Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Episode three of Nice, the production of My Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's chair consciousness. It's Wednesday, April seventh one. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack O'Brien, a K. The British Cold Gas Buddy,
Speaker 1: a K. My pillow, my pillow. Wherever Trump goes, he's
Speaker 1: gotta go, My pillow, My pillow. White's Up Premacy. That's
Speaker 1: courtesy of Christie. I'm a Gucci mane both the nickname
Speaker 1: and uh the my Pillows song, and I'm thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles
Speaker 1: grag Y'll been eating long enough, now stop being greedy,
Speaker 1: just keep a real partner, give to the needy rims.
Speaker 1: Just touching, so don't make me wait. Funk around and
Speaker 1: I will bite you snatch the plate. Okay. So that's
Speaker 1: just a straight up d m X lyric where he's
Speaker 1: just addressing we all know that song. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, he could get that flow, you know he's
Speaker 1: with that yo. And you know that was Christie saying
Speaker 1: I was going to try and write a d m
Speaker 1: X A K A and then I just looked at
Speaker 1: the lyrics and it already fits the show. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they have been eating long enough. Now stop being Greek.
Speaker 1: Give to the need alright. It also like kind of
Speaker 1: sounds like a weird ol like version of a d
Speaker 1: m X song because it's about food ribs touching. It
Speaker 1: will make you wait, Yeah, I mean yeah, whatever, Hey, whatever,
Speaker 1: h miles. We're thrilled to be joined in our third
Speaker 1: seat by the hilarious, the talented Carolyn BA what's up here?
Speaker 1: Just got off my motorcycle as Yeah you did. Yeah
Speaker 1: that was wild. You just like pulled into the pulled
Speaker 1: into the frame, tire smoking, Yeah, pulled up in the
Speaker 1: Suzuki street bike. You know what I mean? Like like
Speaker 1: a rough rider video. We love it. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: me in the video. You're just doing an endo in
Speaker 1: a chrome hat, chrome helmet. There we go. The atmosphere
Speaker 1: and some of those early rough Riders videos were so wild,
Speaker 1: like just forty shirtless dudes, like just like goons, like
Speaker 1: lifting a TV over their head as a workout. Just
Speaker 1: there's if you follow that. Um photographer mel Coole meld
Speaker 1: cole um I was a brilliant photographer and he was
Speaker 1: he was at the White Plains Hospital the other day
Speaker 1: where d MX is and he was just like sending
Speaker 1: up stories. But of all the rough riders that have
Speaker 1: just like inundated the street, like doing all kinds, just
Speaker 1: took over and playing his music. But yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: whole whole thing. Sherilyn. We were going to say what's new,
Speaker 1: but we this is your first time on the show, so,
Speaker 1: uh what what's your life story? Give it to us? Right, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Born and raised in Orlando, Florida, currently now live in
Speaker 1: Lost Angeles, California. Um, I like documentaries. I like comedy.
Speaker 1: There is that's about five seconds. There's an airplane flying
Speaker 1: over my apartment. Yeah, so you live underneath the flight path. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it didn't like documentaries. I think we've figured it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what you worked with one of our favorite,
Speaker 1: one of one of the very phases more Lazy Mo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have been researching on scam Goddess for the past
Speaker 1: two years, since since the inception of the More Than
Speaker 1: That and also for people for the Laura the show.
Speaker 1: You also used to work with her Majesty, our partner,
Speaker 1: and so you know, that's a very interesting The world
Speaker 1: is small you know, the world is gets smaller and smaller.
Speaker 1: It's a little little itty beauty placed. What's up. We
Speaker 1: were just in Orlando in nineteen in the summer for
Speaker 1: podcast movement. We unfortunately didn't get to really do much
Speaker 1: outside of like doing the convention. But I was as
Speaker 1: a local, like someone who grew up there. What's a
Speaker 1: thing that you feel that is only in Orlando? Okay,
Speaker 1: there's this place and there's like a theme and there
Speaker 1: this guy, well he's not a guy, he's a mouse,
Speaker 1: and it's so crazy. He has like the biggest hands. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: keep some gloves so you don't have to see it.
Speaker 1: Keep some gloves, fingernails, fingernails badly burned, super COVID conscious. Okay,
Speaker 1: something in Orlando that's only in Orlando. Also something that
Speaker 1: I realized, Like I never had Florida shame until I
Speaker 1: moved to l A. And I was like, oh Florida,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, what's wrong with And you know,
Speaker 1: you don't realize it's a crazy place until you leave.
Speaker 1: But it's like but then it's like a bunch of
Speaker 1: other people who came from other states who think that
Speaker 1: because they where are you from? Milwaukee? Sorry Montana and
Speaker 1: you're like white fish Antana. You're like the we're all
Speaker 1: the white Supremases. Have you ever seen someone eat someone
Speaker 1: else's face? I don't think so. Yeah, that's true. Was
Speaker 1: that a Milwaukee reference or a Florida Florida the Zombie? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There's so many bad sault. But then there was also
Speaker 1: also Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate a lot of people's faces. Right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, where is he from? Milwaukeehead? Yeah? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just nailed going head to head with Milwaukee. That's a
Speaker 1: battle versus Milwaukee also, Um, but more to say, like
Speaker 1: what's a food? Because that's the thing. I love food
Speaker 1: and I always like to hear from people from a locality,
Speaker 1: like they're like, oh yeah, yeah, when I go home,
Speaker 1: I have to have this. Okay, there's so much Puerto Rican.
Speaker 1: I'm Puerto Rican, and there's so much good Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: and just Caribbean food in general. There it's very hard
Speaker 1: to find. Um. I'm on like a hunt for good
Speaker 1: and panadas out here in l A. I recently found
Speaker 1: a good like Filipino and Panada that was pretty good,
Speaker 1: but I want like an authentic Puerto Rican and Panada.
Speaker 1: What about like how's the I know, my fungo place
Speaker 1: that I go to out here. I'd be curious to
Speaker 1: get your take on that. Oh yeah, there's like one
Speaker 1: male fungo place or maybe two in all of l A.
Speaker 1: And have you had them? How do they? How do
Speaker 1: they rate? I haven't had one of the place and
Speaker 1: so embarrassing. I haven't been to my fungos. I think
Speaker 1: that's it's called the right. And then there's one food
Speaker 1: truck just called the Rico. I think it's the Ricans
Speaker 1: Food something like that. Yeah, can I look it up
Speaker 1: real quick? I want to give them as the first
Speaker 1: Google result Ricans Food. Yeah, yeah, the Rican's Food. And
Speaker 1: they have they have really really good like what is
Speaker 1: my fungo? For the listeners who don't know? Now, you Jack,
Speaker 1: you know you got the tattoo on your back, You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? We know? Well for miles then yeah,
Speaker 1: go is fried plantain kind of like mashed together in
Speaker 1: this like put like not as not the feeling of
Speaker 1: a potato. I don't know why I said feeling not
Speaker 1: the same like density of a like a little denser
Speaker 1: of than a potato. And it's got like it's formed
Speaker 1: like a bowl plate thing, I'm not doing it justice.
