Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one ninety two,
Speaker 1: Episode one of Jo Dai Lyes Eye Guys, the production
Speaker 1: of My Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's share consciousness and say
Speaker 1: up top, fuck all those faith based healthcare plans they
Speaker 1: tried to advertise on our show. So this is how
Speaker 1: we deal with that. It's Tuesday, July six, twenty one.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, a k Well Miles Rolls
Speaker 1: of Fat Blunt Jack is tracking you. Who fos don't
Speaker 1: you remember we built this podcast. We built this podcast
Speaker 1: the Dayly's uh guys. That is courtesy of Brackish Joker,
Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
Speaker 1: co host, Mr Miles Grab Ain't nothing but tv Z
Speaker 1: bay bit too chooped out home, he's going crazy. Our
Speaker 1: heart is the label that pays man second race. So
Speaker 1: please don't try to hate this. And that is from
Speaker 1: Rabbi God on the discord, and thank you for reminding
Speaker 1: us it ain't nothing but a g thing, because it
Speaker 1: truly is not anything. But ain't nothing but a t
Speaker 1: d Z thing. Right? Wait, would you be caught wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt like that? I don't think so would be
Speaker 1: so appropriate, so sad. Oh no, Well, we are thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by first of
Speaker 1: all very patient. Uh you appreciate that because there's been
Speaker 1: tech issues out the gate NonStop from my end, but
Speaker 1: also a very funny comedy writer and improviser who has
Speaker 1: been making the original sketch comedy podcast Left Handed Radio
Speaker 1: since two thousand ten. She's also a producer Forever Dog,
Speaker 1: Please welcome, and a Rubinova. Hi, guys, thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. I didn't realize this was a singing podcast,
Speaker 1: but I am prepared to saying, let's do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what which Bernadette Peter song would you like to? I
Speaker 1: guess your choice? Something from Annie Dealer's choice? Wow? Wow,
Speaker 1: you're going from the movies. Yeah, let's just let's just Annie. Uh, guys,
Speaker 1: well we'll forget I ever mentioned it. Huh. So it's
Speaker 1: good Anna. Where are you coming to us from? I'm
Speaker 1: coming to you from sunny Los Angeles, California, I A USA. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The palm trees today look frizzled. The sky is a
Speaker 1: beautiful gray day. I think that means there's smog or
Speaker 1: dust or something. It might explain a lot of breathing problems.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just another gorgeous day in reality. Where did
Speaker 1: you grow up? I grew up in New York, Okay?
Speaker 1: And then how did you hear that? Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: not just a rumor, but that place, it's a real place.
Speaker 1: Huh is that? What's what's it like being from New
Speaker 1: York and now you know, living in like most you know,
Speaker 1: being a New Yorker and then being California was curious
Speaker 1: to see. There's always a very takes on that experience.
Speaker 1: I am so happy I'm here and not there except
Speaker 1: for this summer. This summer, I feel like I would
Speaker 1: have rather been there. But we moved here in before
Speaker 1: the election, right, so if we had to have lived
Speaker 1: through Trump in New York, I think we would have
Speaker 1: been in a really bad, eventual place, which I mean,
Speaker 1: the sun really helped and the if you live in
Speaker 1: New York, do you understand us? Like once winter comes,
Speaker 1: everything feels like it's over, Like you have to you
Speaker 1: have to, like you missed your opportunity, you squandered the year,
Speaker 1: and now you have to plan for how you're going
Speaker 1: to come back in the spring and summer and fall.
Speaker 1: In l a you have the benefit of patience and
Speaker 1: like okay, so like you know, it was a nice
Speaker 1: day to day it was eighty degrees, that's okay. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: it'll be a nice day, eighty degrees. It's okay, I can,
Speaker 1: I can have fun. Then I didn't miss out, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think that was very helpful for my brain, which,
Speaker 1: as you can tell, it's a little messed up. Not
Speaker 1: at all sounds good on my end. Great, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that nada day goes by. Sorry, there is,
Speaker 1: so you're not at the point in your l a
Speaker 1: life where you start fetishizing, uh, the winter and miss
Speaker 1: sing the winter and stuff like that. That usually comes
Speaker 1: around like ten years in Oh no, it's only been five.
Speaker 1: So when that happens, I don't know if winter will
Speaker 1: exist in the world. But that's a good point. At
Speaker 1: that point, I think we'll all have like really wonderful
Speaker 1: like VR air pods or something that will replicate, you know,
Speaker 1: the despair of winter accurately, and I think we'll be okay. Right. Sorry,
Speaker 1: there's now like yard work going out going on outside,
Speaker 1: so that's that is perfectly appropriate. It's called texture, and
Speaker 1: we love it. On the Daily Zi Gist, Miles, I
Speaker 1: meant to tell you that my five year old is
Speaker 1: now I think heading in the direction that you ended
Speaker 1: up in where he because he's never around winter. Like
Speaker 1: just in the past couple of weeks he started like
Speaker 1: only wanting to read stories about winter. There's like an
Speaker 1: Avenger story with frost giant It's and like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: one page of like this one children's book that he has,
Speaker 1: and he like asks me about them every day, so
Speaker 1: like he's he's going to get the very particular type
Speaker 1: of l a s. Yeah, born out of this dry desert.
Speaker 1: You all you want to do is wear jackets because
Speaker 1: it seems like exotic clothing to you, don't you guys
Speaker 1: go to Big Bear Lake or whatever. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: like for like O one off. You know, like you
Speaker 1: don't get like sustained periods where like you have to
Speaker 1: wear like a scarf and things like that. And every
Speaker 1: person I know who comes from the East coast like,
Speaker 1: you don't want that, you don't want that, And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: part of me actually doesn't want to be hot all
Speaker 1: the time either, So you know, it's too much of
Speaker 1: a too much of one thing can be bad. The
Speaker 1: other thing people forget about New York is when it's hot.
Speaker 1: It's so hot you can't live. It's ninety degrees and humid.
Speaker 1: And like last time I was, I was back home,
Speaker 1: I had to take a full day off for exhaustion,
Speaker 1: which had never happened to me. I was that excited.
Speaker 1: I I um, I went. I went back, and I
Speaker 1: started like walking everywhere. You know, I was walking places
Speaker 1: I didn't have to just back and forth, back and
Speaker 1: forth because I could. And the next day I had
Speaker 1: to cancel all of my appointments and I had to
Speaker 1: lie down on a couch for a bit. So standard
Speaker 1: New York in the summer is very bad for sweaty people.
Speaker 1: I would like need to bring a change of clothes
Speaker 1: everywhere I went. It was real, it was bad. I
Speaker 1: I swept through like entire suits, not just the shirt part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not good. And you also have to have a backpack
Speaker 1: full of bricks, because that's New York. Yeah, yeah, that's important,
Speaker 1: all right, And we're going to get to know you
Speaker 1: a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking
Speaker 1: about on the show today. We are going to talk
Speaker 1: about Shikari Richardson, who failed a weed test and because
Speaker 1: of that might miss the Olympics because that's a I
Speaker 1: don't know, is that a performance enhancing drug? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. But they, yeah, they they decided to make
Speaker 1: it a problem, so it is a problem. I guess.
