Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, Episode three.
Speaker 1: After Daily's Like Guys, yea a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, July. My name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien, a k. Jack Chugie wonder Land. He
Speaker 1: get it, get wonder Land. Yeah, I wear tight pants
Speaker 1: when I start to dance in a Chugi wonder Land,
Speaker 1: Jack Chugi wonder Land. That is courtesy of suburban panic
Speaker 1: attack and earth winnet fire. And I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Gras.
Speaker 1: Please get fact in the US, facts in the US,
Speaker 1: facts in the US of A just thought of that
Speaker 1: right now. And you know what, please get vaccinated. Okay
Speaker 1: they're even saying it on Fox News, maybe probably reaching
Speaker 1: to the choir on this podcast, but if you please
Speaker 1: get the word out to everybody you know, if you can,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's we're starting to see the numbers
Speaker 1: and your your shot looks better if you're back to me.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting to see, like what the effects are
Speaker 1: you know of of the vaccine. I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure you know, maybe give me like a couple
Speaker 1: of years just to make sure see see what the
Speaker 1: effects are, because like I'm all about the scientific process, bro,
Speaker 1: and so like I gotta see you in your scientist. No,
Speaker 1: but like I so I saw this thing on Facebook
Speaker 1: actually where they were saying that like this girl got
Speaker 1: the vaccine and then her heart stopped for like fifteen seconds. Dude,
Speaker 1: whoa follow up question? Do you listen to a lot
Speaker 1: of Joe Rogan? Oh? Man, you listen to Rogan? Dude
Speaker 1: gets poisoned? All right? Bro? Yeah, I guess I am
Speaker 1: kind of a scientists when you think about how much
Speaker 1: Rogan I've done, like I actually did the math and
Speaker 1: the hours of Rogan I've listened to is the equivalent
Speaker 1: of a graduate degree. You know, there are there are
Speaker 1: people who well Miles, we are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by the very talented hip hop
Speaker 1: artist and host of the podcast Waiting on Reparations, who,
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty six, ran four and was
Speaker 1: elected Athens Clark County Commissioner in Athens, Georgia. She took
Speaker 1: the oath of office with her hand on a copy
Speaker 1: of the autobiography of Malcolm X. She's a community organizer
Speaker 1: and a PhD candidate and linguistics at the University of Georgia,
Speaker 1: where she also finds time to be a graduate teaching assistant.
Speaker 1: Uh who please welcome Mariah Parker A k lingua franca.
Speaker 1: What's good? It's not gonna be back, Yo, it's so
Speaker 1: funny hearing all my titles and things for you, I
Speaker 1: feel just listening to them, and I didn't I do
Speaker 1: the things. Yeah, it's really not all. It's probably not
Speaker 1: all like that. It's not it's not that cools, you know, Okay, humble, okay,
Speaker 1: kend I don't. I don't believe that. You don't think
Speaker 1: it's that cool. It's pretty cool. It's funny. Got a
Speaker 1: lot done? How much longer do you get your do
Speaker 1: we call you doctor? Well? What's funny is so I
Speaker 1: was supposed to graduate in August, and this is new
Speaker 1: since the last time I was on the show. I'm
Speaker 1: having a baby. It's a month in fact, and so
Speaker 1: of finishing my insertation over the last eight months didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So we don't. We gonna get out of school. When
Speaker 1: we get out of school, I don't even more. Okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so yeah, life comes at your best. Suddenly
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, how's it? Like, Oh, I'm about to
Speaker 1: be a mother. Oh yeah, that's what's Wow, it's been
Speaker 1: that long, it's been that in this whole time. You're
Speaker 1: gonna come back. You're like, oh, yeah, I'm a mom
Speaker 1: now that the resume was congratulations, congratulations, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: What's what's good Athens? How everything down there? The verdant
Speaker 1: greens of the many walking trails. One thing in the
Speaker 1: city government we do really well. You know, we might
Speaker 1: be struggling up against Brian Kemp in the state law
Speaker 1: a lot, but we build some beautiful parks out here.
Speaker 1: Plenty of open natural spaces for the people to rewand unwind,
Speaker 1: rewind if they want, if they need to reflect on
Speaker 1: their lives frequently and get some sunshine. What's the best
Speaker 1: park in Athens? If you say this is the pride
Speaker 1: of Athens in terms of our outdoor space, rul of
Speaker 1: Athens gotta be Virginia Walker Park. And I'm not just
Speaker 1: saying that because it's literally right behind my house. I
Speaker 1: promise it's got mountain bike trails and then like concrete trails.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be pushing a little baby stroller out there
Speaker 1: on little concrete pad. You've got a little like hiking
Speaker 1: trails that becomes so important. Yea, having a place to
Speaker 1: walk with the baby is so yeah. Do you all?
Speaker 1: Do you all enjoy fresh air, sunshine? Y'all get outside enough? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What the hell? C Eli is so messed up because
Speaker 1: we don't actually probably tax anything out here. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at your parks and I'm like, what is this Disney World?
Speaker 1: You have rugby uprights for rugby. I'm like, the fun
Speaker 1: what is this pad splash guys, you'd love to see it?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, Walker Park, I'm reading The Power Broker,
Speaker 1: the biography of Robert Moses, and he's just getting to
Speaker 1: the part where he starts building some parks in New
Speaker 1: York City for and like on Long Island and by
Speaker 1: like he has to take over land from you know,
Speaker 1: the Bazo says of the day, it's pretty cool. Gives
Speaker 1: you a good appreciation for local politics before he turns
Speaker 1: into a racist piece of ship later on, but you know,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty cool, Uh, pretty cool book. It's also like
Speaker 1: a hundred hours long. I'm listening to it. Yeah, alright, Maria,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of the things we're talking about. So, Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: left the planet in a giant dick. People were kind
Speaker 1: of already over it the second it happened, because, like
Speaker 1: the way social media just turns through jokes, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody made that joke twenty jokes ago. But I just
Speaker 1: want to take a moment to stop and appreciate how
Speaker 1: much that thing looked like a dick that he was
Speaker 1: trying to space with, like just really bearing out any
Speaker 1: any arguments that this whole thing is a rich guy
Speaker 1: dick measuring contest. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the picks for the January six Select Committee. The
Speaker 1: Republicans are not really doing the good faith effort in
Speaker 1: UH making sure they have people who are actually interested
Speaker 1: in the truth. We're gonna check in with Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1: We love to check in with this guy or a
Speaker 1: man on the street when it comes to UH vaccinations.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this new Texas Senate bill that got
Speaker 1: rid of the requirement for teaching that the KKK is
Speaker 1: morally wrong, among other things. Talk about that. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Tokyo Ship show, all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Maria, we like to ask our guests, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history? So I my last
Speaker 1: search was c I a intervention in Latin America and
Speaker 1: here's why and some context is that? So on my
Speaker 1: podcast this week, which comes out Thursday, we talked about
Speaker 1: a two thousand four mocking memory by the name of
Speaker 1: Confederate States of America, in which it's imagining the Confederacy
Speaker 1: had won the Civil War and they proceed to then
Speaker 1: implement slavery across the United States, and they actually go
Speaker 1: and conquer Latin America as well and implement slavery in
Speaker 1: Latin America. And one of the thing is really interesting
Speaker 1: about the film is that it's like it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be funny, like, oh ha, wouldn't it be hilarious if
Speaker 1: that happened, But that does have really strong historical parallels
Speaker 1: to like things that really did happen. So the whole
Speaker 1: thing about like conquering Latin America, it's like, if you
Speaker 1: look at the amount of meddling the United States has
Speaker 1: done in places like Chila, pretty much like every Latin
Speaker 1: American country with regards to like regime change with democratically
Speaker 1: elected governments. Really, you know, it's it's not too far fetched,
Speaker 1: not too far from the truth. And so that was
Speaker 1: the last thing I searched this morning for a little
Speaker 1: additional research for my show this week. Yeah, we bring
Speaker 1: that up a lot, given what was happening like in Haiti.
