Speaker 1: Oh, hello the Internet. Wake up now, come on now,
Speaker 1: bring your heads up, don't fall asleep in this class.
Speaker 1: Hello Internet, and welcome to season one, Episode two of
Speaker 1: The Daily SI Guy Start production of My Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast, the only podcast I might add,
Speaker 1: where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness.
Speaker 1: Please don't check the validity of that claim either way.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, August. My name is Miles Gray, a k A.
Speaker 1: Styles go in, styles go out. But on the ever,
Speaker 1: let it go without a doubt because I'm an old
Speaker 1: chuggy guy. I'm an old chuggy guy. I'm an old
Speaker 1: choogy guy, and I was just thinking that song the
Speaker 1: other day. Shout out to me and all the chuggy
Speaker 1: people out there who are just holding onto the styles
Speaker 1: that go in and out. But you know, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. And without further ado, allow me to
Speaker 1: introduce my guest co host today, someone who is a
Speaker 1: brilliant comedian, improviser, actor, voice actor, and you know he
Speaker 1: actually AMBI nominated podcast host as well. It is my
Speaker 1: pleasure to introduce one of the great great I would say,
Speaker 1: just maestros of the a k A with a song
Speaker 1: and a voice of goal. Please welcome Jackies, Neil. I
Speaker 1: have a dream today. I have a dream that one
Speaker 1: day every jockey shall be exalted. Every jockey, said Neil,
Speaker 1: shall be made low. The rough places will be made plain,
Speaker 1: the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory
Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the sight
Speaker 1: gangs shall see it together. And in America is to
Speaker 1: be great again. This must become true. So let freedom
Speaker 1: ring sight gang from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let
Speaker 1: freedom rings like gang from the mighty mountains of New York.
Speaker 1: And when this happens, we'll all join hands and singing
Speaker 1: the words of the old Negro spiritual Jackies at last,
Speaker 1: Jackies at last, Thank God al Mighty, we are Jackies
Speaker 1: at last. Was something Negro the I have a dream
Speaker 1: Isaiah forty verse four. You're getting them all right now.
Speaker 1: And then a since I've heard those words, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to switch it up from the song and
Speaker 1: dance a little bit, had to give out some inspiration,
Speaker 1: had to get you out a little audacity of hope.
Speaker 1: Real right there. You know what I'm saying. I didn't
Speaker 1: reize we were in church right now, We're in church
Speaker 1: right now, so you know, just call me Dr Jackies
Speaker 1: Neil uh, how y'all doing? What's up? My own doing wonderful.
Speaker 1: I'm good man, I'm good. I've been a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know this. I've been bothering you over text
Speaker 1: constantly because I know you loved MTVS the Challenge and
Speaker 1: I just started getting back into it and I realized
Speaker 1: I was like, I stopped watching. I told you. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I realized, you know, I haven't been watching
Speaker 1: for a while because when d M passed away, I
Speaker 1: really stopped watching the show because I was so like
Speaker 1: this has become too real, Like I followed her journey
Speaker 1: too long, and it's like it really there was like
Speaker 1: a pain point there. And then I got back into
Speaker 1: it and I realized Her Majesty is always like are
Speaker 1: you watching the Challenge again? And I'm like yeah, And
Speaker 1: I realized it's because it's the Chugue Olympics. It's the
Speaker 1: Olympics for old washed millennials. That's what the challenges and
Speaker 1: that's what I'm always looking at. And I'm like, fun,
Speaker 1: could I get down like this too? Like where do
Speaker 1: I rank? Because it feels accessible, there's something about it
Speaker 1: shout out the chuge Olympics a k A. MTV is
Speaker 1: the challenge, Miles me and you should do a tough
Speaker 1: mutther and that'll be our MTV the Challenge final. You
Speaker 1: just say you want to see if you can get
Speaker 1: down Mile site gang. Maybe thousands of y'all say, Miles, mother,
Speaker 1: he is really hell. He's holding up a paper right
Speaker 1: now saying, I will be constractually obligated to obligated if
Speaker 1: you if you do uh one of those petitions online petitions,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see, maybe something will happen. Um, well,
Speaker 1: let's introduce our guest today, someone who I guess I
Speaker 1: love having on, someone who always brings just the most
Speaker 1: wonderful energy. Um, you might know her if you don't
Speaker 1: know from this show what ship Vulture knows about her
Speaker 1: because they called her the twenty comedians you should know
Speaker 1: in Okay, you still don't know who that is? Well,
Speaker 1: well maybe you might know in the future, because she's
Speaker 1: going to be in the upcoming animated series Q Force
Speaker 1: and Rutherford Falls Okay Q Force on Netflix. Rutherford falls
Speaker 1: on Peacock, she stays winning. Also sure she's a comedian,
Speaker 1: but she also that breathwork you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: She will help you transcend to a new dimension by
Speaker 1: controlling your breathing. Okay, can we meditate on that. Also,
Speaker 1: she is a Division one college athlete phen u c
Speaker 1: l A volleyball. Okay. This motherfucker's digging it out like
Speaker 1: a minor Okay, And I mean m I n e
Speaker 1: R digging it out because she's all over the court
Speaker 1: as a defensive specialist or libera I don't know. You
Speaker 1: also know she won the pasta eating contest at the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Feast of San Gennaro Italian Festival. Please welcome
Speaker 1: sat your boy playing back for more action. Miles. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, slip out to see by that fucking intro.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I mean, let me on this planet. Also,
Speaker 1: that was like a gorgeous um you. I really was captivated.
Speaker 1: That was the goal. That was the goal, Checkie said.
Speaker 1: Last everybody, it's heaven having to be back with Blair.
Speaker 1: I noticed when Ja Kisa saying, hey we should try
Speaker 1: a tough mutter event, you started breaking your neck, shaking
Speaker 1: your head like, no, you don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that. Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: know this will shock you. Miles, But actually I was
Speaker 1: forced to do them as a family growing up. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: your family the most fit family on earth or something. No,
Speaker 1: my parents are both in their late six season have abs.
Speaker 1: It's hell, um, wow, your parents are the people in
Speaker 1: their sixties with abs. Yeah. I see people like that
Speaker 1: like out and about, you know, wherever I'm at the beaches,
Speaker 1: you I see people who are like really fit and
Speaker 1: you're like, what the fund are? What kind of program
Speaker 1: are they? Families? Yeah, and they have the nerve to
Speaker 1: ask me how I became a comedian relief. That's how
Speaker 1: trying to my relief from your fucking abs. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take the side of the parent
Speaker 1: on this. You know, I know Will Smith's and parents
Speaker 1: just don't understand. But I think you know your parents
Speaker 1: get it. And uh, when me and Miles do this,
Speaker 1: tough mother. When it's like gang gonna hand to sign
Speaker 1: a petition if we get two thousand signatures, you're holding
Speaker 1: up a paper right now that said you're contractually obligated
Speaker 1: to join us. Oh Ship Blair, Yeah, you gotta come
Speaker 1: to you gotta come to. You'r d one athlete. We
Speaker 1: need that. It was all I was in college, and
Speaker 1: then I would I'd be so pissed that I had
Speaker 1: to do it that I would just get fucking blasted
Speaker 1: the night before and then roll up like wildly, I'd
Speaker 1: walk across the finish line. Yeah, just so just disrespecting
Speaker 1: the event like that. Yeah. Meanwhile, they're like people in
Speaker 1: their mid forties who are like I, I got a
Speaker 1: divorce because ied my relationship being ready for this midlife
Speaker 1: crisis marathon. Yeah, my dad's like in the mud pit,
Speaker 1: like going under the barbed wire, like you know, and
Speaker 1: when was the last time you did one. I was
Speaker 1: like early twenties and the ship was hard. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: whenever I see the things, I'm like, bro, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it. No, I'm just like, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: why am I? Why am I climbing a rope as
Speaker 1: an adult? That's just what I remember like going through
Speaker 1: my mind. All right, Well, let's before we get to
Speaker 1: know even better, let's just give people a quick preview
Speaker 1: what's happening this episode. We're gonna check in with Rhonda
Speaker 1: Santis and the just the general state of COVID, what
Speaker 1: the White House is trying to do to maybe get
Speaker 1: people to get more vaccinations. We'll talk about the eviction
Speaker 1: moratorium expiring and how sometimes just went on vacation despite
Speaker 1: eleven million people being at risk for eviction. We'll also
Speaker 1: talk about Rudy Giuliani. He is he got no friends,
Speaker 1: he's got no friends, and he's got no money, and
Speaker 1: it's starting to look really I don't know, things are
Speaker 1: constantly looking bad for him, but there's just an interesting
Speaker 1: sound bite that I want to play from him. Then
Speaker 1: when I think, we'll talk about a rod because I
Speaker 1: think he's doing this trying to make your ex jealous
Speaker 1: or make your ex think that you've moved on spectacular thing.
