Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh eight,
Speaker 1: Episode four of Joe Guys Introduction to buy Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take it deep to
Speaker 1: have into American share consciousness. And it's Thurdursday, November four,
Speaker 1: and so I know what that means. You know what
Speaker 1: that means. But Miles, why don't you tell them what
Speaker 1: international day we're dealing with. Oh, if you didn't know,
Speaker 1: it's November four. It that means National Men Make Dinner Day,
Speaker 1: coming off the National Housewife's Day. It's also National Chicken
Speaker 1: Lady Day and National cash Back Day. I don't know
Speaker 1: what any I don't know what the Chicken Lady, Chicken Lady,
Speaker 1: who is that for? It's honoring Dr Marthenia Tina Dupree.
Speaker 1: For twelve years she worked as the second largest chicken
Speaker 1: worked for the second largest chicken restaurant in the world. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm glad she has a has a day. You know,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people deserve a day. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: is there someone in your community who have elevates people
Speaker 1: around them? If so, celebrate them like others celebrate the
Speaker 1: Chicken Lady. Hell yeah, I mean, I know they blew
Speaker 1: up the chicken man in Philly last night. But I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't know there was a chicken lady. Maybe
Speaker 1: she avenged the hip. That's that's a lyric from Bruce Briski.
Speaker 1: And so anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a K
Speaker 1: Jack to the maximum. I am asking them, would you
Speaker 1: like to bounce with a father that's jacking him? That
Speaker 1: is courtesy of Suburban Panic Attack and I am thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined as always by my co host Mr
Speaker 1: Miles G Miles Grade. Democrats took in another else. So
Speaker 1: will they blame prograssives this time? Not sure, not sure,
Speaker 1: but we shall see interesting takes already coming out. I
Speaker 1: think they will that if I save money is on. Yes,
Speaker 1: they will, of course. I mean they have to. It's
Speaker 1: there's no other ways because otherwise they would have to
Speaker 1: arrive at the conclusions and then falling terribly short of
Speaker 1: everything and then do something. So it has to be
Speaker 1: the prograssive. Yes, could it be me? That's wrong? No, No,
Speaker 1: it's the children. It's got to be the children. Hey,
Speaker 1: don't they don't know, Nancy, don't think that lamely young
Speaker 1: blamely young people with their little green new deal or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, Well, Miles, We're thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by very talented TV writer, podcast
Speaker 1: host and producer, comedian and essay is. She's a Los
Speaker 1: Angeles based stand up comedian. Sorry, that's a lot of jobs.
Speaker 1: Like bit slow out, She co created and produces and
Speaker 1: co hosts the Brilliant podcast, Private Parts, Unknown Comedy, Sex
Speaker 1: Travel Podcast, and as the lead producer of the Bellas podcast.
Speaker 1: Her essays and writing have been published in little small
Speaker 1: outlets such as The Washington Post, LA Times, Bustle, Hello Giggles.
Speaker 1: She's written for Amazon's Emmy winning animated series Danger and Eggs.
Speaker 1: Please welcome the hilarious, the talented Courtney Kozallo. What are
Speaker 1: you for my website? We know that's what we do
Speaker 1: here and now and also gallery about me and at
Speaker 1: the website. What's new? What's new? Courtney? Not much fellas
Speaker 1: It's been along pandemic but re emerging. Just was in
Speaker 1: New York. Other than that, I've been working at my house,
Speaker 1: So how is New York? What's What's good? New York
Speaker 1: felt really normal. I was there in September and then
Speaker 1: again in October, and I was like, oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: can just check vax cards and everything else felt good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like mask adoptions pretty strong in
Speaker 1: New York City. And yeah, because of the subway. You
Speaker 1: can't get on the subway right unless you're wearing your mask,
Speaker 1: because I feel like that, right, Yeah, alright, well, Courtney,
Speaker 1: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our
Speaker 1: listeners just a couple of the things that we're talking
Speaker 1: about today. The Democrats. The Democrats, that's who we're talking about.
Speaker 1: They failed to win in Virginia, but they succeeded in
Speaker 1: defeating a socialist mayor in Buffalo with a literal rubber
Speaker 1: stamp campaign. So we're just gonna talk about the state
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party in the state of progressivism. I
Speaker 1: am gonna vent and and get you guys as thoughts
Speaker 1: on where we're at, where we're headed. We will talk
Speaker 1: about some some things that we learned that aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: the worst, like the critical race theory, fears weren't that
Speaker 1: potent in most of the country, and some nice news,
Speaker 1: some some wins for the city of Boston and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: We will talk about, you know, the defend the or
Speaker 1: defund the Police movement. The defend the Police movement is
Speaker 1: getting more popular, but the defund the Police movement seems
Speaker 1: to be losing popularity. It lost Yes no vote in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about where we had from here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Americans food delivery habits, America's favorite
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving sides, all of that plenty more. But first, Courtney,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guest, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history? Okay, So I looked up Philip
Speaker 1: Rodriguez last night to share a contact with someone, and
Speaker 1: he's a documentarian and he does a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: on Latin X culture and he was so nice. I
Speaker 1: randomly met him at a bar and he just gave
Speaker 1: me advice, half drunken advice for like an hour. I
Speaker 1: was like, this guy is so nice, So shout out Philip.
Speaker 1: And then before that, I looked up an actresses plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: So one good one bad duality of yeah, this documentarian
Speaker 1: and also excellent you're trying to find so you're suspecting
Speaker 1: or you're looking for you were looking for an answer
Speaker 1: whether or not something had been Yeah, I suspected and
Speaker 1: I feel like this woman has gone through a number
Speaker 1: of transformations. So, but I'm not here to police women's
Speaker 1: faces just for your own curiosity. Like, I want to
Speaker 1: make sure my skills of observation, yes, correct, because I
Speaker 1: feel like something has shifted, for sure. I pride myself
Speaker 1: in my ability to detect small shifts like that, right right, right,
Speaker 1: Like does is that a thing the face can naturally
Speaker 1: do on its own? I don't think so. But forehead
Speaker 1: get tighter with age, wrinkles evaporate. Yeah, so you you've
Speaker 1: been able to kind of spot these small disturbances in
Speaker 1: the face. Yeah, and Sofia's yeah. I usually am like
Speaker 1: turning Sophia onto it. This is I'm terrible, this is
Speaker 1: this is private. That's funny because Sophia, you're talking abot
Speaker 1: Sophia Alexandra, who I do fiance with. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a cast member there where people are hotly debating, like
Speaker 1: what is happening to this person's face, whether it's plastic
Speaker 1: surgery or not, or just less stress or weight loss,
Speaker 1: And it's just like one of I get the energy
Speaker 1: around that. And she's been very like she's like trying
Speaker 1: to send me before and actually I don't know trying
Speaker 1: to it might not be. It might not be people's face.