Speaker 1: Norway has passed a law that requires social media posts
Speaker 1: to be marked if they're altered. This seems like some
Speaker 1: quaint to me, like the idea that we could legislate
Speaker 1: our way out of the hell that we have created online.
Speaker 1: But I do like that Bezos. The big news, of course,
Speaker 1: uh is heading into the holiday weekend, which is when
Speaker 1: we're recording this, is that Bezos is going to lose
Speaker 1: the billionaire space race unless he can pull off some
Speaker 1: sort of you know, sabotage, which I wouldn't. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: he took a big al. Richard Branson is gonna beat him.
Speaker 1: Richard Branson looks like a like he's drawn into a
Speaker 1: comic book. Like I was just realizing that, having to
Speaker 1: look at photographs of him so so often, he really
Speaker 1: he really does not look like a real human being.
Speaker 1: He looks like she's in a nineties era Batman comic
Speaker 1: book or something, all of that plenty more. But first
Speaker 1: and we like to ask our guests what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history? Well recently, there are a few things,
Speaker 1: but the one I'm gonna go with is UM. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see what other people thought of the movie Zola,
Speaker 1: because I watched it and I enjoyed it, and I
Speaker 1: and I when I do when I do like a movie.
Speaker 1: When I don't like a movie, I don't really care
Speaker 1: what people think. But when I do like a movie,
Speaker 1: I want to know. Am I right? Am I right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Please confirmed my bias? Please tell me because it is
Speaker 1: a you know, it's um it's very fun and very
Speaker 1: scary and very I'm sure a lot of people are
Speaker 1: gonna find controversy with it. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of it's it's about sex work and you know, like violence.
Speaker 1: But also it's a comedy, you know. So I was
Speaker 1: just like, I really thought it was well done. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to know. And I think I think it
Speaker 1: might have been The Atlantic. Yeah, they said it was great.
Speaker 1: I'm right, And I mean it seems like it's been
Speaker 1: getting a lot of good coverage from what I've seen.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen much where I think people will maybe
Speaker 1: point to saying that, oh it could it's controversial maybe
Speaker 1: because of the subject matter, but it seems like everything
Speaker 1: was I've read really positive stuff about the film. Are
Speaker 1: people going to be saying like, is it even considered
Speaker 1: pretentious to say I actually read the Twitter thread and
Speaker 1: I liked the Twitter thread better. That could be where
Speaker 1: we're headed. I read the Twitter thread. It is the
Speaker 1: movie there hasn't been well. I think it's mostly based
Speaker 1: on the article about the Twitter thread, which gives me
Speaker 1: pause because I'm worried that the rights to the movie
Speaker 1: were based on the article, which might mean that King
Speaker 1: didn't get as much money. But I don't know. M
Speaker 1: I hope that's not true. I made that up just now.
Speaker 1: That's just a worry that I have, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: she seems to be all over the like premiers and
Speaker 1: stuff and participating, so which makes me think that she
Speaker 1: got paid, which is great, But I mean, people know
Speaker 1: what this is, right, But it was a Twitter thread
Speaker 1: that told like a wild story like five years ago,
Speaker 1: and and then somebody optioned it for for a screenplayer,
Speaker 1: optioned the article about it, which I agree with, Like
Speaker 1: why not just option the the writing in the in
Speaker 1: the Twitter thread was pretty incredible. Great storytelling. Is that
Speaker 1: is that out like in theaters now? Or yeah? Just
Speaker 1: I I I saw it on Wednesday, and um, I
Speaker 1: it might be the first and last movie I see
Speaker 1: in theaters, depending on how this Delta variant thing goes.
Speaker 1: But you know, there were like six people in the auditorium.
Speaker 1: I did not care for that. I mean, it's great
Speaker 1: for social distancing, but I was like worried, like, is
Speaker 1: anyone gonna see this movie? My partner and I were
Speaker 1: laughing most of the way through. Nobody else was. I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, what's going on? I mean, people are
Speaker 1: just try too And if you know, if the theater
Speaker 1: is impact and there's not like a nervous giggle, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna reb right through and we're not. We're just
Speaker 1: like yes, ha ha ha ha, that's good. Technically funny,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like funny like succession funny, which I mean,
Speaker 1: you know Nick bron is in both and he plays
Speaker 1: the exact same character. So if you if you like
Speaker 1: that kind of humor, which you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people do not everybody, but a lot of people do
Speaker 1: you like this? I think he's cousin Greg's cousin Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then in this he's like cousin Greg, but a
Speaker 1: drug dealer, right, No, no, no, he just plays the
Speaker 1: hapless boyfriend of In the movie, she's called Stephanie. In
Speaker 1: real life, I think it's Jessica, and um he just
Speaker 1: tags along. I don't know how it compares to real life.
Speaker 1: But in the movie he doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: He's always hanging on to her and going like, is
Speaker 1: everything okay? Like you're just here to dance? Right, Like
Speaker 1: where are you? What's going on? He gets, you know,
Speaker 1: slapped around it. A real dufis, real loving dufis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a real loving du fist who nobody else loves back.
Speaker 1: What a niche. Richard Brody from The New Yorker gave
Speaker 1: it a nine out of ten. So that's pretty pretty good. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe I should write for the New Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at some of the I'm just comparing some of
Speaker 1: my takes with you. I'm I'm doing I'm saying the
Speaker 1: same stuff here. So when do I What is something
Speaker 1: you think is overrated? Okay? So I told you, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not big online or whatever the kids say.
Speaker 1: I'm not big online, so I just picked a silly answer.
Speaker 1: I think bread is overrated, and I want you to
Speaker 1: fight me over it. What do you We'll hold on,
Speaker 1: fight for fight for a first, let me know what
Speaker 1: we're up against. I just I dropped it. I said bread.
Speaker 1: Bread's overrated. I know everyone loves sandwiches and wraps and toast.
Speaker 1: Fuck that. Have you tried potatoes? Have you tried rice?
Speaker 1: Have you tried root vegetables or corn or porridge? Fuck bread?
Speaker 1: And sorry, let's say let's say you to the people
Speaker 1: who say, well, what about sandwiches, you're just saying, well,
Speaker 1: fox sandwiches all together because they involved bread. Yeah, sandwiches,
Speaker 1: you can whatever is in the sandwich, have it with
Speaker 1: I don't know, porridge, porridge, have it with fries, have
Speaker 1: it with mashed potatoes. Let me get my Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am going to back this back, that specific observation that
Speaker 1: sandwiches are much much more fun up a bull. They
Speaker 1: get fucked up a lot because the bread is like
Speaker 1: such an important like contingent, and it's so easy to
Speaker 1: like it's so often bad that. Yeah, like we have
Speaker 1: a hamburger patty chopped up over rice or french fries
Speaker 1: or whatever you want. Wait, so wait, Jack, You're you're
Speaker 1: saying you're abandoning sandwich culture right now here, and now
Speaker 1: this is this is I've just had like a run.
