Speaker 1: Oh hello, Yes, sorry, I was just fixing something was
Speaker 1: going on in my Honda Accord in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of smoke coming out of the
Speaker 1: A C. Ducks and into my car. That's why all
Speaker 1: that smoke was coming out of my car. Students, I
Speaker 1: don't know what was happening. I'm gonna take it to
Speaker 1: the shop, and I promise you I only smell like
Speaker 1: a skunk because I was walking my dog and a
Speaker 1: skunk sprayed me. It's not because I'm super high anyway.
Speaker 1: Class welcome to this edition The Internet welcomes you, and
Speaker 1: I welcome you to season one, Episode one of the
Speaker 1: Daily Zike. Guys. It's the production of My Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: and you know it's the podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, August second,
Speaker 1: heng It's already August time. It is a flat circle,
Speaker 1: ain't it. I am Miles Gray, a k A wait O, Nate,
Speaker 1: no Jackobra, We don't need no shop aroond the substatutes
Speaker 1: in the classroom, Miles of Gray is good to go,
Speaker 1: and Wenna spade it up. Hey teacher, we saw you
Speaker 1: getting stoned. All in all, we're gonna roll some blunts
Speaker 1: in the hole. Okay. Shout out to Rob Rath, Demigod
Speaker 1: and also Christian the Gucci manial collapse to tighten that up,
Speaker 1: another brick in the wall. That's the power of community.
Speaker 1: That truly is community, and that is the power of fashion,
Speaker 1: as we just saw in the Gucci trailer. But that's
Speaker 1: a whole other thing. It's time to take out the trash,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's time to bring in the trash.
Speaker 1: And by the trash, I mean that's time telling. It's
Speaker 1: really nice to be doing Jack a favor and get
Speaker 1: dragged to hell directly before you know what, Lady Gaga's
Speaker 1: Gucci voices take it over our brains. Um, but I digress.
Speaker 1: I am thrilled, Nay, I'm honored to be joined by
Speaker 1: a massive talent and a wonderful co host, a podcaster, artist,
Speaker 1: what else can I say? Just a cultural commentator, what what?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Collector the lover of Duncan. However of
Speaker 1: Duncan for sure plays Ben Affleck. I'd like to remove
Speaker 1: him from the narrative. Okay, then Ben Affleck and bring
Speaker 1: in the true lover of Duncan. My guest co host today,
Speaker 1: Jamie loftus a k A. Well, this looks like a zamboni,
Speaker 1: so everybody knows it's Jamie still in the scene of Jacoby.
Speaker 1: But she's not that funny, says Sonny from Xavier Cousin.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, And Sonny is my corcage panel
Speaker 1: and it's not because it's listen. He doesn't think women
Speaker 1: are funny. Yeah, you should see if check out our
Speaker 1: instagram so you can understand really what goes on. Sonny
Speaker 1: is so opinionated. He literally like, yeah, he tried to
Speaker 1: use my credit card to get a picture of Joe
Speaker 1: Biden shaved onto his ass, like into his fur like
Speaker 1: the Nike swoop. I just tried to get He tried
Speaker 1: to get the groomer to do a nice yeah, and
Speaker 1: then then then he took a picture of him pissing
Speaker 1: on my head shot. It's just like not been a
Speaker 1: great time and been challenging. Well, we are honored to
Speaker 1: have someone who is a fantastic guest, someone who is
Speaker 1: a podcaster, documentarian, Floridian and someone who I actually ran
Speaker 1: into recently at the fourth of Jelacy birthday party, which
Speaker 1: was great to see. And look, you know, I had
Speaker 1: to flex that I was there, I had got my
Speaker 1: picture taking. It was wonderful. I am pleased to be
Speaker 1: introducing our guest, sheerlyn Vera. Hello, Hello, Hello here, what's new? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what's what's what's what's new? I just got
Speaker 1: back from Washington, d C. That was cool. I don't
Speaker 1: even I don't know what I'm allowed to be saying
Speaker 1: right now. So I'm not trying to get fired. Food hurt.
Speaker 1: Oh so you were doing something interesting about that? I
Speaker 1: was doing something kind of interesting. They're not gonna lie. Um.
Speaker 1: I think if you just like look up the Sammy's
Speaker 1: it's like a partnership for Public Service Award thinking I'm
Speaker 1: involved with that. Um, I just got back from Washington.
Speaker 1: I got into a car accident in l A. That's
Speaker 1: another thing. This new are okay, welcome home? Thank you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm okay. I got this Like I have a bruise.
Speaker 1: This isn't so much better and it doesn't hurt. It
Speaker 1: just looks bad. It kind of looks like a tattoo.
Speaker 1: My car is totaled. I am fine, oh my god,
Speaker 1: emotionally working on it. But yeah, that's what's near with
Speaker 1: me currently in my bed. If you're If you're in bed,
Speaker 1: that means you have to have blank e's over you.
Speaker 1: But if you're just simply sitting on your bed, that's
Speaker 1: that's called working. Baby, I'm working. The blanks aren't over you.
Speaker 1: That's a whole inside of the sheets as business hours
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. That's how you know business outside of the sheets,
Speaker 1: slumber inside exactly. That's what we all say, and that
Speaker 1: is a law legally. Well, Shrolyn, we're going to get
Speaker 1: to know you even better. And you know again, I'm
Speaker 1: glad to know you're doing okay after your car accident?
Speaker 1: Um you is it? Are you going to be able
Speaker 1: to get your car back? Is that we don't got
Speaker 1: to worry about any of that? Okay, all right, We're
Speaker 1: not like you know what. We're just gonna move and
Speaker 1: we're going to tell people about what they do need
Speaker 1: to worry about, which is the CDC is telling everybody
Speaker 1: Delta bary it is a very contagious like chicken pox.
Speaker 1: Contagious is what they're saying now. And so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of new interesting data out there, which again I
Speaker 1: think is good because for those who have been vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you'll feel better, although you'll also get more of a
Speaker 1: realistic idea of what is actually possible given all of
Speaker 1: this new research that has been coming out. We'll also
Speaker 1: just talk about like the general twisting and turning of
Speaker 1: conservatives right now with masks and the COVID response, and
Speaker 1: like some Republicans are like I'll sue you if you
Speaker 1: get a mask, and others like please let us wear masks,
Speaker 1: and it's just total chaos. So we'll just kind of
Speaker 1: look at the absolute mind pretzel. That is just everything
Speaker 1: that's happening um with the GOP and the pandemic at
Speaker 1: the moment. Well. Also, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: like to hear clips where people are lying so terribly
Speaker 1: and like trying to be slick about it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you are bumbling this lie, sir. Because Jim Jordan's who
Speaker 1: is one of the loudest pro insurrectionist members of Congress,
Speaker 1: he got caught just being asked a simple question like
Speaker 1: did you talk to on January six? And bah, he
Speaker 1: had so much ship like to just blurt out it
Speaker 1: was like just like, dude, just do you want to
Speaker 1: just turn yourself in? Because that answer was felt incriminating.
