Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Mona. We do like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? I don't this
Speaker 1: might be really filthy, but I was looking up soaking.
Speaker 1: Have y'all talked about soaking yet? No, let's talk about
Speaker 1: little else. To be honest, hold on, don't play around.
Speaker 1: We've never heard of it. Okay, no, what is it?
Speaker 1: What is this technique? Kind of I'm you're actually correct,
Speaker 1: my man. So I I was talking to someone who
Speaker 1: was ex Mormon, and she was telling me about soaking
Speaker 1: and my understanding and you can look up, we can
Speaker 1: look at more and soaking. Because some people believe that
Speaker 1: sex is the in and out of the penis in
Speaker 1: the person. So some people, to stay holy and good
Speaker 1: with Jesus and all the people upstairs, just put the
Speaker 1: penis in and let it soak, let it ride like
Speaker 1: a fucking tea bag, like a like, let's just sleeping
Speaker 1: and the woman's soaking. Soaking Oh yeah, we're up on
Speaker 1: the jump in on soaking. Do you know about the
Speaker 1: jump pumping? Nope? Or someone jumps on the bed so
Speaker 1: it moves, but it's not the thrusting. Yeah, what's this?
Speaker 1: Is there a sin of the jump pumper, like as
Speaker 1: like a pornographer or something like a facilitator of sin,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, people don't think that
Speaker 1: deep because at the end of the day, they're like,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to literally get it in and leave
Speaker 1: it in. Guys, just let go. You're you know, we're
Speaker 1: all animals. There's nothing evil about wanting to put your
Speaker 1: private ship on couches and holes. Just live your fucking life.
Speaker 1: If you're already soaking, you're doing sex, right. This is yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I the whole time, that for the last
Speaker 1: three weeks when we couldn't stop stop talking about it.
Speaker 1: It's just true. You know, the jig is up. Jig
Speaker 1: is up. And it's funny because you watch ninety Day
Speaker 1: right yeah, here and there, it's like I always yeah,
Speaker 1: I started and then I get sad and I stopped.
Speaker 1: So there was this guy, there's a guy this season
Speaker 1: who's more men, and he was like he was basically
Speaker 1: doing this whole thing where he was just like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been sexually active, but I didn't have like sex.
Speaker 1: Sex still was like three and like when I even
Speaker 1: like looking at him and he's like and it's just
Speaker 1: so great, He's like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: He's like going back to abstinence is like having candy
Speaker 1: and then having to eat vegetables after. And this dude
Speaker 1: is still very devout and like lying to his like
Speaker 1: fiance that he's like a virgin. He's not, you know,
Speaker 1: just getting getting it awful. It's it's kind of the
Speaker 1: opinion that if you're just really bad at sex, then
Speaker 1: you aren't technically having sex. It's like, is the is
Speaker 1: the philosophy? There? They just boys ruined my life, like
Speaker 1: in college especially, but like because you know, I was ready.
Speaker 1: I was out and ready to bone pretty early in college.
Speaker 1: I was like, let's get weird. And I kept finding
Speaker 1: these fucking religious closet cases and one time in particular,
Speaker 1: I got slammed drunk. I was like, where this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's gonna be wonderful. And we get naked
Speaker 1: and we're in a bed together and like literally at
Speaker 1: that moment the person was like, I can't do this.
Speaker 1: This is wrong, this is religiously wrong, and okay awesome,
Speaker 1: and they're like you should leave and I was like, okay, awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm slammed on top of this night being such a bust.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, religion ruins everything fun. What is something
Speaker 1: you think it is overrated? Oh, you're gonna hate me
Speaker 1: for this. French fries mm hmmm. I like them, but
Speaker 1: y'all are obsessed like I I they're great, like like
Speaker 1: they're fun, they're good, but I think most times God
Speaker 1: people are gonna really kill me. I e about I'll eat.
Speaker 1: It's like Eminem's to me, like you have a couple
Speaker 1: and you're like, Okay, I'm good, I'm good. I get it,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I can move on. That is not my
Speaker 1: experience with Eminem's. French fries are definitely something that fills
Speaker 1: you up quick, you know. I feel like it's they
Speaker 1: have their like pancake light in the sense that they're
Speaker 1: expanding your stomach a little bit. But I kind of
Speaker 1: agree that, like, French fries are good when they're really good,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the time, like they they're not
Speaker 1: one of they're not like pizza, where even bad pizza
Speaker 1: is pretty good, like bad French fries fucking suck. They're
Speaker 1: just like yeah, I agree, potato sex yeah, or they're
Speaker 1: like really cold and shitty either and their bricks and
Speaker 1: then you're putting bricks in your body. It's like, guys, skies,
Speaker 1: it's good. Yeah, it's it's I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: also just like one of these things now to where
Speaker 1: it's just easy to make, so like whenever we see it.
Speaker 1: I feel like my like, my love of fries starts
Speaker 1: from being a kid when I'm like, oh, yes, fries,
Speaker 1: and I'm like I'll just eat fries with anything. And
Speaker 1: then as I get older though, now so I'm like
Speaker 1: how much salt is in this? Yeah? And I'm like
Speaker 1: how much how much deep fried ship is this? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just go with a salad. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like but yeah, at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: definitely I'm not as I'm not as like rabbit of
Speaker 1: a fry person as I as I once was, But
Speaker 1: you know, I enjoy them here and there. I like them.
Speaker 1: I like them. I think they're usually uh, they're usually
Speaker 1: also put on as like a consolation, where like the
Speaker 1: sandwich can be pretty bad, but they're like, well, guess what,
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you way too many fries, so you
Speaker 1: have to feel like this whole adventure is worth it.
Speaker 1: I think that's also a thing that annoys me, where
Speaker 1: you're like, no, this is just more not good fries
Speaker 1: that sucks. Yeah. I think that exact sentences written on
Speaker 1: a like strategy board in the McDonald's headquarters. Yes, the
Speaker 1: sandwich can suck, but we've nailed fries and give them
Speaker 1: away too many of them, and you are a Taco
Speaker 1: Bell fan enthusiasm and stand. You know that tracks like
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that I think people complain about
Speaker 1: when it comes to Taco Bell. The one end only
Speaker 1: thing that they're allowed to complain about is that they
Speaker 1: don't have fries. Not the immediate rhea, not that, don't
Speaker 1: complain that, but yeah, uh, did you guys try that
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich taco thing that they just made. It was
Speaker 1: so good, it was so it was so good, I
Speaker 1: guess say it was taco. It was like it was
Speaker 1: just I don't even it was just a piece of
Speaker 1: fried chicken in like a soft bread that you know,
Speaker 1: it was like scientifically made soft by the greatest minds
Speaker 1: in America some yeah, with some orange Mayo goop and
Speaker 1: it was incredible. Yeah, I thought you were talking about
Speaker 1: the taco bell creation. That was like the it the
Speaker 1: bun was the chicken. Wasn't that a thing where they
Speaker 1: had a taco shell that is made of chicken that
Speaker 1: I couldn't bring myself to think about trying. But they're
Speaker 1: also the chicken chips too that they just cut into triangles,
Speaker 1: like flattened out triangles. That was yeah, that you know
Speaker 1: I could have. I could not for me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love I love I love how weird they go. I
Speaker 1: love how they always I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I eat and I'm like, yes, this was actually good.
