Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh two,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Dirt day Lys Like guys, the production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: September seven, day t G I f am I right,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, my name Tacko Brian A. K. And so
Speaker 1: I wake in the morning and I'll step outside and
Speaker 1: I take a deep breath and not get real high
Speaker 1: and uh screamed from the top of my lungs. Ted
Speaker 1: Cruise eight my son. That is courtesy of Lex Loupe.
Speaker 1: That is a song. He had a couple of verses apparently,
Speaker 1: you know, replacing what's going on with Ted Cruise eight
Speaker 1: my son works perfectly throughout that, like she's begging for
Speaker 1: a revolution. She's you know, cries sometimes when I'm lying
Speaker 1: in bed because Ted Cruise eight her son. It makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. It could be just like a
Speaker 1: weird Al's first just one word switched out and it
Speaker 1: totally makes sense. And I'm sure Linda Perry was thinking
Speaker 1: about that too, probably one of the great songwriters. Of course. Well,
Speaker 1: I am thrilled to be joined as always by my
Speaker 1: co host Mr Miles Gras Doom, Doom Doom. I drink
Speaker 1: a little pee. I can't taste the COVID nineteen. I'm
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Speaker 1: Hot Chili Pepper's deep cuts, that's p from One Hot
Speaker 1: Minute and that's a song we're fleecing. But shout out
Speaker 1: on the discord for I guess I though it wasn't me.
Speaker 1: I was mostly Jack and the guests who were talking
Speaker 1: about their p determining or their their palette for tasting
Speaker 1: covid and urine. But you know what, It's part of
Speaker 1: the lore, so we will accept it. I can tell
Speaker 1: you if you got covid, just pepe Wait. The song
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Speaker 1: little pee. I drink a little I'm a pheeny tiny. Oh,
Speaker 1: my cat's called tiny and three years ago, every time
Speaker 1: I've seen that part, yeah, it's it is weirdly cute
Speaker 1: for my hedge of the Peppers. I feel like fully
Speaker 1: is real cute, which I guess is to be expected
Speaker 1: from somebody who's who took the name of a tiny
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Speaker 1: single tear that was by the row over on the
Speaker 1: Brew Wow Ow Brew beautifully performed with Yeah, what's new
Speaker 1: are you? How are you living? What's new? How's the
Speaker 1: weather in Japan? I haven't been in three years because
Speaker 1: of everything, so I have to keep asking you how
Speaker 1: is it there? Well? Weatherwise? It's been a little back
Speaker 1: and forth. September has not decided whether or not it's
Speaker 1: going to be following yet. It's been a little wild. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: we're in the middle of some I guess political stuff
Speaker 1: because Suga is gonna be our our current prime minister
Speaker 1: who was appointed by Prime Minister Abbey last year when
Speaker 1: he quit because he couldn't well. He said it's for
Speaker 1: his health, but he said he couldn't really handle all
Speaker 1: the criticism for his his his reaction to COVID basically.
Speaker 1: But now Suga is the one who's stepping down. So
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about who the government's going to appoint a
Speaker 1: new prime minister and maybe we'll get an election still
Speaker 1: not clear. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's our things about
Speaker 1: to kick off there too, like campaigns and things pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Well they're saying if there is an election, that will
Speaker 1: be in October, but everything has been like maybe maybe
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I right, right, So they might just put
Speaker 1: someone up in this position again just like last year,
Speaker 1: which is not great because it's already been pretty bad
Speaker 1: and it's gonna still stay right wing. We might get
Speaker 1: our first female prime minister, who is basically a fusion
Speaker 1: of market that you're in, Nancy Reagan so love to see. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially in a changing world right now, we need we
Speaker 1: need more people who are who want to conserve the
Speaker 1: old way, the terrible, terrible fucking recipe. Pretend to say
Speaker 1: that'll that'll work. COVID deniers want to do like there
Speaker 1: you go. You gotta keep up. I know it's tough.
Speaker 1: I know things are moving quick, but that's that's the
Speaker 1: challenge of living in this era. Mm hmm. You guys
Speaker 1: were talking before we started recording. You're both stepping on
Speaker 1: the same beverage. Yeah yeah, but yeah, Mookie, that that
Speaker 1: Barley tea. It's so easy to make it. You can
Speaker 1: just throw your tea bag in your little you know,
Speaker 1: picture or whatever for a couple hours. Then it's just gold.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's very healthy. And then you put a
Speaker 1: bunch of ice in it and just slam it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I keep it in my refrigerator, comes out cold, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But it's it's also it's got
Speaker 1: pealth benefits, you know, antioxidants of vitamins is good for
Speaker 1: your digestion, and a bunch of caffeine, right, not just
Speaker 1: fucking fuel. You none of that sorry, Jack just wasn't
Speaker 1: so popular. Bro. Wait so what does it do? Wait? Like,
Speaker 1: so what does it do for me? Like? How does
Speaker 1: it take me out of self? So that I just
Speaker 1: don't feel anything? No for me, it's just I think
Speaker 1: of like being in Japan, because this is something that
Speaker 1: was always in the refrigerator at like any of my
Speaker 1: family member's houses, especially in the summer. So when the
Speaker 1: weather is warm, I love to bust out that moogicha.
Speaker 1: And I tell people, if you like something that's like water,
Speaker 1: it's it's not there's no sugar or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It's not a cidy. You just have a little of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for you. It's almost like a more gentle water
Speaker 1: like because it the barley taste is like so subtle
Speaker 1: that it almost replaces like any aftertaste that water might have. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I mean we're going to get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: a couple of things we're talking about. We're gonna talking
Speaker 1: about how the fears around critical race theory and the
Speaker 1: fears around that drove people to storm the capital. It
Speaker 1: turns out they they overlap, And we'll talk about how
Speaker 1: scientists came to that conclusion. We're gonna talk about we
Speaker 1: don't usually go too deep on true crime on this show,
Speaker 1: but there is this wild saga that is happening in
Speaker 1: South Carolina with a family called the Murder Family that
Speaker 1: I just want to kind of run through and talk
Speaker 1: about it because I think it reveals things, or at
Speaker 1: least reinforced what we already know about America. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Tucker Carlson and just the continuing widening ripples,
Speaker 1: you know, waves caused by Nicki minaj is tweet about
Speaker 1: her cousin's friends balls and just they're now international implications
Speaker 1: of that. We're going to remind you that some Democrats
Speaker 1: are pieces of ship. We're gonna talk about the new hot,
Speaker 1: new fal trend, which is divorce, all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, I mean, what is something from your search history?
Speaker 1: My search history is a home suite home. I was
Speaker 1: listening to another podcast talk that was talking about something
Speaker 1: related to like like the Wizard of Oz and you
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on hold, like you said, you listen
Speaker 1: to another podcast. Let's now you know what drama is.
Speaker 1: Justin like we're heading out Anna, But yeah, we tried to.