Speaker 1: I love when someone uses like twenty incomprehensible like paragraphs
Speaker 1: to answer a two word question. It's so satisfying to hear.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of like being a little kid and
Speaker 1: getting caught in a lie. You're like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do, Like I didn't think this part through,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna either cry or just say a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff and run away. Um and Jim Jordan's
Speaker 1: chose the latter. Will also check in with something, a
Speaker 1: story that I have been waiting to talk about because
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for Jamie to be on because I
Speaker 1: want to honor her love of Charles E Cheese. Wait,
Speaker 1: what is It's entertainment? Entertainment, entertainment cheese. If I ever
Speaker 1: have a kid, do you know their middle name is
Speaker 1: going to be an entertainment. That's That's it's a great
Speaker 1: metal name. Yeah, it really is. It's It's just it's like,
Speaker 1: how do you argue with when your fucking middle name
Speaker 1: is entertainment? And you know what, we can't argue with
Speaker 1: Chuck E Cheese because it's where, you know, it's where
Speaker 1: kids can be a kid, or a thirty seven year
Speaker 1: old man can get in a fight with another adult
Speaker 1: because there's too much beer there. And then we'll also
Speaker 1: check in with the Olympics, but not like who's winning,
Speaker 1: just to study about being like, you know, bronze bronze
Speaker 1: is kind of like if you're not gonna win gold,
Speaker 1: bronze is probably the best medal you can win. And
Speaker 1: that's according to some psychologists who are sort of like
Speaker 1: observing like what it means to be a bronze medalist,
Speaker 1: and turnings out, bronze medal winners are very happy. But
Speaker 1: I think that tracks because we'll get into that. But first, Sherlyn,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are, what you're into, or what you're searching,
Speaker 1: or what you kind of checking out? Okay, let's see
Speaker 1: I have two things. So recently I found out this
Speaker 1: is weird. I'm sorry ahead of times. I recently found
Speaker 1: out about the nine eleven bar. Have you heard of it? Yes? Yes? No,
Speaker 1: a bar bar nine eleven where you go in, you
Speaker 1: grab your drinks, you look at the wall, you remember,
Speaker 1: and you wait. It's like a memorial bar where I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even so. I found out that there's two. There
Speaker 1: are two nine one is in fort with Texas and
Speaker 1: wasn't one is in Buffalo apparently the one in Sport
Speaker 1: with Texas is like the main one, and uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just found out about these bars. Buffalo
Speaker 1: had to get in on it. That is a wild
Speaker 1: franchise to get in on Okay, maybe someone I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a franchise. Maybe it's like their own
Speaker 1: separate bar. It's probably got a different name, like the
Speaker 1: one in Texas is Bar nine eleven, and I don't
Speaker 1: know why they have to make it sound like oh well,
Speaker 1: it's also spelled like in a really flippant way. It's
Speaker 1: like be a R the number nine and then the
Speaker 1: word eleven like all is one. Yeah. But like from
Speaker 1: the outside you'd be like, oh okay, like the font
Speaker 1: is maybe a chic and then you go and you're
Speaker 1: like what the funk is going on in here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then you go inside and it's look, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they have with their cocktail. I hope that
Speaker 1: they're not themed. I don't even want to go into
Speaker 1: it because my brain already is like coming up with names.
Speaker 1: But it's got art like this on the wall where
Speaker 1: it's like okay, et six am and then like a
Speaker 1: long paragraph of what was going on fifty two. So
Speaker 1: I was just looking into that. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: when I clicked on the link to the bar, it
Speaker 1: was like not letting me go in, and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is probably for the best. I remember that I
Speaker 1: saw this comedy show like years ago where Brett Gellman
Speaker 1: was doing this bit where he said he wanted to
Speaker 1: open a nine eleven bar, but like every night a
Speaker 1: siren would go off and like a bunch of tracks
Speaker 1: would play and you would just relive the moment where
Speaker 1: they announced that Bin Ladden had been killed, and that
Speaker 1: was like the energy of the bar. It's like they
Speaker 1: got in laden if you're like, whoa, And that was
Speaker 1: like but that was a bit. And so when you
Speaker 1: started saying this, I'm like, is this the Brett Helman
Speaker 1: thing come to life? But no, this is it does not.
Speaker 1: It could be a Nathan for you think, but it's not.
Speaker 1: I mean it's been around for like years, right, like
Speaker 1: this guy. Any ideas that in Lodden, Yeah, they said
Speaker 1: his whole thing was that he supposedly quote found eight
Speaker 1: percent of Americans didn't know that the anniversary of the
Speaker 1: event was approaching. So that's why we wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure people remembered. I mean, this is beside the point.
Speaker 1: But I don't believe that. I also don't believe that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it seems like a thing like an
Speaker 1: old j Leno like Man on the Street bit, where
Speaker 1: like ones the anniversary of nine eleven and people like February,
Speaker 1: like you know, like if that's what he's trying to say,
Speaker 1: I mean, we we know what day it is. So
Speaker 1: what's the number one? Right, September eleven? Huh yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: good for them, And I hope that people whose lives
Speaker 1: were lost don't feel that this is a flippant homage
Speaker 1: to their lives or Sue this guy's asked, why not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, this is America, Sue. Fuck yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: What's your other thing? You're searching, Sherilyn? The other thing?
Speaker 1: So over quarantine. I started watching The L Word, like
Speaker 1: the original L word, and I don't know if either
Speaker 1: of you guys have seen it, but it's so bad,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's why it's really I mean,
Speaker 1: I've never seen it. It's bad, so bad that like
Speaker 1: it's aged well because you can like kind of hate
Speaker 1: watch it and fall in love with the characters. But
Speaker 1: the theme song is um is okay, there's this one
Speaker 1: part of the theme song if you know, you know,
Speaker 1: But they just start staying a bunch of words that
Speaker 1: that lesbians do, and it goes talking, laughing, loving, breathing, fighting, fucking, crying, drinking, right, winning, losing, cheating, kissing, thinking, dreaming.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to memorize that because now I've
Speaker 1: seen the theme song every time at the beginning, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, talking, drinking, fighting, kissing. I like that they're
Speaker 1: characterizing it as something that just lesbians do, things like talking, writing, dreaming, kissing,
Speaker 1: thinking dreaming so pretty sexy, and then yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the way, this is the way that we live and love.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Anyways, I gotta work on that. You're gonna
Speaker 1: work on memorizing those lyrics if you're gonna stay without
Speaker 1: looking at you because I saw you look at your phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, the day you don't look, we're gonna all
Speaker 1: be like she's done, Anna stand. Yeah, I'll let you
Speaker 1: guys know. I'll post like a video of me singing
Speaker 1: ity drinking me at bar ninn the day thank you
Speaker 1: You're welcome, So you and Buffalo. Oh, the buff We're
Speaker 1: not even go to the four are worth the one?
Speaker 1: How we're going to the Buffalo one? Now we're going
Speaker 1: straight to Buffalo. I'll go to the Buffalo and just
Speaker 1: like I can see, you know, west Side Gun and
Speaker 1: the Buffalo one would be a little safer for me
Speaker 1: and maybe for you yeah in general, yeah, who knows uh.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'll go in with all my regalia on
Speaker 1: and they'll be like, hey, he's one of the good
Speaker 1: ones man. You know, you know he's one of the
Speaker 1: good ones. Man. He came in with his said his
Speaker 1: his shirts that did never forget man. I can put
Speaker 1: on an accent too, Oh yeah, oh yeah. I remember
Speaker 1: when I covered a Trump rally. Very early on, I
Speaker 1: was like this is gonna be rough because I had
Speaker 1: to ask people ship and kind of like yo, and
Speaker 1: I put a red hat on and ship and they
Speaker 1: were like, oh you. It was amazing how instantly I
Speaker 1: was like, well, we'll see how they do with this
Speaker 1: man of color. And I was like hey, the second
Speaker 1: you go, hey, what do you think people are getting
Speaker 1: wrong about Donald Trump? They're like the thing is and
Speaker 1: You're like, wow, I'm am I in the c I
Speaker 1: a am I this good? But it turns out I
Speaker 1: just needed to to say Trump is cool and then
Speaker 1: instantly everyone's like, yes, we love it. Moving on, overrated,
Speaker 1: Sharon Lyn, what is something that is? You know? We
Speaker 1: briefly talked about what if I was like those actine
Speaker 1: We briefly talked about the new variant going around. So
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to trying to guesslight myself into positive thinking.