Speaker 1: This was actually good. All right, let's talk about Rhonda
Speaker 1: Santis Greg Abbott. The conservative ship bag off that we
Speaker 1: have been waiting for continues just going toe to toe
Speaker 1: on who can be the shittiest governor in America. And
Speaker 1: Ron is making some serious moves. Yeah, he's making kissy
Speaker 1: face at the anti vax crowd because he's letting people know.
Speaker 1: You know, over the weekend he announced that I want
Speaker 1: to make this place haven for unvaccinated cops and first responders.
Speaker 1: I want them to know that Florida is a place
Speaker 1: that will accept them and accept them with arms wide COVID.
Speaker 1: And this dude just listen to his plan. He announces
Speaker 1: like his his really awesome incentive plan to bring anti
Speaker 1: VAXs to Florida, and how cool he is. Just well, first,
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to point out on a scientific basis,
Speaker 1: most of those first responders have had COVID and have recovered,
Speaker 1: so they have strong protection. Uh. And so I think
Speaker 1: that influences their decision on a lot of this that
Speaker 1: they have already had it and recovered. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: they're not they're making no accommodations for that. They're still
Speaker 1: pretending like that doesn't even exist. Uh. And so that's
Speaker 1: really really troubling when you see that. But I can
Speaker 1: tell you Maria and Florida, not only are we gonna
Speaker 1: want to protect the law enforcement and all the jobs,
Speaker 1: we're actually actively working to recruit out of state law
Speaker 1: enforcement because we do have needs and our police and
Speaker 1: our sheriff's departments. So in the next legislative session, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hopefully sign legislation that gives a five thousand dollar bonus.
Speaker 1: Then he out of state law enforcement that relocates and Florida,
Speaker 1: So NYPD, Minneapolis, Seattle. If you're not being treated well,
Speaker 1: we'll treat you better here. You can feel important needs
Speaker 1: for us, and we'll compensate h as a result. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: oh sick dude. Yeah, scientists a hero, but what a magnet.
Speaker 1: Get these cops out of here. I feel like the
Speaker 1: best thing to do is some other space needs to
Speaker 1: be Like black and brown citizens of Florida will offer
Speaker 1: you five dollars to escape, Like come up here. You
Speaker 1: know everything's up from Florida, so wherever that means to you, like,
Speaker 1: come up here. We'll give you a little money. Like
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about it. You can help
Speaker 1: build beautiful communities away from what you've been thinking about
Speaker 1: leaving anyway. Honestly, if you're black and red and Florida,
Speaker 1: you've contemplated it. He's done it all with this that
Speaker 1: little sound bite there. He came out swinging with a
Speaker 1: debunked myth that anyone who has COVID is already immune,
Speaker 1: no need for a vaccine, because you, yeah, why why
Speaker 1: are they so scared of the vaccine? Then is it
Speaker 1: if they've already had it and the vaccine. I mean
Speaker 1: even he's had the vaccine, right, And it's this like
Speaker 1: really just in your face double speak that no one
Speaker 1: in the base is willing to confront. They're like, but
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, all y'all are vaccinated, but then saying don't
Speaker 1: do So where does that put me? Am I upon
Speaker 1: in this game? I don't know, maybe, but yeah, he
Speaker 1: goes off with that myth, then he really just truly
Speaker 1: wants to make himself the patron saint of anti vaxers
Speaker 1: and Florida be the church in that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: just saying come, come through. Because I'll also do the
Speaker 1: thing true to form to any Republican conservative, I have
Speaker 1: to do the exact opposite of what a LIB would do.
Speaker 1: And I think in this case, maybe he's doing the
Speaker 1: opposite of Doblasio, who was giving five dollars to people
Speaker 1: to get to workers who got vaccinated. So this time
Speaker 1: he's like, I'll give you five thousand to not get vaccinated,
Speaker 1: leave your job and come here still having signed the
Speaker 1: bill yet, so don't move immediately. But it's also you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: you you can just find five thousand dollars for a
Speaker 1: group of people just like that. Huh amazing. Interesting. What
Speaker 1: would that do to a state if just all the all,
Speaker 1: the first of all cops, second of all the ones
Speaker 1: who refused to get vaccinated, like all moved to a
Speaker 1: single state like that, that would be I mean, there's
Speaker 1: that stolen movie Copland, that just paints a picture of,
Speaker 1: you know, a paradise, the utopia of of just cops
Speaker 1: living with cops running, running everything, and maybe there's a
Speaker 1: little corruption, but you know it's worth it because you
Speaker 1: get you get to be with cops. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's definitely trying to put it together,
Speaker 1: his like infinity stones for re election. He's like, I've
Speaker 1: got racists, I've got some maga people. I'm I'm about
Speaker 1: to collect the anti vax stone and then I'll need
Speaker 1: Q and on and I will make a mighty fast
Speaker 1: to sucking swing through my reelection. M hmm. The most
Speaker 1: unaccountable people in the country, you know, cops who who
Speaker 1: get mad when you even watch a video of them
Speaker 1: unjustifiably murdering someone and ask what they were doing. And
Speaker 1: then the ones who refused to get the vaccine. On
Speaker 1: top of that is what what a boost to the
Speaker 1: state of Florida. Can you imagine a ton of people
Speaker 1: just moving like bankrupt the state. They're like, oh, fuck man,
Speaker 1: what everybody at once? Ship? Okay, so we don't have
Speaker 1: five thousand, but here here's a here's a little gift
Speaker 1: card to public plus. I feel like every cop wants
Speaker 1: to end up in Florida anyway, Like I feel like
Speaker 1: he might be, you know, right their Miami Vice best
Speaker 1: lives or you know, there's a lot of cops who
Speaker 1: go down there and retire. I don't know, just just
Speaker 1: seems like he's gonna he's that there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of takers. That's already. You can see that New
Speaker 1: York Times piece. These these unvaccinated police officers moved to
Speaker 1: Florida in hopes of attaining their Miami Vice dreams. When
Speaker 1: they found was the opposite. What they found will shock you.
Speaker 1: These are humans. To the Virginia governor's race is a
Speaker 1: dead heat. This feels like one of those stories. I've
Speaker 1: seen it a lot of places. I have not let
Speaker 1: it in to this point enough to like start caring
Speaker 1: or following it, but it seems like maybe I have to.
Speaker 1: I feel like the guys at Crooked Media would really
Speaker 1: want me to give a shit about this This they're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why it's going to predict everything that's
Speaker 1: going to happen for the next few years poblically, which
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going all in on that take.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, it's a it's a it's an
Speaker 1: interesting state. It's purple. And also you know, the governor
Speaker 1: there has been trying to do the best by the
Speaker 1: people while you also have a challenger who comes in
Speaker 1: and is trying to do the walk the fine line
Speaker 1: of like being maga. But because it's not a full
Speaker 1: blown red state, like you gotta kind of be like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't agree with Steve Bannon. I just
Speaker 1: like some of his ideas type ship. And you know,
Speaker 1: messaging can like make or break a campaign, and youn
Speaker 1: can who is running against Terry mccaulliffe, he may have
Speaker 1: found a winning message, you know, as I said, to
Speaker 1: win over especially the even keeled independence in the suburbs.
