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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. She is the brilliant, the talented Jamie.
Speaker 1: Wake up in the morning, feeling slightly giddy. Pack up,
Speaker 1: sunny and fleet. We're about to hit this city. Before
Speaker 1: I leave, grabbed my wallet and a couple of Tom's
Speaker 1: because when I leave for hot dogs, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: some yum. I'm done talking about the near as near
Speaker 1: as no time for ice Clearners, eanners, because this is
Speaker 1: the summer. Queners, Weeners, slice stop, keep those buns up
Speaker 1: all Chris, the Hamburgers can miss me. I want those
Speaker 1: furthers grew top onions, chopped mustard and that catch up
Speaker 1: stop bellish if you wish tucking hot Doug site. Guys,
Speaker 1: that was so long that from Uncle brew at the
Speaker 1: Underscore Brewre. The Brewer contributor really brought the heat today.
Speaker 1: I hope I did. It just means Weaners, I thought
Speaker 1: you were. I thought there's gonna be like hockey. I
Speaker 1: thought it would be a hockey reference to going tweeners.
Speaker 1: But I wass me for rejecting. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe some some New England hockey lord interject there, but
Speaker 1: oh no, no, uh, summer of Wieners, Wieners, how's that been?
Speaker 1: How did the Summer of Wieners treat you? Oh? It was,
Speaker 1: it was good. My body is I would say, basically recovered.
Speaker 1: And I have to kind of jump in for around
Speaker 1: too soon. But for people who don't know what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, what I'm saying, how's the summer of winers? How? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've just been having a ton of sex. No, I
Speaker 1: um have been working on a book about hot dogs
Speaker 1: for a couple of for basically the summer, and we
Speaker 1: were traveling around eating hot dogs everywhere all over the
Speaker 1: country and just been like talking and thinking about hot
Speaker 1: dogs for several months, the same stretch of months where
Speaker 1: a studies speculated heavy unspeculated that eating a hot dog
Speaker 1: takes away thirty six minutes of your one human life
Speaker 1: every time you do it. The summer eight like dogs,
Speaker 1: But I digress. How much time does that give you?
Speaker 1: At this point? Are you I've essentially a time traveler?
Speaker 1: You did how many? How many hot dogs did you say?
Speaker 1: You think you is around like two hundred, but I
Speaker 1: need I needed to do the minutes. Okay, probably like
Speaker 1: that you lost, right right? I mean as that's a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two hours. So it's like, fuck it.
Speaker 1: You know who who gives you? And also Sarah something
Speaker 1: something seratonin extends your life. It's kind of gravy exactly.
Speaker 1: It all comes out. That's about five and a half
Speaker 1: days of your life. Apparently that you lost, but I
Speaker 1: went up to see. I also fully think that if
Speaker 1: I looked deep enough into that study it was funded
Speaker 1: by like big Lettuce or something. I'm like, who did
Speaker 1: that study? How do you arrive at a figure like that? Lies?
Speaker 1: All lies? But the summer of Wieners. I know I
Speaker 1: was going to say, I was gonna say, it speaks
Speaker 1: a lot to Jamie's uh where Jamie is at that
Speaker 1: she thinks the I'm very competitor to hot dogs is lettuce.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know the thing the two things that
Speaker 1: you make a salad out of, either lettuce or you know,
Speaker 1: a bunch of hot dogs. Chapter one the food spectrum
Speaker 1: to the left, lettuce and on the other end the
Speaker 1: hot dog spectrum of lettuce to hot dog, um, and
Speaker 1: I'm unfortunately just fully a hot dog the one hot dog.
Speaker 1: One of my first memories is actually a hot dog
Speaker 1: experiment myself where I was staying with a babysitter and
Speaker 1: she was like, you're gonna have three types of hot dogs.
Speaker 1: We're gonna grill them, we're gonna boil them. And I
Speaker 1: forget what the third was, but yeah, I was like five,
Speaker 1: three hot dogs, like all different kinds. I remember one
Speaker 1: being a little bit burnt and uh and then I
Speaker 1: threw it, so yeah, you know, get burnt hot dogs.
Speaker 1: I say, I didn't like throw up from the taste.
Speaker 1: I think I just it was too much for my
Speaker 1: little bud for you. My dad also had like I've
Speaker 1: been very interested in how everyone has a story about
Speaker 1: hot dogs, even if they don't think they do. We're
Speaker 1: like my dad also, I was like, well, what's your
Speaker 1: hot dog memory? And then he was like nothing. And
Speaker 1: then two days later he told me the most like
Speaker 1: the weirdest story I've ever heard about him. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was that harsh to actually wait. Days later, hours later,
Speaker 1: you're walking out, He's like, Jamie, stopped, I need to
Speaker 1: tell you you need to tell you something I haven't
Speaker 1: been right. And then he told me about a time
Speaker 1: he worked at a like a dog track when he
Speaker 1: was fifteen, because he's very old. And and then he
Speaker 1: was like and he like ate ten hot dogs in
Speaker 1: a day and then he went to the hospital. I
Speaker 1: was like, that's a hot dogs story. Worry like you
Speaker 1: look me in the phase to say you have no
Speaker 1: hot dog story when you've been hospitalized over because that's
Speaker 1: like nineteen seventies hot dogs. That's a lot of nitrates. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think why when I saw like on I Think
Speaker 1: Drivers Die, like Triple D or some like food Network show.
Speaker 1: When I first saw like the Ripper those deep fried
Speaker 1: hot dogs they come from New Jersey, I was like
Speaker 1: fucking intersection of all of my belief systems. And I
Speaker 1: spent like an entire summer with like my buddies, Like
Speaker 1: we would like do all kinds of fat. We would
Speaker 1: fry the hot dogs in We rendered like five pounds
Speaker 1: of bacon to just deep fry our hot dogs and
Speaker 1: bacon grease, and we would spiral cut them so they
Speaker 1: have the most surface area for like maximum crisp. Dude,
Speaker 1: I got I've I've been very invested in that market.
Speaker 1: Everyone everyone has a ridiculous hot wait. I okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna spiral and I'll do it. Kathy, you haven't had
Speaker 1: my spiral cut hot dogs. Cathy really liked your irving
Speaker 1: she did? She did? Yeah, that's huge, put it on there, resume.
Speaker 1: What is something from your search history? Right So from
Speaker 1: my so all of my answers to all these questions
Speaker 1: all surround the same theme right now, so recent search history.
Speaker 1: The thing that is predominant in my search history right
Speaker 1: now is I'm looking for like really good cycling shorts
Speaker 1: because I recently got into like biking, and I went
Speaker 1: on this like thirty no forty something mile bike ride
Speaker 1: this weekend, and like my butt hurts, like my sis bones,
Speaker 1: like everything is in like deep deep pain, and now
Speaker 1: I need to like gear up and actually buy actually
Speaker 1: good cycling gear so ignorant like the like the padded shorts.
Speaker 1: And I'm also looking for like a different bike seat
Speaker 1: that has less padding compared because apparently that's better too.
Speaker 1: So it's like my search history is all about biking
Speaker 1: right now, and specifically about like my butt pain, how
Speaker 1: to relieve but pain from biking? Seriously, though, like a
Speaker 1: road bike gravel what kind of Yeah. I have a
Speaker 1: ten year old road bike that I bought when I
Speaker 1: was doing my undergraduate degree, and I never really got
Speaker 1: into it very intensely. And then I moved to New
Speaker 1: York City and I was too scared to bike in
Speaker 1: New York City. So but I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: friends who are very intense cyclists, and they are building
Speaker 1: up my confidence. They're taking me on rides. I went
Speaker 1: through Central Park this weekend in Times Square and like
Speaker 1: contended with those those cars and it was a good experience.