Speaker 1: This is one of our guilty pleasures. Yeah, it's a great,
Speaker 1: great parlor trick to be able to call it out,
Speaker 1: except for that one time. To me more, remember when
Speaker 1: she came out with her with her new face, right
Speaker 1: before she got with Ashton, and people are like, what
Speaker 1: the funk is this? That machine? Superior work? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the greats. So that was work that wasn't
Speaker 1: just like oh yeah, I feel like they put a
Speaker 1: dollar amount on that. Oh did that nice? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is tough to tell, like because sometimes people just
Speaker 1: some people genetically age better than like palmahyac right, yeah, fuck,
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's both. You know, sometimes it's easier just be
Speaker 1: like that has like it's harder to be like some
Speaker 1: people will just be infinitely young looking. I think that's
Speaker 1: a scarier proposition to some people than like, no, that
Speaker 1: has to be work. That has to be worked knsas
Speaker 1: be these genetics or somehow on God mode. Right, what
Speaker 1: the funk happened to me? Yeah? What is quoting something
Speaker 1: that you think is overrated? Well, so I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this and then I saw that Brian Cox shaded
Speaker 1: Johnny Depth in his new memoir, and he called him overrated,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yes, I feel like apropos of nothing.
Speaker 1: He just offered that up and so I'm gonna second
Speaker 1: that that. The things he wrote in that were pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: I think we read it on here, but I do
Speaker 1: want to reread it just so some people here. So
Speaker 1: you guys have already discussed. Well, no, someone called the
Speaker 1: tweet out. I think when I first dropped that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his his just shading a bunch of people. But I
Speaker 1: think specifically this quote really seemed to be a incisive observation.
Speaker 1: Brian Cox in his new book says, I mean Edward
Speaker 1: scissor hands. Let's face it, if you come on with
Speaker 1: hands like that and pale, scarred face makeup, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything. And he didn't, and subsequently he's
Speaker 1: done even less, which is right. I think that's a
Speaker 1: pretty pretty strong takedown of the start of his career.
Speaker 1: I would say that his Captain Jack Sparrow performance is
Speaker 1: definitely not him doing nothing. It's him doing He's doing
Speaker 1: He's right, right, He's just doing a Keith Richard impression. Right.
Speaker 1: I just love too that in reading the quotes from
Speaker 1: Brian Cox. I could hear him, yeah, like it should
Speaker 1: have funk off at the end of every like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love did you see that? I was talking about
Speaker 1: Steven signal too. That was great. He studied serenity as
Speaker 1: though he's on a higher plane to the rest of us.
Speaker 1: And while he's certainly on a different plane, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that, it's probably not a higher one. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The stories about Steven Sage, all behind the scenes are
Speaker 1: truly amazing. Just somebody who left the planet the second
Speaker 1: they got even a modicum of success and fame and
Speaker 1: has been operating in a different universe ever since, in
Speaker 1: a in a way that is destructive to the people
Speaker 1: around him and just reality in general. Yeah yeah, Stephen, Stephen,
Speaker 1: h Stephen, what is something that you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: This is so hard. I'm gonna say, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a shout out to Joan four is this eightiesomething
Speaker 1: yr old woman we had on our podcast. She has
Speaker 1: She wrote a book over the pandemic. It's called My
Speaker 1: Heart's Journey, and it's about her riding on a motor
Speaker 1: scooter across Europe in nineteen sixty four and it's so cute.
Speaker 1: And here's the weird thing about it, is like it
Speaker 1: illustrates how rape the culture used to be. It's like
Speaker 1: she's constantly being chased down by men, or like being groped,
Speaker 1: or like just there's all kinds of just subtle things
Speaker 1: in there where you're like, oh my god, you've made
Speaker 1: a little bit of progress. But anyway, other than that,
Speaker 1: a heartwarming book. I sent it to my grandma this
Speaker 1: and wait, did she write it like it's like a
Speaker 1: retrospective like she wrote it in her eighties. She wrote
Speaker 1: it like, you know, in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: she got bored during the pandemic, and she wrote about
Speaker 1: this amazing adventure she went on and it was really amazing,
Speaker 1: because that's scary. I wouldn't do that getting a motor
Speaker 1: scooter by myself and go across Europe. Sixties across Europe.
Speaker 1: M No, that's a challenge. Is the is the book
Speaker 1: like blowing up? Like is she just like no, No,
Speaker 1: nobody knows about it. That's why she's underrated. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. So if you are interested in a
Speaker 1: story about the sixties or the story that was written
Speaker 1: by an eightiesomething year old woman or prior rape culture.
Speaker 1: This is a good book for you. Wow R. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the like up until the seventies had a like there
Speaker 1: there's all these like very mainstream cultural artifacts from the
Speaker 1: late seventies and early eighties that are basic like blatant
Speaker 1: acts of pedophilia. Like there there are like it was
Speaker 1: Brookshields was like a sex symbol as a like child
Speaker 1: and yeah, there was this makeup or perfume edge that
Speaker 1: I commented on in my old crack show this spit take.
Speaker 1: But it was like a woman dressed up as like
Speaker 1: a you know, child and in this thing and she
Speaker 1: was like licking a lollipop and she was like and
Speaker 1: the the ad said nothing sexier than a baby. And
Speaker 1: then that was just the ad. And I feel like
Speaker 1: when you go back and watch eighties movies and you
Speaker 1: have these like male characters being like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the eighties women liberation, Like that's what they're lamenting.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what's being lost in their in their opinion,
Speaker 1: is their ability to just determine every all sexual mores.
Speaker 1: It was consensed it well, groping, yeah, yeah, she didn't
Speaker 1: mind what and also determine whether mustaches were cool or not.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was a thing that was lost
Speaker 1: at the end of the seventies and into the eighties.
Speaker 1: Things we lost, ye big mustache, Big mustache America. Let's
Speaker 1: let's keep mustaches. We can get rid of the rape. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Are you a fan of mustaches? You
Speaker 1: know they can be hot here and there? You know,
Speaker 1: check back on our November stashes. I'm excited. Might not
Speaker 1: be fully grown in until December four, but I am
Speaker 1: trying day by day. I like that it might be
Speaker 1: like a wire brillo padna. It's it's going to be
Speaker 1: a cause for concern more than a stash, I think.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. And mine is going to make me
Speaker 1: look like your stepdad. You think it's gonna mess your
Speaker 1: kids up? Yeah, it will. It'll funk them up. My wife,
Speaker 1: as I've talked about, has asked me to move out
Speaker 1: of the house. It's it's gonna be a real upending
Speaker 1: of my life and just become a different guy. I
Speaker 1: do I look like a one because I did this
Speaker 1: in college and just looked like I was a forty
Speaker 1: five year old stepdad. And that was before I was,
Speaker 1: you know, in my forties. So I can't. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: It's it's very strong and not not great. It's not great,
Speaker 1: But we are going to be right back and talk
Speaker 1: about some news and we're back. And what was being
Speaker 1: built as the biggest election since Biden defeated Trump happened
Speaker 1: last night in Virginia, and you know, the Republican even
Speaker 1: though Biden defeated Trump by ten points there, a Republican
Speaker 1: came through and defeated the Democratic incumbent. And you know,
Speaker 1: we we've talked in the past couple episodes about how
Speaker 1: this is being covered in the mainstream that like this
Speaker 1: this is the hope for the Republican Party that they
Speaker 1: can take the parts of Trumpism that are helpful, discards
Speaker 1: the toxic parts, and win a bunch of seats in
Speaker 1: the mid term, and that seems to have borne out, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think one thing to just keep in
Speaker 1: mind is like if you look statistically of Virginia and
Speaker 1: like since the seventies, there's only been one time a
Speaker 1: Democrat has won the presidency and then the governor's house
Speaker 1: didn't flip. So this is pretty much a path like
Speaker 1: this is just a general pattern I think, especially like
Speaker 1: you know, one in eleven that that feels like this
Speaker 1: was going to be a pretty hard fought thing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, there's there there's a lot of
Speaker 1: work being done in Virginia to not have like a
Speaker 1: a real policy for McAuliffe to like run on more
Speaker 1: than being like young Kins are Republican though, so and
Speaker 1: like Trump endorsed him, and we're gonna buy a bunch
Speaker 1: of ads with the young Kins name on it, just
Speaker 1: trying to be like, yeah, so Trump loves him, so yeah.
