Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Episode two of The Daily Night Guys, the production of
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Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's share consciousness. Is Tuesday, April
Speaker 1: six one. My name is Jack O'Brien a K. We
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Speaker 1: my last week off on spring break, just spring breaking it,
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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always buy my co
Speaker 1: host Mr Miles, because I'm benching all day. No Netflix
Speaker 1: cold brew in the office. That's a weakness. Early, I'll say,
Speaker 1: d made my peace with it. Got a route team,
Speaker 1: but it's on some street ship. I'm gonna show you
Speaker 1: how to get it. Equal press rick or sit up right,
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Speaker 1: Do you know I just had to stroke a little
Speaker 1: bit through it, you know, yeah, because I'm in the
Speaker 1: I'm back into the seat next to the great Jack.
Speaker 1: One of the one thing that they cannot say about
Speaker 1: us is that we are not sitting upright. No, as
Speaker 1: much as I thought at some point I would be
Speaker 1: a laying down podcast, I just don't know how. When
Speaker 1: I see clips of that, it gives me anxiety. I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you that checked out? Or like you're just that
Speaker 1: good at pok Yeah. I've had meetings with usually like
Speaker 1: agents who are like laying down, just trying. It's as
Speaker 1: like if you're like on FaceTime with like a college
Speaker 1: basketball player you're dating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: some red lines back on those deal points, you know, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you look relaxed. Uh. Did you see Clay Thompson's during
Speaker 1: the Golden State game? You know, I posted a clip
Speaker 1: that I just like had to take a video of
Speaker 1: the Dvard clip of Clay Thompson. He was the coziest,
Speaker 1: like falling asleep on the bench. I look at it
Speaker 1: looks like me in a lecture and call. It's like
Speaker 1: I've never identified more with somebody. He was just right
Speaker 1: on that edge of consciousness falling asleep professional sports competition.
Speaker 1: Hasn't played basketball, I know, but that just shows you,
Speaker 1: like the levels of where he's at, like he exhausted,
Speaker 1: he wants to be out there, he cannot and he's
Speaker 1: probably who knows how he's sleeping, so at a certain point,
Speaker 1: like I have nothing to gain from looking at this
Speaker 1: except to sleep. Yeah. Anyways, Miles, great to see you,
Speaker 1: a great great to talk to you again. Uh And
Speaker 1: speaking of great to talk to we are thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the
Speaker 1: talented Peter Boniface. Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's great to be here. It's
Speaker 1: great to have you. Yes, I think the you now
Speaker 1: hold the record or at least top three for the
Speaker 1: longest most in depth l a conversation that we've had
Speaker 1: prior to recording. Miles. When you grow when you grow
Speaker 1: up in the valley, you know there's a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about. Listen was flowing and we have let it
Speaker 1: keep flowing. Yeah, we're number one or top three? You
Speaker 1: said what either number one or top three? It was?
Speaker 1: I would say I was taking notes over here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put out a I'm right now Calabasas comments research
Speaker 1: that what is El Camino High School? Okay? Could you?
Speaker 1: Could you let me know as soon if you guys
Speaker 1: find out which? Yeah, this is an important point. I
Speaker 1: think this was probably the top one because other people
Speaker 1: are when they come on and I know they're from
Speaker 1: the v I already know. And this was sort of
Speaker 1: like where'd you go? What? And you, I'm from New
Speaker 1: Thought you what? So that was one where we were
Speaker 1: two value people working out for that. I give it
Speaker 1: the goat value conversation. Yeah, I think it was. Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was because you immediately picked it up.
Speaker 1: You you you started asking all the right questions right
Speaker 1: away and and yeah, and I thought you got to
Speaker 1: the core of me really quick. I could feel you know,
Speaker 1: you could feel it, you know, beautiful thing to be
Speaker 1: value vibes, valy vibes. Alright, Peter, we're going to get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners just a couple of the
Speaker 1: things that we're talking about. We are talking about. Uh.
Speaker 1: These Florida gop stars are are crushing it this week
Speaker 1: over the past week. We're gonna talk about de Santis.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about a universal tax that Janet Yellen
Speaker 1: is proposing. We're gonna talk about corporations having to be
Speaker 1: the voice of reason when it comes to voter suppression. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about a wild ass Disney Dad who was
Speaker 1: unable to deal with the new reality of where we live.
Speaker 1: We got so much to talk about. But first, Peter,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history that is revealing about who you are?
Speaker 1: Let's see some from my search of history. Be honest.
Speaker 1: The last thing from my search history was I was
Speaker 1: researching the tax program for H and R block to
Speaker 1: do my taxes because I have to do uh, my
Speaker 1: escort taxes and so it's really the most boring thing
Speaker 1: you could possibly think of. But it's the first time
Speaker 1: I would have googled something like that in an entire
Speaker 1: maybe year. Um. Yeah, block block has their own software,
Speaker 1: Asian R block has their own online software, and uh
Speaker 1: I tried to use it, and no disrespect to h
Speaker 1: R Block, but it was incredibly non user friendly and
Speaker 1: I had to give up. Yeah, so yeah, Uncle Sam,
Speaker 1: we'll have to wait on that check, you know, Uncle Uncle.
Speaker 1: Well I got an extension luckily, so Uncle Sam knows
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna but it's uh not to just for
Speaker 1: you with this, but it's basically, I like file the
Speaker 1: wrong form a couple of years ago, and I have
Speaker 1: to refile that form from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: So it's like, it's oh, incredibly frustrating. I know. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm like, I'm dealing. I gotta go back to
Speaker 1: a tax person and do some from like one weird
Speaker 1: thing that I'm like, oh my god, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Why why can't we build Other countries Yeah, yeah, Other
Speaker 1: countries just have a form you fill out. They just
Speaker 1: serve you. Yeah, they're like here, here's what you owe,
Speaker 1: pay it and we're done here. And the US, because
Speaker 1: of companies like h H and R Block lobbying, uh,
Speaker 1: they just keep ship real complicated. Like other countries are
Speaker 1: just like wait, what wait, there's a tax, but you
Speaker 1: don't get the letter from the government that's already done
Speaker 1: because they know what you make. They're the government they
Speaker 1: have all of that. They wait, so they ask you
Speaker 1: to come up with information to verify you've also personally
Speaker 1: recorded the information that they already have on file on you.
Speaker 1: Anytime you need an expert to be able to like
Speaker 1: decipher things like that, it's it's yeah, it's like you
Speaker 1: gotta pay the taxes, but you also got to put
Speaker 1: the whole thing to yeah there, and it has to
Speaker 1: be at your own cost. And even when you like
Speaker 1: ask your friend who's really smart who went to law school,
Speaker 1: they're like, look, I'm no tax attorney here. It's like
Speaker 1: you're a human rights lawyer. You're like, look, that's unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's easier than tax, easier, way simpler, human rights, the
Speaker 1: concept of human rights, right, it's way easier there. Huh, Peter,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? Ah? Man's ula.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand it. When I was growing up,
Speaker 1: nobody was eating arugala. Now it's suddenly this huge part
Speaker 1: of society everywhere you go everything, Like I a while back,
Speaker 1: so it was telling me about like a rugala pizza
Speaker 1: and it was like basically like dough arugla and like
Speaker 1: some like cheese or like a white sauce or something
Speaker 1: was like a pizza based on a rugla. I just
Speaker 1: I don't want it. I don't like it. I won't
Speaker 1: do it. I love vegetables, I love earths, but something
Speaker 1: about rugala just it honestly kind of makes me feel nauseous.
Speaker 1: It's definitely that's how Yeah, that's howe or rocket as
Speaker 1: it's known in other parts of the world. I remember
Speaker 1: eating it, like it's funny when it's peppery. I love
Speaker 1: it when you get like some lukewarm or rugle, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, on pizza, I don't like leafy greens on
Speaker 1: a pizza like I get. I've had ones where it
Speaker 1: will be like a little presciutto or something, and a
Speaker 1: couple they'll they'll hit you with a couple of loose
Speaker 1: rugala leaves. But when something is inundated with like leafy
Speaker 1: greens on an actual pizza, like salad pizza, like I
Speaker 1: can't that's what it was like. It was like a
Speaker 1: salad pizza, but with the rugala. Also, it's like if arugala,
Speaker 1: if it's just a rugal in there, is it really
Speaker 1: a salad? Wouldn't it just be rugla a side of
Speaker 1: a rugala salad, But then the only thing that's in
Speaker 1: it is arugula and dressing. Well, it's like, well, that's
Speaker 1: the side of a ruga that's not that's not salad.
