Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, Episode four
Speaker 1: of j Daly Like guys to production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. That's that a screaming part at
Speaker 1: the beginning feels very weird to do. I'm in my
Speaker 1: in law's house right now. My mother in law is
Speaker 1: like right next door, and she made reference to that.
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, no, you can like go in there
Speaker 1: and like do all your screaming or whatever. She's like
Speaker 1: telling your kids. She's like, so your dad just screams
Speaker 1: all day. Yeah, so he's just in there screaming by himself. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it is Thursday one. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
Speaker 1: Hello Twitter post. What you know when I've come to
Speaker 1: watch your hot takes grow in? Ain't you got no
Speaker 1: rhymes for me? Do do do feeling chooky da da
Speaker 1: da da feeling chow. That is courtesy of gold John
Speaker 1: I and I am thrilled to be joined as always
Speaker 1: buy my co host, Mr Miles grag You give me
Speaker 1: a number, I call you up. Yeah, like your chuk
Speaker 1: you don't interrupt. I don't have a problem with you
Speaker 1: wearing Uggs, but I have a little problem with you're
Speaker 1: not wearing Uggs game. Maybe I got your muggie, don't
Speaker 1: you worry? Said, hey, baby, you sip your Muggie. Whoa, look,
Speaker 1: the chew vibes are all over the blaze. You had
Speaker 1: to take it to the O D b uh and
Speaker 1: shout out to the people on discord for that wonderful
Speaker 1: a k. Mr. Fish. I love the fact that like
Speaker 1: a lot of people like it's usually teachers. We don't
Speaker 1: have actual gen z, you know, listeners, but teachers are
Speaker 1: like I asked my daughter or I asked my like students,
Speaker 1: and they said, that's not a thing. So I do.
Speaker 1: There's part of me that hopes that this is all
Speaker 1: like a bit that they're doing and even more embarrassingly
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, anyways, Miles, we are blessed to be
Speaker 1: doing in our third seat by one of the best
Speaker 1: rappers doing it, one of the funniest comedians. Rappers want
Speaker 1: to be comedians, comedians want to be rappers. He said,
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'll do both incredibly well. His most recent
Speaker 1: album is Anime Trauma and Divorced. You know from TV
Speaker 1: shows like The New Negroes, History of Swear words and
Speaker 1: just being one of the funniest comedians and dopest rappers
Speaker 1: doing it. He is open Mike, he now feel bad
Speaker 1: because I'm not gonna wrap after you said I'm a
Speaker 1: good rapper album. People can go check that shut out.
Speaker 1: That thing you just did was five times more entertaining anything.
Speaker 1: I love the line I don't have no problem with you,
Speaker 1: non problem. That should have so good. That's the one
Speaker 1: that sealed it. Yeah, as I read, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I'm going to leave my body. I like
Speaker 1: how you made your eyes real big to you really
Speaker 1: got into od Beka. Yeah. I wish people could see
Speaker 1: there's no way you can. I mean, for anybody who
Speaker 1: grew up with that era of rappers being like your
Speaker 1: era of rap, you can't just casually do anything from
Speaker 1: Russell Jones uh and keep it like low key. You know,
Speaker 1: it has to be you have to have the energy
Speaker 1: when you do it, an unfacable fund uppedness that he
Speaker 1: brought every every time on Mike Mike, What's What's new
Speaker 1: with You? I have a podcast network called Stony Island Audio,
Speaker 1: and we have a flagship program called What had Happened
Speaker 1: Was where I take one artist and interview them every
Speaker 1: episode for an entire season. This season, our guest is
Speaker 1: LP run the Jewels Company Flow, Deaf Chuck's fan. We
Speaker 1: just released at pisode nine with him today. And last yeah,
Speaker 1: last season was Prince Paul and we got a bunch
Speaker 1: of shows on a network. So if people like to
Speaker 1: hear rap talk like kind of what we just did
Speaker 1: that little slice that like, our network is just that
Speaker 1: a lot. LP two. That's another one from that was
Speaker 1: like the first time I was I have my head
Speaker 1: turned when I when I started listening to Deaf Jucks,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, hold on, what's what are they
Speaker 1: doing over here? Now? What's what is this? What is
Speaker 1: going on? But yeah, man, that sounds like he's gonna
Speaker 1: I gotta I definitely check that out. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: deep in on all of that old choogie indie rap,
Speaker 1: right like talking about cage and stuff. Yes, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: That's certainly a different format like interviewing the same person
Speaker 1: for a whole season, like do you what? What's that experience? Like?
Speaker 1: Do you? It makes it makes them very tired? Just
Speaker 1: what like around episode four, they're very sick of talking already?
Speaker 1: Is it done? In one session? Or you do it
Speaker 1: kind of like weekly or how do you do it
Speaker 1: kind of weekly? Or when I did it with with
Speaker 1: Prince Paul, we kind of we kind of did it
Speaker 1: in bulk because we were doing it in person, so
Speaker 1: we would we would do at least two episodes in
Speaker 1: a sitting, and with with l we we we tried
Speaker 1: to do that, but I think trying to do two
Speaker 1: episodes over zoom was just uniquely excruciating, so we just
Speaker 1: kind of do one at a time. What was the
Speaker 1: I mean, man, Prince Paul, I got everything. Everything you're saying, like,
Speaker 1: yes please because that soul album was yeah man completely,
Speaker 1: yea yeah, all right man, we're gonna get to know
Speaker 1: you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're
Speaker 1: gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. We're gonna check in. Somebody bothered to check
Speaker 1: in with the workers, those lazy workers who are not
Speaker 1: going back to work after the pandemic. Somebody was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I wonder if they really are just like we're lazy,
Speaker 1: or if they would have like reasons for not wanting
Speaker 1: to go back to to these jobs. The Chamber of
Speaker 1: Commerce was wrong. Yeah, shocking critical race theory seems to
Speaker 1: be uh the GOP's mid term issue, Like it's a
Speaker 1: thing that they think they can just kind of stake
Speaker 1: the whole mid term election around. We will check in
Speaker 1: with Havana syndrome. The New Yorker did a did a
Speaker 1: follow up article from the same people as the first article,
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll find out if anything's new. There a
Speaker 1: quiet place to come to theaters this weekend. I feel
Speaker 1: like it might be the first like movie where people
Speaker 1: are like, we're back fully other than well Fast Nines
Speaker 1: coming the week after. So this is like, this is
Speaker 1: when it starts to like they ramping it up a
Speaker 1: little bit. I just wasted all my money. So you
Speaker 1: bought some counterfeit tickets to Fast Night. Someone said they
Speaker 1: had them early, sir. That's a like literally they're crackers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're talking abou because the Simpsons first well, first off,
Speaker 1: there's no such team as the Spung Gosh. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Citizen app which is just a nightmare that
Speaker 1: is looking to get worse. We'll talk about the culture war,
Speaker 1: bringing in legos to the fold, just trying to kill
Speaker 1: off everything that we hold sacred from our childhood. The
Speaker 1: conservatives are trying to weaponize at all. Uh. And also,
Speaker 1: what does it mean that Amazon bought MGM, including James Bond, Like,
Speaker 1: what what does that mean for us? Probably nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first we like to ask our guests, Mike, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history that is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? I was searching the Clippers because I
Speaker 1: was trying to find a way to watch the game
Speaker 1: and I don't have cable and whatever this Valley's Network
Speaker 1: is that apparently bought all the Clippers games. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that like bought Fox Sports or whatever. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. I learned all of this
Speaker 1: very quickly last night when I realized that a national
Speaker 1: playoff basketball game I couldn't watch because I live in
Speaker 1: the city that the team plays in and I don't
Speaker 1: have the right wires coming into my house. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people talking about like how
Speaker 1: they ran the the NBA scheduled the Lakers game and
Speaker 1: the Clippers game at the same time, same damn time.