Speaker 1: As we notice that something the GOP is very concerned
Speaker 1: about is that we don't want to turn off independence
Speaker 1: in the suburbs because you know, they're concerned parents who
Speaker 1: are deeply invested in their children's futures, and they're not
Speaker 1: always into just full blown racism and dog whistling. So
Speaker 1: when they hear about this mother's story and how she
Speaker 1: was just absolutely just destroyed by the policies of Terry mccauliffe,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that people are going to be
Speaker 1: voting young and so I just want to play this
Speaker 1: clip just so you can understand and just when you're
Speaker 1: listening to this woman speak, imagine someone who claims to
Speaker 1: have had an immaculate conception with the ghost of Stonewall Jackson.
Speaker 1: That's kind of her vibe. As a parent, it's tough
Speaker 1: to catch everything. So when my son showed me his
Speaker 1: reading assignment, my heart sunk. It was some of the
Speaker 1: most explicit material you can imagine. I met with lawmakers.
Speaker 1: They couldn't believe what I was showing them or faces
Speaker 1: turned bright red with embarrassment. They passed bills requiring schools
Speaker 1: to notify parents when explicit content was assigned. It was
Speaker 1: bi partisan. It gave parents a say, the option to
Speaker 1: choose an alternative for my children. I was so grateful,
Speaker 1: but then Governor Terry mcculloff vetoed it twice. He doesn't
Speaker 1: think parents should have a say. He said that he
Speaker 1: shut us out, Glenn yuncan he listens, he understands parents matter.
Speaker 1: Join me in voting for Glenn. Okay, so you heard
Speaker 1: ith My god, my child brought home a book and
Speaker 1: the things contained within. First, I want to say, any
Speaker 1: guesses on how old the child was? Okay, the kid
Speaker 1: was in a high school senior AP English Lit class
Speaker 1: and the book and he guesses here had to be
Speaker 1: an ap English English Lit Canterbury Tales. Okay, that's one dick.
Speaker 1: It was Tony Morrison's Beloved. Are you fucking kidding me? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what she was so omg, gasp, my jaws on
Speaker 1: the floor because we're hearing about this story that's based on,
Speaker 1: you know, a terrible tale about this woman who had
Speaker 1: escaped slavery and was being brought back to bondage and
Speaker 1: was like trying to do anything she could to avoid that.
Speaker 1: That's the fucking book that this lady is talking about.
Speaker 1: They were talking about Tony Morrison's Beloved. She has been Now,
Speaker 1: this didn't happened recently. She had began this campaign against
Speaker 1: the book in I don't know, like well, my child,
Speaker 1: and she would say, my child has nightmares because of
Speaker 1: this book. I read it. It's a pretty powerful book.
Speaker 1: And again, you're in a class that's meant to be
Speaker 1: college level. When you're in an AP class, so yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start reading things that aren't just sucking you know,
Speaker 1: Indian in the cupboard or something. And so, yes, this
Speaker 1: is the the outrage that Glenn Uncan is trying to
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, let me keep it super vague and
Speaker 1: just keep it that like this spooky, haunted Confederate ghost
Speaker 1: lady was just just shocked that her child had to
Speaker 1: hear about the brutality of chadl slavery. That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: That yeah, and you it does suggest because it is
Speaker 1: like notably vague you I guess, I guess it does
Speaker 1: kind of picture in your mind because you're you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it must be just you know, hardcore fucking like whatever.
Speaker 1: What is what? What exactly is happening here? That's and
Speaker 1: it's a pulitzerprise winning like universally acknowledged work of genius. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, But I mean I think it speaks to
Speaker 1: sort of like just in general, what conservatives are all
Speaker 1: on about right, because it's all critical race theory and
Speaker 1: these things of just being like we can't keep like
Speaker 1: making people aware of our past. That's just too much.
Speaker 1: So we need to do everything we can to try
Speaker 1: and just put a sheet over it and then just
Speaker 1: keep moving and say that did That's just some other
Speaker 1: thing that happened. Eyes ahead, Yeah, you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: cut some eye holes in the sheet too, just to yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, And so you know for your at the top,
Speaker 1: you know, want your torch to like catch other stuff
Speaker 1: from fire. No no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: I think that's a vague thing that I think if
Speaker 1: most people learned learned what the this woman was speaking
Speaker 1: about them, like what the fun like, Okay, most people
Speaker 1: if they took that class, I had to read that book,
Speaker 1: and people don't have nightmares. It's funny because people look
Speaker 1: checked up on her son. He's he's fine. He had
Speaker 1: a wedding announcement in the New York Times a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, so I think he's gotten over his
Speaker 1: Tony Morrison induced nightmares. That's a very specific type of
Speaker 1: person who has a wedding announcement in the New York Times. Too.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hell yeah, that is amazing,
Speaker 1: And what why is this such an important race? Like
Speaker 1: just catch me up on why I should have been
Speaker 1: paying attention to this. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: look at it, you know, as a somewhat bell Weather
Speaker 1: kind of state, but more than that, like a serious
Speaker 1: sort of gauge of what people think of the parties,
Speaker 1: given Biden's approval ratings and things that are happening, to
Speaker 1: see if people are going to back a Democrat or
Speaker 1: if they start to see some support slipped towards Republicans.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just the thing to just for people
Speaker 1: for wants to try and sweat over. You know, some
Speaker 1: people argue it's like not as important, but this is
Speaker 1: this is like the horse racification of politics. So like
Speaker 1: every single like, no, this one man, you gotta pay
Speaker 1: attention because I was saying before the recall with Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: isn't really an accurate depiction of what's happening in the
Speaker 1: state or like in the national politics. Like that was
Speaker 1: a group of Republicans trying to sort of game the
Speaker 1: system of like recalling a governor to try and get
Speaker 1: someone else in. More so than like what do the
Speaker 1: people think of Democrats and Republicans at this moment? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, just like from a narrative standpoint in the
Speaker 1: mainstream media, it seems like the two major narratives that
Speaker 1: are like Biden's approval is like in the shitter, and
Speaker 1: but like the Republicans are still fucked. So it's like
Speaker 1: almost like so this gives them an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: like one is less fucked than the other one. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: Or maybe it's like do people care that there's nothing
Speaker 1: on the agenda actually being accomplished, so that's still warrant support.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, and this is a very strange moment.
Speaker 1: It's like most people who are like living in the
Speaker 1: harsh reality of America, like things need to happen. And
Speaker 1: then on the hill, it's like I don't know, should
Speaker 1: we tax billionaires? Is that popular? I mean, it's certainly
Speaker 1: not popular with my donors. But from that perspective, like
Speaker 1: would it be better if a Republican one so that
Speaker 1: the Democrats, like I got scared enough to actually everything
Speaker 1: is so reactionary. I don't either way, Like I'm like
Speaker 1: I don't have much confidence in this just general political
Speaker 1: system we have in this country to begin with. So
Speaker 1: it's like, I I don't know, sure, maybe, but I
Speaker 1: could also see them being like, see, this is why
Speaker 1: we went too far left. You know, there's always that,
Speaker 1: there's always that logic too. Well, I will withhold my
Speaker 1: donation to young can for now. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And the second pipe dream of America, the one that's
Speaker 1: in second place between giving dogs free guns, is the
Speaker 1: idea that one day we might be able to tax
Speaker 1: the rich and use that money to help the rest
Speaker 1: of the country. And it's actually it's actually being discussed
Speaker 1: right now. How's that It's a huge and no one,
Speaker 1: no one's fucking on board with anything, these democrats. So
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion recently made it clear that he is just
Speaker 1: he's hearing about this new thing is like taxing billionaires.
