Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
Speaker 1: Episode four of JO Daily's Eight Days. It's a production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio and it's a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Of course,
Speaker 1: it is Thursday, September a k a international podcast areas.
Speaker 1: It's our day. Miles, we did it. This is we
Speaker 1: did it. We did a job. Yeah. I I could
Speaker 1: totally picture one of my parents sending me a text
Speaker 1: message on this day just being like, look, I know
Speaker 1: you must be super busy on International podcast Day, but
Speaker 1: I just want to like, like, you know, we're we're celebrating.
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Speaker 1: I said, maybe Maccome's gonna be the thing that saves me,
Speaker 1: because after all, I've got massive bon Oh that is
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Speaker 1: Miles Gras. If you thought you could escape the Crypto
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Speaker 1: Covid kill maccock now and then out of lockdown? What's
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Speaker 1: just a good time. But for me, this is what
Speaker 1: I call life. Oh my god, Claudette ortiase my biggest
Speaker 1: crush on my life from city High. Yeah, shout out
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Speaker 1: Fire day? K would you do? I gotta write that
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Speaker 1: What was ever done doing? Okay? Yeah? And the only
Speaker 1: way to feed him what it may have for a
Speaker 1: little bit of money because the dad he's gone, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I have heard that. Okay, good. Anyways, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed your randish. Thank you, thank you. I'm honored
Speaker 1: to be a sonic equivalent of Claudette and Happy International Podcast.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by a producer of comedy and theater at the twin
Speaker 1: Head Theater in Atlanta. She's the organizer of the annual
Speaker 1: Atlanta Fringe Festival. She is one of the hosts of
Speaker 1: the wildly entertaining podcast Ridiculous Romance. Please welcome Diana Beck. Hey,
Speaker 1: I wish I had a song, but I did not
Speaker 1: prepare one. Hey, Happy International Podcast Day to you. First
Speaker 1: you can we send the official international podcast Carol. What
Speaker 1: is it? Uh? Lock the gates? Don't don't male male kimp?
Speaker 1: That one part of that male MP conversion and everything
Speaker 1: male kimp. It doesn't even really make sense as a mispronunciation.
Speaker 1: But no, hey, that's how they got us to remember it.
Speaker 1: Do I use service? Hell? No? M Diana? What's good? Well,
Speaker 1: you were in Atlanta? Yeah? Yeah? How is Atlanta these days? Beautiful?
Speaker 1: It's like the part of the year that the weather
Speaker 1: is absolutely perfect and you're like, this is why I
Speaker 1: live here. And then probably in a couple of days
Speaker 1: it will be really hot and buggy again, and then
Speaker 1: it'll be cold and but not snowy. So what's what's
Speaker 1: Alanna's best season? For sure? That's everything happens between Labor
Speaker 1: Day and Halloween, and then everybody stays inside the rest
Speaker 1: of you. Okay, so this is it. You're You're in
Speaker 1: the thick of it right now. Oh yeah, But the
Speaker 1: fringe festival I do is in the summertime, and it's
Speaker 1: like so hot, Like why are you making me do this?
Speaker 1: That's worth it? Awesome. Well, we are going to get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the continuing negotiation happening in uh Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Progressives are refusing to budge. Nancy Pelosi is you know,
Speaker 1: just very budge happy. She you know, friction free. She
Speaker 1: just wants to let let it, let it go, let
Speaker 1: it flow. Uh. We're gonna talk about YouTube finally heard
Speaker 1: about have you Have you guys heard this that there's
Speaker 1: a vaccine misinformation on YouTube? Yeah, breaking news in the
Speaker 1: YouTube headquarters and they finally decided to do something about it.
Speaker 1: We're also going to talk about another mega corporation by
Speaker 1: the name of Amazon. They are planning already have started
Speaker 1: in a couple of cases, some company towns, which if
Speaker 1: you don't know the history of company towns in America, yeah,
Speaker 1: hold onto your butts. We'll talk about that. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about you know, it is that time of year again
Speaker 1: where we get a colorful map breaking down the United
Speaker 1: States by preferred candy Halloween candy. So we'll check in
Speaker 1: with that. All of that plenty Moore the first Diana.
Speaker 1: We like to ask our guest, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history? A lot of my search history is
Speaker 1: Helen Keller stuff right now because that's our next episode
Speaker 1: of Ridiculous Romance. But also I did look up a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff about soaking. Have you a Twitter? I
Speaker 1: almost did. I also had a soaking a k A
Speaker 1: that I could have sang this morning, but I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure how up on soaking everyone wit? Are you serious?
Speaker 1: You had a soaking again? Yeah, someone wrote a soaking
Speaker 1: a k because we it was there's something popped off
Speaker 1: on Reddit, and then on ninety Fiance there was a
Speaker 1: there's a cast member who's Mormon, And then I started
Speaker 1: talking about soaking on that but go on please day
Speaker 1: and enlightened, enlightened the class. Well soaking as you do say,
Speaker 1: as a Mormon, I guess the Mormon practice. But they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to have sex, like Mormon
Speaker 1: teens are trying to figure out how to have sex
Speaker 1: without offending God, and so they've decided what they can
Speaker 1: do is is put a penis in a vagina, but
Speaker 1: not move because it's the friction that is the sex part,
Speaker 1: So they just kind of slide it in and hang
Speaker 1: out in there. Oh, it's soaking must for everybody. And
Speaker 1: then the reason I saw it was because someone was
Speaker 1: talking about jump pumping, which is when two teens that
Speaker 1: are soaking will invite a friend over to jump on
Speaker 1: the bed so that they can get a little friction happening.
Speaker 1: But they are not doing it, so they're not actually sinning.
Speaker 1: That can't be true. It was a viral. It was
Speaker 1: like a viral TikTok. That's a threesome. And second of all,
Speaker 1: God what you do? And once you breach the palace gates,
Speaker 1: I believe God is upset at that point. How many
Speaker 1: times the battering ram is knocking on the gate. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's more offended. Honestly, you think I'm stupid? Do it right? Right?
Speaker 1: This was funny because over my eyes, I was like
Speaker 1: speculating on like that with that idea. You remember, like
Speaker 1: those like vibrating massage beds you put a quarter in shaking,
Speaker 1: like were those designed by Mormons. I was always a
Speaker 1: little confused by that. That like, yeah, that that seems
Speaker 1: to add a lot of if you refuse to move yourself,
Speaker 1: then that would be useful. So yeah, maybe it is
Speaker 1: the soacac change. If you do move normally in sex,
Speaker 1: why would you want a vibrating bed, wouldn't Yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems it seems strange. Yeah, like you know, especially if
Speaker 1: you're just normally having your friend come over to jump
Speaker 1: on the bed or like shake you guys around a
Speaker 1: little bit, why would you need a vibrating bed? And
Speaker 1: what does the friend do? Like do you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: put these AirPods in right, right, and they're like under
Speaker 1: the covers I imagine because they're Mormons, probably all the
Speaker 1: way up to the you know, their heads. And then
Speaker 1: the friends just jumping on the bed like it was
Speaker 1: like a friend like a freak and he's just like
Speaker 1: like bent over, like just over you, like jumping them
Speaker 1: down like yeah, y'all are next? Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to imagine that a teenage friend
Speaker 1: around the age of people who are engaging and soaking
Speaker 1: would be the last person you could trust to be
Speaker 1: discreet and not look like that seems like they kind
Speaker 1: of all go together that be like, no, it's cool,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna look, he's not gonna look. We're all good,
Speaker 1: and then like, is it orgy? Like a bunch of
Speaker 1: people in a bounce house and then while out jumping
Speaker 1: in there one'm soaking couple in the middle and everyone else. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's that's called rough sex. Yeah, it's like a Mormon
Speaker 1: gang bang, I guess or something. Let us know the hacks,
Speaker 1: you know, if the what other soak cocks are there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: soaking for for days and days on the San Andreas
Speaker 1: fault line, just waiting for for the next earthquake, for
Speaker 1: the big one to come to patients. Yeah, you're a
Speaker 1: soaking seismologist. Let us I mean in that case, God
Speaker 1: is actually the one doing the movement, so you could
Speaker 1: kind of Yeah, I thought you wanted me to have that, right,
Speaker 1: If you didn't want me to have sex, then yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw one comment about it that I was like, true,
Speaker 1: where they're like but when when if? If it's the
Speaker 1: friction when you put it in and then eventually I
Speaker 1: assume take it out, Is that not one sex had
Speaker 1: one will have one sex? Please sir? Yes, that does
Speaker 1: seem why not count? Does the intern exit part not count?