Speaker 1: We can't figure out why anyone would listen to us
Speaker 1: if they know about other podcasts, So we have a
Speaker 1: strict we pretend that this podcast exists Jack, because the
Speaker 1: theory doesn't hold podcasts. And still, okay, go on, you've
Speaker 1: made my day. That's okay. So I was listening to podcasts.
Speaker 1: I was talking about the movie Returned to Oz and
Speaker 1: so it was making me think about like the Odds
Speaker 1: universe and stuff. But they were making jokes about the
Speaker 1: phrase home sweet Home, and it made me realize, like, oh,
Speaker 1: is that a reference to this story The Wizard of
Speaker 1: Us or is it something else? So I had to
Speaker 1: google it and it's actually from before the Wizard of
Speaker 1: Us books, I guess, So apparently it's from It's a
Speaker 1: song that's adapted from an opera from eighteen twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's like super old. And I listened to the song
Speaker 1: and actually I realized I had heard the song because
Speaker 1: in Japanese it's known as Hanyu no Yado and it
Speaker 1: was used in um the movie Grave of the Fireflies
Speaker 1: from Studio Ghibli. But yeah, it was like a super
Speaker 1: it was just like a hit song in eighteen twenty
Speaker 1: three and so like in in the Wizard of Oz movie,
Speaker 1: it is also referencing that song and they actually are
Speaker 1: using part of the melody I think at the very
Speaker 1: end or something like that. But I never saw Return
Speaker 1: to Oz. It's is it what I just? I just
Speaker 1: but from what I heard on this podcast, it's sounds
Speaker 1: like it was really wild, but more in line with
Speaker 1: the wildness of the other Oz books, because there's like
Speaker 1: the villain of that is a princess Mambi who has
Speaker 1: thirty one heads and so she like takes up ahead
Speaker 1: and puts on another head and it's like this is
Speaker 1: for children, but okay, in front of these kids, how
Speaker 1: they react. I didn't realize Perusa Bulk from The Craft
Speaker 1: is like the lead and that Dorothy Yeah, but she's
Speaker 1: like very young. Yeah. Wow. I don't know how it
Speaker 1: sounds like it's I haven't watched it yet, but it
Speaker 1: does sound like it is worth watching just to be like,
Speaker 1: how is this a thing? But yeah, meeting more about it,
Speaker 1: it's maybe want to get into because I never read
Speaker 1: the Oz books. I know I watched the I was
Speaker 1: the original Wizard of Oz movie, but I don't remember
Speaker 1: watching it. The only reason why I know I watched
Speaker 1: this because I wrote about it in my six year
Speaker 1: old diary. But yeah, so it's like it's like one
Speaker 1: of those franchises that I never actually checked out, but
Speaker 1: I'm aware that, like the idea of it, the vibe
Speaker 1: from the film, like the original film is very different
Speaker 1: from like, uh, I guess the whole the whole universe
Speaker 1: of the books. That makes sense. I'm tuning in just
Speaker 1: to see a child for roose Bulk because I love
Speaker 1: the I love the craft. Yes, that's valid. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: vaguely remember like being at a family's house when I
Speaker 1: was a kid and then having that on and just
Speaker 1: being fucking terrified of that movie. Like this is a
Speaker 1: sequel of the Wizard of Oz. Yeah, there's some very
Speaker 1: terrifying like monsters like or there's like some things that
Speaker 1: like have wheels for hands and wheels for feet. I
Speaker 1: don't know, right, it's a talking chicken. There's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. It's like, huh yeah, directed by Walter Merch.
Speaker 1: I wonder what else he directed, because it is real,
Speaker 1: real creepy ship that like I think I like affected
Speaker 1: the fever dreams I had later on, Like Okay, they're
Speaker 1: all returned to oz A Jason, Yeah, what what is
Speaker 1: something you think is overrated? I had a lot of
Speaker 1: trouble coming up with something today, But I think having
Speaker 1: a reason to dislike something is overrated. Mhm. It could
Speaker 1: also apply to liking things, honestly, but I want to
Speaker 1: focus on disliking because, like, I think that if you
Speaker 1: are passionate about something and someone else says I don't
Speaker 1: like it, or it's like it's not my cup of teeth,
Speaker 1: it I feel like for many people, the natural reaction
Speaker 1: is to get like upset and be like why don't
Speaker 1: you like it? And also I think especially online with
Speaker 1: social media, people want to have like the fire takes
Speaker 1: about why something is trash or whatever. But like, for example,
Speaker 1: I don't like the color orange, and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: When I look at the color orange, it just makes
Speaker 1: me feel negative. And I don't know if it's because
Speaker 1: I have synesthesia or if like something happened me was
Speaker 1: something that was orange colored when I was younger, but
Speaker 1: like it just like it just makes me feel sad.
Speaker 1: It kind of bumped out when they look at orange
Speaker 1: or like red orange, but you are just like kind
Speaker 1: of okay, But like I have no reason for this dislike,
Speaker 1: but it's just the thing. And you know, when I
Speaker 1: talked to kids, it's like the same way because like
Speaker 1: you know, I am a part time teacher and I
Speaker 1: talked to a lot of kids and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite color or whatever, and like, oh, I
Speaker 1: like green and I think black, And they never have
Speaker 1: a reason why. It's just like, oh, it makes me happy,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, my favorite color was my favorite color
Speaker 1: because some older family kid I looked up to it
Speaker 1: was their favorite color and I was like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: my coel. Yeah I like that color to you knowing
Speaker 1: with it and I still like it, and I'm and
Speaker 1: I look back and like it was all because of
Speaker 1: just modeling myself after an older kid. It was why
Speaker 1: I liked this color my whole life. It's so funny
Speaker 1: that favorite colors are such a big deal for kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they that's like they they ask everybody, my kids when
Speaker 1: they first meet someone, they want to know what their
Speaker 1: favorite color is. Feel like, my son feels kinship with
Speaker 1: me because we're the only two in our family who
Speaker 1: have the same favorite color. And yeah, treating like favorite
Speaker 1: color did like conversations on the schoolyard was predated like Twitter,
Speaker 1: where people were arguing about the m c U. You
Speaker 1: know what I like. I remember active like, yo, this
Speaker 1: like red? Yeah yeah, yeah, he likes red. This is
Speaker 1: stupid why we'd like blue? I like blue, he likes blue.
Speaker 1: John likes blue. What's going on with you? And that?