Speaker 1: He's like, I got concerns about that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know about targeting people, as he said, because
Speaker 1: it's the seven hundred wealthiest individuals in the country. I
Speaker 1: just wonder his actual quote around it, because he's OMG,
Speaker 1: very here quote. I don't like it. I don't like
Speaker 1: the connotation that we're targeting different people. That's a very
Speaker 1: interesting statement. And you know, we have Kirsten Cinema who
Speaker 1: has told I think we discussed lobbyists out loud to
Speaker 1: their face straight up, I will. I'm not interested in
Speaker 1: raising taxes on corporations and things like that. But there
Speaker 1: seems to be some movement because Senators Widen, Warren and
Speaker 1: King have introduced two bills to help pay for a
Speaker 1: potentially transformational agenda. And I say potentially because like anything
Speaker 1: that starts out as a bill being introduced, can be
Speaker 1: completely stripped away down to absolute nothing, or it'll get
Speaker 1: held up in courts where they will have to redefine
Speaker 1: things like income or accountants can just find even better loopholes.
Speaker 1: But putting that aside, let's pretend that, for this moment
Speaker 1: of positivity, that this could potentially go through the way
Speaker 1: it is. So, the first bill is aimed at taxing
Speaker 1: the wealthiest companies, who you know, they've been afforded the
Speaker 1: luxury of an absolutely nonsense tax code that allows them
Speaker 1: to basically pay nothing on their profit. It's so what
Speaker 1: this bill specifically would do would apply to companies that
Speaker 1: report more. Again, so before you start grasping your small
Speaker 1: business pearls. We're talking about companies who have been generating
Speaker 1: more than a billion dollars in profits each year. This
Speaker 1: is who we're talking about, the super wealthy companies, and
Speaker 1: this is over a three year period, and would impose
Speaker 1: and across the board fifteen percent tax right on those profits. Now,
Speaker 1: when you consider things like Amazon, how they effectively pay
Speaker 1: less than five percent on their profits through all the
Speaker 1: legal fucker like tax trickery, going to fient I think
Speaker 1: would be pretty good place to start. And so that's
Speaker 1: sort of the first dimension is to go after companies.
Speaker 1: The second is to go at individual earners. And this
Speaker 1: is where Joe Mansion doesn't like the idea of just
Speaker 1: singling people out, like the seven hundred wealthiest fucking Americans
Speaker 1: in the country. Hurt I know, and and listeners, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure you, I'm sure all the listeners know someone
Speaker 1: like this. We all have a friend who makes more
Speaker 1: than a hundred million dollars per year and they have
Speaker 1: more than one billion dollars in assets for three straight years.
Speaker 1: We get that. We're like, dude, that's my neighbor. Relax on,
Speaker 1: relax on this guy. So this thing would essentially be like, look,
Speaker 1: this is who need who we really need to make
Speaker 1: sure are paying the fucking taxes. It would require them
Speaker 1: to give the I R. S a detailed account of
Speaker 1: how much of the assets they own or gain lost
Speaker 1: each year. It's called mark to market apparently in Lingo terms.
Speaker 1: So like the way that we we talked before about
Speaker 1: how they avoid is that it's a lot of their
Speaker 1: money is tied up in stocks, right, and so just
Speaker 1: like keep it in the stock markets and in real estate,
Speaker 1: and then they don't have to pay taxes like the
Speaker 1: rest of us. And but they can borrow against the
Speaker 1: fact that they have three hundred billion dollars, you know,
Speaker 1: like that that they'll still get any loan at the
Speaker 1: best possible rate, which enables them to just have basically
Speaker 1: unlimited money. Isn't that the That's the funniest excuse I've
Speaker 1: ever heard, Like, I can't be paying all my money
Speaker 1: is tied up in stocks. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do. That's like like I can't pay taxes. All
Speaker 1: my money's in my pocket. What do you want me
Speaker 1: to get it out there? I didn't even use it.
Speaker 1: Someone took all my money and put it in stocks.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'll ever, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, because you're not paying capital gains until
Speaker 1: they're realized, right until you sell your stocks or you
Speaker 1: sell your real estate. That's when capital gains come in.
Speaker 1: So again, like you're saying, Jack, you need some some
Speaker 1: fun money, some funny, fun fun money to go fucking
Speaker 1: p jet around and funk the earth over and spend
Speaker 1: you know, your your luxurious lifestyle. You just take loans
Speaker 1: out against your already massive wealth, and then now you
Speaker 1: can take the interest payments that you from that loan
Speaker 1: to offset any other income taxes that you would have.
Speaker 1: So it's just a fucking it's a beautiful setup. And
Speaker 1: the way the really the easy way to sort of
Speaker 1: put this into perspective is right because they're able to
Speaker 1: do these things like say, I parked my money in
Speaker 1: the stock market so I don't have to pay anybody
Speaker 1: fucking anything, and it just chills there. For example, in eighteen,
Speaker 1: the top twenty five individual earners in the United States
Speaker 1: were over worth over one trillion dollars. It would take
Speaker 1: over fourteen million just wage earning Americans. Not to say
Speaker 1: that you're on hourly wages, but people who aren't just
Speaker 1: like hyper wealthy fourteen million over fourteen million, just normal
Speaker 1: people to create that wealth, to to get to one
Speaker 1: point one trillion dollars. Now, the tax bill for wage
Speaker 1: earners was one hundred forty three billion dollars from those people,
Speaker 1: from just the wage earners in the in the United States,
Speaker 1: the personal federal tax bill for the top twenty five
Speaker 1: one point nine billion. M hm. Because of all this,
Speaker 1: all these loopholes to exploit, and they wonder why, like
Speaker 1: all these we have no money for like you know,
Speaker 1: transformation programs, because we're more and more accommodating class of
Speaker 1: people to find ways to just keep their money very safe.
Speaker 1: So again, this would be a very interesting move forward
Speaker 1: because I think it will force I'm sure people find
Speaker 1: new loopholes, but to not engage in at least the
Speaker 1: beginning of trying to lock this thing down and try
Speaker 1: and get a handle on income inequality or just inequality
Speaker 1: in general. Yeah. Wow, we gotta stop calling them loopholes.
Speaker 1: That's a cute see name for an evil crime. You're lying,
Speaker 1: you stole? Hey, come on, look what I found. It's
Speaker 1: just like stop, people are dying, people are starting and
Speaker 1: sleeping on the street, the little I R S Taxi Loopie's.
Speaker 1: People in my community aren't dying because of lack of reason,
Speaker 1: just because it's a little loophole. Come on, Uh, I
Speaker 1: didn't put the loophole there. And I think, and we
Speaker 1: saw through the Pandora papers just exactly how this is
Speaker 1: all working. Like there's so much wealth out there that's
Speaker 1: not being taxed, and they're laughing their asses off because
Speaker 1: it's so easy to get. It's not even hard to do,
Speaker 1: because we're not even taking the initiative to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna can't be this easy. It has to
Speaker 1: be just slightly easy. Yeah, dude, I got bumped up
Speaker 1: to first class for the first time a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago on a flight, And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I've never been so mad at rich people the fact
Speaker 1: this is just their life all the time. Yeah, pay
Speaker 1: your taxes, you get to fly first class. It's the
Speaker 1: nicest thing that's ever happened to me. Well, then it's
Speaker 1: also like, whenever you think about like, I remember that
Speaker 1: the time I got upgraded on an international flight, I
Speaker 1: thought I was the fucking cloth from Toy Story was
Speaker 1: coming to take me away yea. And when you go there,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, ship, I'm in the fucking seat
Speaker 1: that costs thirty five hundred dollars for a one way
Speaker 1: ticket to And then you look around and you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm like almost want to like rob the person next
Speaker 1: in this you do, let me quick. It's also and
Speaker 1: also it's like kind of does your head and in
Speaker 1: that sense too, because you you'll be in the proximity
Speaker 1: of like you're just like, holy shit, man, this is
Speaker 1: a different reality. Is like I spend These people spend
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars to just even go to like New York,
Speaker 1: and I'm where's the fucking update alert when I can
Speaker 1: get it for like two right? And what are you doing? Okay,
Speaker 1: flying to New York and for a thousand bucks, it's
Speaker 1: nothing to you. What are you making in New York?