Speaker 1: And then in Buffalo the Democratic primary earlier this year,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialist India Walton defeated the incumbent mayor, Byron Brown,
Speaker 1: and so that was unacceptable to the establishment, and so
Speaker 1: they started distributing stamps with his name on them for
Speaker 1: people to put in the in the right in part
Speaker 1: so that there would be no like spelling errors and
Speaker 1: just to make it super easy, which seems like this
Speaker 1: sort of thing that you wouldn't get away with if
Speaker 1: you are not the incumbent and had been in power
Speaker 1: for four terms. But they did get away with it.
Speaker 1: Seems like they pulled it off. And so the Democrats
Speaker 1: are successfully defeating socialists, not successfully defeating Republicans and this
Speaker 1: just kind of sent me down a spiral of I
Speaker 1: think Democrats would rather lose to a Republican than a socialist.
Speaker 1: At this point, it seems like because their entire identity
Speaker 1: is defining themselves in opposition to the Republican Party, and
Speaker 1: socialism kind of throws everything out of whack because it
Speaker 1: forced them to answer questions about why they don't normally
Speaker 1: do things for their constituents, and so they are willing to,
Speaker 1: you know, get very creative and in the case of
Speaker 1: the Buffalo mayoral race, you know, bring in a bunch
Speaker 1: of Republicans to to vote for their candidate in order
Speaker 1: to defeat the Democrats socialist. They think that a lot
Speaker 1: of the votes for the incumbent were Republicans who just
Speaker 1: came in because socialism evil. And yeah, it's it just
Speaker 1: makes me wonder, you know, as we're seeing the results
Speaker 1: in uh in the Biden administration of the a Democratic
Speaker 1: Party that is just defines itself in opposition to Republicans
Speaker 1: but doesn't really stand for anything like it seems like
Speaker 1: more and more there it's becoming clear that there is
Speaker 1: a absolute need for another answer that's not the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Well, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the discourse afterwards is it's never going to question the
Speaker 1: party or the manner the way that the government is
Speaker 1: set up, or the system that that we have. It's
Speaker 1: like what, I mean, what happened with progressives are like, Wow,
Speaker 1: white women really swung this thing for young can and
Speaker 1: uh and in the in the government or his race,
Speaker 1: rather than holy sh it, I mean, because again it
Speaker 1: involves a party completely self owning by being like, man,
Speaker 1: we totally fucked up. We're we promised it and we
Speaker 1: don't deliver. We have a very inconsistent platform. We also
Speaker 1: have some of like the least compelling people leading the
Speaker 1: party that really doesn't move the needle for younger people
Speaker 1: who are living in a pretty much like antithetical lived
Speaker 1: reality than the one leaders think they're in. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: there's like a huge issue like in terms of just
Speaker 1: even like what the because like the face of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, right,
Speaker 1: that's you know, and to think that they can just
Speaker 1: kind of keep coming back to this and people go, oh,
Speaker 1: like the the speaker goat is back like that that
Speaker 1: doesn't energize anyone at all or anymore. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: it did when they took the house, like in two
Speaker 1: thousand six or whatever was when Bush was in office,
Speaker 1: But at this point they're completely out of ideas and
Speaker 1: don't know how to speak to people and are still
Speaker 1: wondering what the problem is. And I think that's what's
Speaker 1: really alarming. It's like they're they just there, I think
Speaker 1: slowly and sloven like, yeah, we don't get it, we
Speaker 1: don't get it. Yeah, I mean that a lot of
Speaker 1: the responses I'm seeing are you know, blaming, like you
Speaker 1: were saying, like white women in Virginia for voting against
Speaker 1: their best interests, And I don't know. I like, I
Speaker 1: think the missing ingredient that I hadn't fully been taken
Speaker 1: into account until like paying as much attention as we
Speaker 1: have been while doing this show for the past four
Speaker 1: years is and especially the past year when you have
Speaker 1: a Democrat in power, and also during the election when
Speaker 1: there was a Democratic Socialist candidate that, like the mainstream
Speaker 1: media is really like part of the whole system that
Speaker 1: makes it impossible for there ever to be an alternative
Speaker 1: to the big de Democratic Party, and you're just you know,
Speaker 1: they treated the Black Lives Matter protests in genguine like
Speaker 1: aggrievement and energy and grief that was coming from a
Speaker 1: nation and that is being murdered with impunity as like
Speaker 1: a radical movement that they're claiming scared people away and
Speaker 1: not acknowledging that that's because of the unfair coverage where
Speaker 1: you know, local news and even the New York Times
Speaker 1: is portraying it as you know, radical and leading to
Speaker 1: more murders. And and then also like the way that
Speaker 1: the mainstream media like focuses on the small like culture
Speaker 1: war things about like TV shows removing black face characters.
Speaker 1: I just feel I feel like when you look at
Speaker 1: like if you just take a collage of all the
Speaker 1: New York Times is coverage of the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: movement since George Floyd was murdered, you would like get
Speaker 1: this milange of like radical protests that are that like
Speaker 1: ultimately are about like things that are impossible to achieve
Speaker 1: and that like lead to a higher murder rate. And
Speaker 1: it's just like like and then and then you know,
Speaker 1: just the way that they cover socialism is also just
Speaker 1: a complete disingenuous fun job. Yeah, it's I'm I mean,
Speaker 1: this is also just just beyond the media to the
Speaker 1: pattern of oh, scary people of color. That's just a
Speaker 1: fucking tactic that works all the time in this country. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Like you know, there's just as you know, especially with
Speaker 1: looking at how the BLM coverage works, it's it's too
Speaker 1: if Again it's because all these things forced reckonings, and
Speaker 1: we're the country that cannot have to reckon with anything
Speaker 1: ever at all. So you know, we're at this point
Speaker 1: to where like that we're clearly at the end stage
Speaker 1: here of the most of this two party system can do.