Speaker 1: I'm also getting on my bike, but I have I
Speaker 1: just got an electric bike just to like kind of
Speaker 1: commune around, so I don't drive my car as much,
Speaker 1: which is great, but part of it is I live
Speaker 1: in one of the most hostile places for someone to
Speaker 1: be on a bicycle, which is l a um and
Speaker 1: I like you, like my partner, she goes to show
Speaker 1: show bike into work, so she's like very comfortable on
Speaker 1: the roads. I grew up almost getting hit by cars
Speaker 1: to the point where I rolled the role. Mostly would
Speaker 1: ride my bike on the sidewalk, which is not supposed
Speaker 1: to do, just to like avoid the stress of that.
Speaker 1: But as I've gotten out more. I can totally identify
Speaker 1: with like the comfort level because like I at first
Speaker 1: hated cars like flying by me when I was on
Speaker 1: a bike. And now you know, I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm learning my safety like sort of protocols, how to
Speaker 1: keep my head on a swivel, you know, how to
Speaker 1: how to read my body to signal to other cars
Speaker 1: and things like that, and I'm slowly gaining that confidence.
Speaker 1: So like, defensive bike techniques are so important and I'm
Speaker 1: like slowly learning them. Yeah, New York is no joke,
Speaker 1: he I've I used to bike around New York lot
Speaker 1: and I have almost been sandwiched by a bus in
Speaker 1: between like a bus and a parked car. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I think Ellie is more hostile. I think
Speaker 1: it's because I see more people in New York and
Speaker 1: like I don't give a funk. And in that one,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, it must be easy to bike, But
Speaker 1: when I'm on the sidewalks of New York's like, man,
Speaker 1: I would not biking this ship at all. I guess
Speaker 1: it's all about you know, learning, you know, learning environment
Speaker 1: and getting used to it. Yeah, I'm just getting comfy
Speaker 1: on my bike. You know, yeah, I've definitely felt the
Speaker 1: pain of not having the right my my cycling pants
Speaker 1: were corduroy and uh yeah started a fire. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: one point it was not good, just leaving a trail
Speaker 1: of fabric behind you. What is something you think is overrated? Guys?
Speaker 1: Have you heard about this thing? The edipis complex? Have
Speaker 1: you heard of I can't believe it, that's all. Anytime
Speaker 1: you bring up Freudian psychotherapy, all everyone's talking about is
Speaker 1: the edipus Do you know what it is? Oh? Do
Speaker 1: I know? Like about the inedible complex? Yeah? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: kill your dad and you have sex with your mom
Speaker 1: and they rip your eyes out? What is that about?
Speaker 1: That's gross. I remember in high school we had to
Speaker 1: read Edifice Rex and I was like, bro, this is
Speaker 1: the one where had sex with his mom and rips
Speaker 1: his eyes out, And like my teacher was like, there's
Speaker 1: a lot more than just that, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say she was like
Speaker 1: spoilers people. I think it's just more like that this
Speaker 1: idiot who like young smartass, just be like, we don't
Speaker 1: need to read this. This guy bangs his mom or
Speaker 1: his eyes out. I can tell you everything you needed
Speaker 1: to know. Yeah, I'm the spark notes right here as
Speaker 1: a learned, learned man of books. Uh andy, is the
Speaker 1: Edipus complex? Like? Oh? Overrated? Like did Freud say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is something that happens like sometimes and people are
Speaker 1: like Freud said, we all want to funk our moms
Speaker 1: or is it did Freud actually say that? Ship? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not like Freud himself, it's our six society. It's
Speaker 1: our sixth society that like I like really fixated upon
Speaker 1: that and then turned it into like a porn genre, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that is wildly popular. What is it? If it's
Speaker 1: your stepmother though, that's the edible it's step step step step.
Speaker 1: I think the other versions the electric complex if I remember, right,
Speaker 1: But it's gross. Let's stop talking about it. What it was?
Speaker 1: It hasn't been Wait, what was the last time you
Speaker 1: had to confront something like this? Because I feel like, man,
Speaker 1: I haven't really I don't. I haven't seen it on
Speaker 1: Twitter recently, but I'm has something come up recently? We're like,
Speaker 1: here we go with the edible shit? Just like all
Speaker 1: these creepy billionaires are doing this kind of stuff, am
Speaker 1: I right? Billionaires killing their dads and sleeping with their moms.
Speaker 1: That's why we got to get rid of that. It's
Speaker 1: not about the it's not about any economic stuff. Is
Speaker 1: that they're these gross creeps. I mean you think Apstein
Speaker 1: is the only one, right, Yeah, they're all like that.
Speaker 1: What's something you think is underrated? Eli Not to invite
Speaker 1: too much controversy, but phone calls. I get it. I
Speaker 1: get that texting is useful in a lot of situations.
Speaker 1: I'm probably sixty text phone myself. But this kind of
Speaker 1: raw hatred that's come against the very idea of speaking
Speaker 1: on the phone in the last few years. It's really
Speaker 1: strange to me. It feels like a technological step backwards.
Speaker 1: They said, well, you know what if we don't have
Speaker 1: to write these letters and telegrams anymore, and we could
Speaker 1: just speak our thoughts into another person's head directly, and
Speaker 1: that we sort of undid that. That's strange to me,
Speaker 1: right that it's like now I can do instant tele
Speaker 1: grams to a person's pocket and telegram station. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're like, fuck no, Yeah, I definitely see like there
Speaker 1: is I don't know if it's generation. I think because
Speaker 1: like as it for me is like a teenager or whatever.
Speaker 1: Talking on the fucking land line was my blood, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, there's no other way to communicate.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a I M and ship like that,
Speaker 1: but the phone was like the next level because you
Speaker 1: could you could just leave the line open. You're both
Speaker 1: watching a TV show, not talking for fucking thirty minutes straight,
Speaker 1: doing your homework and stuff like that. And I so
Speaker 1: I think part of me, I still, I still have
Speaker 1: a love for those times, so I I definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't understand the hate for the phone. I guess
Speaker 1: if it's like for work or something, maybe that's why.
Speaker 1: But other than that, come on now, yeah, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you lose so much via over text, Like there's been
Speaker 1: studies that found that, you know, emails, just don't try
Speaker 1: to fucking tell a joke and work email because you
Speaker 1: are going to fail. People are not going to get
Speaker 1: it right. You guys are right to kind of compare
Speaker 1: to telegrams. I read every text that I received in
Speaker 1: the voice of a wistful Civil War soldier writing home,
Speaker 1: like in a Ken Burns documentary, so that that's just
Speaker 1: how my brain works. And you say stopped too, I think, yes,
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, well what else? How else do I
Speaker 1: read the periods out? Luck? Yeah, yeah, I agree, I'm
Speaker 1: on board. But you know this gen Z audience of ours,
Speaker 1: Terry a new one, buddy, there's only three people in
Speaker 1: the world. It will still talk to me on the phone,
Speaker 1: right yeah, so yeah, which is also funny when I
Speaker 1: think about it, like of the people and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I call him, like it's the same ten people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's another level though of like friendship though too,
Speaker 1: Like are you in the phone zone, because that's like
Speaker 1: when you know, you're like I have to call this person,
Speaker 1: I have to talk to them voice to voice. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm stuck in the phone zone with this one guy. Sucks. Man,
Speaker 1: Just give me to the text zone already. Yeah do
Speaker 1: you guys, Like when do you fit in your phone calls?
