Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, eight three,
Speaker 1: Episode two of Their Daily Geist, a production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's share concinness. It's Tuesday, May fourth.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien a K. I love keilin Pie.
Speaker 1: I grabbed another slice from the kitchen. Baby, I love
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Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles Grab. Folks, we have a very special zite
Speaker 1: gist for you today. But first I'd like to introduce
Speaker 1: Mr Gray Okay, the hyperd theory. Okay, with the coat,
Speaker 1: Mr Hand just Asian produce extraordinair. But yeah, thanks to
Speaker 1: Hank Skippy O for that hybrid theory inspired a K
Speaker 1: because without it, I don't know what I'd be listening
Speaker 1: to in the midst of my parents divorce. Well, we
Speaker 1: are thrilled to be joined in our third teat by
Speaker 1: the brilliant, the talented, the hilarious Mr Andrew to allow
Speaker 1: me to introduce this man. Are you ready Andrew? Here
Speaker 1: we go? And I had to I had to promise
Speaker 1: Miles I would. I had to pay him under the
Speaker 1: table to do my a K for me because I
Speaker 1: feel like, not only have we never topped that, I'm
Speaker 1: at the point where actually thinking of a better one
Speaker 1: or any of them depresses me so much. Yeah that
Speaker 1: I'm just like Miles, you got to do it for me.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for any time. Thank you for
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it was that or the t i
Speaker 1: e d Calculator and we both decided that was just
Speaker 1: too Yeah, that was for a long time when you
Speaker 1: googled me, um, it was people various other people named
Speaker 1: Andrew and their t i e D five like programs
Speaker 1: for bootleg. I've only only just you know, finally just
Speaker 1: eclipsed I don't know, random high school teams from like
Speaker 1: on Google. So good for me. Shout out to that calculator.
Speaker 1: What an accomplishment. Where are y'all playing on there? Where
Speaker 1: was it? Mob wars with a drug? Mob war? Drab wars?
Speaker 1: A lot of the like how much do you want
Speaker 1: to buy cocaine? For? Like three bucks? Dad? Just just
Speaker 1: great storytelling, though, is the thing. Yeah. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to read a you know they did that
Speaker 1: and sit down with Swartzwolder from The Simpsons. What we
Speaker 1: need is to sit down with the creator of Mafia
Speaker 1: Wars or Mob Wars Drug Wars on the Texas Instrument
Speaker 1: eight two calculator to know like what that labor was
Speaker 1: to even try and think of it. I mean, not
Speaker 1: that it was a good game, but it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was more good than it needed to be, right
Speaker 1: by a lot for so much. Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: like given the platform, that ship that should bent and broke,
Speaker 1: what the platform was capable of and to our our
Speaker 1: younger listeners, uh that was that was the first Nintendo
Speaker 1: Switch with a game on a hacked Texas instrument eight
Speaker 1: or eighty two calculator. Yeah, I bet there is an oral,
Speaker 1: a good oral history there to be written of, like
Speaker 1: t I A T two games. Yeah, like figuring out
Speaker 1: because I'm not throwing out free good ideas. I think
Speaker 1: piece it. This is corner whichever whoever whoever of the
Speaker 1: Zeke gangs out here, get in your think piece first, right, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: get it in, turn it in, sorry, get it in,
Speaker 1: get it into to Jack of Miles would be like,
Speaker 1: get in your think piece back, get come with it,
Speaker 1: and what's new with you man, not much. Um, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen you guys since we watched the Goofy movie,
Speaker 1: like probably close to a year ago. Whoah, So that's
Speaker 1: that's about it. I was I was lucky to be
Speaker 1: basically after that, like working fairly fairly regularly on on
Speaker 1: TV and so no one caught COVID on any of
Speaker 1: the jobs, at any of the jobs I worked on.
Speaker 1: So that's good. Yeah, you know, people caught COVID, but
Speaker 1: no one caught no one gave it to anyone else
Speaker 1: on set, and you have had anything to do with it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you I heard. You won't have that ship.
Speaker 1: You won't have anybody not having it, not having it
Speaker 1: or having COVID in your presence. He'll shut that real quick.
Speaker 1: Well then you better get off of it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I fucking started going to therapy late
Speaker 1: lesson that was. That was interesting. I wrote about it
Speaker 1: a little bit for Esquire magazine. Yeah recently, right, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm mentioning this because you and I guess
Speaker 1: this is their business model. Yeah but you you, I
Speaker 1: don't think can find it online. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess I'm saying go down to your
Speaker 1: news stand. So you're one of these print exclusive type people, don't.
Speaker 1: I have no idea that I there has not been
Speaker 1: fully communicated to me. I assume it will be online eventually.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine people have a pretty exclusive I didn't.
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't ask or negotia. I would prefer it
Speaker 1: was online. But sure, I don't know what was that
Speaker 1: like though for you. I mean, I I had to
Speaker 1: very much take my mental health by by the horns
Speaker 1: this year to be able to fucking endure everything and
Speaker 1: to you know, give myself some form of like respite
Speaker 1: from it all, respite if you will. But yeah, like
Speaker 1: what did you kind of did you just reaset point
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, I'm start doing this now, or uh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think, I mean, the big thing is
Speaker 1: not the big thing as in it was like such
Speaker 1: a big like I just like I mostly got like
Speaker 1: dumped around like June, but not not a long relationship.
Speaker 1: But it kind of like was impossible to move on.
Speaker 1: I think was the main thing, because it was keeping
Speaker 1: it pretty buttoned up in COVID and just like okay
Speaker 1: that and then at the risk of being a bit
Speaker 1: of a shill. I was, I was actually looking to
Speaker 1: to get into therapy. But I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys encounter this or heard this. It was like impossible
Speaker 1: to find a therapist in l A in like December,
Speaker 1: like just literally people are like yes, sorry, no patience,
Speaker 1: no patients of patients, And so I was like kind
Speaker 1: of losing hope there. And then Better Help started sponsoring
Speaker 1: my podcasts this race let's check it out on everybody
Speaker 1: get podcast and I'm totter help. True, true, no, but
Speaker 1: just like a lucky coincidence that like we got to
Speaker 1: I got to do some free therapy teletherapy through them,
Speaker 1: and I've kept it up beautiful. So this is not
Speaker 1: spawn con because it was. It's true, it's it is
Speaker 1: what happened. But like just like the Reeds are like
Speaker 1: so devoid of any person. Hey, y'all checking it out.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in a way year Better Help does
Speaker 1: it has sponsored our show before, so we won't have
Speaker 1: to remove this part of the conversation completely. No, it's
Speaker 1: just weird. But yeah, so that was that was a thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know trying to trying to. I think it
Speaker 1: just geeves me more normal. Man, So many people like
Speaker 1: I tell my friends. The other day, I saw one
Speaker 1: of my friends who I hadn't seen it in a minute,
Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, it's kind of going through her.
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you have you thought about one of therapy? Bro? True,
Speaker 1: that's good. You're gonna feel good. And I'm surprised. A
Speaker 1: couple of other people hit me up off the strength
Speaker 1: of me talking about it all the time, like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you ever you know like therapist you can hook
Speaker 1: me up with? So I think it's great because yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's one of those things you'll never if you
Speaker 1: have a good therapist, you're not gonna come with the
Speaker 1: other side like, oh my god, I'm worse. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: question how do you know if you're because I'm obviously
Speaker 1: new to this, but I feel like if you have
Speaker 1: a good therapist, it's the same way people are like
Speaker 1: how's your dentist? And I'm like, I have no basis
Speaker 1: for yeah, I don't know, should I know? For me,
Speaker 1: it's more about like the level. It's really about how
Speaker 1: much I trust them and how much you know, because
Speaker 1: half of it is being able to first overcome however
Speaker 1: you're trying to present yourself to a therapist and a
Speaker 1: letting that melt away because you're like, no, the work
Speaker 1: is gonna be me just be giving y'all the raw
Speaker 1: on cut me and shattered self. Please help me. I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still trying to get laughs from I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to crush with my therapist. So that's not like
Speaker 1: I have the worst habit. How was therapy because she
Speaker 1: didn't want to be unprofessional because she was blacking so hard,
Speaker 1: But actually that is what I do. But actually, and
Speaker 1: then the other thing that it is in the that's
Speaker 1: fire piece is like a part of me also was
Speaker 1: hanging onto not going to therapy, both because I was
Speaker 1: like thinking I was better than it, but also because
Speaker 1: I was like taking the toxic idea that like Asian
Speaker 1: people don't go to therapy and using it as sort
Speaker 1: of a point of pride. You know. I questioned, I
Speaker 1: questioned how Asian I am sometimes so one thing, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely a vary Asian on don't go to therapy despite
Speaker 1: how much I needed, No one will see me struggle. Yeah, truly,
Speaker 1: it was like like it's very perverse, but that I
Speaker 1: have to think that was genuine in my head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's how I live it take care of him.