Speaker 1: It's pretty ridiculous. Yeah, it's pretty And I know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of puzzle pieces with stuff being on the
Speaker 1: West coast and you know, all the moving parts with
Speaker 1: all the games was the first round, so there's like
Speaker 1: all of these series happening once. But you you figured
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even be on the same day and the
Speaker 1: same and this is game two of round one. There,
Speaker 1: this was unavoidable. It's not like this is you know,
Speaker 1: they're one teams in the first round Game seven and
Speaker 1: the other teams that like, this is just straight up
Speaker 1: this was the plan all along. Mike, you the Clippers, Man,
Speaker 1: I think so, or I thought I was. Now I'm
Speaker 1: I'm just confused, man, I'm just confused, Like I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's happening. They seem cursed, yeah, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's too dangerous to root for them
Speaker 1: now because who wants who wants heartbreak that it's for
Speaker 1: sure coming right, and for people who don't know it
Speaker 1: might not be interested. You know, one of the big
Speaker 1: things going into this postseason with the Clippers is that
Speaker 1: they tanked because you know, some they tried to manipulate
Speaker 1: their records so they wouldn't have to face the Blazers.
Speaker 1: They didn't want they want to avoid stronger oppositions, so
Speaker 1: they wanted to face the Mavericks, and now they're down
Speaker 1: to nothing in the series is handed to them by
Speaker 1: the people who they who they chose right, and the
Speaker 1: and and and that's weird because I was talking to
Speaker 1: Jack earlier off Mike, I was like, psychologically, you don't
Speaker 1: want to go in like strategizing if you're if you're
Speaker 1: intent is to say no, actually, I believe this is
Speaker 1: the team that's the best in the league. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: matter who the funk you play, because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you're going to prove that through your wins.
Speaker 1: But to then strategically avoid oh tylu come on now,
Speaker 1: sorry buddy, but you know, maybe he's just a he's
Speaker 1: an undercover Laker in disguise. It's so it's so wild,
Speaker 1: like the fact that the Clippers are down to oh
Speaker 1: to to the Mavericks to like a team that I
Speaker 1: think I think most people had the Clippers winning that series.
Speaker 1: It really does make you ask questions about like the
Speaker 1: psychology around both that, like the team that you're playing,
Speaker 1: realizing that you wanted to play them because you didn't
Speaker 1: respect them enough, and then the psychology around like playing
Speaker 1: for what is supposedly a cursed franchise. Well, if you
Speaker 1: watch the last dance, I think what we should all
Speaker 1: take aways. You don't make people angry on purpose, right,
Speaker 1: don't Yeah, because they will, like athlete have some good
Speaker 1: job of turning that into fuel. Yeah, yeah, like they.
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason that the team that broke
Speaker 1: the curse for the Boston Red Sox were affectionately known
Speaker 1: as the idiots. Like there's like something psycho logically complex
Speaker 1: in sports about like playing for a cursed franchise and
Speaker 1: you just have to either like stupid your way through
Speaker 1: that or just like through sheer tyranny of will. Like
Speaker 1: I'm sure Lebron would be able to do that. I
Speaker 1: mean he did that with the Calves, but not to
Speaker 1: piss off Clippers fans even more. But I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? The Los Angeles Clippers.
Speaker 1: So we don't have we don't have to stay on them.
Speaker 1: I just we have three basketball fans talking right now,
Speaker 1: and this is what's happening right now. I'm I'm on
Speaker 1: the other side of that lifelong Laker fan, so I
Speaker 1: I love it. Uh, this is when I become my
Speaker 1: most toxic because a lot of the times, I'm I
Speaker 1: love the relationship between like a franchise that defines themselves
Speaker 1: based on someone else, and I just love to see
Speaker 1: a backfire. But part of me also like on paper,
Speaker 1: I'm like they I'm like scared of the Clippers until
Speaker 1: I see the results and then I'm like, let's well,
Speaker 1: it's up and down like they should be like really good.
Speaker 1: I'll be surprised if they lose the series still because
Speaker 1: I just feel like k while put it together. But man,
Speaker 1: it was the last person to go to games down
Speaker 1: yeah right and then come back win. So you know,
Speaker 1: se Yah are you feeling I mean what I mean you, Mike,
Speaker 1: you look lost as we talk about this, and just
Speaker 1: I feel like you're watching like old Darius Miles highlights
Speaker 1: playing well. I mean, I did have to watch the
Speaker 1: game in my own mind last night, that is, that
Speaker 1: is part of I couldn't actually see it, so I'm
Speaker 1: just like watching Google for information and live score coverage.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to pirate stuff anymore. See
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't know. But also, hey z gang
Speaker 1: holler at, holler at Mike, go on Twitter with some
Speaker 1: info because there are plenty of ways because it's the
Speaker 1: same thing like Spectrum Sports or in l A, what
Speaker 1: do you want to watch your team? Where Yeah, you
Speaker 1: have to just work around these greedy broadcasters. Yeah I
Speaker 1: got I got caught out there yesterday. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what to do, so yeah, yeah, I mean I only
Speaker 1: caught I caught like highlights. And then at the end
Speaker 1: of the Laker game, they like cut to you know,
Speaker 1: they started watching it on the t N T brow
Speaker 1: or the whatever this broadcast was. Yeah, so you could
Speaker 1: got like the last couple of minutes where like Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley like oh man, and they weren't even It was
Speaker 1: funny because they were they were just watching and they
Speaker 1: weren't really giving commentary, but it was commentary. And that
Speaker 1: this is what it sounds like when the four of
Speaker 1: them are watching something passively Lakers fans. Miles, you said
Speaker 1: you were a lifelong Lakers fan, and that that's true.
Speaker 1: You had to live through those tough times when they
Speaker 1: were where Kobe was still putting up like eight one
Speaker 1: and no stop stop stop. I was here. I wasn't
Speaker 1: there one like Lakers fans know my history, man, like
Speaker 1: fucking down, I've I've held ashes in my hands and
Speaker 1: be like, what is happening? And then yeah, the pensions
Speaker 1: on the other way, and now you know, I'm using
Speaker 1: this to completely become an insufferable fuck. So I'm a
Speaker 1: Bulls fan, so I have no sympathy for you at all.
Speaker 1: We haven't won anything in my adult life. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: one loss in the playoffs. The Lakers lost their first
Speaker 1: game of the playoffs, and I was getting the texts
Speaker 1: from Lakers fans being like, what is Vogel doing right away?
Speaker 1: People with passionate context of what a postseason even looks like.
Speaker 1: It's like, we only did a couple of times. I
Speaker 1: think it was like against that one series against Iverson
Speaker 1: where we like went winning every single game on the
Speaker 1: way to the finals, and then when we lost, like,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that one lost again, like one of those
Speaker 1: hard things that Lakers fans had to live through when
Speaker 1: they lost that one game to Iverson. That was hard, man,
Speaker 1: That must have you swept everyone else that year. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, these are the same people who were texting
Speaker 1: me last year being like Vogel should be fired, like
Speaker 1: halfway through a run to the playoffs where they won
Speaker 1: the championship, and they're like back, They're like this guy,
Speaker 1: What the what is he doing? It's like you think
Speaker 1: that it would build up faith, But I don't know
Speaker 1: Lakers fans. I don't call for heads like that. Like
Speaker 1: that's like any anytime somebody's coaching Lebron, like part of
Speaker 1: their job description is to take all the blame for everything,
Speaker 1: because you know, we all think that Lebron's really coaching
Speaker 1: the team and that guy's just standing there a board.
Speaker 1: That's right, Tyler. That one picture he's like outside the huddle,
Speaker 1: like dumping on someone's back. What is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Comic books? And I might have said that
Speaker 1: last time, but it's still true. I read a really
Speaker 1: good comic book last night. And the reason I decided
Speaker 1: to tell people that comic books are underrated again because
Speaker 1: I read a really good comic book last night and
Speaker 1: there's like nobody to talk about with because there's not
Speaker 1: enough people that read these things. Even like on YouTube,
Speaker 1: where you think there's ten million people making videos about everything,
Speaker 1: there's like five guys to make comic book videos. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not fun. What do you mean? The New
Speaker 1: X Man is written by this guy named Jonathan Hickman,
Speaker 1: who's an incredible writer. And he just paid off the storyline.