Speaker 1: And you know how many mercenaries are trained by the
Speaker 1: u HAS govern May. Yes, and we talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the School of the America's and how now they've
Speaker 1: they've wonderfully rebranded it as like the School for like
Speaker 1: Western Cooperation or so stupids name rather than assassin date
Speaker 1: like summer Camp, summer Campa. You think we all know. Yeah, Cuba,
Speaker 1: when there's like a protest for like a protest for
Speaker 1: bring capitalism here, give us a democracy like that takes
Speaker 1: over the media. But in Colombia, when there's left wing
Speaker 1: activists protesting and getting murdered in the streets, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't talk about that didn't even happen. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: might as well don't talk about embargoes or sanctions either.
Speaker 1: We're trying to give any kind of context to any
Speaker 1: country that's you know, being destabilized by the us with
Speaker 1: the foreign policy, and you're like, oh my god, what's
Speaker 1: happening over there in that place where we cut off
Speaker 1: all the flow of supplies and things. How could this
Speaker 1: possibly be? It's like it's like those old school movies
Speaker 1: where they're I guess not movies, but that's the only
Speaker 1: place I've seen them, like battle strategies where they're just like,
Speaker 1: cut off all supplies to a town. And then if
Speaker 1: instead of that just being a straightforward military strategy, they
Speaker 1: were like, man, your king is really fucking up by
Speaker 1: not getting you guys enough food. It's just like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe off with his head. Hug Like, I guess, off
Speaker 1: with his head. We got all these hamburgers just sitting here. King.
Speaker 1: You guys so greedy? Huh oh my gosh, yeah, y'all
Speaker 1: ever had a happy meal? Peru just elected a leader
Speaker 1: who's like a outsider leftist. Oh yeah, Pedro Castillo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just had the thought like, yeah, he's in danger,
Speaker 1: the silver running for resident in Brazil, he's in danger.
Speaker 1: All these cats better have like six security and been
Speaker 1: then like they need to like you really need to
Speaker 1: check their search histories, and they like, you know, see
Speaker 1: check their CVS. Did they did. They spend a summer
Speaker 1: at the School of the America's. Yeah, what does this
Speaker 1: is the batticle you went on. You went to summer
Speaker 1: camp camp that show like Swings by the Lake and
Speaker 1: then you know monkey bars that we would climb on
Speaker 1: with our A K forty seven's and well explosive devices
Speaker 1: and back. Yeah, those are the days how to sabotage
Speaker 1: a single engine plane anyway? Um right, what is something
Speaker 1: you think is overrated? Man? Precipitation? Bro I just told
Speaker 1: you about always beautiful, lush green like gardens and rolling hills,
Speaker 1: though gentle every day I'd be I walking. I mean
Speaker 1: I walk in like three hours of days, listen to podcasts,
Speaker 1: getting caught up on phone calls for politics whatever, and
Speaker 1: the rain completely thrown off my day to day completely.
Speaker 1: You know what. I know, we need thriving ecosystems whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, the plants, but I just I just want
Speaker 1: to go on a walk man, in a camp because
Speaker 1: it's just terrentially pouring out there today, I'm saying it.
Speaker 1: And you know there's that flooding in Germany that killed
Speaker 1: like a hundred and fifty people. So that's so it's
Speaker 1: a real ship and we need to like really watch
Speaker 1: it with the participation percipipation right now. But I mean
Speaker 1: it's not just it's not just ruining my day, apparently
Speaker 1: a lot of people day. And then out here we
Speaker 1: might as well be on a different planet because we
Speaker 1: are in the midst of a drought. And when we
Speaker 1: could go back wet, like my kids thought they were
Speaker 1: like when we went back east to Pittsburgh, they just
Speaker 1: like wouldn't believe how green everything was. It's just a
Speaker 1: different like it seems like you're on a different planet
Speaker 1: when you when you go just yeah, yeah, rather than
Speaker 1: a desert that a bunch of people forced into beending
Speaker 1: right in the beginning of the last century. Here, where's
Speaker 1: the water going to come from? It doesn't matter, doesn't
Speaker 1: cut your mouth. Well, fucking reroute the Colorado if we
Speaker 1: have to. Yeah, did they ever get around to that?
Speaker 1: To this they forgot. It's kept built in the city.
Speaker 1: And I mean, well, now, like you know, the big
Speaker 1: thing is like all all of the river fighting that's
Speaker 1: happening where depending on how if you're upstream or downstream,
Speaker 1: like the control that certain municipalities have over how much
Speaker 1: water is flowing. And and it's like causing another thing,
Speaker 1: because especially if it goes through like tribal lands too,
Speaker 1: there's like another layer of like racism and like ability
Speaker 1: for them to advocate for, like the rivers that flow
Speaker 1: through their territories and things like that. It's just the
Speaker 1: very climate change. I'm telling you, it's just it's just
Speaker 1: it will always cause more chaos and reveal how just
Speaker 1: inefficient and backwards many of our systems are. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the the the increasing stuff in Europe, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: is very very disconcerting because a lot of scientists are like,
Speaker 1: this is what happens because of our hubrists, which is true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, if I listen to them, they're like, are
Speaker 1: you sure? It's like, yeah, brat unlike our friend Jack,
Speaker 1: no offense, real sciences pH d degrees. How here running
Speaker 1: around with beakers and test tubes and lab coats doing
Speaker 1: the science they know, they know they probably Brogan knows
Speaker 1: some science. Okay, he knows how long it takes you
Speaker 1: to to pass out from being in a rear naked
Speaker 1: choke exactly. Yes, yeah, very rigulous. He can figure it
Speaker 1: out within a half second. He's pushing new boundaries on
Speaker 1: like how wide a human can be at the same time,
Speaker 1: like as being he's wider than he is tall pretty soon,
Speaker 1: which is kind of kind of impressed. Are next characters? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which that's science man. You don't get that way without
Speaker 1: applying sign science man. That's true. Um right, what is
Speaker 1: something you take? Is underrated? Say hydrated? So both of
Speaker 1: my but my both my over and underrated are both
Speaker 1: water related. The phones from the sky very much whack
Speaker 1: drinking from a cup first thing in the morning, like
Speaker 1: two glasses of like lukewarm lukewarm water. Especially you just
Speaker 1: just absorb it immediately and you feel more alert. Your
Speaker 1: senses are all percolating. Are you ready to go out
Speaker 1: there and kick the day's ass if it were raining?
Speaker 1: The other one because now you're trapped in your house
Speaker 1: and you gotta get all or whatever. But uh, same hydrated,
Speaker 1: you really can't you like more, people need to embrace it.
Speaker 1: Dot's embrace it. Don't don't shy away. There's a Remember
Speaker 1: there was like a a bait for a while, like
Speaker 1: should it be like warm water or like ice cold water?
Speaker 1: Remember there's like like some people want to wear like
Speaker 1: ice cold water in the morning, but most you are like, no,
Speaker 1: it's better for your digestion if it's lukewarm. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just love the same temperature as you, no offense.
Speaker 1: I mean that's cool. I feel like ice water. I
Speaker 1: mean it's kind of fun up same temperature is me,
Speaker 1: but just it's like I'm home. It like just jumps
Speaker 1: in and it's like amongst its people with the rest
Speaker 1: of the water in you because it's all the same.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, there's no yeah, there's no. There's no friction
Speaker 1: at the door. No, first the door. They're not like checking,
Speaker 1: not like oh dress code. No, it's just like again,
Speaker 1: what's good like iceberg? Slim? Okay blended blended. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to break myself from like cold water. Now I
Speaker 1: just do cold ish water, but not like ice water,
Speaker 1: because I just I just feel like the all the
Speaker 1: old world like information, like all the like a Spanish
Speaker 1: mom I lived with for a while was like I
Speaker 1: thought that cold water was I actually had really bad allergies.
Speaker 1: She thought that cold water was making me sick. And
Speaker 1: my mother in law from Korea is like thinks the
Speaker 1: cold water is like you might as well be just
Speaker 1: like laying around in cold water like that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what my mom thinks too. Yeah, just like cool Japanese lady.