Speaker 1: The wheels are coming off. People need support, and the government,
Speaker 1: even with a party and power of everything, still can't
Speaker 1: do it. It's just like because there's all these blocks
Speaker 1: too without understanding it's like, oh, do we really need
Speaker 1: to have a fundamental reconfiguration or renegotiation with how we
Speaker 1: see people's healthcare or how we see people's education or
Speaker 1: right to a domicile or shelter, and that just it's
Speaker 1: something it's a conversation that's just too difficult for the
Speaker 1: established powers. So mhm M, I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is gonna be you know, like I think a lot
Speaker 1: of optimistic Democrat pundits are like, hey man, this could
Speaker 1: be this. Now they're seeing what's going on. Now the
Speaker 1: Democratic leadership is going to see what's going on, and
Speaker 1: now they're gonna really do stuff. They're gonna they they'll
Speaker 1: figure it out. That's the good part of this is
Speaker 1: they can figure it out. And like, really, because it's
Speaker 1: been a lot of opportunity at ease and I haven't
Speaker 1: seen anything like that. Yeah. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 1: have a couple of years with Obama having one a
Speaker 1: you know, massive like what what today qualifies as like
Speaker 1: a landslide victory too, when the presidency having both Houses
Speaker 1: of Congress and you know, the most he was able
Speaker 1: to get through was an Obamacare bill that was basically
Speaker 1: written by health insurance companies. And now we have Biden
Speaker 1: with both houses and unable to do anything. And it's
Speaker 1: just it seems like they're the Democrats are willing to
Speaker 1: fight for their ability to stay in power and then
Speaker 1: do nothing like that seems to be what is ultimately
Speaker 1: their goal, what regardless of what they say like stay
Speaker 1: in power, don't change anything, just keeps the status quo. Well,
Speaker 1: and I think people just need to understand, like really,
Speaker 1: the larger point too, is like the like the thing
Speaker 1: that is going to solve things is like the poison
Speaker 1: of the established powers. Now, so they're just in this
Speaker 1: impossible situation where they'll they can't embrace the thing that
Speaker 1: would spell there to mise or their plat their platforms demise.
Speaker 1: And I think that's and that's all we're watching where
Speaker 1: they're like they're unable to connect the dots because then
Speaker 1: they'd have to be like, oh, we suck, we can't
Speaker 1: do this, you know, so instead of like oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well hey man paid family leave. Man, Yeah, two years
Speaker 1: of community college tuition free, baby, we got this fifteen
Speaker 1: dollar minimum ways now to Biden is pulls back on this.
Speaker 1: Biden pulls back on this. Biden pulls back on this
Speaker 1: because wow, they it's easy to say that, and then
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, so to do that, we have to
Speaker 1: kind of fundamentally change some things about the tax code
Speaker 1: and uh, some taxation moments also where our empathy goes
Speaker 1: because it can no longer go on the business owners
Speaker 1: and the people who are benefactors in terms of donations.
Speaker 1: So I think that has to be more of the
Speaker 1: norm that people sort of need at a baseline, need
Speaker 1: to understand rather than getting into like the back and
Speaker 1: forth like Wells the Democrats, Republic of the messaging. It's no,
Speaker 1: we're at a point in societally or at a point
Speaker 1: where we need major change. But we have people there
Speaker 1: that are completely They're unable to change their operating system
Speaker 1: and it's incompatible with them. So I think the surprise
Speaker 1: has to end at a certain point and people have
Speaker 1: to really like the larger discussion about is this the
Speaker 1: right thing at all, and how can we change that?
Speaker 1: Or what do we need to do as citizens to
Speaker 1: figure out how we can ensure these things or exert
Speaker 1: the proper influence to get people to you know, come
Speaker 1: to the table to bring better outcomes for you know,
Speaker 1: just general Americans. Yeah, I think climate is going to
Speaker 1: move the needle, I think the most right because all
Speaker 1: these other things are things that we can ignore to
Speaker 1: a certain extent or like just put off no are
Speaker 1: you having insurance, or put off minimum wage hikes or
Speaker 1: put off whatever. But when it's like, oh, we're having
Speaker 1: all these you know, severe weather events so or you know,
Speaker 1: all these other negative outcomes, I feel like that is
Speaker 1: going to force the revolution needle a little bit more.
Speaker 1: It's the closest to the for those reasons for sure,
Speaker 1: because it's tangible and it's very difficult to act like
Speaker 1: it's not some fantasy ghost concept that just like half
Speaker 1: the country believes in. But then you look at what's
Speaker 1: happening in Glasgow right now with sort of deals being
Speaker 1: made around climate change, and you're like, God, they don't
Speaker 1: fucking get it. And again, because this is this is
Speaker 1: just like any just like our problems here are just
Speaker 1: as it relates to global warming. The people that are
Speaker 1: there to make the decisions, the the answer to the
Speaker 1: question spells the demise of the power structure that they've
Speaker 1: benefited from. So there's it's that's just the absurdity of
Speaker 1: how leadership is running globally at the moment, because like
Speaker 1: again with all the talk of like late stage capitalism
Speaker 1: and where we're at, it's like, yeah, the the momentum
Speaker 1: of all the good parts has has worn off at
Speaker 1: this point. We're no longer coasting like we did in
Speaker 1: decades previous from like the little bit of improvements that
Speaker 1: were made to make things slightly more equitable for some people.
Speaker 1: But now because it's been the same thing, like how
Speaker 1: can we extract the most with giving back the least,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's only creating this uneasiness across the
Speaker 1: country and the world where many people are starting to
Speaker 1: feel like like if you're not informed, it's just everything
Speaker 1: just feels like general unease and instability. But again, we're
Speaker 1: at a across the roads and refusing it's across roads
Speaker 1: and the people who genuinely have have all the power
Speaker 1: in this country, given like in the current system, are
Speaker 1: able to insulate themselves from the you know, devastation of
Speaker 1: climate change because it is a problem that mostly affects
Speaker 1: poor people that aren't able to buy a island in
Speaker 1: New Zealand to go like whether the apocalypse on, yeah,
Speaker 1: or even just have like the you know, the assets
Speaker 1: to say like, you know what, we're gonna move, We're
Speaker 1: leaving this place. Pack yourself up, we'll put the rest
Speaker 1: in storage and now we live in this country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I think that's shortsighted though, Like I think that's
Speaker 1: going to catch up with people because it's not It's
Speaker 1: so funny. I was at dinner with someone and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're it was horrible how you saying it,
Speaker 1: But he was like, we're in that bracket right, like
Speaker 1: we're we're gonna be able to escape it. And I
Speaker 1: was like, you are like a TV writer, you can
Speaker 1: you know, like you're you can't out run this thing.
Speaker 1: There's not like it's going to have a societal call
Speaker 1: that you're gonna wind up paying, even if it's going
Speaker 1: to be like a tax that you could pay now
Speaker 1: and it could be less or you can pay it
Speaker 1: later and you're still gonna have to pay it because
Speaker 1: you'll have to pay for your share in society crumbling
Speaker 1: basically to some extent. No, Yeah, And I think because
Speaker 1: like that mentality has been the way most people have
Speaker 1: been able to avoid the worst of like leadership or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like, well that affects a certain socio economic bracket,
Speaker 1: even if that's happening, there's a way for me to
Speaker 1: keep myself safe. And like, yeah, that thinking will take
Speaker 1: its place into the climate change discussion. But I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're saying, people don't really are have a will
Speaker 1: have a route awakening as you know, more weather disruptions.