Speaker 1: It started like two and a half years ago. It's
Speaker 1: really amazing, and I can't find other people who care.
Speaker 1: So I'm promoting comic books people who like comic book movies.
Speaker 1: Remember there's weekly source materials that cops out every week.
Speaker 1: It's really cheap. You can own it. An Iron Man
Speaker 1: can even be back in it if you want. You know,
Speaker 1: he's very alive in the in the comics very much,
Speaker 1: just like three of them. I think, like you have
Speaker 1: plenty you know. Wait, so what does the new X
Speaker 1: Men look like? What are they? Is it? Is it
Speaker 1: new characters and things? Man seems so Hickman changed the
Speaker 1: stat quote. Remember the Island of Krokoa. Does that ring
Speaker 1: any belt for you at all? Okay, So the Island
Speaker 1: of Krokoa, they all the Mutants and Marvel now live
Speaker 1: on the island of Krokoa. They've declared themselves an independent
Speaker 1: nation state and and they've bioengineered these drugs that like
Speaker 1: cure all human diseases, and they hold that over all
Speaker 1: the humans heads as political capital. So they got like
Speaker 1: ratified by the u N quickly, and they have these
Speaker 1: gates that they grew where they can like go go
Speaker 1: to other places instantly, and only mutants can use them.
Speaker 1: If human tries to walk through, they're like crack their
Speaker 1: nose on it. You know, they're based, They're just gangsters.
Speaker 1: Now it's great, fantastic, So like the rest of the
Speaker 1: world has to deal with it's like living in like
Speaker 1: a world with like one superpower, but it's like pat
Speaker 1: superpowered by mutants and mutants, yeah, by people who were
Speaker 1: formerly hated, feared and oppressed and murdered a lot. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: we're we're not gonna do that anymore. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: this now. And everyone is scared. Oh man, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I was just like I would saying the other day,
Speaker 1: like the Jim Lee X Men was like the last
Speaker 1: time I was heavy into it. And it's a long
Speaker 1: time ago. I know, I know it's been twenty five
Speaker 1: years around room, but um but I do have the
Speaker 1: Marvel Unlimited app, so I do. I still check in
Speaker 1: on comic books, but that's but I also need suggestions
Speaker 1: and so now I'm gonna put this on there because
Speaker 1: I do love I just the app has made reading
Speaker 1: comics a lot easier for me. I do everything digitally
Speaker 1: now as well, and it's it's really easy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the House the ex Powers attend is is the mini
Speaker 1: series he put out roughly two years ago to change
Speaker 1: the whole status quo and creates the the environment we're
Speaker 1: in now in Marvel comics in terms of the Mutants.
Speaker 1: That sounds dope, Jack, What was the last comic book
Speaker 1: if you read wo Man, were you like a little
Speaker 1: little or did you even get mess with comics when
Speaker 1: you don't really funk with comics just like the movies,
Speaker 1: the toys that all that ship right right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't really funk with it. But now my three
Speaker 1: year old is real into like Marvel and ship and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out like, like I was just
Speaker 1: researching squirrel Girl, which I think is I had heard
Speaker 1: of like a couple of things you were just talking
Speaker 1: about there maybe, but yeah, like I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what the what the best way in is for
Speaker 1: like someone who's really young, but he's like obsessed. He
Speaker 1: knows every like his the way he learned the alphabet
Speaker 1: was like a Marvel book with like ant Man, Black Panther,
Speaker 1: like you know, the A, B, C's of Marvel characters,
Speaker 1: and so I gotta I gotta figure out I gotta
Speaker 1: like get up on the on the comic book universe,
Speaker 1: because I feel like that would be the next level
Speaker 1: and like the I don't want him to have to
Speaker 1: like jump straight to the shitty movies, you know, get
Speaker 1: him into trench Er from Image comics, just some like
Speaker 1: weird assode niche comics from the nine Blood blood Shot
Speaker 1: or Iron Gut or whoever. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: I will say this, like I learned to read Japanese
Speaker 1: as a kid from reading like manga, because like I
Speaker 1: didn't go to Japanese school, but my mom. I grew
Speaker 1: up with my mother speaking Japanese to me, so I
Speaker 1: was fluent in speaking Japanese, but I didn't. I never
Speaker 1: went to school to learn how to read and write.
Speaker 1: And I learned that from reading like early dragon Ball
Speaker 1: and stuff, and that I actually kind of helped cultivate
Speaker 1: my relationship. Like reading was I got a lot of
Speaker 1: momentum with comic books, and that helped me not be
Speaker 1: afraid of normal books down the road and be like, yo,
Speaker 1: there's also information in these that can help me out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up on like hardy Boys books
Speaker 1: which suck, and like, I wish somebody had introduced me
Speaker 1: to like cool comic books when I was that age.
Speaker 1: But I was just like, well, this these are books.
Speaker 1: These are the books that I have. So it's party
Speaker 1: plucking the worst man. And I was like a completionist.
Speaker 1: I had like one through tree and they were so bad. Anyways,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And so the mainstream media was doing their
Speaker 1: thing with their like capitalism bias of just going to
Speaker 1: the employers the capital and asking them for their take
Speaker 1: on you know, the labor shortage, the difficulty that companies
Speaker 1: were having getting open to back up because they couldn't
Speaker 1: find people too higher to do the job. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and even in that description is so sinister when it
Speaker 1: should be that companies don't pay people enough to even
Speaker 1: get them to think it's worth their labor and they're
Speaker 1: having trouble find folks to exploit unless you're gonna say
Speaker 1: it like that, but yeah, that whole conversation gamed a
Speaker 1: lot of steam. And there were so many that, you know,
Speaker 1: there was that whole streak of people taking pictures of
Speaker 1: signs posted up in windows. Whether it was like people
Speaker 1: being like, sorry, people don't want to work because of
Speaker 1: the government subsidies, or are some people who were straight
Speaker 1: up like, you'll funk this place. They don't pay people
Speaker 1: ship you. You got us all fund up, will never
Speaker 1: work for this place. Sorry, you go get your fucking
Speaker 1: smoothie somewhere else. And now we're starting to see again
Speaker 1: that was a definite help. With the help of the
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce that helps represent all those employers, we
Speaker 1: got that sort of idea out. But then the Washington
Speaker 1: Post decided to do journalism and said, let's also talk
Speaker 1: to the people that have refused going back to work
Speaker 1: and what that means, and you can tear them away
Speaker 1: from the video games they're playing on their couch, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the wild thing. They talked to
Speaker 1: all kinds of people right when they start the article
Speaker 1: like this quote. Jim Conway started working in restaurants in
Speaker 1: nine teen eight two, making two dollars and thirteen cents
Speaker 1: an hour, plus tips, and though his world has changed
Speaker 1: significantly in the nearly forty years since then, his hourly
Speaker 1: wage has not. At the Olive Garden outside of Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: where he worked on the pandemic hit last year. He
Speaker 1: was making two dollars and eighty three cents an hour.
Speaker 1: So after being furloughed for months last bring Conway sixty
Speaker 1: four decided to retire right go. They wouldn't raise his
Speaker 1: wages ten cents a year. That's not even ten cents
Speaker 1: a year, a decade almost. It's it's really something. And
Speaker 1: again this is so the This whole article goes on
Speaker 1: to show you know, it's not that there are people
Speaker 1: who just said, oh fuck no, the benefits are too
Speaker 1: sweet for me to think of a job every It's
Speaker 1: all some version of yo, it's hell to work in
Speaker 1: some of these places. And this was just the push
Speaker 1: over the edge. I needed to actually advocate for myself
Speaker 1: or have the time because the pace of capital is
Speaker 1: m is so intense that I don't even have a
Speaker 1: second to take a breath and think of what I
Speaker 1: want to do that in that interim period of being furloughed,
Speaker 1: people are like switching occupations. So there's another one talking
Speaker 1: with people who were this This Crystal Mayor, who works
Speaker 1: in a restaurant in Austin said quote. The staffing issue
Speaker 1: has actually a lot more to do with the conditions
Speaker 1: that the industry was in before COVID and people not
Speaker 1: wanting to go back to that knowing what they would
Speaker 1: be facing with a pandemic on top of it. People
Speaker 1: are forgetting that restaurant workers have actually experienced decades of
Speaker 1: abuse and trauma. The pandemic is just the final straw, right.