Speaker 1: She's always like, why are you drinking stuff so cold?
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna die? And I'm like, you just grew
Speaker 1: up drinking tea all the time. And also a child
Speaker 1: also a childhood without ice because post World War two.
Speaker 1: But whenever I'm drinking ice water, there's always like this thing.
Speaker 1: She's like, she'll like shiver watching me drink ice water.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she's like, oh, what's you sipping on? What you got?
Speaker 1: What's that browsed up ice coffee? Nice? I'm also drinking
Speaker 1: back to you right now drinking Okay, yeah, I need it.
Speaker 1: I needed some cold brew to get mine my blood
Speaker 1: circu thing. I like to just shock my system with
Speaker 1: like cold and then hot cough, cold water, hot pof
Speaker 1: just confused. It's called body confusion. I learned about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a real thing, Like muscle confusion that like right
Speaker 1: right right to vary your workouts and stuff. My muscles
Speaker 1: are dumb as fun. They're always confused. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't need to like torture myself to that also
Speaker 1: sounds like some brag on Someone on Rogan was say like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: oh my god, dude, my biceps, dumb as fun bro
Speaker 1: so fucking confused, doggy delirium. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. And yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is old news by now,
Speaker 1: but Eric King, God, Jeff Bezos all hell, he left
Speaker 1: the planet yesterday more earning. And I mean, it just
Speaker 1: couldn't have looked more like a dick. Like, it literally
Speaker 1: could not have looked more like a dick. And people
Speaker 1: tried this may have zero sense of like awareness of
Speaker 1: like or weariness of irony or anything. Just like, yes,
Speaker 1: please make it as funt like as possible, and let's go.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's British suddenly, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because the Richard Branson, the last one who took off
Speaker 1: a little British billionaire residue. Yeah, it's but it's I
Speaker 1: just it's one of those things that we our online
Speaker 1: social media metabolism. We just like burned through it real quickly.
Speaker 1: But it's like years from now people are going to
Speaker 1: look back on that and be like, what the fund
Speaker 1: was happening? Why? Real? Yeah, that should have san the
Speaker 1: irony should have been it crashing into the earth because
Speaker 1: it would have been more of a metaphor about how
Speaker 1: he's fucking the entire planet. Yeah, but you know whatever
Speaker 1: what I said, it was a metaphor he was hoping
Speaker 1: to appropriate, which was fucking space. That's That's how I
Speaker 1: like to believe that his engineers or whoever like, got
Speaker 1: hired to build the thing. We're like, how can we
Speaker 1: just subtle fuck? You'd be like, yo, bro, no, listen,
Speaker 1: like the aero dynam and the dynamism of the phallic
Speaker 1: shape is the way to go. We promise it's nothing weird.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh sure, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes,
Speaker 1: And they're like snickering as they pull all the lovers
Speaker 1: to make it go up because I got you, bitch,
Speaker 1: like to look at the top. Dude, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: in there, Like yeah, exactly, he approved this. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know, he doesn't. He just through cash at it.
Speaker 1: Who knows. I really like that theory that they did that,
Speaker 1: because there's also the fact that he kind of looks
Speaker 1: like Dr Evil already, and like there's the reference to
Speaker 1: the Austin Power spacecraft that like motivated a three minute
Speaker 1: long dick joke, and this actually looks more or like
Speaker 1: a dick like that. The Awesome Powers one had two balls,
Speaker 1: which kind of helped with the overall joke of it.
Speaker 1: But this one actually like just looks more like a
Speaker 1: dick than that. I'm sure I have forgotten about the
Speaker 1: Awesome Power similarity. Like how more cartoonishly evil could you be? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like a literal cinematic parallel of evil villain in
Speaker 1: a dick ship. Yeah, they should honestly just like blurcle
Speaker 1: that thing out, like it should be blurred out, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I steel violated and seeing it's indecent. And he actually
Speaker 1: went to the space right because he's did he actually
Speaker 1: break where he went whatever the home or whatever? He said,
Speaker 1: he went to orbital, So okay, you ain't got ship daddy,
Speaker 1: go out there and fun this guy. Yeah, this was
Speaker 1: I keep thinking of. You know when when you're a
Speaker 1: kid and you touch the bottom of the pool and
Speaker 1: then come right back up. It's like that, that's what
Speaker 1: this is. He touched the barrier and was like we um.
Speaker 1: I actually have a direct quote from him. Mission control
Speaker 1: did a status check after the crew members buckled back
Speaker 1: in aboard, after they got to like float around a
Speaker 1: little bit, and his quote was asked for not bezos
Speaker 1: in my seat. Happy, happy happy, So it's cool. It's good. Brother.
Speaker 1: Did the brother that's a clone make it back to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe they inject him from the ship. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: other thing was wild is when he came back. You know,
Speaker 1: he had that press conference and he's like, I'm giving
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars to Jose Andres and Van Jones, okay,
Speaker 1: to do whatever they want. And it's like full what
Speaker 1: And I think again He's like, yeah, I gave away
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars. Please don't make me pay taxes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like roll back the guillotines, like I gave it to
Speaker 1: a black man and a brown man. And whether or
Speaker 1: not those people are you know, are Josi Andres. I
Speaker 1: love his working. Van Jones's little have a few question
Speaker 1: marks over, but I think the optics. He's like, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be great. It's great, and they will decide
Speaker 1: what to do, so I don't have to be the
Speaker 1: one that decides. And just in keeping with the you know,
Speaker 1: ham fisted melodramatic political cartoonist who has been writing reality
Speaker 1: for the past six years, I just want to check
Speaker 1: on a couple of headlines that were trending at the
Speaker 1: same time that he was going into space in a
Speaker 1: dick shaped rocket. We had how bad is the Bootleg fire?
Speaker 1: It's generating its own weather, So that's a fire that's
Speaker 1: caused by and creating climate change. And then US renews
Speaker 1: public health emergency due to COVID nineteen pandemic. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's. Things are going well down here until Bazos
Speaker 1: is like, why don't we just put concrete over all
Speaker 1: that stuff if it's gonna burn every time? Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: give him any ideas. What if you listen to the show,
Speaker 1: Yeah he does. He's Yeah, he's Defence that always put
Speaker 1: hater comments in the thing. Jeff, alright, let's talk about
Speaker 1: that January six select Committee. We're finally going to get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of this thing, or I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, he has picked five men to be on
Speaker 1: the January six committee, because if you remember we talked
Speaker 1: about how the formation of this committee, you know, Pelosi
Speaker 1: doesn't have to accept these five picks. They're just sort
Speaker 1: of done in consultation with the Minority leader. And he's
Speaker 1: picked Jim Banks from Indiana Old Screamy Jim Jordan's from
Speaker 1: Ohio and a few other people in including Troy Nails,
Speaker 1: who was a former sheriff who helped Capitol police hold
Speaker 1: back insurrectionists during the attack. So um, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Three of them also voted to overturn election results. So
Speaker 1: this is going to be a very interesting group if
Speaker 1: Pelosi accepts them. Again, she doesn't have to, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure McCarthy's being very intentional by having you know, Jim
Speaker 1: Jordan's be part of that, because why would you have
Speaker 1: someone that many people are like, he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: getting people fired up, like as much as anybody that
Speaker 1: was actually a seated member, you want him to be
Speaker 1: part of this committee. I mean, I'm sure if you know,
Speaker 1: if Pelosi declines, then they'll have their am to say
Speaker 1: this partisan. Look, they have the person who's it, who
Speaker 1: was like an insurrectionist, you just keeping for insurrections, he
Speaker 1: can't be part of the thing that investor good And
Speaker 1: if you remember, the Senate Republicans shot down a proposal
Speaker 1: to have an independent body investigate because of the you know,
Speaker 1: they're like, look, we doesn't have to be people from
Speaker 1: the Senate or whatever. We have an independent body investigate this.
