Speaker 1: Oh, hello the Internet and my wonderful students, and welcome
Speaker 1: to Season one, episode four of The Daily Z Guys.
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Speaker 1: thought provoking. Sure, I mean everyone's doing the urinal tit
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Speaker 1: the state. No bad, uh, Caitlin. Let's please welcome our
Speaker 1: guests today. This is another person, a wonderful guest, somebody
Speaker 1: who I love to see around town. Sometimes I see
Speaker 1: your sister and I think it's her and it's not hurt.
Speaker 1: Please welcome. A comedian, a podcaster and all around just
Speaker 1: fantastic performer and person, personality and psychedelic experiment or I
Speaker 1: would even say to recently, I'm gonna try to sing
Speaker 1: this one. I just wrote. Okay, Okay, that's for you
Speaker 1: if you're not vaccinated and can be. But me, I
Speaker 1: got the finsor shot in my arm. Bad for you
Speaker 1: if you didn't want to do that, you pluster mind.
Speaker 1: You think it's your right spread at COVID variants all
Speaker 1: over the world you want to get in fact, and
Speaker 1: I really don't get it. But I guess bad for us, No, no, no, no, paramore,
Speaker 1: it's good for you. But what is that? Oh see,
Speaker 1: I don't even say, oh, that's right, Oh no you do.
Speaker 1: Look I'm old, okay, look at me, that paramore and
Speaker 1: like it's Olivia Rodrigo, the most famous artists on the
Speaker 1: planet at the moment. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I love
Speaker 1: her song car that was dope. It's probably a sign
Speaker 1: of like your good mental health and boundary setting that
Speaker 1: you don't know who she is. No, I do know
Speaker 1: because her majesty plays it. And I like the one
Speaker 1: Strawberry ice Cream Malibu because all the time a lot
Speaker 1: of people like, oh my god, identify with this and
Speaker 1: like I was never like ansty to the point where
Speaker 1: like you'll never love somebody the way I do and
Speaker 1: my friends are haters. I more identify with the jealous songs.
Speaker 1: I bet you doing all that A little ship with
Speaker 1: the new one, now, huh. That's when I'm like, get him, Olivia,
Speaker 1: get him. It is wild because I love an angsty
Speaker 1: breakup song like my karaoke song used to be before
Speaker 1: he cheat. I I've grown out of it, so I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying this like the youth and singing it here because
Speaker 1: I love. But I can't get into the words because
Speaker 1: I'm now at the point and I don't think this
Speaker 1: is necessarily a good thing. It might just be I'm
Speaker 1: tired of being sad. But when I hear that, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why would you even be thinking about an old really?
Speaker 1: Just think about It's not like it's like to the
Speaker 1: point where I'm like, he sounds toxic and honestly, don't
Speaker 1: waste another minute. But I get it, you know, but
Speaker 1: also don't think about him. Yeah, I think that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Is like, it's it's like the era of our lives
Speaker 1: when like we would do furious note writing. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean to be I have to give you
Speaker 1: a note remember that ship in school? I just don't
Speaker 1: send them they just like I have diaries and I
Speaker 1: have a whole box of letters written to all the
Speaker 1: boys I've loved before that movie is based on Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's more like to all the boys that have
Speaker 1: not loved me yet, possibly in the future or anyone.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. That's where I feel like
Speaker 1: that was like the height of drama in high school
Speaker 1: because like we have phones and we were barely texting
Speaker 1: like around the early odds by the time I was
Speaker 1: getting out. But like if someone was like, yo, she
Speaker 1: did you see the note that she wrote then she
Speaker 1: gave to her like they're done, Like they're they're not
Speaker 1: even friends anymore, based on the thickness of that note
Speaker 1: and the way she folded it. Oh my god. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Choogye uh you know, reminiscing podcast uh,
Speaker 1: starring some you know, just one geriatric millennial and to
Speaker 1: people that he has convinced to be guests. Anyway, before
Speaker 1: we get to know you a little bit better, Teresa,
Speaker 1: let's just give people a quick idea of what we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about today. We got all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff from the Republicans, going from defending the Muppets to
Speaker 1: hating the Muppets. You know, it's it's hard when you
Speaker 1: have no actual morality. So we'll kind of look into
Speaker 1: what their newest beef is with the muppets. Andrew Cuomo,
Speaker 1: his defense is laughable in terms of all of the
Speaker 1: you know, the investigation of what's come out. Yet he
Speaker 1: thinks it's effective. And I think that's pretty indicative of
Speaker 1: kind of how far we uh yeah, how far we
Speaker 1: have to go societally. Um. And so we'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about that. We'll talk about this Olympic story
Speaker 1: about this Belarussian sprinter and it sounds like a high
Speaker 1: drama film filled with you know, secret police and you know,
Speaker 1: secret recordings and the threat of bodily harm and all
Speaker 1: kinds of interesting, not interesting tragic stuff. Um. And then
Speaker 1: I think we'll even maybe check in with the kids.
Speaker 1: You know how I'm you know how I'm in touch
Speaker 1: with the kids because I knew that was in Olivia
Speaker 1: Rodrigo track. You bet you better believe I'm on TikTok
Speaker 1: or at least reading NBC News or they're telling me
Speaker 1: about the frozen honey trend and it's causing people some
Speaker 1: bodily issues. UM. So we'll get into that because the
Speaker 1: kids are not all right. But first, Teresa, let us
Speaker 1: know what's something from your search history. That is just
Speaker 1: revealing about who you are, what you're up to. I
Speaker 1: just googled this this morning, so this is very revealing.
Speaker 1: I guess I gol to how do you match um
Speaker 1: white paint to a wall? Because I have a lot
Speaker 1: of holes in my wall from um trying to become
Speaker 1: a father during quarantine and I put up a lot
Speaker 1: of not from punching the wall like a benevolent father
Speaker 1: who has been home improving, but I I've installed new
Speaker 1: lines and things, and also was bad at some of
Speaker 1: the installations. So there's a lot of holes and I
Speaker 1: decided it's time to fill them in. Right. Um, it's
Speaker 1: like a white wall, but it's not a white wall,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So I really the instructions
Speaker 1: that I got were like to cut off a piece
Speaker 1: of the wall, which seems kind of silly. So they
Speaker 1: have also apps apparently that you can match the color.
Speaker 1: I still don't really know. I'm going to try the
Speaker 1: app one and see how that works. It's not like
Speaker 1: a thing like if in my mind, like in the
Speaker 1: olden days, you just bring like some scrapings and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you maxine? Like no, what are you talking? About
Speaker 1: this looks like dust. That's literally what it was like.
Speaker 1: You could cut an inch square, but it has to
Speaker 1: be an inch. I'm like, well, where am I going
Speaker 1: to cut an inch off my wall? Like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: That's just another hole you have to fill in and
Speaker 1: paint over. Then, I know, when there's so many holes
Speaker 1: in my heart already, it's like it's like really backed up,
Speaker 1: you know. So is this like the scene in American
Speaker 1: Psycho where they're like, and his business card was bone
Speaker 1: colored and then this one was. So it's like there's
Speaker 1: all these different versions of white. I mean, I assume
Speaker 1: it's like because my sister when she used to live
Speaker 1: with me, did um try to fill up some holes
Speaker 1: was back lane and there now are just like really
Speaker 1: weird looking patches of different whites all over. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, but I don't know how to.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the right answer is. So I
Speaker 1: guess I'm sure one of the listeners anyone want to
Speaker 1: come to my house and my walls are like the
Speaker 1: home improvement? Is that gang? Please come through for Theresa.
Speaker 1: What is she supposed to do? Or you know? Or
Speaker 1: I guess the other version is like you might have
Speaker 1: to pick a whole new color to make the whole
Speaker 1: wall a hole and then will all match does like
Speaker 1: the maintenance like or like uh, like a superintendent building manager.
Speaker 1: They will be like, oh, yeah, we always use this
Speaker 1: color white. That's usually what they do because the true
Speaker 1: I just don't want to alert them to the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm putting a hold of this. Is what you do?
Speaker 1: You say, I love the wall color in here, and
Speaker 1: I had a guest to come by and they were
Speaker 1: absolutely in love with it. Can you tell me what
Speaker 1: the color is so I can let them know what
Speaker 1: it is? They're huge fans. I really want to dye
Speaker 1: my hair to match the walls in um my house.