Speaker 1: I've had a run of bad sandwiches miles and I
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna take any blame for this.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, like, you know, I I recently
Speaker 1: had a buffalo cauliflower rap and I love buffalo cauliflower.
Speaker 1: And I also ate a like serving a buffalo cauliflower
Speaker 1: that was just like a side of buffalo cauliflower that
Speaker 1: my wife had brought home for herself, and I ate
Speaker 1: it without realizing it was for her, and then she
Speaker 1: was like, no, I got you the sandwich. So I
Speaker 1: also ate the sandwich. And the sandwich was so much
Speaker 1: worse than the sun. It was like wet. It was
Speaker 1: like they had just like put the dregs of the
Speaker 1: buffalo cauliflower like batch in there. It was like mostly
Speaker 1: like bread ing separated from the cauliflower, and it had
Speaker 1: wet lettuce in there. And it's just like they just
Speaker 1: sandwiches get away with too much ship. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that I don't like sandwiches. I'm saying, like sandwiches, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that sandwiches are too easy to funk up.
Speaker 1: I need a solid recommendation if I'm going to go
Speaker 1: in for a for a sandwich, I'm not just going
Speaker 1: to assume that you're going to make a good sandwich. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if the bread is good, it's great. But we have
Speaker 1: to we have to be actually consistent here. But I
Speaker 1: am I, I am, Miles, I am okay overrated, huh overrated?
Speaker 1: Over you because everyone thinks it's And this is not
Speaker 1: just because Adam brought a bunch of bread home and
Speaker 1: I was like, I said, I don't want bread. This
Speaker 1: is not because of that. Why are you saying that, Miles.
Speaker 1: That's not where this idea came from. Yeah, and any
Speaker 1: suggestion thereof is slander. I stand with sandwiches. I always
Speaker 1: will um and you know I won't let us say
Speaker 1: a couple I won't let a couple of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, reckless sandwiches completely turned me off from the
Speaker 1: experien of experiencing Drew sandwich love. Okay, all right, I'm no.
Speaker 1: I mean that's very basic thinking. That's what I would expect.
Speaker 1: You know, I've just I've moved beyond sandwiches, man, I'm
Speaker 1: beyond it. But I live in a post sandwich reality.
Speaker 1: So he'll figure it out or he won't, you know,
Speaker 1: every journey. Yeah, but like bond Weed Miles, that's a
Speaker 1: little sandwich shop right around the corner from where we work.
Speaker 1: They specialize in bread, and their bread is great. Like,
Speaker 1: that's the sort of place that I'm going for a sandwich.
Speaker 1: I am not going to like just any place and
Speaker 1: and letting them think they can make me a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that attitude You're in a fucking Delhi
Speaker 1: or something. You're like, first of all, can you tell
Speaker 1: me why like I should trust you? You know, like
Speaker 1: fuck the menu? Why should I trust you first of
Speaker 1: all my sandwich experience? Because if this is fucked up,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose it in here. Like I said, a
Speaker 1: turkey and cheese, I said nothing about the bread, asshole,
Speaker 1: Turkey and cheese on that deadly paper. I want to
Speaker 1: hold turkey and I want to hold cheese. Just that
Speaker 1: big block one of your cheese is sir. You know
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? Oh gosh, um, science?
Speaker 1: I think science is underrated, even even h you know
Speaker 1: in circles where we might you know, constantly say something
Speaker 1: like believe science, believe in science. I believe science, you know,
Speaker 1: especially around COVID. I think we forget that, like everything
Speaker 1: around us a science. Currently. I'm talking to you because
Speaker 1: of science. I had hot water this morning because of science.
Speaker 1: Even fire is science. And uh yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: just like people if if you're on that woll well,
Speaker 1: what what about science? Just because some people told you this,
Speaker 1: you're saying, zoom out a bit and think of the
Speaker 1: millennia of experiences from learned people and experimentation that has
Speaker 1: delivered us to this moment. And based off the strength
Speaker 1: of that, you should work with science. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: there's good science, there's bad science. There's poorly research science.
Speaker 1: You know, this isn't bred so um there's nuance here,
Speaker 1: but it is underrated because we we don't think about
Speaker 1: it enough. I think we just take for granted everything
Speaker 1: that happens around us day to day, and we don't
Speaker 1: usually you know, they say stop and smell the roses,
Speaker 1: like stop and look around you and like notice that
Speaker 1: whether you're in a good situation or bad, it's because
Speaker 1: of science. Then smell the WiFi bro. Yeah, take a
Speaker 1: life of these semiconductors. There you go. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I like I said, I'm gonna be I'm not online.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the kids are saying. So they're
Speaker 1: saying that, they're saying, we love bread and we don't
Speaker 1: like science. And I think we've kind of nailed it
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, I wrote down you like headache, medicine,
Speaker 1: science boom. That's true. I do we are. We do
Speaker 1: exist on like the shoulders of billions and billions of
Speaker 1: like brilliant advances and things people had to live and
Speaker 1: die for, like in in the scientific world. Just take
Speaker 1: it completely for granted, because if we didn't, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to. We just be running around being like
Speaker 1: what all the time. But I mean, you know, even whoever,
Speaker 1: whoever the lady was who tapped a tree and realized
Speaker 1: it it helped with pain or whatever they invented and aspirin,
Speaker 1: you know, like, whoever realized that, like you know, you
Speaker 1: add some grains and and and liquids to tub, it
Speaker 1: turns into beer eventually and learned how to repeat that scientist? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, also, hey, bread to bread bread bread is
Speaker 1: a product of science, but funck bread, It's okay, thank
Speaker 1: you consistent. I like it. All right, Let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and so are the Olympics. Apparently they're still happening, still
Speaker 1: coming up, no matter what. Doesn't seem like it, but
Speaker 1: the Yeah, the Olympics. Taxes and death, the things that
Speaker 1: we will never escape. But the Olympics are coming. And
Speaker 1: probably the athlete I think most people were expecting to
Speaker 1: be like the Michael Johnson of these Olympics should Harry Richardson.