Speaker 1: He's kind of sucking it up like it's I think
Speaker 1: we could collectively, between our three genius minds, give him
Speaker 1: some advice on how to do that properly. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some own biles she's back today competing, just to
Speaker 1: touch on that, and maybe we'll talk about some new
Speaker 1: Dorito's flavors that I'm a little bit confused about. But first, Blair,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that is revealing
Speaker 1: about who you are or what you're up to or
Speaker 1: what you're into? Okay, I know I am, you know
Speaker 1: a classified stoner, but I like to keep it honest.
Speaker 1: So I did pull up my Google history and the
Speaker 1: first thing it said the opposite of truth. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: damn that know that. I feel that because sometimes you
Speaker 1: know what is truth? You know, is a fact? Is it? Opinion?
Speaker 1: Is it? Your truth is a real truth. Until you
Speaker 1: know that, you can't know what the opposite of it is?
Speaker 1: How did you just walk me through this? Like? What? What?
Speaker 1: What did you go through? And then you go, fun, Man,
Speaker 1: I need to google you should? You should see my
Speaker 1: fucking note tap um because you know, I usually after
Speaker 1: the sun goes down, if I'm not driving, I popped
Speaker 1: like a gummy usually mostly, and so I have a
Speaker 1: lot of things passed through here, and so I don't
Speaker 1: have an explanation for that really sinister Google search. You know,
Speaker 1: like I don't know where I was. I don't know
Speaker 1: who I was when I type that in you know,
Speaker 1: but I was searching. I was digging. You know, you
Speaker 1: were seeking enlightenment. Honestly, you're trying to see all the dimensions. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in what the answer was because because I
Speaker 1: feel like it can't just be lies. I feel like
Speaker 1: you had you got something for I mean, it's funny
Speaker 1: and you can just search the opposite of truth. The
Speaker 1: first thing that comes up is just truth, opposite, dishonesty, falsity.
Speaker 1: It's just like one of like when you searched Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember being like, oh, falk, it's falsity. That's what
Speaker 1: the opposite of truth? And then what did and then
Speaker 1: did that open another door? Like this is this? Did
Speaker 1: you figure out a rabbit hole? I don't remember. And
Speaker 1: it was just one of those things, like you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times I'll type what I perceive in
Speaker 1: my mind as a genius premise for I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the bit that changes my life.
Speaker 1: And then I go back and read it and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what then does elephant arms mean? You know, like that
Speaker 1: never makes any sense. Most of the time. I will
Speaker 1: grow with you, Blair, you know, like, opposite the truth.
Speaker 1: It's kind of so philosophical that it's not a high thought.
Speaker 1: You need to be on shrooms when you look up
Speaker 1: say the truth, yeah, because there you know, just you
Speaker 1: start getting enlightened if you find out the opposite of
Speaker 1: the truth, because when you're not on shrooms, if you
Speaker 1: just hear what's the opposite of truth, You'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: that's a lie. That's what the truth is. What is
Speaker 1: not real falsehoods? That is the opposite of truth. But
Speaker 1: to your points of key, if you then but then
Speaker 1: you go, but what's really the opposite of truth? And
Speaker 1: then we're talking some real ship. That's the mind frame
Speaker 1: I was in, you know. I was like, oh, there
Speaker 1: is no simple answer to this ship. I got to
Speaker 1: keep searching, probably to other day I die. And then
Speaker 1: if you if you do begin to understand what for
Speaker 1: you personally, what the philosophically the opposite of the truth
Speaker 1: is for you, what potential do you see that happening
Speaker 1: having in terms of opening other doors? Well? My I
Speaker 1: also I feel if I get closer to alignment than
Speaker 1: you know, the whole universe just opens up his arms
Speaker 1: to me, and I walked through you gracefully and I
Speaker 1: transcend everything into the night. Alignment. Okay, I've heard that
Speaker 1: for that somewhere. I'll call that. I call that going
Speaker 1: super singing. Yeah, we just called that going dumb in
Speaker 1: the area. What's up? Okay, Blair, what something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Just before this podcast, I became violently ill
Speaker 1: thinking about how I once you're in through the train
Speaker 1: of Philip Roth Books for a Man when I was
Speaker 1: twenty three, and you know, just sickens like it's just
Speaker 1: a wild thing, Like you know, this man his whole
Speaker 1: thing is like women are fucking devils. And I was like, yeah, God,
Speaker 1: this ship is sick. I love it. You know, incredible
Speaker 1: depth and perspective. Um. But yeah, I just had this
Speaker 1: reflective moment and I was like, thank God for aging.
Speaker 1: You know, you never see an old bitch reading um
Speaker 1: Philip Rotha. What was sort of this relationship like where
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, I guess I'm gonna ingest some
Speaker 1: Philip Roth. Was it that you sincerely liked this person
Speaker 1: and you want to be able to have some common
Speaker 1: ground or was this dude just a fucking weirdo? And
Speaker 1: he was like read this no, no, okay. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm Timothy Shalon's character in Ladybird, where you sometimes when
Speaker 1: you're very young, in your early twenties, you encounter a
Speaker 1: man that is like a try hard intellectual, like those
Speaker 1: dudes that carried David Foster Wallace on the train, like
Speaker 1: just so that it's visible, you know. And so I
Speaker 1: was from Orange County, and I always yet to meet
Speaker 1: a man who had read a book before, and so
Speaker 1: I accidentally became entrance and then I was fucking next thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm three Philip Roth books deep, and yeah
Speaker 1: and um yeah, I'm just grateful to be alive and
Speaker 1: to have I'm grateful. I'm grateful. Listen, I'm gonna be real.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't read much. I'm gonna read books.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm one of those people to be like,
Speaker 1: I'll read the script, you know what I'm saying. I'll
Speaker 1: read the stage play. But you know, we all do
Speaker 1: weird ship and I'll do uh, like on the plane
Speaker 1: or something when I'm listening to a dough Pass playlist
Speaker 1: and I'll just kind of like throw my phone to
Speaker 1: the edge of the table so when people walk past,
Speaker 1: they can probably see, you know, the song I'm listening to.