Speaker 1: They're about to go to New York and like burned
Speaker 1: down an entire neighborhood for for raytheon or whatever evil
Speaker 1: people do. Man, that's crazy to me. I test crowd
Speaker 1: disbursement technology. Okay, get off my back. So I worked
Speaker 1: four of the people I work with people. That's what's yeah,
Speaker 1: working like just finding out like just specific people's pain
Speaker 1: points and like working through those, I create, I create
Speaker 1: terror weapons and evil Carstral technologies. Invented water boarding in
Speaker 1: nine Yeah, kind of a goof with me and my
Speaker 1: friend brothers. Yeah, one of them ended up at the
Speaker 1: CIA and asked if he could kind of pay me
Speaker 1: for the intellectual property on that, and yeah, now I'm here.
Speaker 1: Persia towardture techniques came like directly pipeline from Yale fret hazing,
Speaker 1: like all those positive it's like mostly just skull and
Speaker 1: bones ship that they're like, oh remember that time when
Speaker 1: we did that to Bushy. Yeah, I remember that time.
Speaker 1: We we got that al Qaeda cell and then we
Speaker 1: put them in that CIA Black Site interrogation room, put
Speaker 1: it eight ball of cocaine on the table and said
Speaker 1: you don't come out until this is done. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: they were all over the place. Huh. So, I like
Speaker 1: this story just made me like because the outrage isn't there,
Speaker 1: like the it doesn't feel like we're mad enough about
Speaker 1: just the overall state of like how little these assholes pay.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if like one of the things that
Speaker 1: we've talked about that is unique about the American tax
Speaker 1: system is that like we have to do the taxes.
Speaker 1: Like in other countries, they just send you a bill
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, this we figured out how much
Speaker 1: you owe. This is what you owe, so just send
Speaker 1: us a check. In America, we have these like forms
Speaker 1: they basically put the like mindless just awful bureaucratic work
Speaker 1: on it on us so that we have to do it.
Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering if they do that. So when
Speaker 1: like the subject of taxation comes up, we're like our
Speaker 1: brain just turns off. We're just like fuck like or
Speaker 1: we're also like more empathetic to other people who have
Speaker 1: to pay taxes, Like paying taxes is such an awful
Speaker 1: thing that we're just like, yeah, they don't, don't tax
Speaker 1: them more like that's that's mean taxing tax is bad,
Speaker 1: you know, like because it doesn't make sense other than
Speaker 1: just that turbo taxes, like lobbying them. But like I
Speaker 1: feel like the like the the way that we'll never
Speaker 1: get medicare or medicare for all because they you know,
Speaker 1: like being able to make people feel like they die
Speaker 1: if they left their job. Like that's you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's like psychological conveniences at work in a lot
Speaker 1: of this ship that they do that kind of keeps
Speaker 1: the system in place. That's one thing that's so weird
Speaker 1: with to figure out where you're like, oh, I if
Speaker 1: I don't work, I'll die. I'll start and then I'll that. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead and leave your job, and then you won't
Speaker 1: have health insurance and you could die and in dying
Speaker 1: bankrupt your family in all future generation. And then they
Speaker 1: gotta go, we know, we gotta have taxes. So they've
Speaker 1: they've managed to convince people, Okay, we need taxes. Who
Speaker 1: should we get it from the people with money or
Speaker 1: the people without it? And they've actually convinced people like, no,
Speaker 1: the people without it should pay, not the people. I'm
Speaker 1: a job creator. Yeah, let me take it from you.
Speaker 1: Like what how how do we not take it from
Speaker 1: the rich guy? What do we do it? They're like
Speaker 1: a thousand bucks to someone who makes like a you know,
Speaker 1: forty k or that's nothing to take away from them.
Speaker 1: But then if I gotta pay a million bucks had
Speaker 1: so much money? Serious about that? Don't and don't think
Speaker 1: of it it being a proportion of my overall wealth
Speaker 1: either just a million dollars objectively as a numbers too high,
Speaker 1: stupid not doing it all right. Well, I do want
Speaker 1: to move on to talking about will Smith lyrics again.
Speaker 1: Now talking about this Tugger Carlson documentary that's coming our
Speaker 1: way at the beginning of next week. It's central thesis
Speaker 1: is that January six was a false flag. You know,
Speaker 1: if it was a false flag, they'd probably looted from right.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'll just kind of go through, Uh it's
Speaker 1: so that people don't have to watch it, but it's
Speaker 1: got like the it says the true story behind one six,
Speaker 1: the War on Terror two point oh and the plot
Speaker 1: against the people. They're at titles. Yeah, that is such
Speaker 1: a long title. It opens with like a militant drum
Speaker 1: roll and says the domestic war on Terror is here.
Speaker 1: It's coming after half of the country. And Carlson then
Speaker 1: is heard saying the helicopters have left Afghanistan and now
Speaker 1: they're landed here at home. And then a woman says
Speaker 1: false flags have happened in this country, one of which
Speaker 1: may have been January six, and it's it ends with
Speaker 1: like the Battle Him of like the Civil war Battle Him. So,
Speaker 1: I mean I think they you know what they're getting
Speaker 1: at there. Yeah, it's I mean, also I think is
Speaker 1: Ali Alexander gonna be on Tucker Carlson that day too,
Speaker 1: Like I think he's in the documentary, but I think
Speaker 1: he might also be talking with Carlson. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of the he's the dude who you know,
Speaker 1: obviously got a lot of attention and the stop the
Speaker 1: Steel build up and a lot you know, and he's
Speaker 1: just sort of he's just a right wing drifter basically
Speaker 1: and was just using this to like fundraise and and
Speaker 1: get money. But he he was the one who had
Speaker 1: that tweet that when everyone's like, okay, the tone has
Speaker 1: changed when he said like he was willing to give
Speaker 1: his life, you know, like this to stop the steel
Speaker 1: or whatever the fun. And you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people point out it's like, of course you're gonna have
Speaker 1: this person on because a by making this a fault
Speaker 1: like a false flag, you can try and negate or
Speaker 1: introduce some narrative of out of false flag, you'll negate
Speaker 1: anything the committee finds and try and get that out
Speaker 1: of voters minds. And also if you're if you're Alley Alexander,
Speaker 1: who has a lot of responsibility and organizing it, you'd
Speaker 1: probably want something out there and been like, well it
Speaker 1: wasn't me. It was almost. There's just a lot of
Speaker 1: like the it's it's this is a very useful thing
Speaker 1: to start pushing if they're gonna because they again at
Speaker 1: every turn, I have to counteract, like what people just
Speaker 1: saw with their bare eyes. Yeah there, you know there.
