Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two hundred, episode
Speaker 1: two of My Guys, the production of My Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. And it's Thursday, August thirty one.
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Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Grag.
Speaker 1: He's self faded, he's not a star. Buddy cries, cries,
Speaker 1: cries while he's in his car, thinking if there's nothing
Speaker 1: missing from his pipe, then why can't kiss smoke without light?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I just I just thought that should have
Speaker 1: out five minutes ago. Shout out. Yeah. Look. A part
Speaker 1: of my like mental health like sort of journey I'm
Speaker 1: going on is trying to use social media lesson less.
Speaker 1: So I checked the discord, I checked my mentions, see
Speaker 1: what's up was going on there, and then I kind
Speaker 1: of go back to doing like other work. And then
Speaker 1: right before I'm like, oh shoot, I need a k A.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I just try and you know, force myself
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Speaker 1: of the upcoming legendary podcast Heidi World The Heidi Flight Story.
Speaker 1: Please welcome back to the show, Molly Lambert. I don't
Speaker 1: know how this works. Molly Lambert a k a no
Speaker 1: ho mo m no homo ho mo. Because I'm Molly
Speaker 1: North Hollywood. That's exactly exactly the Lord, the Lord of Lancersham,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the fucking the Magnolia Maven film,
Speaker 1: Chandler Miles, you'll appreciate this. There's a fashion spread with
Speaker 1: Kendall Jenner recently in l magazine where it was like
Speaker 1: Kendall Jenner modeling the newest fall fashions in her hometown,
Speaker 1: on the streets of her hometown. And there's a big
Speaker 1: spread where you can clearly see a street sign for
Speaker 1: Sherman Way. Okay, she is such a usurper for the
Speaker 1: valley name. I know she's been there for you know,
Speaker 1: I will West Valley, West Valley. Yeah, and I get that,
Speaker 1: and like, and those are the kinds of people who
Speaker 1: act like they're not in the valley sometimes, like this
Speaker 1: other thing she got or whatever, the tequila brand, the
Speaker 1: appropriating you think she's actually been on Sherman Way though,
Speaker 1: Well she was in this photograph. I just started it
Speaker 1: was shocked that she was, you know, Sherman. Sherman Way
Speaker 1: is not glamorous Sherman That's like that was so funny
Speaker 1: about it is that I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be her on like Rodeo, and then it was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, they really shot her in the valley, right
Speaker 1: or like in her hometown by the Calabasas common You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Sherman way am, Yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: she's at Lost Hills. Shout out to the North Hollywood
Speaker 1: Vannes people and to the humble parts of the valley
Speaker 1: or miles and I originate from What's Up Team, What's Up?
Speaker 1: Just just living day by day is Lost Hills the
Speaker 1: same as Hidden Hills, is that you know there there.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think Lost Hills is a road that takes
Speaker 1: you to Hidden Hills, right, I think got it's like
Speaker 1: an exit for sure. Yeah. I think about it when
Speaker 1: I'm driving to Malibu because I go through the valley,
Speaker 1: because there's are those parts you go buy things like
Speaker 1: I'm never getting off this on this right in my life,
Speaker 1: keep going until we get invited to Drake's house for
Speaker 1: a party, right right exactly when he wraps about like
Speaker 1: Hidden Hills, that's uh. I just love it because it
Speaker 1: is so funny to me. Hire also just kind of
Speaker 1: like Calabasas from the part of the valley we're from,
Speaker 1: Like we're like, okay, hidden hill a Calabasas like soft
Speaker 1: out there. So to hear like rappers like digging up
Speaker 1: that areas, it's kind of it's like, oh, that's that's
Speaker 1: the that's your retire Well, rappers all moved to the valley,
Speaker 1: is what's funny? Like ice Cube lived in Encino for
Speaker 1: a long times, went to school for a while, and
Speaker 1: I feel like Snoop moved to like Chatsworth, which was
Speaker 1: really funny. Yeah, but again it's like you can get
Speaker 1: you can get more house for your money. And remember
Speaker 1: the stallion Aires who are on I love New York first,
Speaker 1: I remember that they were living right there off Canoga.
Speaker 1: I would see them at the at the Jerry's Deli
Speaker 1: right there all the time. Wow, I love it. Rest
Speaker 1: in Peace I think too real? Right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the conflict between real valley people and uh, the hidden
Speaker 1: Hills valley people is is the kind of central conflict
Speaker 1: of the great American text Karate Kid. Oh four sure,
Speaker 1: I mean that's more. That's also like right in Sceno
Speaker 1: versus like Van nuys Is he supposed to live in
Speaker 1: Van Nuysida. I just thought a movie for the first time,
Speaker 1: like pretty recently, and I was shocked how good it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: stands up. I did, Like I started a podcast for
Speaker 1: five seconds called dorm Cannon where I was just going
Speaker 1: to watch every Fracy movie. But I did a really
Speaker 1: good podcast with my friend Karen Thomson, who's going to
Speaker 1: be on Heidi World, about Karate Kid, because she was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's like a queer woman growing up in outside Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and like Riverside County. Like this movie spoke to
Speaker 1: me so much. I just wanted to be Daniel Song
Speaker 1: so badly, Like are part of the valley? If there
Speaker 1: was a party in Calabasas the kids who went to
Speaker 1: school out their parade that US kids didn't hear about
Speaker 1: this house party. Yeah, yeah, he's just showed up from
Speaker 1: cross Town where the bridge and tunnel that's even in
Speaker 1: the value and then everybody else, can you know, just
Speaker 1: just keep us. We're fine and that's why we're respectable,
Speaker 1: why we can hold our heads high because we didn't,
Speaker 1: we didn't grow up in Beverly Hills. Karate Kid and
Speaker 1: Rocky both gave me a complex where I thought it
Speaker 1: was like glorious to get the ship beat out of
Speaker 1: you because like the protagonists and both of those just
Speaker 1: got the ship kicked out of them constantly, raging bull.
Speaker 1: You could do a whole triple feature. Yeah, these men,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, it's mainly to get the ship kicked
Speaker 1: out of you. Just jack, just jack. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: did get once once. I got jump kicked in the
Speaker 1: chest by a bigger kid, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like Danielson to it. Yeah, I took it. Yeah, karate
Speaker 1: kid rules. I just was astonished that it had like
Speaker 1: like gravitas, you know that they get into like internment
Speaker 1: camps and stuff. I was just, yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: real movie. This is like a seventies movie in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Like I thought it was just gonna be all like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're the best, You're fucking killing it, punching
Speaker 1: everybody with karate. Yeah, but no, it's like it's like
Speaker 1: a sad movie. It's great. Yeah. That song You're the
Speaker 1: Best Round was originally written for Rocky three. Wow, You're
Speaker 1: the little best all around. Nothing's going to be That's
Speaker 1: what I thought that that song was what I thought
Speaker 1: the movie was going to be. Like it was just
Speaker 1: like how many how many parents did cocaine with a
Speaker 1: baby bjorn On with that song playing around looking at
Speaker 1: I mean, like specifically, my guests welcome my house party,
Speaker 1: like in Resita specifically. Yeah, everybody, everybody, all right, Molly,
Speaker 1: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell a listeners
Speaker 1: just a few of the things we're talking to about.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Hurricane Ida and the looting myths
Speaker 1: that are already taking hold. Not even like they're not
Speaker 1: saying that looting is happening, they're like looting fear, which
Speaker 1: is pretty wild. We will talk about the new trend
Speaker 1: that walking is for libs. We'll talk about Jonathan Davis
Speaker 1: from Corn who is bumming everybody out with very bad
Speaker 1: COVID symptoms, but he's still like trying to push through
Speaker 1: bumpt Yeah, come on, you can't even hit them anymore.