Speaker 1: Can tell you the exact Pantoni so I can take
Speaker 1: it to my stylists exactly. Or maybe you just you
Speaker 1: you create a like a Burner email account and you're like, who,
Speaker 1: I'm an interested perspective tenant and I would love to
Speaker 1: know what exactly the you of this. This will very
Speaker 1: much impact my decision whether or not to move into this.
Speaker 1: It's going to be like a new serial podcast. It's
Speaker 1: just like The Hunt for the Color. It's just like
Speaker 1: or just our generation and the younger generation's inability to
Speaker 1: ask direct questions a lot of the times, like so
Speaker 1: what do I like? Hi? Can you tell me the
Speaker 1: paint color? Um? Well, yeah, if there's like you know,
Speaker 1: any maintenance people, they usually know, or just if there's
Speaker 1: a if a supply and break in and then take
Speaker 1: of the paint paint taste? Fine, say no more a
Speaker 1: write it? Yeah we got we gotta do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on to something that you think is overrated? Teresa,
Speaker 1: what would that be? I okay, this is new for me.
Speaker 1: So this is old zigang, who have heard me talk
Speaker 1: about things? This is a new Teresa. I think having
Speaker 1: a high credit scores overrated. And I don't mean like
Speaker 1: in the way that like, I know, credit cards suck
Speaker 1: and that is true, but I mean like I had
Speaker 1: a high credit score and I was thinking that this
Speaker 1: was like a pillar of my personality and if I
Speaker 1: just do this, my life will be okay. And then
Speaker 1: I realized that that it's all a scam. But not
Speaker 1: only that, but I just got a credit because I
Speaker 1: just threwat to a short film but I haven't raised
Speaker 1: the money for it yet. But to do this, I
Speaker 1: took a credit card out with your percent APR for
Speaker 1: fifteen months, and I spent the money before I still
Speaker 1: don't have the money, but I spent it, and I realized,
Speaker 1: like I directed a short, and then I'm like, whatever happens,
Speaker 1: Like maybe I'll end up on the street, but more
Speaker 1: than likely I'll figure it out. I still don't know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, but the reality is I did
Speaker 1: the directing part already, So I realized, like, okay, like
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, I blow up my credit score and
Speaker 1: I finished a short. Best case scenario, I crowdfunder, figure
Speaker 1: it out and pay it off. But in no way
Speaker 1: would I have done this if I was waiting to
Speaker 1: make the money. So I just realized, like it's all
Speaker 1: a scam, Like just the more the bank owns you,
Speaker 1: the more they want to keep you alive. And now
Speaker 1: I feel like they own me and they want me alive.
Speaker 1: So they're not going to kill me, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll just they'll let the other industries do that for them.
Speaker 1: And they're back like, oh, it's a shame that you
Speaker 1: couldn't afford to live, but yeah, I I definitely at one.
Speaker 1: I remember I used to I dated somebody who like
Speaker 1: credit score shamed me and like I kind of took
Speaker 1: it personally at the time because it's a very privileged
Speaker 1: thing to do. I remember I was trying to get
Speaker 1: a TV and they're like, hey, like you want to
Speaker 1: findance and I'm like what's that and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe you can just do payments. I'm like okay, and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you don't have any credits or I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I don't have I was like, I means you're
Speaker 1: no debt. I mean, the only reason I started with
Speaker 1: the high credit score my extremely high student loans. And
Speaker 1: this whole time I was like, I'm so responsible. But's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's because you were a dumb idiot a seventeen years
Speaker 1: old and you signed your life away. Yeah. Now I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm about to pay my Masda off. You know, that
Speaker 1: credit score about to be jumping, and then I will
Speaker 1: call that X. I'll be like, you should look at
Speaker 1: it now. It's six anyway, is sometimes um, what is
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated? Um? What is something I
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Animals that talk and I don't mean
Speaker 1: like talk like huskies, Okay, I mean like animals. I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you guys are playing much time on
Speaker 1: animal TikTok, this is not like a Demi lavad on
Speaker 1: talking to alien situation. There are plenty of animals out
Speaker 1: there who, like you spend time with your pets, and
Speaker 1: they all have those little things where they like kind
Speaker 1: of understand that one thing where you're like, that's oddly
Speaker 1: human of them, But I think it's very common because
Speaker 1: um just living things living in close capacity with each
Speaker 1: other are going to pick up communication skills. And we
Speaker 1: have English, but obviously, like you know, you have shorthand
Speaker 1: with your best friends or whatever. So I actually think
Speaker 1: that we're getting to this point where animals that we
Speaker 1: see as very dumb or cute that they speak human
Speaker 1: are actually like learning how to speak human. And I'm
Speaker 1: seeing a general trend of like dogs really understanding a
Speaker 1: lot more overall, not just like your pet dog, like
Speaker 1: understanding how the world of humans work. And pretty soon
Speaker 1: they will be asking us not to cut their balls off,
Speaker 1: and we will have to make that choice because if
Speaker 1: your dog could ask you, would you trust it to
Speaker 1: wear a condom? Is you know, like this is not
Speaker 1: where I saw this. I just mean, I just mean
Speaker 1: they're learning they're learning how to communicate because they have
Speaker 1: to by necessity they live with us. There are some
Speaker 1: examples that you're seeing you're like, oh shit, my dog,
Speaker 1: for sure, I'll say, understands way too much English, to
Speaker 1: the point where at first we thought it was like
Speaker 1: kind of silly and cute, but then we realized, like,
Speaker 1: he really does understand like I would. I was talking
Speaker 1: about like going on a hike in the morning, ones
Speaker 1: like sunrise hike, and he woke up before. He never
Speaker 1: wakes up that early, but he woke up like four,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what is he up so early?
Speaker 1: And he was like ready to go, And then I
Speaker 1: was with my boyfriend was like, I think it's I
Speaker 1: think he heard us. I was like, well, he understood
Speaker 1: that we said we were going. And another time he
Speaker 1: wouldn't eat his food when he met my boyfriend's parents
Speaker 1: and they sat there watching him, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh God, he's embarrassing me because they're like, why isn't
Speaker 1: he eating? And then um, my boyfriend's dad was like,
Speaker 1: maybe he wants tacos And I've never taught him the
Speaker 1: word taco, but he looked over my boyfriend's dad and
Speaker 1: walked over and sat on his lap and was like
Speaker 1: like literally like yeah, I do want tacos um. These
Speaker 1: are bad examples, but there are more on TikTok. There's
Speaker 1: a one of a like another dog literally walking like
Speaker 1: a corky making fun of a corky like squatting and
Speaker 1: it's like a big terrier and its squats and then
Speaker 1: the corky turns around and it stands up and then
Speaker 1: it does it again. It's like taunting it. These are
Speaker 1: these animals just doing like human things because they learned
Speaker 1: from us. You know, so not only are our phones
Speaker 1: listening to us, now our dogs are listening to us. Great,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, and now they now they have takes on
Speaker 1: things like the accusations against Joe Biden and if they're
Speaker 1: worth suessing out as well or maybe not. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: I was. I saw cats having that discussion the other
Speaker 1: day on the street. But yeah, it's the things that
Speaker 1: I see on TikTok are never animals because it thinks
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on some other ship. I see the weirdest ship.
Speaker 1: It's like always weird skits, stuff about like l a
Speaker 1: culture and then like like weird food. You gotta let
Speaker 1: go and ride the way because I've been through so
Speaker 1: many subcultures of TikTok, and sometimes I want to hang
Speaker 1: onto one. Sometimes I want to get out. But what
Speaker 1: I've learned is you just you just write it like,
Speaker 1: just act natural, like like what you like, don't like
Speaker 1: what you like, and it all the algorithm will know.
Speaker 1: And the algorithm will know, because that's really what TikTok
Speaker 1: is experience to train this like machine learning thing. That's
Speaker 1: why sometimes see, that's how I reclaimed my power, and
Speaker 1: I thought of curve balls. But if you treat yourself
Speaker 1: like well, I didn't realize I needed to be talking
Speaker 1: to trees and animals, and here we are, and I
Speaker 1: think that it's made me a better communicator with the trees.
Speaker 1: Less humans. Humans now don't understand me at all. If
Speaker 1: I have moved on, I'm past that for sure. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's move past that segment and take a quick break.
Speaker 1: Pay some bills, and we're right back to talk some news,
Speaker 1: and we're back. Publicans, muppets, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Speaker 1: What is happening? I don't know. And in this week's
Speaker 1: edition of Now they love Them, Now they don't, we
Speaker 1: have Fox News and Friends, the Fox and Friends crew.