Speaker 1: Me like that Nikka got some taste. That like, I
Speaker 1: got some taste. That's that's my soul. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: carry the books, but I will have my I will
Speaker 1: have my Spotify playlisting to Outstanding by the on the Loop,
Speaker 1: this whole pot Girl. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: That's what I'll do, so I won't. I won't. I
Speaker 1: won't get anybody you know to to read any books
Speaker 1: from me, But I will probably get somebody to start
Speaker 1: listening to Ericabadu or some ship right right next Lifetime. Okay,
Speaker 1: you might have some regrets. I mean I could listen
Speaker 1: to them. Be like he's been listening to Next Lifetime
Speaker 1: on loop this whole time. I'm like, this man is
Speaker 1: going through something. He's going through something. Um. Yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't read a lot of fiction. I
Speaker 1: read a lot of nonfiction because that's just like, that's
Speaker 1: the weird habit I got into with book reading was
Speaker 1: just to be like, I know facts so I can
Speaker 1: be and you know a lot of facts. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite things about you love facts, especially when they
Speaker 1: come off of a popsicle stick. But I digress. Um Blair,
Speaker 1: what dof something you think is underrated? Okay? One thing
Speaker 1: that I think is underrated is getting drunk on one
Speaker 1: point three white class um literally just one large ship
Speaker 1: of alcohol. I'm telling all my secrets. Replying to everyone's
Speaker 1: Instagram stories talking about how female surfers are really the
Speaker 1: bravest people on earth because they go into the water
Speaker 1: to their job once a month with a literal shark
Speaker 1: food dispensary coming out of their vagina, and they still
Speaker 1: make less money than men just by being infinitely braver
Speaker 1: and tougher. And anyways, ten I have ten recommend one
Speaker 1: point three white class. I tripped over my feet yesterday
Speaker 1: on the beach and albu after three SIPs, and then
Speaker 1: I um ate a hot dog in a bikini over
Speaker 1: a trash can. There you go. Obviously it sounds like
Speaker 1: you live in Yeah. When you say I need clarification,
Speaker 1: player is one point three one whole white claw and
Speaker 1: then point three of another? Or is one point through? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you gotta get the one whole white cloone in
Speaker 1: and then the additional three SIPs and then you then
Speaker 1: you own another plane? Are you doing it? I have
Speaker 1: negative zero alcohol tolerance somehow out of nowhere, like in
Speaker 1: my age. I don't know how it came about. Were
Speaker 1: you Did you drink a lot in college? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: I was doing fucking gargoyles on kegs in the back
Speaker 1: of just disgusting, nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god. And then so even then you said,
Speaker 1: with that low tolerance is I mean you just got
Speaker 1: smashed just very rapidly, very quickly, or did you find
Speaker 1: a way to sort of last because I know, college
Speaker 1: binge drinking is like a sport, you know what. You know,
Speaker 1: you would have thought I was a fucking six eight
Speaker 1: tight end, like I could drink so much in college,
Speaker 1: like and I could hold my ship too solely. So
Speaker 1: the ship just flipped on you. And now you're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: beer chunking contest, like just six sick, disgusting, nasty, and
Speaker 1: now it's just one sip and I'm like on Saturn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you know honestly that that's happening with me too,
Speaker 1: where I'm like, I came to the realization last week
Speaker 1: that oh I'm in my mid thirties. Now I think
Speaker 1: I think we want to drink maximum lifestyle right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just cause your boy be hurting and I don't
Speaker 1: love it. And then I also get a little faded,
Speaker 1: you know, saying so I need to stop. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: thing with me is I've just learned to respect my
Speaker 1: hangovers more, which has had an effect on how much
Speaker 1: I drink because it used to be like, right, man,
Speaker 1: you just I think of and I'm sure we all
Speaker 1: have these moments, like you think back at how we
Speaker 1: used to drink and I could get I could drink
Speaker 1: a whole big jug a Carlo Rossi wine, Okay, like
Speaker 1: the San Gria joint that you could buy it at
Speaker 1: a right aid, you know what I mean, and face
Speaker 1: that thing, or buy a living stin wine at a
Speaker 1: seven eleven real quick, because you know that's the that's
Speaker 1: the one thing you can get at seven eleven that
Speaker 1: you can really put down and then feel good about.
Speaker 1: And then I would go sell cars the next day,
Speaker 1: like waking up at seven am and then like interacting
Speaker 1: with people like trying to get and I think about
Speaker 1: that now, like I have nightmares being like what was
Speaker 1: my body doing and it's youth. But now it's just
Speaker 1: like if I get a little bit drunk, I'm like
Speaker 1: piercing headache the whole day and like and that has
Speaker 1: made me to be like, no, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if I need this ship anymore. Yeah. Also, if everybody
Speaker 1: out there, you know, next time you go buy yourself
Speaker 1: a car, before you start talking to anybody, just start
Speaker 1: scoping everybody out and look for the most hungover person.
Speaker 1: That person gonna give you some deals because he want
Speaker 1: to stop talking to your ask whatever, man, you can
Speaker 1: you can have the car. Can you just sit man?
Speaker 1: All right here, let me just get you my man
Speaker 1: as you're real quick. He didn't sit down. And then
Speaker 1: you guys talk financing, and then I'm like and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, my head is on the hood of a
Speaker 1: Dodge Ram coming turbo diesel and I'm like, huh huh, no, Stott, No,
Speaker 1: I think he's asleep in his van. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's taking his break in his van. There's one guys
Speaker 1: to work with. Scott. He used to. He had his
Speaker 1: van and he always took his brakes in his van.
Speaker 1: He was chief in that van. He was he was
Speaker 1: he was like reading. He was like reading like he
Speaker 1: was reading like you know, he would read like online
Speaker 1: like fan brewed, like Star Wars fan fiction. I remember,
Speaker 1: because everybody's like, yo, he weird. He weird. And then
Speaker 1: I was just straight up like what, like what's going
Speaker 1: on the van? You've got something cool in there, like
Speaker 1: we don't know about. He's like, no, I just like
Speaker 1: to read some stuff in there. It's just quiet and
Speaker 1: it's easier for me. And then the dudes don't like.
Speaker 1: Apparently guys would make fun of him for reading like these,
Speaker 1: like weird printed out manuscripts of of fan fiction. I
Speaker 1: was like, man Scott live. And then he would then
Speaker 1: he was like, you guys know your Star Wars names,
Speaker 1: and he would say names. He would say that the customers,
Speaker 1: whereas the first three of your last name, the first
Speaker 1: two of your first name is your first part, then
Speaker 1: the first three of your middle name, and the first
Speaker 1: two of the city you were born in. I'm lost.
Speaker 1: You would be like sock bull yeah, and then where
Speaker 1: what's your middle name? Blair Alexandra? Okay? And then what
Speaker 1: city were you born in? Okay, So you'd be sock
Speaker 1: bull a lemmi wow, Okay, that sounds hard. Be Nija Nija?
Speaker 1: And what is it the first three of your middle
Speaker 1: middle and then the first two of the city you
Speaker 1: were born in, so Amachi. There you go, Niachim n
Speaker 1: You know what Scott's name was, Roscoe Fife. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was going to be revealing our
Speaker 1: poor names. That's that's not our Style Wars names, that's
Speaker 1: our poor names. Yeah. Whatever is that? There's all construct
Speaker 1: and who knows. I just remember being like his name
Speaker 1: is Roscoe Peiffer. That's not even sad. It sounds like
Speaker 1: some dude who works here. Yeah, hot dog Blair, that's
Speaker 1: what that's the question. I want to know. The hot
Speaker 1: dog over the garbage can. Was it good, dude? There
Speaker 1: is nothing better than a beach hot dog. It's like,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's transcendent. It felt it was so good,
Speaker 1: it was incredible. It was yeah it. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I go all everything. I don't hold back anything. No,
Speaker 1: my friend Namy Miller got it for me and she said,
Speaker 1: what do you want on it? I said, mustard relish,
Speaker 1: catch up everything anything else I forget and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: she brought it to me and I I was peak happiness. Ever,
Speaker 1: Amy's the bringer of happiness. All right, Well, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and uh, you know, pay some bills
Speaker 1: right after this, and we're back again. We gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta look at what's going on in the country. And
Speaker 1: what's going on in the country is the Delta variant
Speaker 1: of COVID. This has not stopped. Florida is currently home
Speaker 1: to about one five of all COVID cases in the country,
Speaker 1: and they have like less than I think eight percent
Speaker 1: of the population and think of something closer like seven
Speaker 1: or six. And if you look at what Governor Ron
Speaker 1: de Santis is doing, it almost looks like he thinks
Speaker 1: he can end the pandemic by making the numbers go
Speaker 1: up so high that like like he just breaks the
Speaker 1: charts or something like that. Doctors are also saying the
Speaker 1: worst cases they see are no longer people's people in
Speaker 1: their seventies and eighties. It's gone a lot younger now,
Speaker 1: it's people from their forties to their sixties and even
Speaker 1: younger than that. He's preventing businesses is from requiring proof
Speaker 1: of vaccination, and even preventing schools from having students where masks.