Speaker 1: And then it's got like different meats in it, so
Speaker 1: you can do it. I'm a fungo with pork, I'm
Speaker 1: a fungo with shrimp. I'm a fungo with just veggies.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like a mash. It's fried, so it's
Speaker 1: like not very healthy, but it's so good. And then
Speaker 1: sometimes you get it with the stew and then the
Speaker 1: stew will absorb the plantain and it's delicious. Yeah, last
Speaker 1: time I went to Florida, there was I just forget
Speaker 1: how many Puerto Ricans are there, and I was shocked
Speaker 1: to just see all the different options for food. Also,
Speaker 1: like last time I went to Florida, was um a
Speaker 1: ship ton of Puerto Ricans have like immigrated to Florida.
Speaker 1: So it's evolving, right, So we'll bring that love out
Speaker 1: here because we only have two places. Apparently in one
Speaker 1: truck is by default the greatest by default. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: what that's on theirs only, And you can't argue with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody can argue or we'll fight you, all right, Sherylyn.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of the things we're talking about. We're going to
Speaker 1: dive into piss bottle nation. That's what we're that's what
Speaker 1: we are as a as a nation. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: catch up with the Amazon publicity campaign. They're they're nailing it.
Speaker 1: As their employees think about unionizing, they are trying to
Speaker 1: They're they're just kind of panicking a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Matt Gets.
Speaker 1: We'll talk is it Gets or gate Gates? But I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's weird because there was a triple jumper
Speaker 1: at my high school with the last name it spelled
Speaker 1: like that, and everyone hear her name was Gets, but
Speaker 1: everyone says Gates on the news. Whatever. Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't deserve the proper pronunciation. Record. Yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about something the CDC is calling vaccine theater. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about what fueled those capital rioters. You're never gonna believe it.
Speaker 1: The sociologist was surprised, so I guess we should be too. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about crowds at these Major League Baseball games.
Speaker 1: We'll say R I, P D. Who answers? We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Greg Guttfeld's new show on Fox. All of that
Speaker 1: plenty Moore, But first, Sherylyn, we like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? My search history? Okay, So honestly, I
Speaker 1: ever since I started, like a year in working on
Speaker 1: Scam Goddess, I started using a different web browser and
Speaker 1: not leaving my search history because I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: looking up some sketchy stuff all the time. I'm on
Speaker 1: like all these like FBI just searching the sketchiest things.
Speaker 1: So but I just got a new phone, so I
Speaker 1: do have my search history on the phone, and I've
Speaker 1: been looking into northern Italy, specifically the Piedmont region, because
Speaker 1: apparently you can buy a house there for like U
Speaker 1: S dollars and it's like a dope house, Like it's
Speaker 1: like a call me by your name house. You can
Speaker 1: get like thirty two hundred square feet. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's square feet, I don't know. You can get
Speaker 1: a big, nice house, and I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of curious. I really love Italy and I'm like
Speaker 1: I could buy maybe not right now, but at some
Speaker 1: point if I play my cards, right, I can be
Speaker 1: a homeowner in Italy. Yeah, whimsical homeowner in you know,
Speaker 1: what I would say is one of the most magical
Speaker 1: places on earth. I would have to agree to this day.
Speaker 1: I long for, you know, to walk the streets of
Speaker 1: theo in my hand. Uh maybe Porquetta. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I long for those days much like many others do.
Speaker 1: What part of what's the se hair? Miles has been
Speaker 1: to Italy once. I have been once, and I will
Speaker 1: make and I am fucked up off of it, still
Speaker 1: Italian the way you said that, I just like to respect.
Speaker 1: I like to respect, you know. If I can, if
Speaker 1: I can put some effort into a pronunciation, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it, you know. Yeah, I appreciate that. I'm not
Speaker 1: a talent him, but I appreciate it. Yeah. And when
Speaker 1: I say that, people are like, okay, sir, please, here's
Speaker 1: your sandwich. Now leave respect. Like, uh, the northern Italy
Speaker 1: is like very mountainous. It feels like because it's like
Speaker 1: right next to Switzerland. It feels it feels like you're
Speaker 1: in Switzerland. Yeah, helps, you got southern France right there.
Speaker 1: I've never been to well, I've been to like Milan once,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really get to explore the region. So, m, well,
Speaker 1: are you going to tell her what how? It's normally
Speaker 1: said no, no, no no. After after I was mil
Speaker 1: oh you've been yes? My favorite? Uh the Nero ROSSI
Speaker 1: A C. Milan team, I love them. I thought you're
Speaker 1: gonna say your favorite Petrid Pepperidge Farm cookie. Also facts
Speaker 1: though of my favor are good. That was like the
Speaker 1: step up from Oreo that my mom wouldn't let me
Speaker 1: because she liked to eat that with like her coffee,
Speaker 1: and so I could never touch those. She was like,
Speaker 1: you can't. Yeah, And when she would like go out,
Speaker 1: like if she left for a couple of days or something,
Speaker 1: or even for work, I would eat three and then
Speaker 1: it would be a whole thing. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: how do you stop at three? Man? Because you know
Speaker 1: it would be a problem if you could be scared.
Speaker 1: It was like going into like someone's like weed satchel
Speaker 1: and they're like, yo, yo, this is a little light.
Speaker 1: What the funk happened? It's because it comes like don't
Speaker 1: they come in a little pack of you eat all
Speaker 1: three and then it's just like one layer disappeared. But
Speaker 1: it's like maybe she won't notice. I'm trying to eat
Speaker 1: around the edges of a bag full of Reese's Easter
Speaker 1: eggs right now without like it being obvious that the
Speaker 1: bag is entirely gone to my kids. Very sad. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? Those mirrors that you
Speaker 1: can see like every stupid little poor on your stupid
Speaker 1: little face. I don't think that those are necessary. Who
Speaker 1: made that? Oh? Like the ones Like it's like one
Speaker 1: mirror on one side and then you could flip it
Speaker 1: and it's like, exactly, I don't like that ship it
Speaker 1: makes me. It makes me. I think it encourages another
Speaker 1: level of self like superficial analysis or yeah, I'll trying
Speaker 1: to keep it, you know, neutrals for the moment, and
Speaker 1: then yes, from there you could be like my poor
Speaker 1: so big, I might I could dump my Melano cookies
Speaker 1: and my pores if I wanted to. Exactly, Yeah, my
Speaker 1: nose is an adventure. There's there's a lot going on
Speaker 1: there that I had no idea, and it's yeah, and
Speaker 1: I guess you know, it's interesting. We don't get to
Speaker 1: see ourselves that close. But maybe it's for a reason.
Speaker 1: You know, that mirror specifically is you know, and almost
Speaker 1: mirrors in general. But you know, some mirrors are great
Speaker 1: for decor and like magic tricks and stuff. But yes,
Speaker 1: that's the only reason. Yeah. Look, if you're a you know,
Speaker 1: esthetician or dermatologist, do we need that much fucking zoom
Speaker 1: on the mirror? I don't. It can just I'm good
Speaker 1: enough just seeing what. Maybe they should have those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're doing extractions or whatever and you're doing a facial,
Speaker 1: didn't like you have toss on the loop or whatever
Speaker 1: so you can get in there. But I don't, damn sure.
Speaker 1: Don't need that level of clarity on my own. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't need it. Yeah, it's it's helpful for contouring
Speaker 1: I've found. Yeah, looks great. Yeah, but thank you. What
Speaker 1: about the blending by the next, what about the blending?