Speaker 1: I know that's that's what's funny, Like what's the I'm
Speaker 1: really I would almost want to sit down with like
Speaker 1: a teenager who's telling you why it's okay? Yeah? Yeah, same,
Speaker 1: like what show me what a pump looks like that
Speaker 1: you would say that's bad and then let me break
Speaker 1: down for you that those movements are included in the
Speaker 1: soaking that you're doing. Yes, that's that's where I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you you and I should conduct an interview or something.
Speaker 1: As your attorney, I would advise that you not do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably won't talk to under age people about sex
Speaker 1: acts in any way. Yeah, sure that I'll take that.
Speaker 1: I'll take that advice this time to make sense. I
Speaker 1: do wonder if any parent has ever like walked in
Speaker 1: on a soaking act and like had the couple like
Speaker 1: try to justify it to them. We were being perfectly
Speaker 1: still praying with her mother, go away. I'm praying at
Speaker 1: the moment. Please. Yes, what is something that you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Diana? So many things? Really, I would say
Speaker 1: sheet masks, if you know what I'm talking about, like
Speaker 1: a skin care product, the sheet masks that are in
Speaker 1: those little patches, rip it and you pull it out
Speaker 1: and you kind of lay it on your face and
Speaker 1: you look like a weirdo. I hate them. I think
Speaker 1: there's like trending weight too much. I think they're not useful.
Speaker 1: They drip all over you. They're not fun to wear.
Speaker 1: I don't understand them. Just a little bottle and do
Speaker 1: your face and let it quick slowly tighten over time.
Speaker 1: That's what I like to get. We've talked before on
Speaker 1: the show about those masks. I have pitched them as
Speaker 1: a great mask for a stalker like slasher movie because
Speaker 1: they are truly terrifying. I've I've definitely been frightened by
Speaker 1: them just walking into my bedroom and my wife turns
Speaker 1: around and looks, yeah, like it really does work as
Speaker 1: a like horrifying. Like if if somebody walked in with
Speaker 1: one of those on, it would it would really reminded
Speaker 1: I vividly reminder of like that scene in The Cable
Speaker 1: Guy where they go to medieval times and Jim Carrey
Speaker 1: puts all the chicken skin on his face and he's
Speaker 1: like silence that or the other one, which is what's
Speaker 1: that movie the Brendan Fraser Baseball movie with Albert Brooks
Speaker 1: where he's the picture the phenomen or something, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: in that one, there's like a scene yeah the rookie
Speaker 1: that he actually like he puts a tortilla on his face,
Speaker 1: and that also reminds me of it, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: or the Scout, it's the Scout, the scalt there we go,
Speaker 1: the old Albert Einstein curt Is. That's what they kind
Speaker 1: of because they're just kind of hanging off. They don't
Speaker 1: mold your face and they look weird. When one year
Speaker 1: our theater company for parade did Depression era Halloween costumes, which,
Speaker 1: if you want to go on a weird Google image
Speaker 1: search there they're literally like burlap sacks with holes in them,
Speaker 1: so they look so terrifying. And then like a few
Speaker 1: months later they were all on a plane doing one
Speaker 1: of those white face masks and did a little selfie
Speaker 1: and I was like, you look exactly good. Have warned
Speaker 1: that for Halloween. So I think exactly the era Halloween
Speaker 1: terrifying costume right now, historical Halloween costumes just across the border,
Speaker 1: very frightening, but yeah, Depression era in particular, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: remind me of Um. They're sort of the skincare equivalent
Speaker 1: of the Michael Myers mask, which is like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's lots of like drama theory around. You know, you
Speaker 1: have the the like happy mask, the sad mask, and
Speaker 1: then like the neutral mask. And the neutral mask allows
Speaker 1: you to like project whatever is inside you, like onto
Speaker 1: that mask. Which is why Keanu Reeves is so successful
Speaker 1: is because he is a human neutral mask. But the yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just blankness that you can put project whatever horrors
Speaker 1: existing your own line. But you can you can turn
Speaker 1: it up because they print designs on him. Now for
Speaker 1: more fun, you know what I mean. Like I've seen
Speaker 1: some where it will be like a frog face or
Speaker 1: like a kabuki mask some ship when I was fan,
Speaker 1: there's like all kinds of graphic ones. I think, just
Speaker 1: just to bring a little bit of fun to the
Speaker 1: face mask game. Yeah that makes this sound worse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, kobooky mask turned around and that
Speaker 1: would be more more comfortable. I don't know. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any way to get used to it.
Speaker 1: I think the thing identified the most of what you
Speaker 1: said was when it drips, like because like you know,
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be hYP you know, very hydrated. But
Speaker 1: then I remember the last time I put one on,
Speaker 1: this was kept going down my neck and I was like,
Speaker 1: I hated that feeling and it feels awful. Yes, And
Speaker 1: then I don't know my A lot of my skincare
Speaker 1: concerns are around my jawline, and then you know, they
Speaker 1: don't mold your face. So I feel like I'm just like,
Speaker 1: it's just hanging off and I'm just unhappy. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like I'm taking care of myself at all. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? Oh? Man, I had
Speaker 1: a hard time with this one. Actually, I'm still on
Speaker 1: a depression era or masks what You'll have to excuse me.
Speaker 1: It's just that you're like Jack's like, I'm sorry, i
Speaker 1: haven't been listening this entire time. I'm still looking at
Speaker 1: these masks like ending the show. They are good though.
Speaker 1: If you want a scary costume, just go back to
Speaker 1: history and get one of their weird cheap things. You
Speaker 1: will look like a horror show. Yeah. Um, I think
Speaker 1: you know what's underrated? He's hanging out without having anything
Speaker 1: specific to do. I feel like, like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: in my thirties, so I feel like people have a
Speaker 1: harder time hanging out. So they're always like, well, let's
Speaker 1: get together and do something specific dinner, a movie, a thing, whatever,
Speaker 1: and if you don't, like I don't always have something
Speaker 1: on my mind that I want to do, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's people I want to spend time with, and I
Speaker 1: wish it was easy to kind of be like, can
Speaker 1: we just like sit together quietly. I don't know, have
Speaker 1: anything specific going on, We're just hanging out. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a great call. I really like that idea of like
Speaker 1: hanging out without an agenda, because I when I look
Speaker 1: at how my relationships evolved, like from my twenties or
Speaker 1: teens into my thirties, is like, most of the time
Speaker 1: we were hanging out with no fucking agenda ever, and
Speaker 1: then there's this weird thing of getting older where like
Speaker 1: your time seems more precious and like things have to
Speaker 1: get done. But then some of the best times you
Speaker 1: have were just hanging out with somebody. They come over
Speaker 1: and you fucking do nothing. Maybe you look at a
Speaker 1: couple of YouTube videos and laugh at some ship or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, damn, that was that was great.
Speaker 1: I didn't I have to think of anything, which could
Speaker 1: just be you know, immature, or just be in our
Speaker 1: in each other's company. Yeah, totally and you have to
Speaker 1: like get a head count for dinner reservation or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, like just no plans. I just want to
Speaker 1: see you. You're my plans. I'm very bad at doing that.
Speaker 1: I really want to get it together, Diana. You are
Speaker 1: my plan. Okay, I'll all right. I guess you'll adjust
Speaker 1: my invitation. What's on your face? Don't worry, We're going
Speaker 1: to have a great time. What are you projecting that's
Speaker 1: on my face? What do you think is on agenda?
Speaker 1: Free hangouts you know, or no plan hangouts? I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get it back. Because what was like what would
Speaker 1: you do? Yeah? Jack, you know like in your like
Speaker 1: I feel like college right is true? I mean aside
Speaker 1: from being like we're gonna drink or something, there was
Speaker 1: still just like what are you doing right now? Like
Speaker 1: just chilling? They'll come through, Yeah, yeah, great? House is
Speaker 1: dirty or something like don't worry. If you're a friend,
Speaker 1: you don't, I don't care what your house looks like.
Speaker 1: You've ever said that in my life. I like that.
Speaker 1: I love a world where I think about that dirty.
Speaker 1: I think that just reveals that your house is never
Speaker 1: as dirty as mine is, because I don't know, well, look,
Speaker 1: I'll do a panic clean. I just gave up a
Speaker 1: long time ago, prone to a last minute clean up
Speaker 1: before somebody comes over. Yeah, well this is why I
Speaker 1: miss having parties, because having a party was such a
Speaker 1: great excuse to like clean, like, well, have a party
Speaker 1: just because we'll get the house together. But now we
Speaker 1: don't have parties anymore because you know. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: just low key like judge your friends who don't clean
Speaker 1: up before they leave. They're like, yeah, I gotta go there,
Speaker 1: like you brought all this ship and it's a mess,
Speaker 1: but you're just gonna all right. And then you have
Speaker 1: like that new friends, like let me help you clean up.