Speaker 1: And it's a similar situation in a lot of Red
Speaker 1: states where like local authorities for whatever reason think it's
Speaker 1: some kind of statement of pure freedom to embrace premature,
Speaker 1: preventable death. But they continue down this path. And vaccinations
Speaker 1: have gone slightly up over the last month because I
Speaker 1: think some of the news is connecting with people that
Speaker 1: if you're not vaccinated, this delta variant is highly transmissible
Speaker 1: and will probably you could be infected much at a
Speaker 1: much higher rate than the previous variant or the ancestral strain.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is young people are really really
Speaker 1: not fucking with getting vaccinations, Like the vaccination rates are
Speaker 1: really low. So the White House has had to now
Speaker 1: switch their tactics and they have basically recruited an army
Speaker 1: of influencers from TikTok to fucking whatever the kids are
Speaker 1: using Instagram and the spacebook and all that um to
Speaker 1: get kids to, you know, get more into vaccinations. We
Speaker 1: saw it with Olivia Rodrigo. Basically less than half of
Speaker 1: people eighteen to thirty nine are fully vaccinated. Then you
Speaker 1: compare that with over two thirds for people over fifty,
Speaker 1: and then really about fifty eight percent of people twelve
Speaker 1: to seventeen have yet to receive a shot at all.
Speaker 1: Now I get I know that it gets a little
Speaker 1: bit more complicated when you're a minor because your parents
Speaker 1: are the ones who are probably going to dictate what happens.
Speaker 1: But they've truly just been like, we we just need
Speaker 1: these influencers. Now, that's the one way I think we
Speaker 1: gotta make it cool for kids. You know, I um,
Speaker 1: I very rarely pine for days of the past. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, very rarely the past wasn't too good.
Speaker 1: For for black of folks. You know, so I look
Speaker 1: forward to the future more times than not. But there's
Speaker 1: one thing that I do miss about the past, and
Speaker 1: that's when we used to buy and sale states. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, it feels like we've as that era in
Speaker 1: our in our in our young country, and I'm interested
Speaker 1: in getting back to that because uh, Mexico, y'all want Florida. Hey,
Speaker 1: it literally makes me feel daunting in a way that
Speaker 1: I don't see how this is going to change. When
Speaker 1: the vaccines came out. Even last year, our whole mindset
Speaker 1: was we'll wait for the vaccines, things will get better,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And now more than ever, I'm just like, like,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do gonna get better better? Especially
Speaker 1: when you have people who are on a mission to
Speaker 1: act like it's all good. But then we talked about
Speaker 1: this last week or maybe yesterday's episode, how the signals
Speaker 1: are all mixed it. Depending on what state you're in,
Speaker 1: you might have a governor who's a Republican and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: y'all need to get vaccinated, like I'm not working around,
Speaker 1: like Arkansas can't handle it, please, But then you'll have
Speaker 1: places like Texas or Florida were like it's all good,
Speaker 1: Like we're not making to make anybody do anything. It's freedom,
Speaker 1: while also saying vacs a nation, save lives and my
Speaker 1: biggest fear and all of it is like because of
Speaker 1: the transmissibility of the delta variant, and a lot of
Speaker 1: these epidemiologists are like, the way of a breakthrough, truly
Speaker 1: breakthrough version of COVID comes up one that is resistant
Speaker 1: even to vaccines is by having a large group of
Speaker 1: people being vaccinated in an environment where there's transmission rates
Speaker 1: are still very high. And then my you know, sort
Speaker 1: of doomsday thinking asks like oh my god, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to worry about my parents again.
Speaker 1: If there's like another version where they're like that vaccine
Speaker 1: you it doesn't work because we let the you know,
Speaker 1: part of the country just be a petri dish accelerator
Speaker 1: for you know, evolving this virus. Those are all the
Speaker 1: things I worry about, and yeah, like you're you're hard
Speaker 1: pressed to think what happens, And I think I think
Speaker 1: the first thing is that they're just hoping that mandating
Speaker 1: vaccines will help make things normal and be like, well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ship I can't do unless I'm vaccine,
Speaker 1: and maybe I will, but it's still it's all these
Speaker 1: people grew up in the era like a lot of
Speaker 1: these people that are, you know, propagating the anti vacts
Speaker 1: as a political stance for freedom. Like you guys were
Speaker 1: all taking the fucking polio vaccine, you're taking all the
Speaker 1: other vaccines. You are very pro vaccine until now, which
Speaker 1: is just a symptom of like political division versus actual
Speaker 1: scientific necessity. UM. I mean, it's just like this weird
Speaker 1: thing about how um people flip their stances on things
Speaker 1: because of political ideologies. Like I know, all these people
Speaker 1: that got vaxxed when they were younger, with all the
Speaker 1: other ship, you know, they just decided now that they're not,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, And I think yeah, because of how
Speaker 1: quickly the country has sort of like fractured into like
Speaker 1: these sort of ideologies without any real consideration for like
Speaker 1: even personal stakes. Because now even there is a prominent
Speaker 1: Republican politician I believe, I forget what Southeast State it was,
Speaker 1: but started up very anti vax then got COVID and
Speaker 1: like revealed that this guy was going through a month's
Speaker 1: long COVID battle and he's like I can't. Like, this
Speaker 1: thing is bad, y'all. This is bad. If you have
Speaker 1: a really bad case, it is going to feel like
Speaker 1: you're on death's doorstep. And this is I implore you.
Speaker 1: And it's and it's funny because it's so much like
Speaker 1: how our country operates, which is funk around and find
Speaker 1: out essentially, like we always have to get to the
Speaker 1: find out phase. Some people don't want to work around
Speaker 1: because they will take the experimentation and the know how
Speaker 1: of experts say I don't need to find out about that,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to work around. But unfortunately there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who are now like I
Speaker 1: found out and it's terrible. I just don't understand too.
Speaker 1: Like I get, you know, I get on a base
Speaker 1: level with us about we are. Everything is politicized right now,
Speaker 1: right and you know, like I'm only thirty four, so
Speaker 1: I can't I don't know what it was like, uh
Speaker 1: and I fell asleep are most history classes, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what it was like politically. When polio was
Speaker 1: around and there were some vaccines, they people feel like
Speaker 1: people were getting there were there were smaller anti vactors,
Speaker 1: but like there was just wasn't the information wasn't able
Speaker 1: to move as quickly so as very that's the problem, minimal,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Unfortunately, like you bought up the White Houses,
Speaker 1: is bringing in and it's bringing in influencers and things
Speaker 1: like that to try and get you know, younger people vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And I fear that unfortunately, and this isn't a compliment,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately we're too smart for that. Uh And like
Speaker 1: I don't mean that in a compliment. I mean that,
Speaker 1: and like I think I know what you're doing. I
Speaker 1: ain't actuallyin't gonna work. I know what you're doing just
Speaker 1: because Kendall Jenner say come get your vaccine. She's been
Speaker 1: saying that for months and ain't for me. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like everybody everything. Everybody knows everything now, so like
Speaker 1: we can see, we can see through the facades and
Speaker 1: we can you know, look, if it reaches one person,
Speaker 1: that's better than reach and no people. So I get that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I get it. Your cynical. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people are. And sorry, well I've been seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of those stories and I do think they're helpful,
Speaker 1: as sad as they are. And I'm not someone where
Speaker 1: it's like I didn't get the vaccine and I wish
Speaker 1: I did. And it's like a picture of them on
Speaker 1: their deathbed before they died, you know, Like I keep
Speaker 1: seeing posts like that and um or like Republican Dada
Speaker 1: didn't get vaccine, and it's almost and like people are like,
Speaker 1: oh funk those people, they're so selfish, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's still sad that someone was under the impression that
Speaker 1: it was more important for them to like make some
Speaker 1: political sense in their own life. You know, like it's
Speaker 1: still I'm not I don't everyone's like celebrating those people.