Speaker 1: And Republicans said that that was too partisan. So what
Speaker 1: it's it's just a very I don't know. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Um. I know Liz Cheney is one of
Speaker 1: the people that Nancy Pelosi did ask to be as
Speaker 1: part of the committee a if you would like you know,
Speaker 1: many other Democrats. But we will see with this because
Speaker 1: the other thing is too Republicans they were putting up
Speaker 1: such a fight with this whole investigation because they know
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna incriminate few members they get. Because they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, this is nonsense. They completely walked away
Speaker 1: from negotiations, so they gave away their powered like veto
Speaker 1: and subpoena power if they were if they had actually
Speaker 1: like committed to being part of this. So now it's
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, a clown show. Was Jim
Speaker 1: was Jim Jordan's like part of the these election results
Speaker 1: aren't trustworthy type ship, like he was on he was
Speaker 1: on that thing. Oh yeah, okay, okay, oh yeah. He's
Speaker 1: a big life supporter. He's a big old, big lie,
Speaker 1: big lie guy. Which again I don't know how that
Speaker 1: how anyone could like that doesn't I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm trying to like apply like logic
Speaker 1: or like I'm like, you can't have someone who's implicated
Speaker 1: in the attack also be one of the investigators. Like
Speaker 1: it feels like that, Tim Robinson, like, I think you
Speaker 1: should leave sketch with the hot dog card drops through
Speaker 1: the thing. That's what we're trying to figure out did this?
Speaker 1: It's like, and why are you here leading the questions?
Speaker 1: It was you? Yeah, And the other thing they're trying
Speaker 1: to do is you know, there if if these people
Speaker 1: get on, I'm sure the other thing that they want
Speaker 1: to do is hijack the agenda to make sure that
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we're gonna talk about political violence when
Speaker 1: you to talk about the summer of what was going
Speaker 1: on with all the George Floyd protests. That's really the
Speaker 1: thing that they want to offer as a counterpoint. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're going to see in terms
Speaker 1: of I don't know what what the truth they're trying
Speaker 1: to get to unless it's some kind of conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: But water it all down and so whatever results ultimately
Speaker 1: emerged from it, shouldn't you know, move forward, as you know,
Speaker 1: and the suggested composition like what are we gonna do.
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do with it? Like oh great,
Speaker 1: like how we found we found me? Didn't they wrong? Now?
Speaker 1: Like the same way with like you know, Trump's many crimes,
Speaker 1: they ain't going to jail. That's what will be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what happens if how Pelosi plays this, like
Speaker 1: if if she does have Jim Jordan's on, whether that's
Speaker 1: just a move where she's like, all right, I know
Speaker 1: you're just trying to get me to say no to him,
Speaker 1: so you can already say the things, you know, a
Speaker 1: fucking sham from the beginning, or let him go in,
Speaker 1: make a fool of himself, leak that stuff. Be like
Speaker 1: this guy sums up with this dude, we need to
Speaker 1: get him out. Actually I don't know. But so I
Speaker 1: like to be a podcaster instead of a politician, or
Speaker 1: you do both? Do both rads? Sick? Yeah? Fine, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, we're running. I'm running for governor. Man, everybody's
Speaker 1: on it for California governor right now. Apparently the oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the water is great. Yeah, Jack, you're running to right,
Speaker 1: don't yeah, come through. You can use my address to
Speaker 1: say you live there. But there's I feel like there's
Speaker 1: a motivation on the Democrats part, Like I've just noticed
Speaker 1: this with Biden and like how he's talking about the
Speaker 1: infrastructure and like the filibuster reformed. That like there just
Speaker 1: seems to be a like they're as motivated to keep
Speaker 1: things the way they are as Republicans are, Like they
Speaker 1: want things to stay sort of quote bipartisan to the
Speaker 1: degree that like nothing actually gets done like that that
Speaker 1: seems to be where we are at. As there comes
Speaker 1: a time and when if you are not willing to
Speaker 1: play dirty put aside to Korum and all of that
Speaker 1: stuff and fight and just getting nasty, do you are,
Speaker 1: Cause it's conceiving a fascism straight up, period, point blank.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, and you can't. And I think
Speaker 1: they're like, well, there may be a way that we
Speaker 1: can do the Democrats version of fascism that like it's
Speaker 1: fine for people, it's palatable, and you can talk about
Speaker 1: it on TV and most people aren't going to get
Speaker 1: the new on the Rainbow Republican version. Yeah exactly, And
Speaker 1: what we're it can take cloth when we're in here
Speaker 1: saying hey, come through, you're gonna love our version. But
Speaker 1: like the whole thing with even with that you know,
Speaker 1: like it just rings so hollow when you know Biden
Speaker 1: is just like completely ignoring what progressives are saying, like
Speaker 1: we will not support this other dumb fucking bill you
Speaker 1: want if you don't actually address things like paying essential
Speaker 1: workers and climate change, Like this isn't just gonna be
Speaker 1: a Rhodes and Bridge fucking deal here, Like we have
Speaker 1: real ship that has to be addressed, and the version
Speaker 1: like and it's starting to ring hollow too, along with
Speaker 1: the increasing threat of this just some just ridiculous, cynical,
Speaker 1: undemocratic play that the Republicans are trying to make in
Speaker 1: every state house of them just sort of acting like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so bad. It's like, well, then do something.
Speaker 1: It like feels like the bit that I'll do. Jack
Speaker 1: Well used to go to lunch and I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot my wallet when the bill comes and you're
Speaker 1: like a man and you're like looking around to see
Speaker 1: if people are buying your bullshit. It's clearly such a
Speaker 1: bullshit thing. And that's how I feel. And every time
Speaker 1: I hear Chuck Schumer Biden talk about the difficulties they're
Speaker 1: having while at the same time being like, we need
Speaker 1: to pass this Bill. It's like, well, if you know that,
Speaker 1: then you know what the fund to do. God damnit.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you don't you don't have your wallet
Speaker 1: because you don't have money, and you don't want to pay.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do anything because you don't want
Speaker 1: to change anything. Right, all right, let's talk about Fox
Speaker 1: News is continuing evolution. But they must have gotten a
Speaker 1: like a season desist or something. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like there's like something legally has changed, because suddenly
Speaker 1: suddenly they are open to admitting that vaccines work. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: did y'all see that reporting from Ryan Graham of The
Speaker 1: Intercept which showed that Fox News required as like has
Speaker 1: vaccine passport, vaccine past? Yet exactly you have interesting upload
Speaker 1: that you got the vaccine and if you didn't, then
Speaker 1: you gotta like wear a mask or social distance or
Speaker 1: staying off is by yourself and negative test and all
Speaker 1: that negative tests and all of that after all of
Speaker 1: the ship they've been saying, and so I think they're like,
Speaker 1: what we got cooks and like now they're like, oh, actually,
Speaker 1: you know, I never said I didn't. What are you say?
Speaker 1: So it seems like there's been some overall change in
Speaker 1: direction or at least like they are these moments where
Speaker 1: they're acknowledging the efficacy of the vaccine, but they'll say
Speaker 1: it like right next to some bullshit that like it
Speaker 1: flies to the vaccine doesn't work or is dangerous like
Speaker 1: not just like somebody in the morning will say a
Speaker 1: thing about getting like how you need to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And then Tucker Carlson's show later like this handity clip
Speaker 1: comes right after he is saying some like anti vactor ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's getting angry that a university, I think the
Speaker 1: University of Indiana was mandating vaccines for faculty andes to
Speaker 1: it's because of pandemic. And then he pivoted to interviewing
Speaker 1: a young woman whose legs like went numb after getting
Speaker 1: a vaccine, but not the COVID vaccine, just someone who
Speaker 1: had a vaccine injury, and that this is where it
Speaker 1: gets well. Right after that, he says this, just like
Speaker 1: we've been saying, please take COVID seriously. I can't say
Speaker 1: it enough enough. People have died. We don't need any
Speaker 1: more death research like crazy. Talk to your doctor, your
Speaker 1: doctor's medical professionals you trust based on your unique medical history.
Speaker 1: Your current medical condition, and you and your doctor make
Speaker 1: a very important decision for your own safety. Take it seriously.