Speaker 1: I just remember being so incensed when someone didn't like blue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was again like to your point, like I
Speaker 1: was too young to be like that doesn't mean I'm
Speaker 1: stupid because I like blue or they hate blue for
Speaker 1: a good reason. People just like different ships. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the same thing applies to media and you know,
Speaker 1: books and so on, Like it's just that there are
Speaker 1: a lot of things that I know are like super
Speaker 1: popular button I watched them. I don't feel anything, and
Speaker 1: it's fine, Like I don't feel like I have to
Speaker 1: explain it, just like it's not for me, that's okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And i'd imagine on that same side of that coin,
Speaker 1: if you hear someone say they don't like a thing
Speaker 1: you like, you're not then sent into some like like
Speaker 1: debate spiral where you're like, well, let's let's explain. Why
Speaker 1: explain your point here? I just know they're an idiot.
Speaker 1: I just know that they're wrong, and they're yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just I was reading an article actually about they
Speaker 1: are all these like van Go exhibits that are going
Speaker 1: across the country that are just like they they project
Speaker 1: like a sort of animation of various Vang paintings. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: they basically rent a centrally located abandoned building and like
Speaker 1: do this big thing that like has the trappings of
Speaker 1: a art museum and you know, like they give out
Speaker 1: tote bags, so it's like to appeal to the NPR set,
Speaker 1: but then like it's really like kind of just I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's not it's not really the same as
Speaker 1: going to an art museum in any in any respect,
Speaker 1: it's just like going to see a kind of trippy
Speaker 1: light show type thing. It's more on par with like
Speaker 1: the orchestra or like the light shows that people used
Speaker 1: to go to on the seventies. But somebody was like
Speaker 1: talking about like there there's a backlash to that, and
Speaker 1: they were just like who gives a ship Like honestly,
Speaker 1: like people enjoy it, oh, like from the art world
Speaker 1: or whatever. From the art world, being like this is
Speaker 1: taking the place of art. People should just go stand
Speaker 1: in front of paintings. But anyways, the writer was talking
Speaker 1: about how they take their kids. Their teacher also and
Speaker 1: they take their kids to art museums in the way
Speaker 1: that they have introduced the kids starts. They just like
Speaker 1: take them into a room and they're like, okay, everybody,
Speaker 1: go stand in front of the painting that you like
Speaker 1: the most, and then you just let them talk about
Speaker 1: the thing that they responded to about the painting, which
Speaker 1: I immediately wrote down is the thing I have to
Speaker 1: do with my kids. But also like it's just a
Speaker 1: good way to you know, focus on feel like that's
Speaker 1: how we should interact with culture in general, just like
Speaker 1: stand in front of the movie you like and then
Speaker 1: interact with other people who love that movie, rather than
Speaker 1: being feeling like you need to comment on the ship
Speaker 1: that everybody else likes. Right, m yeah, definitely, what is
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated? M hmm. Books and novelizations
Speaker 1: for non book media like especially movies and TV shows
Speaker 1: and so on. So partly this is like because when
Speaker 1: the Star Wars like third trilogy started, they released a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of new books, mostly because they were saying
Speaker 1: of some of the older books were no longer vout
Speaker 1: or whatever, which it's fine, I guess, but like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they released a whole bunch of other books and
Speaker 1: I like enjoyed a whole bunch of them, and they
Speaker 1: helped me to enjoy the movies even more. Which is
Speaker 1: not to say that like if you didn't enjoy the
Speaker 1: movies that you have to read these books or whatever
Speaker 1: to like truly get it right. But yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: because like I love getting more lower and stuff. Another
Speaker 1: example is like the Descendants Disney movies on the Disney Channel.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of those movies, and there was
Speaker 1: also like an animated series on YouTube for the show
Speaker 1: or whatever, and then they had to make books that
Speaker 1: tied these two different canons together, and they did a
Speaker 1: really good job with that, and I really enjoyed that,
Speaker 1: even though it's like, you know, much younger audience or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's all based on the expanded universe of the Descendants,
Speaker 1: the Alexander Payne George Clooney film, right, absolutely, yes, you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, check, but yeah, so yeah, no, Disney
Speaker 1: Descendants about the children of the classic Disney characters, actually
Speaker 1: very interesting. Uh, They're they're very fun, they're by. The
Speaker 1: movies are by Kenny Ortega, who did high school musical,
Speaker 1: so they're like, you're super awesome. Yeah, I do highly
Speaker 1: recommend them. But yeah, the books helped to kind of
Speaker 1: like tie things together even more in a way. That's
Speaker 1: really fun trying to think about a novelization that I've
Speaker 1: read that's like that, because I would I would. I
Speaker 1: remember like I would grab books that were like just
Speaker 1: based on movies because I was like, well, it'll be easier.
Speaker 1: I always had trouble reading fiction when I was a
Speaker 1: kid because like I couldn't imagine my imagination for whatever
Speaker 1: reason limited until I probably started doing drugs or something.
Speaker 1: But it always helped me to be like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: know what these characters look like because of other things.
Speaker 1: Now I can enjoy this versus the ones where I
Speaker 1: would have to like just I don't know, think these
Speaker 1: things up in my head, very very odd time for
Speaker 1: my imagination out say, oh absolutely, I think I for
Speaker 1: some reason, my father bought The Terminator to novelization when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and I loved it. That's great,
Speaker 1: I need to read that, like Jack, you try would
Speaker 1: you love like a like reading the novelization of Jaws
Speaker 1: Jaws Too. It was one of the first novels that
Speaker 1: I ever read, was the novelization of Jaws Too. Really, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's encourages reading, which I think is of course
Speaker 1: super important. Like you know, that's why they have like
Speaker 1: all the picture books for like all kinds of classic
Speaker 1: characters and stuff. Now, yeah, just I think it's really
Speaker 1: good to like whatever it takes to get kids to read,
Speaker 1: I think it's generally good. But yeah. The other thing
Speaker 1: for me is also for video games. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's really the case so much in English originally,
Speaker 1: but at least in Japanese there are a lot of
Speaker 1: novelizations of video games, which is great for me because
Speaker 1: I don't have time to play video games anymore. So
Speaker 1: it's like if I want to read itsit a story,
Speaker 1: or if I like a story for a video game,
Speaker 1: but I can't play the video game, like maybe it's
Speaker 1: too difficult or something, then I can just read the
Speaker 1: book and get still at the story, right, and now
Speaker 1: you can keep up in conversation. Now you're like, I
Speaker 1: remember that, Yeah, I remember that level. Yeah exactly. I
Speaker 1: love the idea of the novelization of Terminator Too, because
Speaker 1: I just I want to read in text. The Terminator
Speaker 1: hangs up the pay phone and looks at him and said,
Speaker 1: pans are dead. I e that like literary version of
Speaker 1: that exchange because I can't stop thinking about your parents
Speaker 1: and dead ever in my life. Yes, yes, it's a
Speaker 1: classic line. Yeah, did you read the novelization of Terminatory