Speaker 1: And I think that going outside and doing things overrated. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're preparing, You're preparing for the return to the age.
Speaker 1: Really well, I can feel it right right right? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: who knows? So, yeah, we don't need to go outside.
Speaker 1: We don't need to party. Fourth of de Lacey was great.
Speaker 1: We had a nice time in the goodle outdoors. But
Speaker 1: who needs it? Yeah yeah I can. Oh man, that
Speaker 1: reminds me of like me when I was like applying
Speaker 1: to colleges in high school, Like I don't need to
Speaker 1: get in there, so anyway, like you don't, You're like
Speaker 1: you're like losers going there anyway? Like does like freaking matter.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in student debt. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: so tired, and dude, I'm gonna sleep all weird. Probably
Speaker 1: if I'm in Massachusetts, Like, yeah, yeah, I forget that.
Speaker 1: Forget that. I'm gonna stay here, go local. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: There's like I think it's like my cousin didn't get
Speaker 1: into like a school that you wanted to get into,
Speaker 1: and he was like, it's fine. They probably give a
Speaker 1: lot of homework anyways, Like wow, really taking one on
Speaker 1: the chin like a chap my man? Yeah, what's something
Speaker 1: that you think is underrated? Arlene? Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give a shout out to my local clinic? Underrated. There's
Speaker 1: this health clinic. If you live in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: you have a vagina, you should go to f P
Speaker 1: a clinic. And even if you don't have health insurance
Speaker 1: or like have horrible health insurance, you can go there.
Speaker 1: You can get a birth control, you can get an abortion,
Speaker 1: you can get your boobs checked, you can get all
Speaker 1: this good stuff for free. So I want to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to that clinic. If you don't live
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you can go to um Yellow Fund
Speaker 1: on Instagram and then they got links to like if
Speaker 1: you're in like Florida or one of those states, they
Speaker 1: will shift you that plan b if you need it
Speaker 1: for free. So um f P a family planning, Uh
Speaker 1: so something with an ex f P A baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I realized that place, but it was just like I
Speaker 1: was in a group chat was a bunch of my friends,
Speaker 1: and one of my friends went there and she just
Speaker 1: shared it with everyone, and now everyone goes there and
Speaker 1: like the doctor is great, the staff is fine, and
Speaker 1: uh the doctor gray stuff is fine. Yeah. It's not
Speaker 1: one of those places that you walk into you're like wow,
Speaker 1: it's one of those places that you walk and you're like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: I'll get medical care. Yeah. This looks based the TV
Speaker 1: in the waiting room playing like Mori or something extremely
Speaker 1: inappropriate where it's like you are not so father, And
Speaker 1: I was like, why is this playing here? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: incredible viewing for before you get an abortion or yeah,
Speaker 1: just any kind of your Yeah that's swirling in your
Speaker 1: mind and you're just watching people go yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: right and then like broken people be like yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean you know you can go there and get
Speaker 1: like tests and all that good stuff. Um So I
Speaker 1: want to say that that's underrated because people are out
Speaker 1: here trying to figure out where to get checked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: lessing about their insurance and stuff, and it's like, you
Speaker 1: don't have to stress, just go here. Oh you'd love
Speaker 1: to hear it because yeah, especially with like a world
Speaker 1: in which people are like if I have I have
Speaker 1: insurance and they're like, oh, your mental health is not
Speaker 1: considered here, or your reproductive health is not considered like
Speaker 1: if you break your leg, Like, yeah, maybe we can
Speaker 1: do that, but very bare minimum. So it's always good
Speaker 1: to have those resources for people. So shout out f A,
Speaker 1: shout out f p A. We'll figure out what that
Speaker 1: A is after this break, we'll be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back. And just to confirm, Sherilyn, it's Family Planning Associates,
Speaker 1: So check that out. It seems like they're all over
Speaker 1: the country. Okay, well, let's talk speaking of medical things
Speaker 1: and advice and care um, the c d C came
Speaker 1: out and say said everybody needs to be wearing masks
Speaker 1: when you're indoors, no exceptions. We don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: if you're vaccinated with your mask on, because we're seeing
Speaker 1: a spike in cases and we're still trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out. This came, I think as a bit of
Speaker 1: a surprise to some people are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who were on that like hot Vack Summer program where
Speaker 1: they were mentally like the second I get this, it's
Speaker 1: eighteen and here we go. Um, and I think, and
Speaker 1: myself included, I was like, Okay, this feels like an
Speaker 1: air of invincibility because that's what you're hoping, that's what
Speaker 1: you're trusting the vaccines will do. Unfortunately this is not
Speaker 1: the case. And in the sense that we are not
Speaker 1: completely immune if you're vaccinated, and also the risks that
Speaker 1: we pose to each other and the unvaccinated are very
Speaker 1: high with the delta variant. There was like a power
Speaker 1: point presentation that the Washington Post got ahold of that
Speaker 1: was being presented internally at the CDC, and it basically
Speaker 1: so they're kind of in a tough spot because on
Speaker 1: one level they have to communicate that the vaccines work
Speaker 1: mostly like and that they're not perfect, but they're absolutely effective,
Speaker 1: and also like encourage people to get it, like trying
Speaker 1: to be transparent while also being like, look, it's not
Speaker 1: a hondo, but it's high eighties to high nineties and
Speaker 1: that should be good enough. And it is good enough
Speaker 1: for the most part. Um, some of the things that
Speaker 1: really came out though. Um, first off is that getting
Speaker 1: a vaccine is clearly the better option if you're choosing
Speaker 1: between not being vaccinated and being vaccinated, because the risk
Speaker 1: reduction in you being hospitalized or dying from the Delta
Speaker 1: variant or just COVID in general is a twenty fivefold
Speaker 1: reduction versus someone that is unvaccinated. And I think the
Speaker 1: other thing that was really interesting is that they said
Speaker 1: it's as contagious as the chicken pox, meaning it's highly
Speaker 1: contagious that hurts. Yeah, remembeh fu. Yeah. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: the itchiest fucking four year old or five. I was
Speaker 1: four or five or whatever, and I couldn't. I just
Speaker 1: remember my one memory is just like calamine lotion or
Speaker 1: whatever that's just called, you know, like dotted all over
Speaker 1: my body, and I would be like rashing, like I
Speaker 1: need to scratch all this ship off. Yeah. I remember
Speaker 1: just like watching One Dalmatians times until there were no
Speaker 1: more chicken pox. Oh wow. Um. But yeah, they said
Speaker 1: it just spreads so easily and even like among vaccinated people,
Speaker 1: Like whereas the first sort of ancestral strain of COVID
Speaker 1: that we saw, they were seeing the transmission of like
Speaker 1: one to one, like one infected person would maybe pass
Speaker 1: to one other person with the delta variant, they're seeing
Speaker 1: like five other people are being um infected just from
Speaker 1: one person, so it spreads rapidly. Um But all in all,
Speaker 1: they're saying, like the vaccines are totally effective from preventing
Speaker 1: you from being falling seriously ill and being hospitalized and dying.