Speaker 1: That's that has been affle affecting the supply chain even
Speaker 1: right now, right exactly. It's all those little things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think when things get to the point where
Speaker 1: you have massive movements of people two who are trying
Speaker 1: to escape things you're not gonna have. I mean, unless
Speaker 1: you're quite literally being like, well I have jets and
Speaker 1: ship like it doesn't even matter that. Okay, give you
Speaker 1: to you, God bless you. But for everyone else, you
Speaker 1: will realize that this is a larger question that we're
Speaker 1: going to have to answer because the climate war will
Speaker 1: kick off when you have a group of people are
Speaker 1: saying I no longer live on a viable piece of land.
Speaker 1: I will die if I live here, so the only
Speaker 1: choice I have is to physically relocate. And then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have people saying, well, we can't come here because
Speaker 1: we only got this much, and we can't come here
Speaker 1: because when we got this much, we'll have to completely
Speaker 1: rethink what it means to live on this planet. Whether
Speaker 1: it's like saying, well, you know what, we all need
Speaker 1: to pitch into a global thing to say, well, now,
Speaker 1: if we have to relocate five million people from here,
Speaker 1: here's this massive global fund to say, okay, that's fine,
Speaker 1: let's help build the infrastructure or house these people, or
Speaker 1: feed them or clothe them and bring that out of
Speaker 1: everyone's pockets rather than see. But what we're seeing now
Speaker 1: is draw the fucking castle door wars up and try
Speaker 1: and say no, I can't get in here, which is
Speaker 1: only gonna like and that's where the real chaos is
Speaker 1: going to come. But that's where the I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that nothing's going to change, I'm just saying, as America
Speaker 1: exists right now, that's where the institutional momentum is is
Speaker 1: like the company corporations and the extremely wealthy determined policy,
Speaker 1: and it's going to get real for them way later
Speaker 1: than it's going to get real for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: And I don't, like, I do want to raise the
Speaker 1: idea of, you know, a third party has always been
Speaker 1: something I've just rejected out of hand because I live
Speaker 1: in America, and I realized, like how absurd that sounds
Speaker 1: to most people, the idea of you know, having a
Speaker 1: third party. But like something about this past year and
Speaker 1: Tuesday Night's election has just like broken something like I
Speaker 1: don't know, it just seems like the need for a
Speaker 1: youified and powerful like democratic socialist movement that actually like
Speaker 1: takes the plate of poor people, the plate of people
Speaker 1: of color, the uncompromising climate policy like seriously, and like
Speaker 1: proposes policy that addresses it. Like seems I don't know what, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just become so clear that when we let the
Speaker 1: ideas like like defunding the police, replacing the police, are
Speaker 1: supplementing the police with alternatives that aren't scared armed white guys,
Speaker 1: like running into mental health crises, or like you know,
Speaker 1: the Green New Deal, or any socialist ideals. Like when
Speaker 1: those get laundered in the Democratic Party and the centrist media,
Speaker 1: they by design get defanged. They get turned into version
Speaker 1: of of themselves that are unappealing, They get shipped on
Speaker 1: in like the coverage, and then like the results that
Speaker 1: get communicated to us. And it just seems like that
Speaker 1: the system is more designed to protect against anything like
Speaker 1: that happening, anything like socialism happening in America, than it
Speaker 1: is to protect against like a authoritarian white supremacists administration
Speaker 1: coming to power and harming people like that. That seems
Speaker 1: to be the lesser of two evils as far as
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party and the you know, mainstream centrist media
Speaker 1: is concerned. Yeah, well, it's always going to co opt
Speaker 1: the language of the left, you know, to just say
Speaker 1: like because they did they did say all those things.
Speaker 1: They just didn't do it. They just didn't actually take it.
Speaker 1: Don't do anything said. They take it seriously, but they
Speaker 1: don't actually take it seriously. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: allure or the like intoxicating appeal sometimes of democratic policies
Speaker 1: is that it it will put the sandwich board out
Speaker 1: saying hey, today, we're gonna take these things seriously. And
Speaker 1: it's on the other side, is it psych and were
Speaker 1: and again, then that's why I feel like slowly, like
Speaker 1: you're saying, you're now you're you've come to a point
Speaker 1: where you're saying, I feel like I've been taken advantage
Speaker 1: of many times over or like this thing's like useless.
Speaker 1: Everyone arrives at that moment at a different time, And
Speaker 1: I think that's what's hard is trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, the best way to begin to exercise that
Speaker 1: that power in terms of like a pronounced or defined
Speaker 1: group of people who are sort of all moving in
Speaker 1: that direction. And I think it'll be it'll be hard
Speaker 1: because I think just like they're there, also, isn't it
Speaker 1: as as a robust media apparatus for leftist or progressive
Speaker 1: politics that aren't like on the fringes, you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's there's there's definitely a place for Democrats and Republicans
Speaker 1: to talk and say they're unfiltered, give their unfiltered thoughts.
Speaker 1: But where is that for people left of that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I think that's also a huge problem because most
Speaker 1: people just don't have the opportunity to hear something like
Speaker 1: that either, right. I mean it does seem like the
Speaker 1: the fact that there is a generation that is more
Speaker 1: open to socialism than any past generation, that understands media
Speaker 1: better than any of the people in existing places like
Speaker 1: at the you know New York Times like that, that
Speaker 1: there's something that could be done. I I just like
Speaker 1: I don't that the current system just like doesn't is
Speaker 1: never going to let anything happen, and we need something
Speaker 1: to happen. And the Republican Party was like founded in
Speaker 1: eighteen fifty four as like a radical like abolitionist party,
Speaker 1: and it like you know started winning states pretty quickly
Speaker 1: in the presidential election, but it was you know seen
Speaker 1: as a fringe party until Abraham Lincoln like actually like
Speaker 1: won the fucking White House. And like that's it's a
Speaker 1: thing that can happen if you're facing like a shifting reality,
Speaker 1: and we are facing a absolutely shifting reality and a
Speaker 1: crisis more than I think we have in the past
Speaker 1: hundred years really, and I just think like the time
Speaker 1: has go like there there is the need for it,
Speaker 1: and just kind of assuming that it can't be done
Speaker 1: because it hasn't been done in the past hundred years
Speaker 1: is kind of no longer an option. Maybe it's like
Speaker 1: the perfect storm with like TikTok and you know, a
Speaker 1: decentralization of how people get their news in a certain way,
Speaker 1: like could propel a third party. I don't know, let's
Speaker 1: dream about it. Yeah, I mean, the face of the
Speaker 1: electorate is changing and the attitudes are I think we're
Speaker 1: just we're in an interesting middle period where there hasn't
Speaker 1: reached a tipping point numerically for enough people. But also
Speaker 1: you have a lot of people who are turned off
Speaker 1: by politics too, because it's just like you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you don't really if you're not as engage,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, yeah, what they're gonna say, they're
Speaker 1: gonna raise minimum ways, all right, they didn't like what's
Speaker 1: the right point? And for so there there's there's there's
Speaker 1: many issues and just you know, but yeah, I'm optimistic
Speaker 1: because as you know, you're pointing out Corney, Like, younger
Speaker 1: people definitely are have their eyeland it way more than
Speaker 1: I feel like we did at their age, because we
Speaker 1: we had a relative period of seemingly okay stability, whereas
Speaker 1: if you're born in like after two thousand, you've only
Speaker 1: seen like recession after recession, and you're like, what the
Speaker 1: funk is this place? Yeah, there were some you know,
Speaker 1: silver linings in the ship storm that was election night.