Speaker 1: The hardest job, the most painful job that I ever
Speaker 1: had to do, was waiting tables at a busy restaurant.
Speaker 1: Waiting tables is so chaotic, so exhausting, so just like
Speaker 1: all consuming that like you're just fucking so broken by
Speaker 1: the end of it, and like there that that was
Speaker 1: something that I had no appreciation for when I waited
Speaker 1: tables and like worked with like bartenders and ship like
Speaker 1: the whole thing of like that all restaurant workers like
Speaker 1: do hard drugs. Basically, it's like, yeah, if I did
Speaker 1: this like for years, I would definitely need drugs just
Speaker 1: to get through that ship. And like that's the way
Speaker 1: that America treats it is like they create this hell world.
Speaker 1: They give you like illegal hard drugs to do that
Speaker 1: just like make your life bearable, and then they'll like
Speaker 1: put you away if if you get caught with them.
Speaker 1: It's just like the the hell reality. I mean that
Speaker 1: you wrote hell on Earth in your outline, miles, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that's literally what's what they're doing and
Speaker 1: then expecting people to just I want to go back
Speaker 1: because the national myth around like I gotta pull your
Speaker 1: stuff up by brute straps. So what happens next, I mean,
Speaker 1: is the bottom gonna completely fall out of like wage work?
Speaker 1: I would be I think it would be really fucking
Speaker 1: fascinating if that happened, right. I think it's just now
Speaker 1: they're they're realizing the pool people have been saying fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars at a minimum to even start a conversation, because
Speaker 1: there were like you know, viral images of like an
Speaker 1: ice cream's shop that was like, fuck it, we'll pay
Speaker 1: people fifteen hour, let's see what happens, and the line
Speaker 1: went around the fucking block. Um, it's just that they
Speaker 1: there was a threshold that they found, and I think
Speaker 1: obviously it should be way more than that. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you'd hope again, this is just the beginning of
Speaker 1: like a larger conversation about labor and things like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it seems like the only they're trying to incentivize,
Speaker 1: like some places are like, hey, come on an interview
Speaker 1: and get a fucking appetizer at Apple Piece. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I don't need your appetizers. I need a health been
Speaker 1: nis you talking about. So a lot of people are
Speaker 1: trying in their very small ways to try and entice
Speaker 1: people back. But I think overall, this again is like
Speaker 1: the we need to see just actual like subsistence wages,
Speaker 1: because right now too many people are on sub subsistence wages,
Speaker 1: meaning you cannot live off of your income from this job.
Speaker 1: And I think that you think overall we can shift up,
Speaker 1: you know, to a utopia where you only need one
Speaker 1: job to survive and support a family, or do you know,
Speaker 1: navigate your life as you see fit. But the other
Speaker 1: thing that's interesting is it's causing a lot of people
Speaker 1: to shift, like even just their idea of what their
Speaker 1: career was. Like. There was one guy who used to
Speaker 1: be a bartender. Now he's like like fundraising and organizing
Speaker 1: for a pack for like restaurant workers, and he just
Speaker 1: found He's like, I'm making as much money actually doing
Speaker 1: this nonprofit work then I did in a restaurant, and
Speaker 1: I'm actually liking it because I feel like I'm doing
Speaker 1: something and like I can see what I'm working towards
Speaker 1: and who it's gonna benefit versus like, you know, pouring
Speaker 1: drinks was cool, but I was I was saying, like
Speaker 1: I was getting burnt out telling people to wear their
Speaker 1: masks are like not and having the police. That just
Speaker 1: became too much and I'm not paid enough to give
Speaker 1: a ship. Then there's like other people who have like
Speaker 1: even gone into medical care, you know, because they were
Speaker 1: laid off, they needed time to they just need to
Speaker 1: do odd jobs. This one woman said that a friend
Speaker 1: needed someone to look after their elderly parent and now
Speaker 1: they're like, I'm actually thinking of getting into home medical care.
Speaker 1: That's that was Actually I like to definitely like to
Speaker 1: interact with people, which is why I liked working in restaurants.
Speaker 1: But now this other layer of like, oh it pays
Speaker 1: better and I can interact with people and be helpful.
Speaker 1: A lot of people also just I think seeing that
Speaker 1: their options are a little bit more. But I think
Speaker 1: a lot of the reason why people aren't able to
Speaker 1: see their options because ship, like you gotta constantly work
Speaker 1: and if you miss a week or something and you
Speaker 1: get hit with three bills out of nowhere, like your
Speaker 1: life is completely upside down. So hopefully there's just a
Speaker 1: change and outlook for you know, for people who are
Speaker 1: sort of at this point of trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what can I do, what's possible. There's an article in
Speaker 1: The New Yorker this week called the left ward Turn
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party about like this movement from like
Speaker 1: people who are involved in the Sanders campaign who then
Speaker 1: like went and like started their own organizations. One of
Speaker 1: those organizations was the one that got AOC elected, And
Speaker 1: just that I feel like we've reached a bottom for like,
Speaker 1: you know, the capitalist like corporate ethos where it's like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: come to this corporate pepper rally where we tell you,
Speaker 1: like make you feel good about the fact that we
Speaker 1: treat you like a disposable, you know, resource, and we're
Speaker 1: starting to see people like drop out of that economy.
Speaker 1: Like one of the people who was involved with one
Speaker 1: of these really influential organizations was like driving for Lift
Speaker 1: and like you know, doing a gig work and then
Speaker 1: you know started before we started doing this, and it's
Speaker 1: just I think there's just a complete difference in like,
Speaker 1: you know, we we've reached a bottom where like there's
Speaker 1: all these deaths of despair, and you know, the it's
Speaker 1: like almost like a spiritual low point. And now people
Speaker 1: are like kind of turning in best case scenario, to
Speaker 1: like community and like social minded things that like give
Speaker 1: them purpose and make them feel like they're actually helping
Speaker 1: people just to have that clarity to feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm being fucked. Actually, before I wasn't able to realize
Speaker 1: that because the slog and the churn of having to
Speaker 1: work didn't afford me the time to realize how badly
Speaker 1: I was being exploited. This one line Cook gives actually
Speaker 1: this sentiment because they're saying, like, you know, making a
Speaker 1: lot of like just low money and didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do. And he said that he thinks the pandemic
Speaker 1: has changed the paradigm for low wage workers, giving people
Speaker 1: more confidence to man better to demand better wages. Quote,
Speaker 1: there's a growing movement of people, including myself, that just
Speaker 1: flat out refused to work for somebody that isn't willing
Speaker 1: to pay a living wage. And I think that is
Speaker 1: the you know that that's hopefully what we're seeing more of,
Speaker 1: and you will hope that the business owners will see
Speaker 1: that too, But I don't know, you know that we're
Speaker 1: seeing them deploy their lobbyists to squeeze workers on the
Speaker 1: other side, on the government side, by cutting off benefits
Speaker 1: or like in some states being like if you're if
Speaker 1: you're a like exotic dancer, they'll be like, oh they
Speaker 1: just recently, I think I think it's Texas or maybe Florida,
Speaker 1: they're saying, if you're under twenty one, you can't dance
Speaker 1: at a club anymore. And then so that's creating like
Speaker 1: squeezes for people in that eighteen to twenty one gap
Speaker 1: who were normally working. So there's a lot of funk.
