointed and they're like, what do you want
Speaker 1: to do and goes all right, I don't know, let's
Speaker 1: go to the gap, which is the only time they
Speaker 1: address the racing the ever so, the one that ages
Speaker 1: so well, the Cigar Store Indian episode, Oh there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then I'm trying to think of anything else that
Speaker 1: made super anyone wrong with that, Like, there's plenty of
Speaker 1: what about all the transphobic stuff? Friends was like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like he's a cross dresser and you're like and
Speaker 1: he like hated hated. Remember lines were always like I'm
Speaker 1: fucked up and the reason I can't have intimacy is
Speaker 1: it turns out my dad was fucking my piano teacher
Speaker 1: and he's a girl. That was like m hmm, yeah right.
Speaker 1: Brought to you by the same people who wrote the
Speaker 1: Cheers name song that has that weird line in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like and you're's like, what is it it's the
Speaker 1: it's the long version, like the verse that wasn't on
Speaker 1: the TV show. Okay. I was like, how I missed
Speaker 1: something from Everybody Knows Your Name? Part? Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a if you're what that's the part they cut. It's
Speaker 1: where is it? It's like something really like a woman
Speaker 1: being a man or something like that, and that being
Speaker 1: like a point of stress. That's why I gotta go
Speaker 1: to cheers with friends because I just didn't watch it
Speaker 1: for the reasons. I was like, well, I don't see
Speaker 1: myself in this show, so I'm gonna keep watching Wayne's
Speaker 1: Brothers or Jamie Fox Show or something like that. I remember,
Speaker 1: like her majesty, she'd be like when you know, when
Speaker 1: we were first dating, She's like, oh, you don't watch Friends.
Speaker 1: I'm like nah, and she she was watching in the
Speaker 1: background once and I came in. It was one of
Speaker 1: those episodes where Kathleen Turner is playing Chandler's mom, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what's going on? And like and then
Speaker 1: I was just watching them just talk about it and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, this is fucked up, Like what is this?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, this this doesn't age well at all, And
Speaker 1: I'm like wow, okay, but look all shows have I mean,
Speaker 1: it's wild to watch a lot of stuff. I recently
Speaker 1: started watching things that were sort of like formative for me,
Speaker 1: like sitcoms, just to kind of like understand, like how
Speaker 1: much I can't believe how much The Fresh Prince of
Speaker 1: Bell are like formed my entire like like mental Scape.
Speaker 1: But there's also like ones with like like you also
Speaker 1: like watch Jamie Fox Show and they're like, okay, bro,
Speaker 1: like you are you are not about consent at all.
Speaker 1: It's just a fucking punchline the whole time, and you're
Speaker 1: like just start watching these things. You're like, wow, these
Speaker 1: were very subtle things that we were taking in. Also,
Speaker 1: we were so brainwashed that entire time. For on the
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox Show, we were cheering for Jamie Fox who
Speaker 1: just would not leave this fucking poor woman alone and
Speaker 1: like just ruined her life by sexually harassing her at work. Fancy.
Speaker 1: But then but then they're like no, and then you
Speaker 1: were down and it works out. Hey, hey, fellas, you
Speaker 1: get it. Wear them down, wear them down. Oh that's
Speaker 1: the word your husband wants to be a girl. That's
Speaker 1: the one. Yeah, it's roll out of bed. Mr Coffee
Speaker 1: is Dead. The Morning's looking bright, Andrew shrank rant off
Speaker 1: to Europe and didn't even right, and your husband wants
Speaker 1: to be a girl. It doesn't even really work in
Speaker 1: the thing, doesn't It just sounds like the writer was
Speaker 1: trying to work out a personal problem, right, Yeah, well on, friends,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
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