Speaker 1: two before you watch the film Terminator two? Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I actually don't remember when I first watched, Like, this
Speaker 1: is one of those things that like, because my father
Speaker 1: was so into the Terminator series, I can't remember the
Speaker 1: distinct time when I first watched it, you know, start
Speaker 1: wars with a lot of other stuff from childhoods. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like asking someone, do you remember the first time
Speaker 1: you read the Bible or felt God's love? Finger? Oh, man,
Speaker 1: I saw a Terminator two twice when I was in theaters, like,
Speaker 1: and I think I was probably too young to do that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Eddie for long he was like he he
Speaker 1: made music in Japan that like only released in Japan,
Speaker 1: and my mom like helped do some publicity for him
Speaker 1: in the early nineties and I got to have like
Speaker 1: I went to a dinner and my mom fucking took
Speaker 1: me to she didn't have to take me, so I
Speaker 1: could just stare at Eddie for a long the whole
Speaker 1: time and be like, oh, man, you're the coolest kid
Speaker 1: in town. Man, you hung out with the terminator in
Speaker 1: your flannel. I can't just do that, you gotta that's
Speaker 1: a terrible editor for a long alright, alright, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're
Speaker 1: back and all right. The I'm not sure where the
Speaker 1: study is from. It was reporting Slate and NBC. I
Speaker 1: think NBC News put it together for us and that
Speaker 1: basically they're reporting that critical race theory and all the
Speaker 1: fears are around it that with parents screaming about how
Speaker 1: this was racism against white people or something. The demographics
Speaker 1: groups that drove that wave are the same demographic groups
Speaker 1: that showed up to a protest a K raid a
Speaker 1: K try and overthrow the U. S Government on January six,
Speaker 1: same same group they've like. Reporters found quote that the
Speaker 1: districts hosting some of the most combative debates over diversity
Speaker 1: inclusion initiatives have have seen a steady increase in students
Speaker 1: of color attending its schools. In Gwynett County, Georgia, we've
Speaker 1: been like their videos coming out of their parents are screaming,
Speaker 1: there's been a fifty two point four percent increase in
Speaker 1: students of color since Loudon County, Virginia, where you know,
Speaker 1: transgender student rights have been screamed about, and you know,
Speaker 1: critical race series have been another contentious point. They've seen
Speaker 1: a twenty nine point five percent increase in that same
Speaker 1: time period. So they're just saying, like the thing that
Speaker 1: we've always kind of seen in the country, which is
Speaker 1: demographic changes often kickoff unsettled and often violent periods in
Speaker 1: our country. If you'll remember reconstruction anyone um like you
Speaker 1: know on the KKK coming out of that and many
Speaker 1: other things that are born out of suddenly, who are
Speaker 1: these fucking people here? Now? I remember when America was
Speaker 1: this other thing, and so you know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the time that the conservative media was definitely
Speaker 1: focusing on it because it was just as we thought,
Speaker 1: were like, well, this is the thing that is helping
Speaker 1: them avoid like speaking about Joe Biden at all, are
Speaker 1: saying anything remotely positive about what's happening. That they really
Speaker 1: found something that was able to tap into just white
Speaker 1: fear and their fear of the inversion of racial power
Speaker 1: in the country. Yeah, and then a political scientists was
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess went through demographic data and found
Speaker 1: that the same thing was true of the people who
Speaker 1: were there on January six, right, that they were in
Speaker 1: counties with the most significant declines in non Hispanic white potations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, those counties most likely to produce insurrectionists. It's
Speaker 1: just like so much fear, you know that this is
Speaker 1: just the fear of losing status, because I'm sure, depending
Speaker 1: on their very rigid view of how America works, if
Speaker 1: you're not white, then you're in trouble. And so to
Speaker 1: see things change must create some feeling of the old
Speaker 1: and lack is coming my way, because that's been the
Speaker 1: case for others who are not, you know, part of
Speaker 1: the majority demographic. And I just see, like, in general,
Speaker 1: a lot of fear coming out of conservatives. There's this
Speaker 1: person I went to school with who like posted on
Speaker 1: Instagram and they were they took a picture of like
Speaker 1: a dumpster that had been like tagged by like a gang,
Speaker 1: and then like a like a random plank of wood
Speaker 1: next to it that I had also been tagged, and
Speaker 1: they were legitimately they're like do I need to be
Speaker 1: worried about this like this tagging like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: California is just is falling apart. I'm so worried. And
Speaker 1: they said the next thing for me is I'm getting
Speaker 1: a concealed carry permit because I will not be a
Speaker 1: victim because they just saw some graffiti on something. You know,
Speaker 1: like the the environment that I think is helping power
Speaker 1: this so much is just I mean, hysteria has been
Speaker 1: everywhere in the United States, but like specifically as it
Speaker 1: relates to just seeing any kind of shift in what
Speaker 1: is happening in your immediate area and taking that is
Speaker 1: this is some kind of terror. What is happening, it's
Speaker 1: putting up We can just see how that's manifesting throughout
Speaker 1: the country right now. Yeah, they're not being shy about
Speaker 1: it either. I mean Tugger Carlson did a whole thing
Speaker 1: about how the census data it was like so alarming
Speaker 1: because it showed that white populations were shrinking, and you know,
Speaker 1: these are these are the exact talking points that white
Speaker 1: supremacists and white nationalists were using. Like back I remember
Speaker 1: like reading up on and even listening to a podcast
Speaker 1: of a white nationalist during like two thousand, fifteen, two
Speaker 1: thous in sixteen as Trump was rising, and you know,
Speaker 1: it was like, well, people are saying that, like the
Speaker 1: things he's saying are like dog whistle, so let me
Speaker 1: see like what they're actually saying about it. And it's
Speaker 1: all about like cultural replacement and like the white genocide
Speaker 1: being just you know that like their values and the
Speaker 1: idea that they are of of what supremacy is being challenged. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating. It's like, I mean, like you all said,
Speaker 1: it's this has happened so many times, it's extremely predictable
Speaker 1: at this point, is this extremely like waters way, it's
Speaker 1: kind of news, But yeah, it's uh, it's just it's
Speaker 1: so frustrating, Like you understand, like we could because we've
Speaker 1: seen it before. You know exactly what the mindset is.
Speaker 1: But it's like, how do we get people out of it?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, And I think it's just merely it's
Speaker 1: like anything when people talk about how they've been brought
Speaker 1: back from like extremism or whatever, it's merely because they
Speaker 1: were never interacting with the people that they hated exactly
Speaker 1: and never would even give themselves the opportunity for that.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't until those interactions too, that sometimes people
Speaker 1: be entertained. Now, not everyone has the same sort of
Speaker 1: flexibility of mind, but it seems like that's the one
Speaker 1: common thing is Yeah, people are you know, they stay
Speaker 1: in their bubbles, and that makes it much easier to
Speaker 1: obscure what, you know, you believe the reality of another
Speaker 1: group to be. But yeah, I said, not surprising, um,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: say to them, because I'm sure in their mind they
Speaker 1: see like they're like, look at the white population shrinking.