Speaker 1: That's why I just said it doesn't. It defeats a
Speaker 1: purpose if you're not blending properly. Jack, Yeah, okay, and
Speaker 1: doing a turtlenext seed that's the cheap move because we
Speaker 1: see it. It It gets all over your white turtle. Next,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. My masks. You always know it's my mask.
Speaker 1: It's just like your sacks mask. Because he still thinks
Speaker 1: he's that shade of fenty that he is not. What
Speaker 1: is something that you think is underrated? Um? Underrated? It is? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you already know that I'm into looking at property
Speaker 1: on Italy. I'm not rich, by the way. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a rich person thing. I'm just trying to find
Speaker 1: a way. Yeah, okay, So Pimseler, have you heard of it?
Speaker 1: It's a language learning thing. Yeah, this is so nerdy,
Speaker 1: but I'm into language learning. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: liked a lingo and I liked a lingo. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I love the owl. It's quirky. However, it's it's just
Speaker 1: good for vocab. Pimsler is. It's gonna teach you how
Speaker 1: to say the right things and you'll learn in a
Speaker 1: better way. And uh yeah, I feel like they should
Speaker 1: maybe give you money because I'm talking, what do you language?
Speaker 1: I mean, officially, I think we've done a I think
Speaker 1: babble in the past um, which is like definitely a
Speaker 1: step up from duo lingo because that one just feels Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm on the toilet and I learned how
Speaker 1: to say the boy is running and that's back on
Speaker 1: the help. But like, yeah, I think it all depends
Speaker 1: on how robust the program is. But what are you
Speaker 1: learning on Pimseler. I'm learning Italian and then I speak Spanish,
Speaker 1: but sometimes I don't. I don't like I grew up
Speaker 1: in Florida, my parents speak Spanish and and I grew
Speaker 1: up speaking Spanish first, but now I'm like forgetting it
Speaker 1: and I don't get that much time to practice. So
Speaker 1: I do need to brush up on my Spanish too,
Speaker 1: And I don't know eventually, like I want to learn.
Speaker 1: I might be going to Japan later this year, and
Speaker 1: I gotta pick up some phrases I got, I got you.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll trade if you teach me Spanish, I'll
Speaker 1: teach Japanese. Oh my god, I'm so down. I would
Speaker 1: love that. So yeah, Italy Italian overlaps a little bit
Speaker 1: with Spanish, right ye Are there efficiencies that you're finding
Speaker 1: as you're trying to learn? Um? Yeah? So the god damn. Now,
Speaker 1: I can't think of a single word. Um. Words are hard.
Speaker 1: Words are hard. I don't know learning any of these languages.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you something about like the accent real quick.
Speaker 1: So like mother and in Spanish is madre, and mother
Speaker 1: in Italian is also madre, but in Italian you really
Speaker 1: have to pronounce the d, so it's like madre instead
Speaker 1: of when in Spanish you're like a little looser. You're like,
Speaker 1: it's almost like a thh sound. So let hit that,
Speaker 1: hit it hard at the hard d hard. Okay? That
Speaker 1: was um hms are the ones that the state Department used?
Speaker 1: What was the one that everyone's saying, like the government
Speaker 1: used it people, And I'm like, well, fuck it. I
Speaker 1: mean did a pretty good job. It's like an open
Speaker 1: source thing that people were using and they were like using,
Speaker 1: but the method is like, you know, blessed. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a blessed method. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we will be right back to talk about Amazon
Speaker 1: and we're back. And as you were mentioning that that
Speaker 1: house that's available in northern Italy, I was just thinking,
Speaker 1: are you guys like feeling less and less happy about
Speaker 1: living in l A as of late? I've I've been like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, the I camp hearing stories of
Speaker 1: the l A p D being like, well, you guys
Speaker 1: defunded us and like not responding to like armed robberies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody got murdered in their backyard. The other day because
Speaker 1: the l A p D wouldn't send somebody even though
Speaker 1: people were like, ah, they're they're there's somebody trespassing there,
Speaker 1: like is it your yard or are they in your house?
Speaker 1: Then sorry, like on the problem, the l A p
Speaker 1: D has become an existential threat to like all people
Speaker 1: who live in l A. It's a pretty wild story.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's the same apartments, but I think in
Speaker 1: l A too. I mean it's like a lot of
Speaker 1: people fled big cities in general, you know. I think
Speaker 1: when they had the ability to say, like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not tethered. I was only tethered to this geography for
Speaker 1: my job. And when that sort of vanished, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people got more in touch with like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'd rather be able to throw a
Speaker 1: ball as far as I can and not hit something. Right.
Speaker 1: I go on like my little daily walks, and I
Speaker 1: realized yesterday I was like I haven't. I'm like kind
Speaker 1: of on edge every time I go on a walk,
Speaker 1: like I'm just like looking down making sure I'm not
Speaker 1: stepping on dog poo, and then I'm like looking around
Speaker 1: making sure likes about you, yeah, and then I'm sure
Speaker 1: no one's gonna throw dog pooh exactly. That's why I
Speaker 1: take nature. You don't take a nature walks just to
Speaker 1: watch your back. Ye alright, let's talk about speaking of Pooh.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Amazon. This has sort of
Speaker 1: been in the ether for the past like week and
Speaker 1: a half, but just to sort of officially get up
Speaker 1: to speed on where we're at in uh, the whole
Speaker 1: Amazon publicity campaign trying to defend how they treat their employees,
Speaker 1: trying to be like unions. Why why would you unionize?
Speaker 1: I don't we people are happy. Look at these people
Speaker 1: we paid a tweet on our behalf. We've got one
Speaker 1: tweet that I thought was pretty interesting from them. Wednesday
Speaker 1: last week, at Amazon News twitter account tweeted the following.
Speaker 1: So this representative, Mark Pokan tweeted, paying workers fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: per hour doesn't make you a progressive workplace when you
Speaker 1: and bust and make workers urinate and water bottles, and
Speaker 1: Amazon replied, you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing,
Speaker 1: do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us.
Speaker 1: The truth is that we have over a million incredible
Speaker 1: employees around the world who are proud of what they
Speaker 1: do and have a great wages and healthcare from day one,
Speaker 1: And they eventually had to apologize for that tweet. They said,
Speaker 1: this was an own goal, We're unhappy about it, and
Speaker 1: we owe an apology to Representative Poken. So I really
Speaker 1: like that they are apologizing to the person that they
Speaker 1: corrected about it, like creating abusive work conditions for their
Speaker 1: employees and not apologizing to their employees. It's just a
Speaker 1: very don't admit, like gets a slippery slope. What are
Speaker 1: they gonna do admit that was true? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So like the easy they did this weird
Speaker 1: splitting the difference thing of just being like, uh, say
Speaker 1: that was a goof, but not what part because we're
Speaker 1: not don't say we're the goof is that we're exploiting
Speaker 1: the workers. Say the goof was that we questioned Representative
Speaker 1: poke Can and then we're like sorry about that. Like
Speaker 1: it's so fucking It's just a weird line they're walking. Also,
Speaker 1: that tweet sounds like who let Amazon tweet that? It
Speaker 1: sounds like a twelve year old tweeted it, Like you
Speaker 1: don't actually believe this rumor? Do you write terrible defense
Speaker 1: from a guilty person. You don't really believe that we're
Speaker 1: locking up weagers in concentration camps, do you? From this
Speaker 1: satellite imagery. Really there's a whole like level of attitude
Speaker 1: that has come along with this Amazon like offensive, and
Speaker 1: it's like confidence. It's also like sort of it reminds
Speaker 1: me of a lot of like, I don't know, big
Speaker 1: d democrat like type people like how they which makes
Speaker 1: sense because, uh, the dude who is in charge of
Speaker 1: Amazon's publicity is the dude from the Obama administration, Jake
Speaker 1: Karney I think his name is. And it's just all
Speaker 1: it's like, got this smugness to it that for some
Speaker 1: reason that being like this was an own goal, we're
Speaker 1: unhappy about it, and we owe an apology to representative pokes.