Speaker 1: But but with all this other information, it shows it's
Speaker 1: still a fucking pandemic everyone, and we really need to
Speaker 1: still operate like that. As much as we wanted to
Speaker 1: sort of reclaim some normalcy in terms of like socializing
Speaker 1: and things like that, we're still very much in the
Speaker 1: height of things, so we have to kind of operating
Speaker 1: the same way. And that was sort of healthy for
Speaker 1: me to see two just to kind of give myself
Speaker 1: a little bit of a reality check. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like I mean, even in the past two weeks, like
Speaker 1: hearing and like I don't know, like just hearing how
Speaker 1: people have talked and what they're willing to do and
Speaker 1: what they're more cautious about seems to already be shifting.
Speaker 1: And I was like all in on like hot back
Speaker 1: summer and like seeing people and traveling and doing all
Speaker 1: this ship and it does it feels like, yeah, at
Speaker 1: this point, especially with the information you're saying that, it's
Speaker 1: like everyone needs to kind of pump the brakes, like
Speaker 1: and reconsider what especially depending on who you're around. You know,
Speaker 1: Like I had I had plans to like see friends
Speaker 1: in different states for the rest of the summer and then,
Speaker 1: but but I have to go be with my dad
Speaker 1: who's immuno compromised. So it's like it's can't Like I
Speaker 1: I finally like pulled the plug on something that like
Speaker 1: would have been really fun, but it's it's just not
Speaker 1: worth the risk at this point, I don't. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing is that people need to
Speaker 1: realize is like, well, the your risk in terms of
Speaker 1: your own personal you know, health, like it's lower because
Speaker 1: you're being vaccinated. It we're still dealing with a highly
Speaker 1: transmissible version and like you and there's still people who
Speaker 1: get mild cases and things like that. So it's it's
Speaker 1: not all you know, let's be we we must exercise
Speaker 1: caution as it still is a pandemic. But you know,
Speaker 1: as we look at all this information that's coming out
Speaker 1: about the delta variant, I can't help. But look at
Speaker 1: how many like crossed wires and mixed signals are coming
Speaker 1: out of the GOP right now. Because it's like, I
Speaker 1: couldn't imagine if even if you were a Republican and
Speaker 1: you're looking at the words of your representatives of your party,
Speaker 1: they're saying so many different things at once, it would
Speaker 1: make your fucking head spin. First of all, like the
Speaker 1: in the House, they were pulling all kinds of stunts.
Speaker 1: For example, a lot of the House Republicans they went
Speaker 1: to the Senate side of the Capital to protest the
Speaker 1: mask wearing requirement um in the in the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives because the Nancy pulls just like a lot of
Speaker 1: y'all are not vaccinated, and like, we're not about to
Speaker 1: create some chaos in here and have people getting sick,
Speaker 1: so you need to wear masks. They're like, well, the
Speaker 1: Senate doesn't have it. The thing is, the Senate is
Speaker 1: almost universally vaccinated. Like the Senators are clearly like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not really into that whole and like, I mean,
Speaker 1: we might not publicly say stuff, but privately we understand
Speaker 1: that we should probably be vaccinated for our own health.
Speaker 1: And you know, watching all these Republicans go to the
Speaker 1: Senate side, it's almost like what are you trying to do,
Speaker 1: Like are you protesting or are you hoping maybe you
Speaker 1: might get someone sick on that side or whatever. It
Speaker 1: felt very weird. Yeah, it's a very like I don't
Speaker 1: know there, especially in the house, it's like there, it's
Speaker 1: just so manic at this point where it's like everyone's
Speaker 1: coming in at an eleven, like there's no cond whatsoever.
Speaker 1: We're all kind of into you know, we can research,
Speaker 1: we know who took trust and who to believe. But
Speaker 1: I just feel bad for people who, like you know,
Speaker 1: aren't great with the internet or just like truly don't
Speaker 1: know who to trust right now. Like ilse, like I
Speaker 1: saw this photo on I don't know why I was
Speaker 1: on Facebook, but look I was on Facebook for a second,
Speaker 1: um and I saw this photo on Facebook and like this.
Speaker 1: I'm from Florida, as y'all know, and I got some
Speaker 1: Republicans in my Facebook feed and this woman was like
Speaker 1: making fun of these people that were like out in
Speaker 1: the ocean with bags over their heads and masks under
Speaker 1: the bags, and I'm just like, yeah, this is yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny, but also these people must be so scared
Speaker 1: right now. They don't know who to trust and who
Speaker 1: to believe, and like they're just taking every precaution that
Speaker 1: they can, I guess with that's a little excessive, but
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, we gotta we gotta get our ship together. No,
Speaker 1: and then on top up of it, right, you have
Speaker 1: people like Marjorie Taylor Green and the other freaking goon
Speaker 1: squad over there in the House, speaking of which she
Speaker 1: has no committee assignments, so she doesn't fuck all when
Speaker 1: she's in d C. She has nothing to do. I
Speaker 1: just want people to taking like low angle selfies. And yeah,
Speaker 1: she's under blank E seven. She ain't working, even when
Speaker 1: she's outside walking, she's under the blanks metaphorically speaking. And
Speaker 1: she is suing Nancy Pelosi, the sergeant at arms, and
Speaker 1: like the like the main health official for the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives. And this is what the lawsuit reached. Quote plain,
Speaker 1: if all of whom are members of Congress belonging to
Speaker 1: the minority party engaged in the symbolic speech of not
Speaker 1: wearing a mask on the Congressional floor in defiance of
Speaker 1: the majority's parties compelled symbolic speech rule, they're trying to
Speaker 1: make this a free speech issue. Um that it's not
Speaker 1: a health and safety precaution. It is a fucking freest
Speaker 1: speech issue going on. They say, wearing a mask conveys
Speaker 1: a particularized message, namely that mandatory face coverings are medically
Speaker 1: and scientifically necessary to prevent the spread of the coronavirus,
Speaker 1: That these intrusions on bodily integrity are necessary and essential,
Speaker 1: that informed consent and civil liberties are to be suppressed
Speaker 1: in favor of government's decisions regarding public health, and that
Speaker 1: individuals cannot be given the choice to make their own
Speaker 1: decisions regarding their facial attire and medical choices. Again, I
Speaker 1: mean that that's been their back the whole time, Like
Speaker 1: that's it's like I feel like since masks were introduced,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, this is a suppression of our freedoms,
Speaker 1: that is asking someone to mask up. But at this
Speaker 1: point it's just like, I mean, it's always been a
Speaker 1: failure of leadership. But it's like, well, this is again
Speaker 1: they're all mixed up, right because suddenly now they're my body,
Speaker 1: my choice people. But you can't play that out across
Speaker 1: the board because you've still got all these anti trans
Speaker 1: bill and all these horrific reproductive rights that you're trying
Speaker 1: to roll back and ship, so what the fun is it?
Speaker 1: And a lot of people and I see that take
Speaker 1: a lot where people like, well, like what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: If if it is their body, then they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine. No one's saying you have to do it
Speaker 1: or you go to jail. It just means if you
Speaker 1: don't do it, there's just a lot of ship that
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to do. But no one's
Speaker 1: saying you gotta get It just means you don't have
Speaker 1: access to a lot of ship, so you're free to
Speaker 1: choose from there. But this whole idea that they can
Speaker 1: sort of like walk this line of like making it
Speaker 1: a free speech thing and something about like body autonomy
Speaker 1: and stuff is just it rings so fucking hollow um.
Speaker 1: But again that's like everything that they talk about, and
Speaker 1: it's like scary when most places, I know this is
Speaker 1: like slowly changing because things are getting worse. But while
Speaker 1: like most public places are still running on the honor system,
Speaker 1: which is so baffling today, like in that that no
Speaker 1: wonder there's a fucking surge when everyone's running on the
Speaker 1: honor system. Most unvaccinated people don't want to wear a mask.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you could pull up and just
Speaker 1: show a picture of a vax card, Uh, look, scumbag
Speaker 1: miles who used to forge documents in high school and college.