Speaker 1: Like she's a track and field superstar from America who
Speaker 1: was like, you know, top two, top three favorites to
Speaker 1: win the hundred meter dash become the fastest woman in
Speaker 1: the world and she has now been suspended from that
Speaker 1: race because she smoked weed. Yep, she tested positive for
Speaker 1: th HC in a in a test that she took
Speaker 1: a few days after the qualifiers. And you know, again,
Speaker 1: according to the World Anti Doping Agency, it's banned during
Speaker 1: in competition periods. These are the laws and the time
Speaker 1: frame that begins at eleven fifty nine, the day before
Speaker 1: the competition starts. And like they say, like you have
Speaker 1: a certain amount, but up until that window, the rules change,
Speaker 1: and this so she popped on this test. And now,
Speaker 1: because you know, the the US Track and Field Association
Speaker 1: goes with the same their signatory to the World Anti
Speaker 1: Doping Agency like Charter and Ship, that they enforced these
Speaker 1: laws as well, so that for the U S side,
Speaker 1: the penalty can be anywhere from one month to a
Speaker 1: two year ban. But so in the most uh, if
Speaker 1: she doesn't appeal, and let's say they give her one month,
Speaker 1: her band would technically end right before like the track
Speaker 1: events start. But the thing is, because she tested positive,
Speaker 1: that means her qualifying time is negated, so she is
Speaker 1: not going to be running in the just individual race,
Speaker 1: So that means alternates the people who are now the
Speaker 1: fourth place finisher has moved on to the team and
Speaker 1: the fifth place person has now become an alternate from
Speaker 1: the qualifiers and the best right now, as it stands,
Speaker 1: the only chance she has is to participate in the
Speaker 1: four by one relay because the Track Association is able
Speaker 1: to select people to participate in that. So this is like, really,
Speaker 1: this is just completely fucked up. The things that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people remember from her qualifying win
Speaker 1: was just her words about everything she had gone through
Speaker 1: to arrive at this moment. I'd be having the support
Speaker 1: of her family that her biological mother had passed away
Speaker 1: days before. The thing is, she was told by a reporter,
Speaker 1: a reporter that her biological mother passed away. That's how
Speaker 1: she found out, and that was when she went and
Speaker 1: you know, enjoyed some weed or whatever, just to you know,
Speaker 1: deal with hearing this from some other person, just out
Speaker 1: of the blue. And now she's looking at completely losing
Speaker 1: her shot at at participating the Olympics. And it's just
Speaker 1: so fucking dumb. Like I get that the rules are
Speaker 1: the rules, but this is just such this like anti
Speaker 1: weed stuff. It's like our prohibition on marijuana is just
Speaker 1: so built around this pseudo scientific racist nonsense, because let's
Speaker 1: be real, it's not a performance enhancing drug. The only
Speaker 1: fucking performance it's enhancing is like you watching a clip
Speaker 1: of Santana on YouTube for some ship or like if
Speaker 1: you play a guitar, this is not You're not you're
Speaker 1: not You're not seeing the matrix in a track race
Speaker 1: and now you're sucking muscles are working over time. So
Speaker 1: it's just like really disheartening and just sort of underlines
Speaker 1: just how behind we are in so many ways. Or
Speaker 1: if you're hosting a podcast about nine D D fiance,
Speaker 1: I should I should chime in on your behalf there.
Speaker 1: That's an olympic EVENTE mhm it Yeah, it's truly baffling.
Speaker 1: Like alcohol is not a like if I guess you
Speaker 1: can't test for alcohol, but it's not a banned substance
Speaker 1: and other than your coach probably telling you not to
Speaker 1: do it because it's not going to make you faster.
Speaker 1: And I would assume marijuana is the same way. That's
Speaker 1: it's really strange, but not strange, I guess to be
Speaker 1: expected based on the history of racism around marijuana and
Speaker 1: the present racism around marijuana. Yeah, I mean we we
Speaker 1: always talk about it as as past tense of you know,
Speaker 1: why marijuana was banned in the first place, you know,
Speaker 1: anti black, antimex consentiments and all that, and it's like
Speaker 1: where we have not even scratched the surface of, you know,
Speaker 1: the constant stigma that's still associated with it. I watched
Speaker 1: a short clip of her saying, you know, like this
Speaker 1: isn't I'm still young. I'm gonna I'm gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: I I still have a lot of races ahead of me,
Speaker 1: you know, to that effect, and I'm just gonna I'll
Speaker 1: be back, you know. Yeah, gosh, I it's so fucked
Speaker 1: up in every single way, and I just constantly feel
Speaker 1: like everyone who speaks out about it says a thing,
Speaker 1: and then nothing happens, you know, like we'll we'll weigh in,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll throw in our two cents and go like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is like this is clearly you know, discrimination, and
Speaker 1: they're and they're picking on people and and it's but
Speaker 1: then nothing happens. Like we we all know, we all
Speaker 1: know the facts, we all know this isn't a performance
Speaker 1: enhancing drug. We all know why was banned in the
Speaker 1: first place. We know why alcohol was unbanned, you know,
Speaker 1: or maybe not, Like sometimes I get smurky, you know,
Speaker 1: like prohibition ends because of you know, pressure from probably
Speaker 1: some corporate ship and there's just not enough of it
Speaker 1: here or it's cultural different people, right, Like, it's it's
Speaker 1: just funked up and everyone and I'm sorry that I'm
Speaker 1: ranting and all I can do is curse about it,
Speaker 1: but well no, I mean, it's it's just it's frustrating
Speaker 1: because you look at somebody who is performing to the
Speaker 1: best of their abilities, you know what it means to them,
Speaker 1: and then for them to just get caught up in
Speaker 1: these relics of racist just nonsense, to funk up your
Speaker 1: chances to represent the fucking country. You think like that,
Speaker 1: this country is so focused on winning, Like, shut the
Speaker 1: funk up cares that you're smoking weed. This person is
Speaker 1: gonna win the fucking gold medal in the one and
Speaker 1: that's what we're about to put our best athletes out there.
Speaker 1: But you still there's still this like this, we're still
Speaker 1: so intertwined with these backwards laws and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: You know, again, we're not having I mean, we are
Speaker 1: having this conversation, but the powers that be aren't because
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, you realize
Speaker 1: that they're not interested in understanding what is equity or
Speaker 1: what is actually fair or not. They're probably taking They
Speaker 1: like having mechanisms of suppression, they like having that in place,
Speaker 1: They like have they like playing that dumb game of
Speaker 1: chess that they think they're playing where they're out smarting
Speaker 1: everybody and we all can see through it. It's just
Speaker 1: that they're still in power and they could still make
Speaker 1: they make the rules and change them at will. So
Speaker 1: you know, if a certain person is caught, you know,
Speaker 1: having an affair, it can be a huge scandal. If
Speaker 1: if Trump, well, I mean I don't know the whole
Speaker 1: Cosby thing. It's like, oh, thirty five women came out
Speaker 1: against him and still it was overturned. So like it's
Speaker 1: the rules apply. Yeah, Trump is in the choice, Like
Speaker 1: the rules just don't fucking apply. As long as long
Speaker 1: as you have the money to support or or the
Speaker 1: or just the power structure, it makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: The Olympics are are also just you know, straight trash. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and also to have that reporter question this athlete
Speaker 1: and go like, you know, are like are you gonna apologize?
Speaker 1: Like what are you gonna do? Like how do you feel?