Speaker 1: For instance, we critical race theory fears weren't as potent
Speaker 1: as I think people are going to pretend they were.
Speaker 1: In a lot of the mainstream, you know, like right
Speaker 1: outside of d C, they had some Loudon County had
Speaker 1: some really wild school board meetings and protests, and yet
Speaker 1: the Democratic candidate won that district by double digits, when
Speaker 1: you know, the Republican candidate was like running on the
Speaker 1: ability to not allow people to read Tony Morrison right
Speaker 1: when that was the other thing Younkin did well was
Speaker 1: he wore whatever mask in front of whatever audience that
Speaker 1: he had to, but he didn't have to be consistent.
Speaker 1: He would be like, yeah, man, we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: get these pedophiles to stop drinking adrenal chrome to one
Speaker 1: crew and be like, I really think that comprehensive immigration
Speaker 1: reform is necessarius from you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: it was truly just this fun house mirror candidacy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're saying, that wasn't you know, Loudon County, Okay,
Speaker 1: it wasn't as pronounced of a win. There were some
Speaker 1: wins though, like in South Lake, Texas, home of Holocaust
Speaker 1: both sides SORI, they took some seats there, and also
Speaker 1: in a Kansas City suburb there were some wins, but
Speaker 1: then they're also some like pronounced defeats, like in Connectic Guildford,
Speaker 1: Connecticut that has had also some wild anti critical race
Speaker 1: theory school board protests. The anti CRT candidates got shut
Speaker 1: out of their attempts to get on the school board there.
Speaker 1: And in like Iowa, there were some right wing candidates
Speaker 1: on this slate they called the called the Wolves and
Speaker 1: Warriors United, all defeated. Thank god. Yeah, I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's a I wonder if that's based on the guy
Speaker 1: who goes around speaking to police forces about why they
Speaker 1: should feel okay about shooting people a warrior. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: warrior mentality, and like he specifically like bases his instruction
Speaker 1: around a there are wolves and their sheeps, and all
Speaker 1: these people criticizing your sheeps, but you guys are the wolves.
Speaker 1: Who better to leave your young children with than a
Speaker 1: US collective of wolves and warriors? Actually I had that wrong.
Speaker 1: It's he's they're the sheep dogs and the wolves are
Speaker 1: the bad guys. So I don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: miss quote him, because he has really interesting things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's already got his back against the wall right now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there is a lot to say that.
Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of people were looking
Speaker 1: heavily into that Republicans, like in those areas where they
Speaker 1: did win, they're being like, you see, you see that
Speaker 1: was that was we did it with that. But again,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the mood is just sort
Speaker 1: of the just the lack of delivery on all things
Speaker 1: promised to people who voted for this administration, and also
Speaker 1: just an utter it seemed like, you know, I was
Speaker 1: reading some anecdotal stuff like on Twitter from people who
Speaker 1: are like involved in some elections saying that in the
Speaker 1: gubernatorial and especially like there wasn't as much investment like
Speaker 1: in their ground game as there was for Young Ken two,
Speaker 1: and there was a lot of like just kind of
Speaker 1: relying on the base to kind of do their thing.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, all of everything's
Speaker 1: moot if no one is talking about the real problems,
Speaker 1: because then this is just all a fucking smoke show
Speaker 1: and not the hot kind. They did have to invest
Speaker 1: in all those rubber stamps up in Buffalo, so they
Speaker 1: couldn't exactly afford a robust ground game in Virginia. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Boston and Cincinnati elected their first Asian American
Speaker 1: mayors and Michelle Wou and after pro ball and both
Speaker 1: you know, could be rising stars. I do worry about
Speaker 1: like continuing on a path where charismatic candidates we put
Speaker 1: all our hopes in them, even though they're like part
Speaker 1: of a system that doesn't want anything to happen. But
Speaker 1: you know, Michelle Woo in particular, has like some cool
Speaker 1: things to say about what she's gonna do. So hey,
Speaker 1: free public transit, you know, like a few other policies.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, and not just those mayoral elections like
Speaker 1: in Tucson, Arizona, where their Senator Kirsten Cinema was said
Speaker 1: no to fifteen dollar minimum wage in Tucson. The city
Speaker 1: was like, they voted for a fifteen dollar minimum wage. Cool, great,
Speaker 1: just doing the bare minimum. I think as it relates
Speaker 1: to what a minimum wage should even be, because I
Speaker 1: think as we're for being realistic, it should be like, well,
Speaker 1: like maybe fucking thirty dollars and Pittsburgh Ed Gainey became
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's first black marge. I mean, there's there are little
Speaker 1: victories here and there, but I think for now, most
Speaker 1: of the punditry is around just creating like the doom democrat.
Speaker 1: Democrats are fucked thing, and yeah, go off, mainstream, go off,
Speaker 1: don't criticize them, don't let's not talk about the problems
Speaker 1: that might actually motivates someone to move in a certain directions,
Speaker 1: Like what went wrong with that guy? Was he too
Speaker 1: dull and boring and not appealing enough? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just take the logic from your sports section and bring
Speaker 1: it over to the election and talk about like wins
Speaker 1: and losses and misses. That was a that was a
Speaker 1: clear own goal there that they really should have, you know,
Speaker 1: guarded against. Yeah, and don't don't bring any class awareness
Speaker 1: into it, please, for the love of God, what class
Speaker 1: are you talking about, like going to going to class
Speaker 1: in school. I don't know what you're talking about. Moving on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got class man. Yeah, I'm a classy motherfucker. I
Speaker 1: wear socks when I fuck. Just a very odd person.
Speaker 1: I'm just envisioned. And you're like, dude, what their silk? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's silk. They I have the sock guarters. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: tell me. I'm not don'na have class. Yeah, alright, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back, and I'm still picturing the guy, the guy
Speaker 1: the sock garters, the sock garters claiming that you know,
Speaker 1: anybody who wears is that a thing? So that that's
Speaker 1: just a purely like old school idea of like what
Speaker 1: men's business where it was, right, I think they still exist.
Speaker 1: They still exist for you know, sex workers, people newly married.