Speaker 1: But to the point of, like what whether you have
Speaker 1: a good therapist. I've definitely heard people say, yeah, I
Speaker 1: tried therapy, it doesn't help, and like that's it's that therapist,
Speaker 1: that that specific therapist as a match for you. Like that,
Speaker 1: it feels like it's like one of the most personal
Speaker 1: and like idiosyncratic things that you can possibly do, is
Speaker 1: like find a find the right therapist match. But when
Speaker 1: you say therapy doesn't help, it's just that therapy didn't help.
Speaker 1: The only people who are impervious to therapy are Irish people,
Speaker 1: according to The The Departed, which is why I don't
Speaker 1: go to therapy because of The Departed. That's what I
Speaker 1: tell Yeah, impervious psychoanalysis. But seriously, get out there, take
Speaker 1: your mental health by the short and curlies. Speaking of
Speaker 1: actually The Departed, the Real is there a similar I
Speaker 1: don't do therapy in Infernal Affairs, Miles, have you seen
Speaker 1: Infernal Affairs? I'm just wondering if that toxic anyways. Infernal
Speaker 1: Affairs is the is the in my opinion, superior original
Speaker 1: movie that The Departed is based on. I don't know
Speaker 1: anyone who's seen both and said that aparted is better.
Speaker 1: I have actually, and it was an eight. It was
Speaker 1: an Asian person but he grew up in Boston. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like when I saw a really Hotchi Mora
Speaker 1: dunk on Anthony Davis. I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this feeling? He's black? But
Speaker 1: that's but decently but all day really all day anyway.
Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm filibustering for the kind of show.
Speaker 1: The show is one big philip buster. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: I'm here, I suppose. But nice, Nice to see you guys.
Speaker 1: That's it's great to see you too. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to know you a little little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. There's such thing, or there used to
Speaker 1: be such thing as Canadian Proud Boys. They have disbanded.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about how that happened. We'll talk about Facebook
Speaker 1: next couple of days, making the decision about whether to
Speaker 1: allow Trump back in. We'll talk about her community, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about plenty of ship. But first time, before we
Speaker 1: get to any of that, Uh, Andrew, we like to
Speaker 1: ask our guess, what is something from your search history.
Speaker 1: That's revealing about who you are. Okay. I looked it
Speaker 1: up to make sure this wasn't verbatim. I might have
Speaker 1: been a little stoned. It is the words why Chihuahua mean.
Speaker 1: And another thing that happened to me is over over
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and I think October of last year, I
Speaker 1: inherited to chihuahua's my friends relative passed away and it
Speaker 1: turned out she was allergic to uh dog. So I
Speaker 1: was like, I'll take care of him. And then I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I'll just simply own them. But
Speaker 1: the littlest, youngest younger, they're both old chihuahuas. Um is
Speaker 1: like comically mean sometimes um. And I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: was just like it was a thing. It's just like
Speaker 1: like people. It's like they they just look very mean
Speaker 1: when they're playing at times. But as does she follow
Speaker 1: it up the little dog does she does? She back
Speaker 1: it up with like, oh yeah, it's like a little
Speaker 1: little plain nips. Yeah, yeah, it just she looks for furious,
Speaker 1: she looks what she looks most like, um, the alien
Speaker 1: chest burster. Oh fuck. It's just like yeah, just real
Speaker 1: like real, real, real mean mean as a motherfucker. So
Speaker 1: and that was how I chose to process it. Is
Speaker 1: why chihuahua? Mean what what want to Andrew? Please please
Speaker 1: help anyway taking a small dog to the dog park,
Speaker 1: and especially one that is not separated between little dogs
Speaker 1: and big dogs, like I have a fully new appreciation
Speaker 1: for just how like imagine if humans, like some people
Speaker 1: were just literally a hundred times bigger and like you
Speaker 1: just like went and like they would just come and
Speaker 1: like push you over and ship and you there wasn't
Speaker 1: anything you could do about it. Like that was that
Speaker 1: was gym class and it was like a very status
Speaker 1: based society. I feel like dogs are very status based.
Speaker 1: So I would be mean as fun if I was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that's why. That's why everyone should own a gun.
Speaker 1: I don't know where my gun. You don't care. That's
Speaker 1: another thing that's been that's changed about you in the
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah. Yeah, you've been open for Bagel Boss
Speaker 1: guy too. Is he a lot of ship? A lot
Speaker 1: of ships changed? Uh? What is I? I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask how Bagel Boss Guy is, but I realized I
Speaker 1: don't want to follow that road. So let's ask Andrew,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated this this goes
Speaker 1: I guess I I maybe sold this a little bit.
Speaker 1: But the other thing, and I actually will just say
Speaker 1: I didn't come into this episode thinking I need to
Speaker 1: plug this Esquire thing, because again, literally you cannot read
Speaker 1: it right now, so I don't know what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: but I guess it's clearly by my mind. But one
Speaker 1: of the other parts of the article is one thing
Speaker 1: that has helped me a lot is not needing to
Speaker 1: be correct all the time, because my my sort of
Speaker 1: what I told myself reason for not going to therapy
Speaker 1: was like it doesn't you know. I think part of
Speaker 1: it is I studied neuroscience in college, and so that
Speaker 1: was a very like you know, physics biology based look
Speaker 1: at psychology and very very very thoroughly and early and
Speaker 1: constantly it was just like well, obviously like Sigmund Freud
Speaker 1: kind of sexist lunatic who just made a bunch of
Speaker 1: shi it up, you know, and using that to sort
Speaker 1: of cast aspersions on psychotherapy in general, or just like
Speaker 1: the idea of talking to someone and so I think
Speaker 1: like holding onto that and just in general like needing
Speaker 1: to be correct for person I, I you know, I
Speaker 1: just want to throw this out there and I you know,
Speaker 1: you boys strike me. I think all of us have
Speaker 1: that similar like smart guy personality. And yeah, I used
Speaker 1: I get staying for taj Maori all the time in
Speaker 1: the street. I'm just saying, like, it's that like being
Speaker 1: used to being correct, I think, is uh fucking overrated.
Speaker 1: Fuck that ship, man, that's one. It's precisely that's the
Speaker 1: kind of ship you learn about yourself. We go to
Speaker 1: therapy too, or like even how to re contextualize it
Speaker 1: because I I'm like, I get very into ship and
Speaker 1: I start researching everything because I'm like one of these
Speaker 1: people who likes to know as much as I can
Speaker 1: about something, and that like lends itself to this other
Speaker 1: point I think at the at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: more than like being right is like having to relook
Speaker 1: at how you interact with things. It's like I want
Speaker 1: to learn about every single thing. Yeah you know what
Speaker 1: what's good? You want about what I know? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I can speak on that. It's like it's two
Speaker 1: It's it's a subtle thing. But I've just been trying
Speaker 1: to treat the world like what can I learn from ship?