Speaker 1: So that means they are just reaming out whoever tweeted that,
Speaker 1: even though it was probably approved at the highest level,
Speaker 1: like it had to have been, they probably there fired
Speaker 1: that one person apparently, like when it no matter what
Speaker 1: level you're at, Amazon is a terrifying place to work.
Speaker 1: I've heard stories of people who are like at the
Speaker 1: executive level being like, yeah, everybody cries at least once
Speaker 1: a day. It's brutal. Everyone is like, so mean, the
Speaker 1: expectations are so high, and so the answer, uh, it
Speaker 1: turns out is that all of their employees have to
Speaker 1: pee in bottles. Uh. Their their apology was like, yes,
Speaker 1: some of our drivers when they're out in the country
Speaker 1: and can't find a place to use the restroom, UH,
Speaker 1: they might pe in a bottle, but that the others
Speaker 1: are probably just real creepy. But it turns out that
Speaker 1: like this is a constant point of like something that
Speaker 1: they have to monitor all the time is uh drivers
Speaker 1: having to pee and not having the time to do it.
Speaker 1: And the same with people at fulfillment centers. There's a
Speaker 1: quote from Motherboard where they interviewed one of their and
Speaker 1: one of the Amazon employees who said, you're sitting there
Speaker 1: and you have to take a piss, but you don't
Speaker 1: want to rack up time off task, so off task
Speaker 1: that's the that's how they monitor, uh you like how
Speaker 1: much time on task for off task And they're basically
Speaker 1: treating you like a robot. That's who you're competing with.
Speaker 1: And anytime you have to take care of natural human
Speaker 1: bodily functions such as going to the bathroom or God forbid, resting. Uh,
Speaker 1: you are deemed off task, and they track every second
Speaker 1: that you spend off task. It's like being inside the
Speaker 1: head of like just somebody who has crippling anxiety. They're
Speaker 1: creating the the conditions of just being in being wildly unhappy,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's a machine that's built to exploit
Speaker 1: human beings for every ounce of human energy they have,
Speaker 1: but not considering that they're humans. It's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: these like organisms. They'll drive the trucks and throw the
Speaker 1: boxes and fill the boxes, but stuff like p eat
Speaker 1: rust No no, no no, no no that. So what we've
Speaker 1: done is we've had an algorithm where we can say
Speaker 1: a driver can, if they don't stop at all, hit
Speaker 1: all of these homes and we can still say we
Speaker 1: will probab, We'll get you this ship into twenty seconds
Speaker 1: and there and all of these drivers and and fulfillment
Speaker 1: center workers are also saying you have to at the
Speaker 1: very least begin to build in like the humanity of
Speaker 1: your workers into these schedules, because you're asking people to
Speaker 1: perform at a level that is not humane and now
Speaker 1: leads to relieving yourself in a bottle. To then have
Speaker 1: the attitude of like that's an own goal. It's just
Speaker 1: so insidious on top of it, because they're already treating
Speaker 1: this whole situation as a thing that is like the
Speaker 1: fucking Kylie Jenner Pepsi commercial. It's not it's you're being
Speaker 1: People are putting the fucking lens on you because of
Speaker 1: your pattern of exploitation and just obscene profits. And there
Speaker 1: seems to be no any any sort of inkling to
Speaker 1: begin paying back the workers who was, you know, off
Speaker 1: their backs. You're making these massive, massive profits off of Yeah,
Speaker 1: they think they can just optimize anything, right, and so
Speaker 1: they're like, uh, that that isn't like us dealing with
Speaker 1: a fundamental flaw in our approach to existing as a
Speaker 1: company that is a less than optimal response to this situation.
Speaker 1: There was a way we could have responded that would
Speaker 1: have been better, and we have fired that employee who
Speaker 1: took the less than optimal approach. And it's just so
Speaker 1: like at every level, it's just so thoroughly built into
Speaker 1: the DNA that it just reminds you that there's no
Speaker 1: version of this where they regulate themselves. It has to
Speaker 1: come from outside for this to end up as anything
Speaker 1: other than completely dystopian so yeah, it's worth keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on because they're so they're One of the reasons
Speaker 1: they're so freaked out is because this fulfillment center in
Speaker 1: Alabama is in a in an area that is typically,
Speaker 1: you know, very right wing, would not be expected to
Speaker 1: be very sympathetic to unionizing, and they're making a lot
Speaker 1: of progress towards unionizing there. And so they are like
Speaker 1: Amazon's approach that has basically like the US government's approach
Speaker 1: to Vietnam. They're like, well, if this domino falls, then
Speaker 1: what's next, Right, So they're going after Bernie Sanders. They're like, actually,
Speaker 1: the only difference between you and US is we actually
Speaker 1: got people paid fifteen dollars an hour. You didn't. It's
Speaker 1: like you guys have you guys make more money than
Speaker 1: most countries. He is a single politician. I can think
Speaker 1: of like a million different ways that Amazon can make
Speaker 1: this situation slightly better, like just giving them a longer break.
Speaker 1: Amazon has so much money, they could build bathrooms. They
Speaker 1: can build luxury bathrooms in every corner, or like make
Speaker 1: deals with like coffee shops, and or how about this
Speaker 1: just reduce the hours one person has to work and
Speaker 1: you can create more jobs by hiring more people who
Speaker 1: work less, you know what I mean, Like if the
Speaker 1: whole thing is about optimized, like, well, this person has
Speaker 1: to be able to do process this many packages in
Speaker 1: in eight hours, then say okay, then make that ship
Speaker 1: in six and a half. And whatever you're missing, like
Speaker 1: whatever you need to fill in, hire other people, but
Speaker 1: don't don't make it like alright, fine, you still need
Speaker 1: the most out of you. But this is what That's
Speaker 1: why I like this union. But is so important because
Speaker 1: it's gonna set at least some like guardrails about what
Speaker 1: can be expected from a human being in a workday.