Speaker 1: They're talking about how the Muppets have become two woke. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, since they can't talk about things like
Speaker 1: COVID or like climate change, or like even politics anymore,
Speaker 1: because they're like, we can't like let anyone know that
Speaker 1: anything positive might be happening, or you know, acknowledge the
Speaker 1: omni crisis, omni crisis that we're facing. Uh, let's just
Speaker 1: let's lean into the culture wars. So they've spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time, you know, the agendous on bullshit like
Speaker 1: smearing critical race theory or like just general fearmongerings enophobia,
Speaker 1: but in this case, they want parents of young kids
Speaker 1: to be alarmed with the kind of messages that are
Speaker 1: coming out of the newest Muppet Baby series. When I heard,
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, Muppet Baby is the old one,
Speaker 1: but there's a new one. Um. I didn't realize because
Speaker 1: again I'm old. Um. And let's just listen to the
Speaker 1: discourse around what they believe is the problem with the
Speaker 1: Muppets because they are just too darn woke. Alright. In
Speaker 1: other news, we haven't done anything about cartoons yet or
Speaker 1: about animated series. I don't cover that we don't muppets
Speaker 1: Babies has a character by the name of Gonzo. Gonzo
Speaker 1: wanted to attend a royal ball, and I believe we've
Speaker 1: got a clip where Gonzo wanted to wear a dress
Speaker 1: and two characters said to him that boys are not
Speaker 1: supposed to wear boys are supposed to wear nightclothes, and
Speaker 1: I ht clothes. However, a fairy rat father, according to
Speaker 1: the Fox news dot com story, granted Gonzo's wish to
Speaker 1: become a princess. And that's what happens. Watch this. So
Speaker 1: they go on and they play this clip, and again
Speaker 1: I like how they go. Normally, we don't cover things
Speaker 1: like animated y'all were screaming about Mr potato Head sucking
Speaker 1: dim wits the funk are you talking? I mean, normally
Speaker 1: this is so highbrow, elevated discussion of all things, you know,
Speaker 1: culture and nears. But yes, they play a very long clip,
Speaker 1: but let me just get to the summation. Essentially, I
Speaker 1: think we all know where this is going, but just
Speaker 1: we'll let them say this in their words. Um here.
Speaker 1: So then at the end of the ball, the glass
Speaker 1: slippers left and they're trying to find out who it
Speaker 1: belongs to and Miss Piggy says, we met the most
Speaker 1: amazing princess last night at the ball, and then Gonza says,
Speaker 1: there's something I need to tell you. The princess who
Speaker 1: came to the ball tonight was me, And then some
Speaker 1: of the other muppets said, it wasn't very nice of
Speaker 1: us to tell you what to wear to the ball.
Speaker 1: Gonzarella makes his debut. Uh is this what kids were
Speaker 1: clamoring for from the Muppets cross dressing? Was that a
Speaker 1: big gass something they were missing in their lives? What
Speaker 1: this is is I mean, you can, you can overdo it,
Speaker 1: but we've also underdone it for too long. Okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm off this. They definitely want to make a point
Speaker 1: of saying like why like this is political, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, like the whole build up to this,
Speaker 1: you have to say very rat father. Yeah, like there's
Speaker 1: so many things that are already like these are muppets.
Speaker 1: There's not even a boy like you even care. These
Speaker 1: are puppets with hands in their head, like they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're going to be debating like the Afterlife with the
Speaker 1: movie Soul, Like British too, They're like, I mean, who
Speaker 1: knows what's going on in this documentary film, they're like,
Speaker 1: what yet the way they like beat for beat, especially
Speaker 1: when any hurts, like and then they and then they
Speaker 1: loosed up the slipper and then they're looking for it,
Speaker 1: and then they come up and they say we're sorry,
Speaker 1: like it's why are we going to beat for beat?
Speaker 1: Like because you have to stretch this weird thing out, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the point here? It's like if Yeah, to me,
Speaker 1: I feel like they are at the point where they
Speaker 1: actually say what they think they already know. It sounds
Speaker 1: like if they were to say what they really think,
Speaker 1: which is like, we don't like presented as kind of
Speaker 1: male even though he's a fake, made up character that
Speaker 1: doesn't exist, not an animal, but because we have perceived
Speaker 1: him as male and we call him he it's weird
Speaker 1: that he wears a dress in this childhood fantasy fairy
Speaker 1: tale that also is not real and all of its
Speaker 1: magic and that's against the Bible. But anyways, it's like
Speaker 1: like that contradictates so many things. Yeah, I haven't watched
Speaker 1: this specific clip, but I was reading about that about
Speaker 1: like what happens in the show where by the end
Speaker 1: of the episode, Gonzo comes out as non binary, says
Speaker 1: my pronouns are they them? Miss Piggy, who had been
Speaker 1: like no, boys wear boy clothes and girls wear a
Speaker 1: girl clothes and you can't like you know, Miss Piggy
Speaker 1: apologizes and like to me, it's like like, obviously this
Speaker 1: is important messaging to be in children's media and like
Speaker 1: love that we have that there, and then yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1: These Fox News ships are just like getting outraged about
Speaker 1: television and like children's programming did. Yeah, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're not supposed to understand that genders are constructed until
Speaker 1: at least college. We can't we can't alert them to
Speaker 1: that early on because they have to subscribe to toxic
Speaker 1: gender norms at the earliest of age and then spend
Speaker 1: the rest of their lives grappling with that. It's almost
Speaker 1: like if these Fox dues uh anchors had grown up
Speaker 1: with better modeling in their TV shows, the experienced communicating
Speaker 1: their wants in need. Too bad they didn't have it,
Speaker 1: and everyone else needs to suffer well because you know
Speaker 1: what's wild. If you remember at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year the Muppets were they were trying to defend them.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior, I don't know because they put disclaimers
Speaker 1: in front of episodes. He came out and said, this
Speaker 1: is a tweet from him, So this is his words,
Speaker 1: and this is what he says. Quote, Apparently the Muppets
Speaker 1: have now been canceled. There's nothing these cycles won't destroy.
Speaker 1: Liberalism is a disease, okay, all because they were again,
Speaker 1: this is the thing would run at the you know,
Speaker 1: beginning of episodes, because if the deal is they were
Speaker 1: putting it in front of these old ass episodes from
Speaker 1: like the seventies and ship that have aged like a
Speaker 1: fine shrimp cocktail left out in the desert sun for
Speaker 1: seventy two hours. So yeah, they were like, the these
Speaker 1: are sucked up. So this is the thing that would
Speaker 1: read before the episode, it'd say, quote, this program includes
Speaker 1: negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures. Great. Uh,
Speaker 1: these stereotypes were wrong then and they are wrong now.
Speaker 1: This is the thing that Donald Trump Jr. And the
Speaker 1: rest of the conservative media sphere was pushing back against
Speaker 1: because they were acknowledging it because in some of these episodes,
Speaker 1: included one where Johnny Cash was singing in front of
Speaker 1: a Confederate flag. God, they were again the disclaimer said
Speaker 1: rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its
Speaker 1: harmful impact, learn from it, and spark conversation to create
Speaker 1: a more inclusive future together. Now whether or not those
Speaker 1: conversations are being had is another issue, but at the
Speaker 1: very least they're saying up top, yo that the sorry
Speaker 1: about the this is not good. But let's let's let's
Speaker 1: remember this is bad and this is we have to
Speaker 1: move forward from. So enjoy your muppetry. I have a
Speaker 1: like a little personal anecdote not buppets, about children's TV
Speaker 1: because I was really writing, like freelance writing for like
Speaker 1: children's shows, and I was surprised how much more they
Speaker 1: are regulating the modeling of behavior in a way that
Speaker 1: I think is really hopeful but for the future, but
Speaker 1: in a way that definitely wasn't around. Like I remember
Speaker 1: watching Looney Tunes. It was just people, I mean the
Speaker 1: animals hurting each other, Tom and Jerry. It was whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, like shotting each other in the head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like now when I watch them, like gosh, this is
Speaker 1: so violent. But now there's little things where if someone
Speaker 1: does something bad, like oh, I cheated in this game,
Speaker 1: because you want to learn a lesson for the kids,
Speaker 1: but they do that they need to immediately have consequences
Speaker 1: or it's not good modeling, to the point where I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, wow, like we must Like I was
Speaker 1: so used to watching this version where the protagonist just
Speaker 1: does things wrong and at the end they learn, but
Speaker 1: you let things fall apart. But now the old Looney
Speaker 1: Tunes and ship and bugs Bunny was doing all kinds
Speaker 1: of so now a lot. But I've realized, like they
Speaker 1: are very watchful of that. Not all. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in the like internet, digital,
Speaker 1: but this is like for you know, a TV channel,
Speaker 1: and they really do put a lot of time into, um,
Speaker 1: how to model behavior. So I like that. I think
Speaker 1: it's like that must come a long way, because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I knew when I was being abused,
Speaker 1: you know, in relationships. So it's like, now maybe I'll
Speaker 1: have the kids, will have a better idea what's right
Speaker 1: or wrong? Yeah, what boundaries are, what consequences are. And
Speaker 1: I even think, you know, again, the Fox and Friends crew,
Speaker 1: you know, they obviously decided to go to homophobic route
Speaker 1: to try and you know, get their audience to be
Speaker 1: so offended by this, when really they could just you know,
Speaker 1: what this is about is not bullying people because of
Speaker 1: how they want to dress or present themselves. Like that's
Speaker 1: the that's the that's what is the message here. It's
Speaker 1: not all the little boys shall wear dresses from henceforth
Speaker 1: because of this cartoon. But again, since they can't say
Speaker 1: this is a message about not bullying there, they obviously
Speaker 1: have to go that route. So I mean the originals,
Speaker 1: Norella was also a lot of princess like she she
Speaker 1: also was fantasizing to be a princess. Like the whole
Speaker 1: thing is like it's the same message, but they just swapped.