Speaker 1: Like my wife is really good at like staying in
Speaker 1: touch with people, my wife, and she'll like call them
Speaker 1: when she's driving somewhere. Like she's just like has a
Speaker 1: routine where she immediately like goes to her phone whenever
Speaker 1: there is like a free moment where I would be
Speaker 1: listening to a podcast. Essentially she calls people, right because
Speaker 1: podcast hosts are my friends and so that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have para social relationships, but I don't really have a
Speaker 1: time for it. It usually happens on the weekends for me,
Speaker 1: because like I'm I'll be like meandering and I'll get
Speaker 1: a text and then I'm like, funcket, I just need
Speaker 1: to call to keep this thing going. Or half the
Speaker 1: time I'll just call it because I'm driving and I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to continue a conversation
Speaker 1: over text. Wilder, It's more it's sometimes just born out
Speaker 1: of safety more than like I gotta talk to this person' yah, I'
Speaker 1: driving mills. Let's talk about the shoot in the car,
Speaker 1: so I don't have a routine. ELI will buy you.
Speaker 1: Mind's usually driving, that's kind of yeah, because it you know, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I think similarly to l a very car heavy city
Speaker 1: and it takes half an hour to get anywhere. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all my podcasts come while I'm cooking or cleaning. Mhmm.
Speaker 1: And then driving is driving his phone calls for the
Speaker 1: phone zone. Amazon would have a thing to say about that,
Speaker 1: as you'll get to later. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and there is a developing, worsening humanitarian crisis. On the
Speaker 1: other side of the border, in Del Rio, Texas, there
Speaker 1: are mostly Haitian migrants currently living under a bridge and
Speaker 1: basically just waiting to see if the United States will
Speaker 1: help them. Yeah, and the answer seems to be enough.
Speaker 1: It's sadly they're seeking asylum in the United States and
Speaker 1: with you know, Trump and Biden, they seem to be
Speaker 1: doing the same thing, which is basically telling them, no,
Speaker 1: we are unable to do that. Biden hasn't deviated much
Speaker 1: from Trump's policies, which is essentially like weight in Mexico
Speaker 1: during this period, and we will use a CDC guideline
Speaker 1: to sort of justify sending people back on flights no
Speaker 1: matter what, under the guise of essentially protecting the US
Speaker 1: from COVID. And a lot of people are really skeptical
Speaker 1: whether or not that is even having the positive results
Speaker 1: they claim to have by saying like, oh, these people
Speaker 1: have we got to get them out because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: But it's just a way to justify the inhumane treatment
Speaker 1: of these people who are seeking asylum. And you know, again,
Speaker 1: cramped conditions, glacial pace of processing people just we're seeing
Speaker 1: the same problems, you know, just sort of play out
Speaker 1: over and over, and predictably, Republicans are pouncing on this
Speaker 1: moment as like a way to paint displaced people as
Speaker 1: subhuman and also to try and create a scandal that
Speaker 1: they can campaign on for Joe Biden because xenophobia. It's
Speaker 1: a great motivating tactic for their base with just to
Speaker 1: point at something at the board and say, look what's
Speaker 1: happening because of Joe Biden. I get out there and
Speaker 1: vote for someone who will treat them like not people.
Speaker 1: And we've already seen pictures of the fucking border patrol,
Speaker 1: like on horses whipping people. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw those images yet, but it is a really, really
Speaker 1: terrible scene. And Biden, you know, it's totally aware of this.
Speaker 1: I think the dynamic, especially as it relates to the
Speaker 1: conservative sort of painting of this this incident right now.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why he's barely changed the policy
Speaker 1: since he took office, because he doesn't want that. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to give the right the the optic win
Speaker 1: of essentially being humane and allowing them to turn it
Speaker 1: into this guy's just he's just basically burning the borders down,
Speaker 1: you know, it's free for all over here at this point.
Speaker 1: And it's and then at the same time continued sort
Speaker 1: of disregard for Haiti's place in the Western Hemisphere and
Speaker 1: why we were at this place, because there's typically a
Speaker 1: really a strong connection between people who are seeking asylum
Speaker 1: in the United States are trying to get into the
Speaker 1: United States and US meddling in their country at some
Speaker 1: point prior to that and destabilizing it. And yeah, Katie
Speaker 1: is a really good example of that, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think, you know, the backdrop behind all
Speaker 1: of this is like the earthquake, it's Haiti having lost
Speaker 1: its precedent to assassination very recently. And yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: sad to see, you know, the fact that Biden isn't
Speaker 1: doing very much right now and is not changing post Trump,
Speaker 1: is not is not really reversing many of these policies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's um it definitely feels like an optics thing
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, it's it's the only way you can, man,
Speaker 1: I think, because already there's problems as it relates to
Speaker 1: you know, the the COVID mandates. As you know, he's
Speaker 1: trying to play a very walk of fine line with that.
Speaker 1: There's also like he's got the U N stuff happening
Speaker 1: this week where he's gonna try and like beg Mike
Speaker 1: mcrown to like like the US again because the whole
Speaker 1: submarine sale incident. But yeah, I mean I think I
Speaker 1: kind of saw vague reference to that, but because yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're like, hey, like we sell nuclear subs, not
Speaker 1: you guys to Australia. It's just it's all part of
Speaker 1: this pact of the New Zealand Australia sort of US
Speaker 1: sort of uh, you know, Pacific Pact against China. But
Speaker 1: you know when it comes to the Haitians, you know,
Speaker 1: like there have ever since that earthquake in twos, you know,
Speaker 1: it's caused many people to seek opportunity outside of the
Speaker 1: country at a at a like a larger rate. And
Speaker 1: then the pandemic killed off a lot of jobs that
Speaker 1: people had in places like Brazil or Chile and things
Speaker 1: like that. So they're moving further to try and find
Speaker 1: a way to survive. And this time there are a
Speaker 1: lot of social media rumors that were like fueling a
Speaker 1: lot of the optimism for these migrants, which essentially that
Speaker 1: they were like, well there's protected status for Haitians, but
Speaker 1: that was really only applying to the people that were
Speaker 1: within the United States, and now they're being met at
Speaker 1: the border with whips and horses and just saying like
Speaker 1: this now is not the time, and putting people on
Speaker 1: flights back to a country that is like verging on
Speaker 1: a like full on, like hot civil war, and so
Speaker 1: many people like this doesn't even make sense, like this
Speaker 1: is just this is like cruelty upon cruelty to do this,
Speaker 1: and you know, to the point of like US intervention
Speaker 1: in Haiti, this has been an issue. You know, Haiti's
Speaker 1: economic development was hamstrung the second that they liberated themselves
Speaker 1: with a slave slave rebellion from France, and France essentially said, okay,
Speaker 1: well will acknowledge your independence if you pay us for
Speaker 1: the lost property that the slave owners experienced as a
Speaker 1: result of you liberating yourselves. And those payments were being
Speaker 1: made from the beginning of the nineteenth century up until
Speaker 1: the last payment I think was made in the forties,
Speaker 1: the nineteen forties, and you know, again the US was
Speaker 1: very very quickly entered Haiti, like towards the or the
Speaker 1: beginning of the twentieth century, took over the Treasury and
Speaker 1: was sort of essentially saying, like, okay, for of all
Speaker 1: the wealth in this country is going to be redirected
Speaker 1: towards quote unquote debt that you owe the U. S.