Speaker 1: There's um, there's this book called Good Degrede that's about
Speaker 1: like how businesses stay successful, like even after they are
Speaker 1: like change leadership, they stay successful in the marketplace. I'm
Speaker 1: like one of the like May. It's the book is
Speaker 1: kind of full of ship and it gives these companies
Speaker 1: credits for doing things that you know are just luck
Speaker 1: at the draw, like one of the companies that they
Speaker 1: give a lot of credit to aus Fannie May, like
Speaker 1: right before the financial crash. But they they do have
Speaker 1: this idea that like so the idea is that like
Speaker 1: every every company has this one thing that they're better
Speaker 1: at than any other company in the world. And that's
Speaker 1: how you like you just like find a way to
Speaker 1: keep doing that and keep uh making money off of
Speaker 1: that one thing. And I really think that the reason
Speaker 1: Amazon can't fix this is because they're one thing is
Speaker 1: exploiting employees getting the most value out of that. That
Speaker 1: is their secret sauce is exploiting and abusing employees, like
Speaker 1: getting like the the thing about the like downtime or
Speaker 1: whatever time off task like that. I think I believe
Speaker 1: if you like looked at their internal documents, they would say, like,
Speaker 1: that is like our d n A. That is the
Speaker 1: thing that makes us better than other companies. And that's
Speaker 1: why they would never change it on their own. They
Speaker 1: would never decide to like give people extra time to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom because they think, well, the one
Speaker 1: thing that keeps us like better than ups is that
Speaker 1: we have this like cameras on our employees and we
Speaker 1: don't account for humanity in our projections. That's the secret.
Speaker 1: It's also wild that I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: saw nomad Land, but like nomad Land has these scenes
Speaker 1: that take place in Amazon Fulfillment Center where it's like
Speaker 1: very surreal and there's like robots rushing around and it is,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of dystopian. But like, it turns out
Speaker 1: that is way too generous a depiction of Amazon because
Speaker 1: they like get time off and there is like camaraderie there,
Speaker 1: Like Amazon might have paid them for that, like top gun,
Speaker 1: Like how the Department of Defense is like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to use a battleship here, let's pretend this
Speaker 1: is what the Air Force looks like. Yeah. Also, I
Speaker 1: can't stop thinking about like what if you're a person
Speaker 1: with a vagina and you are delivering Amazon packages and
Speaker 1: you have to take a piss. It's not easy to
Speaker 1: piss in a bottle. There's also a bag pooping that
Speaker 1: takes place. I might have skipped over that detail. I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with that. There's a four year old. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we hope you know, I know the results of the
Speaker 1: vote are still being tabulated, uh and could take a
Speaker 1: little bit longer because a lot were mailed in, But
Speaker 1: you know, I think we we wait to see what
Speaker 1: happens with that vote. But the rules around the unionization
Speaker 1: in America is like they're absurd. Can't say anything pro union,
Speaker 1: but you can be like Uh so, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: unionize if you want to like join the mafia and
Speaker 1: get paid less. Like it's yeah, let's talk about Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: There is fellow Floridian. Oh my god, so proud one
Speaker 1: of one of the great We talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: last week, just as this scandal was taking all kinds
Speaker 1: of weird forms and distractions and offshoots and tangents um
Speaker 1: that he was like the soul no vote in an
Speaker 1: anti revenge porn video. Actually it was it was one
Speaker 1: other person who turned out to be his roommate who
Speaker 1: like he shared a condo with, who was also in
Speaker 1: the state legislature. So two people, but they were buddies
Speaker 1: when he was in the Florida llege. And now we're
Speaker 1: like kind of hearing why as like some of the
Speaker 1: people who were the sponsors of the bill are recalling
Speaker 1: like what the discussions were around like his opposition to this.
Speaker 1: So just for some context, there's already stories about how
Speaker 1: Gates has been showing other members of Congress nude photos
Speaker 1: on his phone to them on the house floor at
Speaker 1: the Capitol. That's that that's where his depravity. It's like
Speaker 1: everything is, uh, the frat house and how he would
Speaker 1: basically just be like, oh, like, isn't like look at
Speaker 1: this one. This is like sick, and people like, what
Speaker 1: the fund is this guy going on about. I'm sure
Speaker 1: other people were like in it in the moment and
Speaker 1: found time to be like, actually, yeah, I remember when
Speaker 1: he showed me that. It was really disgusting. But the
Speaker 1: revenge porn thing. So when he was in the Florida legislature,
Speaker 1: he opposed this bill that was basically saying it's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, attached punishment, make punitive damages for people who
Speaker 1: are sharing sexually explicit images of ex lovers. Um. But
Speaker 1: his like sort of rationale was that he believed that
Speaker 1: the recipients of those images had a right to share them.
Speaker 1: That's why he was against them. Wait, the recipients. So
Speaker 1: the person who saw the image, who sent you sent
Speaker 1: me this picture this is mine? Now, this is my
Speaker 1: this was art right now? What as I please with it?
Speaker 1: Because I am now the owner of this image. Um.
Speaker 1: The one of the sponsors of the bill, Reped Tom Goodson,
Speaker 1: elaborated on that and said, quote, Matt was absolutely against it.
Speaker 1: He thought the picture was his to do with what
Speaker 1: he wanted. He thought that any picture was his to
Speaker 1: use as he wanted to as an expression of his rights.
Speaker 1: This is where that rights ship comes up again. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: what's just like this toxic word that's bandied about to
Speaker 1: just justify your utter lack of consideration for anything under
Speaker 1: the guys of it's my right. It's my right to
Speaker 1: fucking kill someone, it's my right to fucking exploit someone.
Speaker 1: It's my right to violate somebody Like no, it isn't
Speaker 1: it is not and um. Unfortunately, this is only one
Speaker 1: of many such stories where Gates, like whether it's been
Speaker 1: in the United States Congress or in the state legislature
Speaker 1: of Florida, where he has been hanging around and showing
Speaker 1: other men like all the naked women that he hangs
Speaker 1: out with, and then like talking about, oh this, look
Speaker 1: at this one, like I got and and he'll say
Speaker 1: that other guy who we talked about who got who
Speaker 1: was the Seminole County tax collector whose investigation is the
Speaker 1: one that brought the attention on Gates, is he would
Speaker 1: say like, oh, yeah, he hooked me up with like
Speaker 1: these three or whatever. So it's just part and parcel
Speaker 1: of this pattern of behavior where he clearly has no
Speaker 1: idea what consent or laws or decency are, Like at
Speaker 1: every turn, like we're just getting more and more information
Speaker 1: about this consent is a violation of his rights. So
Speaker 1: you have to understand, I mean, that's where that would
Speaker 1: go on some point. He's like, well, at a certain
Speaker 1: point you have to understand that, like to even get
Speaker 1: to like a certain point of like a physical interaction
Speaker 1: there was there would be consent. So at that point, like,
Speaker 1: that's my right to explore that. Again, he sounds like
Speaker 1: a teenager, like debating, like in a shitty debate. Also,
Speaker 1: why why do like legislators have roommates. It's not that
Speaker 1: expensive to live in Florida. Why are you living with
Speaker 1: so many dudes? I mean, I get it. If I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't gross fucking you know, they're just
Speaker 1: a bunch of gross fucking dudes. It's not you know,
Speaker 1: it's like we'll do fucking blow and trade nude photos
Speaker 1: and play guitar hero and then we'll go stop stomp
Speaker 1: all over people's rights because our daddies are rich enough
Speaker 1: to buy us by, you know, by our seat in
Speaker 1: the legislature. Yeah. I just picture Bradley Cooper's character from
Speaker 1: Wedding Crashers, Like that is everybody in that household right
Speaker 1: exactly where Like he's like like he has a private
Speaker 1: investigator that he calls all the time to deploy to
Speaker 1: dig out like yeah, truly like Bradley Cooper and Wedding Crashers,
Speaker 1: um uh cool and also a timely reference Wedding Crashers,
Speaker 1: a new movie that everybody's thinking it is fifteen years
Speaker 1: so fucking old. Uh and doesn't hold up either, So
Speaker 1: I'm glad that I'm reference. I mean Vince Vaughn. He
Speaker 1: hasn't held up really well either, as he Yeah, how
Speaker 1: about that. Let's talk about kind of a related topic.