Speaker 1: Are we going on to try and you know, force
Speaker 1: people back into taking these wages? And I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, the resistance is strong from people to to
Speaker 1: accept that because I hope, you know, we're all seeing
Speaker 1: how bad ship wouldn't the normal was before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: that going back to it just doesn't seem feasible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. I wanted to give a quick update on
Speaker 1: Havannah syndrome, Like, do you are you familiar with what
Speaker 1: Havannah syndrome is? No? When I read this outlined his
Speaker 1: entire paragraph fucking terrified me. Just like three different points
Speaker 1: in it, I just like broke out in tears. So
Speaker 1: so there were diplomat It's just like the real quick
Speaker 1: thumbnail version. They were diplomats in Havana at the start
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration who started feeling like they were
Speaker 1: being hit with a sound being basically they were feeling
Speaker 1: like pressure changes in their brain. They were suddenly like
Speaker 1: had vertigo. Like even after the fact, I've been in
Speaker 1: between like thinking that it's like could be a mass
Speaker 1: psychogenic illness, like basically a a mass panic thing. And
Speaker 1: not because I think like people are being babies, but
Speaker 1: because I think the placebo effect and like the power
Speaker 1: of the mind to create actual physical symptoms in our
Speaker 1: bodies is like highly underrated. But the so the New
Speaker 1: Yorker differs with me. Uh And I've always said they
Speaker 1: were hacks, but they they believe that this ship is
Speaker 1: going on. They kind of wrote an article that went with,
Speaker 1: like the CIA take on it that they're they're being
Speaker 1: attacked by I probably Russia with microwave weapons. The New
Speaker 1: Yorker the CIA is still kind of on that path,
Speaker 1: and they believe that it's actually spread now to being
Speaker 1: at people being attacked while working at the White house,
Speaker 1: and there's been like people suffering from similar symptoms. I
Speaker 1: still think the symptoms are like kind of vague and weird,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's just very diffuse, which is which
Speaker 1: is what I think, which is why I still kind
Speaker 1: of lean towards mass psychogenic. But um, so what the
Speaker 1: US is doing now is they're going to try to
Speaker 1: create these weapons because so that's the other that always
Speaker 1: works out great, So that that's the But that's the
Speaker 1: thing that is so weird here is that science doesn't
Speaker 1: have an understanding of how a weapon like they're describing
Speaker 1: could do the thing that they're claiming it does. And
Speaker 1: so now they're going to like build weapons that they
Speaker 1: think can do this with microwaves and like train them
Speaker 1: on primates brains basically to try and recreate the symptoms,
Speaker 1: which is fucked up. So do we mean like when
Speaker 1: do you say microwaves? Right? How close is this to
Speaker 1: the thing that you know you hate soup with in
Speaker 1: your kitchen? Like how how like what what is what
Speaker 1: is the different differentiation there? Because I refuse to believe
Speaker 1: we have consumer technology that has not been tested as
Speaker 1: a weapon that that is the case, right. I think
Speaker 1: they're much bigger. Like one of the criticisms of any
Speaker 1: theory that this is like a real weapon being used
Speaker 1: on people is that like you would need a thing
Speaker 1: that is the side that would take up like an
Speaker 1: entire hotel room to like create the level of like
Speaker 1: radiation or microwaves that like would cause this sort of injury.
Speaker 1: And after it happens, they just like disappear, and it
Speaker 1: like happens in all sorts of days. It happens to people,
Speaker 1: like while they're walking on the street. It happens to
Speaker 1: people while they're driving in traffic. Again, the White House,
Speaker 1: which like you would think is pretty secure, like that
Speaker 1: it's happening to people there. There's also the fact that
Speaker 1: what this is happening at the same time that we're
Speaker 1: seeing things that science can't explain happening in the sky
Speaker 1: and now apparently in the sea, over the ocean and
Speaker 1: under the ocean, like that there's now a submarine data
Speaker 1: that suggests that like similar to the flying tic TACs
Speaker 1: uh submarine sonar has spotted things moving through water at
Speaker 1: speeds that don't make scientific sense. And so it's a
Speaker 1: weird moment where suddenly, like the military is just coming
Speaker 1: out and being like, uh yeah, so like we don't know,
Speaker 1: but the ship is weird. Uh. And they're doing that
Speaker 1: on like a number of fronts, So you could skeptically say,
Speaker 1: like they're using this as a ploy to make people
Speaker 1: scared to create like another arms race with instead of
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, like a imaginary threat. Fanos, right, Fanos basically,
Speaker 1: but it is it's still just kind of a mess,
Speaker 1: like the whole story, just like the reporting around it.
Speaker 1: It's still scary though. It's scary, scary. These words are
Speaker 1: very scary. There's something about increased white matter in here.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. What's white matter? Right?
Speaker 1: So that's the thing, Like they talk about the people
Speaker 1: who suffered the injuries, when they examine their brain on scans,
Speaker 1: they seem to have increased white matter, which or decreased
Speaker 1: I forget one of the two, but it's a bad one.
Speaker 1: Where like the thing that connects thoughts is not there
Speaker 1: as much as it should be. No, exactly the thing
Speaker 1: you said they're trying to re reverse engineered and tested
Speaker 1: on primates. Okay, so that's the beginning of Planet of
Speaker 1: the Apes, isn't right? That what is going to happen?
Speaker 1: Like you just suport charge their brains up right, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that's just that's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 1: Fingers crossed. It does seem like, yeah, this would be
Speaker 1: a great origin story. At the same time, the it's
Speaker 1: probably just going to make those primates lives shitty from
Speaker 1: the rest of their existence, like it has for the
Speaker 1: people who work in the State Department. And again, by
Speaker 1: saying mass psychogenic illness, I'm not saying this is something
Speaker 1: that they could just snap out of. Sounds like what
Speaker 1: you're saying. You just sound like you're saying they're whiny.
Speaker 1: Yeah you don't get it. Yeah, stop blinding, be right.
Speaker 1: I do hope though, that this does lead I just
Speaker 1: want to see a Silverback Gorilla rip off parking meter
Speaker 1: out of the fucking sidewalk with concrete on it and
Speaker 1: just like chuck it through like an armored sheriff's car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like when these primates are unleashed. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see that from afar. Yeah, I think I'm actually
Speaker 1: just I'm just thinking up things I've seen in Planet
Speaker 1: of the Apes, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so those
Speaker 1: first just plenty of the Apes movies are dope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would suggest you watch those those wait movie yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the what the Franco and then the other one. Those
Speaker 1: are those are pretty cool. Alright, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break now that we're all suitably terrified, and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back and this weekend, A Quiet
Speaker 1: Place Too is hitting theaters, which is interesting. This is
Speaker 1: probably the longest marketing push a movie has ever had
Speaker 1: because this was a movie like there were billboards all
Speaker 1: over l A that was like March A Quiet Place
Speaker 1: two is hitting and then you know, the pandemic happened
Speaker 1: and those billboards stayed up there. But this is this
Speaker 1: is a movie we talked about at the time because
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's like made people feel weird with
Speaker 1: It's the first movie people were pointing out it's like
Speaker 1: brown skinned alien monsters who react viciously to the slightest noise.
Speaker 1: And people were like, is that a metaphor for the
Speaker 1: fears of like, you know, white fragility, like people sensitive
Speaker 1: white people who are like you so mad at us
Speaker 1: there we can't say anything anymore. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: found that somewhat convincing, and John Krasinski is like ensuing
Speaker 1: pro c I a pro positive spin on the news
Speaker 1: vibes just kind of continue to make maybe like huh,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't I'm not saying he's doing anything knowledgeably.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't even No, I don't like
Speaker 1: John Krasinski, right, that guy when I remember when the
Speaker 1: first one came out. I just don't like this kind.
Speaker 1: I just don't watch these sort of horror adjacent type
Speaker 1: things in general but my own personal taste. But yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: go go be scared of whatever, whatever version of you
Speaker 1: you want to bring into it. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people like it. It seems very thrilling. But there's
Speaker 1: just something that I've soured so hard on John Krasinski.