Speaker 1: I would have been figured out how to make my
Speaker 1: own fucking vax card. Trust we there's somebody out there.
Speaker 1: There are, And the FBI is even like arrested people
Speaker 1: because there was like vax card factories where people like
Speaker 1: people were just churning them out, or like there would
Speaker 1: be people who would volunteer at vaccination sites and like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe swipe a couple of them cards, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and then sell them on the side.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of ship like that, and even
Speaker 1: contact tracers are like people fucking lie about this ship
Speaker 1: like constantly, And I think, yeah, the honor system in
Speaker 1: a country this dishonorable. No no, no, no, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna work. But then you go on to like read
Speaker 1: some of these other headlines, like Joe Biden is now
Speaker 1: saying like he wants local municipalities and governments to say,
Speaker 1: give people a hundred dollars to get vaccinated, like if
Speaker 1: they're newly vaccinated, hit him with a hundred bucks. Okay, like,
Speaker 1: let's we need to start incentivizing this. He's also considering
Speaker 1: making it mandatory in the military, so slowly no, I
Speaker 1: think it's about to be or he's starting to say
Speaker 1: it needs to be um and I figured, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a group of people you can, I think tell them
Speaker 1: what to do, considering that the commander in chief will
Speaker 1: be like, hey, go there and kill these people or
Speaker 1: maybe come back traumatized. I think I feel so naive
Speaker 1: for being like surprised by that, But I had no
Speaker 1: idea that it wasn't mandatory to be vacced in the military.
Speaker 1: They can tell you exactly what to do with their hair, right,
Speaker 1: But can you imagine that line? It's like, wait, but
Speaker 1: you want me to drop bombs on children? But then
Speaker 1: you're going to say I have the choice to not
Speaker 1: get vaccinated. M hm. I feel like, am I I
Speaker 1: didd someone who was in the military for a long
Speaker 1: time and like he had to get certain vaccinations. It
Speaker 1: is so wild to me that those aren't, like why
Speaker 1: not just toss it on the list. I saw this
Speaker 1: tweet that was like where are where all that? What
Speaker 1: happened to all the die hard anti penictillin guys. Mhmm.
Speaker 1: It's quiet for them, isn't it interesting? Uh? They did
Speaker 1: have terrible infections, it turns out. But the other things
Speaker 1: you're seeing is like in Texas, right, Governor Abbott, he's
Speaker 1: threatening to find local officials who are enforcing these new
Speaker 1: CDC mask mandates, like, I will find you for doing
Speaker 1: that because we are so not about the masks. You will.
Speaker 1: I will make it a penalty to encourage safety. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening in Texas. In Arkansas, Governor Hutchinson, and Arkansas
Speaker 1: is now he is now asking the state legislature. He's
Speaker 1: like begging them, He's like, can we allow masks in school? Please?
Speaker 1: Because like we want to make sure. Yeah. Because this
Speaker 1: guy also, i mean talk about a cell phone. He
Speaker 1: signed laws like in that was like restricting his own
Speaker 1: hour as governor, just as like a future move to
Speaker 1: be like Arkansas is going to be free, so a
Speaker 1: governor is not going to be able to dictate anything
Speaker 1: when it comes to this. That now he's coming back
Speaker 1: hat in hand saying can masks for children? And it's
Speaker 1: and again it's just all over the place. And this
Speaker 1: also coincides with more reports from doctors saying they're starting
Speaker 1: especially in Arkansas, or there was a story from Arkansas
Speaker 1: this at this children's hospital where they're saying it's we're
Speaker 1: seeing more kids coming in with COVID infections and yikes.
Speaker 1: It again, it's just a very very hyper mixed signal
Speaker 1: environment for these people. But what's interesting, though, is there
Speaker 1: was a new poll that came out that said of
Speaker 1: Republicans are like they would support vaccine passports or vaccine
Speaker 1: mandates rather. So it's there's there's an interesting thing of
Speaker 1: like what people are believing, what their leaders are saying,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't know if now even some people
Speaker 1: are seeing enough anecdotal information or whatever to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I should get vaccinated. It turns out like maybe
Speaker 1: this is the right thing to do. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a hide a little I'm not gonna I'm a little
Speaker 1: shock to here. I am as well. I am as well. Um,
Speaker 1: But it must be that that is also interested in vaccines,
Speaker 1: and then that other fifty five who is just like
Speaker 1: rapidly anti absolutely whatever going to get it. Yeah, people
Speaker 1: forget I forgot about kids not being able to get
Speaker 1: vaccines because I'm like, I'm not hanging out with kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't, They're not in my life. But that's that's
Speaker 1: why we're vaccinated, just in case we come across the kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not able to get someone just someone who just on
Speaker 1: not vaccinated, you know, and or are not able to
Speaker 1: or whatever. So this is I love coming on for
Speaker 1: a scary Oh it's going to get spookier because now
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about him Jordan's who's this one
Speaker 1: of the spookier members of Congress because he's gonna be
Speaker 1: fascist but he doesn't even do it good because him
Speaker 1: not smart. Again, he there's a lot of question marks
Speaker 1: around Jim Jordan's as it relates to January six. He
Speaker 1: was very raw rob about you know, stopping the steel
Speaker 1: and the build up. And there's more than a few
Speaker 1: Republicans where we're like, what's going on, like Moe Brooks,
Speaker 1: who we just found out, Um he was wearing a
Speaker 1: body armor on January six, Um, whoops. Because of course
Speaker 1: a very peaceful, peaceful event or whatever, you know. As
Speaker 1: like this commission rolls on, there's definitely like two versions
Speaker 1: of some of these Republicans, like like like what their
Speaker 1: involvement was. The most optimistic version is that they were
Speaker 1: maybe just witnesses too, things that they heard people say stuff,
Speaker 1: and they know some stuff that other people were talking
Speaker 1: about outside of Congress and the more vile ver and
Speaker 1: they were maybe accessories or orchestrators. Um Or had a
Speaker 1: really significant hand in organizing the the events that led
Speaker 1: up to January six, And so Jim Jordan's recently he
Speaker 1: admitted that he spoke with Trump on the sixth. But
Speaker 1: at first, like someone asked and he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so it's probably like in the day or
Speaker 1: something like that. He's like, what, I talked to the
Speaker 1: President all the time, and that was sort of like
Speaker 1: the SoundBite that we got. But then he was actually
Speaker 1: asked by like this local reporter um from like the
Speaker 1: local Spectrum news outlet in Ohio in his home state,
Speaker 1: And my god, I think he just didn't think that
Speaker 1: someone in from like his like local news station was
Speaker 1: going to press him about it. But he was not
Speaker 1: ready for this answer at all. There's some confusion over
Speaker 1: what you told Brett there on Fox News on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: So I want to clear it up first off, Yes
Speaker 1: or no? Did you speak with President Trump on January six? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I speak I spoke with the president last week.
Speaker 1: Speak with the president of the time I spoke with
Speaker 1: him on January six. I mean, I talked with President
Speaker 1: Trump all the time, and that's that's I don't think
Speaker 1: that's unusual. I would expect members of Congress to talk
Speaker 1: with the President of the United States when they're trying
Speaker 1: to get done the things they told the voters in
Speaker 1: their district to do. I'm actually kind of amazed sometimes
Speaker 1: if people keep asking this. But of course I talk
Speaker 1: to the president time. Like I said, I talked to
Speaker 1: him last week on January six. Did you speak with
Speaker 1: him before, during, or after the capital was attacked? I
Speaker 1: have to go I I I spoke with him that
Speaker 1: day after, I think after. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: spoke with him in the morning or not. I just
Speaker 1: don't know. I'd have to go back, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't know that
Speaker 1: when when those conversations happen. But he's playing at one point.