Speaker 1: So this sociologist, Robert Paper has looked into the people
Speaker 1: who have been arrested for storming the capital in January
Speaker 1: six and he wanted to find out, like what was
Speaker 1: unique about these people he assumed. He he has kind
Speaker 1: of admitted that going in he thought he was going
Speaker 1: to see lingering effects of the two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: Great Recession, like that sort of New York Times Washington
Speaker 1: Post narrative that this is like economic anxiety. Oh, Robert Peep,
Speaker 1: my hypothes is going into this, It's probably something to
Speaker 1: do the Great Recession from to the Okay, yes, but
Speaker 1: instead he found something very different. Most of the people
Speaker 1: who took part in the assault came from places as
Speaker 1: pulling in demographic data showed that were a washing fears
Speaker 1: that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out
Speaker 1: the rights of white people in American politics and culture.
Speaker 1: I'm so sure shocking, it is shy. Everyone saw that
Speaker 1: the from I don't know, for many years now, and
Speaker 1: before this year, we knew what was that. The underneath
Speaker 1: all of this, it was all middle class, topper middle
Speaker 1: class whites who are worried that as social changes occur
Speaker 1: around them, they will see a decline in their status
Speaker 1: in the future. This is exactly what they wanted them
Speaker 1: to think, that giving people of color a little bit
Speaker 1: of equality is going to make their lives less important.
Speaker 1: Um oh yeah, I mean, you know, you can't blame
Speaker 1: them because they have a pretty good example to see
Speaker 1: how this country treats people of color. So they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want that for myself at all. Is that
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen is the thing we're doing to them?
Speaker 1: Is it going to happen to us? Now? Like on
Speaker 1: some level, there's a that's that's registering. And we talked
Speaker 1: sort of about this even over the summer with all
Speaker 1: the you know, the people understanding what white supremacy is,
Speaker 1: that the whole thing is just it tricks you into
Speaker 1: thinking that you somehow have this superiority that you do not,
Speaker 1: and on some level you begin to come into contact
Speaker 1: with the reality that you've just been huffing fucking paint
Speaker 1: this whole time, and it's and then you look in
Speaker 1: your fucking bag filled with metallic spray paint. You're like, Ship,
Speaker 1: this wasn't real the whole time. A fuck. But that's why,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that's why it's so convenient
Speaker 1: for many people to just continue to bury their head
Speaker 1: in a world where like they don't have to consider
Speaker 1: these things, because the other side of it is to
Speaker 1: have to really examine some ship and if your whole
Speaker 1: thing is built on I'm superior to brown, black, whatever,
Speaker 1: non white people or whatever the group is, then over
Speaker 1: eventually it is gonna you know, consume you. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: some level, they recognize that they have an unfair advantage,
Speaker 1: have had an unfair advantage because the things that they're
Speaker 1: seeing are just people being able to exist at the
Speaker 1: same level as them. Like, I don't think they're stupid.
Speaker 1: I think they recognize what is happening. They recognize that
Speaker 1: they're living a lie, and that is what terrifies them.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what the white supremacy is is the
Speaker 1: the threat, uh, Like their knowledge that they that white
Speaker 1: supremacy is a lie and so like that that's what
Speaker 1: terrifies them. And seeing that happen around them when it's not,
Speaker 1: when the unfair advantage isn't just hitting other people over
Speaker 1: the head every day, Like that terrifies them because they
Speaker 1: know that they're they've gotten to live a lie. And also,
Speaker 1: like even people of color internalize that too, And we
Speaker 1: live a lie to a certain extent of getting this
Speaker 1: feedback society that we are less than and internalizing this,
Speaker 1: and it takes a lot of time to fucking even
Speaker 1: within yourself to try and decolonize your own fucking mind
Speaker 1: to realize, like you're like, oh, ship, I was fed
Speaker 1: a steady diet of white supremacist bullshit, and even though
Speaker 1: I'm not white, to think that that's not affecting me
Speaker 1: on some level is an absolutely that's just a total misstep.
Speaker 1: Like you have to also be aware of what that
Speaker 1: does to every single person, because that just culturally, foundationally,
Speaker 1: it's all on built on this stupid house the toothpicks
Speaker 1: called white supremacy so stupid, he said. In the shorter term,
Speaker 1: he added, the study would appear to connect January six
Speaker 1: not only to the once fringed right wing theory called
Speaker 1: the Great Replacement, which holds up minorities and and immigrants
Speaker 1: are seeking to take over the country, but also to
Speaker 1: events and hold onto your seats, guys, this is gonna
Speaker 1: surprise you, but also to events like the far right
Speaker 1: rally and Charlotte phil Ridge in two thou that those
Speaker 1: two Roberts please just eat a fucking just a bucket
Speaker 1: of ship? What the fun? Like? I mean whatever? Wait?
Speaker 1: What like? Because you could have asked any person who
Speaker 1: has a little bit of lived experience with white supremacy
Speaker 1: or racism and be like, oh, yeah, you know exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. They're afraid that they are going to
Speaker 1: become the people that they were oppressing, or that that
Speaker 1: no longer works anymore for them, that they can't conveniently
Speaker 1: cry you know, they're white tears to a police officer
Speaker 1: to get someone arrested or killed and that they will
Speaker 1: have to just exist with everyone else normally. Um. He
Speaker 1: also says, and this is I think helpful for people
Speaker 1: to read the New York Times in the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: that the remaining of the itters, so not the ones
Speaker 1: who were already members of oath Keepers, are the proud Boys,
Speaker 1: which is about ten percent of the people have been arrested.
Speaker 1: But what people have termed the ordinary rioters are part
Speaker 1: of a still congealing mass movement on the right that
Speaker 1: has shown itself willing to put violence as its core.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people assume that this investigation
Speaker 1: is like dealing with the problem, and I think that
Speaker 1: is I think we're going to see this frequently pop up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's an interesting article and Wired I was
Speaker 1: reading that. I I was just talking about how we have
Speaker 1: such a misplaced emphasis on polarization, you know, like the
Speaker 1: technical like what about the polarization that's happening is part
Speaker 1: is input and it's really just inequality. It's all that is.
Speaker 1: And they're like to not actually put the weight of
Speaker 1: like the social media companies or whatever. We're like, whoops,
Speaker 1: because you know, team sort of like polarization, what do
Speaker 1: we do here, it's really that they need to be
Speaker 1: putting their energy into how to fix racial inequality, racial justice,
Speaker 1: income inequality, because those are the things that are truly
Speaker 1: at the root of all of this. Hopefully we'll begin
Speaker 1: to pivot to that discussion as well, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot too to really think about that as well, because
Speaker 1: it's easy for someone who is lacking to look at
Speaker 1: another group that might be doing well and immediately be like,
Speaker 1: I hate them because the reason they have is because
Speaker 1: I don't have, rather than everybody being supported to eliminate
Speaker 1: that kind of lack within them and to be able
Speaker 1: to focus on other things, because right now, the utter
Speaker 1: lack that people experience is able to be manipulated in
Speaker 1: so many different ways. Um that to just focus on
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like you hate you love McConnell,
Speaker 1: but you hate Pelosi. It's no. People are broke, people
Speaker 1: are not being taken care of, and they're becoming very
Speaker 1: cynical and nihilistic. Yeah, it's a lot deeper than polarization.