Speaker 1: Kid Rock is pissed at COVID. We'll talk about why
Speaker 1: movie theaters are not coming with the VAS mandate for
Speaker 1: for some reason. I I honestly don't know. I can't
Speaker 1: figure that out. But it's not even an easy answer,
Speaker 1: like money, right, because because money wouldn't make it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's less profitable for them to avoid doing
Speaker 1: it anyway, Molly. Before we get to any of that ship,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history? Last night, I was reading about boxers
Speaker 1: because everybody was watching the No like like like the
Speaker 1: Fisty Cuffs was because m my friend Jay King was
Speaker 1: talking about Logan Paul, the logan or Jake Paul, who's
Speaker 1: the one who fights mm A or whatever they both do,
Speaker 1: just talking about how Jake is like a good character
Speaker 1: for fighting because he's like a villain and everyone knows
Speaker 1: it and wants to see him get punched in the face.
Speaker 1: And if you know that, you're the guy back to
Speaker 1: the Karate kids, if you're the guy that like people
Speaker 1: will tune in to see you get punched in the
Speaker 1: face and you're cool with that, that's a good lane.
Speaker 1: That's a good lane. So yeah, I was comparing him
Speaker 1: to other I was trying to look up, like, who
Speaker 1: were some other like famous Irish boxers, and then I
Speaker 1: found this guy whose name I already forget, but who
Speaker 1: it was, like a famous Irish boxer who was also
Speaker 1: like an actor, and I was like, that's Jake Paul. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And he was he also doing like black people versus
Speaker 1: white people boxing matches too. I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: was also what the nineteen thirties was all about, right, folks, Right,
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh, it's weird that all the
Speaker 1: boxers were black, Jewish, Italian and Irish, almost like those
Speaker 1: are the people that had to take the money to
Speaker 1: get their lives punched out, right, Like sort of, then
Speaker 1: did you see yesterday? A lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: did he take money to lose that fight? Because everyone
Speaker 1: was like, if you just kept fighting him, you would
Speaker 1: have probably won. But then Woodley lost in a swit decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody was mad because they just tuned in to
Speaker 1: see Jake Paul got his lights clock. Yeah. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing, you know what, And it's perfectly as a
Speaker 1: money making scheme, that's what you do. It's like, well
Speaker 1: that's what I was saying, like for a YouTuber, if
Speaker 1: you can get paid to just get punched in the
Speaker 1: face and you get like a few million dollars every time,
Speaker 1: like you that into and you're an idiot who doesn't
Speaker 1: need a brain to function, keep doing that. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: then also recently I looked up the Paul siblings and
Speaker 1: found out we have the exact same white ethnic background red. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're a little bit Irish English and a little bit
Speaker 1: German and Jewish allegedly, Okay, I think I was also like,
Speaker 1: the Paul brothers are Jewish, like I know nothing. And
Speaker 1: also is that my internalized anti Semitism for seeing these
Speaker 1: blonde idiot guys and not thinking try you know, aryan
Speaker 1: gods fighting on pay per view or most people are.
Speaker 1: The other part is I like how many people steal
Speaker 1: the fights to to also be like, first of all,
Speaker 1: I need to see him get his as beat. Part two,
Speaker 1: I'm not paying to get his ass beat because I
Speaker 1: know part three he probably has the fight rigged or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He keeps fighting, I mean, he's carefully
Speaker 1: like selecting his opponents. Even though this guy was a
Speaker 1: professional mm A fighter who used to be successfully hadn't
Speaker 1: want to fight and like eight fights and he's smaller
Speaker 1: than him, he keeps fighting people who are much smaller
Speaker 1: than him because he's figured out that that's a massive
Speaker 1: advantage people basically outside his weight class. They're sort of
Speaker 1: turning it into wrestling, which is like, yeah, pretty smart. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's very I mean, if he hadn't invented himself, like
Speaker 1: a like wrestling or like boxing promoter would have invented
Speaker 1: him to make money off of like evil social media
Speaker 1: influencer guy who everybody wants to see get destroyed, who
Speaker 1: like keeps selecting his his opponents so that they will
Speaker 1: never destroy him, and we just keep tuning and being like,
Speaker 1: this is the one I really want the guy who's
Speaker 1: sixty pounds lighter in h a nine inch or short order.
Speaker 1: This time, this will be the one that will be Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had no hope for this last one. I am
Speaker 1: hoping that he fights Myles Garrett though, the guy from
Speaker 1: the Browns who would just fucking demolish him. I hope
Speaker 1: he fights Miles Great. Yeah, I was gonna say. I thought, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like Smiles back here. You could take him dirty,
Speaker 1: you could sucking, you could you could hurt Paul or
Speaker 1: I'll just start off crying again. Though. You might just
Speaker 1: see him at a Calabasas house party and like right
Speaker 1: exactly and then like push him. He looks at you
Speaker 1: the wrong way and he says, he says, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? And he does look just like Zapka, the
Speaker 1: villain from the karate kid. That's also and if he
Speaker 1: was like, hey, what are these uh East Valley kids
Speaker 1: doing out here in count Bass? Oh? What are we
Speaker 1: doing here? Maybe? And then we're just all the goons
Speaker 1: come in and we and we steal all the things
Speaker 1: that aren't nailed down, Like we went at old house
Speaker 1: parties and does everybody come out? Would just do this ashtray?
Speaker 1: It was made of marble. There you go. What is
Speaker 1: what's something you think is over a board games? Board games? Okay, yeah, bruins.
Speaker 1: I was like, it would be so fun to play
Speaker 1: a board game. Is it a board game where you
Speaker 1: made to play? Recently? Um, I don't do it anymore
Speaker 1: because every time I like made to play, I'm like
Speaker 1: I'm also a little bit short attention span, So definitely
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, that's enough of this, right? Even done
Speaker 1: yet You're like, I'm the last one in the rotation.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? My friends tried
Speaker 1: to play Clue and it's like it's not as fun
Speaker 1: as you might remember it being. Yeah, yeah, I've tried
Speaker 1: to play I like guess who? Yeah, yeah, Connect four?
Speaker 1: I mean that's not really a board game, but you know,
Speaker 1: but like those are more in line with very attention span. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that game very basic like derivations on like very classic games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty questions is like to blackjack. Blackjack is the length
Speaker 1: of my attack? I'm chump span like board game. Just
Speaker 1: in terms of games, I feel like even like Pokemons
Speaker 1: are playing poker. The other night, I was, can't play poker.
Speaker 1: It takes too long. Everyone's gotta pay too much attention. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get invited to poker nights are used to when
Speaker 1: I was like a thing, Yeah, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I just don't. I know, you may think I would
Speaker 1: love to sit around the table, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just people are always like we'll sit around and we'll
Speaker 1: hang out and play poker, and it's like, no, you're
Speaker 1: gonna play poker or you're gonna hang out. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no situation in which there isn't one person who's like,
Speaker 1: come on, guys, were playing very seriously. But also like
Speaker 1: if there's any money involved, people start taking it seriously
Speaker 1: and that is not fun, not fun to Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 1: all games overrated, all group activity games. Yeah, what is
Speaker 1: something you think is under rage? Underrated? Stone fruit really
Speaker 1: into stone fruit? Right now? It's stone roots season, and
Speaker 1: there's just one stand at the water Farmer's market that
Speaker 1: has just like a hundred kinds of plums and peaches
Speaker 1: and things you've never seen before, like what like like
Speaker 1: there's you know, plutts and stuff like some of your
Speaker 1: basic hybrids that I see that written down. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's like an apricot and a plum hybrid. And also
Speaker 1: like all of the hybridizing is fine because I found
Speaker 1: out a few years ago that everything is a hybrid.
Speaker 1: Every like third that we have is like hybridized from
Speaker 1: a hundred kinds of fruit and like not doesn't grow
Speaker 1: naturally that way. But yeah, there's one called a lipstick
Speaker 1: plum that is incredible. There's one called a flavor grenade.