Speaker 1: It's like the sick people. It's yet, like, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's infinitely tragic for someone to
Speaker 1: lose their life when their their death could have been prevented.
Speaker 1: And I think when you see people who are like
Speaker 1: ha ha, like you know, you you're now you're getting
Speaker 1: it bad because you were being you know, a science
Speaker 1: denier or whatever, we completely lose track of like the
Speaker 1: humanity of it all. And that's only exacerbating any kind
Speaker 1: of division, because if you can't even look at someone
Speaker 1: like that and say that this, this poor person just
Speaker 1: got duped so bad that they decided to act against
Speaker 1: their own self interest and put themselves at risk and
Speaker 1: then are leaving a family behind because unfortunately that's just
Speaker 1: because that's what's on the TV around them or whatever.
Speaker 1: Their subculture that they're part of is sort of communicating
Speaker 1: this to them, and that's like, yeah, I mean like
Speaker 1: painful death to right. And luckily, the worst you know
Speaker 1: thing I got swept up in was thinking G Unit
Speaker 1: was gonna last forever and Lloyd Banks and Tony Ao
Speaker 1: we're gonna be around for like that unit J Unit
Speaker 1: broke up. Yeah, I mean that was like kind of
Speaker 1: you know, like we all have these little things that
Speaker 1: we get carried away when now like the steaks are
Speaker 1: getting so high, like where people are now like oh now,
Speaker 1: my ideology isn't like I like this band or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm going to completely just say that this
Speaker 1: group of people is not human. And that's sort of
Speaker 1: the momentum that I think we'd we'd hope to blunt
Speaker 1: on some level by you know, like in general, we're
Speaker 1: just doing a terrible job of acknowledging like the humanity
Speaker 1: of people in this country. I don't think I don't
Speaker 1: think I could ever be the president one because I've
Speaker 1: done too much it in my life, so I don't
Speaker 1: think although now you know Trump could be president, I
Speaker 1: can definitely be president. They're doing gargoyles on dude, yeah
Speaker 1: we can we actually, Blair, can I be your vice president?
Speaker 1: I don't need to be the president. I would never
Speaker 1: want to be president. Are you kidding me? I'm sort
Speaker 1: of like I like to just like look in the back.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be the decision maker because if
Speaker 1: I was, if I was a decision maker like this is,
Speaker 1: I would be what I wouldn't want a president to be,
Speaker 1: where I would be like, you know what, I'm the president.
Speaker 1: We're about to change some ship up. All right, Oh
Speaker 1: I came in date vaccines. Well, here's what I can do.
Speaker 1: Every five minutes on every piece of screen you have, TV, phone, tablet,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you a five minute death of somebody
Speaker 1: dying by COVID so you can see it. Like cigarettes
Speaker 1: in Europe where they're like, this is a lung from smoking.
Speaker 1: Then yes, Jacky's having only known you for thirty nine minutes,
Speaker 1: I do believe that you could become president. Like I
Speaker 1: think you're that captivating of a speaker. It's actually alarming
Speaker 1: sort of when you meet someone like that, you're like,
Speaker 1: this is how entire nations get swept up. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm coming for a nation near to you, everybody um
Speaker 1: and you know alongside that, you know again, like with
Speaker 1: this inability to just be like we need to look
Speaker 1: at just generally, like the humanity of people, not to
Speaker 1: say like, oh, they're right for having the beliefs they had,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna celebrate the death
Speaker 1: of somebody because if they were, they felt victim to
Speaker 1: misinformation and their own I've been saying, it's sad as hell,
Speaker 1: Like I hate that in general with that country, just
Speaker 1: in all aspects. It's like it's just celebrating the doubt.
Speaker 1: It's like become just two sides and then just always celebrate.
Speaker 1: And it's like they are you you, that could have
Speaker 1: been you, That damn well could have been different place
Speaker 1: depending on where you were raised. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: celebrate death when one thing has killed over six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people in a shorter amount of time it took
Speaker 1: for an Avengerous movie to be made, Like it's really
Speaker 1: hard to celebrate death of anyone, Like I mean, it's
Speaker 1: hard to celebrate death in general, but like this is
Speaker 1: it's hard and I tried, trust me, and I've tried,
Speaker 1: trust me. I've tried. It's hard to it's hard to, like,
Speaker 1: like you, we're numb to it right now, man, numb
Speaker 1: to it. And I just want people to stop dying.
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is, so I would love
Speaker 1: people to stop sucking dying because the other thing is
Speaker 1: like the trauma that reverberates from one person's death, that's
Speaker 1: something we're probably not going to be able to measure
Speaker 1: for some time. And also, don't care if I'm a
Speaker 1: liberal shit, definitely. Yeah, So I gotta sit here and
Speaker 1: still listen to the story of how pain for your
Speaker 1: death is. And it's not gonna be like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I voted for Bernie. I'm good. No, don't still come
Speaker 1: kick my ass too if it decides too. It's scary, man.
Speaker 1: So along those lines, right, COVID has done just a
Speaker 1: ton that we've we don't even we haven't even improved
Speaker 1: our health care laws despite it, to your point, six
Speaker 1: thousand people dying, and on top of it, also seeing
Speaker 1: the finance and economic fallout from the pandemic continue like
Speaker 1: right now, one in six renters in this country is
Speaker 1: behind on their rent payments. UM and the c d C,
Speaker 1: you know, had a moratorium on evictions, but the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court recently ruled that the agency was you know, going
Speaker 1: out of bounds in terms of what they were able
Speaker 1: to do as an agency and could no longer do
Speaker 1: that unilaterally. So that, man, it was really up to
Speaker 1: Congress to sign into law some kind of moratorium on evictions.
Speaker 1: Clearly they have the numbers based on majorities in the House.
Speaker 1: The Senate is a different story, and that's another reason
Speaker 1: why this country has a very hard time just focusing
Speaker 1: on the humanity of it all rather than like the
Speaker 1: financials of it all. But the moratorium expired on Sunday.
Speaker 1: They had a chance to vote Friday, but a lot
Speaker 1: of Demons like i gotta go, I'm going on vacation,
Speaker 1: I'm out of here, like they refused to vote on
Speaker 1: it because some um, some like moderate Democrats are just
Speaker 1: don't like the idea of like, you know what, they
Speaker 1: see this as just like a handout, and so do
Speaker 1: many Conservatives, while others are a little more proud practical
Speaker 1: and they're like we we set aside like forty billions,
Speaker 1: Like where the fund is that money? What then? What
Speaker 1: then is going on? You want us to do this again?
Speaker 1: What is happening? And because of this, we've had a
Speaker 1: lot of progressive Democrats like Corey Bush, who was unhoused
Speaker 1: herself for some time. They're sleeping on the steps of
Speaker 1: the capital to really bring awareness to just how bad
Speaker 1: this situation can get. And unfortunately, the biggest thing is that,
Speaker 1: like the distribution has been so slow, Only about three
Speaker 1: billion dollars out of forty five billion has been distributed
Speaker 1: for this kind of rental aid. So we're also seeing
Speaker 1: a situation where there are landlords who are clearly working
Speaker 1: with their tenants been like, Okay, let's let's apply for
Speaker 1: this money because I know it's there and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to evict you, but like, let's try and figure
Speaker 1: out how to get this government money that they set
Speaker 1: aside for situations like this. They're not able to get it.