Speaker 1: How do you how did you know? Tell us about
Speaker 1: how you disappointed everybody whatever? Like you know, she's going
Speaker 1: home and drinking a boxed wine after that, like everyone
Speaker 1: more like taking whatever pills her doctor's prescribed her. And
Speaker 1: because those are legal, she's fine. And this girl smoked
Speaker 1: weed on a legal state, not on the day that
Speaker 1: she's competing either, right, Like marijuana stays in your system
Speaker 1: for a bit okay, yeah, and that's such a good
Speaker 1: point reorder, like probably yeah, And it is really frustrating
Speaker 1: to see like the way it's being covered by the media, uh,
Speaker 1: the ap like unquestioning Lee just be you know, the
Speaker 1: and then it almost feels like she is, She's like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I owned what I did. I made a mistake, and
Speaker 1: like I'll be I'll bounce back. But like it's just
Speaker 1: like why, why why isn't anyone saying the obvious thing
Speaker 1: that this is fucking down She didn't make a mistake,
Speaker 1: she didn't make a mistake. She I would say, she's
Speaker 1: practicing self care and a tough in a in a
Speaker 1: tough situation and taking care of herself while she's dealing
Speaker 1: with all this you know, familial and mental stress, with
Speaker 1: all of the pressure, the full pressure of her being
Speaker 1: this star athlete that's going to go represent a country
Speaker 1: that barely respects her. That's a lot of pressure. And
Speaker 1: if all you do is smoke a little weed, Holy shit, Like,
Speaker 1: how how strong are you to just you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think and it's yeah, it's it's only an a
Speaker 1: stake in this narrow, stupid context of being an athlete
Speaker 1: and all these weird fucking rules that they have that,
Speaker 1: let's face it, or mostly we're seeing you know, athletes
Speaker 1: of color be punished for these kinds of things. So
Speaker 1: it makes you frustrate on so many levels because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, this is a human being who,
Speaker 1: like you have to allow people to have the you know,
Speaker 1: latitude to fucking take care of themselves or whatever. I
Speaker 1: get it's and especially in the context that isn't running
Speaker 1: a foul of local laws or putting anyone in danger.
Speaker 1: So really, what who is this protecting? And I think
Speaker 1: that the way that you know, Jack, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: the ap is gonna be like, yeah, well they violated
Speaker 1: the laws without being like yeah, but well, hold on,
Speaker 1: what the funk are these laws though? Like what is
Speaker 1: what are these regulations for? And noticed she had to
Speaker 1: say that in her in our tot apology, I am
Speaker 1: a person. I'm a human being, right, Like I'm obviously paraphrasing,
Speaker 1: but she was like, remember I'm not, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a human firstly not a superhero, but also not
Speaker 1: you're you know, not yours to do with what you please,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not I'm only here because someone pushed me
Speaker 1: in front of the camera and told me I had
Speaker 1: to be sorry for this, you know, otherwise I want
Speaker 1: to run. Yeah, Like, yeah, it doesn't even seem legal
Speaker 1: to be honest, because you can you really punish somebody
Speaker 1: for something, for for doing something legal days before a
Speaker 1: performance and answering, Yeah, I'm sure this is going to
Speaker 1: evolve over the you know, in the next few days,
Speaker 1: because you know, she can appeal, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: would be your reason to say, Like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: what do you do? You you know, you want to
Speaker 1: see somebody run hot, like faster because they're high or whatever, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Also, I'm going through things.
Speaker 1: Can you extend some empathy towards me? Also, these laws
Speaker 1: are nonsense, so what are we doing here? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think, I mean, the public is definitely
Speaker 1: like outraged because they see this for what it is.
Speaker 1: And like, I think for most people now, you know,
Speaker 1: the majority of society is like, what's the problem with
Speaker 1: someone smoking wheat? Like, what are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: We're not all our you know, sixth grade teachers from
Speaker 1: like the nineties who are like and maybe the silver
Speaker 1: lighting here is that she will maybe be a trailblazer
Speaker 1: in that way. You know, maybe she is the test case.
Speaker 1: Maybe she will turn it all around because of public
Speaker 1: opinion and because of the situation here. I think I
Speaker 1: hope that she will come out of the stronger and
Speaker 1: more powerful and more successful because of her situation and
Speaker 1: how she's handling it. Right, It's still not fair, but
Speaker 1: I hope that is the outcome, that she, you know,
Speaker 1: gets a book deal, gets a movie deal, gets all
Speaker 1: these statues. You know, like that might be the outcome.
Speaker 1: It's just not It shouldn't have happened and and it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be happening to everybody in similar situations. So and
Speaker 1: like that is hopefully a silver lining that people recognize
Speaker 1: that this shouldn't be fucking rule. But at the same time, like,
Speaker 1: this is somebody who trains their whole life to compete
Speaker 1: for these nine seconds, and which is insane that she
Speaker 1: can do it at nine seconds, but like and and
Speaker 1: to have that taken away from them, it's just so
Speaker 1: fucking cruel. That's unbelievable. Yeah, And what's also this idea
Speaker 1: of like the substances being banned comes from like these
Speaker 1: paternalistic sort of perspective, like well, we're looking after the
Speaker 1: athletes to like what's best for them. But it's like, well,
Speaker 1: they have a lot more ship on there if you're
Speaker 1: purely interested in the health of the athletes, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like that, and it just rings hollow. So
Speaker 1: you know, I honestly I hope that they realized, Thanky,
Speaker 1: you should carry richardson at these Olympics. You know, even
Speaker 1: though you know fun the Olympics, they're such a tortured event.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I I hope you can run to carry
Speaker 1: That's a great wrap up of this topic. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's talk real quick about something that I think we
Speaker 1: can take a little solacen is that Jeff Bezos feels
Speaker 1: a little shitty today, a little tiny, a little tiny man.
Speaker 1: So Jeff Bezos, uh, you know, had announced and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm going to space and like touching it real quick
Speaker 1: and then coming back on June or July, and the
Speaker 1: rumors immediately started that Richard Branson was like hell no,
Speaker 1: and uh decided that he had to be the first
Speaker 1: one and like scrambled scrambled his like billionaire jets to
Speaker 1: like get everything together to go before him. So now
Speaker 1: Branson is going to be flying July eleven, nine days
Speaker 1: before Bezos. I just hope that this like keeps going
Speaker 1: business like I'm going tomorrow, and then they just go
Speaker 1: up in flames. Yeah, well this is it's it's well,
Speaker 1: I remember you know that that first video came out
Speaker 1: with Bezos say I'm gonna be the first first commercial
Speaker 1: flight with my clone brother that I'm you only have
Speaker 1: him around to harvest his organs or maybe he's my brother.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, Richard Branson just came through and also
Speaker 1: he had he just put out this video announcing it's like,
Speaker 1: guess what, asshole, I'm beating you by nine days to
Speaker 1: space to be the first loser to fucking ignore the
Speaker 1: the problems of the planet I live on too for
Speaker 1: a quick ego hit. But he put out this video
Speaker 1: and it's like it's way better than Jeff Bezos is
Speaker 1: and more in the sense that like it has like
Speaker 1: the slickness and the production. Remember when you will fly
Speaker 1: Virgin America and that pre flight safety video that used
Speaker 1: to do that was like the full on musical and
Speaker 1: ship We're like we're going when the skies, We're doing
Speaker 1: it right, and like people like doing the robot club
Speaker 1: lighting and the player. This is the swag of the
Speaker 1: Branson video, and I just want to play a clip
Speaker 1: of it because like it's done in this way that
Speaker 1: is such an aggressive fuck you to Jeff Bezos, because
Speaker 1: like it's more than just saying he's going to space.