Speaker 1: Sounds brought to you by the makers of Monster Energy. Welcome.
Speaker 1: You want to fucking flavor. You want this plum to
Speaker 1: blow up in your stomach with deliciousness. It is really
Speaker 1: a flavor granade. So yeah, I've just been getting into
Speaker 1: stone for it, right. I get just googled flavor grenade
Speaker 1: because I'm like, is this like a vague flavor? And
Speaker 1: then I see an article that says how to eat
Speaker 1: a flavor grenade? Blue out and I'm like, whoa, how
Speaker 1: how twos? Because you can't handle the flavor. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: like that's what's been bringing me bringing me joy lately
Speaker 1: is getting different kinds of stone fruit that I've never
Speaker 1: had before, or just like a really fucking good peach
Speaker 1: and being like, you know what, I appreciate that I
Speaker 1: can't get this year around. Yeah, I feel like peaches.
Speaker 1: The difference between a peach in season and off season
Speaker 1: is like one of one of the biggest differences. And fruit,
Speaker 1: like a really good juicy peaches unparalleled. I don't of
Speaker 1: plums too. We have like a plum tree in my
Speaker 1: parents yard always, and I think plums are underrated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very sweet. People talk about that poem all the time,
Speaker 1: like we don't talk in off about help Hew. Plums
Speaker 1: are really good. The Williams Carlos Williams home. I think
Speaker 1: I have. I have eaten the plums that were in
Speaker 1: the refrigerator, forgive me. They were so sweet and delicious,
Speaker 1: so cold and so delicious. People are always doing jokes
Speaker 1: about it on Twitter, but I'm always like, you know what,
Speaker 1: into something there. I wouldn't all those plums lee cheese
Speaker 1: or as I call liches or delicious. That's the colonizers
Speaker 1: called them French French just after Nick m Hmlicia. I'm
Speaker 1: I around a flavor grenade now now that you say that,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at this picture of it, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've not seen like I'm so used to purple looking
Speaker 1: plums and this has like this sort of almost red
Speaker 1: or red green apple. Right, They're like the coolest colors.
Speaker 1: They have different textures, like some of them are like
Speaker 1: crunchier and some are softer. Is the name you know?
Speaker 1: Is it actually paying off on the name? Yeah, for sure, Okay,
Speaker 1: cool because you know, you know how it is. And
Speaker 1: I like it because they're just like you. And especially
Speaker 1: with like plums, it's like they're along this spectrum of
Speaker 1: sweetness and tanginess or like summer, like tangier and summer sweeter.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm devoting my life to now, is
Speaker 1: exploring the spectrum of stone fruit. So perfect, stone fruit hive,
Speaker 1: rise up, shout out the flave needs you know, we
Speaker 1: see you, Flavens. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. And we're back. And as we
Speaker 1: record this, New Orleans is without power. I'm expected to
Speaker 1: be without power for a while for hours, and it's
Speaker 1: a hurricane. I'da it hit landfall like at a record
Speaker 1: strength and also like I think set a record for
Speaker 1: how quickly it intensified. It like went up eighty miles
Speaker 1: per hour in wind speed twenty four hours, which is unprecedented.
Speaker 1: So we don't know much about what's happening in New
Speaker 1: Orleans because everything has been just knocked back to the
Speaker 1: stone ages. But the attention of the mainstream conservative media
Speaker 1: inevitably turns to looting. Big headline on the front page
Speaker 1: of Drudge Report, which is one page that gets as
Speaker 1: many page views as like the entire New York Times.
Speaker 1: It says looting fear in big red letters, which is
Speaker 1: like the hot headline, and it just sends you to
Speaker 1: a local news report that the police are saying they
Speaker 1: will be prepared for looting. Like no reports of anything
Speaker 1: coming out of the area. But you know, one of
Speaker 1: the first stories we talked about on this show was
Speaker 1: when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston and there were a bunch
Speaker 1: of like fake Facebook groups claiming to be like the
Speaker 1: Twitter accounts to Twitter accounts. Yeah, there were clearly like
Speaker 1: white guys inventing marauding gangs just to basically justify murder
Speaker 1: and it it seems like that is more and more
Speaker 1: like for first of all, that's just studies have found
Speaker 1: that that is not really a problem in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of these major storms. It's just been widely and wildly
Speaker 1: exaggerated because it's the sort of thing that they spends
Speaker 1: saying that the news is just gonna report on something
Speaker 1: that people will be like, oh, the chaos of it,
Speaker 1: rather than something that is true and honest. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: crazy also to look at how Yeah, it's just the
Speaker 1: same exact narrative as we have in Los Angeles stirring
Speaker 1: the LA riots. It's like anytime there is a large
Speaker 1: you know, anytime people are out, that's immediately it becomes
Speaker 1: about like poleasting and stealing, not people are out, which
Speaker 1: is the real story. That's too complex. It's not like even,
Speaker 1: like you said, even with Afghanistan too, the talk is
Speaker 1: like all just about how many people got out? How
Speaker 1: many people did Biden get out? Today it's like, hold on,
Speaker 1: you just let George Bush sob about it and not
Speaker 1: be a critical at all about this guy. Like really, god,
Speaker 1: it's really I can't believe that happened, rather than being
Speaker 1: like sir, sir started with you, do you have anything
Speaker 1: to actually say about this, because this isn't this kind
Speaker 1: of this has your ship all over it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it seems like the you know, the more and
Speaker 1: more we see that the media is just unable to
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I mean the so the there's act
Speaker 1: actually like a lot of academic research into this, and
Speaker 1: the academics are always surprised at the degree to which
Speaker 1: the existing like police and government failed in in the aftermath,
Speaker 1: and the degree to which these like spontaneous community groups
Speaker 1: come together to aid each other, which is like such
Speaker 1: an amazing, like counterintuitive, heartwarming, like just all the things
Speaker 1: that you think the media would want to cover and
Speaker 1: the exact thing that a society that seems to be
Speaker 1: like everywhere nodds with one another and crumbling would like
Speaker 1: desperately need to see, and instead it's covered up. And
Speaker 1: instead they use these isolated incidents to create, you know,
Speaker 1: a false sense that the purge is happening outside, right,
Speaker 1: and how much purge content do we have versus uplifting
Speaker 1: stories of communities coming together to aid each other mutually, right,
Speaker 1: especially with the Hurricane Ida, it's like, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just again, we see this every time now, But what's
Speaker 1: happening on the news, the TV news is so different
Speaker 1: from what's happening on Twitter, which is people like begging
Speaker 1: for help, which is you know, both like good that
Speaker 1: anyone has an Internet connection that they can even post
Speaker 1: right now, but also just horrifying to watch people being like, please,
Speaker 1: somebody come help us, like no one's helping us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And this so this media bias and media myth actually
Speaker 1: kills people obviously, like the racists go out with guns
Speaker 1: trying to stop the looting and you know, kill people,
Speaker 1: but also resources are diverted. Like Robert Evans has a
Speaker 1: new season, If It Could Happen Here that focuses on
Speaker 1: the coming sort of climate change post normal society that
Speaker 1: we're actually kind of already seeing, and he talks about
Speaker 1: this hurt or massive earthquake that happened in Alaska in
Speaker 1: the sixties and it's one of the disasters where they
Speaker 1: actually got like boots on the ground academics there to
Speaker 1: study the disaster response, and they found that the first
Speaker 1: thing the police did was deputized a bunch of half
Speaker 1: drunk volunteers to stop people from quote looting, even though
Speaker 1: no looting have been observed. The police chief was so
Speaker 1: worried about disorder that he almost immediately suspended the search
Speaker 1: for survivors to focus on. Like what you to focus on?