Speaker 1: Or France. And this has just been this has kept
Speaker 1: Haiti from actually being able to grow as a nation
Speaker 1: and also be part of a global economy. So just
Speaker 1: like so many layers of of of trauma and death
Speaker 1: to deal with. But this is again, this is this
Speaker 1: is the thing that the American media or mainstream media
Speaker 1: will never do, is like give you a real primer
Speaker 1: on these countries where people are coming from and understanding
Speaker 1: what the U. S's role is and how they got
Speaker 1: to where they are, and on some levels should be
Speaker 1: arguing why we should actually be helping these people, because
Speaker 1: it's typically it's always reasons to like why we shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Biden famously said in like the nineties
Speaker 1: that like Haiti was just inconsequential to the United States
Speaker 1: and that's why he was focused more on the Balkans.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I actually didn't know he said that. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really and it's like very like he said
Speaker 1: it in very dark terms, like essentially saying like if
Speaker 1: it's sunk into the sea, like, we wouldn't really, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't think twice about it. Nineties Biden tells on modern
Speaker 1: day Biden a lot quotes from nineties Biden like what
Speaker 1: about Israel? And he said, if Hadi just quietly sunk
Speaker 1: into the Caribbean or rose up three feet, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: matter a whole lot in terms of our interest. Oh. Nice, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do not. That is wild. That is not a
Speaker 1: great quote. No, but he's nice. He's full of not
Speaker 1: great quotes, you know, like and all the time you're like, no,
Speaker 1: he said that. He's sort of one of those people
Speaker 1: you go, he said that, and then at the other
Speaker 1: side of your mind, yeah he said that ship. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I can also see that. Yeah. I mean the hope
Speaker 1: is that he is politically adaptable and changes and like
Speaker 1: kind of feels the the pressure to move towards the
Speaker 1: more humanitarian place. But that is yeah, well, when you're
Speaker 1: doing ship, like what he's doing at the border right
Speaker 1: now kind of suggests that he hasn't really changed that
Speaker 1: much with regards to it's not a fight he you know,
Speaker 1: this is like another thing, like I think he expended
Speaker 1: a lot of political capital the visibly because of the
Speaker 1: Afghanistan thing, Like we shouldn't have been there. This is
Speaker 1: always going to happen, So someone had to do it
Speaker 1: because every person before me lie to that they were
Speaker 1: going to do it. So we have to do this
Speaker 1: to like move things along. Yeah did I Is there
Speaker 1: a better way to do it? Yeah? Probably, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, immigration is just another one
Speaker 1: of those third rail issues in this country where if
Speaker 1: you suddenly have any movement towards a humane policy towards
Speaker 1: allowing people into this country or people who are looking
Speaker 1: for a better life or asylum, that all it's gonna
Speaker 1: do is you're gonna now have to face just a
Speaker 1: media culture war against this idea that you're saying, like
Speaker 1: America doesn't matter and this is just some place for
Speaker 1: people to come flood and be dirty or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I don't think, yeah it doesn't. See, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many people have moved sort of past being able
Speaker 1: to look at a situation like that and kind of
Speaker 1: not have that take up all the oxygen in a
Speaker 1: in the news. Yeah, it's another example of just you know,
Speaker 1: the the U. S. Government basically understaffing the people who
Speaker 1: are processing people who are making claims of asylum, and
Speaker 1: then you know, they even if they had the right
Speaker 1: policy in place, they would you know, just be like yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's the same thing with the distribution of rent
Speaker 1: relief and you know, the eviction ban. It's like they
Speaker 1: don't they they can have all these big ideas and policies,
Speaker 1: but then they don't actually staff it up, so you
Speaker 1: don't have the bureaucuracy in place to actually do anything
Speaker 1: with your with your ideas. Right. I think Deli del
Speaker 1: Rio is having a huge problem with that, like specifically
Speaker 1: right because they're resting a bunch of people, They're putting
Speaker 1: a lot of these people in jail, and they just
Speaker 1: don't have the staff to like to like take care
Speaker 1: of these individuals to process them. Like it's it's it
Speaker 1: really is like in Del Rio. It is bad right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the sad thing is that all these images just
Speaker 1: will make someone who's not as informed just think that
Speaker 1: there's no solution to something like this, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we have border patrol, we have you know,
Speaker 1: customs people who work on this, but they still I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is this is why we got to
Speaker 1: just tighten stuff up rather than really understanding like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not, we're not we're not servicing these people in
Speaker 1: the in the manner that we should be. We're not.
Speaker 1: We're not creating the we don't have the actual infrastructure
Speaker 1: to deal with this because this isn't This is only
Speaker 1: going to increase um as climate changes uh and gets
Speaker 1: more intense and causes more like environmental disasters. People are
Speaker 1: going to move. That's just a nailed on fact of
Speaker 1: our our world, and borders are not. People still move,
Speaker 1: So there is some like I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: when that reckoning is gonna come, but you know that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge part of how we adapt to
Speaker 1: the changing world is understanding that, like we we have
Speaker 1: to let go of these ideas of like no, you're
Speaker 1: from there, you can only stay there, and you stay
Speaker 1: there until you die, and if you don't, like, don't
Speaker 1: even think about coming here, because we only have enough
Speaker 1: for us, stuff for us, and we're not even worried
Speaker 1: on trying to think of how we can make it
Speaker 1: all work. I mean, for a lot of people, the
Speaker 1: reckoning is already happening, Like the you know, human Rights
Speaker 1: Watch published a letter on Wednesday of last week just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, the this policy of like heavily guarding the
Speaker 1: roots that people across the border that are hospitable, so
Speaker 1: that pushing people to extremely hot and unforgiving terrain, Like
Speaker 1: they are killing people. They're straight up killing people as
Speaker 1: the world gets hotter and hotter. Heat waves are already
Speaker 1: the deadliest form of natural disaster in the US, and
Speaker 1: they're just pushing people into regions where like, in terms
Speaker 1: of how much it's changing, the number of days over
Speaker 1: a hundred degrees fahrenheit per year is expected to climb
Speaker 1: to sixty by mid century, up from the annual average
Speaker 1: of between two thousand, Like that's more than doubled in
Speaker 1: you know, fifty years because of climate change. It's going
Speaker 1: to really kill a lot of people. And but again
Speaker 1: it's like sort of this we're not doing anything, like
Speaker 1: they're they're the ones who are who are doing it
Speaker 1: type logic that conservatism by doing nothing, like just by
Speaker 1: by doing nothing rather it allows the Democratic Party to
Speaker 1: just not get called out for doing cruel things, but
Speaker 1: you know, passively do the cruel policy that makes it
Speaker 1: easy for them to triangulate with conservatives. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: so there are so many thoughts regarding heat waves. One
Speaker 1: is that like, actually nobody knows that they are like
Speaker 1: the deadliest natural disasters, Like people don't think about them.
Speaker 1: They don't happen in a as a shocking of a
Speaker 1: way as like a wildfire or or a storm. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's such a different kind of death. It is
Speaker 1: also an incredibly terrible death, and it's really really brutal,
Speaker 1: Like if you like look up an article that tells
Speaker 1: you exactly how people die from heat waves, it is
Speaker 1: not pretty. And on top of that, you have border
Speaker 1: patrol agents dumping water at the border, like when when
Speaker 1: these nonprofit organizations leave water for migrants along those routes,
Speaker 1: they dump the water out, And that that to me
Speaker 1: is really something that every time I think about that,
Speaker 1: it's just like I can't even imagine. I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine doing that as policy, right, because Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: way I think we have these departments set up, it's
Speaker 1: just to be like, Okay, who's who's willing to brutalize
Speaker 1: these people? There has nothing to do with compassion meeting
Speaker 1: these people with compassion. It's like these are invaders, So
Speaker 1: take away anything they have that would potentially give them
Speaker 1: safe passage, like you're saying, like cynically, just like cutting
Speaker 1: open water containers and just leaving it so there's no
Speaker 1: there's nothing for a fucking human person who's wandering the
Speaker 1: earth to try and have a better outcome for themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just fundamentally, we have just such a barbaric system. And
Speaker 1: I think I think just in general in most countries
Speaker 1: just think of immigration as this like dirty thing or
Speaker 1: a bad thing, rather than acknowledging our place in like
Speaker 1: a global community and understanding, like you know, at a
Speaker 1: certain point, I think a lot of Americans are under
Speaker 1: the assumption that America will be the best place to
Speaker 1: live forever, no matter what happens to the planet. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think not many people put themselves in
Speaker 1: a place with what if you were trying to cross
Speaker 1: the border and what does that look like? But I
Speaker 1: think exceptionalism has completely happy out of people's minds, because
Speaker 1: that's the only way you could look at this and
Speaker 1: not have any compassion. Like I think me and someone
Speaker 1: who's so worried about what the future holds for this
Speaker 1: planet and future generations, it's all I can think of
Speaker 1: is like, well that that could be you, that could
Speaker 1: be us, that could be I mean, except maybe the
Speaker 1: super rich, right right, the super rich are going to
Speaker 1: be just fine. And it's other than that, it could
Speaker 1: be anyone. Yeah, how do you want your kids and
Speaker 1: grandkids to be treated when they're trying to cross the
Speaker 1: Canadian border and like everybody's trying to get the funk
Speaker 1: out of America? All right, let's flush our systems with
Speaker 1: a nice story of down home activism succeeding. You know,
Speaker 1: last summer, there were a lot of organizations and schools
Speaker 1: circulating lists of suggested books and other materials to help
Speaker 1: broaden people's perspective on race and white supremacy. You know,
Speaker 1: not so anyway, like not all of them were done
Speaker 1: in good faith. That's probably we can discuss that another time.