Speaker 1: This is them openly courting the Q and on far
Speaker 1: right like what supremacists, terrorists movement and basically being like
Speaker 1: these are American citizens. It's like, yes, so it is
Speaker 1: Timothy fucking McVeigh man, Like what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: They also claimed that conservatives are being left to rot
Speaker 1: in Guantanamo Bay, which is a bizarre and made up claim.
Speaker 1: Also like and I love the fucking the mental compartmentalization
Speaker 1: that has to happen, because for that to have any
Speaker 1: to move a conservative person, you have to, on one hand,
Speaker 1: acknowledge that Guantanamo Bay is just there sucking for a
Speaker 1: human being to be in. Well, that's for brown people,
Speaker 1: that's not for us. That's not for that I know exactly,
Speaker 1: but that American you know what I mean, That's what
Speaker 1: is the most infuriating aspect of just people on the
Speaker 1: right with how they are they weaponize things that are
Speaker 1: actually being used against other people. It's just so frustrating
Speaker 1: how they victimize themselves. So it does acknowledge like the
Speaker 1: tools of oppression, but then they flip it, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's completely illogical. It's just like, it just bothers
Speaker 1: me so much that they do that, and that not
Speaker 1: only you said like Alexander was a grifter, but it's
Speaker 1: so many of those people on that side are grifter.
Speaker 1: It's like Tucker Carlson promoting and everybody at Fox News
Speaker 1: promoting like anti Bax rhetoric while being vaccinated for the show,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like that's like the the
Speaker 1: evil aspect of it that just bothers me so much
Speaker 1: because it's been showing that people don't care about hypocrisy
Speaker 1: when it comes to like campaigning and all of the
Speaker 1: calling people out and stuff. People just don't care about hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: It's not something that motivates them. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: that they capitalize on because they know that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so so bothersome. It's also wild that this is going
Speaker 1: to be sort of like loose change, a documentary, a
Speaker 1: counter narrative about an event that happened almost entirely on
Speaker 1: live TV, Like, yeah, we we kind of got the
Speaker 1: gist from the fact that there were cameras. They're everywhere,
Speaker 1: and you know, but I think I think that initial
Speaker 1: reaction that like, how can anyone take this seriously is
Speaker 1: similar to the initial idea that the Internet was going
Speaker 1: to make people better at finding the truth rather than
Speaker 1: just better at finding whatever truth they want to find,
Speaker 1: because there's just there's an embarrasment of riches in terms
Speaker 1: of just you know, there's probably there's so much footage
Speaker 1: taken by all of the people at that like who
Speaker 1: were there on January six, and like, you know, cutting
Speaker 1: all of that down into a convincing, like thirty minute
Speaker 1: package of stuff happening that seems weird or doesn't look
Speaker 1: quite right will be like super possible. What's really weird? Though,
Speaker 1: It's like the argument that I found there were comedians
Speaker 1: at that insurrection, by the way, there were comedians there,
Speaker 1: and their arguments that I've seen was like and which
Speaker 1: other people have made as well, was but we were
Speaker 1: like in the peaceful part, and it's like you being
Speaker 1: like you being around a drum circle or whatever the
Speaker 1: funk you think that is is does not negate the
Speaker 1: fact that people rushed into the Capitol and then our
Speaker 1: senators had to hide in bathrooms and ship because they
Speaker 1: were afraid they were gonna get Like people were in
Speaker 1: full gear with zip ties and you being near like
Speaker 1: playing hacky sack, which I don't you were, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't gave the fact that that actually happened and you
Speaker 1: were there in a part of it. And it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing too, because it's like it's this weird cred
Speaker 1: thing too that you'll see with conservatives where half the
Speaker 1: time they'll be like I was there, on you were you?
Speaker 1: You weren't even there, and then be like I thought
Speaker 1: it was a false flag. It's like, well there were
Speaker 1: some people there that were more doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: And you're like, well, which is it. Are you pumping
Speaker 1: your dick up because you were there, or is it
Speaker 1: is it all bullshit and none of what you saw
Speaker 1: is real because you're doing all this double speakers. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's greating and like you're saying, just overall with
Speaker 1: this whole thing, we're looking at so many levels where
Speaker 1: America again as unwilling to have a reckoning with It's
Speaker 1: like white supremacy issue at every level, like whether it's
Speaker 1: this and be like, well, funk man, like we can't
Speaker 1: we can't just have it be accepted that this was
Speaker 1: all based on like the fear of a less white America.
Speaker 1: That's get this out there. That's a false flag. You
Speaker 1: see it play out in just with the trials that
Speaker 1: are coming up with the killers of a mod are
Speaker 1: very or fucking how Ritten House or the fucking other
Speaker 1: you know, all there's the Charlottesville organizers, like we have
Speaker 1: judges being like, oh, witnesses a loaded word for the people, Kyle,
Speaker 1: or victims, Sorry, witness a victim is victims and alleged
Speaker 1: victims is like too close, but said rioters and looters
Speaker 1: and arsonists, yeah, by the defense. It's ridiculous then looking
Speaker 1: at things like in the Charlottesville thing, asking jurors if
Speaker 1: they think negatively about Nazis and if they do, they
Speaker 1: can't serve in the Jersey because you're trying to both sides,
Speaker 1: like you can't have an objective and all this is
Speaker 1: saying is we can't live in a reality where objectively
Speaker 1: white supremacy or racism is actually bad and there's no
Speaker 1: there's no explaining your way out of it. But then
Speaker 1: simultaneously they won't identify as such, like right, they don't
Speaker 1: like being called that, but then they are able to
Speaker 1: defend it. But you need a fair trial where you
Speaker 1: don't have ers who think anti black racism is bad,
Speaker 1: because then that will bias them against an anti blackbody
Speaker 1: murdered somebody over. Yeah, the thing that is super infuriating
Speaker 1: about the Carlson documentary is it seems like the thing
Speaker 1: what one of the thousands of things that's super infuriating
Speaker 1: about this documentary is that Fox News is the arbiter
Speaker 1: of or the representation the main source of information for
Speaker 1: the group of people who have generated every panic, like
Speaker 1: every moral panic over the last hundred hundred fifty years
Speaker 1: in America. And they are claiming that America is in
Speaker 1: the midst of a moral panic over white supremacy. So
Speaker 1: they're taking the thing that they do like that this is,
Speaker 1: you know, what they've been doing since the beginning of time.
Speaker 1: But they take the thing they're guilty of and put
Speaker 1: it claim that that's what the other side is doing.
Speaker 1: You know, So rather than being a deeply whites ms
Speaker 1: this country coming to terms with just the very tip
Speaker 1: of the iceberg of its white supremacy for the first time,
Speaker 1: they're claiming that it's a moral panic over a white supremacy. Guys,
Speaker 1: I have to say with all of this, I am
Speaker 1: not jiggy with it. So you know, I'm not jiggy
Speaker 1: with any of this. And also I also like the
Speaker 1: idea that Joe Biden tricked us all by using his
Speaker 1: boundless energy and razor sharp mind to create a three
Speaker 1: dimensional kinetic illusion of white supremacist trying to murder the
Speaker 1: Vice president, Like, yeah, you have a false flag, and
Speaker 1: like they keep showing Joe Biden in the it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's that smart, Yeah he has so he's mostly it's
Speaker 1: mostly dementia, but then he has these moments of lucidity
Speaker 1: where he plans the false flag, where you just control
Speaker 1: space and time to to his whims. All right, let's say,
Speaker 1: got another quick break, and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about skeletons and other HALLOWEENI stuff, and we're back, and
Speaker 1: there there's this mystery that's been making the rounds on
Speaker 1: shows like Last Podcast on the Left, which I really like.