Speaker 1: And like the fact that the New Orleans Police Department,
Speaker 1: as the story that's being linked from judges talking about,
Speaker 1: is currently focused on stopping looting, is you know, a
Speaker 1: miss use of resources instead of just getting supplies to
Speaker 1: survivors helping stranded survivors. They're like the first of all,
Speaker 1: like it shouldn't even be a crime, Like when people
Speaker 1: are desperately in need of resources and everything has crumbled
Speaker 1: and like there's fucking things to people can let people
Speaker 1: if people are because they don't have enough. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: focus on looting people are. They're not selling frozen ego
Speaker 1: waffles on eBay a couple of hours later, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like I don't and I don't care.
Speaker 1: Or if someone takes the TV like yeah, honestly, who
Speaker 1: gives a ship like it cares? It reminds me of
Speaker 1: the whole thing in America where if anybody gets caught
Speaker 1: like exploiting the social safety net in a way like
Speaker 1: that becomes like this massive story and like the first
Speaker 1: question that anyone has to answer to about like social
Speaker 1: you know, unemployment benefits, is like, how are you going
Speaker 1: to prevent people who don't deserve them from getting them?
Speaker 1: And it's just two out of a thousand somebody I
Speaker 1: was just tweating at me too, because I was treating
Speaker 1: about unemployment benefits ending in California soon and they are
Speaker 1: in Louisiana and said they've been evacuated and that they
Speaker 1: are that Louisiana cut off unemployment recently before the hurricane,
Speaker 1: so that people who are unemployed right now and going
Speaker 1: through the hurricane and evacuating, like are also being cut
Speaker 1: off from unemployment, which is insane because they need it
Speaker 1: right now very badly. Yeah. Yeah, there's this really again,
Speaker 1: even with the media, they can't even look at things
Speaker 1: like survival crime and even articulate what that would mean
Speaker 1: to an audience. No, and like what does it mean?
Speaker 1: What are crimes of survival and why are people engaging
Speaker 1: in them? And like this big capital ce crime that
Speaker 1: they think everything fits under for sure. I mean there
Speaker 1: was a moment last summer during the l A protests
Speaker 1: that I don't know if you guys remember there there
Speaker 1: was like a camera crew and van knives where some
Speaker 1: some people were trying to get the police to come. No,
Speaker 1: it was like these people who had a pawn shop
Speaker 1: and they were like trying to flag down the police
Speaker 1: to help them protect the pawn shop, and then the
Speaker 1: police held them up at gunpoint because they were black.
Speaker 1: And this woman who was watching was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: these are the people who own the pawn shop. And
Speaker 1: like again, just like even in those situations, it was
Speaker 1: just crazy. Also to see the news who was trying
Speaker 1: to push this looting narrative confronted with this moment of like, uh, no,
Speaker 1: those are the people you're supposed to be protecting and
Speaker 1: serving that you are you know, assaulting and harassing on
Speaker 1: camera in front of this news reporter. Yeah, and rather
Speaker 1: than reporting on how bloated police budgets are, let's bring
Speaker 1: in Sheriff Alex Viennueva to talk about this military technology
Speaker 1: that's being deployed on camera right now, and like that
Speaker 1: would be the coverage. I mean, like what a fucking right?
Speaker 1: I mean we also see people in Los Angeles, We
Speaker 1: see the Sheriff's apartment like pointing assault weapons at homeless people.
Speaker 1: On the Venis board walk. You know, it does just
Speaker 1: feel like everything is so fucked up right now. And uh,
Speaker 1: every time we have a large crisis, like, on the
Speaker 1: one hand, it's very inspiring to see people banding together
Speaker 1: and donating and trying to help each other, forming mutual
Speaker 1: aid networks and the absence of any help from anyone
Speaker 1: in charge. On the other hand, it's still very disappointing
Speaker 1: every time when this is how act of God plays
Speaker 1: it out right, we'll call it an act of God,
Speaker 1: but won't give people the empathy that maybe God would.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've seen a lot of people talking about
Speaker 1: how the Cajun Navy is doing a lot of the
Speaker 1: relief work themselves in Southeast Louisiana. So yeah, donate to
Speaker 1: Cajun Navy Relief dot com. Those are private citizens with boats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go there. And there's a nonfiction book by day Beggers
Speaker 1: called zay Tune about the aftermath of Katrina. And this
Speaker 1: guy is just a contractor who has to have a
Speaker 1: canoe and goes around and like takes care of you know,
Speaker 1: stranded neighbors and their pets, and the National Guard like
Speaker 1: arrests him and puts him in federal custody for basically
Speaker 1: being a brown person and takes some months to get out,
Speaker 1: and they like continue to harass him for like years.
Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, I think the thing is not
Speaker 1: just that like they're bad at providing aid in the aftermath.
Speaker 1: It's like they actively prevent others from providing providing it
Speaker 1: because they have an incentive to make it seem like
Speaker 1: when they're not around and properly functioning, the world crumbles
Speaker 1: right there. The they're the last line between us and
Speaker 1: the fucking purge, right and again we saw in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles last summer they were the cops are the ones
Speaker 1: doing the purge against the citizens. And also I'm sure
Speaker 1: they hate to see that people are when the absence
Speaker 1: of police or whatever structured the infrastructure in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of a you know, natural disaster is absent, that people
Speaker 1: are just like, no, we're helping each other. We're not
Speaker 1: going door to door to fuck each other ups. It's
Speaker 1: about on some level, you the chaos brings out just
Speaker 1: sort of like this general baseline of humanity of people up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the overall statistics say that no crimes go
Speaker 1: up in the aftermath of a disaster. The only crime
Speaker 1: that has been shown to consistently go up is domestic violence,
Speaker 1: which of course you never hear about because it's a
Speaker 1: thing that the police don't don't care about because they're
Speaker 1: often complicit in it. And yeah, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: just I feel like, more and more these are the
Speaker 1: sorts of stories that like we need to hear because
Speaker 1: it's like the media and the just the news from
Speaker 1: the world is so bleak and they're actively being suppressed.