Speaker 1: But in York, Pennsylvania, their school district's diversity committee released
Speaker 1: a list of all kinds of great stuff for students, teachers,
Speaker 1: and parents to check out, and like clockwork, concerned parents
Speaker 1: stepped in. They couldn't process the demographic changes in their
Speaker 1: community and decided that the reason that their community was
Speaker 1: less white was because kids are reading books about American
Speaker 1: anti black racism that seems at least that's the logic
Speaker 1: I've seen, like, well, this is causing more racing, huh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what are you talking about? The the comments
Speaker 1: at these school board meetings, and this is sort of
Speaker 1: pre the full blown critical race theory screaming matches like this.
Speaker 1: This this happened like sort of on the heels of
Speaker 1: the summer of last year. Parents were saying the same stuff,
Speaker 1: this is racist against white people. Like there was like
Speaker 1: a children's book that was like about Rosa Parks and
Speaker 1: it was like the most children's book I've ever seen, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't my kid reading this and then feeling guilty
Speaker 1: that they're white. No, and I can tell that this
Speaker 1: book is what it's what it's gonna say, rather than like,
Speaker 1: you know, being about a kid's book that's humanizing all
Speaker 1: children and being like there's nothing fucking different. So, because
Speaker 1: of all this outrage, the school board banned the materials,
Speaker 1: or rather they said they're putting a freeze on the
Speaker 1: list until they had time to review it because they
Speaker 1: don't like the word band. So the great thing is
Speaker 1: that the kids at this high school, they didn't let
Speaker 1: that stop them from educating themselves. And they certainly didn't
Speaker 1: appreciate the sort of like unilateral nature of these like
Speaker 1: books and articles and stuff just being restricted, so they
Speaker 1: started protesting daily. It started off with like a couple
Speaker 1: of kids, and then it grew into like the hundreds,
Speaker 1: and they eventually created the Panther I think Anti Racism
Speaker 1: Union student Union and there I think their mascots called
Speaker 1: the Panthers. But you know again that you love to
Speaker 1: see it. The great coincidence out of foxes and their
Speaker 1: parents were like panthers. No, so they their voices were
Speaker 1: eventually heard. They were able to go to a school
Speaker 1: board meeting to like sort of speak up on what
Speaker 1: they thought. And this one student, Eta Gupta said, our
Speaker 1: thoughts are being invalidated. There's only one portion of the
Speaker 1: community that this band represents and it's not ours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like it kicked off like a whole like domino
Speaker 1: effect of of support because they were so vocal, Like
Speaker 1: parents sort of were like damn okay, like I guess
Speaker 1: I should if if the students also care, like there's
Speaker 1: ways for me to also. It involved the like the
Speaker 1: banned books thing ended up with that one of the
Speaker 1: authors of some of the books, this guy Brad Meltzer.
Speaker 1: He came up to give comment, like the library said, like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't care what the band is, like,
Speaker 1: we will fully stock all of these books and make
Speaker 1: them widely available. And then on Monday, this school board
Speaker 1: unanimously voted to unfreeze or whatever, unrestrict whatever words they
Speaker 1: want to use those books and articles and documentaries. However,
Speaker 1: though along the way they were like mumbling stuff about
Speaker 1: socialism and like communism, even though well, you know, because
Speaker 1: communism obviously like we gotta keep it anyway, fine, it's
Speaker 1: nimous communism, the famous communist principle of doing what the
Speaker 1: majority of people want to do. Yeah, that's that's awesome,
Speaker 1: that's very encouraging. I do keep coming back to this
Speaker 1: idea that people are like pointing to, how like nationally unpopular,
Speaker 1: like some of this ship is, and like that, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the majority of people want like recognize that racism is wrong.
Speaker 1: And for some reason just popped in my head as
Speaker 1: we're doing this story. I think it was like my
Speaker 1: inner barometer was like this is getting too encouraging, so
Speaker 1: I have to put something depressing in here. That Nazism
Speaker 1: was very unpopular, you guys, it was told in the
Speaker 1: thirties for decades. Uh and and then they like below
Speaker 1: the thirties and then they swept to power. They never
Speaker 1: won a popular election. So you know, as long as
Speaker 1: this is hanging around, as long as they are trying
Speaker 1: to silence people who are telling the truth, you know,
Speaker 1: we we can't be safe unless we're you know, constantly
Speaker 1: fighting this ship. Like these kids didn't. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like we said earlier, the established power just coming
Speaker 1: in and saying, well, this is what this is what
Speaker 1: people want and uh, you know, and that not reflecting
Speaker 1: those opinions at all. Yeah, Well to their high school
Speaker 1: teachers like sort of gave this comedies like, man, these
Speaker 1: kids are like heroes, like you know, like I can't
Speaker 1: believe like the effort they put into this, and they
Speaker 1: that's like everything they did is commendable. But then you know,
Speaker 1: it's just sort of like this idea that he was
Speaker 1: sort of pointing out is like, you know, most Americans
Speaker 1: and school children and most parents they support this kind
Speaker 1: of educational material for their kids, like and and they
Speaker 1: know that it's actually unfortunately it's part of American history,
Speaker 1: but it must be taught. So it's just like a
Speaker 1: good a feel good story in that sense. But I
Speaker 1: think also, like to your point about like Nazis and stuff,
Speaker 1: I think kids now are just on people now they
Speaker 1: have an ear for dog whistles, Like where before the
Speaker 1: dog whistle only resonated with the dogs you were trying
Speaker 1: to get whose attention you were trying to get because
Speaker 1: it wasn't resonating at that frequency for you to be
Speaker 1: aware of. And I think so many more people now uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and and in some cases to an extreme,
Speaker 1: can be like can just sort of parse through things
Speaker 1: and understand like what's happening. And I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the best defense that we have, is that people just
Speaker 1: general awareness of like what discrimination looks like in most
Speaker 1: of its forms, that it's like hard to sort of
Speaker 1: like give it like a very you know, innocuous or
Speaker 1: euphemistic name of a bill or something and hope that
Speaker 1: no one notices. Right. I'm so blown away by the
Speaker 1: idea that learning about racist history is going to make
Speaker 1: people feel guilty. Like it might be my ego talking,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, I read about horrible racist white people
Speaker 1: in the past, I'm like, oh, thank God, I'm not
Speaker 1: like them, you know, it makes me kind of feel
Speaker 1: better about myself right away. They're good, there's a baseline
Speaker 1: at least, okay, doing better better, all right, I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not Nathaniel Bedford Forest good. That's a start. We
Speaker 1: just like about this guy, uh, Governor Morris. We did
Speaker 1: an episode about him, and he was this very very
Speaker 1: anti slavery founding father that we'd never heard of before.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're my wife and I talking about
Speaker 1: our public education and not having been taught about this
Speaker 1: guy and wondering why he was so buried, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like because he makes everybody else look bad. But
Speaker 1: I think in not studying these things, we also lose
Speaker 1: out on learning about cool people like that who were
Speaker 1: doing the right thing right, that there was someone standing
Speaker 1: up to them during the founding of the country, because
Speaker 1: before you thought it was that he we Love America
Speaker 1: signed by And also, like the way you're taught history.