Speaker 1: Then you also have landlords who want nothing. It would
Speaker 1: be Christmas for them to begin evicting people because you know,
Speaker 1: it's there's been months since they've received any kind of
Speaker 1: rent payments. And all of this sort of goes along
Speaker 1: with the fact that this is another just sick, sad
Speaker 1: part of our cultures that like we don't even look
Speaker 1: at housing as like a fundamental human right. You know
Speaker 1: that that you can on some level, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to go to sleep somewhere. That's just because
Speaker 1: we're not robots. We don't just power down in a
Speaker 1: garage or some ship, like we have homes and that's
Speaker 1: how we regenerate our rest or whatever. And Corey Bush
Speaker 1: she recently, which is I think it's just it's wild
Speaker 1: to think that this is sort of a bill of
Speaker 1: a first of its kind, but it's an unhoused bill
Speaker 1: of rights to help legislate against our housing crisis. This
Speaker 1: is quote, the first ever federal legislation to declare the
Speaker 1: civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, particularly the right
Speaker 1: to sit, stand, sleep, or eat in public without fear
Speaker 1: of harassment or criminalization. I see this a lot in
Speaker 1: l A where it's like, well you can't be here,
Speaker 1: It's like, well, then where can these people go? Because
Speaker 1: if you're unhoused, your options are limited. And also if
Speaker 1: you look at the housing markets in most cities, there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as affordable housing anymore. And we haven't
Speaker 1: built it because we're not looking at this as something
Speaker 1: that people need to be able to have access to. So,
Speaker 1: as it stands, Congress is trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: they can do to at least delay this janet yelling.
Speaker 1: The Treasury of the Treasury Secretary is set to give
Speaker 1: an update today on how the funds can be given
Speaker 1: out quicker. But you know, it's still just sort of
Speaker 1: in this bureaucratic sort of gridlock at the moment. The
Speaker 1: US issue is something we can spend for a whole
Speaker 1: episode talking about could do a whole series, but let's
Speaker 1: talk about the people who have struggle during what is
Speaker 1: the largest pandemic we've gone through and the most loss
Speaker 1: of life we've gone through since fucking the early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: right for from a single event and in general, I
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if I know anyone
Speaker 1: personally who if I said to you, yeah, man, nobody
Speaker 1: should deserve to lose their home and sleep on the street,
Speaker 1: and your response would be yeah, But like, I don't
Speaker 1: know anybody personally who would say that in in normal terms.
Speaker 1: Now throw a pandemic on top of that and your
Speaker 1: response is still yeah. But like that is what Congress is.
Speaker 1: That's what some people of Congress are saying, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: people shouldn't lose their house, but how long can they
Speaker 1: expect to get helped here? Yeah, he's just longer they need.
Speaker 1: Like what was the alternative? That's like having a life
Speaker 1: preserver that dissolves in water after forty minutes. Yeah, they're like,
Speaker 1: what the fund is the point of that? They're like, well,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get too used to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta learn how to swim eventually, Like what are
Speaker 1: we talking about? And it's and that's like sort of
Speaker 1: the lack of I think acknowledgement of humanity that I
Speaker 1: just see and we see constantly, whether it relates to
Speaker 1: health care, mental health care, housing, Um, it's just that
Speaker 1: this is all seen as like, well, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what else say, we just can't keep spending money.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you're actually a legislator, and this is
Speaker 1: a problem in the country, so it's actually incumbent on
Speaker 1: you to figure out how to address this, because the
Speaker 1: answer isn't We'll just let all these people sleep in
Speaker 1: the streets, because then it's in the anyway, It's very
Speaker 1: frustrating UM, and it's it's just again, we'd hope that
Speaker 1: there is an update. You know, some states are pretty
Speaker 1: quick with getting these UM rental assistance checks out, while
Speaker 1: many others aren't. Some are being like, can we give
Speaker 1: it back because they want to you know, brutalize people
Speaker 1: who are in need of help even more UM. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that such is the state of things at me, Like
Speaker 1: that ship is just so sad and so frustrating, and
Speaker 1: it and it always feels like there's never any answers
Speaker 1: being had. It's like it really it's just sad, right,
Speaker 1: And I think that's where there's a lot of landlords too,
Speaker 1: who are like, I honestly can't just evict these people,
Speaker 1: Like there are some people who you know, there are
Speaker 1: landlords who are looking at it with a humane I
Speaker 1: and being like, can't do that. And I think most
Speaker 1: smaller people who are you know, landlords, and you know
Speaker 1: that's there's the morality of that is you know, debatable
Speaker 1: or whatever, but the idea of UM, you know, many
Speaker 1: of these smaller landlords I think have more of a
Speaker 1: connection to the people. Now when you have these massive
Speaker 1: companies that own like hundreds of properties where there's like
Speaker 1: my checks aren't coming in, and then we'll the answer
Speaker 1: to that is to evict people. These are the places
Speaker 1: where I worry the most, um for what you know,
Speaker 1: what comes long term. Um. But at the moment it
Speaker 1: seems like people are trying to work on that. It's
Speaker 1: really remarkable how our current times, this pandemic has shown,
Speaker 1: at least me and a lot of people, how how
Speaker 1: close we are, if not all need to be in
Speaker 1: what we consider a third world country already, you know,
Speaker 1: just by the sheer fact that the people we put
Speaker 1: in charge of us don't care about us. Um, Like
Speaker 1: we're we just have an ego, that's it. Like we
Speaker 1: have an ego that other places don't have. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just keep spraying perfume on the stink. Yeah, it's all good,
Speaker 1: it's all good. It's all good. We smell good man,
Speaker 1: you know. We we still are pieces of ship. And
Speaker 1: like I I can't imagine other developed places just letting
Speaker 1: people lose their homes for an event that's out of
Speaker 1: their control, right, I can't. I can't imagine like if
Speaker 1: if somebody and and it's so funny because it seems
Speaker 1: like sometimes the only things we understand is outright war.
Speaker 1: Like if somebody dropped the bomb on the United States
Speaker 1: right now and a bunch of people lost their homes,
Speaker 1: rebuild those homes, build those homes right, Well, the houses different. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's because we would make less money. You see, if
Speaker 1: we build affordable housing, the profit margins aren't as high,
Speaker 1: and that's a public good and not a profit making scheme.
Speaker 1: Therefore it's off the table. Well, there's so much bureaucratic ship,
Speaker 1: even when there are creative solutions. The way the system
Speaker 1: is set up, like none of that stuff can innovate
Speaker 1: or get through, you know. And then at the local
Speaker 1: level two, like I have friends who work in local government,
Speaker 1: and people like you know, when you're at a job,
Speaker 1: and like things are always done a certain way, like
Speaker 1: let's say a report is always filled out a certain
Speaker 1: way at a company. That sort of think rigid thinking
Speaker 1: also extends to these local bureaucracies, to where people like, well,
Speaker 1: we can't put money there for this and the thing,
Speaker 1: because then if we put that in our reporting, that
Speaker 1: will might trigger an audit for the budget for next year.
Speaker 1: And then it's like, but but if we don't, then
Speaker 1: we're not helping people. And people like well, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to go through an audio like what the
Speaker 1: funk is happening? And you hear stuff like that all
Speaker 1: the time. So again, like the money, he's there. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what Janet Yellen says in terms of like
Speaker 1: getting this money out as quickly as possible, because we
Speaker 1: don't need to have you know, we're already facing a
Speaker 1: crisis of many levels simultaneously, so we shall see. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's pay some more bills and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back bills and we're back, and let's talk about
Speaker 1: some lighter fair, shall we please. I'm depressed, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. Cheer me up, Cheer me up. Alex Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: the man who Nike paid many many dollars to to
Speaker 1: hide photos of him when he was using performance enhancing drugs.