Speaker 1: The idea that like community community aid to mutual aid
Speaker 1: is a solution, like those are actively approved. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think people saw that through the pandemic too, that a
Speaker 1: lot of people are just like, oh, like we are
Speaker 1: really on our own here, and that means you have
Speaker 1: to take care of each other and that's uh it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah, the habits of the media, it's always like, okay,
Speaker 1: if it's a disaster, it's chaos and looting and we're
Speaker 1: not even to really bother looking for anything except these
Speaker 1: a couple of things we know, our stories that will
Speaker 1: report on. Also, you would think they would have learned
Speaker 1: something from how badly they covered Katrina, but obviously not, No,
Speaker 1: they didn't learn anything. And yeah, it's very horrifying the
Speaker 1: people because the people that are really getting sucked over
Speaker 1: in this situation are mostly poor and people of color,
Speaker 1: and the news just not report on them because it's racist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why are you talking about them? But yeah, you look
Speaker 1: to just even where things are happening. They called cancer
Speaker 1: Alley right there in Louisiana, Like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: low income people of color who live in that area
Speaker 1: who are right there the brunt of it, because that's
Speaker 1: like places are built in places that are going for
Speaker 1: fund sites. Yeah. There There's a an example where photojournalists
Speaker 1: posted pictures during the aftermath of Katrina of people walking
Speaker 1: through chest Water and when it was a white person,
Speaker 1: they were described as having found food, and when I
Speaker 1: was a black person that it was described as having
Speaker 1: looted food. And I think that's that's all you need
Speaker 1: to know about. Yeah, I mean you have to also
Speaker 1: think about, like how many of these people in Louisiana
Speaker 1: right now lived through Katrina And this is like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like your worst nightmare coming back right right? All right,
Speaker 1: let's uh talk about a new research poll from Pew
Speaker 1: that is revealing the one of the big differences between
Speaker 1: red and blue that we we weren't aware of. I
Speaker 1: wasn't personally aware of. Yeah, it kind of makes sense. Well,
Speaker 1: what is this new Where is this new arena for
Speaker 1: the political engagement? It is over the topic of walking
Speaker 1: around your town. Yeah, so when they look at the
Speaker 1: is they they just took a quick survey. And I'm
Speaker 1: just curious about, like, in the post pandemic, do people
Speaker 1: want to like live in larger homes that might maybe
Speaker 1: more spread apart with distance between them? Do would they
Speaker 1: rather be closer to people and be able to walk
Speaker 1: to places and just have like more of that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. So apparently only of conservatives that they pulled
Speaker 1: want to live in a walkable neighborhood, while seventy seven
Speaker 1: percent prefer driving everywhere. But what's funny though, too, is
Speaker 1: when it comes down to Democrats or people who identify
Speaker 1: as liberals, they say of moderate Democrats and fifty seven
Speaker 1: percent of liberals quote unquote want walkable neighborhoods, resulting in
Speaker 1: a split among Democrats. So it's just odd to look
Speaker 1: at these numbers, like, sure, I can understand why if
Speaker 1: you love your fucking truck or whatever, you want to
Speaker 1: walk around or drive around or merely because you don't
Speaker 1: want to be around people. But to think, like, for
Speaker 1: what you see is like stereotypical liberal ideology would be
Speaker 1: more environmentally conscious, and maybe you think that people would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I would like better design of or
Speaker 1: better planning of my city so I could walk around
Speaker 1: and do things like that. But it seems like they're
Speaker 1: split a little bit more. Yeah, I guess I understand
Speaker 1: why conservatives don't want a walkable neighborhood, but like, what
Speaker 1: is the so they just don't want people walking past
Speaker 1: their houses. I think it's the same thing, right, if
Speaker 1: you're you don't want a sense of community problem. Ultimately, no,
Speaker 1: you don't want your house, You want your your land,
Speaker 1: and no one's allowed on your land. We see this
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, where it is not a walkable city
Speaker 1: and not a great public transportation city, although it's gotten
Speaker 1: better in some ways, slowly slowly, where yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: people don't even want other people's cars parked on their
Speaker 1: block because homeownership makes people fucking insane. I think this
Speaker 1: issue is super complicated, especially in California, because the walkable
Speaker 1: cities thing is also like sometimes that's a dog whistle
Speaker 1: for gentrification, But what we really need is just like
Speaker 1: better public transport. I mean, I think some of the
Speaker 1: walkable city stuff is also like taking this European idea
Speaker 1: of the walkable city where everything central that hasn't existed
Speaker 1: in California or anywhere in the United States since like
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, you know, ever since cars like yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, what if we gave you in which
Speaker 1: I'm wanting to make sure people had to have a
Speaker 1: car to live in this place, for sure, But even
Speaker 1: like even walkable cities, even places like New York that
Speaker 1: are like where the place where you can go everywhere,
Speaker 1: you know, people have cars, and people move to the
Speaker 1: suburbs and then drive from the suburbs. The idea of
Speaker 1: the suburbs is really the thing that killed walkable cities,
Speaker 1: and liberals are just as into the suburbs as anyone
Speaker 1: else might. This thing with like is especially in l
Speaker 1: A right like there's because people don't aren't really pedestrians
Speaker 1: there in their cars all the time. It really diminishes
Speaker 1: your ability to feel connected to anyone else. Oh, I
Speaker 1: completely disagree with that. I totally disagree with that because
Speaker 1: I think the idea that you're like connecting with people
Speaker 1: around with you that New Yorkers are always like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking to everybody on the subway, running into
Speaker 1: my friends all over town. Absolutely not. People can be
Speaker 1: completely isolated in a crowd of people. In fact, you
Speaker 1: can feel the loneliest you've ever felt in a huge
Speaker 1: crowd of strangers. You know, everyone is not your friend
Speaker 1: necessarily immediately. I have all kinds of social interactions from
Speaker 1: my car. I have like days and confused interactions, which
Speaker 1: to me is like just as counts just as much,
Speaker 1: just like talking to somebody on the street. What are
Speaker 1: dazed in confused interaction? You like, talk to somebody on
Speaker 1: your car, You roll down your window and talk to somebody. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went out the other night and I talk to
Speaker 1: like some guys on a motorcycle who started hitting on
Speaker 1: us from from the motorcycle. And then I went to
Speaker 1: Del Taco at midnight and I ran into my friend Michelle,
Speaker 1: who was also at Del Taco at midnight, just in
Speaker 1: the line at the drive through. Yeah, nice honking behind you.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, so that's what you know. But I
Speaker 1: think the reason I bring that up right is because
Speaker 1: I totally agree in that even just being physically in
Speaker 1: proximity to someone doesn't necessarily create a sense of community.
Speaker 1: But there's a way that you can absolutely shut yourself
Speaker 1: off by being in a car all the time in
Speaker 1: a way that like, it's it's much easier to insulate yourself.
Speaker 1: I know there are ways to do that in many
Speaker 1: walkable Why do you say, you know, headphones man Like
Speaker 1: people are putting their earbuds in Like, But there's a
Speaker 1: difference right between you never seeing somebody like you know
Speaker 1: of of any different social class or whatever, and you
Speaker 1: have whatever idea built up because it's born out of
Speaker 1: some media, diet or whatever your social group says about
Speaker 1: a given another group. And I think being in a
Speaker 1: car really does allow that to reinforce in a way
Speaker 1: that I think is can be pretty exceptional. I think
Speaker 1: you are very much You're a very social person, and
Speaker 1: I'm also across the line. But I think there is
Speaker 1: like even for me recently, right, I started writing my
Speaker 1: bike more because I wanted to be I wanted to
Speaker 1: like actually feel like be around my neighborhood, see people
Speaker 1: out of their homes too, and reinforce this idea that like,
Speaker 1: I'm also around other human beings that are trying to
Speaker 1: live in the same way versus it's easy to get
Speaker 1: caught up inside, so I guess more so in the
Speaker 1: pandemic to get inside your house and just start creating
Speaker 1: a sense of the world that might not actually exist
Speaker 1: because of like what you're consuming media wise. So for me,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is just more of a personal thing,
Speaker 1: I found it a lot easier to be like in
Speaker 1: public space around other people. And I'm not necessarily talking
Speaker 1: to people, but there is something that just feels different
Speaker 1: than being in a car and just like just having
Speaker 1: you know, like completely sort of insulated from Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it's also like I feel like in l A
Speaker 1: people drive somewhere to walk, you know. So it's like
Speaker 1: people do walk, they just have to drive somewhere to
Speaker 1: walk there because it is a gigantic place and we
Speaker 1: don't have the greatest public transportation, right It's like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's let's drive forty minutes to go walk forward to
Speaker 1: you pretty much that is, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And And like I think that's what I love about biking,
Speaker 1: or I'm getting more into it now. I like cutting
Speaker 1: down a lot of shorts. I like biking. I do
Speaker 1: I think out there, I think biking in la is
Speaker 1: kind of terrifying because of culture. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: other places where I'm like, it's easier to bike here
Speaker 1: because it's a But like, I do think having real
Speaker 1: bike lanes would be great for for l A. We
Speaker 1: could use a lot more bike lanes. Everything is definitely
Speaker 1: centered around cars. I do think cars here are a
Speaker 1: little bit like guns in Texas and that you will
Speaker 1: pry them out of our cold dead hands, right right right,
Speaker 1: because that's how yeah. Like, so I do think we're
Speaker 1: just gonna get we got to get better electric cars
Speaker 1: rather than trying. I don't think there's gonna be in
Speaker 1: l A without cars ever, probably no, No, people are
Speaker 1: too like just habitually, there will be in l A
Speaker 1: without cars, but it'll be after like yeah, that's when
Speaker 1: the roaches are running. But yeah, like you know, my partner,
Speaker 1: for example, she's from d C. So her outlook on
Speaker 1: using a car is so different than mine, being a
Speaker 1: valley scum rat kid who like the car was your
Speaker 1: like to me was like liberation, like when you're younger,
Speaker 1: and so there are a lot of times she's like,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you just walk there? And I'm kind of
Speaker 1: catching with something like because this is l A. And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, man, I'm completely fucking I'm not even
Speaker 1: looking at things you know that will allow me to
Speaker 1: like actually just make it sure you could have good
Speaker 1: public transportation and walk ability, but then you'd have to
Speaker 1: live in Washington d C. I mean, as we found
Speaker 1: out in the movie Crash, sometimes those of us in
Speaker 1: l A crash or dank cars and what I'm saying
Speaker 1: again to feel connect. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it
Speaker 1: is because I just go out cruising all the time,
Speaker 1: looking for action and like you know, people fighting with
Speaker 1: the city as as well as one said he thinks
Speaker 1: I do all day, which is what I do all day.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do just think like the idea that
Speaker 1: car culture is inherently isolating is not. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's true. Yeah, but also, yeah, it's nice to walk.