Speaker 1: You also have a right to medical privacy. Doctor patient
Speaker 1: confidentiality is also important, and it absolutely makes sense for
Speaker 1: many Americans to get vaccinated. I believe in science. I
Speaker 1: believe in the science of vaccination. Bro what yeah blanks
Speaker 1: being held hostage? Mr Hannon, That's what I was saying.
Speaker 1: It sounded like. And also the thing where he said, like,
Speaker 1: we've always been saying like we've been saying, like, bitch,
Speaker 1: you have been saying, know what that sounds like something
Speaker 1: you're trying to get like out there, just so like
Speaker 1: if there's a trial you can say like, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I went on my show and very much Yeah, like
Speaker 1: I've always been saying, We've always been saying, or some
Speaker 1: people at the network have been saying. So that's been
Speaker 1: like a huge A lot of people were like, this
Speaker 1: is a big head scratcher. But to Jack's point, it's
Speaker 1: not always the same thing. It's not consistent throughout the day.
Speaker 1: Because then at to your point, where I like the
Speaker 1: news about the vaccine passport came out and that they're
Speaker 1: enforcing these same sort of draconian policies that they scream
Speaker 1: about on their shows. And also the thing is that, like,
Speaker 1: it's very likely that many of these people, if not
Speaker 1: all of them, are vaccinated, they're just not acknowledging it publicly.
Speaker 1: And but but again, before we give Fox like a
Speaker 1: round of applause for having a change of heart, I
Speaker 1: just want to check in with Brian Kilmead, who if
Speaker 1: you remember when we played the clip from Fox and
Speaker 1: Friends yesterday when do see on Fox and Friends was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I believe in the vaccine, Like kill me? Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: He had his own little opinion segment that he did.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind that Brian Kilmead is vaccinated. Okay, and
Speaker 1: listen to this take he had. So let's get this straight.
Speaker 1: Of COVID hospitalizations are unvaccinated people who, by the way,
Speaker 1: made their own choice not to be vaccinated. And if
Speaker 1: you need a recent to get vaccinated, I guess you
Speaker 1: just got one. But since when do we count on
Speaker 1: the President United States for healthcare advice? Let me answer
Speaker 1: that we do not, but that isn't stopping him from
Speaker 1: offering us his unsolicited, unscientific input. Okay, um, I think
Speaker 1: you were like all preaching about hydroxy Clerk went at
Speaker 1: one point because the President, yes, your unscientific gas opinions
Speaker 1: about shit have to kill me, which is well, essentially
Speaker 1: like his point there is that like, hey man, if
Speaker 1: these motherfucker's want to die getting vaccinated, that's their choice,
Speaker 1: like reason. But no, huh okay, um Media Matters was
Speaker 1: doing like like you know, they looked at sort of
Speaker 1: just you know, all of the mentions of vaccination and
Speaker 1: like what the takes takes are, and they sat around
Speaker 1: fifty seven percent of the stuff that you hear on
Speaker 1: Fox News when it was talking about vaccinations would was
Speaker 1: like anti stuff, you know, was just sowing more disinformation
Speaker 1: or doing the thing where they just pose these questions
Speaker 1: like Tucker Carlson does, like I'm just merely asking if
Speaker 1: it works all the time, and if it does, then
Speaker 1: why aren't more you know what I mean, just that
Speaker 1: sort of cynical journalism, journalism just even journalism just hot takes. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I feel like even the positives that they're squeezing them
Speaker 1: there for whatever reason, whoever is holding them hostage with
Speaker 1: like sexual assault, like ugh lations, They're like, yo, I'm
Speaker 1: handing me. I'm gonna tell them, I'm gonna tell them
Speaker 1: what you did if you don't start talking about the vaccines. Also, yeah,
Speaker 1: I unfortunately it's just too a little too late, bro.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, they're just continuing to intersperse it with scaremongering.
Speaker 1: If you'remongering, and it's just like it's easier to like
Speaker 1: see that and be like, huh, that's an interesting take
Speaker 1: if when they're like promoting them and then just sit
Speaker 1: around and do nothing and just like and not go
Speaker 1: and just passively not go get it nonetheless. So it's
Speaker 1: just like the damage has been done. They could they
Speaker 1: could wholesale change their two now and it wouldn't matter
Speaker 1: because those viewers would just they go to O, A,
Speaker 1: N N. They go watch News Max, they just go
Speaker 1: watch whatever. Even lunear more. You know, right wing outlets
Speaker 1: are out there. It's like, oh, they've abandoned us. They've
Speaker 1: become some chumps. They've got they've got the Bill Gates
Speaker 1: chipping them and it's making them talk weird. They're lost.
Speaker 1: They're good. Also, they're like, Sirie, find my iPhone. It's
Speaker 1: like they're like great, They're like it told you within
Speaker 1: like twenty feet where your phone goes. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: tracking device. But the other thing, Yeah, it's it's there.
Speaker 1: There's a thing on O A N where recently somebody
Speaker 1: came out with like the wildest like just outlandish anti
Speaker 1: scientific claim against vaccines and like oh a N like
Speaker 1: was publicly like we believe in vaccination science blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Like that person is they're speaking for themselves. So it's
Speaker 1: weird how the networks. I think probably in in light
Speaker 1: of all like the dominion voting lawsuits and things like that,
Speaker 1: maybe realizing that there there could be possible repercussions for
Speaker 1: just screaming that out. But I mean, imagine how many
Speaker 1: lives would be saved saved if Fox was saying this
Speaker 1: from the beginning. But again, like because it's all about
Speaker 1: fracturing the country, like they couldn't even find a thing
Speaker 1: that would be the easiest thing for everyone to agree on,
Speaker 1: which is like, hey man, America's in trouble the country.
Speaker 1: We need to take care of you. We need to
Speaker 1: do the right thing because this is America versus being
Speaker 1: like I'll do what the funk I want, but that's America.
Speaker 1: And then you hear the stories about I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like the families, it's your family. Man, It's not just
Speaker 1: like if you don't care if you ever die, like
Speaker 1: you know, yolo sick. Love that for you, but what
Speaker 1: about your parents, what about your kids, what about your pats?
Speaker 1: What about your coworkers and your classmates and you're you
Speaker 1: know everybody the funding loves you, you know, like do
Speaker 1: it for them people, but people don't don't care about them,
Speaker 1: like I don't want to feel things I want to feel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a little bit of one of those like
Speaker 1: frog in the pot, like where the water slowly getting
Speaker 1: hotter and hotter until it's boiling, but you don't notice
Speaker 1: because yeah, just when you take a step back and
Speaker 1: realize they're willing to hurt people, like they know the
Speaker 1: vaccine works, they're getting the vaccine, but they're willing to
Speaker 1: let people die in order to continue to you know,
Speaker 1: sending that message bury their heads and the profit off
Speaker 1: an audience that wants to hear that. Yeah, exactly. I
Speaker 1: mean could you imagine just like there's like a terrible
Speaker 1: wave of like COVID deaths and it's like they hollow
Speaker 1: out their audience, Like would that be like the scientific
Speaker 1: experiment that they're looking at. It's like if you feed
Speaker 1: these people this diet that is diametrically opposed to their safety,
Speaker 1: Like eventually are they going to reap what they're sewing
Speaker 1: in the form of like just I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: the people that you profit from, So maybe change your
Speaker 1: business model little bit, encourage those that by the products
Speaker 1: that advertise in your shows to live. But if that's
Speaker 1: what they're responding to, like somebody put a chart in
Speaker 1: front of them that was like we're seeing a a
Speaker 1: viewer dip or all our viewers are going to hospital rooms.
Speaker 1: They're they're just going to TVs that are in hospital
Speaker 1: rooms now, so we might need to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: switch things up a little bit. It's just yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's just sad, just sad, the amount of people that
Speaker 1: are susceptible to misinformation, like of many different ideologies because
Speaker 1: you get the woo yoga crowd who probably vote for
Speaker 1: Obama three times type of you know, people who are
Speaker 1: like out here now fully like oh no, I can't
Speaker 1: do it, I can't do it, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is the world ring it is, this
Speaker 1: is the world. Profound profound observations from I heard we
Speaker 1: live in a society I don't know where I read that.