Speaker 1: How many more? How many more ingredients to cross into
Speaker 1: the salt across this? I think at least at least
Speaker 1: one more? Yeah, I think at least one side of
Speaker 1: mash potatoes salad. Uh. When you put some scoop of
Speaker 1: mash potatoes on my arugula to really make it a salad,
Speaker 1: that's a casserole salad right now, what castles egg in it? Right?
Speaker 1: Or cheese in or something like that? Right, it's the dish,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure could do a vegan version. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like if you're doing a one one
Speaker 1: pan type thing that falls into that's you're starting to
Speaker 1: flirt with casserole culture. I feel like you also need
Speaker 1: to to have a true cast role. And this probably
Speaker 1: isn't part of the definition, but you have to have
Speaker 1: some sort of cream of something soup that is like
Speaker 1: a bass layer ingredient that's based off of Campbell's putting
Speaker 1: it into American brains. If you don't have soup that's
Speaker 1: classic concerned. I'm sort of taking over our lives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now likeitually, like I have cremal mushroom soup in
Speaker 1: my house because I grew up seeing my friend's mom
Speaker 1: like make a cast role like I've never seen before,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, that's the ticket that white gou
Speaker 1: in the can, right. All you need is water and
Speaker 1: heat and then you got a meal. I grew up
Speaker 1: thinking that chicken casadillas were this recipe that my mom
Speaker 1: made that was just layers of tortillas with cream of chicken,
Speaker 1: soup and cheese like scattered throughout. I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: like a cast role. Like it was like a cast role.
Speaker 1: It was like a case a casse role. Uh whoa,
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It's really good, but it's definitely the
Speaker 1: most American Midwestern white I love interpretation. I love that
Speaker 1: kind of aggressive just distillation, offensive distillation of other cuisine
Speaker 1: into like this American version. I'm not here the same
Speaker 1: eight Peter. Because you be in Persian growing up in
Speaker 1: like like America, seeing food at your home that's different
Speaker 1: than maybe what other kids were eating, did you like
Speaker 1: venture out into like the just gnarliest American food because
Speaker 1: you didn't have it at home. Oh definitely, because like
Speaker 1: once I started eating American food and or just sort
Speaker 1: of like Western food quote unquote, when I left Iran,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, our food sucks compared to this,
Speaker 1: Like I want pizza, I want burgers. It's it's not
Speaker 1: like I hadn't had like those things in Iron, but
Speaker 1: when you come and have them at like McDonald's and
Speaker 1: you know, put those kind of places, it really rocks
Speaker 1: your world effort, especially when you're a kid. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to eat like or like I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: want to eat our like celery and beef stew or whatever.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to like like um, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to eat our pomegrant stew like I didn't want need
Speaker 1: any of that ship um I. And also for some reason,
Speaker 1: ever since I was a kid, I was a really
Speaker 1: picky eat um. I think I get it from my mom,
Speaker 1: Like I just other kids pretty much eat whatever their
Speaker 1: parents like gave them, Like I was just it was
Speaker 1: very specific like I just I guess the more authentic
Speaker 1: the food is, the least like the less I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a stacked deck because like America is sending all
Speaker 1: it's like best scientists and nutritionists to like massive corporations
Speaker 1: where they're just like trying to distill chemicals to make
Speaker 1: something delicious, like without any regard for you know, how
Speaker 1: how good it is for you or any of those things.
Speaker 1: So it's I I think about this lot because I've
Speaker 1: got trying to build healthy eating habits and a three
Speaker 1: year old and a four year old, and it's like
Speaker 1: you find yourself being like eat the hot dog, and
Speaker 1: it's like, why am I Why am I having this conversation? Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably the ease of it. Yeah, easier to get the
Speaker 1: kid to eat a salt log. Come on, take a
Speaker 1: bite of your salt log. What is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? I think even though people talk about it,
Speaker 1: they don't talk about it enough. I think the show
Speaker 1: Golden Girls, it is truly one of the greatest sitcoms
Speaker 1: in the history of television. And I think, honestly, like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like it has a special place in
Speaker 1: my heart because I always watched it with my grandma
Speaker 1: growing up, and I watched it with my mom and like,
Speaker 1: and I still watch it with my mom, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of just like one of those shows you watch
Speaker 1: if you have like It's like a show I would
Speaker 1: watch like when the pandemic first hit and I was
Speaker 1: anxious as ship, and it's like it just makes you
Speaker 1: feel good. It's just like home cooked food. But it's
Speaker 1: really fucking funny. And it was very ahead of its time,
Speaker 1: and it only had seventh seasons, but it became like
Speaker 1: a legendary show. But because it's about like four old
Speaker 1: white women, I think people now kind of like dismiss it,
Speaker 1: but if they actually gave it a chance, they say, oh,
Speaker 1: it was pretty woke for its time. Like they still
Speaker 1: you know, they still have their little like you know,
Speaker 1: moments through like huh, okay, we're we're luckily as a
Speaker 1: society way past that. But like, it's a really funny show.
Speaker 1: And if you're listening out there and if you're talking
Speaker 1: about that show, shame on you Watch the show, Watch
Speaker 1: the show, and then contact me and say thank you, Peter,
Speaker 1: because this show is fantastic. Say it to my face.
Speaker 1: If you're out there talking shit about Golden Girls, come
Speaker 1: say you want to say something about it. Still getty? Yeah? Uh.
Speaker 1: Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator Arrested Development, I think that was
Speaker 1: one of his first writing gigs, was Golden Girls, Like
Speaker 1: there's really just incredible pedigree in that writer's room and
Speaker 1: you can you can see it on the screen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of the for for real, Like I definitely
Speaker 1: it was a show my grandmother would have on and
Speaker 1: I would watch it, and I always thought it was
Speaker 1: funny because I just always I loved Sophia, like just
Speaker 1: from being just like her vibe. Always that was like
Speaker 1: my favorite Golden Girl character. But I always it probably
Speaker 1: wasn't until I think I stopped watching like high school,
Speaker 1: and I never came back. But because I always had
Speaker 1: good memories when like this sort of second third wave
Speaker 1: of like Golden Girls fandom that's sort of just been
Speaker 1: on the internet pretty consistently, I've always looked at him like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking Golden Girls is the ship. But you know, like
Speaker 1: when I think of it now, most people looking at
Speaker 1: it through adult eyes. I probably need to do that
Speaker 1: again because I did as a you know, you know,
Speaker 1: a kid or younger person liked it, but yeah, give
Speaker 1: it an adult eye viewing now. Know as a kid,
Speaker 1: that didn't really strike me that it was a good show.
Speaker 1: I just watched it with yeah, yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: really like just being a fan of comedy now and
Speaker 1: as adult, and I looked like, like, man, these are
Speaker 1: really this is really funny. Like these characters are very
Speaker 1: well defined. They're very flawed, but you love them, and
Speaker 1: the jokes are just very good. And it was ahead
Speaker 1: of its time, like really especially dealing with like for
Speaker 1: the most part, again they have their sort of blind spots,
Speaker 1: but for the most part dealing with issues of like
Speaker 1: like l g B t Q, and you know, like
Speaker 1: at the time, like immigration and like sort of like
Speaker 1: certain conservative values and stuff like that, they did a
Speaker 1: really good job, I feel like for the time, just
Speaker 1: like setting good precedent sort of like social reforms and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And it's just funny. It's fun And back in the
Speaker 1: days when you did sitcoms, it wasn't enough that you
Speaker 1: were funny or you did others, like you had to
Speaker 1: be a really solid performer. Um, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was really different back then. Like all of them are
Speaker 1: have very well defined stage careers and television careers and
Speaker 1: like we are true like quote like quote thespians of
Speaker 1: the game. So it's like it really is like performance
Speaker 1: television performance at the highest level. I think get too
Speaker 1: nerdy with this ship, but like you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: good sitcom acting is it's difficult too because a lot
Speaker 1: of the times the writers weren't writing for the actors,
Speaker 1: like that was a script and they're like, you need
Speaker 1: to turn this up. Whereas like in listening to the
Speaker 1: Office Deep Dive podcast in one of the first episodes,
Speaker 1: Greg Daniels on the showrunners talks about how they were
Speaker 1: for the first time different doing something different than traditional
Speaker 1: sitcom writing, where it's like they tried to know the
Speaker 1: performer and start writing the character to tailor the performer,
Speaker 1: which was different for before. Was like you got to
Speaker 1: pull up with your skills. And I think, yeah, when
Speaker 1: this kind of sitcom acting, like they truly took these
Speaker 1: good solid writing even though it wasn't tailored to them.