Speaker 1: But what I know is I spoken about the time.
Speaker 1: But but Taylor, the key here is the people we
Speaker 1: need to speak the people we need to talk to
Speaker 1: are the ones who can answer the question why wasn't
Speaker 1: there a better security presence that? Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: you also still Jim Jordan's so I wouldn't I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think you're saying, I don't think you're out the woods
Speaker 1: quite yet with that, well, you know when he goes oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I would explain anybody to speak
Speaker 1: with the president when you're like in the thing and
Speaker 1: you've got to like work on like laws of stuff
Speaker 1: in d C. And then like that's why you talked
Speaker 1: to the president. So um, I'm gonna just keep adjusting
Speaker 1: my belt line. Yeah, it's I don't know, that doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like someone who is maybe doesn't have their hands
Speaker 1: fully fucking dirty. Everyone can go listen to that again
Speaker 1: and then recognize how fast he's speaking, because it truly
Speaker 1: does sound like he's at one point five. Yeah, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make up my new audition monologue. I
Speaker 1: think if someone can, if someone can like really master
Speaker 1: that like stumbling over words, I mean, that would be
Speaker 1: truly an Oscar worthy performance. You have to have the
Speaker 1: hands right too. He's like right, he's like fondly, aren't there.
Speaker 1: I mean you can tell that he might be like
Speaker 1: given little PEPs, but but it's cut off. You can't
Speaker 1: see below the waist for him. And also it's it
Speaker 1: sounded like he was he was like responding to accusations
Speaker 1: that weren't being made, like acting like the reporter had
Speaker 1: asked him, like, do you talk to President Trump? And
Speaker 1: isn't that weird? I don't think it's weird at all
Speaker 1: to just talk to the form president of the United States.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't think anyone was saying it was.
Speaker 1: They were just asking if you talked to him or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'd have
Speaker 1: to look back. I don't know. Actually I don't want
Speaker 1: to say I'd have to look back, because then if
Speaker 1: someone deposes me, they may figure out that I may
Speaker 1: have some record you could see, like how many steps ahead?
Speaker 1: He was trying to be like with his answer when
Speaker 1: he should have you know, when the real scumbag sort
Speaker 1: of like deposition moves go. I do not recall. I
Speaker 1: do not recall, except for he was not that um
Speaker 1: reporter at the beginning. He pulled an AOC and he
Speaker 1: was like yes or no, did you speak when when
Speaker 1: he was talking to Mark Zuckerberg, right, do you do
Speaker 1: you take downlines or do you not take downline iconic
Speaker 1: of the moment? But he president, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I speak to present I speak to posters, you know
Speaker 1: on my wall, you know, and I say, you know,
Speaker 1: like this one's for you, Rocky. You know, I do
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. I talked to all kinds of
Speaker 1: people all the time, you know, inanimate animate uh, you know, animated, anime,
Speaker 1: whatever you want, automat Like you're like, what sir, it's okay,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think these are I mean, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it seems like there's maybe some kind of something there's
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. The vibes were off on him. I
Speaker 1: was getting kind of a strange energy from him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever encountered someone who legit tried to like
Speaker 1: be smooth like that and you're like, just stop, just stop,
Speaker 1: this is all you're The jig is up, fully, So
Speaker 1: let's just let's just admit what we've done. You don't
Speaker 1: have to lie to me. Kind of has like the
Speaker 1: energy of someone that like you just caught jerking off,
Speaker 1: like like just like wait, that's definitely not what I
Speaker 1: was doing. And if and if you thought I was,
Speaker 1: then that's your's you would say that it feels like
Speaker 1: a Tim Robbins. Yeah, it's the hot dog car crash
Speaker 1: sketch where the clearly the man in the hot dog
Speaker 1: suit crashed the hot dog car into the men's wear store.
Speaker 1: Then he gets who did this? I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean Canada. It couldn't have been me. I mean, what's
Speaker 1: going on here? Yeah, he stressed like a hot dog because, um,
Speaker 1: all right, well that's that's enough of the real world
Speaker 1: for now. Let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back to talk bronze medals and entertainment cheese after
Speaker 1: this and we're back the Olympics. Mm hmm, that's okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Um. So, there's this thing I saw
Speaker 1: in like the NPR site today where these I think
Speaker 1: psychologists social scientists were sort of looking at what it
Speaker 1: means to win gold, silver or bronze. And you know,
Speaker 1: like when you look at a podium and you see
Speaker 1: all the three people or the three teams up there,
Speaker 1: silver kind of you kind of feel for them. Like
Speaker 1: even growing up, I'd be like, damn, man, silver must
Speaker 1: suck because you feel like you could have won fucking gold,
Speaker 1: like you could you maybe had a shot. Bronze is
Speaker 1: almost like thanks, I'm good, great to be here. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. That's kind of true, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you see the person on the bronze podium is
Speaker 1: always smiling, this person on the silver podium and they're
Speaker 1: not they're not smiling, right, And these these professors saying, quote,
Speaker 1: it's pretty counterintuitive because the silver medalists just performed better,
Speaker 1: But we found that third place winners tend to express
Speaker 1: more happiness after an Olympic event than those who come
Speaker 1: in second. Then ads, of course gold medalists are the
Speaker 1: happiest of the three. But I think that goes out
Speaker 1: saying but the reason is like people are looking at
Speaker 1: their achievements like through sort of different lenses. The professor
Speaker 1: goes on to say, quote, silver medalists tend to think
Speaker 1: about and compare themselves to that gold medalist, So they think,
Speaker 1: maybe if I had only done something different, I could
Speaker 1: have won that gold medal. That sort of thinking can
Speaker 1: be especially pervasive when the top two positions can be
Speaker 1: separated by nearly imperceptible milliseconds. But that bronze medalist, they're
Speaker 1: actually forming a downward comparison, and they're thinking at least
Speaker 1: I'm not that fourth place finisher. At least I'm not
Speaker 1: that person who didn't even earn a medal. Um And
Speaker 1: so the the whole thing that they did for this
Speaker 1: analysis was they got like, they found a database of
Speaker 1: photos of like the podiums of like the last five Olympics,
Speaker 1: going back to the year two thousand and they ran
Speaker 1: it through software that was designed to read facial markers,
Speaker 1: which apparently this thing, this algorithmic thing, is so intelligent
Speaker 1: it can tell the difference between someone who's pasted on
Speaker 1: a smile to cover up their disappointment and someone who
Speaker 1: is truly sincerely smile link. This is where I have
Speaker 1: a slight bone to pick though, because you know, like
Speaker 1: anything that's like fed this stuff that you don't know.
Speaker 1: But I think in general I think we can. I
Speaker 1: think I agree with the logic obviously of like what
Speaker 1: the mindset would be of a bronze medalist like and
Speaker 1: I think it's easy to think if you lost by
Speaker 1: point two seconds in a sprint, you would probably feel
Speaker 1: like fuck. So all that to say is they've I
Speaker 1: guess it turns out that you know bronze is best
Speaker 1: for your happiness? Um should I'll take any kind of metal.
Speaker 1: And that's why, Like they showed the Great Britain um
Speaker 1: gymnastics team, like they were so stoked when they won
Speaker 1: their gymnastics medal. They were like, great, I didn't even
Speaker 1: know I'd be here. So like we're on Getty Images babies,
Speaker 1: this is great and I'm not going to pay for
Speaker 1: it either. You will see that Getty Images bug on there.