Speaker 1: Or like if I don't know something like you know,
Speaker 1: teach me. That actually helps in my relationship too, because
Speaker 1: their ship. Rather than being like, oh, well that's the
Speaker 1: thing you do, I don't know how to do it,
Speaker 1: blah blah, I'm like, teach me. I would like to
Speaker 1: know and communication. Just get get I got, I got
Speaker 1: the ship. I can't remember what model it is, but
Speaker 1: one of those like fancy new vacuums. That's very very
Speaker 1: like yeah, And I was like, oh damn, I should
Speaker 1: I should just some Dyson's and something. In this episode
Speaker 1: mentally and physically, I didn't mean to be yeah, but
Speaker 1: it was that it was just like, yeah, there's somebody
Speaker 1: so much learned helplessness that I probably have that is like,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with me? Anyway, we'll find out. I'll
Speaker 1: keep you posting on Yeah, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? I think that is underrated. This is I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say what I wrote down, but as I'm
Speaker 1: about to say it and looking at it on my
Speaker 1: computer screen, this is probably very correctly rated. But the
Speaker 1: thing that I very I very much liked is a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I was at Costco and I
Speaker 1: bought from Costco for approximately one dollars an entire leg
Speaker 1: of hormone. Serrano comes with a stand, comes with a
Speaker 1: knife and a yeah yeah, it's got a great with
Speaker 1: a handle and was sort of loosely running, kind of
Speaker 1: like a we'll call it quasi to illegal topas bar
Speaker 1: for some vaccinated folks. Oh Andrew, you didn't invite me.
Speaker 1: You should come by. Honestly, I'm more mad about that.
Speaker 1: I'm like a coffin everyone real quick. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: got I got pretty good at slice of the slice
Speaker 1: of the hormone. You know, a lot of olives, a
Speaker 1: lot of just uh poncom tomate, you know, Spanish olives
Speaker 1: with the anchovies inside. I uh yes, I will not look.
Speaker 1: Maybe hide me over. I will. We could complete the
Speaker 1: whole party, baby, I come with the Spanish. Well. I
Speaker 1: I got that at a that M Black owned cheese
Speaker 1: shop in Silver Lake, and I was definitely like up
Speaker 1: sold on them because I think they were unconscionably expensive.
Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, it was a very expensive olives. I
Speaker 1: gotta look, I gotta plug for those olives. Two yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: If you got a guy, that's gon I got a guy.
Speaker 1: It's a it's actually a Spaniard friend of mine. But
Speaker 1: But that's how I found out about that Costco deal
Speaker 1: because my mom had one like years ago at her house.
Speaker 1: I said, what the fuck are you doing? Full like
Speaker 1: the doctor said, you have high blood. You can't be
Speaker 1: eating a whole leg a salt meat. Bring that over here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like, man, give me, let me cut
Speaker 1: a little slice off of there. But yeah, but then
Speaker 1: I realized they have this deal there that I just ridict.
Speaker 1: It almost seems like a challenge of like, can you
Speaker 1: eat this entire pig's leg? Yeah? Yeah, I just do Toronto.
Speaker 1: And the best price you're getting anywhere on the internet
Speaker 1: is three. Yeah. I don't know what kind of scale
Speaker 1: or kick back Costco has going with Spain, all these
Speaker 1: like stickers on it, and you know, I I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how it works. But it appears to
Speaker 1: be a you know, a a stamped and bonded hommon
Speaker 1: de Serrano. So I don't know what the quality variation
Speaker 1: is in that to get that price down to what
Speaker 1: it is. It comes with a knife, yeah right, it's
Speaker 1: not like like untaxed cigarettes that the mobs for real?
Speaker 1: What I don't know. Yeah, as far as yeah, I
Speaker 1: hope was this just like a temporary thing where they're like,
Speaker 1: we just the shipment was like, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: year round, is it. I feel like it's a certain
Speaker 1: time of year that this was. This was around Easter,
Speaker 1: so I assume that's when that's when it's hormone time.
Speaker 1: It's hormone time. Come on, stop, come on, come on
Speaker 1: talk t h Yeah, well look I love I love
Speaker 1: a good uh hommon. So I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is yeah, so is that underrated or anyway? It's fucking
Speaker 1: the best I thought you're gonna say. I was at
Speaker 1: Costco and I was like, when you that whole rotisserie
Speaker 1: chicken that you were talking about on the internet, No,
Speaker 1: I just I just hate the legs off that rochestrie chicken.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing I've been doing is I've been
Speaker 1: trying to help out with this mutual aid group that
Speaker 1: does stuff in skid row. And one thing that uh,
Speaker 1: one thing that I was doing that week was picking
Speaker 1: up water for for a skid row. But because I
Speaker 1: was at Costco, I was like, so I got a
Speaker 1: palette of nine flats of water and one rotisserie chicken
Speaker 1: and nothing else. I truly I'm curious what the employees
Speaker 1: at Costco think I'm up to, because I mean common
Speaker 1: and the uh in the rotissary chicken will make you
Speaker 1: thirsty a lot of water, Iberian ham and uh rosse chicken.
Speaker 1: But that that Costco chicken that is not underrated because
Speaker 1: people love that people, it's so good. Anybody work at Costco,
Speaker 1: they can let us in on, Like, is there is
Speaker 1: there a TikTok video yet where someone shows you how
Speaker 1: they make that ship. I don't. They have a lot
Speaker 1: of stickers on it about how it is not full
Speaker 1: of hormones for something that is clearly has to be
Speaker 1: full of hormones, Like it's actually less unnerving to imagine
Speaker 1: it's full of hormones that imagining. Yeah, because it's too big.
Speaker 1: It's fucked up. Chicken should not be that size. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, but god, it's so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And just like you know, doing that thing where you're like,
Speaker 1: I'll just you know, I'm just gonna it smells so good.
Speaker 1: The car, I'm just gonna pick a little bit off
Speaker 1: and then like two minutes later, I'm like driving with
Speaker 1: my wrists because my hands are so greasy. A little
Speaker 1: kid in another cards like, Mom, that man's eating a football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really, I really went buck wild. And the Costco
Speaker 1: chicken is the best, you know, best an answer almost,
Speaker 1: it's just it's seasoned. Probably like it's just so seasoned.
Speaker 1: There's have a dull bite. You probably have your it
Speaker 1: will preserve your mouth though. Yeah, so good. Anyway, my
Speaker 1: salt from cost Chicken. There was just a story that
Speaker 1: was almost definitely seated by Costco. But someone who's like
Speaker 1: high up in the organization threatened to kill someone else
Speaker 1: if they raised Yeah, I think that was the CEO
Speaker 1: praised the hot dog prices, I'll kill you. Figure it out,
Speaker 1: which Steve jobs, Yeah, exactly, make it work, make it work,
Speaker 1: but for that hot dog. But for the hot dog,
Speaker 1: keep the price, will make it work. All fine, make
Speaker 1: it work. Yeah, yeah, anyway, that's that's me. All right,
Speaker 1: So that a Costco better help man Dison vacuum Dison
Speaker 1: and this mean dogs are they chilling together? Like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because oh you can see him. Oh well, I'll make
Speaker 1: sure the photo I send for this episode inclose the chihuahua.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. Uh, And it's Canada day here on
Speaker 1: Daily's like, guys, we've got a couple of Canada stories
Speaker 1: on the dock. One of them they're Proud Boys aren't
Speaker 1: fairing too well. They got too inspired by their shitty
Speaker 1: southern neighbors try to do their own ethno nationalist group,
Speaker 1: and I think to everyone except Ethno nationalists, people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Proud Boys are a violent, racist, hate group, not
Speaker 1: some frat with cool ideas about Western civilization they want
Speaker 1: to call it. So that basically led to a terrorist
Speaker 1: group designation by the Canadian government, which like over here
Speaker 1: we're like, yeah, okay, well we still have people that
Speaker 1: are basically incohuies with them in the government, so we'll
Speaker 1: see if there's any kind of anything like that happens here.