Speaker 1: So first it starts off where it's like talking about
Speaker 1: like there's two pilots and then three astronauts and it's done,
Speaker 1: and like really the lighting is amazing. It looks like
Speaker 1: like Monday night football, like these towering figures like looking
Speaker 1: very heroic. And I just love the reveal when we
Speaker 1: get to Richard Branson because he's just oh, he's just
Speaker 1: owning the moment n protiges during boost. So these are
Speaker 1: intros to the different astronauts. Zero zero too, Beth Moses,
Speaker 1: I'll be space Kevin lead and test director. Branson looks
Speaker 1: like a zero zero one, which I'll be evaluating the
Speaker 1: customer spaceflight experience as the Vergin Galactic founder. I am
Speaker 1: so proud to this remarkable crew of mission specialists and
Speaker 1: pilots by my side as we fly to space. I've
Speaker 1: always been a three al Right, it goes on, does
Speaker 1: the other thing. But I just love that they're counting
Speaker 1: down Astronauts zero zero three, Astronaut zero zero two, and
Speaker 1: then as the fucking zero zero one, just what fuck you, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I'm astronaut zero number one. Baby Dick Brainson do something.
Speaker 1: Also his hair Springsteen energy of it all. You know,
Speaker 1: the music is so on point. It's so retro but
Speaker 1: so futuristic, you know, yeah, exactly. It's truly amazing, like
Speaker 1: the the balls, because like these are all astronauts who
Speaker 1: have earned their way. They're like through doing like astronaut
Speaker 1: things and science things, the things that get you into space.
Speaker 1: And then when it gets to first of all making
Speaker 1: himself astronaut zero zero one, but also the video like
Speaker 1: does a low like move up his body as he's
Speaker 1: like walking into the room, like the other ones are
Speaker 1: just like Hi, it's me Hi, it's me Hi, it's
Speaker 1: me And then it's like like he he rolls in
Speaker 1: like it's fucking Schwarzenegger and that like bad to the
Speaker 1: bone scene, like they're like fetishizing him, like going like
Speaker 1: tow ahead like slow pan up and that's like yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and Chuck Norris, now yeah, class each other
Speaker 1: space roll call me I build rockets and me I
Speaker 1: shoot Blazers and me, I'm rich Obama is my friend.
Speaker 1: You're like okay, and and I would be going to space.
Speaker 1: I love how he's still even look at at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, he's still just like and I'm
Speaker 1: here to make sure that the experience for you, the customer,
Speaker 1: is going to be Like this dude is still a salesman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the number one person on this spaceship because I'm
Speaker 1: here to make sure you'll be here and happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: must have a must have a deposit of one dollars.
Speaker 1: That's not bad, y'all, y'all want to pitch it. Yeah, crowds. Also,
Speaker 1: he like is charming in the video, which is like
Speaker 1: I think that is a flex. He's showing off his
Speaker 1: uh hair hair effect. They were like, yeah, here's a
Speaker 1: here's a like a microscopic video of Richard Branson's scalp.
Speaker 1: It's impeccable. Your move, Bezos, And it's like you think
Speaker 1: they'll do like a Mr Show like back and forth,
Speaker 1: Like now there's gonna be another video for Bezos where
Speaker 1: he has even bigger hair and like the space suits
Speaker 1: are even a brie or blue and the music rocks
Speaker 1: a little bit harder, right, Only for Richard Branson to
Speaker 1: be like and to introduce me to space is me
Speaker 1: goes and it's like a life performance. Wait what Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Bezos comes back. I got Beyonce, She's coming
Speaker 1: to space with me. That would fun with your Branson.
Speaker 1: She's astronaut zero. He's like, he gave it up, astronaut No, No,
Speaker 1: we got zero? Hell yeah, man, I mean this is
Speaker 1: this is our reality though, you know, it's like we
Speaker 1: live in just a giant. The globe is a vanity
Speaker 1: project for these just infinitely vain and wealthy humans. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They watched all of those movies from like the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties about how bad you know, rich people are like,
Speaker 1: you know, like Dead Zone or Robo Cop or you know,
Speaker 1: Total Recall or Running Man, and they were like all
Speaker 1: of that please today. But I've been in their mind.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, but the difference is I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: wear a suit like those bad guys did, so I'm different.
Speaker 1: I wear jeans And you're like, okay, and m hm
Speaker 1: h Indeed, that is the sound that sums up that story.
Speaker 1: Can I take can take that? If these jokers are
Speaker 1: just sucking around with it I'm just gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: here eating bread and crying. Canceled this podcast episode. Also
Speaker 1: the picture that they like, the you know, sitcom publicity
Speaker 1: still of the of all the astronauts hanging out. He's
Speaker 1: got his arms around the two women. I noticed, like, so,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like it's brandson, baby, it's a
Speaker 1: next to make everything sexy. I didn't see the end
Speaker 1: of that video. Does he jump out of a window?
Speaker 1: Does he crash through it and then fly with attack? Goodbye?
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back. And this Norway law is
Speaker 1: more bad news for influencers. I guess I assumed it
Speaker 1: was like to try and stop like deep fakes and
Speaker 1: like you know, or like political like altered images. But this,
Speaker 1: this is actually that they're saying no, like if you
Speaker 1: alter an image, it's like for to make yourself look
Speaker 1: better than you have to like let us know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think this is a thing that you know,
Speaker 1: this has been discussed in Norway a lot that they
Speaker 1: call it body pressure, which is sort of that you know,
Speaker 1: it's having a huge effect on the self esteem of
Speaker 1: young people because mass media and influencer culture has people
Speaker 1: just chasing ghosts in the form of like just impossible
Speaker 1: bodies or you know, looks or skin and things like that,
Speaker 1: and without you know, they think the insidious thing is
Speaker 1: most people ingest this stuff without realizing this is all fake.