Speaker 1: I remember I like, when I was very young, I
Speaker 1: didn't think slavery existed until the Civil War, right right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like that it was like
Speaker 1: a like it became a problem and like there weren't
Speaker 1: slaves during the their Wait what Okay, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, so it's funny how even how like
Speaker 1: when slavery is even introduced to school kids, like in
Speaker 1: a textbook, it's almost like it's almost treating it in
Speaker 1: a vacuum. It's like, and then there was the Civil
Speaker 1: War because slavery happened that one day. Yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: were trying to do a slavery and they the good
Speaker 1: guys fought them off, like the Avengers and one right,
Speaker 1: and they'll they'll tell you, well, it was the times.
Speaker 1: That's how people just were. They didn't know any better.
Speaker 1: And then you learn that all these people did know
Speaker 1: better and said, hey, this is bad, and Thomas Jefferson
Speaker 1: and everyone said no to that. So yeah, very clear.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a scene in Hamilton's, wasn't They left that
Speaker 1: one out? Hey, y'all trip it about slavery? Uh right,
Speaker 1: Like like they literally leave it unspoken. He's like, we
Speaker 1: know who's doing the planting. It's just like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: actually not good enough. Oh moment, I'm sorry. The bar
Speaker 1: is too low for that. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: And according to the National Retail Federation. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a fucking like the name of our government in twenty
Speaker 1: years exactly. Yeah, this is the party that we're all
Speaker 1: voting for in twenty years. I'm voting for the National
Speaker 1: Retail Federation. I'm gonna say it sounds it sounds like
Speaker 1: those guys from the Fan of Menace. Who oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Trade Federation. Yeah, like creepy Asian aliens. That was
Speaker 1: that racist? Yeah, no, let's just ignore that. Love the
Speaker 1: prequels and ignore all that stuff. Yeah for sure, I'm
Speaker 1: a prequel kid. What are you talking about? Um? But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like we're gonna we're gonna be run by
Speaker 1: the Trade Federation in thirty years. Yeah. So they're saying,
Speaker 1: and this feels a little bit bold to me. They're
Speaker 1: saying one is going to be a record breaking year
Speaker 1: for Halloween spending. I feel like any pretty chin on
Speaker 1: like behavior that's that far in the future, it just
Speaker 1: seems a little uh cavalier based on like what we've
Speaker 1: just lived through. Like ma, but I would say, if
Speaker 1: you would use a folk if you were to take
Speaker 1: a focus to group that is just me, I would
Speaker 1: say that you're like, I love this, it's actually gonna
Speaker 1: be triple last year. Well, this is the thing that
Speaker 1: they're looking at, right, because they said when the CDC
Speaker 1: last year was like, do not do Halloween, assholes, do
Speaker 1: not do it. Please, for the love of everything that's holy,
Speaker 1: Just fucking don't nobody listened. People still spend over eight
Speaker 1: billion dollars this year. They're saying it's gonna be over
Speaker 1: ten billion dollars when it comes to costumes, decoration, candy,
Speaker 1: and they say pet costumes even more. That's the ship
Speaker 1: that's really on the come up is pet costumes. So
Speaker 1: a lot of this spending, a bulk of it three
Speaker 1: point three billion, is going to go to costumes. That's
Speaker 1: twenty seven percent more than last year. And then and
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, like the last time it was
Speaker 1: like spending was that that level is tween and then
Speaker 1: three billion on candy, another three that they think is
Speaker 1: going to be on decorations. And I know we've seen
Speaker 1: people lose their ship over the twelve foot skeleton, you know,
Speaker 1: like I've for like an entire year. We know people
Speaker 1: that have been up to Brandy Posey I'm looking at
Speaker 1: you who have been just cannot stop thinking about this
Speaker 1: twelve foot skeleton. So you know they're saying like that
Speaker 1: on top of the kids costumes, they just see it
Speaker 1: going up and up and up, but they're really the
Speaker 1: pet costume thing is experiencing a lot of growth. And
Speaker 1: that might make sense if people who actually kept their
Speaker 1: adopted pets from the pandemic, you know, that they would
Speaker 1: be dressing up their pets. Because for me, I don't
Speaker 1: really buy, I don't really dress up, but my partner
Speaker 1: and I we like to find shift for our dog.
Speaker 1: That's that is fun. Yeh, I can, I can definitely.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I see that part of the spending. I've
Speaker 1: already got a little tune squad jersey for my dog,
Speaker 1: and that's just like that's just the start it. What's
Speaker 1: your what? Which jersey? Is just generic tunes? Character, it's
Speaker 1: just generic tunes. Now, they didn't make like a specific
Speaker 1: like bugs Bunny like Michael Jordan's wte Oh that's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I mean, I'm it seems like
Speaker 1: a combination of like because the summer was shitty, and
Speaker 1: we do have vaccines, so people are going to feel
Speaker 1: a little bit more you know, lively. Yeah for Halloween.
Speaker 1: Plus you can do this ship outside. A trick or
Speaker 1: treating does take place outside, and I feel like to
Speaker 1: get into it, it's like you're not you can really
Speaker 1: just decorate the exterior of where you live and still
Speaker 1: kind of like get you know, express yourself like that
Speaker 1: rather than like coming inside and seeing all this other
Speaker 1: spooky ship that you have set up. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what what's your what's your take here done? I think,
Speaker 1: I mean my honest feeling is I think the reason
Speaker 1: like Halloween will be big this year and why it's
Speaker 1: kind of just like spooky season has been growing in
Speaker 1: popularity and like recent years, is is kind of like
Speaker 1: tied to the fact that we all feel like we're
Speaker 1: gonna die. We're all gonna die like in that like
Speaker 1: even before pandemic times, like you know, sucking global warming
Speaker 1: and all this, like we just feel very close to
Speaker 1: the brink. And I true believe that, like Halloween, it's
Speaker 1: like this little release valve every year we where we
Speaker 1: all kind of like get to collectively like laugh and
Speaker 1: have fun with death. So it makes sense to me
Speaker 1: that it has just been you know, I I feel
Speaker 1: like in the last I mean, I've always been kind
Speaker 1: of like a big Halloween fan. But I just feel
Speaker 1: like in the last like five to ten years and
Speaker 1: just seen a huge blow up online of people who
Speaker 1: are like I'm horror and I'm a horror influencer. I
Speaker 1: I like love horror, I love spooky stuff. Um So
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense that this would, like even
Speaker 1: outside of you know, whatever the trends are saying, like psychologically,
Speaker 1: to me, it makes sense that this is gonna be
Speaker 1: the year that we're all like, yeah, like fuck it,
Speaker 1: like so like laugh at the Grim. Let's not just
Speaker 1: like put on put on Pennywise costumes and laugh at
Speaker 1: the Grim Reaper, right, like I love this so funny
Speaker 1: that bloody knife hell yeah yeah yeah, after all, after
Speaker 1: the year we've had, like yeah, what's so scary about
Speaker 1: a bloody knife? There's There was another weird stating here
Speaker 1: that said six of adults surveyed had already picked out
Speaker 1: their costume for this year. It's like picked it out,
Speaker 1: like put it together or just like decided what they're said. Okay,
Speaker 1: if they've already picked out, like not to say that
Speaker 1: it's been purchased, but they know what they are going
Speaker 1: from or how they're going to dress up, which is wild.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm I'm definitely an outlier when it comes
Speaker 1: to Halloween. I think of something literally the two days
Speaker 1: before I had I would have to go to a
Speaker 1: costume party, Like I'm not. I have friends though, who
Speaker 1: are like keeping track of ship throughout the year and like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. That might make a good costume. That's they
Speaker 1: got their eye on it. And those to see in
Speaker 1: September already. Yeah, I think people are really to your point,
Speaker 1: Jo and I. I just think people are really ready
Speaker 1: to guy die. I think skipping Halloween like that's one
Speaker 1: that that's one holiday that like just the human like
Speaker 1: experience needs, Like we can't just skip Halloween. We need
Speaker 1: to dress up like gory car accidents and go out
Speaker 1: and walk around around each other. And my my three
Speaker 1: year old has been asking when it's going to get spooky,
Speaker 1: like for weeks now, which is early, Like he's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean not from my perspective, but I will let
Speaker 1: you parent your way. Yeah, Like what you're doing it
Speaker 1: could have been months ago. What are you doing? You
Speaker 1: have a you have a costume picked out? Joe who
Speaker 1: I have a cole? Yeah? So what's your what's your
Speaker 1: Like you're the rhythm in which you understand when you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a costume, Like do you have a deadline?