Speaker 1: I mean by default, the whole thing is a lie,
Speaker 1: and she was aspirational. I feel like it's like in
Speaker 1: the in Fox and Friends Perfect World, everyone would just
Speaker 1: be like an adult who's two into Disney because that's
Speaker 1: what they do. They infantilize everybody. It's like, do you
Speaker 1: want that? No, you want people to grow up and
Speaker 1: grow out of that phase. You don't want to take
Speaker 1: your kids to Disneyland. I mean some adults it's fine,
Speaker 1: do ask it to go to Disneyland. Whatever. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's fun, But like that way, you want the ratio
Speaker 1: to be more children and families. You don't want to
Speaker 1: show up and be like, oh, ship, we ruined Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Like you're like, oh, it's a daycare for people that
Speaker 1: are regressing at a rapid rate. And then it just
Speaker 1: feels like an E. D M festival, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like that would be wild. Oh man, that reminds me
Speaker 1: of grad Night that they used to do at Disneyland
Speaker 1: where they would turned Disneyland into a rave from eight
Speaker 1: pm to eight am, would go, would go sound. It was,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was wild, like the last thing you
Speaker 1: do senior year in high school, and like everybody was
Speaker 1: on drugs and like everybody got in trouble because they're like,
Speaker 1: why do your eyes your pupils look like that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I think the Indiana Jones ride was too
Speaker 1: bright or something. But you were like in high school
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah. Now I'm you know, I'm in my
Speaker 1: third decade of the year of the life and third
Speaker 1: decades because I like to feel like I'm still the
Speaker 1: same age as high school, but it's in a group
Speaker 1: of people my age at filling up doesn't land on
Speaker 1: drugs would be very different. Yeah, but who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: that's the evolution of Disneyland, that it's meant to be,
Speaker 1: and who are we to stand in the way of that?
Speaker 1: That it's a place where people to experiment with psychedelic
Speaker 1: and be like surrounded by all this childhood imagery, So
Speaker 1: they really do some introspection about their upbringing. I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I'm not think it could be healthy yeah, interesting, yeah,
Speaker 1: or traumatizing. I don't know. Again, I'm not a therapist.
Speaker 1: I'm just some dude who got really fucked up at
Speaker 1: Disneyland once. Um. Okay, I want to move on to
Speaker 1: talk about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo uh and his
Speaker 1: predatory behavior that has been revealed very clearly after Attorney
Speaker 1: General Leticia James released the findings of her office. I
Speaker 1: think this line sums it all up. Quote, we, the
Speaker 1: investigators appointed to conduct an investigation into allegations of sexual
Speaker 1: harassment by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, conclude that the governor
Speaker 1: engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New
Speaker 1: York state law. Okay, that's it. That that seems pretty
Speaker 1: nailed on again. They say the pronouncement came after a
Speaker 1: months long investigation that included interviews with one nine people
Speaker 1: and the reviewing of more than seventy four thousand documents.
Speaker 1: Uh and ended with the stunning finding that Cuomo sexually
Speaker 1: harassed eleven women, including state employees in a New York
Speaker 1: State trooper. He also retaliated against one woman who had
Speaker 1: gone public with her allegations against him. This is what's
Speaker 1: in the a G report. Um couldn't be a clear
Speaker 1: picture of someone that has a clear history with harassment,
Speaker 1: that has a clear pattern of behavior, doesn't see their
Speaker 1: transgressions as transgressions at all. Yet he's doing this whole
Speaker 1: thing where he because like he knows that doing the
Speaker 1: conservative or old school defense, which is they're all liars,
Speaker 1: is going to result in calamity. Like that was That's
Speaker 1: like the one thing that I feel like He's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: since meat too happened, you can't say they're liars. So
Speaker 1: what I do now is you yes, and it okay,
Speaker 1: that's I'm in the improv I yes, like I did that,
Speaker 1: but I also did other things. So why aren't you
Speaker 1: getting those things? All those things are bad right and
Speaker 1: like that, yeah, well, and I just want to play
Speaker 1: because again as it relates to his yes ending this,
Speaker 1: he released a video, um, and we touched on it
Speaker 1: kind of briefly yesterday, but he released this video where
Speaker 1: he is essentially being like, yeah, do I touched people
Speaker 1: in the face all the time? Um? And and this
Speaker 1: is how this is how his just how sort of
Speaker 1: I don't know, just ridiculous. This this defenses I do
Speaker 1: it with everyone, black and white, young and old, l
Speaker 1: g B t Q, powerful people, friends, strangers, people who
Speaker 1: I meet on the street. Okay, underneath that was the
Speaker 1: most cringe e fucking slide show of him and Black
Speaker 1: Clinton just exchanging powers. Like yeah, and again, even in
Speaker 1: these photos, no one looks comfortable like all these I mean,
Speaker 1: I imagine other people who are in these videos might
Speaker 1: watch and go like, oh, yeah, that was weird, and
Speaker 1: now it's weirder that you, Oh this is weird. Is
Speaker 1: actually so his defense is like, no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: make everyone uncomfortable that I come in contact with. I
Speaker 1: don't discriminate against anybody. I will make every single person,
Speaker 1: no regardless of age, gender, sexuality, I will I will
Speaker 1: touch them all And that makes it okay. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think that's Maurice. Alice and Jezebel wrote, you know
Speaker 1: essentially that like this is how sort of the men
Speaker 1: are still able to hijack this narrative of what's actually
Speaker 1: happening by leaning into this thing of like I do
Speaker 1: it all the time. Is now robbing the like these
Speaker 1: these people who have these allegations against him of the
Speaker 1: actual truth of it all, which is that they did
Speaker 1: this and they made me feel uncomfortable because now he's
Speaker 1: doing it to be like I do it to everybody,
Speaker 1: So they're just tripping you see what I'm saying here,
Speaker 1: like what's the problem. That's the that's the way it
Speaker 1: has now spun. And granted you know a lot like
Speaker 1: you know, many people have been like you need to resign.
Speaker 1: It seems that in Andrew Cuomo's mind he's done the
Speaker 1: good part by saying like, yeah, but I do that
Speaker 1: all the time, so like what's the problem here? It
Speaker 1: totally takes away the point that like people want to
Speaker 1: express how it makes them because he's just saying like, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean it that way and say, like, as
Speaker 1: someone who knows a lot of people and has personal
Speaker 1: experience like having to like on a very small scale,
Speaker 1: like go through third party investigations, it is very hard
Speaker 1: like companies include like they will go through every length
Speaker 1: to make sure that they're protecting. So if this is
Speaker 1: actually the findings, you know, it was so much worse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well this one. The difference being though the Attorney General's
Speaker 1: Office they hired an independent body, but they always do that.