Speaker 1: That's the true Oh man, that's that's making it. When
Speaker 1: you could buy your own Getty Image and post a
Speaker 1: picture of yourself without and you can afford to buy
Speaker 1: it without the watermark, that's a medal in this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so funny that we uh, like nobody can relate
Speaker 1: to Olympics. It's such a small percentage of people and
Speaker 1: we're like analyzing them that we talked. We're so obsessed
Speaker 1: with them and we're like the silver winners are losers
Speaker 1: actually so sad, Oh my god, depressed and yeah that's
Speaker 1: pasted on that smile. I don't think I could cover
Speaker 1: up my displeasure. I'm so competitive to like, you know,
Speaker 1: I I used to get like flipped the table playing
Speaker 1: card games. It's like a five year old because oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you do not want to play, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to don't play, you know, with men, because I
Speaker 1: remember my older cousins they would do that ship where
Speaker 1: they would load up their hand with like a bunch
Speaker 1: of draw force, skips, reverses and let me think I'm winning,
Speaker 1: and then they're like, sorry, I'm going to do the
Speaker 1: Thanos snap on this game, and they're like wild draw
Speaker 1: for I blew reverse, skip, you draw for boom, you
Speaker 1: no out And You're like, I harkened back to that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't know. I feel like on
Speaker 1: some level we can identify with Olympians more in the
Speaker 1: sense of like people have passions that they'll devote their
Speaker 1: lives too, and on some level not everything, like maybe
Speaker 1: music or art doesn't come in the form of like first, second,
Speaker 1: and third. But this has been famously a second rate podcast.
Speaker 1: Exactly would it be better if it was a third
Speaker 1: rate podcast? What's the situation there? Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: didn't even know I need answers, you know what. Let
Speaker 1: me discuss that with my therapist and I will bring
Speaker 1: that back to the next episode and then I'll get
Speaker 1: AI software to listen to every episode and let us
Speaker 1: know how happy you are. They're like, paste it on.
Speaker 1: You broke our algorithm. It just said bummer zone, bummer zone,
Speaker 1: bummer zone. Yeah. So, you know, shout out to everybody
Speaker 1: who's winning the bronze of their lives, because hey, anything
Speaker 1: can happened. I was still pretty fucking good. And you
Speaker 1: know what, Shout out to fourth place winners too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know that you're sucking sad and we look, our
Speaker 1: heart goes out to you. Also in general, shout out
Speaker 1: to people who make the Olympics, like that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Although the games themselves like that's a whole other story,
Speaker 1: but you know where, Yeah, but it is fun to
Speaker 1: see like those like those people absolutely cry tears of joy,
Speaker 1: like that Filipino weightlifter who won like the first gold
Speaker 1: for the Philippines and like just like the like relief
Speaker 1: and but then that kind of makes like I remember
Speaker 1: when I used to work in politics. I quit. I
Speaker 1: decided to quit lobbying because I was watching the Vancouver Olympics,
Speaker 1: I think it was that year and I saw this
Speaker 1: person like shatter a world record and like win gold
Speaker 1: and like they were so happy, and I got so
Speaker 1: upset because I was like I'm throwing my life away
Speaker 1: being a fucking political operative for some fucking machine that
Speaker 1: doesn't even fucking work, and I'm drunk every night because
Speaker 1: I hate it. And then I was like, what's my
Speaker 1: Olympics And I was like, to do make people laugh
Speaker 1: and do comedy and just kind of, you know, be creative.
Speaker 1: And I remember that day of the next day, I
Speaker 1: told my boss, I'm like, I'm not doing another election cycle.
Speaker 1: I'm out of this, yeah, because I just yeah, well
Speaker 1: because in that way, like I really could ident like
Speaker 1: to see someone so purely happy and overjoyed for like,
Speaker 1: you know, putting their energy and life into something and
Speaker 1: then it's attaining it is like really like if I
Speaker 1: just try to look at it, zoom out as much
Speaker 1: as possible looking at it, And that's when I was like, fuck, man,
Speaker 1: that's living, you know, like when you can pursue that
Speaker 1: and then feel that like that's that's some ship that
Speaker 1: like money or you know, whatever can't get you. Um.
Speaker 1: So in that way, shout out to Vancouver and the Olympics. Um.
Speaker 1: But let's move on to more important news, which is
Speaker 1: chuck e cheese they are putting out and I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that you didn't know this, Jamie makes me so
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Speaker 1: your own home. And this is genius, is it? This
Speaker 1: is like Hooters Wings at the grocery store. What what
Speaker 1: is the motivation? It's they have misunderstood what people go
Speaker 1: to the restaurant. I like chuck E Cheese pizza, but
Speaker 1: I feel like that's not a popular that's not a
Speaker 1: popular opinion because there's like there's all of those um
Speaker 1: those conspiracy theories that the pizza is just recooked pizza
Speaker 1: that is just left at the restaurant. What do you
Speaker 1: mean that they're recycling leftover slices. Yes, there's all of
Speaker 1: the use YouTube videos from like a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago where people are like, we're like frothingly trying to
Speaker 1: prove that chuck E Cheese pizzas because sometimes the pizza
Speaker 1: comes out and you're like, that's an imperfect circle. So
Speaker 1: the theory is and the and the slices come pre
Speaker 1: cut that people leave chuck E Cheese pizza on the table,
Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm spreading. This doesn't happen. Yes,
Speaker 1: and assemble the new Yeah, they assemble a new thing.
Speaker 1: And the reason that it took off is because the
Speaker 1: pizza doesn't necessarily taste recent a lot um and do
Speaker 1: people like that? People don't like? I thought you know
Speaker 1: the reason this took off, Like, oh no, the reason
Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory took off is because the pizza is
Speaker 1: maybe not very good, but I think it's good. And
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of wonder, like how closely the
Speaker 1: grocery store. That's what I wanted to ask you, because
Speaker 1: you remember, over the last year whatever, they started showing
Speaker 1: up like on like Uber Eats and stuff and like
Speaker 1: door dash as like pizza. Yeah, and you can order
Speaker 1: like Chuck E Cheese pizza or whatever. I'm curious, yes,
Speaker 1: if the if they're just branding some very generic frozen
Speaker 1: pizza as Chuck E Cheese or if they are honoring
Speaker 1: the actual Chuck E Cheese pizza. And I implore you, Jamie,
Speaker 1: to to come back with that information because only you can.
Speaker 1: I will, I will take it. I will take that
Speaker 1: upon my six dollars. I can investigate this, Yeah, investigate it,
Speaker 1: write an article. They come with two fifty free eat
Speaker 1: tickets when you buy pizza. That my guess is that
Speaker 1: this is this is like an attempt for the business
Speaker 1: to not have to close, because they really need people
Speaker 1: to go into those restaurants and start spreading the delta
Speaker 1: variant to each other. Things that I think almost like
Speaker 1: went bankrupt right in the last year. So I think
Speaker 1: this is probably like, all right, let's see if we
Speaker 1: can get this going. Let's see if we can dethrown
Speaker 1: the kid cuisine Panango, Oh, oh my god, brownie with
Speaker 1: the nasty brownie and the snowboarding penguin and the little
Speaker 1: the little macin it's like five noodles. I remember I
Speaker 1: begged my mom for that, and she was like, what
Speaker 1: the fund is wrong with you? Like, this isn't even good.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but it's in a tray and I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in some weird fun cafeteria. And the Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the e ticket worth? When they say they'll give
Speaker 1: you fifty free e tickets? What does that get you?