Speaker 1: But having to take that and make it seem like
Speaker 1: it was, I think, yeah, it's a true art form. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me Blanche Devereaux over Samantha from Sex in the City.
Speaker 1: In terms of uh, sex positive characters from my childhood,
Speaker 1: Blanch was the ship. Oh definitely, Blanch is blanch is
Speaker 1: Like what's great about her is like as shallow and
Speaker 1: like as she seems, she's always like is the she's
Speaker 1: she aggressively defends her friends like when she has to,
Speaker 1: like what I mean, like they're all really flawed, but
Speaker 1: all have very very important, key aspects of their character
Speaker 1: that you fall in love with that like you like.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's just and that's like you said,
Speaker 1: that's really from the writing and the performing and uh
Speaker 1: and you just kind of don't see that ship no more.
Speaker 1: It's just, Yeah, it's weird that like the shows that
Speaker 1: I watched as a kid, like comedy holds up better
Speaker 1: than the drama. Maybe maybe it's just because TV dramas
Speaker 1: have like progressed more, but like you know, matt Lock
Speaker 1: and Murder she wrote, and those sorts of shows that
Speaker 1: I kind of associate with Golden Girls in terms of
Speaker 1: like being on around the same time and like being
Speaker 1: shows I would watching my grandparents house and ship like
Speaker 1: the Golden Girls holds up really well, whereas, like you know,
Speaker 1: matt Lock, I kind of regret my full fullback Mattlock tattoo.
Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah yeah, but yeah back on lock with
Speaker 1: the matt Lock tattoo. You have a full matt Lock
Speaker 1: and and it's really detailed, full body. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: kind of get an idea of the entire arc of
Speaker 1: the series based on like the different sections of the tattoo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is nude. It is it's nude of Matlock
Speaker 1: and yeah yeah, it starts from underneath his shoulder blades
Speaker 1: to the bottom of his butt cheeks. I mean, you
Speaker 1: don't want to work around with something like that. Man,
Speaker 1: it looks like a weird yakuza tattoo. That just sounds
Speaker 1: like the worst idea I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: And yeah, still dealing with un no, but um no,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Don like definitely the old school
Speaker 1: like dramas now they're like, oh, this is Laane. These
Speaker 1: characters act like cartoon character. But like comedy, that's what
Speaker 1: what's noble about comedy. It's like it's kind of universal
Speaker 1: and it's if it's done right, it's kind of timeless.
Speaker 1: Like I Love I Love Lucy is still really really funny.
Speaker 1: And you know again, like it's done such a long
Speaker 1: time ago, so those aspects of you look back and
Speaker 1: you know it's a little cringe e. But like the
Speaker 1: other aspects, like man, this ship is still funny. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, because like when you look at movies from
Speaker 1: the eighties, like a lot of the comedies don't hold
Speaker 1: up that well, but you know, dramas and like back
Speaker 1: to the I guess Back to the Future is a
Speaker 1: comedic drama. D I think drama back to uh you know,
Speaker 1: the greatest film of all time time? Yeah, I guess,
Speaker 1: Like like okay, like do you mean, like, let's say
Speaker 1: a film like Ferris Busy Off? Is that like a
Speaker 1: common my point sucks. I'm realizing, no, no, just background,
Speaker 1: back away from that real quick. I also immediately mentioned
Speaker 1: like and iconic, considered iconic like eighties comedy, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of comedies from that time, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, this one with Rodney danger Field that I
Speaker 1: liked when I was a kid, and I saw a
Speaker 1: part of it again, like I don't know, five years ago, yes,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this fucking sucks, and it's just
Speaker 1: like it was like they were like, how do we
Speaker 1: make the dumbest, most like offensive bullshit with every bullshit
Speaker 1: joke in it? And and then I like a dumbass.
Speaker 1: I was like probably like ten years old, and I thought, man,
Speaker 1: this is hilarious, this is so good, this is so well.
Speaker 1: They really did, like they really loved the funk out
Speaker 1: of like Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah, remember when they fucking made
Speaker 1: that movie Rover Dangerfield. They just said, what if our
Speaker 1: man was a fucking dog and it's a cartoon now,
Speaker 1: Like that was it. I remember being so confused as
Speaker 1: a kid when that movie came out. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is? A dog that's doing
Speaker 1: stand up like the gusts. Yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Back then you just needed this, like like I mean,
Speaker 1: you need a comedy. Had to have a stick, I guess.
Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, yeah, definitely does this weird? Like
Speaker 1: these days if you do yeah, these days, if you
Speaker 1: do that, people like, man, get this fucking off stage.
Speaker 1: We want to be Rodney Dangerfield looking at I heard that,
Speaker 1: dude was like, I mean again, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: how true? This is what I heard? Like he was
Speaker 1: like a really shitty dude, and like towards the end
Speaker 1: of his life when he wasn't doing comedy as much,
Speaker 1: like I had some like financial scheme where he like
Speaker 1: schemed a bunch of like old retired people out of
Speaker 1: their money or something like again, like I heard this,
Speaker 1: I forgot what source I heard is from but I
Speaker 1: have heard from multiple sources of the dude was like
Speaker 1: a shitty dude, but like someone who constantly glows around
Speaker 1: screaming about how they get no respect. I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: at all why they don't get any respect. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know who knows. I mean, that's a whole
Speaker 1: that's part of the life cycle of being a celebrity.
Speaker 1: Who old people like, is you know, like Tom Selleck
Speaker 1: now does all those like scamships, uh, you know will exactly?
Speaker 1: I trust them, And I think that's just being an
Speaker 1: American who old people like telling these old people give
Speaker 1: their home to the bank in this commercial, yeah for
Speaker 1: the Yeah, for those reverse mortgages. Yeah, it's also like
Speaker 1: like shut up, Tom said that you're asked, don't have
Speaker 1: no reverse mortgage. You don't reverse mortgage out of here,
Speaker 1: you do. Blue Bloods. I don't know a show still long,
Speaker 1: but I think it's always gonna be on. I think
Speaker 1: they signed an official deal that it's it's always from now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have extended Blue Bloods through the end of time. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. I just wanted to say I was
Speaker 1: looking at Rodney danger Fields Wikipedia. He wrote a He
Speaker 1: had an autobiography in two thousand four card It's Not
Speaker 1: Easy Being Me. A lifetime of no respect, but plenty
Speaker 1: of sex and drugs. Oh okay. He said he was
Speaker 1: so into smoking weed. The book's original title is just
Speaker 1: supposed to call My Love Affair with Marijuana. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not the that's not what I would have expected.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect him to be a product. But yeah, um, alright,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Miles. What happened? I had so much
Speaker 1: money on Florida, these Florida GOP stars being be in
Speaker 1: the future of the party. Yeah, a lot of people did.
Speaker 1: Yeah when when what this past week? What the funk happened?
Speaker 1: Man gets they know it sounds it sounds like everybody
Speaker 1: with the how quickly this scant like there's no protection
Speaker 1: from the party. They're just like, no, that's like, you know,
Speaker 1: like if you're you, you go out with a friend
Speaker 1: and somebody acts like wild stupid and you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: not getting a fight with this over this ship. Anybody,
Speaker 1: You're on your own fan ahead on that one, Like
Speaker 1: that's what's happening with him? And it should be and like,
Speaker 1: no one should be defending him when there's allegations of
Speaker 1: child sex trafficking involved. But yeah, now he's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's on every pad. There's a new thing. There
Speaker 1: was like the Iran angle for a little bit that
Speaker 1: went away where it was about getting a freed CIA
Speaker 1: agent that people thought was dead. And now he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not a monk, like in this offed he put
Speaker 1: out and you're like, oh my god, what is this.
Speaker 1: I was shocked when I heard this. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: Matt Dates, you're kidding me. I can't believe that he's me.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I'm kidding. He's the guy's absolute trash bag.
Speaker 1: And it's so obvious, and like, I think he went
Speaker 1: against some of like some of the like parties more
Speaker 1: respected members, and I think now he's kind of a
Speaker 1: paying price with that. Yeah, well, at least they'll always
Speaker 1: have good old Rhonda Santis uh front runner to be
Speaker 1: the go GOP nominee for the presidential election if Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't run again. He was at the Sea pack like
Speaker 1: when they were taking close to everyone was like de
Speaker 1: Santis all the way, man, he's our boy. Except for
Speaker 1: the fact that We we've had our suspicions about how
Speaker 1: he was handling COVID when he like fired the woman
Speaker 1: who built the state of the art database that everybody
Speaker 1: was using and was like, she's making the numbers look
Speaker 1: too realistic. So they fired her, then had the police
Speaker 1: like raid her house. Uh. So there's a little smoke there.