Speaker 1: They always quote unque higher independent and they're always like, legally,
Speaker 1: could could you poke holes in this in court? And
Speaker 1: then they try to poke every hole and the fact
Speaker 1: that they couldn't means that they were like, well, you
Speaker 1: gotta just admit to some of this, And he was like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't I just not think it's wrong, which is
Speaker 1: the old boys will be boys mentality of like, well
Speaker 1: I never knew I get one warning. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: got one warning, you know, uh now, and it was wrong.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that. I grew up watching Looney Tunes
Speaker 1: where bugs Bunny did whatever the funk he wanted to.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, a re Okay, maybe if I was watching
Speaker 1: this new Muppet baby stuff, I'd be less of a
Speaker 1: creep because while that he's not even acknowledging, like, oh funk,
Speaker 1: I made them feel bad, Like the whole time, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's okay because I didn't mean to make them feel bad.
Speaker 1: What well, what your intention doesn't matter if the results
Speaker 1: are like yeah, but so this is sort of where
Speaker 1: things are at, you know again, like Joe Biden, interesting enough,
Speaker 1: he's like you should resign, and many people like what
Speaker 1: about terror? Read but yeah, this is the whole thing
Speaker 1: with this sort of moment is this is sort of
Speaker 1: the new age defense for like liberal men to just
Speaker 1: be like yes, and it's normal to now be like, see,
Speaker 1: I admitted to it, but I'm going to completely change
Speaker 1: the narrative by just saying how traditional or normal this is. Um.
Speaker 1: The thing that's interesting is like a lot of people like,
Speaker 1: what the funk are you doing? Like can you resign?
Speaker 1: Like are you what? What? What is the deal here?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of write up so like this surely
Speaker 1: has to be the end of him his you know,
Speaker 1: his tenure governor. But here's the thing. He does have
Speaker 1: his eye on a fourth term, and you'd think that
Speaker 1: he would just not run again if he's if he's
Speaker 1: refusing to resign, maybe he'll say, you know what, though
Speaker 1: I won't be running for a fourth term, like I understand,
Speaker 1: like at a minimum, but he hasn't really even said that,
Speaker 1: and the reason he's running for a fourth term or
Speaker 1: might want to is because, like most emotionally healthy man,
Speaker 1: he is in a made up competition with his dad,
Speaker 1: um former governor Mario Cuomo, who was his father, was
Speaker 1: governor of New York and he ran for a fourth
Speaker 1: term and he lost to George Pataki, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people think he wants to do what his old
Speaker 1: man couldn't and win that fourth term, and like all
Speaker 1: this ship is like I don't give a funk, like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll just do what I gotta do to
Speaker 1: get to this fourth termed up problem. I'm better than daddy.
Speaker 1: Why are we still waiting for his Like I do
Speaker 1: think that we are still like you said at Miles earlier,
Speaker 1: that there was a long way to go, And I
Speaker 1: think it's the way the specifically what I feel like
Speaker 1: we haven't it is the fact that the power structure
Speaker 1: is still in the hands of most of these men,
Speaker 1: Like we're still kind of waiting for them to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the pain or say like you got me. And it's
Speaker 1: like the reality is I think we just need to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you don't have the power anymore. And
Speaker 1: it's okay if you don't think you did anything wrong,
Speaker 1: but like we all agree that you did, and so
Speaker 1: that's the truth now because for so long their truth
Speaker 1: was the truth and it just wasn't. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think those are the growing pains as you try and
Speaker 1: see a society grapple with this kind of misogyny. Is like,
Speaker 1: we're just in that, like the infancy where the best
Speaker 1: men are going to do now is like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's okay, but it's normal. I did that, but it's normal.
Speaker 1: It's like when we try to break up with someone
Speaker 1: and you want them to agree like you. It's hard,
Speaker 1: but you sometimes just have to do it. Like it's
Speaker 1: not like they might not sign off. They might be
Speaker 1: like you like, you just have to be like, it's over.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they might be like but the longer you keep talking,
Speaker 1: the more they might be like but maybe like and
Speaker 1: I've been on both sides of that, it's just like
Speaker 1: you just have to cut. You just have to be like,
Speaker 1: it's over. You did the thing, we see it. Sorry, right,
Speaker 1: Like someone with this pattern of behavior of just like
Speaker 1: toxic harassing, predatory behavior, you can't be like, okay, well
Speaker 1: resign because you did the wrong thing. Because he's like, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't do he still doesn't think he did anyone,
Speaker 1: so like he can't. You can't hold make or expect
Speaker 1: these people to hold themselves accountable like that. This was
Speaker 1: not how that works. So yeah, there's got to be
Speaker 1: something else. Yeah, I mean, I wish one day it
Speaker 1: could just be like, you know, if you if you're
Speaker 1: committing sexual harassment that again according to them, uh constituting
Speaker 1: sexual harassment under federal and New York state law, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that that means you're done. Like that's automatic,
Speaker 1: you know, like if that's found, Oh, that's in their
Speaker 1: job description, Like you can't get fired for that. Come on,
Speaker 1: like him owning it quote unquote owning it would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I messed up really bad. I'll resign now. Sorry everybody,
Speaker 1: but that was terrible. Yeah, you're right, I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of thinking to do. And also I'm a millionaire,
Speaker 1: so like there's really no big deal, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be dad, but my dad, oh jeez,
Speaker 1: please Andrew um. But we'll see what happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: it seems like the pressure could be mounting, but I
Speaker 1: seldom do we see very powerful men um, you know,
Speaker 1: relinquish their power like um. Check out the rest of
Speaker 1: history for more. Let's talk really quickly about this Belarusian
Speaker 1: sprinter Christina Simonskaya. She was making headlines last week, and
Speaker 1: not because of her prowess on the track, but because
Speaker 1: she feared for her life after criticizing her coaches on Instagram.
Speaker 1: And I just want to kind of like just describe
Speaker 1: the like sort of back and forth that occurred. So
Speaker 1: it started when the twenty four year old runner, this
Speaker 1: is from the Daily Beast, she thought she was gonna
Speaker 1: run in the two. That's like her event, she runs
Speaker 1: the two. But then she realized her track coaches had
Speaker 1: put her also as a participant in the four by
Speaker 1: one relay and no one told her that, no one
Speaker 1: consulted her, And she's like, I'm I need to focus
Speaker 1: on the one race that I actually may have a
Speaker 1: chance to meddle in. I don't have you seen We're
Speaker 1: not going to win the four by one, Like I'm
Speaker 1: here to do the two hundred. This is really fucked up,
Speaker 1: Like and I don't like that no one even asked
Speaker 1: me about this, And so she posted a video really angry,
Speaker 1: you know, really criticizing the coaches on the team, and
Speaker 1: so the post came down. But the thing is, everyone
Speaker 1: in Minsk, the capital of belaruss had already like saw it,
Speaker 1: and the order quote came through for her to return
Speaker 1: home immediately. So this is when ship got real because
Speaker 1: Belarus is considered you know, Europe's like last dictatorship um
Speaker 1: where Lukashenko he's been in power for twenties seven years
Speaker 1: and uses torture, murder, everything to intimidate the centers like
Speaker 1: he it's it's fucking awful. So she made a partial
Speaker 1: recording of the confrontation when her coaches pulled up to
Speaker 1: her room and said, yo, you gotta go home, like
Speaker 1: we're putting you on a plane because we got the order.
Speaker 1: And at first they tried to convince her that it
Speaker 1: will be all good. They were like, you know, we
Speaker 1: can just chalk this up to a childish indiscretion. All
Speaker 1: will be forgotten. But let's just go home and like,
Speaker 1: you know, let's take the l and everything will be okay.
Speaker 1: She told them, you and I both know that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen, Like, you know, everything is not going
Speaker 1: She's like, I fear from what will happen to me
Speaker 1: if I go back, Like, let's be real, we're both
Speaker 1: from this same country. We know what the stakes are.