Speaker 1: Some true crime fans have been talking about this because
Speaker 1: it was very creepy. A young, healthy family was found
Speaker 1: dead on a hiking trail, appearing to have all just
Speaker 1: like you know, the the father was sitting down with
Speaker 1: his daughter, their dog was like dead next to them.
Speaker 1: The mother was just like you know, ten ft up
Speaker 1: the trail, and they you know, people were very concerned, scared,
Speaker 1: didn't know what happened. They closed down a entire section
Speaker 1: of this park because they thought it might be this
Speaker 1: poisonous algae bloom that was going through the river and
Speaker 1: that they might have taken a drink from that. And
Speaker 1: it turns out it was heat exhaustion and hyperthermia, which
Speaker 1: is something that we talked about a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: back at a hyper hyper thermia, not hypo. This is
Speaker 1: already the most common, the deadliest form of like natural
Speaker 1: disaster in America is heat death or hyperthermia. More than
Speaker 1: you know, floods, freezing, wildfires, like all the ones that
Speaker 1: we see in movies. It's this one that we almost
Speaker 1: never see a movie like yeah, yeah, and we don't
Speaker 1: that movie death that like allows us to picture what
Speaker 1: this is in our mind. And so when something like
Speaker 1: this happens, we just like can't we don't have the
Speaker 1: imaginative vocabulary to like make sense of it, and so
Speaker 1: everybody just treats it as if, like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: aliens or you know, they were talking about poisonous gas
Speaker 1: coming out of a nearby caves, and it was it
Speaker 1: was a heat death, which is already you know, one
Speaker 1: of the deadliest things in the country and only getting
Speaker 1: more so. And the reason that the police were baffled
Speaker 1: is because this this isn't common or hasn't been to
Speaker 1: this point in history to have like multiple people at
Speaker 1: the same time, at the same moment basically died from
Speaker 1: the same heat heat death. But that's because things are
Speaker 1: just getting worse, you know, because of climate change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think just not knowing. I think also as
Speaker 1: people were not used to realizing what we could be
Speaker 1: putting our bodies through too. Like I remember in the summer,
Speaker 1: like I took a couple of hikes and I carried
Speaker 1: way less water than I should have, like way way
Speaker 1: I was under I just did not hydrate properly. I
Speaker 1: wasn't even thinking about it, and part of me was like, man,
Speaker 1: it's fucking hot, Like I'm in the direct sunlight. It's
Speaker 1: it's above like eighty it's like ninety degrees, Like this
Speaker 1: can't be like the best thing, like to be like
Speaker 1: physically exerting myself indirect heat with no water, and like
Speaker 1: I had to be like yo, I had to like
Speaker 1: turn back and like you know, I need to have water.
Speaker 1: And I think just I think it's a thing that
Speaker 1: we don't consider that we could succumb to as well,
Speaker 1: because I see it all the time, Like you see
Speaker 1: because these people were like on a trail that used
Speaker 1: to be shaded, right, but the forest fires basically completely.
Speaker 1: So it's like factors from climate change that are contributing
Speaker 1: to making the world more dangerous. But ye, shade and
Speaker 1: that's what and yeah, and you think like, oh well funk,
Speaker 1: I can be in the sun for a little bit.
Speaker 1: But it's there's just a lot to consider. And I
Speaker 1: think it takes like moments at least for me to
Speaker 1: act really stupidly to be like you can't go on
Speaker 1: a multi mile hike and direct sunlight in the summer
Speaker 1: and like not do the minimum to take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: So I can imagine if you're not thinking like you're
Speaker 1: not sperience enough, you think like you can make it
Speaker 1: through this, like intense hike or whatever, and very very
Speaker 1: hot conditions like bad. That very famous editor who edited
Speaker 1: some Tarantino films, she just passed right away in Griffith Park.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just on a hot day. Just passed right away.
Speaker 1: And it was just like Jesus Christ. She was like
Speaker 1: healthy and and you know, living her life and just
Speaker 1: passed right away on a hot, too hot day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's becoming more and more ronson canyon. Yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: we got we gotta we gotta stop. We gotta stop doing.
Speaker 1: We gotta stop hiking, hiking, or maybe stuff fucking polluting
Speaker 1: the world. Just knowing the conditions, you know, like if
Speaker 1: you see that ship and it looks like you're going
Speaker 1: to be in direct sunlight in ninety plus degree weather,
Speaker 1: not many people are built for that like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like as much as you might think you are, and
Speaker 1: there are plenty of people do work in those conditions,
Speaker 1: but it's very very difficult. And as as temperatures only
Speaker 1: go up, like you're gonna thinking like, oh, it's only today,
Speaker 1: that's not normal, you know, like so don't consider that.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I don't know. I just the second
Speaker 1: it feels too hot, like you gotta know, like that
Speaker 1: ship can kill you. I've been definitely reckless in the past,
Speaker 1: and I'm going like stories like this or making me
Speaker 1: realize like anytime I'm going out there, you just you
Speaker 1: you now you take hikes with a wheelbarrow full of
Speaker 1: water like in front of you. You're like like like
Speaker 1: all the moisture in my body with them, like a
Speaker 1: mile of walking, whether it's a hike or not, just
Speaker 1: because through my armpits. You know, that's a pretty guy.
Speaker 1: What if we took this solemn, respectful tone and just
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Speaker 1: your child, but forty a month financing you could own
Speaker 1: your peloton biking. Don't like biking, They offer the tread now,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you it doesn't kill kids anymore anymore, anymore,
Speaker 1: anymore anymore. Started out. This is a story that I
Speaker 1: feel like the mainstream media kind of blood stream is
Speaker 1: very you know, is craving recently for some reason, and
Speaker 1: that is stories about lawsuits where somebody sues a food
Speaker 1: manufacturer for not having like the thing that they claim
Speaker 1: inside the real ship, you know. Subway tuna was one example,
Speaker 1: and now we have strawberry pop tarts. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: and they fall into some feel like histrionic lawsuits and
Speaker 1: others maybe and sometimes certain suits do read like, oh
Speaker 1: this person is actually mad. This is not real cookies
Speaker 1: and cookie crisp um. But in this instance, this is
Speaker 1: all around the frosted strawberry pop tart I think is
Speaker 1: a staple thing you grew up eating, is a pop tart.