Speaker 1: Is this do you typically know by this time this
Speaker 1: of the year. Usually know by this time the year.
Speaker 1: I will say, like I did go through like a
Speaker 1: hard like kind of like as much as of Halloween,
Speaker 1: a hard like not big on costumes phase because I
Speaker 1: was doing a lot of like sketch comedy with UCB
Speaker 1: for a bunch of years, and costumes just didn't feel
Speaker 1: as special and I got much more into like spooky
Speaker 1: dress up, you know, like like Halloween like really nice
Speaker 1: like Halloween theme dresses, like suits, stuff like that that
Speaker 1: I still like, I still incorporate into my Halloween wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Like I just I'm very excited. I just got a
Speaker 1: like Beetle Juice inspired like power suit. I would decide
Speaker 1: that like amount you didn't like s halfway between Beetle
Speaker 1: Juice and The Good Wife, That's what like the look is.
Speaker 1: And I'm im, like, I have an event that I'm
Speaker 1: planning that for We're all going to like a little
Speaker 1: like spooky like Halloween cocktile souaret, and I'm ready to
Speaker 1: wear that four. But yeah, usually, like I don't know
Speaker 1: I don't really have a hall. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that I have any like consistent costume random it's just
Speaker 1: kind of like what I'm feeling at the time. I
Speaker 1: will say one of the like one of the straight
Speaker 1: up costumes we have planned out is Kate Raft former
Speaker 1: like former guests of the show and my comedy partner.
Speaker 1: We've I've always been very into the Chucky movies. They
Speaker 1: are just recently getting super into the Chucky movies, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do, uh they We're gonna do like a
Speaker 1: combo costume of me as Tiffany and them as Glenn
Speaker 1: slash Glenda. They're gendered on conforming like non binary child
Speaker 1: from Seed of Chucky. So we're gonna that's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of our costume or or one of my costumes.
Speaker 1: Not all of our costumes gonna be group costumes, but
Speaker 1: we're definitely doing that as a group at some point. Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1: What about you, Jack, You got costumes? I know you
Speaker 1: you you and your family. I see your family photos,
Speaker 1: you y'all, y'all go in. I have the same Batman
Speaker 1: suit that I wear every year. Just over when you
Speaker 1: say this if ill fitting Batman, Yeah, it's the crotches
Speaker 1: about like an inch too short, and so it's major. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you gotta it's Batman, who has a towel on
Speaker 1: Man just out the shower, low crotch Batman. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: our three year old is into superheroes. That makes it
Speaker 1: super easy. Our five year old is into trains and
Speaker 1: garbage trucks and he wants to be a garbage truck. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I have known that's like one of those requests
Speaker 1: for kids who have dads that are handy and like
Speaker 1: that it make building stuff and that that just doesn't
Speaker 1: mean So if you mean, have you ever seen those
Speaker 1: like really impressive like Transformers costumes that people may Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that into a garbage truck would be mind blowing.
Speaker 1: Don't let your kids hear that. Yeah yeah that was
Speaker 1: actually put your kid on really quickly, you know, would
Speaker 1: be cool. This video this little boy went from an
Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler into a robot. Yeah, that would be cool, right, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whenever I asked for stuff like that, my mom was
Speaker 1: just like no, and I was just like all right,
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll buy this one hat that's a swat
Speaker 1: on it and we're all black and I'll be Keanu
Speaker 1: Reeves from Speed. The first Halloween where I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing like we always grew up with those
Speaker 1: costumes that were like plastic mask and then like plastic smock,
Speaker 1: like just face on it. I was like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like how Elf dressed. But yeah, the first Halloween that
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I can just like I can
Speaker 1: make my own costume. I can build my own thing
Speaker 1: was like game changer for me. What was it? Do
Speaker 1: you remember? Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like former life.
Speaker 1: But I was very into the X Files at the time,
Speaker 1: and I put together a little like Agent Molder Coastic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Probably I wanted to. I felt I wanted to go
Speaker 1: with Scully, but you know, different times, different places, right right, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was that that is something I should do.
Speaker 1: I should fulfill that that dream at some point and
Speaker 1: do a Scully. I mean, Jillian's killing it right now, Jillian.
Speaker 1: I I am watching so much just like Files right now.
Speaker 1: Comic TV is just airing it all the time, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Holly, she's so good in that, She's so
Speaker 1: good in everything. But I'm just like, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: good taste. I had great tastes. Again, that's to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like so unique. I watched
Speaker 1: The X Files in the nineties. Come on, who else
Speaker 1: doing that? Like? I would watch the I would watch
Speaker 1: The Simpsons and the X Files. Like it's like unique
Speaker 1: taste back then. I know. Yeah, I'm a I'm a
Speaker 1: unique one. I'm an outlier. Yeah, alright, let's talk about
Speaker 1: some some like kind of topical Halloween costumes that are
Speaker 1: being floated. We went through Pop Sugars like list of
Speaker 1: different ideas, and I thought they were like some cute
Speaker 1: ideas in there. I think the one that was on
Speaker 1: the list and also Miles you found in the place
Speaker 1: you go for your Halloween costume advice The New York
Speaker 1: Post is the Bernie Sanders like sitting with the mask
Speaker 1: on Inauguration with the mittens, just look and unhappy to
Speaker 1: be there. They've converted that into what The New York
Speaker 1: Post is describing as a sexy Halloween costume. It's that
Speaker 1: e girl vibe because it's from dolls kill dot com.
Speaker 1: So they're going making it so that it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little a little bit something different for
Speaker 1: the youth. The coat doesn't appear to be trying to
Speaker 1: approximate what what Bernie was doing. But yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say my issue with this is that it's a very
Speaker 1: like performance space costume, so like to get that, you
Speaker 1: gotta like fully sit and do the post to get
Speaker 1: it across. It's like, are you ready to do that?
Speaker 1: Are you ready to do that all night? And this
Speaker 1: part of your I guess that's where a fun costume is.
Speaker 1: Like you would find a way to build the seat
Speaker 1: into the ass of your costume so you could be like, oh,
Speaker 1: who am I and then you just like boom, yeah
Speaker 1: the post and they're like, oh ship, I thre just
Speaker 1: somebody who was masking and had mittens on the other one.