Speaker 1: I walk around in my neighborhood. But also because la
Speaker 1: is so spread out, it's like sometimes you walk somewhere
Speaker 1: and you don't see anybody. Yeah, and it's and I
Speaker 1: think that's what's also kind of a bummer too, because
Speaker 1: like I'll go on parts of the l A River
Speaker 1: and bite and like you'll see these like pockets whe
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people and then suddenly I'm like
Speaker 1: there's like tumbleweeds and ships. Yeah, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: this is again back to the urbanism stuff. Like the
Speaker 1: big issues in California are that we need more dense
Speaker 1: housing for people because we are a city of a
Speaker 1: lot of people. But there's all these single family homes
Speaker 1: and that's what everybody thinks they get if they go
Speaker 1: to California. But I can't have that anymore. And again,
Speaker 1: I do think people are gonna maybe hold onto that
Speaker 1: idea a little bit with they're called dead hands this
Speaker 1: climate change happens. Yeah, well, I think because we're sort
Speaker 1: of all inundated and like inoculated with the concept of
Speaker 1: like American wealth building is based on real estate holdings, right,
Speaker 1: which doesn't work anymore when the houses are burning down
Speaker 1: all the time and being you know, flooded by hurricanes.
Speaker 1: And it's actually as insurance companies start to drop people
Speaker 1: that are in natural disaster zones, which is what I
Speaker 1: think Mike Davis said is probably going to happen next,
Speaker 1: you know, because so far it's just been like everything
Speaker 1: burns down in Malibu or whatever, and then they just
Speaker 1: build it back bigger every time. But there will come
Speaker 1: a point when the insurance company has refused to do that.
Speaker 1: But then what happens, Like banks are like lobbying, and
Speaker 1: they're like homeowners insurance is a is a right, like
Speaker 1: it's fucking medical insurance. You know what I mean to do?
Speaker 1: You know? And I think I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: people are are also just thinking about where they do
Speaker 1: want to live. I do think that I do know
Speaker 1: some liberals who moved to some walkable cities because they
Speaker 1: were like, if I'm stuck at home during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I'd rather be somewhere I can like walk around and
Speaker 1: walk to a place that I want to go. Then
Speaker 1: out in the suburbs where I thought I wanted to
Speaker 1: be right and just walks or miles and all you
Speaker 1: see is like a desolate spearmit rhino, like an industrial park. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that's the beauty to me, miles you know that, like,
Speaker 1: oh I love it. But yeah, like we people don't know,
Speaker 1: they're not used to that one in North Hollywood. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's like we walked to the Century eight, which um,
Speaker 1: I think is a different theater called something else now maybe,
Speaker 1: but I looked it up recently on Yelp and was
Speaker 1: very delighted to see that the reviews were like, this
Speaker 1: place is still very scary at night. Yeah, everybody was
Speaker 1: like this is the sketchiest parking lot I've ever been,
Speaker 1: And I was like, man, I love the valley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, now they shot a fucking what's not Wondering
Speaker 1: Captain Marvel in that park? I think. So you're talking
Speaker 1: about the one in North Hollywood, right, Well, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's a couple of scary theaters in North Hollywood though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that one by the old Wells Fargo Bank that
Speaker 1: has like the huge mirror line. So that's the that's
Speaker 1: the other one. That's the all that's Yeah, that's that
Speaker 1: one's closed forever. I think Century eight is still open
Speaker 1: and you can go see movies there. Because I was like,
Speaker 1: now that the arc lives posed, where can I go see?
Speaker 1: Like if I wanted to see in like a Fast
Speaker 1: and the Furious movie, Like, where would I even go?
Speaker 1: It's like, what if I just start going to that
Speaker 1: theater again, which I could walk to? So maybe that
Speaker 1: brings it back. Maybe you're right, maybe we all love walkability.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be back to talk about how COVID is affecting
Speaker 1: rap rock legends of their youth. And we're back and
Speaker 1: Mill you just closed your window because there's some parrots outside,
Speaker 1: and you and Mile as we're talking about the fact
Speaker 1: that that is the thing in l A that there's
Speaker 1: uh yeah, there's some wild parrots on the east side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking rules. Also some wild peacocks from now that's just
Speaker 1: that's just Highland Park. You want York too much, hey,
Speaker 1: l A jokes al right out, But that's that's so.
Speaker 1: It was like somebody had them as a pet and
Speaker 1: then let let them go and like they became Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I feel like there's a lot of stories like
Speaker 1: that in l A. Because like when I was a
Speaker 1: little kid and we lived in Hollywood, there were like
Speaker 1: some loose bunnies, right that would hop be on your lawn.
Speaker 1: There would be like like white bunnies, you know, not
Speaker 1: like a wild rabbit, but like a like a magicians rabbit.
Speaker 1: And the rumor was like maybe they came from the
Speaker 1: magic castle because you know what funnies do you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they make more monies. Yeah, they can't stop. The two
Speaker 1: I feel like the two big stories I read about
Speaker 1: the wild Parents in l A. Is one because there
Speaker 1: was like a okay, so they said there was a
Speaker 1: wilderness foundation, but it burned down in a rush fire
Speaker 1: in the sixties and then so many of the people
Speaker 1: they released the birds so they wouldn't die then, and
Speaker 1: then they just started, you know, doing their own thing.
Speaker 1: And another one is because the old Budwise the Bush
Speaker 1: Gardens theme park and Van Eyes that was there in
Speaker 1: like the seventies. Apparently I didn't know that. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that when they shut down they had wild birds
Speaker 1: there too, that they're like, fucking man, just let them them,
Speaker 1: let them go, or they say they escaped, so now
Speaker 1: we have our own parent population out here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the bush Gardens if you look it up. The Valley
Speaker 1: Relics Museum posts about it sometimes. But the bush Gardens
Speaker 1: was like a theme park and like the Valley that
Speaker 1: had some weird rides and stuff you should and it
Speaker 1: was a brewery. And that's what that Simpsons episode I
Speaker 1: guess making fun of like the Duff Gardens about you know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about yeah, yeah, Duff beer for me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's because there was a beer theme park in the valley,
Speaker 1: and there was another one over by the Arroyo Saco
Speaker 1: that was a bush. The first one is like a
Speaker 1: botanical garden, and then the second one was like a
Speaker 1: theme park. Oh shit, sorry, I well, I've been watching
Speaker 1: a lot of the defunct theme park videos on YouTube.
Speaker 1: The best they like, I wonder if there will be
Speaker 1: just like flocks of macaws and like parents in USA,
Speaker 1: because like squirrels in the eighteen fifties, like squirrels were
Speaker 1: super rare, like no, but people were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: do you see that squirrel over there? And then they
Speaker 1: like started adding them as like a novelty as they
Speaker 1: built up parks, and then like now they are yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's amazing. Yeah. Well, just so you know, there's
Speaker 1: some a lot of exotic bird content in a hide World. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: come through hid World podcast. All right, let's talk really
Speaker 1: briefly about how COVID is affecting to rap rock luminaries.