Speaker 1: I barely ever toasted them. I just you would just
Speaker 1: take that foil pack. Oh yeah, I'm nasty because sometimes
Speaker 1: you will get too hot or the bottom will get burnt,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like fucked. I'm not you know, burnt
Speaker 1: burnt pop tart. I remember. I think that's what happened
Speaker 1: that a four You get that perfect toasted you know what. No,
Speaker 1: it was like typical like hardcore mom shit where my
Speaker 1: mom made a pop tart and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is kind of burnt on the bottom. She's like, then
Speaker 1: you do it yourself, and I'm like, I will cut
Speaker 1: to me, never toasting them, because I don't respect the
Speaker 1: effort my mother put in it's even trying to toast
Speaker 1: a pop tart. But in this instance, in the Southern
Speaker 1: District of Illinois, plaintiff Anita Harris quote alleges that Kellogg's
Speaker 1: claims about its frosted strawberry pop tarts are miss eating
Speaker 1: since quote they give consumers the impression the fruit filling
Speaker 1: contains a greater relative and absolute amount of strawberries than
Speaker 1: it does the feeling. The filing goes on to state
Speaker 1: that despite strawberries being the products quote characterizing ingredient on
Speaker 1: the actual ingredients list, dried strawberries don't get a mention
Speaker 1: until the contains two or less section, and then they
Speaker 1: go on quote based on a quantitative estimate and analysis
Speaker 1: of the feeling, it appears to or may even contain
Speaker 1: more non strawberry fruit than strawberry ingredients to give consumers
Speaker 1: the false impression that the product contains a greater absolute
Speaker 1: and relative amount of strawberries than it does. It contains
Speaker 1: red forty, a synthetic food coloring made from petroleum Red
Speaker 1: forty makes the strawberry pear apple combination look bright red
Speaker 1: like his own strawberries, or has more strawberries than it does.
Speaker 1: I mean this is like the water Gate of pop tarts.
Speaker 1: I guess I mean more than anything. I just think
Speaker 1: of like America. Hello, we've been eating processed food since forever,
Speaker 1: and I hope people out there don't believe that it's
Speaker 1: all just like organic mushed up strawberries in your very
Speaker 1: cheap pop carts. That's not what's happening. I have so
Speaker 1: many thoughts, like, for one, obviously, American food i Q
Speaker 1: is very low, and I think it's lower the lower
Speaker 1: your wages are, right, the the less money you have
Speaker 1: to spend at the grocery store, the less you have
Speaker 1: experimenting with new food. Yeah, or you're in a food
Speaker 1: desert because of that, and your options are truly limited
Speaker 1: to these things in a box, yeah, right, these prepackaged items.
Speaker 1: And so the idea that it's like definitely silly to
Speaker 1: read because it's like, have you tasted a pop tart?
Speaker 1: There's nothing authentic about what's happening in your mouth as
Speaker 1: you eat the pop tarts. Cinnamon sugars were my bag,
Speaker 1: and I knew what was happening in there. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: not even they didn't grind up like fresh cinnamon sticks,
Speaker 1: and it's no um. I also understand this idea of
Speaker 1: feeling tricked. Like when I first started learning about food,
Speaker 1: which like mid college of like what's in this and
Speaker 1: how do I prepare it? And and what goes into
Speaker 1: all of these things? Like it was like a mind
Speaker 1: freak of just like how how have I been eating?
Speaker 1: And and what does the future look like for me?
Speaker 1: Because now I have this knowledge, but I have no
Speaker 1: money to correct what I'm considered to continue to eat
Speaker 1: these terrible things just because that's what is within my
Speaker 1: financial bracket. And so I get where miss Anita is
Speaker 1: coming from. She's frustrated. She wanted some strawberries. She's trying
Speaker 1: to give her kids a healthy breakfast, you know, serial
Speaker 1: company slide. They told her it was part of a
Speaker 1: complete breakfast. It's just sugar. Where did she go? No,
Speaker 1: don't Yeah, he would not like where his company has ended.
Speaker 1: He very frustrated. Listen to the behind the bastard Mr Kellogg. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and That's why I'm like, I understand, Like
Speaker 1: that's why some things really feel like this is like
Speaker 1: this can be this is how I feel, you know,
Speaker 1: like this is this, this feels like duplicit, this and deceptive.
Speaker 1: I totally get that, but then you I know, there's
Speaker 1: also a category of people who are just looking to
Speaker 1: file these lawsuits, kind of like those like Cereal like
Speaker 1: A d A filers that were around a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, who would just like go around like I'm
Speaker 1: suing you for this, like this ramp's not here, or
Speaker 1: you can settle out of court, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like this kind of trying to just get a quick settlement.
Speaker 1: But in this sense more than like Anita and her
Speaker 1: case or pop Tarts, it's just like sort of this
Speaker 1: interesting thing that a lot of people still like holding
Speaker 1: their minds that like it's like it could all be
Speaker 1: fake to cut corners to maximize profits for the company
Speaker 1: that's making the food while putting all these really nice
Speaker 1: graphics on the box. And that's why I'm kind of like,
Speaker 1: I want to do your own backs research. Crowd, please
Speaker 1: bring this energy to the food you're eating, because you
Speaker 1: might very quickly be like oh my god, or they're
Speaker 1: gonna be like I love petroleum based food dies. What
Speaker 1: one thing, the food lawsuits are generally something that similar
Speaker 1: to the shoplifting story that we talked about before the break,
Speaker 1: the people like the American like shared consciousness tends to
Speaker 1: side with McDonald's over the person who's coffee like burnt them.
Speaker 1: And it turns out like the when you read the
Speaker 1: actual details of that story, the woman who Susan McDonald's
Speaker 1: for spilling hot coffee on herself, Like that's the way
Speaker 1: the story is told to us, and the truth is
Speaker 1: that it was dangerously hot something that they had, like
Speaker 1: she she had lifelong damage. Yeah, something they had, you know,
Speaker 1: articulated paperwork. This. Yeah, this lawsuit gets at something like Joel,
Speaker 1: you know you were read forty pilled when when you
Speaker 1: read about like what actually goes into into the food,
Speaker 1: and it's something that we like a lot of times
Speaker 1: don't have the money to do anything about or the
Speaker 1: the like I guess in my case, the characterizing ingredient
Speaker 1: of frosted strawberry pop tarts are the different colored little
Speaker 1: sugar specs in the icing. Oh yeah, Like I'm like
Speaker 1: that's really what I'm what I'm going for here is
Speaker 1: this should taste o strawberry sun. I would cut the
Speaker 1: edges off sometimes, Oh yeah, I'd be like I just
Speaker 1: want all frosting bites. All frosting bites are like trim
Speaker 1: off the sides, moms like, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want a good part. I'm not Strawberry
Speaker 1: trying to tell me it's candy. And also, Joel, I
Speaker 1: don't often hear the cinnamon sugar one shouted out as
Speaker 1: much as it should be that such a great Did
Speaker 1: you like the s'mores one like marshmallows? M I thought
Speaker 1: I thought it was solid. Yeah, I was on this
Speaker 1: Smores one for a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: on this More's one as a kid. But Strawberry was
Speaker 1: that felt just like the crowd please her joint. But
Speaker 1: I guess the way I look at it too, is
Speaker 1: I think I would always I think because my mom
Speaker 1: with her like post World War two Japan diet, it
Speaker 1: was very like, you know, rural, like you know, you're
Speaker 1: eating like food that you're making or cultivating and things
Speaker 1: like that. So when she was raising me, I would
Speaker 1: always be like, that's just all it's all fake food.
Speaker 1: It's all fake, And I'm like, yeah, but it's good mom,
Speaker 1: and the kids won't make fun of me if I
Speaker 1: know what this is, Okay, please help me. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to assimilate. But they're also like I think in my mind.
Speaker 1: I've always been like, Okay, I know I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: eating ips some things that are unhealthy, and I'm always
Speaker 1: just kind of balancing out, like knowing what, knowing how
Speaker 1: much fake food you eat, and then get your vegetables
Speaker 1: and then you find a bounce. I am not a nutritionist,
Speaker 1: that's right. Okay, speaking your school, all right, that's gonna
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