Speaker 1: But now sixty Minutes did a deep dive into his
Speaker 1: handling of the vaccine rollout. It's not good, that's not
Speaker 1: it doesn't doesn't look great. Reporting from sixty Minutes alleges
Speaker 1: that he funneled the state's coronavirus vaccines to rich communities, uh,
Speaker 1: and privatize the vaccine rollout to benefit donors, specifically the
Speaker 1: people who owned publics. But there's also places where people
Speaker 1: who were on boards and who you know, we're just
Speaker 1: in good with him. We're getting vaccines like irrespective of
Speaker 1: their place in line. It was just I'm shocked again
Speaker 1: we are breaking news here, Peter. Uh, it's just yeah,
Speaker 1: these are another guy who got in when you know,
Speaker 1: Andrew Gillum could have just possibly have been governor as well,
Speaker 1: if who knows what if there were the voter suppression,
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty robust in Florida if Rhonda Santis
Speaker 1: would even be governor right now, both the people who
Speaker 1: went against Stacy Abrams and Andrew Gillham, respectively, or having
Speaker 1: a real awful time. Um just like not like they're
Speaker 1: doing what conservative governors are going to do, which is
Speaker 1: just basically whoever looks like them out at the cost
Speaker 1: of everyone else. I mean, I feel like they're having
Speaker 1: a great time doing it. It's what they they're doing
Speaker 1: what they do, right, Yeah. And you can tell the
Speaker 1: way they talk because even like Rhonda Santis when he
Speaker 1: talks about like, oh, all the people that are coming
Speaker 1: to Florida for spring break, He's like, yeah, because we're open,
Speaker 1: you know, and people don't have to be miserable anymore.
Speaker 1: It's like, what, that's what you thought. This whole thing
Speaker 1: was people just bummed out and miserable because they couldn't
Speaker 1: look around on spring break, not because nearly six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people have died. Like what the what? Yeah? All
Speaker 1: the I mean it's a of the example I feel
Speaker 1: like of like right now, if if you're a conservative
Speaker 1: sort of like a person who was trying to run
Speaker 1: for some kind of like especialist state like Florida. All
Speaker 1: you gotta do is just kind of say the same
Speaker 1: kind of crap, talk about, you know, I'm a Christian
Speaker 1: and then talk about abortion and bullshit like that. Kiss
Speaker 1: Trump's asked that's enough to get elected. But if you're progressive,
Speaker 1: you have to solve problems. You gotta be able to
Speaker 1: solve problems. You gotta be you have to be tough
Speaker 1: of your class, you have to have life basically, just
Speaker 1: have a complete you know, never had an issue with
Speaker 1: anybody in your life, but never said of bacting about anybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just sort of like it's just a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy double standard. This guy around the Santist couldn't run
Speaker 1: a news stand and and now he's running an entire
Speaker 1: state with one of the biggest populations in the country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess at this point, I'm starting to say about
Speaker 1: whatever happens is kind of gonna happen. It's like they
Speaker 1: always say in politics, you don't get the leaders you want,
Speaker 1: you get the ones you deserve. And if people are
Speaker 1: going to keep voting for pieces of crap like that, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just tough in states like that too, though, like
Speaker 1: where Georgia clearly was a state that could have gone
Speaker 1: blue many years ago if if it weren't designed to
Speaker 1: take votes away from you know, people of color and
Speaker 1: people who would vote democratically and I and Florida is
Speaker 1: no different. And which sucks is because yeah, while there
Speaker 1: are the you know, fifty plus one that ensured the
Speaker 1: victory that did vote for De Santis, the whole other
Speaker 1: half of the country that or state that didn't. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and like and yeah, this is what happens. We're not
Speaker 1: able to exercise our power to vote properly because I'd
Speaker 1: imagine on paper more people don't want round de Santis
Speaker 1: than do. But this is how they've they've got the
Speaker 1: game rigged at the moment. Yeah, absolutely, and and and
Speaker 1: my and who I really mean that towards the sort
Speaker 1: of like the people who consciously put a vote, who
Speaker 1: did that, because it's like I'm unfortunately state in the
Speaker 1: state like Florida, it's almost like I don't know, It's
Speaker 1: like I automatically assume that there is a much higher
Speaker 1: population of the people who have at least more progressive intentions,
Speaker 1: but a large percentage of them either don't vote, or
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to vote, or put in positions
Speaker 1: where they it's not easy for them to do because like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't take this day off otherwise I don't get
Speaker 1: paid and I can't put I mean, it's just like,
Speaker 1: so we have a pandemic where people are like, no,
Speaker 1: I have time to vote now, and we started, we
Speaker 1: started to see what happens, which is why they're trying
Speaker 1: to like slam the gate shut before more people start
Speaker 1: voting freely. The good news is that like like sort of,
Speaker 1: the populace is more aware than ever, so they can
Speaker 1: see everything that's happening. So I think the GOP they're
Speaker 1: going to get their winds and here and there, but
Speaker 1: in the end of the day, we clearly see where
Speaker 1: this country is said, it's headed to a to agenda
Speaker 1: and like, and they can get on board or not
Speaker 1: get on board. But it's clear, it's clear how history
Speaker 1: is going to show everything. Yeah, it's just more of
Speaker 1: the pace at which it happens. Because right now the
Speaker 1: part of the Republicans are they will they will quite literally,
Speaker 1: I think, throw themselves into a fire if they have to,
Speaker 1: if they have to keep any progress from happening, which
Speaker 1: is what makes it so doubly frustrating. Yeah. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: party that always ran on a platform of like we
Speaker 1: are against communism, we're literally and we're against Russia whatever.
Speaker 1: Literally was okay with Russia hacking our biggest, most important
Speaker 1: systems in this country. And then see walking into the
Speaker 1: Oval office. But there's no problem, it's no problem. But
Speaker 1: imagine if like a progressive leader has done something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I think someone was like, well, like
Speaker 1: if the second someone says anything about Venezuela objectively, they're like, well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this sanctions, They're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what what do youse? Some social leasta fashion heast? What
Speaker 1: is this crap? Yeah? No, see, you're just triggered by
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm talking about a country that the
Speaker 1: United States foreign policy has been you know, actively trying
Speaker 1: to destabilize. Yeah, there's, um there's this thing that happens
Speaker 1: a lot that that you see in this case, where
Speaker 1: they're using privatization to launder like their white supremacy, um
Speaker 1: by being like, well, we're just gonna give it to
Speaker 1: publish publics is a big grocery chain, and you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna know how to appropriate all the all the
Speaker 1: UH vaccines. And meanwhile, you know that leads to uh,
Speaker 1: Palm Beach County, which is has uh vaccinated over a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand residents. Of those people vaccinated, two
Speaker 1: percent were black, three percent were Hispanic, even though minorities
Speaker 1: make up almost half the country or half the county.
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, they they know what they're doing. It's
Speaker 1: i think increasingly as as you alluded to Peter, like
Speaker 1: it's the uh it's like because it's becoming clear that
Speaker 1: this is the country has head in a progressive direction,
Speaker 1: they are making it clear, like it's it's more and
Speaker 1: more important to them and to their supporters that they,
Speaker 1: you know, uphold white supremacy out in the open without
Speaker 1: saying it unless you're Trump. Oh yeah, I mean they're
Speaker 1: more desperate. They're more desperate than everyone. Ben. It's like
Speaker 1: they i mean, they're looking at the polls themselves like
Speaker 1: they can see like so now it's about like theft,
Speaker 1: it's about stealing, it's about being all the things they
Speaker 1: always pretended to be against. And yeah, pretended exactly pretended
Speaker 1: to be while that they're like, now that's that's what
Speaker 1: it is. We just will say the other thing because
Speaker 1: we want people to vote for us. Because they wanted
Speaker 1: to think we're humans, right and then and there are
Speaker 1: of course the ones that talk about how like there
Speaker 1: is no systemic white supremacy in the system. It's like,
Speaker 1: of course, the the person that's being accused is always
Speaker 1: the person that's gonna saying, oh, this thing doesn't exist. Racist,
Speaker 1: it's so crazy. Racism is so bad that even racists
Speaker 1: don't want people to know the races, any other any
Speaker 1: other ideology somebody has. They want everyone to know how
Speaker 1: they feel about something. But when it comes to racism,
Speaker 1: even racists are afraid. Even racists know how bad it
Speaker 1: Even racists not how howard is it is to dislike
Speaker 1: someone hates someone simply because they're different from you. Well,
Speaker 1: kind of the same story, but like a different part
Speaker 1: of the same story is the voter suppression. That is,
Speaker 1: you know, all the different you know, legislation that's being
Speaker 1: proposed past in Georgia, in Florida that is basically making
Speaker 1: it harder and harder for people who aren't Republican voters
Speaker 1: to vote, basically is what it comes down to. Um,
Speaker 1: and now miss McConnell is shook. It seems like you
Speaker 1: got look I've been we were joking like, yo, I
Speaker 1: guess the corporations are gonna have to fucking step in
Speaker 1: to save democracy because it's the only thing that makes
Speaker 1: sense to politicians in this country is the loss of capital.