Speaker 1: You're like I never expected you to be Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love you now. The one time Miles came to
Speaker 1: my house, he and On both were like hung around
Speaker 1: and cleaned up after and oh yeah, well yeah that
Speaker 1: was me favorite favorite person. Yeah yeah, because we're just like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I can't let this our mother's voices,
Speaker 1: it's right now and there's no way I could leave
Speaker 1: watching someone else clean me and my wife just watched
Speaker 1: you or just yeah there's a little a little bit
Speaker 1: over there in the corner. Yeah, but you're dust into
Speaker 1: the bathroom. They're like, yeah, yeah, someone made a mess
Speaker 1: in there. If you don't mind. This becomes a little
Speaker 1: bit easier when you have kids, if the other people
Speaker 1: have kids, because then you just call it a play date.
Speaker 1: But it just means like your kids are running around
Speaker 1: chasing each other. Well you sit back. But that is
Speaker 1: also a pretense, right that, uh, they have to have kids,
Speaker 1: which is limiting. And I said, Jack, let's have a
Speaker 1: played it, and you're like, get a kid, Get a kid, bro,
Speaker 1: And you're like, all right, give me fifteen minutes. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be back to
Speaker 1: talk news. And we're back, and things are continuing to
Speaker 1: develop in Congress. The reaction to Nancy Pelosi's decision to
Speaker 1: decouple the infrastructure bill and the three point five trillion
Speaker 1: reconciliation bill has ramped up. People are predictably not psyched.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah it uh, it's like it started off just
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, maybe we'll vote on him separately. That
Speaker 1: was just again was not going to fly with the
Speaker 1: Progressive Caucus. She tried to then sort of disingenuously suggest
Speaker 1: that like, well, we got to do the bipartisan bill first,
Speaker 1: like we gotta do it like way quicker because it
Speaker 1: might jeopardize highway funding. That wasn't true, and just like
Speaker 1: a very weird thing to say. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of progressive progressives felt that they were going to
Speaker 1: do the same thing that's been happening for many years
Speaker 1: with the Progressive Caucus, which is they have real concerns,
Speaker 1: they try and exert some leverage, but they won't have
Speaker 1: enough folks to do it. Nancy Pelosi will then be
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, yeah, more on that later, wave them
Speaker 1: out of the room, and deliver a very watered down
Speaker 1: bill that like a lot of activists and progressives are like,
Speaker 1: this fucking miss is the whole point, Like you just
Speaker 1: did this to pat yourself on the back, Like we
Speaker 1: actually need to change things fundamentally, and every time we
Speaker 1: get to a point to do this, we get tossed
Speaker 1: aside and then it's in service of a larger corporate agenda.
Speaker 1: And this is you know, they feel that that's happening again,
Speaker 1: and this time things are just very different. There's possibly
Speaker 1: possibly up to thirty four Democrats that will tank the
Speaker 1: bipartisan bill because you know, as we record, their scheduled
Speaker 1: to vote on this today, and if that were to happen,
Speaker 1: I don't see how that passes without those votes because
Speaker 1: there's only a three vote margin that the Democrats have.
Speaker 1: And then if you even get some Republicans who want
Speaker 1: the bipartisans sticker on their report card for the mid terms,
Speaker 1: which is what all these other centrists want, it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's still gonna be really difficult. And I just want
Speaker 1: to say, like again, there's a reason why they're putting
Speaker 1: up such a big fight over this three point five
Speaker 1: trillion dollar Build Back Better whatever, big baller brand Act.
Speaker 1: Thing that is very important when it comes to policy,
Speaker 1: rather than just saying, like very clearly the thing that
Speaker 1: will make your life easier, it's things like paid family leave,
Speaker 1: expanded child tax credits, universal pre k, free community college,
Speaker 1: expanding Medicare to cover vision and dental, like actual, you know,
Speaker 1: a legit effort to try and come back climate change.
Speaker 1: This is why, like you know, progressive like yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the version that really needs to go like that, Okay,
Speaker 1: how are we gonna pay for that? Here's how we're
Speaker 1: gonna pay for that. Because you want more he wants
Speaker 1: some more change. This is what this is what it
Speaker 1: could be, closing tax loopholes for private equity managers and
Speaker 1: wealthy wealthy heirs, increasing the corporate tax rate, raising the
Speaker 1: top individual tax rate, imposing it three sir tax on
Speaker 1: income over five million dollars, increasing better tax enforcement with
Speaker 1: the I R S to go after fucking people who
Speaker 1: have just been letting money blow in the wind, and
Speaker 1: allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. And we already saw
Speaker 1: that last bit what corporate democrats were doing, saying like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm against this because well hold on, let me, let
Speaker 1: me let the lobbyists tell me what I'm why, because
Speaker 1: it will stifle private sector innovation. And you had you
Speaker 1: had an answer for that. I I usually just say
Speaker 1: how you pay for it? And uh, conversation ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the whole platform. And that's why this is
Speaker 1: so important, Like because progressives are like, you can't keep
Speaker 1: doing this thing where you promise people a bunch of
Speaker 1: ships in the in the pursuit of office and then
Speaker 1: not deliver or deliver a fraction of it. And this
Speaker 1: is what they're holding out for. And yeah, I I
Speaker 1: feel for these people in the progressive caucus because it's
Speaker 1: a fucking hard job. You are having to be very
Speaker 1: strategic because you know, at this point you will this
Speaker 1: is this is one of the few chances that we
Speaker 1: have it a bill that actually looks like progress in
Speaker 1: any kind of way. Yeah. Yeah, And Kirsen Cinema is
Speaker 1: just getting absolutely rained on with corporate dollars right now,
Speaker 1: Like there's is it so with without them, they can't
Speaker 1: do the bipartisans We should stop calling it bipartisan the
Speaker 1: republican like you know, mangled version, So like who is
Speaker 1: saying no to like other than Republicans, who is saying
Speaker 1: no to the actual like build back better. Well, the
Speaker 1: whole thing is because they have to pass it through
Speaker 1: reconciliation in the Senate, and which means Cinema and Mansion
Speaker 1: need to get on board. But they keep doing stuff
Speaker 1: like to your point, with Kirsten Cinema, She's just do
Speaker 1: a huge fundraiser with like some of the biggest business
Speaker 1: lobbying groups paying for it. It was like almost six
Speaker 1: grand a seat type fundraising dinner and and at the
Speaker 1: place at the place she's like, I'm against raising taxes
Speaker 1: and a lot of this stuff that you asked the
Speaker 1: how will they pay for it part she was against
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff in this room full of
Speaker 1: wealthy you know, the in the wealthy business class, and
Speaker 1: she's not really clear on what she wants to do.
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion again, who's like the boy made of coal?
Speaker 1: There's no way to understand what his math is as
Speaker 1: because I mean he's he is a fossil fuel like byproduct,
Speaker 1: so how could he get on board with climate change stuff?