Speaker 1: First up, we got the singer of Corn, who is
Speaker 1: named apparently Jonathan Davis. Come on, you acting like you
Speaker 1: don't know Jonathan Jack, pretending you don't know that the
Speaker 1: singer of Corn is named Jonathan Davis. Guys, don't don't
Speaker 1: tell anybody about all the Corn ship in the background
Speaker 1: by zoom. Yeah, you should see if he if he
Speaker 1: pulls his bottom lip down, he has the follow the
Speaker 1: Leader album cover Cataman there. You mean the band that
Speaker 1: was originally called L A p D. Laughing as People Die?
Speaker 1: Is that way? Why did they change it? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fuck so? Yeah, Jonathan from Corn He got sick with
Speaker 1: COVID earlier in the month and he had to cancel
Speaker 1: some shows. And after he like getting the all clear,
Speaker 1: like in terms of him being you know, returning negative
Speaker 1: tests and things like that, he promptly hit the road again.
Speaker 1: But like his performances have been like just a s
Speaker 1: ghoulish reminder that like COVID can fuck you up a
Speaker 1: lot of people, like an anti bactor. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: that when he when he first canceled the shows, they
Speaker 1: said his vaccination status was unknown, but then afterwards they
Speaker 1: said he was he was vaccinated, but he was still sick.
Speaker 1: So what regardless of you know, whatever it was, It's
Speaker 1: just interesting to see that the sort of lead up
Speaker 1: to some of the first shows were like kind of
Speaker 1: underlining how grim everything was so before one of the
Speaker 1: like first return shows, the guitarist Brian head Welch sent
Speaker 1: a message to like the corn fans and it was
Speaker 1: like like we need you guys. So here is Brian
Speaker 1: head Welch saying, hey, like Jonathan needs you guys. He's
Speaker 1: kind of not doing well. Jonathan Davis is still struggling
Speaker 1: with the COVID after effects. Um, he's physically weak and
Speaker 1: having a mental battle. And any type of love, light
Speaker 1: and energy you can throw at him, prayers, all of it. Um,
Speaker 1: we have shows coming up, so all of you guys
Speaker 1: checked the day to whatever show you're going to throw
Speaker 1: him some love and energy. Man, he needs you more
Speaker 1: than ever. So yeah, that was a bit of a
Speaker 1: preview of things to come because he then went on
Speaker 1: to do a show where he basically you know, it
Speaker 1: was in it was in Chicago, and he needed oxygen
Speaker 1: at certain parts of the show because it was just
Speaker 1: like really you could just tell how exhausted he was,
Speaker 1: and so like they set up like a big throne
Speaker 1: for him to like kind of you know, chill on,
Speaker 1: and you know how like old tiny rock stars will
Speaker 1: put the throne up to be like I ain't moving anymore. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw guns and roses after Axel hurt his leg
Speaker 1: and he just sounded thrown the whole time. Oh you
Speaker 1: went to the throne shows, huh, because he couldn't day
Speaker 1: he was like heard himself doing the snake dance. So
Speaker 1: then at the Coachela, which was like the big gig
Speaker 1: of this reunion tour, he just had to kind of
Speaker 1: sit down the whole time and say, so this is
Speaker 1: this is Jonathan getting like I think after the first
Speaker 1: song and just kind of just let me know what
Speaker 1: you think of his whole um energy. Here, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be fun down use to come. I was who I'm hard,
Speaker 1: I'm very emotional. Sorry, but I've been through clear eyes
Speaker 1: clear He's see what the best. That's all I can do.
Speaker 1: So he's saying please, y'all, I need you, and I
Speaker 1: just there's times like I'll just show you he had
Speaker 1: to like he'll hit a note, he'll sit down, and
Speaker 1: then he just kind of has to go grab like oxygen.
Speaker 1: This is him take oxygen on the side of the stage,
Speaker 1: like being like, yeah, this is such a I need oxygen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This whole thing is just like bumming me out because
Speaker 1: he the way he's speaking and the way even like
Speaker 1: head was speakers that are like, y'all, Jonathan is not
Speaker 1: doing well and he needs you, and it's I just
Speaker 1: want to say that I'm reading Jonathan Davis's uh Wikipedia
Speaker 1: right now. I did once write a defense of corn
Speaker 1: um My magnum Opus on Corn. I'm not against Corn.
Speaker 1: I think it's sad because he has an incredible voice.
Speaker 1: So this is like, especially like you're like, that's yeah again,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm no corn apologist especially. I mean we've
Speaker 1: seen what was Homeboy who was playing on Mike Huckabee
Speaker 1: Show when they were battling on bass and ship and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, y'all, oh yeah, yeah, politics
Speaker 1: are bad, but I'm pro new metal and I'm pro
Speaker 1: bands from Bakersfield. But apparently John and Davis suffered severe
Speaker 1: bouts of asthma as a child. Old had to stay
Speaker 1: in the hospital every month from the age of three
Speaker 1: to ten, and survived a critical asthma attacked when he
Speaker 1: was five years old. So this is only putting him
Speaker 1: in a dark spot. So it just it was just
Speaker 1: one of those moments when I was looking, like, who's
Speaker 1: making you do these shows? Jonathan, Like I know it's
Speaker 1: one thing to maybe push against and like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: power through it, but on some level just kind of
Speaker 1: bumming me out. The only reason I brought it up.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, it's so hard to watch someone like, hey,
Speaker 1: you realize how much they've been so much has been
Speaker 1: taken out of them from going through COVID and then
Speaker 1: still like insisting on doing a thing where like its
Speaker 1: just like he literally like played the bagpipe. So it's
Speaker 1: just like to see him like unable to breathe. Oh
Speaker 1: man Nanna producer Anna says Zombie from ZI and I
Speaker 1: died when he was recovering from COVID and how to
Speaker 1: ask my attack and drop dead. Yeah, that was also
Speaker 1: really really sad. It's really it's just I think musicians,
Speaker 1: especially people that do I understand why people want to
Speaker 1: get back out on tour and get back out on stage. Well.
Speaker 1: And other person who is feeling the effects of COVID
Speaker 1: as Kid Rock, He's had to cancel some upcoming shows
Speaker 1: because of COVID infections in his band and he is
Speaker 1: pissed at COVID. Dude, because the only way that men
Speaker 1: know how to process emotion is through anger. Anger. Y'all
Speaker 1: now getting the bit and try one. So he says, quote,
Speaker 1: I am pissed over half the band has fucking COVID.
Speaker 1: This is a tweet that he put out. And yet,
Speaker 1: and before you ship for brains, bloggers and media trolls,
Speaker 1: run your mouths. Many of them, like me, have been vaccinated.
Speaker 1: Many of them, okay, not across the board, okay. And
Speaker 1: then you're sort of like, wait, wait, wait, Whren's where's Charallotte?
Speaker 1: Sturgis just a little bit ago. Isn't that where you
Speaker 1: might have been? And it's funny because during Sturgis he
Speaker 1: posted this fucking shot of him, this gigantic crowd. Again,
Speaker 1: we went over how everyone's like, yeah, that starts. Sturgis
Speaker 1: Is caused a few spikes in the area. Three thousand spike,
Speaker 1: three thousand six percent spike in mid County where Sturgis
Speaker 1: and where people not vaccinating. I mean there was you know,
Speaker 1: it's Sturgis. The rules are like, whoever the funk you want,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna make you right. Well, that's what I
Speaker 1: assume is that what we're talking about overall is like
Speaker 1: a stripe of a certain type of libertarian guy who
Speaker 1: I can see being like I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: the vaccine and being like, funk it, I am going
Speaker 1: to get the vaccine. You can't tell me what to
Speaker 1: do anyone ever. And then you're like COVID sucking up
Speaker 1: my money and you're like, yeah, that's it cares about.