Speaker 1: So it's like, well, if they move the All Star Game,
Speaker 1: that's one thing. If these other companies like, hey, we
Speaker 1: need you all to do something or so, we're going
Speaker 1: to figure out what we need to do to help,
Speaker 1: you know, protect our employees. Now I'm not convinced. I
Speaker 1: don't know how far a corporation is willing to go,
Speaker 1: but right now they're making their sucking their teeth at
Speaker 1: this bill, like okay, we'll see what's going on. And
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, yes, he's saying things like this right now.
Speaker 1: Uh he he was like a like a statement he
Speaker 1: put out. He was warning companies like Coca Cola and
Speaker 1: Delta to quote stop taking cues from the outrage industrial
Speaker 1: complex end quote in react into their you know, other
Speaker 1: people coming out against this Georgia voter suppression bill. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not big grim reaper energy, Mitch. That's
Speaker 1: not usually how you are. Like I thought you were
Speaker 1: the guy who's like, oh, you don't know what I
Speaker 1: have under my coat because I want to get rid
Speaker 1: of the filipbuster, and I will start clapping in here.
Speaker 1: But it's all pump fakes from him because he has nothing,
Speaker 1: because they don't have an ideology that appeals to a
Speaker 1: majority of people and only enjoy it. It's only enjoyed
Speaker 1: and attractive to a very small part of the country,
Speaker 1: and those numbers are starting to dwindle, but it's still
Speaker 1: enough to make some races competitive with voter suppression. So
Speaker 1: he goes on to say, quote, it's jaw dropping to
Speaker 1: see powerful American institutions not just permit themselves to be bullied,
Speaker 1: but join in the bullying themselves. Wealthy corporations have no
Speaker 1: problem operating in New York, for example, which has fewer
Speaker 1: days of early voting than Georgia, but requires excuses for
Speaker 1: absentee ballots and restricts electioneering via refreshments. There is no
Speaker 1: consistent or factual standard being applied here, is just a
Speaker 1: fake narrative gaining speed by its own momentum. So is
Speaker 1: he proposing that we changed things in New York? It
Speaker 1: sounds like I mean, that's yeah, okay, So yeah, let's
Speaker 1: don't we just pass HR one the four people act.
Speaker 1: How about that we could just all put all on
Speaker 1: the level playing field, because guess what, even the goons
Speaker 1: who like racism, they would be registered to vote at
Speaker 1: eighteen two. So, right, what's the problem? It's level, baby?
Speaker 1: Were you We're saying we're gonna have a boxing match
Speaker 1: and we're use the same gloves and where it's all sanctioned,
Speaker 1: and we know which we're trying to make it as
Speaker 1: level as possible. But this second, you know, because I
Speaker 1: think all this does, it fucking underlines just how dependent
Speaker 1: all politicians are on being in the good graces of
Speaker 1: corporate donors. Like that's all this is saying to me.
Speaker 1: I think the problem with old old Mitch is that
Speaker 1: he knows that it's all about the cash. And because
Speaker 1: again we said that the majority of the country is
Speaker 1: against these sort of like these is against sort of
Speaker 1: the the white supremacist institution that's really trying to keep
Speaker 1: these voters voting suppression laws in place because a lot
Speaker 1: of them have been in place for a long time.
Speaker 1: They're just getting ramped up. They're just things are adding
Speaker 1: on top of it now. But I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: they know that it's like Delta is like, we don't
Speaker 1: want to lose money, and the companies that we don't
Speaker 1: want to lose money, so we don't give a funk
Speaker 1: about pissing off some dumbass uh politicians. We give a
Speaker 1: funk about pissing off millions of people, so we don't
Speaker 1: lose money. So it's like he knows there's nothing he
Speaker 1: can sit there and cry. All he wants is nothing
Speaker 1: he can do about it, right because if consumer I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like the weird thing. It's like consumer culture is
Speaker 1: gonna guide this in the right direction. Because if we
Speaker 1: start saying like, well, we're not gonna buy from this company,
Speaker 1: like okay, fuck, we love voting, Okay, fine, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: We want to make sure everyone can vote because we
Speaker 1: don't want to sell less bottles of Sprite remix over
Speaker 1: the side. I mean, right, in the end of the day,
Speaker 1: what is this really about. It's really about they know
Speaker 1: that literally, the black and left Hispanic Latino vote saved
Speaker 1: this country. It's saved it. It's saved all our asses,
Speaker 1: and they know that, and that's who they're trying to suppress.
Speaker 1: I mean, these these these Republicans are it's kind of
Speaker 1: like they're they're like evil. I don't want to use
Speaker 1: the word genius because I don't think any of them
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine. No, I won't associate the word
Speaker 1: of these people. Yeah, they're just disgustingly cunning, and they'll
Speaker 1: do things that the other side won't do because the
Speaker 1: other side, you know. I mean, I hesitate calling myself
Speaker 1: a Democrat because there's a lot of things in the
Speaker 1: huge amount of things in the Democrats sort of the
Speaker 1: zygeist of the democrats philosophy that I completely disagree with
Speaker 1: two because I still rooted in some ways in white
Speaker 1: supremacy and just sort of a slave to capitalism. But
Speaker 1: it's like, at this point you have to choose sides,
Speaker 1: and there was just no other way around it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just better sales people. Democrats are better sales people.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, yeah, we can read the room. That's
Speaker 1: what we like. Will we do it? I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe at a very slow pace. But and then within
Speaker 1: there you actually have the people who are there to
Speaker 1: solve problems. And I think that's the thing I hope
Speaker 1: more people who vote begin to see, is that there
Speaker 1: are politicians like Mitch McConnell who are just there to
Speaker 1: stay there and you know, be in their influential be
Speaker 1: like the in the top eight of Uncle Sam's MySpace
Speaker 1: page of top patriot friends of his. And then there
Speaker 1: are people who are purely there on a mission to
Speaker 1: create better outcomes for people. I mean, I I really
Speaker 1: get that vibe from AOC, you know, just like, uh,
Speaker 1: just someone like her who's got an aggressive progressive agenda.
Speaker 1: She's not scared of these old white dudes, and she's
Speaker 1: going to come out, you know. I think the first
Speaker 1: step is someone who does not take corporate money. Is
Speaker 1: the first is like the first hurdle you have to
Speaker 1: get over to convince me you're here for the right
Speaker 1: reasons rather than being a corporate money. I don't think
Speaker 1: she takes black pack money. For the most part. I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of the progressives have sort of
Speaker 1: sworn off that, Like you said, and that's that's well said.
Speaker 1: That's the first step. That's that's a big first step.
Speaker 1: I'm not bought. I'm not by bought by these corporations. Yeah, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, uh and real quick, I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about this what what is a boring sounding headline,
Speaker 1: but I but I think is actually pretty important and
Speaker 1: can be somewhat easy to understand. Uh. And and a
Speaker 1: story that we've been covering sort of on and off.