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of this stuff in this that
Speaker 1: is pulled is really strongly in West. I was just
Speaker 1: going to say this is also popular, like closing tax
Speaker 1: loopholes for private equity managers like who is Like I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're going to have to change the focus here,
Speaker 1: but like these are great answers to the question of
Speaker 1: how are you gonna pay for it? Is we're gonna
Speaker 1: tax rich people, and not in a way that like
Speaker 1: we're we're going to make them pay taxes and like
Speaker 1: close loopholes, like we're gonna make them played by the
Speaker 1: same rules as you. Yeah, you know how you look
Speaker 1: at your paycheck and go fuck man, if those taxes
Speaker 1: weren't in there, I'm be loving this ship. Well guess
Speaker 1: who Guess who does out of time billionaires, they don't
Speaker 1: do it, and they look at their checks like yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's It's a really interesting dynamic because I think
Speaker 1: mansion and cinema are finding themselves at a point where
Speaker 1: these policies are wildly popular, but they are way too
Speaker 1: entrenched in the corporate wing of the Democratic Party to
Speaker 1: begin to turn on their their their masters. You know
Speaker 1: that they are unable to because the things that we're saying,
Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, this is great for everybody except the
Speaker 1: people with the most money who spend the most money
Speaker 1: trying to influence Congress. And that's why we're seeing people like,
Speaker 1: what does this makes sense? Like this is wildly popular. Ye,
Speaker 1: you're saying no, yeah, O frustrate. Let's move over to
Speaker 1: the world of tech. Because I'm tired of being frustrated.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for some strong, timely, swift maneuvers. And therefore
Speaker 1: I want to talk YouTube because they you know, right
Speaker 1: on Q about yeah, right on que and on. Three
Speaker 1: years later, YouTube announced a ban on vaccine misinformation and
Speaker 1: the termination of the accounts of several you know, prominent
Speaker 1: anti vaccine influencers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who seems
Speaker 1: to be the one that like the causes his name,
Speaker 1: like pull people who are on the edge or like
Speaker 1: on the border between anti bax or and you know,
Speaker 1: just have questions over to the ANTIAX side. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the new policy was crafted as the company began to
Speaker 1: see false claims about COVID nineteen vaccines spill over into
Speaker 1: misinformation about vaccines in general. According to a company blog post, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this feels again years too late. Years and
Speaker 1: I think the increased scrutiny around vaccine and COVID misinformation
Speaker 1: in the last you know, nineteen twenty months finally got
Speaker 1: them to act. There the company, they say, quote, we're
Speaker 1: now at a point where it's more important than ever
Speaker 1: to expand the work we started with COVID nineteen to
Speaker 1: other vaccines. And you're like, yeah, this is this is
Speaker 1: so late. This is always say and they've always had
Speaker 1: a quote unquote policy against COVID misinformation, but it didn't
Speaker 1: seem very effective because half the time I felt like
Speaker 1: people were like reposting terrible YouTube links with some nonsense
Speaker 1: in it. And there's their thesis here seems to be
Speaker 1: that because COVID misinformation is spilling over to misinformation about
Speaker 1: other vaccines. That's the breaking point, Like even though we're
Speaker 1: in the middle of a fucking like global pandemic that's
Speaker 1: killing you know, millions of people like I. I and
Speaker 1: the anti vaccine movement started years ago, and that's they
Speaker 1: already had a very strong platform to start with with COVID.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's filling over to other vaccines at
Speaker 1: this are existing things spilled over to a pandemic and
Speaker 1: it got bigger because everyone has to care, right, they're
Speaker 1: just misdiagnosing it completely. They're like, no, no, no, that
Speaker 1: already has been happened. Now you're worried about the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, now that Nazism is on the rise, we're
Speaker 1: thinking about like we're just figuring that out now. It
Speaker 1: seems like completely out of order. And you know, they
Speaker 1: had this like you know, specific policy, but now they
Speaker 1: want to just make sure that it's like all kinds
Speaker 1: of content, that stuff saying that falsely claims approved vaccines
Speaker 1: are dangerous or ineffective or even like medical treatments that
Speaker 1: aren't properly that have not been approved to you know,
Speaker 1: take that kind of shift off and you know, and
Speaker 1: also the stuff that vaccines can cause autism or cancer,
Speaker 1: And sadly, the anti vaxxers may have already gotten what
Speaker 1: they want because they are very good at shape shifting
Speaker 1: on the Internet to like dodge moderation and use different
Speaker 1: hashtags or language to like escape the very intelligent algorithms.
Speaker 1: And you know, the whole their whole point was they
Speaker 1: wanted to weaponize the COVID vaccine fear to get more
Speaker 1: people to question all vaccines. You know. And there's this researcher,
Speaker 1: Renee Arresta who it leads their research on anti vacs
Speaker 1: disinformation at the Stanford Internet Observatories. She said, quote anti
Speaker 1: vaccine active this have been very vocal about the fact
Speaker 1: that they saw COVID as an opportunity to undermine confidence
Speaker 1: in the childhood vaccine schedule. Seeing YouTube take this action
Speaker 1: is reflective of the fact that it seems to be
Speaker 1: aware that that tactic and dynamic was beginning to really
Speaker 1: take shape. Now we're on a precipice, basically saying that
Speaker 1: like the approval for COVID vaccines for like young kids
Speaker 1: like coming in the next few weeks would just open
Speaker 1: the floodgates to even more wild ship to to get
Speaker 1: parents like very fearful and says, quote, it is going
Speaker 1: to be an absolute nightmare. The plan from day one
Speaker 1: has always been to use those stories to undermine confidence
Speaker 1: in vaccines more generally. I mean that, Okay, that makes
Speaker 1: sense that they're doing this now, because there there was
Speaker 1: other articles like super producer DJ Dramas put an article
Speaker 1: that was talking It was a bunch of healthcare experts
Speaker 1: talking about the concern that this was going that they
Speaker 1: were seeing vaccination levels drop in like across the board,
Speaker 1: and just not just COVID stuff things, but they were
Speaker 1: seeing like children's vaccinations drop off. And in the article
Speaker 1: they were claiming that it was just based on people
Speaker 1: being less likely to want to go to the hospital
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. But this makes more sense because
Speaker 1: I mean, those diseases are a lot of times way
Speaker 1: more dangerous to children, and so they're endangering children in
Speaker 1: a in a very real way right with unbeknownst to them.
Speaker 1: It's like the real all that false sense of safety
Speaker 1: was because people were vaccinated, and then that these are
Speaker 1: actual diseases that affect children very acutely that you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are very worried about, like these
Speaker 1: smaller outbreaks happening of like fully preventable diseases that we've
Speaker 1: been trying to eradicate through vaccination. Yeah. Cool, that's good
Speaker 1: that that's their stated strategy. Yeah, and I mean it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, they're their community building. You know, we are
Speaker 1: headed for just an absolute ship storm once uh, you
Speaker 1: know the f d A approves vaccines for five to
Speaker 1: twelve year olds, because you know, that's that's still like
Speaker 1: I know a lot of parents who are like, you know,
Speaker 1: got the vaccine themselves, but are on on some wait
Speaker 1: and see ship about children's vaccines or this vaccine in
Speaker 1: particular for children. And you know, I think parents are
Speaker 1: more likely to be extremely cautious and virgin on paranoid
Speaker 1: when it comes to the health of their children. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a real ship show.
Speaker 1: So it's good that they're doing something at least. I
Speaker 1: think that's why it's particularly insidious to have this be
Speaker 1: your your mechanism to create more vaccine hesitancy. Is like,
Speaker 1: you know already that parents would do anything to keep
Speaker 1: their kids safe, fucking anything, most healthy parents, and to
Speaker 1: then capitalize on that fear and distort reality to the
Speaker 1: point where they're even questioning what their pediatrician would suggest
Speaker 1: for the livelihood of their child is like it's it's
Speaker 1: fucking terrible and you and for all the people who
Speaker 1: would wait and see. Man, there's so many fucking articles
Speaker 1: about these wait and see people who are being like,
Speaker 1: don't wait and see, Like we waited and found out
Speaker 1: and it wasn't it wasn't the right move at all.
Speaker 1: And we're like, like, you know, people are talking about
Speaker 1: like we got the vaccination like this second my dad
Speaker 1: flatlined like in the in the I see you like
Speaker 1: because we knew, like we were stupid, right, and yeah,
Speaker 1: even with and it's wild though too. How you know,
Speaker 1: there are there are there are children unfortunately who are
Speaker 1: succumbing to the virus and even like young like teenagers
Speaker 1: and things like that. But I'm not sure how much
Speaker 1: of that is like being reported because it seems like
Speaker 1: you get more of these like morbid like deathbeds worries
Speaker 1: from like ant like like really out in the open
Speaker 1: anti vax people who are now regretting it versus like
Speaker 1: really showing like the actual pain that is caused by
Speaker 1: family when they lose like a younger loved one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think people generally like don't want to see children
Speaker 1: hurt like on the news. So but I mean it's
Speaker 1: when that is the subject that is being determined, like
Speaker 1: you need to take a fucking look, you know, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the wait and see thing is, Yeah, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the thing I've heard a lot of parents like ask
Speaker 1: doctors about, and you know, they're there's very good like
Speaker 1: look into it, not from not on Facebook, but look
Speaker 1: at like actual scientific research on it. Yes, they were
Speaker 1: able to get this approved faster than any vaccine before,
Speaker 1: but it was because so many people are working on
Speaker 1: it because of fucking global pandemic and they were really
Speaker 1: good at their jobs, and and the technology date dates
Speaker 1: back for like over a decade I think actually m
Speaker 1: RNA technology or whatever. So it's like, I know, it's
Speaker 1: a fast vaccine, but it was really they had something
Speaker 1: existing that they just had to spend the year customizing
Speaker 1: for this virus instead of like we started from scratch
Speaker 1: and it only took us a year. That's not what happens.