Speaker 1: And January six participation on the Proud Boys, I think
Speaker 1: pretty much like helped seal the deal for Canadian people, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a terrorist organization. But because
Speaker 1: of that, that means the police can see their property,
Speaker 1: banks can see their assets. It's like a crime to
Speaker 1: knowingly provide assistance to a group, So like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's you don't want to be there. And apparently
Speaker 1: the Canadian Proud Boys of Canada or whatever they call themselves.
Speaker 1: They were contemplating, like they were contemplating fighting this designation
Speaker 1: like in the courts, but they were like, we don't
Speaker 1: have money, so they put out this Facebook statement or
Speaker 1: whatever this statement was, and it's very polite. I just
Speaker 1: want to read statement from Proud Boys Canada. It is
Speaker 1: with a heavy heart that I penned these words knowing
Speaker 1: we have done nothing wrong. As of today, there's efficiently
Speaker 1: no longer any Proud Boys in Canada. It's officially dissolved.
Speaker 1: The truth is you never were terrorists. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, a bunch of lies. But
Speaker 1: it goes on to say, you know, it's funny that
Speaker 1: they have like this patriotic talk to like it like
Speaker 1: it's sort of infused and how they sort of speak
Speaker 1: about themselves. Um, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they're just like, yeah, like it's not fair, Like we're
Speaker 1: just normal people. All this means is they're just gonna
Speaker 1: use a different name now. So cool. But that's really
Speaker 1: it was interesting to see just a statement out there
Speaker 1: really trying to convince people we're not bad. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: the thing they're like, we're not white supremacists or we're
Speaker 1: not like violent white I forget specifically how they were it.
Speaker 1: They're like trying to thread a little needle there. But
Speaker 1: they they also say to characterize themselves, they say, we
Speaker 1: are electricians, carpenters, financial advisors, mechanics. More than that, we
Speaker 1: are fathers, brothers, uncles, and sons. How could I be
Speaker 1: a terrorist? That's such classic, uh like white supremacy, where
Speaker 1: you're setting the lowest possible bar for yourself, Like, look, man,
Speaker 1: we have relatives. Yeah, so we have mothers. Also, it
Speaker 1: is so like that. It's like the list of like,
Speaker 1: you know, average Joe. First of all, the list of
Speaker 1: average Joe jobs somehow includes financially but also they kind
Speaker 1: of have, you know, no offense to the good ones
Speaker 1: out there, but those the list of jobs is all
Speaker 1: ship that like you very easily could put racist in
Speaker 1: front of where racist electricians, racist carpenters, racist financial advisors,
Speaker 1: racist mechanics, Like racist financial advisor is redundant. Actually, there's
Speaker 1: something about hearing them, like, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: just like racist, yeah, do you think in your ears
Speaker 1: that makes you sound less racist? That is telling on yourself.
Speaker 1: Probably if you think this is mitigating, you are fucking
Speaker 1: out of your racist little minds. Yeah, well they're they're
Speaker 1: they're still saying, hey, guys, keep singing your national anthem
Speaker 1: with pride. Yeah, but that is sort of like their thing.
Speaker 1: It's just like they're they're based on this, like I
Speaker 1: guess this, like, well we can just lie. We'll just
Speaker 1: simply say we're not the thing that we obviously are,
Speaker 1: and the like, there's always plausible deniability ish or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unless like the governments just being like no, how about
Speaker 1: I'll just get ahead of you, just say no, you
Speaker 1: around with this. We're just gonna see everything because this
Speaker 1: is this is a threat to our national security. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know we're repellent, but imagine that there are people
Speaker 1: who love us, who are relatives. Now that that's keep
Speaker 1: that in your mind as they know. But do I
Speaker 1: hide it from them? Am I not invited to dinner
Speaker 1: if they find out? Yeah? Yeah? Also their families are
Speaker 1: racists too, Yeah, we know racism. It's like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it is. It is that kind of like like technically
Speaker 1: basically it's I never said I was racist, So how
Speaker 1: could you call me racist? I don't know because you
Speaker 1: attack people who have something to say that's countered anything
Speaker 1: you do, or maybe the people I don't know whatever.
Speaker 1: Well also this like oh we're just we're just like
Speaker 1: a booster club for Western civilization. It's like, okay, I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna parts specifically, Well, Kevin oh Man, I really
Speaker 1: spend so much time reading those dudes, and don't from
Speaker 1: vice back of the day, bumps bumps me out how
Speaker 1: much we shouldn't known from the viral video where he
Speaker 1: was screaming about his weak chin and why he has
Speaker 1: to grow up beard, you know, like that's when he
Speaker 1: started breaking through to the mainstream. Was that like thing
Speaker 1: about like why guys are growing beards, like because I
Speaker 1: got a weak chin? And you're like, oh ship screaming
Speaker 1: and like he like like his some of his videos
Speaker 1: and it's weird. Okay, you know what actually speaking of
Speaker 1: these people, I just I was reorganizing my record collection
Speaker 1: and I found a fucking like hand numbered out of
Speaker 1: a thousand aerial pink seven inch I think it's like
Speaker 1: genuinely very rare. I I kept it out and like,
Speaker 1: I just I know a couple of people in l
Speaker 1: A who had like played music with him, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, I think have largely disavowed him obviously Aerial
Speaker 1: pink for I assume you guys talked about it was
Speaker 1: at the well he was at the fucking January six
Speaker 1: treason there, uh and and a former indie indie musician
Speaker 1: right indie right, yeah, I mean I guess current current, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was it was one of those things I
Speaker 1: was literally like, you know, like I had copied three
Speaker 1: eighty four out of one thousand, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what do I do with this? And I ultimately ended
Speaker 1: up just throwing it away, but I probably shouldn't. It
Speaker 1: was one of those things that I was like, I
Speaker 1: just need to clean it in the house. It's going
Speaker 1: to cash, but it's really weird and you know what,
Speaker 1: the person's money who values that thing. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: another thing though, I I like cleaned out my bookshelf
Speaker 1: of Like there was also that whole like generation of
Speaker 1: like white Iowa what writing workshop people from like the
Speaker 1: early two thousand's, and so many of them have kind
Speaker 1: of turned like right wing. What's that? What's that? Like
Speaker 1: Iowa writers that like um that like David Eggers, those
Speaker 1: David Eggers copycats, so like the memoirists, and they were
Speaker 1: all like white, the only one the one. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm I'm speaking out of line when I say
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them, but Megan Down specifically, I
Speaker 1: I like, um, she just is one of those, like
Speaker 1: I'm just asking questions that kind of like jen X
Speaker 1: the way like gen X kind of turned right wing
Speaker 1: after Cancel Culture. They latch on a cancel culture. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of her books too. This is
Speaker 1: this is my penance for buying any art by white people.
Speaker 1: Never I just I just ended up having a bunch
Speaker 1: of ship by racists. So that was a good house cleaning. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of racist Facebook is going to decide if Trump
Speaker 1: is allowed back on their service. They so they have
Speaker 1: like the sort of unofficial Supreme Court of Facebook that
Speaker 1: where they like make big decisions about the platform. And
Speaker 1: they say that in the next couple of days, I
Speaker 1: think I'm May five, they're going to announce whether Trump
Speaker 1: is allowed back. And it's the oversight Board, which is
Speaker 1: totally not you know, Orwellian sounding at all. But I
Speaker 1: don't know this, like it seems like a pretty easy decision,
Speaker 1: like the you know, we've seen what him being banned
Speaker 1: from most major social media platforms has done for the country,
Speaker 1: but they I I just don't trust Facebook to not
Speaker 1: funk this up because oh my god, they never make
Speaker 1: decisions based on Like I was looking back at the
Speaker 1: the statement they made when they initially banned him, and
Speaker 1: it was literally like, Okay, he's like trying to overthrow
Speaker 1: the government. It was like right after the January six treason,
Speaker 1: and uh, they were just like, yeah, this is like
Speaker 1: until he's out of office, we're gonna have him banned.