Speaker 1: So Janet Yellen is proposing a global corporate tax rate,
Speaker 1: which again kind of boring sounding, and because we are
Speaker 1: accustomed to taxes being something that's intentionally aggressively complicated. So
Speaker 1: but basically, this would attack a key way that corporations
Speaker 1: and the extremely wealthy are making our current trajectory as
Speaker 1: a species like unviable. They have found clever, complicated ways
Speaker 1: to avoid paying taxes. The most wealthy are effectively stealing
Speaker 1: from the rest of the population, and there's a certain
Speaker 1: amount of money that needs to be spent on collectively
Speaker 1: funded institutions and programs, and they are by by not
Speaker 1: paying their fair share, they're making the rest of us
Speaker 1: pay more. And so this proposed legislation would make it
Speaker 1: so the corporations uh can't use their massive size and
Speaker 1: influence to pressure countries to adopt loophole laden tax policies
Speaker 1: that make them tax havens. UH. And they you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have said this is an impossibility,
Speaker 1: because how are you gonna get countries to make decisions
Speaker 1: that are not in their financial interests. So there's some
Speaker 1: things about incentivizing corporation cooperation by making it easier for
Speaker 1: those countries to borrow money from the US. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this goes back to we we talked about this book,
Speaker 1: The Hidden Wealth of Nations that just talks about the
Speaker 1: sheer scope of tax avoidance by massive corporations and extremely
Speaker 1: wealthy people. And the response was like, well, how are
Speaker 1: you gonna do any of this? And it's at least
Speaker 1: promising that the US is going to try that. They
Speaker 1: have enough hope to be like, all right, we'll make
Speaker 1: everybody have this level of taxation so that Apple can't
Speaker 1: just like park all of their corporate earnings and one
Speaker 1: place and uh not contribute anything to the country that
Speaker 1: made them possible. Yeah, and don't worry, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be a fraction of what you should be
Speaker 1: paying anyway, So don't get all torn up about it,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: look for real equitable taxation here. But ship when you
Speaker 1: know nobody's paying anything, it's like, well, what what the
Speaker 1: fun can you do? Yeah, unless it's like a global
Speaker 1: pitchfork movement. You know, when you look at global financial restrictions,
Speaker 1: there's often a lot of blow blacks from it, right
Speaker 1: because like it doesn't affect all countries equally. Like rich
Speaker 1: countries can deal with that. Poor ass countries that need
Speaker 1: big corporations to invest in them, like for jobs and
Speaker 1: infrastructure and stuff like that are gonna kind of be
Speaker 1: still at the women corporations like they're gonna find ways
Speaker 1: out of it. Now. I guess I'm definitely optimistic that
Speaker 1: the discussion is being had, but I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: pessimistic in terms of how it's going to sort of
Speaker 1: affect the sort of global equity in that way. Or
Speaker 1: look at what's Look what's happening with vaccines. Poor ass
Speaker 1: country is right now are probably like one percent in
Speaker 1: on their population totally vaccinated as opposed to like countries
Speaker 1: like what you know, like US, Western Europe. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: right that. You know, the problem is that for the
Speaker 1: most part, it feels like the sort of reaganesque trickle
Speaker 1: down economics is something the major corporations have been sort
Speaker 1: of feeding the smaller countries and smaller like you know
Speaker 1: those kind of developing yeah, developing countries that craft that.
Speaker 1: It's like, if we if you allow us to sort
Speaker 1: of like unregulated, unrestricted invest into your into your country,
Speaker 1: that wealth will trickle down and it, of course it doesn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll get to you'll get to participate in who you
Speaker 1: get a you can get a World Bank loan if
Speaker 1: you let us completely exploit your land, how about it?
Speaker 1: And then you'll be so indebted to the World Bank
Speaker 1: that when you start having socialist leaders come up, we're
Speaker 1: gonna say you need to kill that person or make
Speaker 1: sure they're not the leader. Because that's how the US
Speaker 1: was fighting the Cold War in Latin America, basically because
Speaker 1: they were like, well, funk, we're gonna we'll use debt
Speaker 1: to try to to course more control out of developing nations, right,
Speaker 1: and then they use that, they use that for leverage,
Speaker 1: got arms and basically gave arms to Iraq to try
Speaker 1: to um fight Iran in the in the in the
Speaker 1: ward in the Iran you're off war. Here's an example
Speaker 1: of what's kind of happened in Iran right now because
Speaker 1: of the sanctions and whatnot. The country has oil but
Speaker 1: can't really sell it to anybody except a few different countries.
Speaker 1: So basically they're so desperate and now they're literally selling
Speaker 1: off parts of the country to China, right, wow, literally
Speaker 1: selling parts of the country of Iran to China to
Speaker 1: pretty much do whatever they want with like to do
Speaker 1: like resource extraction, resource extraction at least or they fully
Speaker 1: own it. Like that's now like they're like, we've seeded
Speaker 1: this land to this Chinese company or whatever, and now
Speaker 1: that is whatever they're they're they're operating on. I mean,
Speaker 1: from the knowledge I got, it sounded like they're actually
Speaker 1: selling off like actually like give it, literally selling off
Speaker 1: land as assets basically, or even if they're leasing that land,
Speaker 1: they're literally letting them do whatever they want with it
Speaker 1: and then sort of sort of paying I guess, but
Speaker 1: I would imagine it's mainly to extract you know, resources
Speaker 1: or whatnot. But uh, I mean yeah, and it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's sort of just an example of how like the
Speaker 1: richer countries are kind of using the the poorer countries.
Speaker 1: This is I guess, I mean, this is like a
Speaker 1: whole government but but I guess, you know, corporations are
Speaker 1: doing kind of the same thing. Yeah, I mean, because
Speaker 1: I mean they're kind of the same thing at this
Speaker 1: point right right. Yeah. One of his proposals is the
Speaker 1: guy who wrote The Hidden Wealth of Nations is too
Speaker 1: it's like a global a history of all assets, just
Speaker 1: to make it so that there was there isn't just
Speaker 1: all this money that's off the book so like we
Speaker 1: don't know what is happening to it, which is like
Speaker 1: one of those somewhat simple sounding ideas that made maybe like, wait,
Speaker 1: we can do that, and according to him, yeah you can.
Speaker 1: And you know that the news since he wrote this book,
Speaker 1: which was about eight years ago, has been uh, you know,
Speaker 1: inundated with all this blockchain technology and distributed ledger technology
Speaker 1: that it seems like the more that we can get
Speaker 1: everything above board, the harder it would be for these
Speaker 1: corporations to do the ship that they're doing, because we'd
Speaker 1: be able to track it. Yeah. I meanwhile, like maybe
Speaker 1: that now it's a perfect time to like, oh, what
Speaker 1: about Georgia though, huh everybody, Wow, that's fucked up that
Speaker 1: voter suppression build somebody, we should do something about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the text thing you're talking about is,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you saw what Brian Kemp
Speaker 1: is doing when we should talk about that Alright, let's
Speaker 1: talk about this Disney Dad and just where we're at
Speaker 1: with our re emergence as a country into into normally. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: real entry anxiety. Re entry anxiety is very real. Uh,
Speaker 1: And we'll discuss that in a later episode, because Mark
Speaker 1: read about him like, yep, this is uh, this is me,
Speaker 1: this is everyone I know of just being We've been
Speaker 1: living the last year in a very bizarre version of
Speaker 1: the world and trying and you know a lot of
Speaker 1: us have tried to like forcefully adapt to this like
Speaker 1: new way of like being less social and more focused
Speaker 1: on like surviving and just being a little more inward.
Speaker 1: And yeah, to say, at least it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bit of a process getting back out there, at least
Speaker 1: for me and some other people who are just kind
Speaker 1: of like, well, I think I'll get overwhelmed pretty easily.
Speaker 1: But I know I want that down the road, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to make that jump very quickly. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a bat and rouge man who found out that
Speaker 1: you know, look, he's trying to do the normal thing
Speaker 1: of go to Disney World, you know, been trying to
Speaker 1: recaptured going on a vacation. But when he got there,
Speaker 1: he was a little too anxious, and he sidestepped the
Speaker 1: temperature check at the gates at Disney World, which is
Speaker 1: a big no no, considering that Florida is like being like, please,
Speaker 1: we're barely trying to keep this thing together, Like, let's
Speaker 1: try and keep some of these protocols in. So this
Speaker 1: dude apparently just walked right in and people like chasing
Speaker 1: after him, was refusing to have to be tested. And
Speaker 1: this this Washington Post arcle says, amid heightened precautions for
Speaker 1: the virus, the major Florida tourist attraction, Kelly Sells forty
Speaker 1: seven skip the temperature screening required of guests. He was
Speaker 1: confronted by security about it at at a Disney Springs restaurant,
Speaker 1: the Boat House, when he yelled and refused to leave.
Speaker 1: Mostly he was yelling, He's like, do you know how
Speaker 1: much I paid to be here? Uh? And I'll play
Speaker 1: this clip just so you can kind of hear this
Speaker 1: man's voice and what he felt he was entitled to
Speaker 1: do or not do, given that he completely sidestep the
Speaker 1: temperature check. Let's hear the Trump supporters. Okay, so because
Speaker 1: it's all right, they can ask you when I paid
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars that they can take dollars with you. I
Speaker 1: can't kick you out. He's like, all right, I respected.
Speaker 1: He realized they're like, that's not an argument for He's like,
Speaker 1: I do, and maybe I'm sure you did. Apparently he
Speaker 1: came with like eight family members Airfair, hotel and ship.