Speaker 1: This is this is touched up, this is not how
Speaker 1: they looked on the day. There's a lot of editing
Speaker 1: that goes into that, and this is really to combat
Speaker 1: that because I think they're they're seeing this correlation between
Speaker 1: the two and I think this has just been happening
Speaker 1: since you know that we've just been hyper sexualized in
Speaker 1: media and things like that, so they're they're this law
Speaker 1: is saying any photo or quote a body shape, size,
Speaker 1: or skin has been changed by retouching or other manipulation
Speaker 1: must be marked as edited. So this also this is
Speaker 1: for advertisers. But then it goes on to say that
Speaker 1: if you're a celebrity or an influencer and you are
Speaker 1: accepting money and posting like in a like an advertisement
Speaker 1: of some sort, and you are editing the photos, then
Speaker 1: they must also be labeled. And so the examples are
Speaker 1: like you know, enlarged lips, narrowed wastes, exaggerated muscles, but
Speaker 1: it's not clear like what that means if like lighting
Speaker 1: will count, you know, like if you're doing things to
Speaker 1: just dark, like saturation or other things that you could
Speaker 1: do without that maybe maybe directly altering it. But it's
Speaker 1: you know, a lot mostly been received really well. I
Speaker 1: think even in the legislators themselves said the one thing
Speaker 1: that they could see happening is that perhaps, you know,
Speaker 1: like the backlash could be people opting for more cosmetic
Speaker 1: surgery to to like move work around that. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's necessarily that big of a concern,
Speaker 1: more than saying that it's important to let people know
Speaker 1: when the things you were seeing are not you know,
Speaker 1: the sincere and what we would normally see with our eyes, right,
Speaker 1: I mean that makes sense, that's laudable. I use a
Speaker 1: lot of face to like the point that people don't
Speaker 1: know what I look, Uh well, yeah, because you have
Speaker 1: no features, so literally we don't know what we're like.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's all flat. I really thought Jack
Speaker 1: was an egg when I met him, yeah, which was
Speaker 1: only a couple of hours ago, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: a talking egg. Now I've seen everything but my skin
Speaker 1: looks great. You have to admit, like my skin looks yeah,
Speaker 1: hardly porous. Yeah, it's funny. I mean, um, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, I live in Hollywood. It's probably not
Speaker 1: going to change anything here, but I do think it
Speaker 1: might make a lot of sense elsewhere. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're not on TV, if it's not your job to
Speaker 1: do that, you shouldn't have to wake up screaming in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night that you're not you know
Speaker 1: that you don't look like him Kardassian. I think I
Speaker 1: think psychologically we've done a lot of damage to young people.
Speaker 1: I I mean, I could be overreacting. That could be
Speaker 1: something that people just say every ten years as the age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it seems pretty aggressive these days now, like with
Speaker 1: how normal it seems like, you know, just looking at
Speaker 1: influencers online and what that world looks like, like are
Speaker 1: these people like do they only have time to eat
Speaker 1: like kale and do push ups? Absolutely not? And And
Speaker 1: here's the thing, like that old joke like you know
Speaker 1: New York Gate or whatever or is it the other
Speaker 1: way around, l A a New York ten that kind
Speaker 1: of you know, which is like so disgusting, but like
Speaker 1: you gotta imagine that like now confronted with those images constantly,
Speaker 1: and not just from celebrities, but people in high school, right,
Speaker 1: like they're all tuned up, and these kids have to
Speaker 1: be like I will never be enough, you know, I
Speaker 1: will never I will know I will never be pretty
Speaker 1: enough to to have ten thousand followers, and so no
Speaker 1: one will ever give me a purse for free or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, no one, no one will ever pay for
Speaker 1: my runch and I'll never get to say that it was.
Speaker 1: And I'm an influencer. Like I thought there were too
Speaker 1: many like aspiring actor writers now because of like YouTube
Speaker 1: and TikTok, But now everybody thinks they're also a model.
Speaker 1: And then it puts all this you know, we we've
Speaker 1: already realized that that is a bad thing, right, that
Speaker 1: like image is toxic, and that it really undermines people's
Speaker 1: other qualities, like you know, talents, intelligence, you know, emotional
Speaker 1: and otherwise. But now it's part of like it's just
Speaker 1: ingrained you like, oh, you want to be a doctor,
Speaker 1: are you? Are you pretty doctor? Do you want to
Speaker 1: you want to be successful on Wall Street? You gotta
Speaker 1: look like this Instagram posting sing of successful. I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm making that up, Miles, Um, I'm just ranching no,
Speaker 1: But it is sort of like this thing that it's
Speaker 1: we're reducing the options for people on what it means
Speaker 1: to be happy or so successful when you all you're
Speaker 1: being depending on what sort of subculture or media culture
Speaker 1: you're sort of in your interacting with that you would
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know, like everyone has to be hot,
Speaker 1: I guess, and that's like the only currency that we
Speaker 1: have is it's it's just like how much how many
Speaker 1: likes can you get or do you look good enough
Speaker 1: to get followers in this narrow context more than just
Speaker 1: a larger thing of like embracing that we're all human
Speaker 1: beings and we're all going to be different and there's
Speaker 1: no one right or wrong way. It's that we just
Speaker 1: have to embrace the diversity of you know, human life,
Speaker 1: rather than just treating it like it's like, well there
Speaker 1: are the three body types, uh, super rip, hot as
Speaker 1: fuck or nasty as ship, and it's like right way
Speaker 1: as ship still good or bad? Let's see that depends.
Speaker 1: I think that's where the other bucket. Yeah, So then
Speaker 1: if you're not the other two, then you're in low
Speaker 1: self esteem town when it should just be like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, everyone's worthy, and we have to stop like
Speaker 1: worshiping these like you know, these types, these figures. It's
Speaker 1: a strange because to me, social media has also opened
Speaker 1: that up as well, right, where people of all stripes
Speaker 1: get to go like, this is me, this is you know,
Speaker 1: this is me loving like you might have never seen me,
Speaker 1: and I have a phone now to look at me,
Speaker 1: you know, And so it has set the stage for
Speaker 1: a little bit more variety in what we get to
Speaker 1: see because it's not based on you know, what one
Speaker 1: Hollywood producer thinks is something everyone should look at. But
Speaker 1: then all these apps are setting us back. They are
Speaker 1: you know, everybody makes fun of the apps that like
Speaker 1: turn your eyes blue and your hair blonde and all,
Speaker 1: like how is that not completely utterly racist, Like it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of making fun of it, but it's not
Speaker 1: like people are actually like doing that looking at it,
Speaker 1: going like oh, you know, and you know there are
Speaker 1: surgeries now, laser surgeries that can make your eyes blue
Speaker 1: and do all kinds of weird ship like our our
Speaker 1: kids looking at that go like maybe I'll get that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, yeah, yeah, I mean I I do.
Speaker 1: I do think that the bigger problem is just social
Speaker 1: media and the like the sort of function of social media,
Speaker 1: the sort of structure of social media, because like, they're
Speaker 1: still going to be impossibly hot people like that who
Speaker 1: are everybody's looking at on on social media. So that's
Speaker 1: like one one thought I had as I was like
Speaker 1: kind of getting my mind around the story, is like,
Speaker 1: is this just good for like the very hot people
Speaker 1: who like don't use face tune and like, like, is
Speaker 1: this taking money away from somebody who is able to,
Speaker 1: I don't know yet use technology in a in a
Speaker 1: smart way. Yeah. Yeah, it can't be good to like
Speaker 1: create an altered like reality that's putting pressure on people.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I feel like there's always going
Speaker 1: to be people who we look at on social media
Speaker 1: and are like that person looks amazing, Why don't I
Speaker 1: look like that? And you know that there's going to
Speaker 1: be a supply of those people that social media will
Speaker 1: be able to force force down people's throats, uh, unless
Speaker 1: something changes about like about the culture. Right this is
Speaker 1: I feel so out of my depth here because we
Speaker 1: are so like from from birth almost fed all of
Speaker 1: these images and standards that we spend our entire lives
Speaker 1: trying to conform to and where do you draw the line? Right, Like,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what my life would be like
Speaker 1: if I just was born outside of society, you know,
Speaker 1: and like how I would feel about myself as a person.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, look, I'm strong and my voice
Speaker 1: makes weird noises. That's kind of neat. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: just like this curiosity about yourself is completely lost when
Speaker 1: when we you know, we want to be social and
Speaker 1: then obviously social media has distorted it in these ways
Speaker 1: that only benefit marketing people and people who own things
Speaker 1: that they want you to buy. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's all, it's all capitalism. And I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean I think it just maybe that fear that people
Speaker 1: will just alter their bodies physically is real, and then
Speaker 1: those people benefit. Maybe there's a lot of dermatologists who
Speaker 1: are piste off that now you can just tune your face.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they yeah, like big don't like you know,
Speaker 1: we in Norway, Yeah, we in Norway are very you know.