Speaker 1: Then they tried to pivot to sort of like her
Speaker 1: altruism and said, look, man, if you don't come, like
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to suffer. Okay, like
Speaker 1: it's gonna fall on me for not getting you there
Speaker 1: is get my funk up the chances of your other
Speaker 1: teammates because of this whole thing, because earlier some athletes
Speaker 1: had also like signed onto a letter that was critical
Speaker 1: of Lukashenko and like that caused a bunch of problems
Speaker 1: for them, and they're like, please, like, don't make us
Speaker 1: suffer because you were just you were so indignant. That
Speaker 1: didn't work either, because she's like, I know what will
Speaker 1: happen to me if I go back. I do not
Speaker 1: want to go back, And yeah, maybe I miss step,
Speaker 1: but I did it and now I'm I'm in a
Speaker 1: position where I'm not going to go back. Then they
Speaker 1: tried to appeal to her religious beliefs, like and just
Speaker 1: again she said no, I'm not, I don't care, Like,
Speaker 1: try another one. Then they ultimately tried to force her
Speaker 1: onto a plane back to Minsk at Narita airport and
Speaker 1: she fled to police and clung to them so they
Speaker 1: weren't able to physically put her on the plane. And
Speaker 1: then she ducked out in the Polish embassy for a
Speaker 1: couple of days before she returned to the airport to
Speaker 1: head to Poland because the government had offered her and
Speaker 1: her husband refuge, like with her and her husband, so
Speaker 1: she was like, okay, let me do that. The thing is,
Speaker 1: when she got to the airport, she at the last
Speaker 1: minute switched to a flight to go to Vienna, Austria,
Speaker 1: because she I don't know if you remember, earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, like Belarussia in secret service hijacked Ryan air
Speaker 1: flight to take a dissident journalist to Belarus, and she
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not about to have that ship happened
Speaker 1: to me either, So she got on this other light.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is this is another just freaky
Speaker 1: part of it. From the Daily Beast quote, she will
Speaker 1: also have been unnerved by news that a Ukraine based
Speaker 1: dissident whose organization helped her husband fleet Belarus, had been
Speaker 1: found hanged in a key of park. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: heard that, And they were trying to say it was
Speaker 1: like a suicide, but it was clearly like, but they
Speaker 1: officially said it's a suicide or a murder designed to
Speaker 1: look like a suicide. Well, they said that she had
Speaker 1: meant like I think they were trying to official narrative
Speaker 1: was that she had like mental health issues, and she
Speaker 1: was like I didn't. I was clear to come here
Speaker 1: and no doctor saw me. It's like the most telling
Speaker 1: is when they tried to appeal to her by saying like, well,
Speaker 1: something will happen to us, because it's like, well, if
Speaker 1: you don't think it's scary there, why would it be
Speaker 1: scary for you, And like she keeps saying it's not political,
Speaker 1: and the more that she says that, the more they're mad,
Speaker 1: because in these kinds of situations dictatorships, it's what you
Speaker 1: don't say, Like everyone's so afraid of speaking the truth
Speaker 1: that just by not saying anything, you're saying like when
Speaker 1: you get to the point where by saying nothing, you're
Speaker 1: saying the true because there's nothing else you can say.
Speaker 1: It's so obvious how bad things are that the government
Speaker 1: is literally like just like don't talk at all, and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, so you don't even think there's a
Speaker 1: chance I would say something good, which that's more about
Speaker 1: how you view yourself. Then why what you insecure about?
Speaker 1: Do you think you think some fox ship is going
Speaker 1: on over here? You know, I'm just saying, they just
Speaker 1: don't say anything. Yeah, it's it really feels like the
Speaker 1: plot from like a thriller film. But this is this
Speaker 1: is the world where in there's many governments like that
Speaker 1: too that are you know, crushed dissent in the same way.
Speaker 1: But ultimately they said, even though she's going to Vienna,
Speaker 1: she will be going to Poland. And yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: there's so much happening like that has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the Olympics. It's like that's such a delicate like
Speaker 1: these dictators and these forces of power, know how like
Speaker 1: scammy everything is that if one piece falls off, then
Speaker 1: everything falls apart, and so they can't risk someone getting away.
Speaker 1: Like just even the idea of like, oh, you can
Speaker 1: go represent your country the Olympics and then you you
Speaker 1: can escape and be free. The fact that you would
Speaker 1: want to be free is very telling and so like
Speaker 1: I don't even know, Like I mean, honestly, I part
Speaker 1: of me hopes that she was trying to get out
Speaker 1: from the beginning, but it does sound like maybe she
Speaker 1: slipped up in and then had to get out. But
Speaker 1: I would have been surprised if some people were like,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll have a chance to just like sneak asylum
Speaker 1: while on abroad. Right, yeah, but yeah, anyway, the thig
Speaker 1: Olympics are wrapping up soon. But what an eventful time.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take another break, keep the lights on
Speaker 1: pacing bills, and we'll talk about TikTok stuff after this
Speaker 1: and we're back, and you know, speaking at TikTok and
Speaker 1: TikTok trends, you know, I'm up on all the trends.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're very young. You're very him so young, y'all.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like wild. I always get ided, uh
Speaker 1: you know when I buy cigarettes and candy cigarettes and
Speaker 1: things like that. I don't talk cigarettes anyway. I do
Speaker 1: keep my on TikTok. And by that I mean I
Speaker 1: do look at all the headlines about TikTok. And right now,
Speaker 1: the thing that is really trending. It sounds like the
Speaker 1: new tide pods is eating frozen honey in that it
Speaker 1: is a It's very similar because it's a challenge that's
Speaker 1: popular but has some shitty side effects. Just so you know,
Speaker 1: on NBC News they just sort of looked into it.
Speaker 1: At the time of the writing of the article, there
Speaker 1: were six hundred sixties seven million views under the hashtag
Speaker 1: frozen honey hashtag and eighty nine point seven million views
Speaker 1: for the hashtag frozen Honey Challenge tag. And every video
Speaker 1: is kind of the same thing. Someone shows off some
Speaker 1: honey and takes a huge bite and I just want
Speaker 1: to play just a video for everybody so you can
Speaker 1: understand what this looks like, um, because it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it looks like motherfucker's just eating a bunch of honey
Speaker 1: and I don't understand what the So this video um
Speaker 1: is from at Avery Cyrus and the tag the caption
Speaker 1: under it is b RB gotta go get my stomach pumped,
Speaker 1: And I'm like what, And this is her eating frozen honey.
Speaker 1: And this frozen honey thing apparently tells to be super sap. Fine, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just frozen honey and you've just freeeze it out.
Speaker 1: That looks so cool. That is a big as by
Speaker 1: a hunt but not appathizing. Oh, it's like a pump.
Speaker 1: As soon as you take a bite, it starts melting. Oh,
Speaker 1: let's just eating so much sugar. Sugar. It's so much sugar, right,
Speaker 1: You're like, you're looking at They're like, what the funk
Speaker 1: are y'all doing? That is just a bunch of This
Speaker 1: is a big hunk of fucking honey. You're just eating.
Speaker 1: There's nothing interesting about this except you're just eating a
Speaker 1: bunch of sugar in a different form. Now, like grow
Speaker 1: up when literally a large soda like things were sold
Speaker 1: on the school yard, of course, but like, but we were,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't presented to us in the form of
Speaker 1: a challenge. That was just like the of our like yeah,
Speaker 1: food food culture is like, yeah, man, kids need sixty
Speaker 1: four ounces is a high fructose corner gyms, you know,
Speaker 1: buy them at the student store. Eat this Raven's Revenge,
Speaker 1: which is basically just sugar in a fucking test tube
Speaker 1: that was colored and you're like, oh, it's a cool flavor.
Speaker 1: You're like, dude, you're just eating a just a thing
Speaker 1: of sugar right now. Um, but yes, it all comes
Speaker 1: like this all comes in cycles. But the difference here
Speaker 1: is that, like you all said, that's a lot of sugar,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people, many health experts are saying
Speaker 1: like you know, small amounts of honey not a health concern.
Speaker 1: Eating a fifth or more of a bottle of honey
Speaker 1: at a time can be a sugar overload. A registered
Speaker 1: dietitian who's just like interviewed for this article say, quote,
Speaker 1: honey is great, but having it in small amounts to
Speaker 1: sweeten is really a healthy relationship with food, and using
Speaker 1: it to get a lot of followers and a lot
Speaker 1: of attention and having it in excess amounts is crazy.
Speaker 1: Not the best choice of words there, But then she
Speaker 1: says about they go on to say it, one in
Speaker 1: three people has dietary fructose intolerance, so that's called, I
Speaker 1: guess called fructose malabsorption, which means the cells and the
Speaker 1: intestines don't absorb fructose the way they should, causing gastro
Speaker 1: intestinal distress meaning cramps, meaning diarrhea, meaning all kinds of
Speaker 1: toilet stuff that you don't want, and on top of that,
Speaker 1: maybe even pulling out some fillings and things, because a
Speaker 1: lot of these people would do it and afterwards to
Speaker 1: be like, don't do it, man, like I just pooped
Speaker 1: for like seven days straight like I And clearly these
Speaker 1: people are probably following in the category of the fructose malabsorption. Um.