Speaker 1: Like in their mind, do they think it's like hors
Speaker 1: because horrible things are happening, or that just other people
Speaker 1: are here also having you know, procreating with people who
Speaker 1: are of different ethnicities and we're just becoming more diverse.
Speaker 1: Rather than this, I think they have to frame it
Speaker 1: as the walls are closing in on us and we
Speaker 1: have to fight we have to fight it back. Yep.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, speaking of the the sound with supremacy
Speaker 1: and not surprising, I want to talk about the story
Speaker 1: that is starting to hit people's radars because the this
Speaker 1: guy Alex Murder was just arrested. Um. The headline on
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed news is police arrested the South Carolina lawyer who
Speaker 1: said who they said planned his own killing for an
Speaker 1: insurance payout, which is taking him completely at his word,
Speaker 1: and like the backstory is so wild. So let me
Speaker 1: just kind of go through like that, that's his alibi,
Speaker 1: is that he hired somebody to kill him. That's the
Speaker 1: best case scenario for him. So wait, what do you
Speaker 1: mean like in that he was like, hey man, I'll
Speaker 1: you'll just choke me out, or like you're gonna give
Speaker 1: me a lethal injectory. He got shot in the head,
Speaker 1: but it was a graze to his head and my suspicion,
Speaker 1: he's claiming it was a botched He hired somebody to
Speaker 1: kill him and they just like missed by accident, couldn't
Speaker 1: like land the plan on the head shot, and he
Speaker 1: therefore like and the reason for it was he wanted
Speaker 1: to get an insurance pay out for his son. I
Speaker 1: think it's actually he had the person miss on purpose
Speaker 1: to try and throw suspicion off of him. And so
Speaker 1: let let me just kind of take you back to
Speaker 1: the beginning of this. So the Murdoch family were a
Speaker 1: political legal dynasty in South Carolina for generations they've basically
Speaker 1: been like the head lawyers in town, including like multi
Speaker 1: generational holding down the solicitor general role since the nineteen twenties.
Speaker 1: Like they're just like they're entrenched as fuck. And you
Speaker 1: know there are people from local people who are like
Speaker 1: they're they're the salt of the earth, they're the best people,
Speaker 1: including Bakari Sellers was like he they're the nicest people
Speaker 1: in the world. But then other people, like on local
Speaker 1: attorney was like, you don't cross the murders or you do.
Speaker 1: If you do cross them, you don't let them find
Speaker 1: out that it was you, because they'll come on down
Speaker 1: on you hard, and they'll come down on you with
Speaker 1: all that they've got. They have a lot of influence
Speaker 1: in power and they'll use it against their enemies. So
Speaker 1: like that standard Ridge generational wealth corruption ship. But so
Speaker 1: things first started unraveling when the youngest son of the
Speaker 1: guy who just got arrested for hiring somebody to kill him,
Speaker 1: his youngest son crashed their family boat into a bridge
Speaker 1: pyleon Well just hamp and three of the passengers were
Speaker 1: thrown into the water and the body of one of
Speaker 1: them was found a week later. And you know she
Speaker 1: had she had died. It was a pretty white girl.
Speaker 1: So the media noticed. And there is police dash cam
Speaker 1: footage of one of the other passengers on the boat
Speaker 1: like after immediately after the accident saying basically that motherfucker's
Speaker 1: rotten jail and he's not going to get in any
Speaker 1: trouble at all. And sure enough, they were able to
Speaker 1: kind of delay and quiet it down for a long time,
Speaker 1: but then it started kind of bubbling up again. And
Speaker 1: then in the summer that son, the one who had
Speaker 1: crashed the car or crashed the boat, and his mom,
Speaker 1: the matriarch of the family, were found murdered on their
Speaker 1: massive hunting property, both shot to death with different guns,
Speaker 1: and so that that was just like everyone was like,
Speaker 1: what the funk happened? Then cut forward to the patriarch.
Speaker 1: The guy was just arrested of the family was shot
Speaker 1: in the head on a country back road while changing attire.
Speaker 1: He was only grays and survived. So it's just been
Speaker 1: announced now. And because the story, like the smaller, more
Speaker 1: recent version of the story, is so wild, people are
Speaker 1: just taking this as a given that he he claimed
Speaker 1: he hired his drug dealer to shoot him in the
Speaker 1: head as an assisted suicide bid to get his other
Speaker 1: son a big insurance payout, and if you just committed suicide,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a common belief that if you commit suicide,
Speaker 1: then the person can't get an insurance pay out. Except
Speaker 1: he's a lawyer, so presumably he would have known that
Speaker 1: that isn't the truth. He could have committed suicide and
Speaker 1: his son still would have gotten the money. So it's
Speaker 1: also just been announced that he had been embezzling money
Speaker 1: from the law firm that his name is on at
Speaker 1: least a million dollars and was just fired, and he
Speaker 1: went into rehab on an oxy addiction. So basically, there's
Speaker 1: there's Those are the main public events until I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about two more that are now
Speaker 1: bubbling up. But yeah, two more, two more unsolved murders
Speaker 1: that are now being thrown into question involving the family
Speaker 1: or suspicious deaths, I should say. So, the theory of
Speaker 1: the case that he wants you to believe is someone
Speaker 1: killed the son and his mom in retribution for the
Speaker 1: boatman's laughter. The dad fell apart, was already a drug addict,
Speaker 1: decided to kind of off himself via his drug dealer,
Speaker 1: but his drug dealer was just like a bad shot
Speaker 1: and it didn't work. The one that I'm suspecting more
Speaker 1: and more. You'll suspect it if you're kind of suspicious
Speaker 1: of money, locally powerful, generationally powerful, you know, southern white
Speaker 1: families or just all white families. So they had a
Speaker 1: long running my my guess, and this is not proven.
Speaker 1: This is just my theory that they had a long
Speaker 1: running like I can buy my way out of anything,
Speaker 1: history of doing crimes getting away with it. The son
Speaker 1: had become a liability, and as has been rumored, the
Speaker 1: mother was looking to get out of the marriage and
Speaker 1: blow the whole thing up. So you know, that's where
Speaker 1: their murders came from. And then the dad wanted to
Speaker 1: make himself less of a suspect, so he hired his
Speaker 1: rug dealer to make it look like someone tried to
Speaker 1: kill him. And because I mean, it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: shoot someone in the head and I killed them, I
Speaker 1: mean unless you're sniping them from two hundred fucking yards
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah. And also they were on a country
Speaker 1: back road, so if he had intended to kill him,
Speaker 1: he like, it's not like he was him running away.