Speaker 1: Like people need to understand that the foundations of this
Speaker 1: country and the world, we're built on slavery, and like
Speaker 1: that's how you that's how we started our society, so
Speaker 1: it's pretty fucking rotten as the foundation, and we just
Speaker 1: need to start with understanding that and move forward. I
Speaker 1: don't want to understand that, though, and that's my right.
Speaker 1: There's where we're at in this. I don't want to
Speaker 1: think about it. Why are you so we're asking me
Speaker 1: to think about that? Well, here come the woke police,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna make me actually have to address or
Speaker 1: have a reckoning with even if it's personally with what
Speaker 1: this country is and is not. Shout out to Robert
Speaker 1: Pape though. Yeah, I mean, like you're being and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But you know, you could ask you a
Speaker 1: personal color. They could have They could have saved you
Speaker 1: some paper. Yeah, I mean, like some of academias obviously
Speaker 1: like making the saying the obvious thing out loud and
Speaker 1: like finding the data to prove it. But it's it's
Speaker 1: funny the way the New York Times is covering this
Speaker 1: as a surprising finding. Yeah, maybe that's just what he
Speaker 1: needed to be able to process that information and maybe
Speaker 1: a bunch of people learned something he was. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was like he's one of those people. He was like,
Speaker 1: I just have to scientifically prove its racism. For me
Speaker 1: to accept this and then I will. Okay, I guess
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Everyone, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come back and talk about some bullshit.
Speaker 1: And we're back and take me up to the i
Speaker 1: CEU America's pastime is back baby and pull cap not
Speaker 1: even though it's full capacity in text at least a
Speaker 1: global life field for the Rangers open day. The photos photos,
Speaker 1: you thought this ship was taken? You know, uh, because
Speaker 1: like barely, Like you gotta really squint your eyes, like
Speaker 1: who's got a mask on a lot of people with
Speaker 1: some chin masks. You got a couple of people with
Speaker 1: mask other people who are like, I'm off this ship.
Speaker 1: And you know, apparently at the at the field they
Speaker 1: were saying like no, like obviously we're telling fans to
Speaker 1: wear masks to keep it safe. We're not going and
Speaker 1: we're going to go the fun. We'll pack thirty eight
Speaker 1: thousand people in here. And some of them were well masks.
Speaker 1: I don't know, some won't. But what does it matter.
Speaker 1: Governor Abbot said, it's all g honey, So come through
Speaker 1: to the Rangers game. Right now, the state is about
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen percent fully vaccinated, and over a quarter have
Speaker 1: a little just over have gotten their first shot. But
Speaker 1: these are not the kinds of numbers that would make
Speaker 1: an EPIDEMIOLOGI just say, play ball, uh, because at this
Speaker 1: point I don't know like what it is. I think
Speaker 1: people are just desensitized to the risk as because if
Speaker 1: they've gotten this far in your mind, you're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I go, if I was gonna get it,
Speaker 1: I probably would have got it him. I'm probably good anyway.
Speaker 1: And also I think just many people have just like
Speaker 1: even if they acknowledge the pandemic, they've just personally prioritized
Speaker 1: this feeling of getting back to like normal. And as look,
Speaker 1: I'll say this, it's definitely safer than an indoor arena.
Speaker 1: But when you consider a lot of other ballparks have
Speaker 1: been operating and not even close to full capac like
Speaker 1: forty or fifty, this is like it's a little eerie
Speaker 1: to think about because we look at countries in Europe,
Speaker 1: they've started to reopen and we're starting to see it
Speaker 1: trend upward again. So you know, money though got sponsors,
Speaker 1: money sponsors, but also as in the seats, and also
Speaker 1: there seems to be a cultural like a certain cultural milieu,
Speaker 1: were like being the first to reopen is like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about, brother type thing. It would
Speaker 1: be so shitty to get COVID, like after you know,
Speaker 1: there's the vaccines available, people are getting vaccinated, like now
Speaker 1: would be a horrible I mean, it's always a horrible
Speaker 1: time to lose somebody, but it's just how we're more likely,
Speaker 1: you know, catch a baseball game, be asymptomatic, bring it
Speaker 1: home to your elderly relative who you know only has
Speaker 1: their first dose and killed them, or get them right,
Speaker 1: or has their first dose the day the next day, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I started getting a little confident after my first shot.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I might go to a coffee shop,
Speaker 1: take coffee to go. You're like, I might eat at
Speaker 1: this hometown buffet, demand that they open. Yeah. When I
Speaker 1: was on spring break on Miami Beach the other day
Speaker 1: with my family, uh, I took my kids on vacation
Speaker 1: for spring break, and we I witnessed a thing that
Speaker 1: made me like really feel for any parents of teenage kids,
Speaker 1: where like this teenager was like wearing his mask around
Speaker 1: his neck and his mom was like, what are you doing? Like, stop,
Speaker 1: do you want to kill us? And he was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to kill Grandma. I want to kill It
Speaker 1: was just like oh like entitled teenage white kid, like
Speaker 1: just like teen ship head. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry the dad.
Speaker 1: The dad was like just stop both of you because
Speaker 1: the mom was like really taking it there, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, there were people around. It was it was
Speaker 1: pretty wild. It was It was like getting a front
Speaker 1: row seat to a live action familial meltdown on poor
Speaker 1: on par with a force made. I'm telling you, the
Speaker 1: YouTube clips are gonna be popping when we enter society again.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker's don't know how to act. And a lot of
Speaker 1: people are stressed and a lot of you know, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing, that's the same phenomenon. Why so many
Speaker 1: fights happened at Chucky Cheese and ship at kid's birthday
Speaker 1: places Like oh I didn't know that, Oh yeah, Because
Speaker 1: it's like a combination of like stressed parents who want
Speaker 1: to do well for their kids. But it's sort of
Speaker 1: like but also like you might yeah, but so like it,
Speaker 1: and like some places have alcohol so tensions like boil
Speaker 1: over because like a ton of group parties on top
Speaker 1: of it, like the energy can just be weird anxious,
Speaker 1: especially like if people have weird family situations, is another
Speaker 1: layer of complexity that you're bringing into them. If one
Speaker 1: person errently bumps into you, it's like what now. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I've imagined I will see a lot of like couples fights,
Speaker 1: family fights. I've been telling myself, like for the opening
Speaker 1: reopening of the world, I keep like telling myself in
Speaker 1: my head, I'm like, it's gonna be okay, Like you
Speaker 1: don't have to go anywhere right away, don't worry about fomo, like,
Speaker 1: just take your time, e's your way, and like I
Speaker 1: am just telling myself that over and over because you
Speaker 1: think that will be that will be a big like
Speaker 1: you'll be fighting your fear of missing out alongside like
Speaker 1: re entry anxiety. I mean, I'm comfortable, like I'm fine
Speaker 1: in my house right right, right, But but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think part of me is like I don't want to
Speaker 1: miss the roaring twenties. But also part of me is like,
Speaker 1: it's fine, We're safe in here. Yeah, worried you eventually
Speaker 1: have to switch gears at some point, but yeah, ye
Speaker 1: all at our own pace. Exactly that part of my
Speaker 1: brain I think never formed the FOMO part like I
Speaker 1: think I'm like, that's I got phobo fear of going out.