Speaker 1: If if you pull up to a brick and mortar
Speaker 1: Charles Entertainment Cheese center, Well, it depends to an extent.
Speaker 1: The Chuck e cheeses are allowed to choose how many
Speaker 1: like prizes differ and you can sort of choose how
Speaker 1: much like what the thing is. But to fifty, I
Speaker 1: think that that's decent. That would get you like a
Speaker 1: couple of bouncy balls. You know, that's like, that's decent
Speaker 1: currency to be working with at the art what's like
Speaker 1: which makes me think that they're really desperate for people
Speaker 1: to go um? I don't know. I mean, I like personally,
Speaker 1: I like the Chuck E Cheese branded stuff. I like
Speaker 1: the little plush ees of especially Pasqually is my favorite.
Speaker 1: I like the little notebooks I likes I like what else?
Speaker 1: And and then and then they kind of just and
Speaker 1: then it kind of turns into like Carnival toys where
Speaker 1: they have like those freaky stuffed emoji pillows. How much
Speaker 1: and then if you have like five thousand tickets, you
Speaker 1: can get like a lava lamp. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's where they top out. How much a lava lamp is?
Speaker 1: Five thousand? Yeah, I think about that. But if you
Speaker 1: eat enough pizzas, you could get a free law. You
Speaker 1: don't even have to play games. You just have to
Speaker 1: eat pizza, get frises and look at the lava lamp right.
Speaker 1: The only true cost is having to go in as
Speaker 1: a single adult and willingly admit that you've had what
Speaker 1: forty pizzas from Chucky Cheese to get a free off,
Speaker 1: sacrifice I would be willing to make. I'll go with you, please.
Speaker 1: There's there's still so many open in l A County.
Speaker 1: It's um, it's confusing. Wait how many barn on eleven?
Speaker 1: And then we'll get some pizza? Right? And then wait,
Speaker 1: but what is the thing? Oh? But first, Sherilyn, you've
Speaker 1: got to memorize all the words from the L word
Speaker 1: theme song. And then we'll go celebrate right, living, nothing, fucking, freathing, crying, kissing, fighting, screening,
Speaker 1: We're close, a lot of verbs of all right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much Sherilyn for coming on the show today,
Speaker 1: and Jamie, thank you so much for guest hosting. Um, Sherilyn,
Speaker 1: where can people find you and follow you? And what's
Speaker 1: the tweet that you on to share with people or
Speaker 1: you have liked? Okay? Solomon Georgia, he always he always, yeah,
Speaker 1: comes through with the great thing. He said, I wants
Speaker 1: quit a job because a coworkers true two out, so
Speaker 1: I have no notes for simone Biles and I thought
Speaker 1: that was great. Class act. Class act. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: can follow me. My Twitter is currently private because I
Speaker 1: got into one of those anxious mindsets where I'm like,
Speaker 1: nobody needs to know my thoughts, and then I have
Speaker 1: I have like fifty drafted tweets that I'm like, I
Speaker 1: was just in a weird place with Twitter. So that's
Speaker 1: where I am. But if you follow me on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I will individually look at everyone and then probably accept you.
Speaker 1: But it's just Carolyn Vera and that's my instagram Sherlyn
Speaker 1: Underscore Barra as well, and I'm not private there fantastic. No,
Speaker 1: I get it on Twitter and the social media man like,
Speaker 1: that's when that's when I have to put it down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't like when something's gonna get me
Speaker 1: all feeling weird, Like you know, I have to kind
Speaker 1: of keep your piece first. Understand that. Jamie, thank you
Speaker 1: as always for being here, for lending us your wonderful
Speaker 1: voice and mind and knowledge of Charles entertainment cheese. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you and listen to you? No one
Speaker 1: ever wants it. It's exciting. Oh That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Whenever I have a Pavlovian response to seeing Chucky Cheese.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Jamie needs to see this. Does you know
Speaker 1: about this? Do you see this? Maybe she does? And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, don't tell her yet, don't tell her yet,
Speaker 1: safer for when she's on next and then hit with it.
Speaker 1: She doesn't need you know about frozen pizzas. Thank you
Speaker 1: for saving that story for me, because I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to Kroger after this and see what the hook
Speaker 1: this ship up and figure this out over lunch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can follow me on Twitter at Jamie loftus help.
Speaker 1: You can listen to a new episode of ac Cast
Speaker 1: that's out today that you're in quite a bit of
Speaker 1: miles this week. It's about how Kathy Comics said a
Speaker 1: lot of good and bad things about the Boomer generation,
Speaker 1: and there's interviews with a lot of boomer women in
Speaker 1: the workplace and all the ship and baggage that came
Speaker 1: with that. And I will shout out a tweet from
Speaker 1: Julia Claire at Oh Julia Tweets. Two things that have
Speaker 1: really saved me in life for different reasons are that
Speaker 1: I have always hated how soda tastes, and I think
Speaker 1: most designer handbags are ugly, which is I'm like one
Speaker 1: for two there. I I really like soda, but hey,
Speaker 1: SODA's wonderful. You know, like, what's your favorite soda? It's changed.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like Mike's hard lemonade is basically
Speaker 1: like we're like sixth graders on a date. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite soda? What's your favorite color? How many apples are oranges?
Speaker 1: I don't know anything else. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: feel like the kid in eighth grade that has all
Speaker 1: the chicken nuggets sauces out, He's like, I have every
Speaker 1: sauce for you. Chivalry is not dead. A swamp water
Speaker 1: from the fountain I shall return with for you for
Speaker 1: me is uh diet dr pepper and um. And then
Speaker 1: it's this is just like this isn't a health tip,
Speaker 1: but if you ever are like I haven't pooped in
Speaker 1: a while, you can have one diet pepsi cherry and
Speaker 1: it will resolve, all right, Dr lofty herself, just clean
Speaker 1: your right now. Um. Some tweets that like, first one's
Speaker 1: from Reductress at Reductress. Because we're talking about normalizing. They
Speaker 1: tweeted why we should stop normalizing things so I can
Speaker 1: keep feeling special. Uh and then the other one is
Speaker 1: from its carry carry Richards in the sprinter. She tweeted,
Speaker 1: missing me yet, m M, I think people might be.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Gray and also the other show for twenty day Fiance.
Speaker 1: If you're like ninety day Fiance, come listen to me
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Speaker 1: also figure out the song that we are going to
Speaker 1: ride out on, and this song is going to be
Speaker 1: a bit of a throwback. I was just getting sentimental
Speaker 1: thinking about my time leaving politics and just going out
Speaker 1: there and just trying to make myself happy and finding
Speaker 1: my own Olympics. I urge y'all, we all have our
Speaker 1: own version of the Olympics, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like a thing that would really make us happy, and
Speaker 1: there's a version where if we achieve it, we would
Speaker 1: be in tears too. I I urge you to explore
Speaker 1: that because life is very short and happiness is hard
Speaker 1: to come by sometimes. But this is a track by
Speaker 1: Odessa O D E S E C A. And it
Speaker 1: is a remix of a Lily Allen track called how
Speaker 1: Did I Get Here? And that was a song I
Speaker 1: remember playing a lot and I was like, how did
Speaker 1: I get here? But also like but also it's like
Speaker 1: a head nod, so like you can bring whatever you
Speaker 1: want to the lyrics. I'm just giving you a little
Speaker 1: bit of insight into me. All right. Well, we'll be
Speaker 1: back later to tell you what's trending, and until then,
Speaker 1: please take care of yourselves and each other. Okay. Bye
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