Speaker 1: That's just not cheap. But also, sir, you should know
Speaker 1: the very least if there you can funk up your
Speaker 1: own bag like that by trying to skirt the temperature screening. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you're not unfor I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: the companies are setting this example for Americans, being like,
Speaker 1: I gave all this money. What do you mean I
Speaker 1: can't subvert the will of the people. Um. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had that big energy. So he later went on the
Speaker 1: Washington Post was interviewing him, and he was saying it
Speaker 1: was a mix up. He said he actually like entered
Speaker 1: through an exit or something, and he said, this is
Speaker 1: from the Washington Post article. Could He partly blamed the
Speaker 1: security manager for escalating the conflict and compared Disney security
Speaker 1: to Nazis and the mafia, but also admitted he was
Speaker 1: quote in a bit of a mood after a day
Speaker 1: of travel. He says, COVID is a very serious thing,
Speaker 1: but so is my vacation with my family. I don't
Speaker 1: know which one is. Yeah, I don't know which one
Speaker 1: is more serious. COVID kills almost six thousand people, but
Speaker 1: on that same level, at the exact same level of importance,
Speaker 1: is in my family going to Disney World, and I
Speaker 1: don't think, I mean, I don't know what his intentions are. Necessarily,
Speaker 1: I don't know where the because it's weird when you
Speaker 1: watch that clip. There are times when like the like, yo,
Speaker 1: just shut up, let me talk to you, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, and I know you're right,
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. I don't know if it's like
Speaker 1: he could be evil. He might not be. But what
Speaker 1: I definitely see is like a stressed out person thinking
Speaker 1: the ship was normal again and when like this new
Speaker 1: normal wasn't normal, and that like he had to wear
Speaker 1: a mask and still get a temperature check, Like he's like,
Speaker 1: what the I can I I could see on one
Speaker 1: sense of being frazzled, but I'm not saying, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just right to skirt the temperature check. I like
Speaker 1: the way that it ended with him being like, will
Speaker 1: you take my temperature before you kick me out? Please?
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, yeah, no, we'll we'll do that
Speaker 1: at the jail. And he was like, oh, okay, that's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. The last line is taking one more time.
Speaker 1: Maybe he wanted a shot at redemptions, like, okay, i'll comply,
Speaker 1: I'll comply. I'll comply. They're like, yeah, fam at the jail. Well,
Speaker 1: I know it's too late, but can you at least
Speaker 1: let me know ify the fever or not, because I
Speaker 1: really don't feel good. I don't feel like that right now.
Speaker 1: I'm very sick. I'm very sick. I've been coughing dry cough.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I just I'm sorry. I just automatically
Speaker 1: assumed this guy as a Trump supporter. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I've seen, I've seen, I've I know people who are
Speaker 1: Democrats who are acting dumb as fun with this ship,
Speaker 1: and I'm very disappointed. And I think it at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I start those sort of partisan
Speaker 1: divides blur a bit because while there are motivations very
Speaker 1: specifically for conservative people, I see people who just like
Speaker 1: have lived in a world that has not necessarily been
Speaker 1: very turbulent for them or filled with consequences. So it's
Speaker 1: easy to look at this situation, get to this point
Speaker 1: without being ill or something like no, I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm going over here. I'm gonna do like
Speaker 1: it's this On some level, there's like this feeling of
Speaker 1: like trying to feel like I'm like I'll be okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be okay, sort of denial of your own mortality
Speaker 1: in some sense. You know what, man, you just taught
Speaker 1: me something right now. I want to thank you. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on, you
Speaker 1: could still you could still act like a selfish, irrational person,
Speaker 1: which he what's what he was doing. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: first of all, your kids are there. In front of
Speaker 1: your kids, you're basically saying no. Depending on what mood
Speaker 1: I'm in, I don't have to follow the rules, And
Speaker 1: I could throw a fit a growing adult throw a
Speaker 1: fit in front of other growing adults, because I mean, bro,
Speaker 1: we're all waiting in line for the same ship. We're
Speaker 1: all doing the same ship. None of us want to
Speaker 1: wear masks. Yeah, none of us want to like get
Speaker 1: up temperature check before you go into it. So it's
Speaker 1: just like it's a level of selfish and a lot
Speaker 1: of it has to do, I think, with the mentality
Speaker 1: in this country in general, like the capitalist mental me
Speaker 1: me me, no, me, my comfort, that's my comfort. My
Speaker 1: family is come, what do do you mean them? No? Fuck them.
Speaker 1: I don't know them and I don't owe them ship. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: nobody ever gave me nothing, nobody ever cared about you know,
Speaker 1: they actually did. You're not acknowledging you know all the
Speaker 1: just it just it's selfish. It's selfish, like these same
Speaker 1: people that I'm on a plane and I don't want
Speaker 1: to wear a mask? What none of us want to wear?
Speaker 1: Marits bro. Yeah, well in the sense yeah, yeah, you're like,
Speaker 1: this isn't a situation anyone wants to be in. Of course,
Speaker 1: this is how at the very least, the people who
Speaker 1: are good enough to this is their job to have
Speaker 1: to be stuck on this thing with us to keep
Speaker 1: them safe. Other people saying it's like, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think there's just no um, it's it's an unfortunate thing.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Yeah, it doesn't really matter ideologically because
Speaker 1: is this will reveal a lot about who you are
Speaker 1: in general. And I think again, I think people who
Speaker 1: That's why you see a lot of people who identify
Speaker 1: as Democrats who aren't really ship anyway. They're just also
Speaker 1: good at reading the room. They're like, oh, funk that
Speaker 1: if I choose that's I, nobody don't talk to me
Speaker 1: at least Chrisytiaguan and John Legend. Uh, they rock with
Speaker 1: that side. So I'll do that. Oh do I do
Speaker 1: I have any empathy for undocumented people or trans people
Speaker 1: or people of color or any other No? Not really,
Speaker 1: I just did this to avoid the smoke on Instagram.
Speaker 1: You absolutely right, whether you're progressive or you're conservative has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with if you're an actually a good
Speaker 1: decent person. You could still how many progressive quote unquote
Speaker 1: people do we know? Other're absolute pieces of garbage and
Speaker 1: selfish and people who you know, like rest in peace
Speaker 1: to my friend's father who was a conservative but a
Speaker 1: really it was the most confusing thing because was the
Speaker 1: most caring person to no matter who he met what was,
Speaker 1: but voted Republican all the time. And it was like
Speaker 1: hard for me to be like, well, I can't just
Speaker 1: write this do it off because he's never said anything
Speaker 1: fucked up. He's always been the most kind person never
Speaker 1: said anything like you know, outside of some maybe ignorant,
Speaker 1: like very like boomer type ship. Nothing that felt like
Speaker 1: across the line. It's like hateful, purely hateful rhetoric. So
Speaker 1: it's like wild when you just see, like, you know
Speaker 1: what that was coming from a time when that was
Speaker 1: a better brand to hop onto. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, he didn't lose his ability to be
Speaker 1: empathetic or you know, embrace like people that didn't look
Speaker 1: like him just happened to be like in the game
Speaker 1: of politics. He just chose this dumb fucking thing and
Speaker 1: I don't and we don't know why. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's the same reason you see racist as
Speaker 1: democrats and like what the are you doing to get
Speaker 1: over this? And that's why I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we have to be able to really
Speaker 1: cast aside the labels and ship and it's really gonna
Speaker 1: boil down to are you down for other human beings
Speaker 1: or not. I don't care about the like, don't get
Speaker 1: caught up in them, like the stupidity of these like
Speaker 1: you know, voting like issues, like if you're an issues voter,
Speaker 1: more than like, I think we need to arrive at
Speaker 1: a place where we just need to say there is
Speaker 1: a lot of pain in the world, but we have
Speaker 1: the resources to address it. And it's just about shifting
Speaker 1: the way we look at things to say, like, let's
Speaker 1: just let's just hold each other up, because honestly, with
Speaker 1: climate change and these other things that are coming, we
Speaker 1: need to develop the skills to be able to have
Speaker 1: each other's back. Unfortunately, in this country those skills are
Speaker 1: atrophied to fuck and people do not have them. And
Speaker 1: it and it breaks my heart when you see other countries,
Speaker 1: at least on paper or culturally, be more like willing
Speaker 1: to sacrifice for each other and know what that's like,
Speaker 1: but it's it's foreign. You're right, And then you see
Speaker 1: what generally and generalizing never helps when you generalize that
Speaker 1: a certain type of group are all good of all
Speaker 1: good intentions, and a certain other group have bad intention
Speaker 1: I mean that happens to people that look like us,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, it's like then we're doing the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's help. You gotta be able to try and you
Speaker 1: want to at least they're like, no, that's a nailed
Speaker 1: on asshole, I know that. Yeah, I'm off this and
Speaker 1: not that you have to take the time to understand people.