Speaker 1: Well I get like, I get like, but sock guarters
Speaker 1: for your businessman, sock garters. Yeah, Like do you remember
Speaker 1: like rending Stimpy. That was the first time I saw
Speaker 1: sock garters, was like on a character whose feet would
Speaker 1: just come into the frame and I was like, what
Speaker 1: the fund is? What the fund is? That guy wearing
Speaker 1: I never see a man in a suit. M m. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so I guess shout out. Sock arters still here, still
Speaker 1: available on Amazon. And then sock garter bell adjustable two packs,
Speaker 1: dirty clip suspenders for your socks. So you know they're
Speaker 1: they're still out here, and you know what, I wear them. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come out. I wear sock chargers and they're fine.
Speaker 1: I keep saying, Jack. They make socks with elastic on
Speaker 1: the top now, so you don't need, you know, I
Speaker 1: like like my socks to be straight leg, like straight
Speaker 1: leg jeans, just straight up, and they they're just like walking.
Speaker 1: It's like having a hula hoop around each calf, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Americans food delivery habits. I
Speaker 1: think this is just always interesting whenever. Look, we're not
Speaker 1: we're not great admirers of uber eats, but let's be real,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are getting their food from different
Speaker 1: food delivery services. And the data that they've released that
Speaker 1: Takeout published is there's some there's just some interesting things
Speaker 1: in there that like, that's always revealing when any company
Speaker 1: has this much data to like go through. I just
Speaker 1: want to say first of all that they're saying there
Speaker 1: was a increase since the before times of people ordering
Speaker 1: cheese fries. I'm not sure what that's saying about anything,
Speaker 1: aside from I can't think of a dish that is
Speaker 1: going to show up like less satisfying than it ever
Speaker 1: could have. Then, fucking cheese fries. I'm so confused by
Speaker 1: the Yeah, there there's another fry centric data point here,
Speaker 1: and they are the worst. What's your referencing is the
Speaker 1: most ordered item is French fries? Now, this is my question.
Speaker 1: Is this by default? Because if you're going to order
Speaker 1: some other things, you're like, yeah, man, just get order
Speaker 1: of fries or something, or to get into the minimum
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to, you know, get something else. No,
Speaker 1: just don't hit the mini. Okay, I see that too,
Speaker 1: because I'm also thinking fries don't travel. Well, it's only
Speaker 1: happened in a couple of places where like like where
Speaker 1: you can tell the people working there, like, no, do
Speaker 1: you need a ventilated container to put it in so
Speaker 1: the steam can escape and not just completely neutralize the
Speaker 1: crispiness from the frying? I don't know. Then there's also
Speaker 1: really something interesting they said, like the most polite states,
Speaker 1: like in terms of people who would use please and
Speaker 1: thank you. Most in their instructions to the platform were
Speaker 1: Montana from mont Oregon, Idaho, and Washington that they're doing
Speaker 1: that in lieu of tipping correct Yeah, middle finger emoji
Speaker 1: and the words thank you. And then they also said
Speaker 1: that the customers in Asheville, North Carolina, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and the Florida Keys the most generous tippers. Now that's
Speaker 1: who I care about. That's what shout out to those
Speaker 1: three locations. The Florida is because is that because it's
Speaker 1: not that you can't be like broken living the Florida Keys.
Speaker 1: It also might just be a it's probably that, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of rich people everywhere. It also might
Speaker 1: just be a enormous pain in the ass for them
Speaker 1: to get the food, like from the restaurant since yeah,
Speaker 1: well there's like one way in and out, so like
Speaker 1: you know, you had to take a ferry. Here's yeah,
Speaker 1: here's an extra nickel to show up on a fan
Speaker 1: boat out back with your order of cheese fries. Then
Speaker 1: they said, uh, in like picky estates in terms of
Speaker 1: people like the most intensive instruct special instructions Connecticut, New York,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, Illinois, and Georgia, while the least picky we're
Speaker 1: in West Virginia, Delaware, Utah, South Dakota, and Missouri. Hardly
Speaker 1: ever any special instructions from those people. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: just say to them, you can add special instructions. That's
Speaker 1: something that I often felt weird about in the past.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's fine, right, they'll they'll get them
Speaker 1: like a third of the time. Yeah, it's worth a punt.
Speaker 1: That's why I just gotta be polite whenever I've had
Speaker 1: ever special instructions, which brings me to this next section
Speaker 1: where they were putting together like really a light or
Speaker 1: interesting instructions, and this one spoke to my heart as
Speaker 1: a spicy food eater who food is never spicy enough
Speaker 1: for him. This person and their special instructions, they didn't
Speaker 1: say what restaurant, but they just said this quote, let's
Speaker 1: give this a try tonight. Please. I like hot and
Speaker 1: spicy to exclamation points. Make me cry cry emoji and
Speaker 1: hot face cry emoji. Hot please make me hurt, make
Speaker 1: extra extra extra burning, super super hot and spicy six
Speaker 1: flame emoji. Make it so spicy you would not even
Speaker 1: eat so spicy and hurt. Make me cry. I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you ordering to like bananas? Right? What? What? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or they're trying to murder somebody like in Dumb and Dumber,
Speaker 1: you know of a little bit about it. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: most ordered things being French fries. A mott sticks are
Speaker 1: on there, which another thing that is usually not good.
Speaker 1: I just have to like people American restaurants. All restaurants
Speaker 1: need to like go do a ride along for a
Speaker 1: day at a Korean restaurant. Korean restaurants somehow managed to
Speaker 1: make like let the food stay so hot when it arrives.
Speaker 1: They do such a great job with that. Everybody's not
Speaker 1: because you live in your Korean town. I mean it
Speaker 1: could be, but it's like it only travels like a mile.
Speaker 1: They should try that. What are they doing? What's the
Speaker 1: secret Korean restaurants? But it's not like it gets here quickly,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe maybe it is, maybe it
Speaker 1: is just a matter of distance, but they figure it's
Speaker 1: something out. Look, look, I get monster rose. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just want to hurt. Yeah, but you want to eat
Speaker 1: up just a fucking police baton that's been deep fried.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's hurt my stomach. Sometimes you get
Speaker 1: the like when it's like the when they get real bad,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, it's returned to its string
Speaker 1: cheese state. Yeah, just in a nice breading. Yeah, bearded
Speaker 1: string cheese. It's not great. Can we get to these
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving sides? Yeah, we should get to the Thanksgiving sides.
Speaker 1: I would just say what one thing in defensive motsticks
Speaker 1: is you can put them in the microwave and they'll
Speaker 1: be okay, whereas fries that that doesn't work, no toaster oven,
Speaker 1: I can kind of if they're thick enough, you can
Speaker 1: kind of bring fries back to life in a total
Speaker 1: and also air fryer. That might be what's happened in
Speaker 1: the Rise of the air fryer. People are realizing you
Speaker 1: can just you can feed your dog motsticks. Probably don't
Speaker 1: want to do that, Yeah, okay, just another point of view, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to upset my dog. My dog loves
Speaker 1: mot sticks. We'll always concerned. And chili, right, you're saying
Speaker 1: chili and chili dog, chili mots sticks, chili dogs, glyzzies
Speaker 1: and all Blizzie diet. You know that's how that's how
Speaker 1: Dy gets down, all right, Yeah, and then that we
Speaker 1: have another food map. You have another map with America's
Speaker 1: favorite filling the blank. This time we are looking at
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving sides. I believe we have done this before in
Speaker 1: the past. I am curious if there's any carry over
Speaker 1: from from the past. But let's let's get into it.