Speaker 1: It's and it's wild to like even you know, I
Speaker 1: have family who's vaxed heavy and when I talked to
Speaker 1: them as I work on them to come around to
Speaker 1: what's happening. It's interesting how much they are taking just
Speaker 1: a headline and not really interested in anything else. Like
Speaker 1: my one relative was like, well, aren't you worried about
Speaker 1: like really like this thing that we tell the time, like, well,
Speaker 1: what about your genet like your d n A. Aren't
Speaker 1: you worried that? It's like it's like a it's like
Speaker 1: a genetic thing that it is not going to change
Speaker 1: or I'm like, that's not it's not altering your d
Speaker 1: n A. It's in fact, it's it's a messenger RNA.
Speaker 1: It's time on your immune system created very specific and
Speaker 1: just explaining things like that, they're like oh, and I'm
Speaker 1: like so yeah, like that's I'm a little worried that
Speaker 1: you thought that's what was happening, because just because the
Speaker 1: word r n A was in and I'm like, do
Speaker 1: you even I mean, I didn't want to be like
Speaker 1: do you know what ury is? But uh, just to
Speaker 1: say right right right, but just to slightly just here.
Speaker 1: I really before I would take a very heavy hand
Speaker 1: and just be like I'm talking about and the more
Speaker 1: I'm just like, no, you know what, I just need
Speaker 1: to take this as if someone is telling me to
Speaker 1: have like a bad opinion on music. So what do
Speaker 1: you believe is the best album of all time? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: well let me tell you about that really quick, and
Speaker 1: what's going on here? And that seemed to actually give
Speaker 1: them a little bit more like give them a reason
Speaker 1: to actually read something. Yeah, they were like, oh I
Speaker 1: thought it was this. I'm like, no, not at all,
Speaker 1: and like I can, I'll send you some stuff to
Speaker 1: look at very you know, like USA Today type stuff,
Speaker 1: no agenda, just to read it. And that seemed to
Speaker 1: help thaw things a little bit or at least begin
Speaker 1: a process where it's more open to discussing what their
Speaker 1: own misgivings or ideas that they had around it, or
Speaker 1: how that could change. That sounds nice. I guess that's
Speaker 1: been the most frustrating to me is that people keep saying, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do my research, and I'm like
Speaker 1: waiting for you to do the research, because if you did,
Speaker 1: you would find a lot of good information that that
Speaker 1: it's fine, you know what I mean. And as if
Speaker 1: people that got the vaccine didn't also look some ship
Speaker 1: up before they got their shots, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, would you prefer that the person who
Speaker 1: created the vaccine checked like learned everything from YouTube. Would
Speaker 1: that make you feel comfortable? Yeah? There, I just think
Speaker 1: it's funny that you thank you. I'll say today doesn't
Speaker 1: have a genda. You know, they're owned by somebody miles
Speaker 1: all the money or a money. Look at the colorful
Speaker 1: patchart big and you will ye, Big Big Inc. Big
Speaker 1: Color Inc. The full color isn't always full. I think
Speaker 1: that's front or something. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about Amazon Amazon company towns. Baby,
Speaker 1: just try not to open up your zillo, your red
Speaker 1: fins immediately and start looking for real estate inside an
Speaker 1: Amazon company town while we do this story. I know
Speaker 1: it's going to be tempting. But Bloomberg heralded how the
Speaker 1: promise of Amazon factory towns in a recent article will
Speaker 1: lift the working class, offering a solution to inequality, presumably
Speaker 1: because it was written by a stack of Amazon smiles
Speaker 1: in a trench coat. There communities that are basically already
Speaker 1: sprouting up around Amazon fulfillment centers, and Amazon is like,
Speaker 1: we will make them more livable for the working class.
Speaker 1: These types of towns are what the future of the
Speaker 1: working classes? Like those are actually direct quotes from that
Speaker 1: Bloomberg article. All right, that's frightening to hear an Amazon
Speaker 1: taking it. This is the future of the working class. Okay,
Speaker 1: time to get organized. This is class. Yeah, exactly to
Speaker 1: pretend that this is a fresh new idea is like
Speaker 1: next level corporate gas lighting. But so first of all,
Speaker 1: we can take a look at this already because Amazon
Speaker 1: is basically already unofficially doing this and the results are
Speaker 1: pretty unnerving. So in California's Inland Empire that you know
Speaker 1: that that's an area that is full of Amazon fulfillment
Speaker 1: centers and the company has been reshaping the surrounding community.
Speaker 1: For example, at a high school and say and Bernardino,
Speaker 1: students can take classes in the quote Amazon Logistics and
Speaker 1: Business Business Management Pathways career track that's not like a
Speaker 1: single extracurricular activity. That is a like learning philosophy that
Speaker 1: like follows you. Teenage students on this career track get
Speaker 1: to wear golf shirts with the Amazon logo or are
Speaker 1: forced to, which also appears on a banner in the classroom.
Speaker 1: Lessons involve learning Amazon's fourteen leadership principles and taking field
Speaker 1: trips to Amazon warehouses, which is basically the box factory
Speaker 1: field trip from the Sibisons. But an Amazon spokesperson proudly
Speaker 1: bragged that the goal here is to make sure that
Speaker 1: these kids just go to work for Amazon and never leave.
Speaker 1: This sounds really like an r OTC program, Like they're
Speaker 1: full everywhere uniform. Yeah, there's and I I feel like
Speaker 1: my mind immediately went to cult. But to call it
Speaker 1: cult like is a little unfair to cults because cults
Speaker 1: typically aren't able to buy their way into high school curriculums. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: in this quote about the San Bernardino program from a
Speaker 1: New York Times article, the students instead of being educated
Speaker 1: here and trying to find this is a quote from
Speaker 1: that spokesperson. The students, instead of being educated here and
Speaker 1: trying to find a job in the l A market
Speaker 1: or somewhere else, they can be educated here and remain here,
Speaker 1: And then they're unsurprisingly paying way less in taxes than
Speaker 1: the city was hoping for when they opened up all
Speaker 1: these factories and fulfillment centers there, which is a problem
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of wear and tear on roads
Speaker 1: with so many Amazon vehicles leaving from here, and with
Speaker 1: so many people at the Amazon site being treated like ship,
Speaker 1: it generates a lot of calls to police and emergency
Speaker 1: services for worker injuries and just you know, fender benders
Speaker 1: and things that happened when there's a bunch of people
Speaker 1: together there. There's a Business Insider article that's basically parenting
Speaker 1: the Bloomberg piece, but added that the historical precedent of
Speaker 1: factory towns suggests that Amazon's twenty one century parallel will
Speaker 1: quote improve work for millions of Americans, which is so
Speaker 1: confusing because unaware of the history of factory towns, Like,
Speaker 1: I think they're just counting on people being unaware of
Speaker 1: the like their readers being unaware of that they're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, most people have no historical context or anything.
Speaker 1: And I guess that is pretty specific to know, like
Speaker 1: labor history or factory towns, but in general, you don't
Speaker 1: be like, hey, why don't you want to live in
Speaker 1: a place where your boss controlled fucking everything? Horrible? And also,
Speaker 1: wasn't the South Park episodes specifically, like every all of
Speaker 1: this wasn't this? Yeah, it really feels very like black Mirror.
Speaker 1: I know I said that a lot, but that's just
Speaker 1: because the world is turning into various episodes of black Mirror.
Speaker 1: I think it feels Orwellian nice or cock gask maybe,
Speaker 1: So just to give our listeners in case you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with factory towns specifically, factory towns built two house
Speaker 1: and contain the working class part of a company. Because
Speaker 1: I feel like the closest thing we've had that was
Speaker 1: like highly publicized in recent years was Disney's factory town,
Speaker 1: which was called Celebration, and it was more like a
Speaker 1: suburb like UH subdivision that was just designed by Disney
Speaker 1: for like their high level employees for the most part.
Speaker 1: Whereas this has more in common with these factory towns
Speaker 1: that sprung up following the Industrial Revolution, which basically just
Speaker 1: further exerted companies grips over the population often amounted to
Speaker 1: glorified prison camps. And those are quotes from Smithsonian dot
Speaker 1: Meg that hyper left wing UH communist manifesto. So well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Pullman, Illinois is a company town built
Speaker 1: by sleeping car like railroad car magnate George Pullman in
Speaker 1: eighty he was like the Elon Musk of his time,
Speaker 1: and that like the thing he built was kind of
Speaker 1: seen as cool. Like when railroads were becoming a thing,
Speaker 1: he had these cars that you could sleep in that
Speaker 1: were like super luxurious and like associated with like cool ship.
Speaker 1: Like people like aspired, Yeah, they were sheic and people
Speaker 1: aspired to like ride in them. So and he was,
Speaker 1: you know, this sort of celebrity tycoon. And so he
Speaker 1: built this community to prevent labor unrest, and people could
Speaker 1: only rent their homes, no one was allowed to buy them,
Speaker 1: meaning workers could be evicted on short notice and were
Speaker 1: subjected to random inspections, pullman band bars in town meetings
Speaker 1: because that would be too much communication between the workers.