Speaker 1: It's like wild, I've never this has not happened that
Speaker 1: often where I'm like, oh, man, I used to love
Speaker 1: that show and now I'm like, funck, this dude is dumbass,
Speaker 1: fucking news show and yeah, you're as big off as
Speaker 1: fan as I know, and um, yeah, well then but
Speaker 1: that ship started hitting differently when you sort of look
Speaker 1: at like all the just sort of like lazy racism
Speaker 1: of like Michael Scott and you're just kind of like
Speaker 1: funck man, like this is the kind of ship we
Speaker 1: weren't like examining, like the Michael Scott's of the world
Speaker 1: that allowed like the slow boil into like harmless racism
Speaker 1: or you know, ignorance and ship like that. That's the
Speaker 1: show has been sort of tinged like that for me
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. But I saw this
Speaker 1: video of John Krasinski surprising people at the theater to
Speaker 1: watch it, and for whatever reason, that completely turned my
Speaker 1: heart ties. I don't know why that did it. That's
Speaker 1: what did it. I was like, at least for this film,
Speaker 1: was like, why the fuck can't like, why are you going?
Speaker 1: It's like, oh shit, about to surprise these people with
Speaker 1: my spooky outfit on? And by spooky outfit on, I
Speaker 1: think you have like yellow pants. But that's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just a bad I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about him to have too much
Speaker 1: against him. But I'm always suspicious of people. Who's whose next?
Speaker 1: Get that big, that fast? You have a very skinny neck,
Speaker 1: and now he's got like two of those next. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand how that can happen quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's training U bonds. Capitalism's Invisible Army, the c
Speaker 1: I A. He like trained, he like his whole So
Speaker 1: he became Jack Ryan for that Amazon Prime series which
Speaker 1: Amazon If a series happens on Amazon Prime, it actually
Speaker 1: doesn't happen culturally, nobody had, nobody watches as far as
Speaker 1: I know, but his inner use around that series, who's like,
Speaker 1: I just have so much respect for the CIA, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know what what they do for us, and they're
Speaker 1: always out there protecting us and yeah, yeah, it's that
Speaker 1: that bothers me more than his yellow pants, but his
Speaker 1: yellow pants also suck. It's also weird that, like I've
Speaker 1: he snuck up on people at a movie screening for
Speaker 1: a movie he's not even in, like he's he directed this,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if like that's a that's a
Speaker 1: big like, oh my god, it's the director like that,
Speaker 1: that's who I would want to hear talk about the movie,
Speaker 1: but people in theater don't know he had he's directing it.
Speaker 1: I would have been like, oh cool, John Krasinski is
Speaker 1: here with cameras in my face, But I am wait.
Speaker 1: I am just interested in this from a box office perspective.
Speaker 1: Like we we talked earlier in the week about how
Speaker 1: sports fans clearly seem like they're ready to get back
Speaker 1: at it. And you know, we'll we'll see if movie
Speaker 1: fans are following suit this weekend and then F nine's
Speaker 1: coming next weekend. So I can't I can't imagine personally
Speaker 1: rushing to a movie theater to see something scarier. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I need a I need a movie to give me
Speaker 1: a hug right now. I don't. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go be scared. That doesn't that seems counterintuitive to me personally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm in the same boat. Like the idea
Speaker 1: I'm I want to see, like I want to do
Speaker 1: it incrementally, you know. Like that's why it's funny when
Speaker 1: you see like at AMC, they're like, you know, they're like,
Speaker 1: you can rent the theaters out privately and we'll play
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Yeah, Like you could get a twenty
Speaker 1: theater and play back to the Future so you can
Speaker 1: get twenty of your friends that you're like, I can
Speaker 1: at least vibe with these people and we can watch
Speaker 1: Back to the Future for five bucks in the theater.
Speaker 1: And this feels okay, But like, yeah, the idea of
Speaker 1: something a post apocalyptic world with all this like energy. No,
Speaker 1: Like I think I'll just watch horor fly fast in sky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean we're all closer to our families now
Speaker 1: after like going through this together, at least some of us.
Speaker 1: And what is fast and furious but showing us our
Speaker 1: families depicted on screen. Uh, it's all about family. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that that feels like I just want Tom to take
Speaker 1: me in his arms and uh, you know, be my
Speaker 1: brother that I never had. So I'll wait for f nine.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the Citizen app. People probably
Speaker 1: heard of the Citizen app. If you haven't, it's like
Speaker 1: next door. It's a personal safety app and quotes that
Speaker 1: alert you to crimes and other emergencies happening in your city,
Speaker 1: usually not very close to you, usually like very not
Speaker 1: reliable in terms of the reports that it's making and
Speaker 1: the commentary on there. It's more racist than Parlor before
Speaker 1: January six. Sucking the vibes on these these neighborhood apps
Speaker 1: is like so ridiculous. The suspicious individual seen walking down
Speaker 1: the street, It's like, we know what that means. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if you're concerned that the app might embolden vigilantism,
Speaker 1: those concerns probably won't be allied by the fact that
Speaker 1: Citizen began as an app literally called Vigilante. So they
Speaker 1: were very clear up top, like what their goal was,
Speaker 1: what they had in mind, and then they got kicked
Speaker 1: off of that store because they were like, what are
Speaker 1: you fucking kidding? You're like, all right, what about this
Speaker 1: uh amateur batman? Yeah, like what the fund is that?
Speaker 1: That's even worse. But that's so so perfect, like for
Speaker 1: a a thing to just change its name like one
Speaker 1: and eighty degrees to the thing it is not. It's
Speaker 1: not a it's not good for citizenship, it's the opposite
Speaker 1: of that, and it's good for Vigilante is um. And
Speaker 1: they're like, oh well, we'll just change it. It's like
Speaker 1: the U. S. War Department changing its name to the
Speaker 1: Department of Defense once they started waging offensive wars. So anyways,
Speaker 1: as of last year, Citizen began reintroducing the feature allowing
Speaker 1: users to report emergencies, which is the thing that got
Speaker 1: them into trouble in the first place. You know, it's
Speaker 1: basically letting people use Citizen the app to instead of
Speaker 1: like calling nine one one, they'll like have They'll start
Speaker 1: streaming the video and that's a problem for a number
Speaker 1: of obvious reasons. But like they've already showed the problem
Speaker 1: with that because they tried, Like during the California wildfires,
Speaker 1: they basically blamed an unhoused individual for starting the fires
Speaker 1: and offered a thirty thousand dollar bounty for people to
Speaker 1: quote hunt down the person who started the fire. This
Speaker 1: was all the way, like the CEO of the company
Speaker 1: did this was like we gotta show that this app
Speaker 1: is for like active justice or something, and they got
Speaker 1: the wrong guy. Like predictable shit. Yeah, that's the whole
Speaker 1: These apps are so fucked up, and all they're made
Speaker 1: to do is like perpetuate this like cruel unusual world
Speaker 1: syndrome people already have from looking at the news too much.
Speaker 1: Like I remember if you fun before the pandemic, we
Speaker 1: talked about how they like apps like this. We're hiring
Speaker 1: crime beat writers to help create more content to reinforce
Speaker 1: this idea of how unsafe where you live is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to motivate more purchasing of like Nest cameras and all
Speaker 1: this other ship where they're like reporting local crime and
Speaker 1: like you're saying jack, it'll say local, but when you
Speaker 1: really look at the map, you're like, man, it's just
Speaker 1: sucking four miles ago. It's not my neighborhood. It's in
Speaker 1: the city, it's not my specific neighborhood. But most people
Speaker 1: aren't looking at that, and they look at just this
Speaker 1: like feed of fear that they're just ingesting, and on
Speaker 1: top of that just all the racial biases that are
Speaker 1: wrapped up in that and how What's interesting though, two
Speaker 1: is you'll see these debates go off where someone comes
Speaker 1: in and like, we gotta get these unhoused people out
Speaker 1: of here. And if you're like, okay, can you have
Speaker 1: some more compassion? Do you even understand like why people
Speaker 1: are on house the failure of the city, do them like, well,
Speaker 1: I just think it's this. And sometimes people get schooled
Speaker 1: and they learned and people like oh I never actually
Speaker 1: thought about that, thank you. Then there are just like
Speaker 1: the straight up trash people who are there to just
Speaker 1: keep you know, they get bored on Facebook so they
Speaker 1: just start copying and pasting their status is to citizens. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like it's Facebook brought into physical really like
Speaker 1: geo cashed Facebook to use a really old term. But
Speaker 1: I just think it's so funny that the CEO of
Speaker 1: this guy Andrew Frame like staked his whole like he was. So.