Speaker 1: I mean wouldn't it go down like being like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're my drug dealer. Man, I'm paying you to kill
Speaker 1: like to kill him. Yeah, And if you were serious
Speaker 1: about that, you'd be like, alright, man, do it. And
Speaker 1: if it missed you like what the funk? Bro? Can
Speaker 1: you do it right now? Alright? My bad? Like it
Speaker 1: wasn't like oh I'm sorry, you know what, Oh God,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Actually, my other drug users are calling
Speaker 1: me for a for a drop or something. So adding
Speaker 1: weight to the theory that this is all like part
Speaker 1: of a massive like ongoing like corrupt crime family is
Speaker 1: that the police are now reopening two deaths that have
Speaker 1: happened near the family farm. Their housekeeper who mysteriously died
Speaker 1: from quote falling a few years back, like the who
Speaker 1: the corner was like, we never were informed of this,
Speaker 1: we never did an autopsy. They really swept it under
Speaker 1: the rug. And now they're reopening that because they're like this,
Speaker 1: like none of this adds up. And also, uh, nineteen
Speaker 1: year old young man whose body was found on a
Speaker 1: country road like by their house and given mind their
Speaker 1: houses like you know, hundreds and hundreds of acres of light,
Speaker 1: so it's not it's not like being by their houses,
Speaker 1: like being by twenty other houses by their house. And interestingly,
Speaker 1: the police at first thought that he had been shot
Speaker 1: in the head, but later changed the cause of death
Speaker 1: to hit and run. They claim a truck's rear view
Speaker 1: mirror like basically exploded his head and that's how he
Speaker 1: was killed. So again, it just feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: conveniently the police kind of looking the other way when
Speaker 1: something incredibly mysterious happens around this family. Jesus, it's so wild.
Speaker 1: It is so wild. Yeah, I think it's wild. That
Speaker 1: also like that it's being covered as yeah he uh,
Speaker 1: like he tried to because that is a good story, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's a good quick story. This guy had like
Speaker 1: hired someone to kill him so his son could get
Speaker 1: the like payout. And it's also like ties into our understanding,
Speaker 1: Like there, I think there are movies that use that
Speaker 1: logic that like all insurance life insurance things like you
Speaker 1: can't get it if they're suicide, whereas like that's you know,
Speaker 1: case by case, and the person who would know that
Speaker 1: and who would know the particulars of his life insurance
Speaker 1: policy would probably be like a lawyer. Yeah, that's wild
Speaker 1: when you said, oh wait, hold on, the cause of
Speaker 1: death is falling, and you're like that it's not good enough,
Speaker 1: like yeah, head injury, Like do they have a heart attack?
Speaker 1: And like what what what are we going? And then
Speaker 1: to switch something from shot shot by someone to smashed
Speaker 1: by a car. I mean, I think that just reeks.
Speaker 1: Those things don't happen without someone willfully obscuring things are
Speaker 1: looking the other way and just being like, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: fifty seven year old housekeeper died on February as a
Speaker 1: result of the injuries sustained in a quote trip and
Speaker 1: fall accident. She had been a housekeeper for them for
Speaker 1: twenty five years. So he basically was like, look, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get you guys five thousand dollars for your trouble.
Speaker 1: To her son's and was like, so what you have
Speaker 1: to do is sue me because it happened on one
Speaker 1: of my properties that I have home insurance on. So
Speaker 1: you sue me and I will get the pay through
Speaker 1: insurance and you'll be You'll get five thousand dollars. Her
Speaker 1: son's are like a really small town guy and somebody
Speaker 1: with I think they said developmental disabilities, and so you know,
Speaker 1: they were just like sure, I don't. I'm not currently
Speaker 1: equipped to take on a massive like fucking the core
Speaker 1: leoned family of South Carolina. So it just got them
Speaker 1: to like go along with it. But yeah, they're they're
Speaker 1: now saying, like the county corner requested that the state
Speaker 1: authorities open an investigation into her death due to inconsistencies
Speaker 1: surrounding it. Yeah, this is just I can't wait for
Speaker 1: this date line episode. Yeah, I'm gonna say this is
Speaker 1: probably like a whole other show in itself. There's just
Speaker 1: so many layers, like something's gonna come out of this.
Speaker 1: Is it's gonna get so business minded Jack. But do
Speaker 1: we know who has the rights to this? I'm sure
Speaker 1: every everybody you know. Yeah, I mean I used a tragedy.
Speaker 1: It's a tragedy, but it's a damn interesting one. That's
Speaker 1: there's so much intrigue there too, because like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: hitting all the notes of like America, like the worst
Speaker 1: parts of American culture, just concentrated wealth and a justice
Speaker 1: system that is very pliable and kind to people who
Speaker 1: are at certain echelons of society. Yeah, yea, I fear,
Speaker 1: you know, they're afraid that they're afraid that if they
Speaker 1: get caught doing anything to endanger those people, they're going
Speaker 1: to come down on them. They might disappear next. Like
Speaker 1: that's like multigeneration generational like corruption, Like that's you know,
Speaker 1: your grandparents are telling you not to funk with them,
Speaker 1: you know at that point, Like that's they've been making
Speaker 1: people disappear. I'm sure for many generations. If can you
Speaker 1: imagine though two Because it's like we have things that
Speaker 1: like generationally, like we'll accept this truth from like our
Speaker 1: elders that something like even like don't funk with that
Speaker 1: family is like comes with the weight of decades of
Speaker 1: whatever the hell they suspect them of doing. Too. It's
Speaker 1: like the same way like I don't know my parents
Speaker 1: would tell me like weird ghost stories or some ship
Speaker 1: that would freak me out of the kid. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, even they know about this. It's a
Speaker 1: very very uh and dark story. But I hope to
Speaker 1: know more. All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. And we're back, and let's get
Speaker 1: into Ballgate briefly as briefly as possible. Yeah, which is
Speaker 1: not very briefly. I mean we can condense it. I
Speaker 1: think people are familiar with Ballgate at this point. We've
Speaker 1: touched on it in the Trending episodes, but you know,
Speaker 1: there was just this whole story with Nicki Minaj and
Speaker 1: the tale of the cousin's friend who most people like
Speaker 1: it sounds like an std and this person may be
Speaker 1: blamed the vaccine and got caught or it maybe this
Speaker 1: isn't true at all. It's it's had many different steps
Speaker 1: to it. The first one was Tucker Carlson getting involved
Speaker 1: and like making this like retraction which he never has
Speaker 1: around this where he was just being kind of cheeky
Speaker 1: about it and was saying, like, you know, I just
Speaker 1: want to say, like, it wasn't her, Like it's not
Speaker 1: the cousins testicles were swollen. As far as we know,
Speaker 1: he's fine. It's Nicki Minaj's cousins friends testicles who are
Speaker 1: swollen from taking the vaccine. That's the claim. And at
Speaker 1: first I was like, this is weird. Jack, You're like,
Speaker 1: I think he's trolling. But over the course of trolling
Speaker 1: and like doing a doing a retraction and a correction
Speaker 1: on the least consequential story possible. Yeah, so being kind
Speaker 1: of dismissive of well, the thing is like it's slowly
Speaker 1: become a culture war battle where conservatives have now found
Speaker 1: a way to be like, oh, let's back this celebrity,
Speaker 1: this black celebrity, to help, you know, be our sort
Speaker 1: of champion and to do battle in the anti vax realm,
Speaker 1: because they're getting a lot of like, you know, like
Speaker 1: Glenn Greenwald, Uh, he's he's chiming in. He said, they're
Speaker 1: trying to dictate. They're trying to dictate to Nicki Minaj
Speaker 1: what she can say and can't say who she is
Speaker 1: and isn't permitted to cite what partisan box she must
Speaker 1: stay in. When people were like, because the whole thing
Speaker 1: was she claimed that Twitter had put her on Twitter jail.