Speaker 1: And his influence even extended to adding which books were
Speaker 1: in the library and which shows the local theater performed.
Speaker 1: Then you know, he was known like publicly for paying
Speaker 1: people okay at first, like maybe even better than other
Speaker 1: manufacturers of rail cars. But then once he got people
Speaker 1: in this like captive state, he lowered their wages, but
Speaker 1: he didn't lower their rent, which led to Yeah, so
Speaker 1: this led to a strike, which ended when the U. S.
Speaker 1: Cavalry was sent in and several dozen citizens were shot dead.
Speaker 1: So this formerly beloved tycoon, when he died, they had
Speaker 1: to bury his coffin under layers of concrete so no
Speaker 1: one would desecrate his body because of the ship he
Speaker 1: tried with his factory town. There are other famous company
Speaker 1: town massacres in which striking workers were evicted from their
Speaker 1: homes and murdered by cops and militias. Uh. There's one
Speaker 1: in Ludlow, Colorado, and Color, Wisconsin where it was toilets.
Speaker 1: I know. So Color Color was plumbing fixture factory that
Speaker 1: opened in nine They immediately started making like just buckets
Speaker 1: and buckets of money, so they started building houses for
Speaker 1: couples and dorms for single men who worked their finance schools,
Speaker 1: had pension plan paid well. And then when the depression hit,
Speaker 1: the employees tried to strike because they lowered their wages,
Speaker 1: and Color responded by arming deputies like their own private
Speaker 1: police force with machine guns. Uh. And then there was
Speaker 1: predictably a clash and forty strikers were shot too, were killed.
Speaker 1: And but don't I mean, but here's the thing, and
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to think that that's gonna happen
Speaker 1: in an Amazon town. Obviously, will just be monitoring your
Speaker 1: every step with our technologically advanced dormitories that will know
Speaker 1: if you're lying, if you're calling in sick, and then
Speaker 1: we'll deduct your pay that way, and we'll know if
Speaker 1: you're talking bad about us. But it'll be great. It's
Speaker 1: gonna elevate the working. You're gonna love it because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a bit easy place. It'll be really affordable.
Speaker 1: Just don't just forget about the other like rights that
Speaker 1: you might have. Do you think their houses have bathrooms
Speaker 1: or do they just come with a bunch of water bottles.
Speaker 1: I mean that is the thing to like keep in mind.
Speaker 1: Like Facebook and Google are also trying this, but there
Speaker 1: I think mostly focusing on like the people who work
Speaker 1: on there like already like extravagantly, you know, really nice campuses,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's more for the people who are
Speaker 1: already extremely well compensated. They're trying to build like little
Speaker 1: luxury communities like Disney did, which, by the way, the
Speaker 1: Disney thing didn't like end well by any means. Disney
Speaker 1: ended up selling it after they were like a bunch
Speaker 1: of murders in Celebration Florida. There's somebody should make a
Speaker 1: movie about Celebration Florida. For sure. What murders are right
Speaker 1: for instance, a grizzly X one grizzly X murder of
Speaker 1: that variety. But just as you mentioned though, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Amazon thing is so concerning because this is a
Speaker 1: company that is already exerting so much control over their
Speaker 1: you know, lower income employees lives that they have to
Speaker 1: piss and water bottles. They're being constantly monitored like reality
Speaker 1: show contestants. They're so stressed that they had to build
Speaker 1: these things called Amazen booths, which are basically upbraak coffins
Speaker 1: where you can cry in peace for five minutes. They
Speaker 1: they have little videos that you watch while you're in there.
Speaker 1: I do love that it's five minutes, like the that's
Speaker 1: let's go, Let's go, Let's go. They feature easy to
Speaker 1: follow well being activities in the little cry conference, including
Speaker 1: guided meditations, positive affirmations, calming scenes with sounds like I
Speaker 1: just imagine like going from you are brutal, like just
Speaker 1: nervous breakdown causing job at Amazon too, then going into
Speaker 1: like a weird like like suspension like that the booths
Speaker 1: that the astronauts from Aliens are existing when they're in
Speaker 1: suspended animation and being like having yeah, having a computer
Speaker 1: be like you're great, You're doing wonderful. You are happy,
Speaker 1: you are complete, you are respected, You are not a
Speaker 1: political prisoner. Yeah, this is not a labor camp you
Speaker 1: like Jeff Bezos. Do you think Amazon eventually is going
Speaker 1: to try to rebrand is like amazing or something like that,
Speaker 1: because like the Amazon name, because I just feel like
Speaker 1: this that feel like they're gonna have rebrand at some point,
Speaker 1: because the tide is like people are slowly like they're
Speaker 1: like I don't know, it's this fucking thing that I
Speaker 1: use to sometimes get shipped quickly or watch a TV
Speaker 1: show on, but there's this untold human suffering behind it,
Speaker 1: and they're on their way to like like you're saying,
Speaker 1: indoctrinating kids from high school to be like don't question,
Speaker 1: like we love you like your family where your father
Speaker 1: worked here, your father's father worked here, your father's father's
Speaker 1: father worked here, and why would you you know, why
Speaker 1: would you eliminate that bond? And like you're saying, Diana
Speaker 1: about like r OTC, like I could I could see
Speaker 1: in some fucked up, bizarre future where people are like no, man,
Speaker 1: like we're an Amazon family, like we're a military family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally would see that they're like, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hand down to you my Gulf shirt with the Amazon though, right,
Speaker 1: because it happens like you know, grandfather's dry fit polo
Speaker 1: shirt and this can be ears now, right, And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean like it's the same thing like
Speaker 1: when you go to places like in when in Michigan
Speaker 1: when cars were being manufactured, they are much more regularly
Speaker 1: in an intense fashion. There were people like generational employees
Speaker 1: of like Chevy or you know, Cadillac or something like that.
Speaker 1: And that made sense because in that place you lived,
Speaker 1: this was a place that offered your family stability or
Speaker 1: upward mobility than obviously things changed, the nature of corporate
Speaker 1: profits changed. But I think, you know, I can see
Speaker 1: this but in just a much darker version, because it's
Speaker 1: not just more like oh, Amazon provided us like an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do more. It's like Amazon is the only
Speaker 1: fucking thing I could do, and to not do it
Speaker 1: meant like on nearly certain death. Yeah. Speaking of Amazon
Speaker 1: and company towns and car manufacturing, there's the story of
Speaker 1: ford Landia that people can google themselves, which is when
Speaker 1: Henry Ford built a town in the Amazon rainforest in
Speaker 1: Brazil and there was a revolt and the people who
Speaker 1: worked there cut the cut the telegraph lines. It was like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're not stuck in here with you, You're
Speaker 1: stuck in here with us. We're those man we need
Speaker 1: we need like horror ship like that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. We're like billionaires like they think they're getting
Speaker 1: one over and then like the working class people turned
Speaker 1: into a massacre? Is that like the purge? Kind of?
Speaker 1: Well the purge, I feel like you can project too
Speaker 1: much shit onto it, like from whatever you're like, like
Speaker 1: I think like Ford Landia, Like if you just a
Speaker 1: few tweaks and you're like, oh my god, Like, don't
Speaker 1: be the greedy capitalist who tries to exploit a bunch
Speaker 1: of people, because the lesson there is like they're gonna
Speaker 1: cut the bottoms of your feet off. Yeah that sounds painful.
Speaker 1: All right, let's check in with Halloween candy trends off
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, like shift of gears do on this show.
Speaker 1: From Capitalist Dystopia, take can be Land. Yeah, we're easy
Speaker 1: company town. I might live there. Yeah, I know, go
Speaker 1: work for Nestle, little Boy, because they're the one companies
Speaker 1: like we have water for our employees. That's true. They will,
Speaker 1: they will have all the waters. But Zipia is like
Speaker 1: this job site who does like you know, they pretty
Speaker 1: regularly put together like these maps based on their research
Speaker 1: of like certain trends, and they do in every year
Speaker 1: with Halloween candies. Sometimes we follow it. I think most
Speaker 1: of the time we do just because it's interesting to
Speaker 1: see the way they get to this. Their methodology is
Speaker 1: that they sort of put together a list of like
Speaker 1: fifty top candies, like like whether they're really popular or
Speaker 1: really well known because people fucking hate them, and then
Speaker 1: from there compare what the like Google search traffic is
Speaker 1: based on the state, So if one is trending highest
Speaker 1: of all those fifty, they're like, okay, so that seems
Speaker 1: to be the one that's very popular in this state
Speaker 1: given But it's like comparative, right, Like it could be
Speaker 1: that Snickers is the number one search in all of
Speaker 1: these towns, but it's just not comparatively more popular in
Speaker 1: one town than the other. I feel like is theistic
Speaker 1: if that's why it's not exact. So it's just like
Speaker 1: here's a feeling of what's happening. And I think the
Speaker 1: top line sort of thing is they're saying that more
Speaker 1: than States prefer chocolate candies twenty two preferred gummies or
Speaker 1: The thing that I'm really worried about is in Colorado
Speaker 1: they love black liquorice, and Oklahoma they love circus peanuts
Speaker 1: black liquorice. I'm sorry, I can't. I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: that innus flavor that I just do not. I don't
Speaker 1: like it. I don't like it. I like caraway seas.