Speaker 1: Another thing they're doing is introducing like a security force,
Speaker 1: which like a car that has citizen on the side,
Speaker 1: making your world a safer place and Los Angeles professional
Speaker 1: security written on the outside of it all black, uh
Speaker 1: Ford Explorer looking like fucking cop car. It's a fucking
Speaker 1: cop card. There's a cop car. It looks like a
Speaker 1: cop car. Yeah, amateur whatever, want to be violently on
Speaker 1: what then these people are doing? Yeah, and they partnered
Speaker 1: with l A p S which is like l A
Speaker 1: Private security who are people who are like privately paid
Speaker 1: to Basically they drive around with the carry guns, they
Speaker 1: have bulletproof vests. And the thing that they want is
Speaker 1: to basically have the power of police to arrest people.
Speaker 1: That's what they're like lobbying for. They wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to make a citizen's arrest, that would branded citizens. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they're there pitches basically more cops but less accountable, which
Speaker 1: seems like not the not the right move at the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, this is all on the heels
Speaker 1: of like stuff like in especially in l A or
Speaker 1: you have all these there's a lot of people with
Speaker 1: money who have no sympathy or empathy, and they just
Speaker 1: go like what, oh god, these on housed people are everywhere,
Speaker 1: and I just and a lot of the times these
Speaker 1: laps people you see them in Hollywood ship they're just
Speaker 1: basically there to shoot people away. That's normally like when
Speaker 1: I see them interacting with the public, it's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you can't sleep here, Like hey you gotta move this
Speaker 1: ship or whatever. But like, you know, this is also
Speaker 1: coming off like we're seeing there. For like the National
Speaker 1: Fraternal Order of Police just put out this like report.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh my god, the crime is skyrocketed again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sort of create their like very insincere presentation of data
Speaker 1: to sort of juxtapose that along with like the concurrent
Speaker 1: uh you know, movement to reform the policing system and
Speaker 1: law enforcement in this country. So it's all it's like
Speaker 1: feels like a full court press, Like well, fuck it, man,
Speaker 1: maybe if they defund those then we can have like
Speaker 1: these like just cosplay cops who have guns and effectively
Speaker 1: are you know, community brutalizers out there too, to offset
Speaker 1: these other things. It's just very it don't seem like
Speaker 1: only a matter of time before one of these untrained
Speaker 1: civilian police officers murders a person like that seems to
Speaker 1: be the next logical step. And also it's like the
Speaker 1: kind of thing they want the right to be able
Speaker 1: to do, right yeah, yeah, I mean what was George
Speaker 1: Zimmerman right, Like he's like they're spokesperson, He's there, he's
Speaker 1: their mask. But he was a self appointed community like
Speaker 1: neighborhood watch fucking vigilante. Thought he was doing police work
Speaker 1: or wanted to be doing police work. But yeah, this
Speaker 1: all just feels so dystopian, like private police driving around
Speaker 1: and like fake police cars, but feeling deputized to like
Speaker 1: kill people. And so the CEO put his own money
Speaker 1: on the line two years ago when during the wildfires
Speaker 1: to be like, this is our opportunity to show citizens
Speaker 1: like ability to proactively like get justice and like, uh
Speaker 1: for citizen to fulfill its true mission is in his words,
Speaker 1: and they got the wrong guy. This is just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so fucking dangerous. You'd hope that this is like
Speaker 1: you think the cops in this all over the country
Speaker 1: are so greedy that they're like, no, we get to
Speaker 1: we have the exclusive license to use violence against people,
Speaker 1: not these other people. We don't want them treading on
Speaker 1: our turf. But I don't know this. It also just
Speaker 1: seems like something that can happen if you have a
Speaker 1: lot of private citizens with money. They're like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: hiring our own people, like we already have. We've just
Speaker 1: out of our own fear of the world. We're also
Speaker 1: funding this like over policing of our own neighborhoods, out
Speaker 1: of complete ignorance. Alright, let's talk about one last bit
Speaker 1: of the culture war. The right is freaking out over Lego.
Speaker 1: Lego just announce its first lgbt Q themed set, dubbed
Speaker 1: Everyone is Awesome. Uh. It's basically just a bunch of
Speaker 1: like faceless mini figures in front of a rainbow, each
Speaker 1: with individual hairstyles and different colors, like different colors of
Speaker 1: the rainbow. So there, this is like everyone is Awesome
Speaker 1: except bald people, I guess. But yeah, yeah, it's so
Speaker 1: I oh man, what the funk? I will not be
Speaker 1: erased by this Lego set. It's just stupid. Like again,
Speaker 1: I don't know the why the right has beef with this,
Speaker 1: but they do because essentially it's just because it's representation
Speaker 1: they don't want and companies to acknowledge that there's anything
Speaker 1: outside of cisht Christian white America. And it's like the
Speaker 1: fucking rants of these people is it's at this point
Speaker 1: they're so comical because society is most of society has
Speaker 1: moved pretty far along past like this weird toxic form
Speaker 1: of homophobia that when these people like this Baptist lead
Speaker 1: or Albert Mueller quote wrote a word rant on his
Speaker 1: website cleaning that this toy contains quote a hurt that
Speaker 1: cries out for Christian attention, hurt at the deepest level
Speaker 1: of personal identity. That doesn't I don't know how you
Speaker 1: will even get like a rabid, ignorant, hateful person to
Speaker 1: respond to that sort of carrot you're dangling like they're like,
Speaker 1: oh the deepest level of personal identity, what what can
Speaker 1: I do? Um? And then well came from Fox News.
Speaker 1: Uh had an interesting interpretation. Uh, I'll play it, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this. Listen to this again. I love when
Speaker 1: conservative white people like to weaponize their understanding of anything
Speaker 1: from the civil rights to shoot on anything that could
Speaker 1: be slightly progressive. Look, this isn't on the same level
Speaker 1: as those examples, but look at Lego This is Legos
Speaker 1: newest line of diversity toys. This separation to color coding,
Speaker 1: living up to every stereotype from hairstyle to skin color,
Speaker 1: looks like it could have been designed by David Duke.
Speaker 1: This is the opposite of Martin Luther King's dream for America. Okay,
Speaker 1: is he mad about the powder blue guys? Like, do
Speaker 1: y'all know any sky blue? Y'all sky blues in your family?
Speaker 1: I'm so because so I think he's saying the color
Speaker 1: coding is like the black figure has it looks like
Speaker 1: dreads or braids or something like that. The brown has
Speaker 1: a little bit of maybe a to see curl, not
Speaker 1: not super curly. Then there's a red head. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like it's just so that he's taking it so literally
Speaker 1: that it's just you're like, Okay, I don't even understand
Speaker 1: what your argument is because after the two things that
Speaker 1: resemble anything that might be a person, You're like, who
Speaker 1: are you advocating for the lavender people? Yeah? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: magenta folks. There's a helmet on one of the people. Like,
Speaker 1: but race color coding or David Duke could have like really,
Speaker 1: and and then that's that weak as attempt of like
Speaker 1: Mark MLK would have hated this, like because he said
Speaker 1: his whole thing was, don't acknowledge race racist. Race isn't real,
Speaker 1: So don't acknowledge it because racism isn't real. I remember
Speaker 1: when Martin Luther King Jr. Said that, Yeah, they they
Speaker 1: get it, man, they get it at Fox. The wild
Speaker 1: thing is like Lego already has a pretty not inclusive
Speaker 1: record when it comes to LGBTQ issues, like their Lego
Speaker 1: wedding cake topper was only sold with like a man
Speaker 1: and a woman, not to mention like even like racial
Speaker 1: representation in Lego. Figures very hard as a kid to
Speaker 1: find a Lego that looked like me. But hey, that's
Speaker 1: why I put a helmet on, and it wrote a motorcycle,
Speaker 1: so it could be anybody. And that's that's the one
Speaker 1: cool thing about this is that there's like kind of
Speaker 1: a nice story behind the set. It was created by
Speaker 1: Lego designer Matthew Ashton. And you know he said, growing
Speaker 1: up as a gay kid in the eighties, like he
Speaker 1: was constantly told by different adults like what he should
Speaker 1: and shouldn't play with, Like, well, your boys, so you
Speaker 1: should play with like g I, Joe and so like
Speaker 1: maybe if they're giving people the rope to like, you know,
Speaker 1: do something with it and like the designers to like
Speaker 1: kind of make decisions to expand the palette, that could
Speaker 1: be really cool. But like they're not donating the proceeds
Speaker 1: from these sales to like any progressive like you know,
Speaker 1: organizations or anything. They're just like, yeah, we're you know,
Speaker 1: rainbow washing. Get get making making money off this. I
Speaker 1: mean I like how that. Yeah, like you're to your point.