Speaker 1: It could be misinformation. I'm glad you went there. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you. Yeah, I heard tell we live in a society.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back. And the Texas State Senate
Speaker 1: has just passed a bill to get rid of a
Speaker 1: requirement that said the teachers had to teach that the
Speaker 1: clue Klux Klan was morally wrong. It also removed Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Jr's I Have a Dream speech has required
Speaker 1: curriculum and suffrage, the women's suffrage movement, civil rights just
Speaker 1: generally like making it so that there are no requirements
Speaker 1: around the teaching of the history of white supremacy in
Speaker 1: this country, which means that in a lot of cases,
Speaker 1: like teachers have come forward and said, I feel like
Speaker 1: physically threatened if I am teaching this as a as
Speaker 1: like my own decision, because like parents are are not
Speaker 1: wanting their kids to hear that, like in in these
Speaker 1: this is a lot bleaker than I thought. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I like when I heard the school boards
Speaker 1: passing resolutions announcing critical race theories, like I understand why,
Speaker 1: Like I can understand why people's resistance to being told that,
Speaker 1: like they're part of the problem. Like I get how
Speaker 1: that hurts, Honny, Like I understand sweet hard, Like that's
Speaker 1: really hard, even though it's conversation we need to have,
Speaker 1: but like seeing its actual instantiation, and like, we're not
Speaker 1: going to teach about the suffrage movement. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: we're not gonna teach about like Caesar Chavez, We're not
Speaker 1: teach about m ok. It's like, oh, oh no, this
Speaker 1: is a whole another level of life. Oh make y'all
Speaker 1: ignorant ignant that only history is white history and white
Speaker 1: male history and also like all of these things right,
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, because one of the first things
Speaker 1: I was taught in college, like America is a white supremacist,
Speaker 1: capitalist patriarchy, And I was like, what the classes this?
Speaker 1: And then and this is precisely it. They are trying
Speaker 1: to erase anything that would give someone the critical functions
Speaker 1: to understand the systems of oppression that work in this country.
Speaker 1: Because I'm like, fun, man, were we got too loose
Speaker 1: with this teaching people history stuff that now we have
Speaker 1: to I mean, granted they're not saying it's banned, but
Speaker 1: they're saying they're so longer required, so then you know,
Speaker 1: fucked up school districts can make their decisions that way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's just it shows you, like clearly
Speaker 1: that the a level of progress just in general. It's
Speaker 1: just such a frightening prospect to conservatives that to now
Speaker 1: even be like, oh, yeah, we're not even teaching history anymore,
Speaker 1: Like we can't even do that because I mean I
Speaker 1: already had my critiques as someone that today's education partially
Speaker 1: about like the limits of civic's education today where it's like,
Speaker 1: I'll we teach about the civil rights movement as if like, oh,
Speaker 1: we beat slavery, we beat racism, it's over. But like
Speaker 1: if y'all not even gonna teach about how they kind
Speaker 1: of sort of started to begin to beat racism period,
Speaker 1: we in trouble. This is we be in trouble. Would
Speaker 1: be like I remember, like they're going to completely take
Speaker 1: away stuff like you know, maybe Alexei to Tokoville or
Speaker 1: these other like nuanced things or you know, talking about
Speaker 1: MLK or w B w B two Boys or things
Speaker 1: like that, and be like when Tom Brady when his
Speaker 1: seven Super Bowl children with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. People
Speaker 1: thought that was impossible, but he had a dream, and
Speaker 1: you're like, what the way? What then are the teaching
Speaker 1: somebody be raised their hands to be like what about
Speaker 1: Trina and Simone bios and get in school, get out,
Speaker 1: get out of here? Do you think this is gonna
Speaker 1: make history like the edgiest ship for for teens now?
Speaker 1: Because if they're not teaching it, you know how like
Speaker 1: kids be like, yo, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: then they're like, y'll read this. Howard's in real quick
Speaker 1: man your head you're not on opening. And then you
Speaker 1: know during recess, be like, yo, I got so many pamphlets,
Speaker 1: we got them. Okay, what you want? What you need?
Speaker 1: You want some SUPs to be Anthony, You want some
Speaker 1: little cesar chavas in here. And you want to know
Speaker 1: about physiognomy or phrenology. Kids like you can tell some
Speaker 1: bands something taboo, something's not included. They're like, oh work.
Speaker 1: They'll be like we actually just learned about phrenology and
Speaker 1: class but like like as if it's science. No, no,
Speaker 1: not like that, notledge. It's really cool. I want to
Speaker 1: be a phrenologist. Mom. It's like, wait, what the fuck
Speaker 1: I mean? I know about the pursuit of you know,
Speaker 1: band materials. Like I said, the original A t Aliens
Speaker 1: that had a different CD art on it. I remember
Speaker 1: trying to get that CD. Because again, kids, if you
Speaker 1: if you say there's a different version or something banned
Speaker 1: or whatever. I don't know, Like it's just in my mind.
Speaker 1: I just see like this weird world where kids are like, yo,
Speaker 1: check this book out right. It's like it's just history.
Speaker 1: It's history. Yeah, it's just a textbook. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: this we had talked about, like the GOP kind of
Speaker 1: weaponizing the words critical race theory as a talking point
Speaker 1: because I think it had pulled negatively with the base,
Speaker 1: and you know, they're using it to rile up the
Speaker 1: racist But this proves that, you know, like Mariah, like
Speaker 1: you said there, they're dead serious about making this part
Speaker 1: of of the future. Like what supremacy is a protected
Speaker 1: value of American children's civic at occasion, like that's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard when over half those kids are not white. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but I mean that's specifically what they're worried about.
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, I mean, because look it's coming, baby,
Speaker 1: look at the demographics. It's coming. Okay um, And it's
Speaker 1: just funny too because it's there. On Monday, there was
Speaker 1: a in Missouri. They had a legislative committee like can
Speaker 1: invite only hearing on critical race theory, didn't invite one
Speaker 1: black person, huh for this, for this hearing on whether
Speaker 1: or not should be taught? So you know this is
Speaker 1: you know, this is where things are headed. It's it's
Speaker 1: really it's really grim. So hey, if you're a parent,
Speaker 1: make sure that you tell your kids about the importance
Speaker 1: of history, because every time I see this, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: I'm glad. That's what I was the most interested in
Speaker 1: as a kid, like because it felt like the closest
Speaker 1: to watching a movie for me. Like history was easy
Speaker 1: to study because it felt like a narrative all the
Speaker 1: time and not like science with equations and ship I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, right, they did that and that made
Speaker 1: them do this and that's why it's like this now, Okay,
Speaker 1: I like this. So a little bit of hope is
Speaker 1: to pass this bill pass in the Texas Senate. Does
Speaker 1: that mean that it's not yet pass in the Texas House?
Speaker 1: That's right? Yeah, right, WHOA, I'm reading a little bit.
Speaker 1: Lord Jesus as I was nervous. This is them showing
Speaker 1: their hand of like what they want to do where
Speaker 1: they where they want to take things they haven't they
Speaker 1: haven't officially. Yeah, and then they do the thing where
Speaker 1: they then they do do the most inflammatory bill first,
Speaker 1: and then you dial it back and go, Okay, you're right,
Speaker 1: we just want to teach that the KKK isn't bad.
Speaker 1: We'll just do that one. Yeah, yeah, Compromised partisanship five
Speaker 1: partisanship was beautiful time baby. All right, let's check in
Speaker 1: with the Tokyo ship show that continues to unfold in
Speaker 1: the run up to the Olympics. In the newest bad
Speaker 1: news aside from like, you know, the raging pandemic, is
Speaker 1: that you know, the people who are being quarantined and
Speaker 1: like being forced to self isolate are not being like fed.