Speaker 1: What are we seeing here? What surprises us? I mean,
Speaker 1: I it seems like more than anything, baked potato or
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes seem to be one of the most popular things.
Speaker 1: But just across the board, what is really interesting to
Speaker 1: me that in Missouri and in Minnesota, the two big
Speaker 1: sides our charcouterie tray. I am and I was like,
Speaker 1: are people looking up things they don't know how to
Speaker 1: make or things they don't know what it means? It's
Speaker 1: actually the stupidest the stupidest states, because like people in
Speaker 1: California like mashed potatoes. How do I do that? Right?
Speaker 1: But I've never seen a charcoutery tray at a Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: my entire time. In Minnesota, I don't think, right, maybe
Speaker 1: that's family specific. I see like little finger foods, right,
Speaker 1: I've been to people's houses where like they'll do like
Speaker 1: some little stuffed mushrooms or like little things to nibble on.
Speaker 1: To get you through to the main event, like a
Speaker 1: very that's when I've been to like a very considerate
Speaker 1: personal and I say considerate to people who show up
Speaker 1: high as ship and are very hungry already those kinds
Speaker 1: of situations. Finger foods for sure, but like, are we
Speaker 1: talking about like cheese cracker little meat kind of ship
Speaker 1: because I don't see that. Yeah, it could just be
Speaker 1: that they are more likely to have big like gatherings
Speaker 1: and sharkutery tray is something that's easy to google because
Speaker 1: you don't even need like instructions, you just need a
Speaker 1: picture basically. There's also another thing too, where like there's
Speaker 1: levels to it, right, because there are people who are like,
Speaker 1: I've been to Europe, this is not and then you'll
Speaker 1: go to Ralphs and ship and I've seen some ships
Speaker 1: like bors hash charcuterie tray and it's like loosen bolone.
Speaker 1: So there's levels to it. So they could just be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, im meat and cheese tray, but the language
Speaker 1: is elevating it, and I can for sure see my
Speaker 1: aunts being like, yeah, I know this this tray of
Speaker 1: like cooking crackers. That's a shark good tray. No, that's not.
Speaker 1: I do want to give one piece of evidence that
Speaker 1: this map does know what the fun they're talking about.
Speaker 1: Because hash Brown casserole is a reigning champion in Kentucky
Speaker 1: and Tennessee. That is something that I've experienced. A shout
Speaker 1: out to Marissa, one of my longtime friends who makes that,
Speaker 1: and she's from Kentucky and it is fucking I feel
Speaker 1: like the recipe. Yeah, all the things I was looking
Speaker 1: out on here that really caught my eye because I
Speaker 1: love that combination of words. Let me get off of
Speaker 1: the businessman sock Garter's board that I was just on
Speaker 1: because I can't remember exactly what it is other than
Speaker 1: that it is fucking really good and like I usually
Speaker 1: eat three helpings. So Cracker Barrel offers a recipe for
Speaker 1: hash brown cast role. It's basically cheese and hash Brown's.
Speaker 1: I think she has some like bacon in there. Some
Speaker 1: it's just so good and it's crispy and soft and
Speaker 1: hot and always always good. This is like a hybrid,
Speaker 1: like if mac and cheese and mashed potatoes from exactly
Speaker 1: this would be there by side racial baby. Yeah yeah
Speaker 1: that this is fantastic. Yeah that one. And then white
Speaker 1: gravy also caught my eye and I think it was
Speaker 1: that Arkansas. But is that just me country gravy? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, I guess so, yeah, that that's seems right.
Speaker 1: It can't be like that racist, right, white gravy. White
Speaker 1: fruit salad had me kind of disappointed. Who's who's going
Speaker 1: with fruit salad? North Dakota? Okay, m or side salad.
Speaker 1: It's like, you, guys, there's a lot of days in
Speaker 1: the year you're the potato goat and you're here googling
Speaker 1: side salads. Yeah, they're sandwiched between Oregon and another square
Speaker 1: state with baked potatoes mashed potatoes, Wyoming, and they got
Speaker 1: side salad. Colm, what's everyone's also interesting in Delaware? Cauliflower
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes? Okay, yeah, Delaware? Okay, somebody's what he's doing healthy.
Speaker 1: What's everybody's favorite though, unequivocally unequivocally I gotta say Rolls? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a very popular answer. Florida. I love the states
Speaker 1: are just like Rolls. Has anybody ever seen baked potatoes
Speaker 1: as a Thanksgiving side? I don't think about as a
Speaker 1: as a Thanksgiving I feel like, yeah, you forgot to
Speaker 1: step it's mashed yeah, twice baked potatoes I have seen,
Speaker 1: and those are really good. I think I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with hash brown cast roll. That is uh. And then
Speaker 1: my mom makes really good sweet potato cast roll. Just
Speaker 1: just fucking drowned me in cast roll. There you go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go mash potatoes and green bean cast roll.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Okay. I love stuffing and gravy. I'm just
Speaker 1: put all just drowned the stuffy and gravy, like I
Speaker 1: could just eat that. I'm fucking sick. I was trying
Speaker 1: to be creative with my answer, but that might be
Speaker 1: my really answer. If it's just stuffing stuff in with gravy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my favorite because when I eat it, I leave
Speaker 1: that ship at that. It's so weird how I have
Speaker 1: like this deferred gratification strategy on eating a Thanksgiving plate
Speaker 1: when I'm like, let me get the turkey down because
Speaker 1: that's like the least interesting thing to me. And then
Speaker 1: I moved to the epic sides and then I get
Speaker 1: finally for the last, the fucking the couda gras, I
Speaker 1: hit the fucking the stuffing with cravy. Now, another one
Speaker 1: that I've not seen in my experience or even seeing
Speaker 1: like really depicted in media. In addition to baked potatoes
Speaker 1: is stuffed mushrooms. But stuffed mushrooms I am very intrigued by. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had them before, just not as a not as
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving right, but great, it's a great it's a
Speaker 1: great order of I will say that because I've had
Speaker 1: that at one of those plates. Like I said, to
Speaker 1: consider it considering the high people that arrive with already
Speaker 1: ravenous hunger, who might be unemployed and didn't eat dinner
Speaker 1: the night before. Back in that day. That was something
Speaker 1: that I've absolutely fell in love with. What is corn
Speaker 1: bread dressing? Is that just stuffing made of corn breath? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Louisiana. Okay, let's sounds good too. This just made
Speaker 1: me hungry and excited for Thanksgiving. Honestly, Hash Brown was like, gang,
Speaker 1: please tweet at me. I'll tweet something. Please hit me
Speaker 1: with your recipes for any of these things, because I'm
Speaker 1: really curious. Last time I asked for stuff on my birthday,
Speaker 1: I got some like amazing recipe ideas. If you've got
Speaker 1: a hash Brown castle role for someone like me who's
Speaker 1: about to venture into new uncharted waters. Please help me out,
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