Speaker 1: But like it was after Twitter banned him, it was like, literally,
Speaker 1: they've never made a decision that didn't ultimately result in
Speaker 1: a more profitable outcome for them, including banning a president
Speaker 1: who is actively trying to dissolve the society that your
Speaker 1: entire like wealth is based on. Like that's that's not
Speaker 1: good for business, for like society to dissolve. And then
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg just always tends to go for like, quote freedom
Speaker 1: of information and transparency, quote allowing people to connect, which
Speaker 1: of course always devetails with the profit motive of growth.
Speaker 1: Just so happens. And yet you know they're they're they're
Speaker 1: not letting child pornography be free on there they're not
Speaker 1: letting people's like conspiracies to murder other people. They are
Speaker 1: letting some of those stay on there, I suppose, but
Speaker 1: like but like it's like trying well, but it's like
Speaker 1: they are they're not the like free speech, like they
Speaker 1: limit speech. So if you're limiting any speech, like, then
Speaker 1: you're actively choosing where that line is. There's there's no
Speaker 1: like and the like. Yeah, they're for transparency of information,
Speaker 1: except when that information comes has to do with them
Speaker 1: and what they're doing with your information. Oh yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my bad. Oh you want us to be transparent. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was for you. Yeah, doc Box, No,
Speaker 1: we're not showing you how weak to be inside these
Speaker 1: make these decisions on the Overseers Council or wherever. Then
Speaker 1: that yeah, that is just goodead oh I would say
Speaker 1: it's it is just like horrible the way that the
Speaker 1: whatever like set of rules like Silicon Valley writ large
Speaker 1: uses to determine what's like appropriate and what's which is
Speaker 1: like you know, both like inconsistent racist, Like obviously all
Speaker 1: the decision makers that put that shot together are white men,
Speaker 1: you know, at the very top of the ship. And
Speaker 1: it's like it shows, it's like and the fact that
Speaker 1: they can hold onto any veneer of objectivity is like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the part that's like fucking like people. We the
Speaker 1: people are too stupid to realize this is not objective.
Speaker 1: This is biased as fun, but they get to pretend. Sorry,
Speaker 1: thanks for so letting me get up on my soapbox. No,
Speaker 1: that's I mean. I also like, just based on his
Speaker 1: like the way that he responded to the election, where
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz at all started like accusing Facebook of having
Speaker 1: anti conservative bias and he totally just like played into
Speaker 1: their hands. I get the sense that he's probably friends
Speaker 1: with more Republicans than Democrats at this point as a
Speaker 1: as a billionaire. Yeah, you know, probably is pretty easy
Speaker 1: to trick. There's also the probably the specific sweet spot,
Speaker 1: and we're talking a little bit about this before we
Speaker 1: started recording, is there's also like the Silicon Valley person
Speaker 1: who calls himself a liberal but conservative. Yeah, that probably is,
Speaker 1: like I would posit it certainly makes up the ballance
Speaker 1: of like where all these conservative ideas are coming from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who are just collecting all
Speaker 1: the takes of a liberal and putting that in their
Speaker 1: outward facing personas like just to be like, because I
Speaker 1: know how to keep have a smoke free identity, just
Speaker 1: do these like lib boilerplate talking points. But what I do,
Speaker 1: you know in the shadows has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: That's just I just know how to publicly face things
Speaker 1: while I do my other ship or not even the shadows.
Speaker 1: It's just like if you you you would like to
Speaker 1: legalize weed and like have sex with people, but other
Speaker 1: than that, you're pretty conservative, you know, like you're like
Speaker 1: your white supremacy shows in ways that are yeah, insidious.
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know. It's it's bad. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about her immunity, because speaking of it's bad,
Speaker 1: we talked to a few weeks back about how we
Speaker 1: were like, you know, it was at peak. Everyone's getting
Speaker 1: their vaccines. We have enough vaccines, they're getting people's arms. Uh,
Speaker 1: and now things have slowed, Yeah, I mean, and like that.
Speaker 1: The concept of her immunity was like the light at
Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: lockdown is like obviously, like we're going to eliminate this
Speaker 1: this this virus through herd immunity, and once we have
Speaker 1: the vaccines, this is how we will go back to normal.
Speaker 1: But things have just changed so rapidly that it doesn't
Speaker 1: even like so in the beginning, the threshold for her
Speaker 1: immunity was estimated to be sixty to sev That was
Speaker 1: even like Fauci saying that, and like, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that seems doable once we get all the vaccines out
Speaker 1: there and things like that. But as the vaccines are
Speaker 1: being like developed and things like that, that the estimations
Speaker 1: began to change. Because the first estimations were based on
Speaker 1: the first sort of original form of the virus and
Speaker 1: what we knew about it and what those transmission rates
Speaker 1: look like. But now that B one one seven is
Speaker 1: the like predominant variant in the United States, that's and
Speaker 1: it's more transmissible. That's now moved our herd immunity threshold
Speaker 1: to be at least eighty percent. So eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the country needs to be vaccinated for us to have
Speaker 1: any semblance of herd immunity. Uh. And if you look
Speaker 1: at the latest numbers, you're looking at about a third
Speaker 1: of Americans that are anti VAXX right now when it
Speaker 1: comes to the COVID vaccine. So how you get to
Speaker 1: how you get to eighty if you got third at
Speaker 1: least thirty percent saying fuck no. They think some of
Speaker 1: that will change over time, But it's because of that
Speaker 1: and all of the misinformation we're looking at a very
Speaker 1: difficult way of trying to tackle this, which now just
Speaker 1: seems like inoculating the most at risk. So we're not
Speaker 1: like flooding the hospitals with those people, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: not going to be herd immunity. You're saying that they're
Speaker 1: expecting the third of America being antivactors to change, or
Speaker 1: they're expecting that need that that third isn't necessarily nailed on,
Speaker 1: Like it could shrink a bit as more people realize
Speaker 1: like okay, like funk it, I'll get it. But it's
Speaker 1: hard because there's also another poll that came out that
Speaker 1: a lot of the attitudes of people who don't want
Speaker 1: to be vaccinated is because a they don't they don't
Speaker 1: take the virus seriously, but also be they are like, well,
Speaker 1: all the other herbs are getting vaccinated, so I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'll just post off of them getting vaccinated. But assholes,
Speaker 1: guess what if we're not at the herd immunity like
Speaker 1: there's there's no there's no people to draft off of
Speaker 1: UH in your pursuit of not getting vaccinated, because we're
Speaker 1: not gonna that's not gonna be the way we're gonna
Speaker 1: be safe. So the it's actually at this point people
Speaker 1: need to be vaccinated, even that argument, because a lot
Speaker 1: of anti vactors when it even comes to child vaccines
Speaker 1: are like, well, through the herd immunity, I know my
Speaker 1: child isn't gonna get these illnesses because of herd immunity.
Speaker 1: That logic doesn't apply if we can't achieve any kind
Speaker 1: of herd immunity here anyway. So it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a bit of a weird fucking feedback loop that we're in.
Speaker 1: UM while you know were we got, you know, we're
Speaker 1: clearly seeing the vaccination numbers starting to like fall off
Speaker 1: a cliff of it well, and then beyond that, it's
Speaker 1: like by hoarding the vaccines in America, which now I
Speaker 1: would guess now some of those are just going vaccines
Speaker 1: and vaccine patents, It's like, yeah, I guess the other
Speaker 1: think that's gonna definitely guarantee this is UH. Even if
Speaker 1: you're a complete sociopath who doesn't care about other people.