Speaker 1: But they like some people are just it's like doing
Speaker 1: colors where they're like, oh, this one's purple. It's like
Speaker 1: you just put purple food die in a honey that's
Speaker 1: a sugar, and then you ate it and then you
Speaker 1: and then you shot a bunch poor bees. I mean
Speaker 1: the bees are still endangered, right yeah, and here we
Speaker 1: are just eating, chomping on their gobs of honey. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what how it relates to the other,
Speaker 1: but I know they don't want to see that. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's how they want to see their work.
Speaker 1: Just be absolutely disrespect I mean I've seen bee movie
Speaker 1: and I can safely say that, no, that is not
Speaker 1: what want We used to Okay, here, if any of
Speaker 1: your genzy kids want to eat something frozen, and this
Speaker 1: is what this is gonna make me sounds old, but
Speaker 1: we used to freeze grapes and then there's a delicious
Speaker 1: frozen tree. Delicious. Get get a little bunch of green
Speaker 1: grapes popping in the the freezer. You a nice little little
Speaker 1: frozen the textures so yummy. You could you could sprinkle
Speaker 1: a little sugar and if you want, but like just
Speaker 1: the grape itself, beautiful texture, chomp, chomp chop. If you
Speaker 1: freeze a banana, blend it with some like peanut butter
Speaker 1: and chocolate, Bam, you've got some vegan ice cream. Yummy,
Speaker 1: look at us. See children, you don't have to have
Speaker 1: diarrhea on TikTok for followers. What are we doing kids?
Speaker 1: We don't need to do all that. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people we're just kind of again, everyone was like
Speaker 1: this is really bad. It's it's messing up my body
Speaker 1: and what are we going to do? But they say,
Speaker 1: like a lot of experts are just warning, like, please
Speaker 1: think about this. You don't want to just like have
Speaker 1: a huge risk with your just sort of shortsightedness of
Speaker 1: wanting to get a lot of followers. They just think
Speaker 1: like this is not going to be good for people
Speaker 1: with health conditions and they might discover very quickly that
Speaker 1: that could happen. That being said that, something like that
Speaker 1: would make me want to do it more. If I
Speaker 1: was a kid, like someone going don't do this for
Speaker 1: the followers, like, I'd be like, well, fuck you, Like
Speaker 1: it's like getting on the roll. You're not my dad
Speaker 1: got You're like, oh maybe yeah, exactly. You're talking like
Speaker 1: somebody with followers. I'm trying to get to forty k
Speaker 1: motherfucker you can. Yeah, and like, I'll be real when
Speaker 1: I see that it is appealing, like I wonder what
Speaker 1: that's like is because you know, it's gooey and it's frozen.
Speaker 1: But I'm also as I get older, I know which
Speaker 1: a lot of sugar does to me too, and then
Speaker 1: pardon like, ah, that's where reality has come into focus.
Speaker 1: Or I'm like I like it, but I'm actually old
Speaker 1: enough now and have fucked with my body around enough
Speaker 1: to know that I shouldn't do that. But please let
Speaker 1: us know how it tas. Maybe the way we can
Speaker 1: stop these trends is if all of us are cool.
Speaker 1: And I'm not like, you know what, you guys are cool.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, you know, gen Z doesn't think
Speaker 1: we're cool. If we all suddenly we're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: let's hop on this trend like boom, and then it's
Speaker 1: like all these like older millennials doing it, they would
Speaker 1: immediately like, oh, this isn't cool anymore. It's like the
Speaker 1: side part. That's how we stopped them, and we hit
Speaker 1: we have to sacrifice ourselves. Yeah, exactly. We're like the
Speaker 1: frozen honey and then you clear your intestines out. It's
Speaker 1: so healthy. All, Like, I feel like I'm glowing. I'm
Speaker 1: adulting by getting frozen honey and just diarrhea y'all with
Speaker 1: my red wine and Harry Potter posters or a year
Speaker 1: for real right nowt avocado TOAs um. Yeah, maybe that
Speaker 1: is the key. I feel like we It's like my
Speaker 1: mom started calling sandals thongs and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: but that's like what they used to call them. The
Speaker 1: bong song came out and she'd be like, oh, you
Speaker 1: guys wearing thongs to the pool you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: wonder if we have to undertake a generational experiment and say,
Speaker 1: like the next big gen Z thing we try and
Speaker 1: just make it so, just make it untenable for the
Speaker 1: youth where they're like, these fucking people took the one
Speaker 1: good thing, like on fleek. It's going to destroy people fleek.
Speaker 1: It's gonna destroy the entire millennial generation because we're not
Speaker 1: going I mean, like the hell. I mean, these kids
Speaker 1: are young and they're still like shooting themselves, like are
Speaker 1: thirty five? Like are like mid thirties bodies we just
Speaker 1: like collapse, And honestly, I can't think of a better
Speaker 1: way for our entire generation to just disappear. If I
Speaker 1: like trying to do something good, I'm totally doing it
Speaker 1: the wrong way, very much the millennial way. God. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know the TikTok trends. They're truly out there. Um.
Speaker 1: One other thing I just wanted to point out is
Speaker 1: the succulent trade in South Africa. Apparently there's a black
Speaker 1: market for succulents that is popping off. I was reading
Speaker 1: this article in the New York Times, where obviously we're
Speaker 1: all in California. Succulents are like currency, you know, people
Speaker 1: love succulents. And also there's like a boom with succulents
Speaker 1: because like for a lot of people, it's like I
Speaker 1: can't keep a normal plant alive, but a succulent I
Speaker 1: can give just about the amount of water. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: sort of have the wherewithal to do and I can
Speaker 1: keep it alive and I feel good about myself. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: the pandemic only made like indoor plants and like the
Speaker 1: maintenance like low maintenance plants like super popular. But underneath
Speaker 1: that all was like a bubbling exotic succulent market that
Speaker 1: was like super illegal. Right now, like the hashtag for
Speaker 1: a succulent has like over twelve million images out there.
Speaker 1: But South Africa is very interesting because it's home to
Speaker 1: about a third of the world's succulent species, so like
Speaker 1: it's a popping off, Like if you were into the succulents,
Speaker 1: you need to check out South Africa. Um. And there's
Speaker 1: one very popular species called the konophy item and it's
Speaker 1: become so fucking big that it's it's it's caused like
Speaker 1: international illegal trade. And before the pandemic, they said, like
Speaker 1: a lot of people who would get caught like sort
Speaker 1: of stealing or smuggling succulents out of South Africa. They said,
Speaker 1: we're primarily Chinese and Korean passport holders because the fees
Speaker 1: they could get for these plants were like astronomical. But
Speaker 1: since the pandemic has forced restrictions on travel, these foreign
Speaker 1: buyers have been hiring like locals to do all the poaching.
Speaker 1: And like they give these people like GPS coordinates and
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, go there, they're growing here, here's what
Speaker 1: you need to do. Send them back like this and
Speaker 1: this shift has like brought like conservation authorities in the
Speaker 1: country into all out battle with all these young, unemployed
Speaker 1: people who are like incentivized to grab these plants to
Speaker 1: essentially find of you know, it's like one of their
Speaker 1: few financial recourses that are available to them. And the
Speaker 1: surgeon poaching is like gotten to the point where like
Speaker 1: when authorities confiscate these illegal plants, they give them to
Speaker 1: like local greenhouses and nurseries to be like, hopefully you
Speaker 1: can replant these and things like that, but they're like,
Speaker 1: we have so many. If we replanted them, we would
Speaker 1: just inundate an entire area with one species of succulent
Speaker 1: and that will sunk up all the biodiversity. So like
Speaker 1: we're receiving plants at a rate that we can't even
Speaker 1: fucking replant, and it's only speeding up anyway. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to bring that
Speaker 1: up because I didn't realize it was that big. The
Speaker 1: thing that happens is the Internet just allows people to
Speaker 1: just see like pretty succulents and what it's called, and
Speaker 1: half the time, like you'll see shut on Amazon. This
Speaker 1: is from this article in the New York Times that
Speaker 1: said quote a recent study by the Convention of International
Speaker 1: Trade and Endangered Species basically they combat illegal wildlife trade.
Speaker 1: They found some three hundred sixty five endangered medicinal plants
Speaker 1: being sold openly on Amazon. And even so, like the
Speaker 1: thing is too we have like this weird blind spot
Speaker 1: where people just go, oh, their plants, cool plants aren't illegal,
Speaker 1: their plants like it's not drugs, and unwittingly are like
Speaker 1: actually contributing to like this illegal succulent trade. Almost everything is.