Speaker 1: But they're both definitely like, you know, right wing leaning libertarians.
Speaker 1: So I'm surprised. I guess I'm a little surprised Kid
Speaker 1: Rock is VACS except that he uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people say the whole Kid Rock thing is
Speaker 1: a persona because he's like from the suburbs and right
Speaker 1: right right, private school guy. Yes, he hears about his
Speaker 1: his his health. Yeah, even though Rock wouldn't care, Kid
Speaker 1: Rock would not give a fuck. But I think the
Speaker 1: guy who his Kid Rock wants to live. Yeah, his name,
Speaker 1: what's his real name? It's like Bob Ritchie, baby, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like buck Leybob Ritchie's just like all right, Bob.
Speaker 1: His sister was in my play, one of my hit
Speaker 1: plays when I was a teenager. Oh hell yeah. This
Speaker 1: is this picture of him though with the Surge's crowd.
Speaker 1: He just said, quote, there's nothing the mainstream media or
Speaker 1: internet and social media trills can do, but look at
Speaker 1: this pick and weep, knowing they will never beat us,
Speaker 1: fuck them, love to you all, and then to know
Speaker 1: it's like a few like ten days later, this half
Speaker 1: the band has fucking COVID. Also, like if we could
Speaker 1: see how many of the people in this crowd are
Speaker 1: either in the hospital right now or we would you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: that mean like like let's say some of his band
Speaker 1: is vaxed and they get DELTA and that means that
Speaker 1: they can't go on tours that because it's like you
Speaker 1: can't ensure people. Probably that probably has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with it, Yeah, because I would assume he would
Speaker 1: just let his fucking band members with the COVID go
Speaker 1: on tour. Otherwise, you know, like if they're unvaxed and
Speaker 1: they're getting they're going to the hospital or just out
Speaker 1: genuinely super fucked up, that makes sense. But if they're
Speaker 1: vaxed they have it. Yeah, I would just see him
Speaker 1: being like fucking man up. Or just like how the
Speaker 1: you know, big business thinks too. It's like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hire people and then if they get sick,
Speaker 1: like then they're gonna assume me because like you it's
Speaker 1: like you have to pass a COVID test to like
Speaker 1: play a venue or is that not even a thing?
Speaker 1: So probably depends on where you are, honestly, because some
Speaker 1: states are just like yeah, man, yeah, like Texas, that's
Speaker 1: right there, doing the most comedy shows early on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still going on, still going on. Oh, Molly as always
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you on the dailys like geist.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and follow you? Well? Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me and uh putting up with the parents
Speaker 1: in the background, And you can find me ins Twitter
Speaker 1: dot com, Forward slash, Molly Lambert, Instagram, Molly Underscore Lambert.
Speaker 1: I will be back on the air waves with the
Speaker 1: Heidi Fly story called Heidi World Podcast, and you can
Speaker 1: find me every Tuesday night on a little Twitch show
Speaker 1: called Deckheads Chief stews with a producer Ana Hostia, where
Speaker 1: we talking about below deck and also other Bravo shows
Speaker 1: every Tuesday night at six pm PST on the old
Speaker 1: Twitch dot tv forward slash deckhead spot. Yeah yeah, And
Speaker 1: is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying? You know, I just can't
Speaker 1: think about guys. I'm tapped out too much. Stone fruit
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, Hey, everyone, get a flavor grenade. You know
Speaker 1: you're everybody owes themselves a flave grenade Miles Where can
Speaker 1: people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter,
Speaker 1: Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also, if you like we
Speaker 1: look more Reality Fair, you like bellow Deck check out deck.
Speaker 1: Has you like ninety day Fiance? Come through to see
Speaker 1: four twenty day Fiance with me and Sophia Alexandra And
Speaker 1: that's also twitcht TV slash four twenty Day Fiances. You
Speaker 1: can check that out there. A tweet that I like,
Speaker 1: I have a couple one is from actually is that
Speaker 1: gang listener at Josh Rice Films. He tweeted a picture
Speaker 1: like a meme at me said I think you can
Speaker 1: appreciate this. It's Zak Deal Roca from Rage because you
Speaker 1: know the whole cops not getting vaccinated things, so it's
Speaker 1: just like a picture of Zach on the mic and
Speaker 1: says some of those that work forces want the pace
Speaker 1: that's for horses. Shout out I for mection And also
Speaker 1: another one Trash Jones at Jay's Zucks. As you actuated,
Speaker 1: did it hurt when you graduated with a BA in English?
Speaker 1: That dad hurt? Yeah? English majors out there I'm not
Speaker 1: wasn't even an English major, but I also had a
Speaker 1: stupid major. Why what was yours? It's called semiotics, oh ship.
Speaker 1: And you can tell how useful called semiotics from what
Speaker 1: I just said. A major. You have to explain it
Speaker 1: to media studies, fucking media studies with a stupid game.
Speaker 1: But it's semiotics. I love it, dude. They're they're They're
Speaker 1: more than just works with art. It's study of signs.
Speaker 1: Look the study of the m Night Shamalan movie. That
Speaker 1: is essentially what it is. Andrew te tweeted conservative comedy
Speaker 1: sucks because every time they do a quote right wing
Speaker 1: daily show, it's always I identify as a dog in
Speaker 1: the open. And Monica Lewinsky jokes by act two of
Speaker 1: the pilot, but find something funnier than taking a horse
Speaker 1: drug that gives you diarrhea and then dying of COVID
Speaker 1: And I think it's hard, hard to find anything funnier
Speaker 1: than that. And then Cody doctor Mr Cody Johnston tweeted,
Speaker 1: Cordon in the mass costume, joyously thrusting at the driver
Speaker 1: is deeply disturbing. Prison for a day. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw that clip, but I
Speaker 1: saw something of him in that gray suit, and people
Speaker 1: were like, what is happening That movie the the Canilla
Speaker 1: Cabello Cinderella that's coming straight to video. Mhm, gonna be
Speaker 1: a camp classic. Just calling it now. Cats fans get
Speaker 1: in line. This movie is going to be so bad,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna watch it. It is a modern remake
Speaker 1: of Cinderella where she's a girl boss and they use
Speaker 1: all new pop songs. It's given me big from Justin
Speaker 1: to Kelly Energy and the promo. Nobody can act in it,
Speaker 1: and it looks like it was shot for ty on
Speaker 1: the sound stage, so that money licensing all those No,
Speaker 1: that's right if you were like, man, I wish somebody
Speaker 1: would Hamilton Eyes the Story of Cinderella. This is the
Speaker 1: movie that we're all ready don't watch. I think she's
Speaker 1: a shoe designer. Really, Oh, this is very very good.
Speaker 1: I'm oh yeah, why don't we watch the trailer and
Speaker 1: screenshare just for fun as we go out. You gonna
Speaker 1: have to do the thing. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on
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Speaker 1: our episodes and our foot notes where we link off
Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
Speaker 1: what song are we suggesting people go check out? So
Speaker 1: there's a rap duel called Paris Texas, not the other band.
Speaker 1: This is a rap duel from Compton and they have
Speaker 1: I've gotten more and more into the ship that they're
Speaker 1: making because they're like they're wrapping, but they're also kind
Speaker 1: of doing their thing just like over like really great
Speaker 1: like sort of garage rock band beats uh, kind of
Speaker 1: like you're listening to like like White Stripers something, but
Speaker 1: there are people wrapping over it and it's got a
Speaker 1: lot of style to it, and I'm it's just like
Speaker 1: one of those things you're hearing, like, Damn, this is
Speaker 1: fucking dope. So this track is called Force of Habit
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go out on that. So this is
Speaker 1: Force of Habit by Paris Texas. Check that out, go
Speaker 1: find to go download. Yeah, all right, Well, the Daily
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