Speaker 1: You can still think of India as just a vaccine
Speaker 1: population or sorry, a COVID like variant generator. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: year number of people, Yeah like that. Computations are yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's just numbers. Yeah, So I guess
Speaker 1: we just live with this forever. They're all just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, the what we can hope for, according to
Speaker 1: these experts, is like if we can get the vaccinations up,
Speaker 1: that coronavirus is just gonna become something that's seasonal that
Speaker 1: affects mostly the young and healthy. But that's about it.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it's either going to be you die off because
Speaker 1: unfortunately we're vaccinated or whatever whatever reason. I don't know.
Speaker 1: So it's it's not a Ultimately, though, all the experts
Speaker 1: are saying, we still have to get vaccinated just because
Speaker 1: we can't reach hurt him. It doesn't mean the vaccine
Speaker 1: nations are moved at this point. You absolutely need to
Speaker 1: ensure you your own health through vaccination. Uh. And don't
Speaker 1: think that these other ways that you can get around
Speaker 1: it are actually valid, because if aren't, you do not
Speaker 1: have enough people vaccinated it. Yeah. One and being one
Speaker 1: less vector, right, that's the real thing. A marketing campaigns,
Speaker 1: because I know they're like conspicuously marketing campaigns aimed at
Speaker 1: like black people and you know, elderly people. Are there
Speaker 1: Republicans We've talked about the GOP doctors who right, but
Speaker 1: that is that really all we're dealing with is that
Speaker 1: one like shitty viral video that I've for them. It
Speaker 1: seems like it. I mean, there have been a lot
Speaker 1: of I've been reading a lot of There have been
Speaker 1: pastors um who like in the South, like Bible Bell area,
Speaker 1: who are trying to get their congregants to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: There are people trying to but I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think the thing that they talked about in this Times
Speaker 1: piece though, is that at the very lead people need
Speaker 1: to be. It seems like the way people their attitudes
Speaker 1: change if they're around others who aren't talking anti vax bullshit,
Speaker 1: have gotten the vaccine or like yeah, what's wrong, Like
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's normal, it's normal, it's normal. Versus if
Speaker 1: you're in an environment where it's a hot take to
Speaker 1: bring up the vaccine or whatever it, like, the chance
Speaker 1: of you getting it like just exponentially go down. So
Speaker 1: that's the one hope is to be like talk to
Speaker 1: your friends about being it's the it's the peer group.
Speaker 1: Yeah that like yeah, and yeah, I was. I mean,
Speaker 1: this isn't like white conservatives, but like like when I
Speaker 1: got my vaccines and I volunteered at about vaccine distribution,
Speaker 1: I knew this, but I kind of hadn't really processed
Speaker 1: that like so many in southern California but kind of
Speaker 1: a certain generation. So many nurses are Filipino, and but
Speaker 1: they also are like very Catholic and very conservative. So
Speaker 1: it was truly just like I wasn't. I was trying
Speaker 1: to get a gauge from some Topino friends, like are
Speaker 1: your super conservative parents getting this ship? And it was like, definitely,
Speaker 1: some people's parents weren't. And I was like, it's just
Speaker 1: an odd, odd juxtaposition of populations to me. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that's what also makes just this the herd
Speaker 1: immunity so difficult, because just the geography of the United
Speaker 1: States and just how different neighborhood to neighborhood can because
Speaker 1: when things like sanitation and income can determine what levels
Speaker 1: of hurt like who needs to be or like what
Speaker 1: levels need to be vaccinated, that ship can change within
Speaker 1: like a mile. So it's not. It's even harder to
Speaker 1: think like it's this one blanket sort of prescription, although
Speaker 1: really the prescription is just to get your ads of vaccinated.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean the Pope told Catholics to get
Speaker 1: the vaccination. That should that that one should be easy.
Speaker 1: And the Pope also sometimes tells them that the death
Speaker 1: penalty is wrong and that hasn't changed very much. Yea,
Speaker 1: probably not talking about on that one. Yeah, Which is
Speaker 1: so funny though, because like when you're around like Catholics
Speaker 1: really funk with the Pope, Like if you joke about
Speaker 1: that ship, they're not having it. So but I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, man, you can't have that energy because I
Speaker 1: made a pope joke. But then you're like selectively being
Speaker 1: like I don't I don't agree with him on that
Speaker 1: ship about gay people, Like well, right, right, right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: What all right, let's take another quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. And we're back. And there's a new
Speaker 1: type of meme, a new genre of meme that we're
Speaker 1: seeing pop up that his photographs of small business owners
Speaker 1: to large business owners. Car I don't know how Big
Speaker 1: Carl's Junior Heartiest Empire, the parties. Yeah, that's not a
Speaker 1: locally owned business, right, Carl that that fellow Carl Jr.
Speaker 1: Shame what happened is kid. Yeah, but it's signs basically
Speaker 1: being like the government pan our employees too much, they
Speaker 1: won't work. Nobody wants to work. Uh takes about communism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's even like someone had a tweet I went burger
Speaker 1: I went Burger king from my diet coke. Nobody worked there,
Speaker 1: and you're like, what shut the funk up? And it's
Speaker 1: just a weird moment right now because people are you know,
Speaker 1: it was one thing to just I think because of
Speaker 1: the pandemic, everyone just caught in the grind of this
Speaker 1: machine of this game in America where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't afford to live, Well, that's not you, bitch.
Speaker 1: Like that cruelty became very clear when everything started shutting
Speaker 1: down and people took a second like wait without certain
Speaker 1: things like if if you just cut off my income,
Speaker 1: I'm in bad shape. I can go to dire straits
Speaker 1: very quickly. And I think, so we're in this moment
Speaker 1: now where people are they're at these breaking points financially,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna do what's in their best self interest,
Speaker 1: like just some quick maths, real quick will be like,
Speaker 1: why am I gonna go to this job where I'm
Speaker 1: being paid absolutely nothing when I can I got this
Speaker 1: stimulus check that is affording me some breathing room at
Speaker 1: the moment. It's just a really odd I mean it's
Speaker 1: not odd because the employers and the business owners will
Speaker 1: always be on the advocate on the side of I'm
Speaker 1: paying them ship. Yeah, it's wrong with these people, and
Speaker 1: now we're seeing it come out so aggressively. The answer
Speaker 1: to this is always, yeah, well you should pay your
Speaker 1: staff more so that they are motivated to come and
Speaker 1: they're going to get lazy. They didn't make a decision
Speaker 1: to stay home. You made it. You made the first
Speaker 1: decision to pay them less than the government is willing
Speaker 1: to give them in like emergency funds. Yeah, it's also
Speaker 1: like I thought you believed in the free market, Homie.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it sounds like demand is low, so you
Speaker 1: need to increase the value of your product, maybe turn
Speaker 1: it up a little bit, make it a little more luke,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, incentivize working for your company.
Speaker 1: Do you want to do that, business owner, or did
Speaker 1: you get into this just to exploit poor people. Think
Speaker 1: about it. Don't answer now, don't answer now, I think
Speaker 1: about it. Just think about it, just think about it.
Speaker 1: But that's what you're seeing now, I mean because the
Speaker 1: way they talk, it's like the solutions are one of
Speaker 1: the signs. Yeah, this one, yeah, this one that blew
Speaker 1: up on Fox News says we are short staff. This
Speaker 1: is like when Fox was like, we gotta go to
Speaker 1: the little guy and see what's going on in this
Speaker 1: cafe and a very nice, very nice work of arts
Speaker 1: and crafts as a glitter border and really great handwriting.