Speaker 1: They're they're like they they're stuck in their rooms, like
Speaker 1: journalists are stuck in their rooms, and then like there's
Speaker 1: no food being delivered to them, so they're like you know,
Speaker 1: starvation conditions basically. Yeah, I mean it's it's like it's
Speaker 1: to the point where, you know, like the protocol is
Speaker 1: apparently from the Olympic committees, like if something happens, then
Speaker 1: you'll be so you'll you'll self isolate and you'll get
Speaker 1: three meals a day like brought to you. So like
Speaker 1: the first day, people like, where's my food and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we don't, we're not that's not our department and said that,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't mean that, and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: so then like a lot of journalists have had to
Speaker 1: rely on their colleagues who are in the area to
Speaker 1: bring them food because like the overall Olympic, you know,
Speaker 1: body is not actually doesn't have a hand in that
Speaker 1: for some reason, or the municipal government. So on top
Speaker 1: of that, it's just like it's bad enough that that
Speaker 1: the like journalists are like, I'm gonna miss the opening,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna miss a lot of it if I'm
Speaker 1: here for fourteen days, Like I might as well have
Speaker 1: just not come here and watched the same damn TV
Speaker 1: that everybody else wasn't just done my reporting like that.
Speaker 1: But on top of that, this is from the Daily
Speaker 1: Daily Beast quote some of them say that they were
Speaker 1: exposed on the same flight that were so apparently this
Speaker 1: would happen where they were exposed on a flight and
Speaker 1: they said, hey, sorry, you run a flight with somebody
Speaker 1: that had that tested positive, you have to self isolated,
Speaker 1: so they said. Some of them say that they were
Speaker 1: exposed on the same flights that were carrying athletes to Tokyo.
Speaker 1: But those athletes have been told there's no need for
Speaker 1: them to isolate. The reporters say they're fully vaccinated and
Speaker 1: have returned multiple negative tests, but we'll spend the next
Speaker 1: fourteen days locked up in their rooms regardless. So it's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: how is this being applied in a consistent way? It
Speaker 1: isn't because there's enough. This also happened with the entirety
Speaker 1: of the BBC Scotland Press Corps that was traveling. They've
Speaker 1: also had to self isolate because they were on a
Speaker 1: flight that had a positive case on it, But the
Speaker 1: athletes on that flight not so much. Quote. The BBC
Speaker 1: has confirmed that although British Olympic athletes were on the
Speaker 1: same flight as the isolating BBC Scotland team, they are
Speaker 1: able to carry on with their preparations as normal if
Speaker 1: they keep returning negative tests. McLaughlin wrote in an article
Speaker 1: for the BBC, quote, I would be lying if I
Speaker 1: said there wasn't also huge frustration about differences in the rules.
Speaker 1: End quote. They're just so desperate to squeeze the entertainment
Speaker 1: out of the athletes so that they can, you know,
Speaker 1: do the pepsi commercials, sell the seats, seats in the stadiums,
Speaker 1: get the tourist money they can't even have. They don't
Speaker 1: even have tourists though. That's like the other part of it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why. Okay, everybody ever delivering you know,
Speaker 1: Toyota pulled out as an advertiser, but they still have
Speaker 1: all these advertisers that they are trying to deliver value for,
Speaker 1: so like of course they have to like let the
Speaker 1: athletes be out and doing their preparations, but the journalists
Speaker 1: aren't driving you know, advertiser value, so they're fucked. They're
Speaker 1: going to be treated like ship. I mean, it is.
Speaker 1: The Olympics are the most capitalist like kind of event.
Speaker 1: It's like capitalism, the super Bowl of capitalism, which is
Speaker 1: itself probably the super Bowl of capitalism, but yeah, the
Speaker 1: World's Fair of capitalism. It's like all these advertisers and
Speaker 1: it's just one of yet another example of how when
Speaker 1: things are off and when there's a lot of inequality
Speaker 1: and when there's a crisis situation. Our like hyper capitalistic
Speaker 1: kind of organizing principle that we've been going with for
Speaker 1: the past forty years, Like doesn't it just does work.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a ship show. It's disorganized. People are
Speaker 1: treated differently based on how valuable they are to the
Speaker 1: people who are exchanging the most money. Like that's that's
Speaker 1: all what it comes down to. And it's just not
Speaker 1: it's not it can't function. They have to understand, like
Speaker 1: how badly even like this purported like logic is of
Speaker 1: being like, oh, the journalists, even if they have negative
Speaker 1: tests or fully vaccinated, we can't have them do anything.
Speaker 1: The athletes, that's fine, because if a close contact is
Speaker 1: enough to isolate a journalist, surely you don't want the athletes,
Speaker 1: who you're saying, we're in the exact same environment to
Speaker 1: then go and pull up to the Olympic village and
Speaker 1: just start mingling with thousands of other people too. I
Speaker 1: don't even like if you're if you're if it's really
Speaker 1: about safety, then you have to actually be consistent without
Speaker 1: your isolating people to make sure you're limiting the spread.
Speaker 1: But again, it's not about that, and it's just so
Speaker 1: it's just like so transparently disastrous that it's just so frustrating,
Speaker 1: especially now that every like almost every country is and
Speaker 1: having like, oh man, two players in the Mexico baseball
Speaker 1: team got COVID, Like just wherever you've turned, like the
Speaker 1: reports of cases aren't declining, especially in athletes that are
Speaker 1: about to command I really feel like this is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is truly emblematic of the Olympics as an organization
Speaker 1: as well, because I remember back what was it, two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen till sixteen, and so she she was a
Speaker 1: mess and they wanted to blame it on oh, Russia,
Speaker 1: and like, I'm sure people this time we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to say, oh, Japan, they're talking up it's like the
Speaker 1: least common denominator here is that it's the Olympics. Bro.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is endemic to their you know,
Speaker 1: the institution that like they're just willing to do whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to pull off this massive sporting event for
Speaker 1: yeah to you know, get that get that out, because
Speaker 1: those advertising dollars, etcetera. At the expense of human life
Speaker 1: or you know, whatever anything whatever it takes to get
Speaker 1: it done. Sadly, yeah, it's it's it's really bad. And
Speaker 1: on top of that too, there's like this Paralympic swimmer
Speaker 1: who has a condition where she's deaf and blind and
Speaker 1: needs like a primary care assistant to help her, you know,
Speaker 1: navigate her day to day situations, which is her mom.
Speaker 1: And you know, she had a terrible experience in Rio
Speaker 1: where she wasn't able, like she wasn't able to have
Speaker 1: her mom around for like this short segment and was
Speaker 1: like having trouble you know, getting food because of her condition,
Speaker 1: and and in her trying to go to the Tokyo Olympics,
Speaker 1: they said, oh, your mom can't come because the rules
Speaker 1: are too strict with like outside people, like this is
Speaker 1: the Paralympics and I need this person to even be
Speaker 1: able to get to the venue, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: And because the Olympic committee is like, oh, our hands
Speaker 1: are tied. She tried to go to the government of
Speaker 1: like an ambassador to Japan to try and speak with
Speaker 1: the Japanese government. They said, oh, that's not on us.
Speaker 1: They tried to speak with the Olympic committee. They said, oh,
Speaker 1: that's on the US team, like they can just ask
Speaker 1: for more credentials. And she's like what the funk is this.