Speaker 1: He is out here just really trying to live his
Speaker 1: best life. To let Jennifer Lopez know that, even though
Speaker 1: she traded him in for a South Boston legend with
Speaker 1: a full Phoenix backpat that he's doing well too. He
Speaker 1: posted this thing over the weekend. Okay, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've been following this, we've kind of I've
Speaker 1: kind of had my eye on it. Because it's just
Speaker 1: a fun sort of saga between j Lo and a Rod,
Speaker 1: Like he went to Santro pay he was like trying
Speaker 1: to be like, I'm doing my thing too, ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm posting with I'm with my ex wife
Speaker 1: also and we're exercising. Isn't that cute? Like really being
Speaker 1: transparent about the idea. He's like, I'm fine and actually
Speaker 1: I'm thriving, so don't worry about me even been then
Speaker 1: he posted this picture over the weekend. It's him wearing
Speaker 1: a very normal suit and he says stepping out with
Speaker 1: the big D energy, determined, darling and dapper a f
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, come on, bro, you you have you have
Speaker 1: a former professional athlete in America, and in America one
Speaker 1: of our Big four is the NBA, where people know
Speaker 1: how to dress. You can't look at yourself and be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, bro, Like you look like you just
Speaker 1: stepped out of man's warehouse and no shade to the
Speaker 1: man's were not at all, which you can't have big
Speaker 1: D energy, which is some normal action home. Bro. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's so embarrassing. If he was really like doing well,
Speaker 1: if he was really feeling great and doing well. He
Speaker 1: would be in fucking Bali with a gaggle of bitches,
Speaker 1: not on screen. This is what I'm saying. This is
Speaker 1: in it because and let the paparazzi take this fucking shot. Dude,
Speaker 1: don't possy yourself exactly. You want to be like you
Speaker 1: want to have that moment where they're like, oh are
Speaker 1: you Are you worried that Jennifer Lopez might be upset
Speaker 1: at these pictures and you'd be like, I don't know her. No, No,
Speaker 1: I think the move is being like when asked about
Speaker 1: your ax, just like, oh, I am so happy for them.
Speaker 1: They look like they're doing so well right right right time,
Speaker 1: like you're girls butts next to your head. That's the thing. Also,
Speaker 1: because again I don't know what he thinks. The D
Speaker 1: and big D energy is um, but that's fine and
Speaker 1: that's true. Keys. The suit is definitely like it looks
Speaker 1: like some wealthy kid who just got out of like
Speaker 1: avoiding any kind of accountability after like a fatal drunk
Speaker 1: driving accident. That's like the swagger he has. It's like
Speaker 1: I got off a drunk driving charge and that's not big.
Speaker 1: The energy just it looks a little bit weird. You know, Listen,
Speaker 1: I will say this for for a rod Man because
Speaker 1: I I don't know what it's like to you know,
Speaker 1: it's like to be one of the most wealthy athletes
Speaker 1: on Earth. I don't know what it's like to be
Speaker 1: wealthy or athlete or on Earth. But also I also
Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to know my ex is
Speaker 1: knee deep in bands affleck. You know, like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that's like. I don't know how that feels,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he feels the type of way. But bro,
Speaker 1: you Alex Rodriguez, like you use a Yankee, use rich, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, dude, like your team can at least help you. Well,
Speaker 1: are you embarrassing yourself? Right? Well, it's to Blair's point,
Speaker 1: like if you really, if you're really trying to broadcast
Speaker 1: that you're doing well, you kind of need to lean
Speaker 1: You need to lean into being a villain in this instance,
Speaker 1: like you kind of because I think the whole thing
Speaker 1: is if you're being if the whole thing is I'm
Speaker 1: being transparent about the because I want my ex to
Speaker 1: see that I am okay, and I hope she thinks
Speaker 1: about it. You actually need to be getting reactions and
Speaker 1: these posts are not gonna get I just think it's
Speaker 1: actually living good life, that I'm actually pursuing my own happiness.
Speaker 1: And just consequentially, you happen to notice when I had
Speaker 1: no idea, you're even lucky. And you the hero in
Speaker 1: this story, right, You're like in reality, I realized in
Speaker 1: a way, I too wasn't living to my full potential.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know what happiness was because it certainly
Speaker 1: wasn't that and I and and I have a lot
Speaker 1: of great memories of our time together, but that wasn't happiness. Look,
Speaker 1: I've gone the other way where I've no where. Like
Speaker 1: someone asked me about like my ex and like them,
Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, new girlfriend, this a specific
Speaker 1: situation where it happened quite close, and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I said a lot of inappropriate things that I now
Speaker 1: wish I could take back, when like really just being
Speaker 1: chill as hell is the move. Oh yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I love them. I wish him the best. I really do.
Speaker 1: And then you know exactly exactly. I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes me breaks my heart because I'm like, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to post anything, he doesn't have to wage this
Speaker 1: war of optics with j Lo. It's like, that's why
Speaker 1: I think. Part of me is like, look, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, do it right. Otherwise just take a seat,
Speaker 1: you know. The optics with j Lo, that's a windless battle.
Speaker 1: Also optics war. When Ben Affleck has a full phoenix
Speaker 1: backpiece in the docks, you can see it's wild and
Speaker 1: still getting the poom tang pipe like he is still
Speaker 1: with a back piece. My man is still out there
Speaker 1: clapping cheeks and it's like women love when men look
Speaker 1: like shit. It's how they have a tattoo that looks
Speaker 1: like one of those Rayon button up shirts that they
Speaker 1: sell it a mal kiosk to have a dragon on it.
Speaker 1: But that being confused, being like why why do I
Speaker 1: want this guy so bad? He has this disgusting back tattoo.
Speaker 1: So what you're telling me blarious and I appreciate this.
Speaker 1: This stage advices I need to I need to go
Speaker 1: on hand and bring it down a couple of notches. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's what you're telling me because I want I need
Speaker 1: to bring it down a couple of Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thank you. I just think of like when I did it,
Speaker 1: it was like on Facebook, right, and like that was
Speaker 1: sort of like the earliest form of picture warfare. You
Speaker 1: could engage him with somebody who broke up with you,
Speaker 1: is you go on Facebook and you're like, hey, you're
Speaker 1: my homegirl, but do you mind like posture I need,
Speaker 1: I need to look like a viable option to dating people.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you some petty ship that I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I did, but that I know that has happened?
Speaker 1: Is you know check that out? You know how Instagram
Speaker 1: has the close friends uh little thing right for your stories? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know what I'm saying. If you want to
Speaker 1: make somebody jealous but you don't want the world to
Speaker 1: see somebody, is uh, you know you're trying to make
Speaker 1: somebody jealous, You're gonna hand and all to your close
Speaker 1: friends list real quick and then post a few things
Speaker 1: on there that you only know people don't see. Whisper network,
Speaker 1: Whisper network, and then you get the little you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but the whole world don't know, but
Speaker 1: just a little handful of the people that you use
Speaker 1: a laser guided strike right there. Again, Well, you're a
Speaker 1: ward general. Yeah, I've heard this, I've heard this. You've
Speaker 1: heard that you've heard that. That's incredible. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: my sense in my my stance in my old age
Speaker 1: is it's more it's more mysterious and fucking shady, and
Speaker 1: you wonder what someone's doing if page just don't post
Speaker 1: at all, and then you you end up in a
Speaker 1: few friends stories just like somehow accidentally like looking like
Speaker 1: you're having the time of your life, but it's like
Speaker 1: very sporadic and in between, and everyone's like, WHOA, what's
Speaker 1: that shady bitch up to? You know, I remember posting
Speaker 1: some ship like me looking out at the ocean, being
Speaker 1: like it's time for a new era. And then your
Speaker 1: dick was dryful about you know, I was twenty two,
Speaker 1: not knowing ship. I was like, yeah, wait till they
Speaker 1: see this ship. I'm on my new ship, like barely
Speaker 1: any likes. I'm like, all right, maybe that was an
Speaker 1: l If you have one break up where you don't
Speaker 1: handle it badly, you hope you learn like I had one,
Speaker 1: or when you don't handle it well. I had one
Speaker 1: where I said so it was like sort of a
Speaker 1: public situation. It was embarrassing to me, and I did
Speaker 1: a set on stage that to this day I cannot
Speaker 1: believe I said, I said horrific ship that I'm so
Speaker 1: embarrassed by, and that don't really teach you. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was funny, but it was so fucking mean. It
Speaker 1: was so mean and I and I'm not a mean person.