Speaker 1: It says we are short staffed. Please be patient with
Speaker 1: the staff that did show up. No one wants to
Speaker 1: work anymore. They would rather draw unemployment. Thanks staff. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't. I also don't want to be like
Speaker 1: a telling them what to do. But it is like,
Speaker 1: just if saw this like Smarbi widey ship hanging up
Speaker 1: at a restaurant you're at, you'd feel like it's like
Speaker 1: these losers, like what are you talking about? You want
Speaker 1: you feel bad for you? I'm like, what about the
Speaker 1: person who had to make a decision that this job
Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't sufficient for themselves? How about that because for
Speaker 1: all this talk of like there was this other, this
Speaker 1: Republican he said, like with this hardy sign that says
Speaker 1: we are closed due to no staff. It says, this
Speaker 1: is what happens when you extend unemployment benefits for too
Speaker 1: long and at stimulus payment to it, right when employers
Speaker 1: need workers to fully open back up if you can
Speaker 1: be found. Uh huh, here's the deal, man, Like you
Speaker 1: don't be talking out here with this woe as me
Speaker 1: ship because rather than talking about better wages and benefits
Speaker 1: or how they can, you know, make things work for
Speaker 1: the workers, apparently they're so vital to their business, they're
Speaker 1: like all on this, like these nasty workers have abandoned
Speaker 1: their divine duty to man the d friar because welfare.
Speaker 1: It's like that doesn't make you look like I don't
Speaker 1: there's no sympathy going that way. Sorry. Yeah, well it's
Speaker 1: also like you're you're always so you're addicted to cheap labor,
Speaker 1: like are bad, Like no one, no one forced you
Speaker 1: to take that hit, Like you're you're allowed to not
Speaker 1: pay people less than they need to live on. Why
Speaker 1: don't y'all get on the front line during a pandemic?
Speaker 1: If if that's because I'm on my fucking boat and
Speaker 1: what the fuck? Man, No, I didn't know. I did
Speaker 1: the cost benefit the risk assessment, and it's not worth
Speaker 1: it for me, even the fair market, so I will
Speaker 1: declare strategic bankruptcy. Right. Uh, there's this kind of a
Speaker 1: no ship study, but I kind of thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting just because it's something uh, you constantly encounter, especially
Speaker 1: once the world opens back up. Is they said that
Speaker 1: there's a pretty powerful and reliable effect that like if
Speaker 1: you just glance at your phone, at least half of
Speaker 1: the people who are around you will look at theirs
Speaker 1: within thirty seconds. Basically whoa like a sneeze, like at
Speaker 1: least contagious. Yeah, it's like it's contagious, like yawning. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's kind of easy to explain because
Speaker 1: it's also like a status thing kind of like well,
Speaker 1: I have better things to do than be here talking
Speaker 1: to you, so like it's I don't know, well I
Speaker 1: have better things that be here talking to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly right, Yeah, well fuck you there. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's like that just look at my phone because because
Speaker 1: I don't know, is when you catch yourself just doing
Speaker 1: like play check in your phone and what you do wipe,
Speaker 1: you do two swipes over to like to see what
Speaker 1: apps you have that happen a while You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're talking, Okay, cool arc Light. I guess I could
Speaker 1: get rid of that app, and then maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep because I think just for the laugh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep that on my phone. Would you say, what were
Speaker 1: you saying? Do I do I know how to log
Speaker 1: into my bank? Ye? No, okay? Cool? Still I had
Speaker 1: that password? Definitely, I got a story. Then I gotta
Speaker 1: get I gotta I should try to remember well, because
Speaker 1: for me, I was like that was the one where
Speaker 1: I let the phone generate a crazy password because I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I should you know, use some security right,
Speaker 1: and then clearly got changed at some point, so I
Speaker 1: don't know which Like I've been really don't know how
Speaker 1: to log in on my phone. Oh you're a bank?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I thought you meant just your lock
Speaker 1: screen on your phone. Oh no no, yeah you to
Speaker 1: that bank. I assume might have money in there, but
Speaker 1: there's no way for me to know. Yeah, when you talk,
Speaker 1: when you said the people around somebody looking at a
Speaker 1: phone will also check their phone. Is it like if
Speaker 1: you are in the same social group. It's not like
Speaker 1: randomly at a restaurant, I'm like, yo, what I do
Speaker 1: looking at this phone? I'm a look at my phone?
Speaker 1: Like it's probably if you're in a setting right the
Speaker 1: way it's framed. So they observed people in in the
Speaker 1: wild and they said fifty percent of people looked at
Speaker 1: their phones within thirty seconds of the trigger, touching and
Speaker 1: looking at their phone, But if they just touched it
Speaker 1: without looking at it, it was just point five percent
Speaker 1: of people. So I think it's I think they're like
Speaker 1: putting these people out into actual social settings and then
Speaker 1: looking at anybody who's like happens to be looking at them.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like in the error or anything,
Speaker 1: right if you're no, but I mean like even or whatever,
Speaker 1: right right right? M yeah, I mean one of one
Speaker 1: of the anecdotes they gave is like somebody who they
Speaker 1: were sitting across from in a waiting room. So that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's somebody who you're not like actively in
Speaker 1: a conversation with because we've lost this like it's a
Speaker 1: it's almost like at least in America or very phone
Speaker 1: obsessed countries cultures like you don't want to be left
Speaker 1: with nothing to do? M you know, like because now
Speaker 1: we're living a world where standing in line without looking
Speaker 1: at your phone, it's like, what's up with that part?
Speaker 1: What the fun they up to? Exactly? Like that's where
Speaker 1: and it's funny, like because I've tried to fight that,
Speaker 1: remembering like I've I've been, I've been for them for
Speaker 1: most of my life. I've been having to wait around
Speaker 1: with not shipped, to do without the technology. And how
Speaker 1: quickly I've been like I can't stand to be somewhere
Speaker 1: without my ship. Uh is a weird feeling. But what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Look around at ship while you're
Speaker 1: in line? People are mistake for some kind of creep
Speaker 1: that's kind of not having a phone type creep someone
Speaker 1: with a flip phone. All right, Finally, let's get into
Speaker 1: the final sign of the apocalypse. Uh and clear indication
Speaker 1: that cancel culture has gone too far. The Cox News
Speaker 1: so snow White canceled. Yeah, you heard that right. That
Speaker 1: was my audition to be a Fox News anchor. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. You got the face, you got the go on,
Speaker 1: give us that take, give us that hot Fox take.
Speaker 1: So there was a sf Gate article about Disneyland reopening,
Speaker 1: and they just zoomed in on a single sentence like
Speaker 1: it was a pretty positive like hey, this is what
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with what The article wasn't about
Speaker 1: snow White at all, like it happened to be part
Speaker 1: of it. And then the writer mentioned in this like
Speaker 1: column that's in. You know, it's not a news article
Speaker 1: it's in it's more of like a column where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just making witty off the observations, and they described
Speaker 1: the true love kiss moment on the snow White ride.
Speaker 1: Haven't we already agreed that consent in early Disney movies
Speaker 1: is a major issue that teaching kids that kissing when
Speaker 1: it hasn't been established if both parties are willing to
Speaker 1: engage is not okay, Well that was plenty. Oh hold
Speaker 1: onto your butts. So Fox, oh man, they had they
Speaker 1: had some other fucking commentator on I don't know who
Speaker 1: this person is just to just like the desk person
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, can you believe it? Like
Speaker 1: is there no escape from the woke police? And here
Speaker 1: comes the talking head to just let you know, like
Speaker 1: like why this is just so exactly. I think it
Speaker 1: shows how woke is m destroys everything fun in our society.
Speaker 1: But it's a real issue because of how prevalent these
Speaker 1: woke culture warriors are in affecting the affecting everything that
Speaker 1: we read and we experience. Uh this, I'm no Disney
Speaker 1: princess expert by any means, but I think what's particularly
Speaker 1: interesting about this issue is that this is a This
Speaker 1: is a princess who would I believe die if she
Speaker 1: didn't receive this kiss um. And I think that even
Speaker 1: though consent is very important in human relationships, most humans
Speaker 1: can understand that consent is not everything in human relationships,
Speaker 1: and that some things like all right, let me just
Speaker 1: well hold on, let me, let me let's finish that thought,
Speaker 1: some things like what permanent sleep or death might be
Speaker 1: worth factoring into the equation. Okay, sorry, she said your
Speaker 1: permanent sleep on the permanent They're like, we all agree
Speaker 1: that consent is important, but it's fun. You've lost world
Speaker 1: where it's not and train and just drill that into
Speaker 1: the brains of our young, developing children. Again that that
Speaker 1: woman is a calmness for the federalists. Oh yeah, snow White.