Speaker 1: They Twitter was like, no, we never did anything like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what she's even talking about. So then
Speaker 1: Greenwald is sort of pointing to that, and when someone
Speaker 1: was like, hey, that that didn't actually happen. She wasn't
Speaker 1: actually censored, he said, quote, if she wasn't banned, it's
Speaker 1: only because of who she is, not because of anyone
Speaker 1: else would be allowed to say this, all right, And
Speaker 1: then we see like this sort of back and forth
Speaker 1: now because Tucker Carlson has gone on for a couple
Speaker 1: of nights now talking about it. But he's doing it
Speaker 1: in this way to really bring up the thing that
Speaker 1: they love, which is if a black person goes against
Speaker 1: like whatever the mainstream point of view is, like, especially
Speaker 1: with Democrat rats, then it's like they just think that,
Speaker 1: you know, their favorite thing is they just they they
Speaker 1: Democrats think that every black person has to vote for them,
Speaker 1: and when they don't, they get so upset if they
Speaker 1: say anything different. This is what happens to black people
Speaker 1: when they don't agree with Democrats. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: at the end of her tweets, you just like at
Speaker 1: the initial one to say like, you don't have to
Speaker 1: get bullied, just she says you should prey on it
Speaker 1: and do what you think is best. Tucker again, he
Speaker 1: used this to just sort of push his same sort
Speaker 1: of motive, which is quote he said, it's that last
Speaker 1: part of Nicki Minaj's tweet that enrages them, the part
Speaker 1: where she says you should prey on it, make the
Speaker 1: decision yourself like a free human being, and don't be bullied.
Speaker 1: So our media and public health officials didn't like this
Speaker 1: because they make their livings bullying people. So they couldn't
Speaker 1: let it stand. And it's just like an interesting just
Speaker 1: that this has now been fodder for conservative talking points
Speaker 1: more than like, I think anything else. And on top
Speaker 1: of that, Nicki Minaj had a whole thing where she's
Speaker 1: saying the White House like lied to her and said
Speaker 1: that they wanted her to go there or didn't or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's just stupid. I think eventually she's gonna have a
Speaker 1: zoom call with Anthony Fauci and the Surgeon General. But
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people first time Carlson video
Speaker 1: on Twitter and I still can't believe that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the other one and people like what And then
Speaker 1: she's like what just because he's a white supremacist essentially,
Speaker 1: like I can't agree with him, and people like what
Speaker 1: Nicky know. But a lot of people point out it's
Speaker 1: like if you just remember a week ago what Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj was doing in the news headlines, it was for
Speaker 1: headlines like this quote. Nicki Minaj pulls out of MTV
Speaker 1: v M as as husband faces up to a decade
Speaker 1: in prison. That's because her husband, Kenneth Petty, failed to
Speaker 1: register as a sex offender in California to stemming from
Speaker 1: a rape conviction in New York when he was sixteen,
Speaker 1: So there was a like, there's been a she's been
Speaker 1: saying a lot of controversy stuff. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have been like looking at her, like what is going on?
Speaker 1: But this, you know, this whole other Ballgate thing feels
Speaker 1: very trumpy and that you had a lot of negative
Speaker 1: press or things talking about one thing, so you just
Speaker 1: come out and say something even more outlandish, like someone's
Speaker 1: gigantic balls and now everyone's just talking about that, right.
Speaker 1: I think she she sees the matrix unfortunately on that one.
Speaker 1: But that's it is a little terrifying because I'm always
Speaker 1: just surprised by all the kind of seemingly left wing
Speaker 1: people who are using the the vaccine mandates to like
Speaker 1: start agreeing with Tucker Carlson and people like that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we're constantly saying strange bad fellows in this era. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the hot new fall trend and it's divorced,
Speaker 1: okayvorced baby? Yeah, wow, you're looking great with that ringless hand.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. This seems like to be a trend
Speaker 1: that's been that's being seen across the US. Although like
Speaker 1: a lot of this new that's it's weird. This was
Speaker 1: a piece in the New York Times Style section. Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this does do with style, but um,
Speaker 1: they point out that like in New York, in l a,
Speaker 1: like they've just seen a ton of like just an
Speaker 1: uptick in divorce cases and things like that. And there's
Speaker 1: a few sort of theories around it. But like one
Speaker 1: New York law firm said that, quote since April, our
Speaker 1: phones have been ringing off the hook NonStop, and most
Speaker 1: of those calling are people who want to come in
Speaker 1: and start divorce proceedings. She went on to add, during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, many of these same people were experiencing marital
Speaker 1: problems and putting off splitting up for practical reasons, and
Speaker 1: in some cases, she said that some couples were quote
Speaker 1: waiting for the for the vaccines to be approved and
Speaker 1: to gain more social and economic stability before leaving their marriages.
Speaker 1: It seemed like according to some like you know, some
Speaker 1: polls that like relationship people have been doing that this time,
Speaker 1: like people are more unhappy in their marriages is than
Speaker 1: this time last year, when like, you know, we were
Speaker 1: in the height of lockdowns, and you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of people are speculating what that is,
Speaker 1: that it's come from things like, you know, partners who
Speaker 1: are not pulling their weight, and because of like the
Speaker 1: added labor of like women in the in the lockdown
Speaker 1: and things like that, that this could have compounded like
Speaker 1: issues of like sort of imbalances and relationships or the
Speaker 1: fact that maybe because people have been very you know,
Speaker 1: reflective and had time to sort of think about their priorities,
Speaker 1: it also has been extending to what they want if
Speaker 1: a partner. But yeah, I don't know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: actually I oh, whoa. I'm just trying to think. I'm like,
Speaker 1: do I know, I do know somebody who split up
Speaker 1: in the last couple. Yeah. I like one of the
Speaker 1: things that the lawyer suggests is they're hearing more pandemic
Speaker 1: specific disagreements and couples. I think that's very real. Like
Speaker 1: the again, like the thing about the you know, anti
Speaker 1: vax or ship crossing political ideologies like that. I think
Speaker 1: there are people who are probably shocked to find out
Speaker 1: that there significant other or their their spouse I guess
Speaker 1: is anti vax or, you know, right, And that's that's
Speaker 1: a hard thing to bounce back from. I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a thing that says like one and three,
Speaker 1: like a third of Americans have cut ties with like
Speaker 1: unvaccinated people. Yeah, because it's become like so contentious, and
Speaker 1: I can see how, yeah, that could easily happen in
Speaker 1: the marriage. Yeah, absolutely, because, like I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's very interesting, like how the this is like I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like if we saw it coming,
Speaker 1: because everybody had started happening last year, but now that
Speaker 1: it's been become more and more like, oh, we're not
Speaker 1: out of this yet. This is going to keep going.