Speaker 1: But at the very least, no, just like we all
Speaker 1: have nuances and ship, every single person does. And just
Speaker 1: to immediately think D or are equals good or bad,
Speaker 1: it's like you can, We're gonna will miss so much ship.
Speaker 1: Its just sometimes I get so piste off, and I
Speaker 1: talked through my kind of anger in terms of like
Speaker 1: what I see quote unquote the other side doing, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like even my comment when I
Speaker 1: said earlier, where it's like a lot of times, like
Speaker 1: let's say Florida voters that voted Republican, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a part of me is like, well, you got what
Speaker 1: you wanted. But it's almost like they're also people, and
Speaker 1: it's like when you see people suffering, even if it's
Speaker 1: a decision they made, it's like, yeah, if you have,
Speaker 1: you gotta want the skills of empathy. You're like, that's
Speaker 1: fucked up for that. I don't want that. I don't
Speaker 1: want that for another person. Right, So it's like I
Speaker 1: get angry, then I over generalized, and then I look
Speaker 1: back and like, no, that's not right, you know. So
Speaker 1: I apologize for that statement earlier, but it's not. But
Speaker 1: it's that's growth, baby, that's why they show you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I came on this show for a
Speaker 1: certain type of person, and I'm leaving a different type
Speaker 1: of person. You're listening to a guy who listens to
Speaker 1: too many podcasts. But no, it's absolutely right, and generalizing
Speaker 1: doesn't help any of us. Yeah, Peter, has been a
Speaker 1: pleasure having you, man, Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 1: Yeah so much. We find you and follow you find
Speaker 1: me on Instagram please uh at p Bannie p b
Speaker 1: A and I uh do uh you know, post a
Speaker 1: lot of like silly videos just sort of about like
Speaker 1: Iranian American culture and so and whatnot. And thank you
Speaker 1: so much, man, and thank you so much for having
Speaker 1: me any time. Hey you on TikTok Man, you on
Speaker 1: TikTok I'm Auntie. I don't go on it that much.
Speaker 1: They're not they're not giving you the algorithm with because
Speaker 1: I feel like your ship would be killing it on TikTok.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't post. I gotta post more on
Speaker 1: TikTok um. Maybe my ages it's coming out like it's
Speaker 1: like I feel like I kind of the whole TikTok
Speaker 1: thing doesn't appeal to me as much. Instagram almost feels
Speaker 1: like it's more my speed. Although there's aspects of TikTok
Speaker 1: that I really like, and I think it's really cool
Speaker 1: that people who have certain hidden talents are now able
Speaker 1: to show the whole world how talented us, so that
Speaker 1: I really love. Well. I think the great thing of
Speaker 1: like TikTok is especially for like, like you know, diaspora
Speaker 1: communities and things. They're always like no matter what country,
Speaker 1: it's some version of being from another country in another
Speaker 1: country where it's like seeing videos of like what it's
Speaker 1: like to be a Japanese Swede or like Japanese brit Or,
Speaker 1: like black knees in Japan or black knees in America,
Speaker 1: Like it's really interesting to see that. So I think
Speaker 1: a lot of your content would easily like get caught
Speaker 1: up in there and you don't have to do nothing different,
Speaker 1: just post the same ship you put on instagrams uploaded
Speaker 1: there and use the right hashtags and they got you. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: thank you that suggestion. My brother appreciate it because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's truly like because it res it clearly
Speaker 1: resonates with the community. So like, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a great pond to be in. Thank you, brother,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And is there a Twitter or
Speaker 1: some of the work of social media you've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: It was a quote that somebody had posted. I can't
Speaker 1: find it right now, and it was it was like
Speaker 1: a several days ago. It was a quote and it's
Speaker 1: apparently an old Mexican proverb that says they tried to
Speaker 1: bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds. And
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely beautiful. And anybody who's like sort
Speaker 1: of it comes from, is from a disenfranchise group or minority,
Speaker 1: It's like, that's such a powerful quote that that I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just thought it was beautiful. I've heard
Speaker 1: it before years. That's the name of TAMAS podcast too.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, they tried to bury us? Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's like that. And I think I heard it first
Speaker 1: time when he was talking about the podcast. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that proverb before, but yeah, it truly
Speaker 1: is like it's uh, it resonates I think with any
Speaker 1: oppressed group. Yes, absolutely, and it's just beautiful. It's just yeah, man.
Speaker 1: So that's that some came that uh I saw on
Speaker 1: somebody's Instagram and I've been thinking about, Yeah, Miles, where
Speaker 1: can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Uh, let's say Twitter, Instagram, Uh, Miles of Gray,
Speaker 1: g R A Y. And also the other podcast four
Speaker 1: twenty day Fiance. Some tweets that I like. First one
Speaker 1: is from Moonlight at no M G but at no
Speaker 1: E M M E and then the letter g uh
Speaker 1: tweets if you think poor people should not have children,
Speaker 1: then you think no one should have to grow up
Speaker 1: in poverty. So then you agree we need to eradicate poverty.
Speaker 1: How about not starting at that top part? Uh, and
Speaker 1: we look at the root issue? And I think that's
Speaker 1: I love seeing tweets like this happens like more and
Speaker 1: more and more like where people are articulating like that
Speaker 1: we're completely looking at the wrong place and diagnosing problems
Speaker 1: and the weirdest point uh that you could so, yes,
Speaker 1: that's true if but you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day they would say, well, look I'm racist. I
Speaker 1: just said I didn't think poor people should have children.
Speaker 1: You got me, You got me, all right, you got
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these things would end with
Speaker 1: someone either they're gonna have to agree with that logic
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be like, admit, mask off racism, mask
Speaker 1: off racist. I'm sorry, I'm racist, y'all, and I'm not
Speaker 1: afraid to say it anymore because I can't pretend because
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking much. The second one is from Eva
Speaker 1: Cantor at po River jam Band tweet you could theoretically
Speaker 1: carbonate barbecue sauce and that fucked me up. Don't put
Speaker 1: that in. I don't know. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to try it, but a little fizzy barbecue dip
Speaker 1: your whatever. And a couple of tweets I've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Aubrey Hirsch at Aubrey Hirsh tweeted me this edible is
Speaker 1: trash me twenty minutes later, Man, it's a good thing
Speaker 1: aaric see through. Our humans would be so fucked and
Speaker 1: Matthew at tweet Potato three fourteen tweeted why don't little
Speaker 1: kids ever tear their a c L? They run dumb
Speaker 1: as fuck? Uh that is something I was definitely identifying
Speaker 1: with over spring break with my kids while we were
Speaker 1: both trying to learn to ski and uh man, they
Speaker 1: were taking some big falls that damn is his leg
Speaker 1: gonna fall off? And he would just pop right back up,
Speaker 1: but I fall just a little bit. Get my leg amputated. Anyways.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Obrien.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at Daily zyg Ice
Speaker 1: were at the dailies, guys on Instagram. We have Facebook
Speaker 1: fan page and a website at least like guys dot com,
Speaker 1: where we post our episodes on our foot notes where
Speaker 1: we link off to the information that we talked about
Speaker 1: in today's episode, as well as a song that we
Speaker 1: recommend you go check out. Miles. What song are we recommending?
Speaker 1: Just feeling real nostalgic for TLC, but a remix from
Speaker 1: fan mail album, which is obviously gonna be No Scrubs,
Speaker 1: But this is a remix by hero h I r Oh.
Speaker 1: It's called the hero Love Sick edit of No Scrubs
Speaker 1: in the foot Rudes, but it's on the SoundCloud and
Speaker 1: it just got like it's it gives it a new energy.
Speaker 1: And I love when you could take a song that
Speaker 1: I'm like, don't touch that song and remixing and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: ship this one, Okay, I'm not mad at it. I'm
Speaker 1: not mad at it, and I think that start out
Speaker 1: mad at it. By the end of like or you
Speaker 1: get mad at reading a title, you're like the with
Speaker 1: that song and then you realize like someone actually got
Speaker 1: like a clean acapella and they weren't just like playing
Speaker 1: a loud beat over the one, and it's like actually
Speaker 1: the well thought out So yes, check this one out.
Speaker 1: Get your toad jumping alright, well go check that out.
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