Speaker 1: They're saying, oh, where is the proceeds of this goal? Look,
Speaker 1: I can't really answer that right now, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you we have an ongoing philanthropy arrangement with the
Speaker 1: organization Diversity Role Models. But oh, I'm sort you're asking
Speaker 1: if we're committed to increasing its donations because of this.
Speaker 1: Uh no, but thank you very much for purchasing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's I mean, it's definitely fair to criticize LEGO
Speaker 1: on this, but not for not for saying this is
Speaker 1: like they should be doing more. Fantasy said they should
Speaker 1: be doing way more than they're currently doing. But I mean,
Speaker 1: even it's deal, these figures they all have the exact
Speaker 1: same like body type faces. They're not doing anything but
Speaker 1: as signing them colors and hairstyles that aren't connected to anything,
Speaker 1: So this is like a very low bar statement. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, as we all know, green people have long
Speaker 1: wavy hair. Green has long wavy hair, forest green. My
Speaker 1: grandmother was a sky blue. Then. Yeah, for some reason,
Speaker 1: the Navy looks like he should be wearing boat shoes.
Speaker 1: Maybe because like that's the type of person who wears
Speaker 1: like blue light blue. It's like kind of Jay Crew
Speaker 1: they went with for the for the light blue. Mm hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there it is. Come and get your your
Speaker 1: David Duke let oh kids. Yeah. Well, Mike, it has
Speaker 1: been such a pleasure having you as always, as always
Speaker 1: on my end as well. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you on Twitter? Uh? Mike underscore Eagle and all
Speaker 1: of my stuff? Is it Mike Eagle dot net on
Speaker 1: the wild Internet? Yeah? Uh? And is there a tweet
Speaker 1: or some other act of social media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Somebody named simple Stunning a few days ago tweeted journalism
Speaker 1: is hilarious. People just go to places and start asking like, hey,
Speaker 1: what the fund is going on here? Brett? Hey, Hey
Speaker 1: what then? I did did I talk about yesterday's episode
Speaker 1: about the motorcycle guy who just chased me around yesterday
Speaker 1: because he thought I caught him off, even though I was.
Speaker 1: I had been at the stop sign before. Is that
Speaker 1: he was chasing me around, going Hey, it's like the
Speaker 1: wildest ship man. That's not safe motorcycle at all, a
Speaker 1: lot of bad things could happen. Yeah. I had to
Speaker 1: pull into a police station and yeah, you didn't call citizen,
Speaker 1: didn't call citizen. Yeah. I brought up the citizen happen
Speaker 1: and tried to flash it at him, but he didn't care. Jack,
Speaker 1: And we'ren do him right around Pittsburgh without a little
Speaker 1: aluminum bat in your back seat. You know that's what
Speaker 1: I like? Oh you want some asshole? Yeah, although I
Speaker 1: can definitely, I have the hardest time picturing you're doing that,
Speaker 1: even in like us, even a comedy sketch. So yeah,
Speaker 1: even if I did that, he'd probably the best. My
Speaker 1: best bet would be that my best shot would be
Speaker 1: that he would laugh. You know, most people, they really
Speaker 1: don't want to smoke. They act like they do, but
Speaker 1: not most people aren't there, they don't. Why just just
Speaker 1: go on with your lives, sir, you don't want to smoke.
Speaker 1: But I don't want it either. Let's just keep going on,
Speaker 1: but just like not having anything to say, but sad day.
Speaker 1: This is kind of funny to be yea was he
Speaker 1: waving his fist to like that feels like? Miles, Where
Speaker 1: can people find you with the tweet? You've been on
Speaker 1: a joy? Catch me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
Speaker 1: of Gray. Um also the other podcast for twenty day Fiance.
Speaker 1: Check us out twitch dot tv slash four twenty Fiance
Speaker 1: Talking ninety day Uh tweet, I like, it's just for
Speaker 1: all the Clipper fans out there. Um, it's from Isaac
Speaker 1: kay Lee at Isaac kay Lee and it's it's a
Speaker 1: reference to the Last Dance. If you remember, there's a
Speaker 1: scene where Michael Jordan and Larry Bird embrace and they
Speaker 1: still was used where it's it's Michael Jordan and Larry
Speaker 1: Bird's ear saying cute bitch, fuck you. And Isaac kay
Speaker 1: Lee tweets me to eleven year old me for deciding
Speaker 1: to become a Clippers fan. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and I just liked Simone
Speaker 1: biles Is tweet. I'm sorry, but I can't believe I
Speaker 1: completed a double pike on vault. Um. I just think
Speaker 1: more athletes should just be blown away by their own work.
Speaker 1: Like that helps me even more that Simone Biles was
Speaker 1: even freaked out. She was like, yo, that was fucking wild,
Speaker 1: just like yeah, because like we're saying yesterday, we're just like,
Speaker 1: I don't think it looks so normal. She's so talented.
Speaker 1: I don't and I know nothing about what that was. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I know that she was tripping. Okay, good. And
Speaker 1: then Amy Miller, frequent guest on this on this show
Speaker 1: not frequent enough, tweeted, oh, sorry, but I do not
Speaker 1: have the spiritual space in my life right now for
Speaker 1: a check engine light. Thanks. I remember at the height
Speaker 1: of this, I think it was like the height of
Speaker 1: pandemic and like George Floyd protest, like right in the
Speaker 1: middle of that, Like Google changed the Gmail icon for
Speaker 1: the phone and it just completely freaked me to funk out,
Speaker 1: like not like, what is what is this? Strange? New him?
Speaker 1: What is this? This is I don't need this right now,
Speaker 1: introduced other colors to the logo. They really fuck that up.
Speaker 1: I feel like that redesign where everything started to look
Speaker 1: the same, just see yeah, and then knowing that, like,
Speaker 1: who's got the energy to go to fucking quiet place?
Speaker 1: You know? If we all have that Amy Miller check
Speaker 1: engine Light, Fragility Ship. Yeah, I'm gonna see Fast playing
Speaker 1: Fast Car and sky Go Fly Fly Yeah. I like
Speaker 1: that movie that sounds like my movie Hug and the
Speaker 1: sky Go Fly Fly. Well. You can find us on
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Speaker 1: foot notes, we link off to the information that we
Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: we think you should check out, Miles, what song should
Speaker 1: they check out? All Right, So this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a remix to a Jada Kiss song that I really
Speaker 1: like called We're Gonna Make It, but it's turned more
Speaker 1: into like a house track. So it's got this like
Speaker 1: it's somehow they made this like New York Anthem, feel
Speaker 1: like something that will be played at like the do over,
Speaker 1: like a summer party. Um, so this is called We're
Speaker 1: Gonna Make It, but it's a remix by Pumpy Chulo,
Speaker 1: p U Empi, p U m p I C h
Speaker 1: U l O. Get on SoundCloud. But it's the we
Speaker 1: Gonna make it, uh just remix the Summer, the Summer
Speaker 1: anthem pump Hell yeah. Alright, go listen to that. The
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