Speaker 1: So she's pulling out of the games because she's like,
Speaker 1: I refuse to subject myself to this because last time
Speaker 1: it was so traumatic for me. I'm not even to
Speaker 1: do this. And how dare you have people like allow
Speaker 1: people who are dependent on the help of others to
Speaker 1: just go up, like go through their lives and even compete,
Speaker 1: that you're gonna bar them from coming Like none of
Speaker 1: this makes sense. So you know, she's the swimmers like
Speaker 1: completely said, I'm I'm out of this too. So it's
Speaker 1: like everything just sucks about about the Olympics. And I
Speaker 1: hope at the end of this, like because of this
Speaker 1: one especially, people go, man, we need need to seriously
Speaker 1: rethink this ship, Like just put it in one place
Speaker 1: forever and you can you can maintain your facilities rather
Speaker 1: than always builking like local governments for their funds to
Speaker 1: sort of pay for stadiums and things like that. Just
Speaker 1: keep it in one place, because this ship feels like
Speaker 1: the monorail from the Simpsons or like you come around
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, man, if you get the Olympics here,
Speaker 1: like we'll do this and this and this, Oh, the
Speaker 1: people will be fucked. But the local the local contracting
Speaker 1: will be booming all that for nothing, and I just
Speaker 1: it's just like I I used to really like the Olympics,
Speaker 1: Like I really like watching people compete who are at
Speaker 1: the height of their abilities, but like this just puts
Speaker 1: such a stupid, fucking just I just can't now. I'm
Speaker 1: just like off this. I will say, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet somewhere somebody was like, I need
Speaker 1: to see one of these mofuers like the sprinters run
Speaker 1: against like a regular person to truly understand, Like how
Speaker 1: impressive you like, put me on the slalom and put
Speaker 1: me so I can truly understand because it is impressive
Speaker 1: to watch, but out of context of like seeing how
Speaker 1: dumbass the rest of us would look trying, it's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: that seems pretty cool. It's just sort of like it's
Speaker 1: hard to grapple with the true amazing nous of what
Speaker 1: they do out there sometimes. But even that aside, just
Speaker 1: institutionally the whole thing is sucked up. And maybe you
Speaker 1: know a boss Olympics, yeah, it would be hilarious. So
Speaker 1: just to be like, okay, for those people who don't
Speaker 1: like get the get the guy who you think is
Speaker 1: the most fit guy from your town, Okay, and we'll
Speaker 1: have one. We'll have one dummy spot in the Olympics
Speaker 1: so you can just see what the fund this looks
Speaker 1: like because this man will blow their hamstrings out the blocks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can ultimately impressed by like the other fucker's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I also like with the Simone Biles stuff
Speaker 1: because she's just next level and everything she does and
Speaker 1: I've just gotten spoiled them, like I don't know, that's
Speaker 1: the don't know. I had to like a lot of
Speaker 1: were like watch the gold medal winning performances from Ship
Speaker 1: in the eighties and early nineties, just so you can
Speaker 1: really understand how even then, even not even comparing like
Speaker 1: I'm amateur, just how far she's like progressing the sport.
Speaker 1: And those always you always need those little context things.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen like the measurement of you saying
Speaker 1: bolts stride length, it's not it's so wild. He'll like
Speaker 1: like six ft or some ship he takes one strides
Speaker 1: during the excuse me, yeah, other other like sprinters need
Speaker 1: like forty eight and he covers it in forty one
Speaker 1: like I would probably need, you know, and a break
Speaker 1: in between Yeah. So one thing that I I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is going to happen or change anything,
Speaker 1: but the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing Committee on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so yesterday, did not rule out a last cancelation of
Speaker 1: the Global Sporting which starts on Friday. So soun that
Speaker 1: guy's fucked. Yeah, he's having stress diarrhea every morning. An
Speaker 1: he needs the same security detail that the new leader
Speaker 1: of Perue needs. Yes, yes, oh yeah when that Olympic
Speaker 1: hit squad comes, Yeah, what did he do to deserve this?
Speaker 1: Like same thing the Olympics say, like has some sort
Speaker 1: of sex scandal and they were like, oh, let me
Speaker 1: tell everybody what you did. And they're like now please.
Speaker 1: So they're like, all right, we'll go send send Homie
Speaker 1: and send Homie out there and telling me might cancel it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do. That's so infuriating
Speaker 1: to even read that headline given everything else we've been
Speaker 1: reading and hearing about these games, Like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I could get canceled. I might start that, wouldn't I
Speaker 1: can only imagine a little bit of shot Troy, like
Speaker 1: y'all done all this fun ship you sent home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you made the deaf blind swimmer go home after she's
Speaker 1: like the most impressive athlete, and you know, all the
Speaker 1: ship we should carry all this funk ship with the journalists,
Speaker 1: and it's like, go have games. I would I would
Speaker 1: kind of enjoy if that happen. That would yeah, that
Speaker 1: would feel that would feel good. But then it sucks
Speaker 1: for everyone else. But then you're like, honestly, it's the
Speaker 1: pandemic and the Olympics were fooling everybody by even saying
Speaker 1: they could do it this year, So shame on them
Speaker 1: for even getting Mariah. It's been such a pleasure as
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Speaker 1: a tweet or some of the work of social media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying? Well, actually I mentioned one before we
Speaker 1: were recording that was funny, also weather related. Someone tweeted.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, every time it rains and then
Speaker 1: it's hot afterwards, like nature is trying to steam us
Speaker 1: like a bag of crabs. Yea, and tweeted after rains
Speaker 1: in Georgia, the sun immediately comes out to steam us
Speaker 1: like a bag of crab legs. There's no other. There's
Speaker 1: no other in the history of of of of weather
Speaker 1: anecdotes that anything captured experience more pre but other than that. Recently,
Speaker 1: I watched the former mayor of Atlanta get dunked on
Speaker 1: real hard for like he he like planning. So he's
Speaker 1: running Christine Reid. He's running from mayor again. He's got
Speaker 1: all his corruption charges against him, like federal corruption, like
Speaker 1: like proceedings against him. I don't know why he's running.
Speaker 1: But so he planted a yard sign of his and
Speaker 1: like some random person's yard who like tweeted at him
Speaker 1: like yo, home, whytch you put this into my yard?
Speaker 1: And then he was like it's Christine Reid, former member
Speaker 1: of Atlanta, tweeted this guy like, well, why do you
Speaker 1: follow me? And then he just got likes ratio so
Speaker 1: bad by the good people, the good people in the
Speaker 1: city of Atlanta who were like, homie, you were vuying
Speaker 1: to become one of the most powerful men in the South.
Speaker 1: Can you just please have a shot at dignity a
Speaker 1: little bit? Miles Where can people find you? What's a
Speaker 1: tweet you've been enjoying? Uh, you can find me Twitter,
Speaker 1: Instagram at miles of Gray and also the other show
Speaker 1: for twenty Day Fiance. If you like ninety day Fiance,
Speaker 1: come check out that podcast because I love trash TV
Speaker 1: and I hope you do too. Um some tweets I like.
Speaker 1: First one is from Bailey Moon at Dailey Moon fifteen,
Speaker 1: tweeted Susan be shopping Anthony just thinking about the suffrage
Speaker 1: movement and yeah, just that coming out um, and then
Speaker 1: another one from at stand. Fritz tweeted, how do you
Speaker 1: say I don't give a fuck professionally? Yeah, I'm taking it.
Speaker 1: Let's see some tweets I've been enjoying Kellgore Trout at
Speaker 1: Kellgore Trout a little curb bond to get Reference tweeted,
Speaker 1: Uh my kid crying, just losing her mind as I
Speaker 1: explained why she cannot sleep with a water balloon. Uh
Speaker 1: str hit home. I have very similar conversations every night.
Speaker 1: Tray at Trade day Way tweeted, I carry around flower
Speaker 1: tortillas just in case I need to turn something into
Speaker 1: a taco, which is just good policy and eating. Dranger tweeted,
Speaker 1: I'm just a girl standing in front of the fridge
Speaker 1: wishing it was a boy. You can find me on
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Speaker 1: we talked about in today's episode, as well as a
Speaker 1: song that we think you might enjoy. Miles what song
Speaker 1: are we sending people to track out Twitter. This is
Speaker 1: a collaboration between this beat maker who have haven't heard
Speaker 1: from in a minute, No such thing um and this
Speaker 1: Korean em C Park hey Jin. We went out on
Speaker 1: one of her tracks like maybe a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: but this new track, I mean, I'm really I don't
Speaker 1: speak Korean, but I feel like I do when I
Speaker 1: listen to these tracks because they just they go hard
Speaker 1: and the production is really cool. I just like seeing
Speaker 1: sort of more forward thinking be production over k hip hop.
Speaker 1: So this one's called Clouds by Park Hegent and No
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