Speaker 1: And now any breakup I have, I will just be
Speaker 1: what even if I'm fucking burning houses down in private,
Speaker 1: in public, I will just be like, Oh no, I
Speaker 1: wish I love them, I wish them the best. Right,
Speaker 1: it's all about growth. We've moved on and now we
Speaker 1: know the wise ones. They keep a silence or you
Speaker 1: really wage asymmetrical warfare in the case of Jakis, start
Speaker 1: tweaking your inner circle rings, start getting the buzz going,
Speaker 1: and then focus somebody, well blaired, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for guessing with us today. Where can people find you
Speaker 1: and follow you? And what's the work of social media
Speaker 1: that you've been liking? Oh? Okay, Um, Well, the tweet
Speaker 1: that I like it's from my friend Jason at network
Speaker 1: an E T W three R k um and it's
Speaker 1: it's a niche tweet that probably will not translate at
Speaker 1: all verbally right now, but um, basically it was pictures
Speaker 1: of Crystal Stouse and Jason Oppenheim from the legendary series
Speaker 1: Selling Sunset, which many if you've been following me for
Speaker 1: a while, know that I've wanted to those twins. And yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of people give me shit about this, but
Speaker 1: I am who I am. And so anyways, I like
Speaker 1: as a duo, like what was hot? Because I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I just want I'm just I'm just carus Let me in,
Speaker 1: Let me in. I want to know your world. Why
Speaker 1: have one time and the twins? Anyways, what happened was
Speaker 1: Crushell went through a horrific breakup at the helm of
Speaker 1: her ex husband Jason Hartley, who cruelly notified her of
Speaker 1: her divorce via text message after he moved on with
Speaker 1: his soap opera Coast Star, and so she was heartbroken.
Speaker 1: We followed her journey and then she you know, she
Speaker 1: dated this one guy from Dancing with the Stars, and
Speaker 1: then this past week there was a reveal that she's
Speaker 1: now dating her boss and so they've been posting all
Speaker 1: these really sick, nasty picks of them and like bikinis,
Speaker 1: and then Jason tweeted and this is also a crossover
Speaker 1: with White Lotus. If you guys are watching White Lotus,
Speaker 1: so Anyways, it's a picture of crill Styles on Jason
Speaker 1: Oppenheim's back in reference last night, and the tweet says
Speaker 1: White Lotus Season one, episode four, and it says, um,
Speaker 1: you know it's in in reference to The Boss eating Us.
Speaker 1: Everyone's been talking about that show and now that that's
Speaker 1: a dimension, I'm like because and it was like White
Speaker 1: you check out White Lotus. I'm like, Mike White's outstanding.
Speaker 1: It's so much tension and every every character you we'll
Speaker 1: talk about humanity. Every character you see all of their
Speaker 1: you know, flaws, blind spots, lack of self awareness, and
Speaker 1: every single character is pretty interesting. I like it. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it was incredible crossover tweet that no one will understand.
Speaker 1: I think. Okay, but I like that ven diagram selling
Speaker 1: Sunset and White Lotus. I watch Selling Sunset, so I
Speaker 1: knew who you're talking about. You know. Well, what's crazy
Speaker 1: is I was at the MTV Movie Awards like six
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and I gave Crishll a tampon in the
Speaker 1: bathroom and I had no idea what she was gonna do.
Speaker 1: She was gonna double cross me and take my man. Wow.
Speaker 1: See it really it really do be your own like that,
Speaker 1: and I hosted the MTV Movie Awards after show, and
Speaker 1: I wish I would have had that to talk about.
Speaker 1: And I was high in a garage during that, equally
Speaker 1: as grammarous. Oh anyways, Um, the thing I would want
Speaker 1: to tell you Zyking about is I'm headlighting the Bellhouse
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn September. Oh yeah, and I really want to
Speaker 1: sell it out. I'm gonna have Conromaley, Joe Pea people,
Speaker 1: so get tickets in my Instagram and Twitter bio at
Speaker 1: blair sake, B L A I R S, O C
Speaker 1: C I and um, yeah, I love you all New
Speaker 1: York's Gang. You must go to that show up. If
Speaker 1: it not only Blair, you're getting Joe Parra and Conor O'Malley.
Speaker 1: That's a fucking that's a line up. Also shout out
Speaker 1: Conormaley's vine old vine videos. I love those. Okay, Jackies,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for guest hosting man, Thank you
Speaker 1: for holding it down in the guest seat or the
Speaker 1: guest host seat. Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 1: And what is a tweet that you like? Oh you
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna say, It's like gang. You can
Speaker 1: find me in the streets and at Jackie's neil on everything.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing, A couple of things for I
Speaker 1: let you know what the tweet is. Uh. Last time
Speaker 1: I was on, I told you you know, look, I'm
Speaker 1: finally getting on my social media things. So and I'm
Speaker 1: finally you know, doing all the posts and ship so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the followers. We were gonna we
Speaker 1: were gonna get up to ten thousand. Y'all got me
Speaker 1: to about eight nine and I was gonna post. I
Speaker 1: was gonna release some unaired podcasts that I recorded and
Speaker 1: decided not to release one with Jamie Loftus. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it anyway, all right, I won't do it anyway.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna take my sweet
Speaker 1: ass time doing it now because you're gonna do your
Speaker 1: jobs like so, I'm gonna take my time on do
Speaker 1: it on my own time. But it's gonna happen, so
Speaker 1: you'll get it. Uh. But you know, the the author
Speaker 1: is still out there. If y'all do y'all thing, we'll
Speaker 1: get that out to you a S A P. And
Speaker 1: if not two here we come back. But at Jackie's
Speaker 1: kneel on everything, that's who you can find all the
Speaker 1: stuff I'm doing. All right, here's a tweet. This is funny.
Speaker 1: So y'all know that, y'all know the tweets where it
Speaker 1: always is like so and so thinks I'm out here
Speaker 1: cheating on them, but what I'm really doing is this,
Speaker 1: right right? Uh So there is this it's a retweet.
Speaker 1: So there's this tweet where it's like, I know you'd
Speaker 1: be talking to other niggas. And then there is a
Speaker 1: picture that says me and it's a picture of uh
Speaker 1: Mark Simpson. I don't know if you'all can see this,
Speaker 1: just sleeping knocked out, which is very funny. That's funny
Speaker 1: in itself. But then the retweet comes from Connolly fan Club.
Speaker 1: His retweet is simply who took the photo? Then that
Speaker 1: that should cracked me up, boy, and that should cracked me.
Speaker 1: And it's even funnier because people in the uh in
Speaker 1: the tweet actually like trying to defend it, like, well,
Speaker 1: women take their own photos and just say you call,
Speaker 1: just say you called, you call, really just really taking
Speaker 1: it outside of the bounds of the If you have
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch, you can also trigger the shoulder from
Speaker 1: your watch remotely. Okay, Okay, so that's the tweet. That's
Speaker 1: the tweet. I'm loving Conley, whatever your name was. Shout
Speaker 1: out for good getting a good tweet out there. Let's
Speaker 1: see a tweet I like. It's from Sahanna Srinivasan at
Speaker 1: Sahannah Underscores Stringy s r I and I tweeted dating
Speaker 1: is so easy. You just ask someone out and they
Speaker 1: say no, Yeah, but I love that. Shout out to
Speaker 1: uh two year old Miles who was also then whould
Speaker 1: after that be like, hey, you want to go in?
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, actually no, I'm really not interested. Then
Speaker 1: I would post my picture by the seat it's time
Speaker 1: for a new era. So you fall seven times but
Speaker 1: you get up. Yeah, I posted like taking back Sunday
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