Speaker 1: That's performance based And I don't know how you do
Speaker 1: it necessarily, but if somebody pulls it off, it would
Speaker 1: be amazing, is they They suggested doing some manner of
Speaker 1: recreation of the bidens next to the carters where the carters.
Speaker 1: I love that it look like they're like, I feel
Speaker 1: that's easy. I feel like that's easier to pull up
Speaker 1: at least there's something more evocative about that than the
Speaker 1: Bernie one. Like like, I think, yeah, if you like
Speaker 1: get this, like you know, I think you'd obviously you
Speaker 1: would be by you would be Biden. You'd be uh,
Speaker 1: one of the Bidens. And then you'd want to like
Speaker 1: make a little like chair with a little carter inside
Speaker 1: inside sitting on it like attached to your side, and
Speaker 1: then you would just kneel. I think that's great. You
Speaker 1: can give you do like you do like a Muppet
Speaker 1: style Jimmy Carter, and then you could do a puppet ship.
Speaker 1: You could be like, what's that, Jimmy, And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's a great idea. That's a performance face one.
Speaker 1: I like, yeah, see and as much. And I'm so
Speaker 1: excited by the idea. But then the second I think
Speaker 1: about the effort, I'm like, Okay, what I need like
Speaker 1: a child, like a child like a preschool reading chair
Speaker 1: that's like plush, or do I have to make one
Speaker 1: and wrap it in fabric then make a muppet That
Speaker 1: would be a good one for my family. I was
Speaker 1: like saying, if you have a kid that was five
Speaker 1: year old, yeah you could your five year old. You're
Speaker 1: going to Jimmy Carter. Yeah, no discussion. Yeah, exposely. When
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, like, okay, what did you want to be?
Speaker 1: I want to be iron Man, You're like, well, put
Speaker 1: this wig on because you brossling Carter getting this seat,
Speaker 1: get this chair. Yeah, there's uh another one that I
Speaker 1: don't know. It feels a little weird for so it's
Speaker 1: promising young woman woman the nurse costume. That's not a
Speaker 1: good I am not Yeah, because first of all, most
Speaker 1: people are just gonna think that you're a sexy nurse exactly.
Speaker 1: And then I guess you have to go into the
Speaker 1: explanation of like I'm specifically this sexy nurse and and
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I don't know that seems like
Speaker 1: you're like, oh that sounds traumatic. Yeah, costumes character, Well
Speaker 1: it's fine. Yeah, I guess it's a movie about how
Speaker 1: our society enables and excuses rape culture. And the costume
Speaker 1: it could have been designed by one of the frat
Speaker 1: guys in the movie. And you can't bob for apples
Speaker 1: and have a good story after. Yeah, by the way,
Speaker 1: like my character gets like murdered by one of these
Speaker 1: frat eyes like spoilers seeing young Woman. Sorry if you
Speaker 1: you're going to see it. Spoiler alert for promising young woman.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah? You know, yeah, this is me
Speaker 1: before I'm about to be murdered by um that guy
Speaker 1: from Glow, Yeah Glow, I forgot I don't know his
Speaker 1: real name. Yeah, I'm so bad with names, but yes,
Speaker 1: that was enough for me. But yeah guy from gil
Speaker 1: Yeah Carry Pachet's husband. This is me before it was
Speaker 1: day murdered by Carry him. So that's one of the
Speaker 1: bad ones. There's a bunch of Olivia Rodrigo looks like
Speaker 1: her album cover White House appearance. One of her videos,
Speaker 1: the Cat Lawyer with uh I feel like you could
Speaker 1: knock that out with just a color printer and UH suit. Basically,
Speaker 1: what was the cat Lawyer? It was a lawyer on
Speaker 1: a zoom call who couldn't get rid of the cat filter.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so you could just put a
Speaker 1: the cat thing is like the overly Mimi ones and
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to pronounce pronounced meme using
Speaker 1: as those those memi ones, those memois, Yeah, those are
Speaker 1: like they just feel like sort of flash in the pan,
Speaker 1: although I don't know why. At the same time, I'm
Speaker 1: like loving the Carter's and Biden's for like ship right
Speaker 1: there was actually disregard everything I'm saying. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. The only Memi costumes I want
Speaker 1: to say of Mimi from the Drew Carey Show, thank you,
Speaker 1: shout out my boy my one of my best friends
Speaker 1: in junior high. He went to Memi from Drew Carey
Speaker 1: Show and he killed that ship. That is very fun.
Speaker 1: You had a very cool friend. Yeah. He was just
Speaker 1: like because he loved the Drew Carey Show and he
Speaker 1: was like he was like his whole thing was like, man,
Speaker 1: Drew Carey is like too normal looking, bro, it's not costume. Like,
Speaker 1: we're fucking if I go as Mimi, I got the
Speaker 1: movement on, you know what I mean in the wig
Speaker 1: the makeup. Yeah, did Like did anyone give him ship
Speaker 1: or like when people just like fun? Yeah, most people,
Speaker 1: No one really gave him ship. Most people are just
Speaker 1: like confused. What people didn't understand like the reference and
Speaker 1: I didn't either because when he when he came to
Speaker 1: school like that said what the fund is this? He
Speaker 1: said me me from Drew Carey Shows, and I don't
Speaker 1: watch that show. And then then he then like he
Speaker 1: had to because there was no internet, like to readily
Speaker 1: show a reference photo. He had to like go home
Speaker 1: and bring a TV guide to the next day. It
Speaker 1: was like this person and I'm like, oh, yeah, that
Speaker 1: that tracks. Yeah, I love this kid. I wanna I
Speaker 1: want to know. I want to know where this kid
Speaker 1: is now. I love it. It's yeah, I love that
Speaker 1: you're carrying a show. Yeah. Yeah, mayor from Mayor of Eastown.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you just vape and are in
Speaker 1: a cold weather climate and can dress and cold weather clothes,
Speaker 1: that would be fairly easy. If you can get a
Speaker 1: wah wah rapper the yeah, you know, flash it out
Speaker 1: a little bit. That's that's like, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: going to be a very low effort costume. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: need like an M sixty five military jacket over like
Speaker 1: a unique clow down vest with a turtleneck. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: your vapan baby, you got to end. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: the weekend had some kind of iconic looks this here
Speaker 1: that would be easy, too easy enough to pull off
Speaker 1: with just clothes and a glove and some face bandages. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's those are kind of the ones that jumped out. Man.
Speaker 1: There are some other ones like in this. They have
Speaker 1: another article is like fifty plays clever costumes that will
Speaker 1: make you say, why didn't I think of that? And
Speaker 1: one is a chip on your shoulder and someone just
Speaker 1: is holding a bag of lace on their shoulder. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: that's pretty Uh why why didn't I think come on now?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know stupid? Oh right, because it sucks,
Speaker 1: because it sucks. Yeah, and I'm I'm pretty great. I
Speaker 1: would never think of or if you're a smart cookie,
Speaker 1: you're wearing a cap and gown, but's with like you're
Speaker 1: holding cookies. Yeah, a nose mask with in like a
Speaker 1: runner's gear for running nose. That was pretty boy. So
Speaker 1: don't do those. Don't don't do promising young woman or
Speaker 1: anything to Mimi unless unless unless les memo uh and
Speaker 1: or the carter or yeah if you can sendhow do
Speaker 1: both the Bidens with Mimi from Drew carry to? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: whoa what if that frost overhappened if Mimi Bobeck were
Speaker 1: a Biden? You remember her last name? Good job? I
Speaker 1: just I had to look it up right now. I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out where the who the performer,
Speaker 1: like what they're up to now, because a part of
Speaker 1: me was like, I don't know, did they go mag
Speaker 1: or something like Kathy Kidney seems like up? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly
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