Speaker 1: In addition to being saved by true love's kiss, like
Speaker 1: well in a coma, Like throughout the movie is like
Speaker 1: when she's awake, she's constantly like running into trees and
Speaker 1: ship and just like knocking herself out and like panicking
Speaker 1: and like breaking into people's houses and assuming it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. And every time the thing that bails her
Speaker 1: out is that she looks cool while she's asleep. Like
Speaker 1: that's that's what happens in like that when the she
Speaker 1: like runs into a into the forest and like gets
Speaker 1: like attacked by trees because she does know how to run.
Speaker 1: And then like when she's asleep in the forest, like
Speaker 1: all the animals come out and they're like, Wow, this
Speaker 1: lady is really pretty. And then she like breaks into
Speaker 1: the dwarfs house and they're about to kill her, and
Speaker 1: then she rolls over in her sleep and they're like, wow,
Speaker 1: she's really pretty. And then yeah, and then the only
Speaker 1: way that she can be saved is after eating what
Speaker 1: is clearly a poisoned apple, she like goes into a coma,
Speaker 1: and then the only thing that saves her is somebody
Speaker 1: rolling by in the woods and being like hell yeah.
Speaker 1: And so it's not just about like I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most backwards like funked ups in
Speaker 1: terms of like it's not just like not the woman
Speaker 1: doesn't have agency, it's like anti agency. It's like do
Speaker 1: if you exercise agency, you will die? The best form
Speaker 1: just lay prone, yes, quiet and pretty. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: really like it. It's because once you watch it with
Speaker 1: any kind of brain, it's like, does it take much
Speaker 1: to unpack this? Motherfucker's like sure, one thing, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty Yeah, it's like, so what are you defending? Like
Speaker 1: why is this? Why they're just I think again, this
Speaker 1: is the only this is gonna have a feeling. We'll
Speaker 1: be doing this like once a week. We'll figure out
Speaker 1: what the outrage djure is because it can't be anything
Speaker 1: substantive anymore. Like they've contradicted themselves on so many of
Speaker 1: like their traditional policy positions as a party that they've
Speaker 1: also there's also like largely one on the policy ship
Speaker 1: they care about that that the people who fund Fox
Speaker 1: News care about. Yeah, right, which is the tax they
Speaker 1: got they got that ship on lock and the other
Speaker 1: stuff like whatever, I'm not affected by it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how they they all think. But that this is
Speaker 1: what I think because they again they cannot report on
Speaker 1: Joe Biden because some of the things that he does
Speaker 1: pulls well with Republicans. And we've seen how Fox Knews
Speaker 1: avoids those stories like the fucking plague in order to
Speaker 1: just keep Fox like as this thing to be diametrically
Speaker 1: opposed and just you know, keep people ill informed or misinformed.
Speaker 1: Man just being a Democratic president who does stuff that's
Speaker 1: popular with Republicans, that that seems to be the special
Speaker 1: sauce for Biden and Clinton. I mean, if they really
Speaker 1: wanted to hit Joe Biden, they could talk about how
Speaker 1: he's extending contract with you know, like formally CIA backed
Speaker 1: agencies that are helping reunite immigrants. They're like the same
Speaker 1: people who are like caging people before Joe Biden is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a hundred thirty six million dollars to help right
Speaker 1: the wrongs of the Trump administration. Hit Joe Biden on that,
Speaker 1: but again that puts them they've played themselves. Or if
Speaker 1: they wanted to actually hit something, be if something of substance,
Speaker 1: they put themselves on the left suddenly, and they're like
Speaker 1: they're using the furious logic where like you turned the
Speaker 1: bad guy into the good guy. We're like, we gotta
Speaker 1: bring these this bad CI agency in to help us
Speaker 1: reunite families again fast enough serious, you know, yeah to
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Speaker 1: we we we talked about the Goofy movie and then
Speaker 1: my co host, Tony Newsome had never seen the Goofy movie,
Speaker 1: so we did a watch along of it to two
Speaker 1: and plus hour and probably like a two hour file.
Speaker 1: Um that uh, I'm told is quite good. I haven't
Speaker 1: sat down and listened to it SYNCD up myself. But
Speaker 1: people seem to like it, So that's just one thing
Speaker 1: you can get for subscribing. I have to go listen
Speaker 1: to that now other ship. Yeah, and is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some of the work of social media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Uh, yeah, there's Uh, there's not someone I follow,
Speaker 1: so if they're a bad person, I don't know someone
Speaker 1: named the goad Gatsby go O A D G A
Speaker 1: T S B Y. I don't know who this is.
Speaker 1: But Mandela effect. I remember George W. Bush being a
Speaker 1: war criminal, but now no one else seems to remember.
Speaker 1: Pretty good ship. It is wild we're rehabilitating that fucking murderer.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's also wild how much people are using
Speaker 1: Mandela effect and conversations to just mean something that they misremembered. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that that is not an example of obviously,
Speaker 1: but I just keep hearing that in podcast. People be like,
Speaker 1: is that like Mandela effect or it's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess is completely lost all meeting. Yeah, Miles, where
Speaker 1: can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter? Instagram?
Speaker 1: Miles of Gray also go to support for twenty Day Fiance, Twitch,
Speaker 1: dot tv, slash for twenty Day Fiance. If y'all listen
Speaker 1: to podcast, the vault is out and you know where
Speaker 1: to check to find that. Uh. Some tweets that I like, okay, um.
Speaker 1: First one is from Lusty Argonian Maid at lind Dog tweeted,
Speaker 1: I love when Southern girls become all you guys are
Speaker 1: so cool, you're y'a alternatives like that construction. Another one,
Speaker 1: Christina Cather Martinez at Xtina Underscore Catherine tweeted, men only
Speaker 1: want one thing, and it's the open both windows so
Speaker 1: we can get a cross breeze gone, because that should
Speaker 1: feel good. I'm sorry when you opened out one other
Speaker 1: window and you're like, yeah, stupid ship. Might have liked
Speaker 1: that one myself. Yeah, it's it's a fantastic tweet. And
Speaker 1: then the other one it's hard. It's hard. It's a
Speaker 1: visual one. But it's like two pictures side by side.
Speaker 1: One is of a very smiley woman with like rainbow
Speaker 1: colored hair, and then next to it is like the
Speaker 1: same person, but like dark hair, wearing glasses, wearing all black.
Speaker 1: So gone from a colorful face to a dark face.
Speaker 1: The colorful face says smoking weed. It's sixteen to have
Speaker 1: a little fun on a Friday Night, and then the
Speaker 1: more Jimure photo is ripping a N T HC pen
Speaker 1: and target at age thirty five to make buying underwear tolerable.
Speaker 1: So that's from a still waters Are you fourteen? So yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have would have interesting. You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter, Jack Underscore Brian. A tweet I've been enjoying
Speaker 1: is from former guest Allison Stevenson, who tweeted, does it
Speaker 1: make sense to you that I always think Brendan is
Speaker 1: plural for more than one? Brandon? Um My, that's true.
Speaker 1: That got me thinking. Okay, we can find us on
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Speaker 1: a song that we think y'all should go check out. Miles,
Speaker 1: what is that song we're recommended? Just just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm in a in a East Buffalo kind of mood,
Speaker 1: So this will be Griselda the Doctor Birds. The videos
Speaker 1: Wilders By directed by Hype Williams. If you remember that
Speaker 1: guy and Yeah, it's just man, I just there. I
Speaker 1: just love how grimy Griselda is because they're just keeping
Speaker 1: it to like the late nineties early odds and they're
Speaker 1: my age, so it just feels like that golden air
Speaker 1: in New York sound. So this track though, Dr Birds
Speaker 1: a fun one told Virgil right, brick on my brick
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