Speaker 1: That's like, um, the the Internet popularity of certain things
Speaker 1: and the speed of which it spreads has been like
Speaker 1: I've heard that for products to like it will just
Speaker 1: be like random things like oh this one lip gloss
Speaker 1: and some influencers like I love this, and then the
Speaker 1: entire target will be sold out of it everywhere. I think, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're definitely not. There's like almost two models of advertising
Speaker 1: happening right now. There's like the old way and then
Speaker 1: there's like this really rapid spreadway. Now that's we can handle,
Speaker 1: the consumers can't handle. Yeah, we're very on the Internet.
Speaker 1: People like can I get it? Like if you if
Speaker 1: you start looking through a gallery of like people's landscaping
Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's like, oh, those are beautiful because
Speaker 1: there are people who are like buying them in the
Speaker 1: thousands and like and they'll find them in like little
Speaker 1: plantlings and like they get confiscated in the mail and
Speaker 1: things like that. But is this an instance that might
Speaker 1: speed up That might be bullish for three D printing
Speaker 1: because I feel like, if we're just going after trendy appearances,
Speaker 1: this could be a huge win for three D printing
Speaker 1: because imagine if you're like, I like how that looks
Speaker 1: on tech talk. I don't know what it is. Yeah
Speaker 1: they're here, Yeah, three D modeling company can could quickly
Speaker 1: create a pattern for something that viral. Just print it.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe that is that that could be where
Speaker 1: we're headed, and then uh, then we can all have
Speaker 1: very exotic plants. I would actually print out like a
Speaker 1: full Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons. That would be sick just to
Speaker 1: have that, because like, I don't care if it's real,
Speaker 1: but like just for the man everyone on your street
Speaker 1: did that though, and then they I would get so mad.
Speaker 1: I would be like, are you Rick, are you also
Speaker 1: three D printing a fucking t rex? Going God damn it,
Speaker 1: I have my ship looking so good, and you know,
Speaker 1: and Caitlin and I we we know we have a
Speaker 1: love for Jurassic Park, so obviously it's good you do
Speaker 1: as well. I have I have a crop top that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything, but I do have one. But I
Speaker 1: gotta I got a t Rex cross, I thought. I mean,
Speaker 1: my name is I don't know. None of these things
Speaker 1: mean anything, but in my mind I've always like loved
Speaker 1: t rexes because I don't know, because my name is
Speaker 1: Teresa rexae Rex, Yeah exactly. I mean, And do you
Speaker 1: know the movie Jurassic Park fairly well? Teresa? If I
Speaker 1: asked you about it, do you remember in the last
Speaker 1: scene where they're in the visitors center and the raptors
Speaker 1: are seemingly have our our heroes backs against the wall
Speaker 1: and looks like all is lost, and then out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: the motherfucking t Rex comes through and saves a day.
Speaker 1: Caitly and I discussed this, Where the fund did that
Speaker 1: t Rex come from? That's the one that's the one
Speaker 1: thing I take issue. We call what do we call that?
Speaker 1: This Rex? This Rex makin a yeah happy coin that
Speaker 1: I like that. That's the one unbelievable part of that movie.
Speaker 1: Ye for me. Yes, I'll suspend my disbelief for every
Speaker 1: other thing. You know, I didn't believe there was a
Speaker 1: female doctor. You know. That part didn't really sit Dr Ellie. No,
Speaker 1: what is this? This is propaganda? What is we got
Speaker 1: to get this off the screen? All right? Well, Theresa,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on the daily zeitgeys,
Speaker 1: it's been a tremendous pleasure. I'm where can people find
Speaker 1: you and follow you and hear you, watch you? And
Speaker 1: what's the tweet that you like? Oh? Thanks for having
Speaker 1: me up. You can follow me at Theresa Lee Bought
Speaker 1: on Instagram h and at le City on Twitter. Also,
Speaker 1: I will be I will be crowd Funny for my
Speaker 1: short film not yet, probably in two weeks, So follow
Speaker 1: me and I will definitely spam all of you. Um oh,
Speaker 1: here's the tweet. Is Amy Silverberg tweeter this and I
Speaker 1: thought it was funny. Last night in bed, I whispered
Speaker 1: into my boyfriend's here, I'm worried the world is coming
Speaker 1: to an end, and he said, there are mashed potatoes
Speaker 1: in the fridge. I enjoyed that. Oh my god, Caitlin,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. The hashtag urinal tit dance Craze
Speaker 1: is going up on TikTok. Congratulations on that. Thank you? Um.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and follow you, listen to you,
Speaker 1: learn from you? And what's a tweet that you like?
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Caitlin Darante.
Speaker 1: You can check out the podcast I co host with
Speaker 1: Jamie Loftus called The Bechtel Cast, in which we examine
Speaker 1: movies through an intersectional feminist lens. You can take screenwriting
Speaker 1: classes that I teach, which you can find out more
Speaker 1: information about at Caitlin Darante dot com Flash Classes. UM.
Speaker 1: And a tweet I forgot to really find something good.
Speaker 1: But here's something I just retweeted from uh at Paddington Bear,
Speaker 1: who does follow me? I am one of a hundred
Speaker 1: and five followers of Paddington Bear on Twitter. I take
Speaker 1: a lot of pride in that, and I know he
Speaker 1: Paddington Bear has over followers. He only follows a hundred
Speaker 1: and five and I'm one of them. What is that?
Speaker 1: What is the handle for Paddington Bear? Just at Paddington Bear. Okay, simple,
Speaker 1: and Paddington's verified. Fuck of course he's verified A hundred
Speaker 1: five people that you are the only people I know
Speaker 1: is Paddington's following you and Stephen Fry oh wow? And
Speaker 1: Liam Gallagher many other people and the real family Interesting
Speaker 1: feel very special. Um, Paddington you know, just says it's
Speaker 1: time for a cup of tea and a slice of
Speaker 1: cake and is he wrong? No? Thank you? Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1: You love to see it. This is just a reminder
Speaker 1: that everyone should see Paddington and Paddington two. Yes, and
Speaker 1: next time, when the full cruise together, we will have
Speaker 1: seen it all between Jack and I. Um, let's see
Speaker 1: some tweets that I like. This is from Brody Reid
Speaker 1: past guest wonderful guest at AO bro bro following the
Speaker 1: news from Forbes saying that Rihanna is now officially a
Speaker 1: billionaire at AO Brobrow tweeted pains me to say that
Speaker 1: Rihanna should not exist since he is now a billionaire. Um.
Speaker 1: And then another one on that same thread, Aida at
Speaker 1: shut up. Aida said, oh ship Rihanna billionaire. Now I
Speaker 1: know y'all said eat the ridge, but is there any
Speaker 1: chance you were talking about pussy because a lot of
Speaker 1: people are having trouble with putting Rihanna down. Um. And
Speaker 1: another one is from at your Analog Buddy. It's a
Speaker 1: picture of Grimes and what do you call it? Um,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. I don't like look at him, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is this? Fucking turns me Um, Grimes
Speaker 1: and Elon Musk together like I think at an airport,
Speaker 1: and it's as improv teacher and the student he is dating. UM.
Speaker 1: Shout out to dang Laser Dan Glazer, Um wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's mostly for improv people because
Speaker 1: like that immediately evokes something for like a very specific example.
Speaker 1: And this other one I just because it made me
Speaker 1: laugh so much. It's just so stupid. But it's. Um,
Speaker 1: it's an image, So I apologize for describing this on
Speaker 1: a podcast, but it's a reclining couch that has like
Speaker 1: a cup holder in it and one of those like
Speaker 1: console list and these people are like like putting it
Speaker 1: on a car. So the cup holders and the console,
Speaker 1: it looks like a mouth that's screaming on the couch
Speaker 1: and it just put me down, put me down, UM, wonderful, wonderful.
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Speaker 1: we write out on you guys? Well, I want to
Speaker 1: go out on a remix, a bit of an esoteric remix,
Speaker 1: but you know that's that's who I am. It's by
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson and it's called Players Bop and in Parentheseason
Speaker 1: one for j D. This is based off the track Let's,
Speaker 1: which I believe is a slum village song. Um, but
Speaker 1: Jay Dial is one of my favorite producers and this
Speaker 1: is like, this remix is sort of like a sped
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Speaker 1: check out Jared Jackson players Bob. That's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for today. We'll be back later to tell you what's trending.
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