Speaker 1: How much more can I take this person? You know?
Speaker 1: That's that's probably what's like leading to all this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, Like I I definitely I haven't personally
Speaker 1: seen that so much, but my my brother actually got
Speaker 1: a girlfriend two weeks before the lockdowns of New York's
Speaker 1: in like New York and New Jersey, and he decided
Speaker 1: that he was gonna go live with her during everything,
Speaker 1: and they're still together, and it's like it's been very
Speaker 1: good from what I've seen anyway, So it's like really interesting,
Speaker 1: Like that was kind of the opposite, but like because
Speaker 1: their relationship kind of like came out of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I guess like it started there. I think that's maybe why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like definitely, like obviously families in general, a lot
Speaker 1: of families have political disagreements, but when it comes to
Speaker 1: like things like it's the safety and health of of
Speaker 1: everyone around you, like you have to take it a
Speaker 1: lot more serio. I think, yeah, um, yeah, it's it
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense work because you you seemingly
Speaker 1: get married to someone and think, you know, like everything
Speaker 1: about them and how they like they'll respond to different
Speaker 1: stimuli throughout your lives. But this has been the weirdest
Speaker 1: test for people, and it's had all kinds of results,
Speaker 1: like from you know your example, like there I know
Speaker 1: people who got booed up during the lockdown and they've
Speaker 1: been great. People are like loving it, they found the
Speaker 1: loves of their lives. And then there are other people
Speaker 1: who in it were really starting to reconsider most people
Speaker 1: I know would be like the nature of their work
Speaker 1: and what they're doing. But also in some cases like
Speaker 1: people having sort of realizations around dating and things like
Speaker 1: that too of like oh wait, I actually I'm starting
Speaker 1: to understand like what my own needs are and I
Speaker 1: think this is this other quote from this relationship expert
Speaker 1: out there saying, quote, there's a lot of angst out there,
Speaker 1: which is why many divorced people tell me that they
Speaker 1: are now approaching new relationships by holding potential partners to
Speaker 1: a higher level of maturity and authenticity. And that's starting
Speaker 1: from the dating level. They will never again, quote, settle
Speaker 1: for just anyone. Damn. It's that also sounds like how
Speaker 1: people are thinking about jobs a little bit, like not totally,
Speaker 1: but you know, we we still have to like put
Speaker 1: food on the table. But the you know, it seems
Speaker 1: like people are getting more Yeah, like I think I'm
Speaker 1: feeling more empowered to hold hold people to a reasonable standard, right,
Speaker 1: And I think is like, you know, it's easy to
Speaker 1: get caught up in like what you're like, I understand
Speaker 1: the settling thing, because not it doesn't always feel like that,
Speaker 1: you know, because sometimes we're surviving and a job is
Speaker 1: what we needed in that time to survive that moment,
Speaker 1: or a relationship is what we needed in that time
Speaker 1: to unfortunately just avoid loneliness. And we're it's two people
Speaker 1: avoiding loneliness together, maybe with not much else in common,
Speaker 1: but yeah, just sort of all of that happening like
Speaker 1: at once, it's I hope people aren't settling, and I
Speaker 1: think maybe people are just getting again more open about
Speaker 1: what their needs are because I think everyone was feeling
Speaker 1: some level of pain these last eighteen nineteen months that
Speaker 1: right there, you be you're able to actually kind of
Speaker 1: stop bullshitting yourself on some level. Not everyone, but if
Speaker 1: you are experienced feeling a lot of bullshit going on,
Speaker 1: it might be easier to fucking really take stock of
Speaker 1: what's happening and doing Shout out to all the people
Speaker 1: who are able to stay married out there, because you know, it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard. It's been a it's been a hard
Speaker 1: a couple of years. You know that it takes work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I think I don't know. I feel like even
Speaker 1: in my own relationship, like because we both would have
Speaker 1: to be open about like ship that was getting us
Speaker 1: down like in a way that we weren't doing before
Speaker 1: that I think because luckily I have a partner who's
Speaker 1: very intelligent emotionally and like empathetic, that there was an
Speaker 1: our an arena to do that in that that really
Speaker 1: helped make things more stable or stronger. And I think
Speaker 1: in other cases like you'd hear about people who were
Speaker 1: just dating and like, this person doesn't like talk about
Speaker 1: anything like actually like and it doesn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about their emotions. I want to talk about mine, and
Speaker 1: this is just actually someone I was avoiding loneliness with.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah's deep. Yeah, avoiding is a tough thing. Hey,
Speaker 1: So it turns out I was just avoid avoiding. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: some of the work of social media you've been enjoying. Yes, goodness,
Speaker 1: So the one that's been kind of stuck. I know
Speaker 1: it's been slightly old news that you know that there's
Speaker 1: a new Matrix trailer that dropped, But I kept thinking
Speaker 1: about this tweet from ron Vera at r O N
Speaker 1: and you I underscore he says, the the Matrix wasn't dumb.
Speaker 1: You just have to understand the philosophical allegories that it's referencing.
Speaker 1: Like downloading Karate from lime Wire. I love that ship.
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Speaker 1: Some tweets that I like, let's see. The first one
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Speaker 1: photo of this woman laying in bed and says, woman's
Speaker 1: self care starting to look suspiciously like self sabotage. And
Speaker 1: it's gone, yeah, come on, come on, come, this is
Speaker 1: what I need. Okay, it's not sabotaging, it's not procrastination now,
Speaker 1: and then another one is from old Friend nine nine
Speaker 1: at Old Friend nine nine said, please stop referring to
Speaker 1: things as orwellian. Some of us haven't read this his
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Speaker 1: Mike Drucker at Mike Drugger tweeted, your childhood ends the
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Speaker 1: c K and that d u c T and that
Speaker 1: is very true. Mm hmm, I don't that's the day
Speaker 1: that the magic diet, you know. Yeah, let's see. Laura
Speaker 1: is such a good mom tweeted, I'm going to Costco.
Speaker 1: Anybody need me to pick up fifty pounds of rice
Speaker 1: or at kayak and Michael A. Belazo tweeted, after a
Speaker 1: long day of protesting in front of the hospital, I
Speaker 1: like to get home, put my feet up and unwind
Speaker 1: by passing away of COVID nineteen. God that is dark,
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