Speaker 1: You know, I fun with rye bread here and there,
Speaker 1: but don't make me black liquorice. Please. I think you
Speaker 1: mispronounced anus, Yes, Jack, that anus flavor is. I just
Speaker 1: can't get around um. They I didn't realize they border
Speaker 1: one another. So maybe that's what's what's going on. There's
Speaker 1: just a what is the circuit? I always see it
Speaker 1: looks like packing peanuts and that are like blue and pink,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's not I remember just being a kid.
Speaker 1: That's not candy. That's that's with it. When I was
Speaker 1: a kid, it was are they marshmallow or they like
Speaker 1: nougat or something? Yeah, they're marshmallow there basically very cheaply
Speaker 1: produced orange marshmallows that by being the color orange and
Speaker 1: being named peanuts, I feel like that is the only
Speaker 1: thing that is giving them any flavor other than sugar.
Speaker 1: But it is like, because you're going in with the
Speaker 1: expectation of a peanut e orange e flavor, they skate
Speaker 1: on that on just being basically sugar packing material. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the other ones. California's most popular as jolly
Speaker 1: ranch or hard candy. Okay, I mean that actually, I
Speaker 1: feel like that reminds me of all the candy Like
Speaker 1: I would get a lot of those growing up, and
Speaker 1: I hated them because the green out on one's tastes
Speaker 1: like fucking gasoline. Miles, you could have given me all
Speaker 1: your green apples. That's my favorite. Oh it is? Well,
Speaker 1: I look, I'll go to my mom's house. I think
Speaker 1: her garage. I still got him from two, so I'll
Speaker 1: find him your way your favorite flavor of everything. Or
Speaker 1: you're just I don't know, why do what about watermelon?
Speaker 1: I don't know who's as good as halle Wow another one.
Speaker 1: I'm like straight gasoline. It's so artificial to me. I'm
Speaker 1: also just I think in general, as a kid, I
Speaker 1: only thought chocolate was the thing worth having, right Like,
Speaker 1: I just didn't. I was like whatever, skill like Skittles
Speaker 1: are cool. They're sugar, but like, give me that chocolate.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what I'm working here for. Shout out,
Speaker 1: shout out to Illinois. They love air heads over there.
Speaker 1: That's such an interesting one that brought me back. Air
Speaker 1: Heads is like a spet. Like every now and then
Speaker 1: you'd be in a gas station and be like, let
Speaker 1: me spends on one air head and just and it's
Speaker 1: like a perfect thing where you're like, takes it back
Speaker 1: to childhood, and that's it. I don't need anymore. Like
Speaker 1: your whole mouth starts hurting. Yeah, I mean this this
Speaker 1: is a biased chart, by the way, because they're counting
Speaker 1: tutsie pop as a chocolate, which seems kind of questionable
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, fruit and then it becomes chocolate. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's different. And even rolls are real chocolate, right, they're
Speaker 1: like chewy, chocolate flavored whatever. Not nigid. But okay, that's
Speaker 1: another one that I would be. You know, when they
Speaker 1: would have the giant tutsie roll, like the one that's
Speaker 1: almost candy bar sized. For whatever reason, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this one's gonna taste like chocolate and it's a big
Speaker 1: taffy turd yeah, rolls have like zero chocolate content. I
Speaker 1: think they're just brown. Going by the logic of this chart,
Speaker 1: where it's like, I'm more into this candy than it
Speaker 1: seems like other people are. Where where would you fall
Speaker 1: on that? What's your like kind of secret guilty guilty
Speaker 1: pledge as nobody says ever, I mean the peanut butter
Speaker 1: chocolate combo I think for me is is all will
Speaker 1: always be Halloween For some reason, I didn't know they
Speaker 1: made peanut butter chocolate combos. No nothing, That's actually a
Speaker 1: fucking brilliant idea because pretzels with peanut Come on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go fucking market that ship. Go make that ship right
Speaker 1: now in your girl, bring back to the class um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely a Reese's Peanut Butter Reese's Pieces because
Speaker 1: also et Reese's pieces. Reese's Pieces. Isn't it like Reese's
Speaker 1: peanut butter cups is like every I think that's like
Speaker 1: probably the most favorite candy in the world, I would
Speaker 1: assume in America at the very least, but Reese's Pieces,
Speaker 1: A lot of people do not funk with Reese's pieces. Yeah,
Speaker 1: have you had peanut butter Eminem's those are good too.
Speaker 1: I think they're superior because they're bigger, they have more
Speaker 1: pimp better than I should do a taste test, because
Speaker 1: when I go to the movies, I will house a
Speaker 1: bag of Reese's pieces and go and just like go
Speaker 1: and have like so much sugar. I just going to
Speaker 1: diabetic job, be vibrating above your chair. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: and like these other Twizzlies, new Twizzlers that I got
Speaker 1: the last time I was there. This was like maybe
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago when whenever, the last time I was
Speaker 1: in a movie theater. But there are some new Twizzler
Speaker 1: joints that were so good I couldn't believe it. And
Speaker 1: they were just like special about them. They were like
Speaker 1: like salack and tasted like anus and they were like
Speaker 1: a poland peel kind of like other can I don't know,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta look again. If there's so many,
Speaker 1: I'm so behind with my candies. I have seen that
Speaker 1: polland peel. Yeah, what about you, Diana? What's your where
Speaker 1: do you land on here? What's your home state? Me
Speaker 1: is Georgia, So skittles, But yeah, but for you, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you had to pick, if let's say you had
Speaker 1: to pick a state because that was your candy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see your is your favorite candy on here? Or
Speaker 1: you are? Are you sort of an outlier now because
Speaker 1: peanut butter eminem's are my favorite. During the pandemic, I
Speaker 1: actually had to stop eating them because I would get
Speaker 1: like party sized bags like a party and I would
Speaker 1: eat them all by myself in like two days. It
Speaker 1: was way too much sugar. It was horrible. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you you'd be up in Indiana that looks like where
Speaker 1: peanut eminem's are peanut M and m's not peanut butter
Speaker 1: eminem That was like what, I fall more into the
Speaker 1: Reese's cups because of the peanut butter or would I
Speaker 1: go peanut M and M's because of the eminem itself?
Speaker 1: Like which more important the delivery system or the flavor.
Speaker 1: I developed a real uh peanut Eminem's problem during the
Speaker 1: pan It was bad. Did yeah? Oh yeah? The party
Speaker 1: size that that really rang true with me. I was,
Speaker 1: what's the party size bag? Looked like it's like a backpack.
Speaker 1: I mean it's the Donner party yo wagons, the Costco
Speaker 1: size that they sell a Target for some reason, right right,
Speaker 1: It's just like a bucket basically the lit kind of
Speaker 1: I don't think it is five pounds, right, I mean
Speaker 1: it's a lot though, Jack, I don't know if you remember,
Speaker 1: but oh yeah, yeah, I think it's at least a
Speaker 1: pound of It's not something you should be eating as
Speaker 1: a single singular zips up zips. You gotta keep it
Speaker 1: because that's their assumption is you're eating this over the
Speaker 1: course of a year, and thus you you we need
Speaker 1: to put a zip on it to keep it fresh.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, my my logic time maybe too,
Speaker 1: when I was in college and I would just get
Speaker 1: so stoned and just I would do something like eat
Speaker 1: a whole bag of like party size eminem. My fucking
Speaker 1: stupid logic at that time was, well, there's no way,
Speaker 1: like they would just put this much unhealthy ship, like
Speaker 1: it can't be bad if I just eat this whole
Speaker 1: thing right now like that. Otherwise it was there trouble
Speaker 1: because people will be dying going down eating all these things.
Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, that was my narrow logic to
Speaker 1: be like, and that's why it's okay that I had
Speaker 1: this whole bag, this entire handle of vodka can be
Speaker 1: bad for me because it's illegal, right, They get in
Speaker 1: trouble for selling it this much of it, Like that's
Speaker 1: what I say, kept saying they'd get in trouble. It
Speaker 1: was bad, that's beautiful, whatever rationalization I could use to
Speaker 1: just desecrate my own body. Oh yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I was doing. I was like, well, it's
Speaker 1: a pandemic, it's tough times, you know, comfort yourself however
Speaker 1: you can. Meanwhile, my stomach is like, um, we've had
Speaker 1: so much yellow number five or whatever. Die in here,
Speaker 1: Like you're giving me literally a tumor right now. You
Speaker 1: stop someone's yellow number five. You're digestive tracks? Do Louis
Speaker 1: Bega yellow number five? Number five? Yeah? I'm my two
Speaker 1: thoughts here are one. I don't see blow pops anywhere.
Speaker 1: I do love to just house a blow just crunch
Speaker 1: into that ship and just you know, treat it like
Speaker 1: a stick of gum. And then also, yeah, just what
Speaker 1: what you were saying? Well, the Reese's Pieces. My relationship
Speaker 1: with Reese's Pieces is so based on movies. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: they really fucking nailed that product placement and then the
Speaker 1: fact that they're in every movie theater and I still
Speaker 1: remember like eating a big gas bag of them while
Speaker 1: seeing Honey Shrun the kids, when I was like, really,
Speaker 1: isn't that so weird? Because my whole thing is I
Speaker 1: could see ET s a little funked up hand touching
Speaker 1: the little Reese's pieces. It's weird. When I put my
Speaker 1: hand in the bag of Reese's pieces, I have this
Speaker 1: weird like sense memory that I do a p o
Speaker 1: V of my hand and it's Et touching the Reese's pieces.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steven Spielberg, Thank you. Wow. It makes senseful
Speaker 1: that they're popular Halloween candy because they're already orange wrapped pieces,
Speaker 1: already fall colors. I mean, it's like, if you're into decore,
Speaker 1: they do it all for you, right, and plus Et
Speaker 1: there's Halloween elements to that. It's just like, was Et
Speaker 1: just a big marketing vehicle for Reesus? Like they conceived it,
Speaker 1: it was like a psi opes movie around Reese's pieces,
Speaker 1: go right. I believe it started as the original script
Speaker 1: headed as Eminem's and they went to Mars and I heard,
Speaker 1: you get the funk out of here, kid, So they
Speaker 1: had to with Reese's pieces. And that's why we have
Speaker 1: Reca's pieces today because but yeah, that became the thing
Speaker 1: where like by accident, people saw the power of the
Speaker 1: Reese's pieces product placement and that launched you know, a
Speaker 1: thousand Dodge Chargers into action movies. Right. Oh wow. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that the whole deal was that ambling made
Speaker 1: with her. She was like, we're not gonna pay for
Speaker 1: anything to put in this movie. And then you got
Speaker 1: to do a million dollars worth of advertising. Oh really
Speaker 1: yeah to promote ET Wow, and you can use and
Speaker 1: you can use e T in the ads. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that makes deal. Yeah that that Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good deal. I feel like we've been trying to
Speaker 1: get Et too guests on this podcast for a long time.
Speaker 1: I know, keeps blowing us off dead. We got Elliot coming.
Speaker 1: Oh man that it was so cute now that like
Speaker 1: fifty year old man. Yeah, it's I never I just
Speaker 1: rewatched ET at Tarantino's movie Theater with my kid, and
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen it since I was a lot younger
Speaker 1: and as a as a parent. It just hit me
Speaker 1: back then, I was like, who's this dork? Fuck him?
Speaker 1: But yeah, now, really really great child performances in that movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's fifty. Yeah, yeah, time flies huh. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I'm like, oh good, he's still he's thirteen,
Speaker 1: just a couple of years older. Elliott from the e
Speaker 1: T is the thirteen. Now people are like, whoa, he
Speaker 1: looks so different. Diana has been such a pleasure having
Speaker 1: you on the podject. Thanks for having me. Where can
Speaker 1: people find you and follow you? I'm on Twitter and
Speaker 1: Instagram him at dianamite boom and please listen to Ridiculous Romance,
Speaker 1: the podcast co host with my husband. Yeah. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying? It was hard to it
Speaker 1: was hard to pick its. Twitter's on fire. But I
Speaker 1: think since we talked about vaccines a lot today, I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to say Mohannad Elashiki tweeted, please stop
Speaker 1: saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took
Speaker 1: my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep
Speaker 1: working fuck at all. Where can people find you with
Speaker 1: a tweet you've been enjoying? Well, first, you can find
Speaker 1: me on the latest episode of Hood Politics, and he
Speaker 1: had me on to talk about lobbying, so I got
Speaker 1: to talk about all kinds of things from my time
Speaker 1: as a lobbyist in my perspective, and just trying to
Speaker 1: make it break it down easier for people to understand
Speaker 1: how what the nature of lobbying is, what it's really
Speaker 1: there to do, and why it's a fucking evil thing
Speaker 1: for the most smart. Obviously there's good lobbying too, but
Speaker 1: let's be real, most of the kind we're hearing about
Speaker 1: now isn't great. So check out hood Politics to see
Speaker 1: that or to rather to hear that. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and
Speaker 1: also the other show, the FCE podcast for Fiance with
Speaker 1: Sophie Alexandra. Check us out at twitch dot tv slash
Speaker 1: for twenty Day Fiance. A tweet that I like, I
Speaker 1: think I have to Actually they're they're they're just very
Speaker 1: very wonderful tweets. The first one is from Tommy mcnam
Speaker 1: at Tommy mcnam tweeted, uh, starting my eulogy with my
Speaker 1: grandpa understood the assignment, Like, yeah, it's a great one.
Speaker 1: And then this is just a very very juvenile, childish
Speaker 1: tweet that I like. At Human Underscore not Underscore Bees
Speaker 1: tweeted we all dream of the Great British trip and
Speaker 1: this person mapped out all these sort of points in
Speaker 1: the UK, like for this road trip, and it's all
Speaker 1: stuff like shitter, tin ass hill, Aali penistone, cocker Mouth,
Speaker 1: dick Place, cock bridge and twat. So there's all of these.
Speaker 1: Uh yes, I just laughed at that, and best believe
Speaker 1: I checked because I'm like, I don't want to get duped.
Speaker 1: And oh, I thought you're gonna say, and they are
Speaker 1: in fact a human and not bees, because I'm still
Speaker 1: suspicious about that one. They are actually bees. They're definitely
Speaker 1: be a couple tweets I enjoyed. Rebecca Wiser tweeted crazy
Speaker 1: that you can have a job where you're responsible for
Speaker 1: saving a human life, or you can have a job
Speaker 1: where you need to send an email but don't. And
Speaker 1: that hit hard for me because my wife she comes
Speaker 1: home from a long day in the COVID tents and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm so tired. I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: sending to email all day. Uh. And then Andrew, he's
Speaker 1: thinking about these emails. Oh my god, we've been married
Speaker 1: long enough. But just the idea that she would give
Speaker 1: me a foot rub is the funniest thing I can
Speaker 1: possibly Andrew Nado tweeted a horror movie, but the killer
Speaker 1: wears flip flops, so there's an ominous twip fwip sound
Speaker 1: as he hunts you down, like I always one. That's
Speaker 1: so funny. Maybe maybe we could pair it with the
Speaker 1: sheet mask and sheep mask and they're wearing those flip
Speaker 1: flops that they give you the nail salon when you
Speaker 1: get a pedicure. Ye. Yes, I'm ready for self care
Speaker 1: self care slasher. Yes, terrorizing the spas. You find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jack Undersquirrel. Brian you can find on
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Speaker 1: that we talked about today is episode as well as
Speaker 1: a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what
Speaker 1: song are we telling people to go check out? We're
Speaker 1: gonna ride out on this Thursday to problems by St Panther.
Speaker 1: St Panther, I believe it's from Earth Buying, California. Shout
Speaker 1: out SoCal uh and it's just like a multi instrumentalist
Speaker 1: singer songwriter. So I'm you know, I love people who
Speaker 1: are literate in all of the musical arts and making music.
Speaker 1: And this track is like a funky sort of new
Speaker 1: new age R and B track. It sounds like if
Speaker 1: Erica Badu was like a millennial or gen Z kind
Speaker 1: of saying like her sort of deliveries is sort of
Speaker 1: in that way. So it's familiar yet now. So this
Speaker 1: is Problems by St Panther Awesome. The Daily Zyka is
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