Speaker 1: We we have a lot of saunas and we have
Speaker 1: a lot of seaweed creams that we that we want
Speaker 1: to pedal and this might be good for us. I
Speaker 1: don't know, like maybe that's what we're perpetuating right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's to have a Norway as
Speaker 1: our guinea pig, you know, right, see how it does,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe if they're all happy in a year, what
Speaker 1: we can try it. There's like this shift though, even
Speaker 1: when you see with gen Z though too, like they
Speaker 1: don't really funk with Instagram because they kind of see
Speaker 1: it as you know, this choog e fucking thing where
Speaker 1: people go to sanitize their lives and pretend that ship's
Speaker 1: all good when it isn't. And so with TikTok, like
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting accounts are a lot of people
Speaker 1: just like showing you what they do, you know, like
Speaker 1: they're like, I'm you know, like I work as you know,
Speaker 1: as a like a sanitation worker, and this is what
Speaker 1: it's like. And people are really interested in like the
Speaker 1: real like the reality of people's like day to day
Speaker 1: lives or things like that. Granted, there there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be people in that sort of beauty lane as well,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people just feel like
Speaker 1: it's just the stuff that's there is different and it's
Speaker 1: not like you know, Instagram. I think was you know,
Speaker 1: just for in this narrow con text, the place where
Speaker 1: people could very much distort who they were and you know,
Speaker 1: broadcast that outwardly. For now, I'm going to throw a
Speaker 1: wrenching your machine, because as gen z ages, they're gonna
Speaker 1: want to find a way to feel young again, and
Speaker 1: that might be you know, adding some TikTok features that
Speaker 1: make you look cuter because deep faith is just going
Speaker 1: to get better or something else that we can't predict
Speaker 1: because it hasn't happened yet. Yeah, I think like just
Speaker 1: like with that sort of beauty culture or like racism,
Speaker 1: each generation maybe have it just a little bit less.
Speaker 1: But it's not to say that it will be completely gone,
Speaker 1: because I think at the end of the day, they're
Speaker 1: still we're still operating in these very distinct, aggressive media
Speaker 1: environments which can only you know, have some kind of
Speaker 1: effect on us, you know, in the long term. I
Speaker 1: will just leave you with this warning, I guess, because
Speaker 1: I guess that's my job here. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I said that. Never never assume, never assume it's going
Speaker 1: to get better in any way. You always have to,
Speaker 1: you know, watch out for those pitfalls. Just because something
Speaker 1: seems like it's on their on the right track doesn't
Speaker 1: mean another Trump doesn't come along and set us back.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm under no illusions that work is done
Speaker 1: in any way. But everything is because all I see,
Speaker 1: especially you know, as a minority living in this country,
Speaker 1: is everything is gradual and incremental. Nothing is happening quickly,
Speaker 1: and and most people would love to go into the
Speaker 1: magical thinking that the problems are done and solved. But
Speaker 1: you know, I am heartened to see that values are shifting,
Speaker 1: certainly from when I was nineteen, where I was all
Speaker 1: in on you better look a certain way, you better
Speaker 1: have your body look in a certain way, and there
Speaker 1: was absolutely no question around that and how toxic that is.
Speaker 1: But yet, but I totally understand your point. I mean
Speaker 1: you you kind of see it though, right, Like the
Speaker 1: twenties feel like there are a hundred years ahead of
Speaker 1: the fifties in America. Right, the sixties and seventies feel
Speaker 1: so progressive compared to the eighties. I'm just terrified that, like,
Speaker 1: even when we win, it's going to backslide. So, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a point where women women were feeling like,
Speaker 1: oh maybe I don't have to wear makeup. I don't
Speaker 1: have to shave. I don't have to you know, please
Speaker 1: a man. And that was millennials, and then now that's
Speaker 1: from that's not the thing anymore. And now it's face tuning,
Speaker 1: and now it's you know, bright red lipstick like I
Speaker 1: always wear because I'm like, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: you know, it's so confusing. It's just it's whatever they
Speaker 1: tell us to do it. And even if you're resistant
Speaker 1: to it, eventually it trickles down and you find yourself
Speaker 1: buying snail cream. Yeah. The Dark Ages came after the
Speaker 1: you know, Ancient Greek and ancient Greeks and the ancient
Speaker 1: Roman like classics, and it happens all the time that
Speaker 1: things go in a very backwards fucked direction. You're very
Speaker 1: astute egg, a very astute, smart sentient egg person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh man, that means a lot. Well, and it's been
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find
Speaker 1: you and follow you? Please? Um follow at Left Handed
Speaker 1: Radio everywhere. We're a sketch comedy podcast, usually not this serious.
Speaker 1: At the actual Anna on Twitter, although I will warn
Speaker 1: you I don't tweet a lot, but yeah, nice, And
Speaker 1: is there a tweet or some other work of social
Speaker 1: media you've been enjoying. Um, I'll call out my old
Speaker 1: buddy Dan Chamberlain, who used to be part of Left
Speaker 1: Handed Radio. He's at a m F M P m
Speaker 1: uh and he had a tweet recently that was really
Speaker 1: it really struck me funny. The world's your oyster, expensive
Speaker 1: smell fat miles. Where can people find you? What's a
Speaker 1: tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, miles of gray. Also
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Speaker 1: but the day after he dies, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out why lowercase t s start hurting us? Like how
Speaker 1: unfair that is? Like, what's going on? How fuck? Uh?
Speaker 1: Tweet I've been enjoying. I loved that Dick vital So
Speaker 1: The Onion posted a headline that was n C double
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Speaker 1: Vital's likeness and Dick Vital the just incredibly annoying n
Speaker 1: C double a like basketball play by player. I guess
Speaker 1: color Guy retweeted that article and said, this is cool,
Speaker 1: brought joy to my heart as it is about time
Speaker 1: the players can make some money. So he thought that
Speaker 1: was real. He's living in a reality where they I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what reality he's living in.
Speaker 1: And Brody Gupta tweeted, pop goes the Weasel, what the
Speaker 1: fuck are you talking about? You can find me on
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