Speaker 1: I think that's just called social exact. That's weird. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I don't have POMO. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I get nervous and uncomfortable. I'm as as like
Speaker 1: out spoken and gregarious and you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: energetic as I am. Certain times I'm really not working,
Speaker 1: Like before the pandemic, there are situations where I don't
Speaker 1: want to blindly go to just some like some random
Speaker 1: get together of people like her will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: so and So's birthday. I'm like, I don't know who's that. Like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I used to work on this project with them. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I know anybody there. She's like no, but it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: And I'm like ship cut to me in the corner
Speaker 1: like hi, and being like do you smoke? No? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm like, nobody smokes here. It's a brick. We want
Speaker 1: to say a quick A dude to Yahoo answers what
Speaker 1: one of the greatest to ever do it? How is
Speaker 1: Babby forms? Yeah? Maybe the best thing that anybody ever
Speaker 1: found on the internet. Apparently that was found by uh
Speaker 1: at on Twitter John Hedron Wow for an article that
Speaker 1: he was writing for something Awful, which Katie Natopolis from
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed pointed that out in her article h in her
Speaker 1: oh bit on Yahoo answers. But that's just I feel
Speaker 1: like we should do more internet sourcing of like people
Speaker 1: who started memes and like the fact that that was
Speaker 1: I don't know, he should win a Peabody for finding
Speaker 1: that Yahoo answers. Yeah, it's vital to our our modern
Speaker 1: day internet vocabulary. Yeah. Wait, so does that mean it
Speaker 1: is also was Gregnant from that or was that from Cora?
Speaker 1: I think it might have been. But the so all
Speaker 1: of Yahoo is going to be wiped, All of Yahoo
Speaker 1: Answers is gonna be wiped from the Internet. Come on,
Speaker 1: somebody turned it into something quick. Somebody preserve it. The
Speaker 1: Library of Congress has like every tweet ever. No, you know, no,
Speaker 1: am I gregnant? It out out to the realist one
Speaker 1: is yah who answers? Help? You know? Is there a
Speaker 1: possibility that I'm pegrant? Yeah, there's some. There's some great ones,
Speaker 1: you know, just looking through I can't see myself on
Speaker 1: Google Earth question mark on them. Oh no really, they
Speaker 1: thought it's a there's that. Okay, I like that. I
Speaker 1: really like the I like what this person thought Google
Speaker 1: Earth was and I appreciate them. That's like go outside
Speaker 1: and anywhere. Okay, I'm gonna tell my cousin to go
Speaker 1: outside right now. In France. Uh yeah, there there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of great ones out there. But unfortunately we
Speaker 1: have to move on to Uh. I think a coming
Speaker 1: attraction that a lot of people have on their calendar.
Speaker 1: The Late night Game is a out to fucking change
Speaker 1: you guys. Fox has entered the game. Greg gutt felt,
Speaker 1: in fact, uh one of the great wits of Air,
Speaker 1: shittiest guy from the five, the guy from the five.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, I hate music? What happened to
Speaker 1: I like? Radio Head is garbage? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I think? I think four Non Blondes is also trash.
Speaker 1: Linda Perry is a terrible songwriter. Okay, um really, but
Speaker 1: that's like how that's where his takes are. Says something
Speaker 1: that is so like just like like you're like your
Speaker 1: take actually indicates you don't know anything about what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. You just decided to go just to be
Speaker 1: contrarian and then just like dig in. But yes, he
Speaker 1: is getting actually, in fact, his show has already premiered.
Speaker 1: It it premiered Monday. The Greg Gutfeld Show is going
Speaker 1: to be I guess, his own fucking late night show
Speaker 1: to go toe to toe with like actual fucking late
Speaker 1: night shows, you know, the ones that have like fucking
Speaker 1: writer's rooms filled with like talented comedians and ship um.
Speaker 1: And so this is as he's saying, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a talk show on a cable news network, and it's
Speaker 1: run by somebody who's not a typical newscaster. I'm not
Speaker 1: like any of the competing hosts. I'm not a comedian
Speaker 1: who just so you know, he's a bestselling author who
Speaker 1: came from to Fox in two thousand seven after a
Speaker 1: career as a writer and editor, including the UK edition
Speaker 1: of Maxim and his billboard is awesome. It's actually, if
Speaker 1: you know, l a like on Hollywood Boulevard, that's where
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel uh has record tapes his show. And right
Speaker 1: there on Hollywood Boulevard they put up their billboard behind
Speaker 1: the Roosevelt and it says canceled. Culture just got canceled.
Speaker 1: Gutfeld week nights at eight gut failed exclamation point. It
Speaker 1: is good that his show title is gut Felt exclamation point. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's also written in Garfield fund for some reason. No,
Speaker 1: I think that's because that is the most influential comedian
Speaker 1: in the I mean, considering how many letters it shares,
Speaker 1: Garfield and Gutfeld. Like maybe it was a very easy
Speaker 1: decision for a very unimaginative, like graphic person who's unfortunately
Speaker 1: to work there. They were just like they just took
Speaker 1: it and just like copied and pasted it around. It's done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like this person is a genius man. They always come
Speaker 1: through the sickest graphics and like they're fucking dumb um.
Speaker 1: So what kind of racism and vitriol can we expect
Speaker 1: on the show? Well, I just want to just looking
Speaker 1: back at some of the things he talked about in
Speaker 1: the last month on the five. This is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Recent topics have included former President Bill Clinton participating in
Speaker 1: a women's empowerment talk, and he said, like having Woody
Speaker 1: Allen directed Teen Choice Awards, the quote quoke implosion at
Speaker 1: teen Vogue. I think that was from the Alexeie mccammond
Speaker 1: fallout from her racist tweets. He said, A magazine and
Speaker 1: a planet are being run by people with a lesson
Speaker 1: mentalities and the race related controversies on The Bachelor and
Speaker 1: the talk in which he said quote one can only
Speaker 1: move forward if another is canceled. It seems wow. So
Speaker 1: I want to play a couple of quick clips. So
Speaker 1: those are all just uh like saying the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: Like he has one take that he's just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just to be like, oh, this person is bad
Speaker 1: and so what they say is stupid. And also like,
Speaker 1: we're not racist, guys, Let's remember that. Let's all keep
Speaker 1: saying that we're not racist even though we are, because
Speaker 1: if we said we are, that has its own set
Speaker 1: of consequences that we're not willing to deal with by
Speaker 1: being chest out racists. So when he was promoting the show,
Speaker 1: I'll play two clips. This one is when he was
Speaker 1: promoting the show and comic genius former congress Person Trey
Speaker 1: Goudy from the Benghazi hearings has to just get his take,
Speaker 1: you know, as a comedian or non comedian wants to
Speaker 1: see like what's the show going to be like? So
Speaker 1: just to get an idea of how he was talking
Speaker 1: about the show. Yeah, Well, Greg, just once you're a question.
Speaker 1: The funniest people I know were often introverts, and it's
Speaker 1: much harder to be funny than people think. Is that
Speaker 1: true in your own life? I mean, it's hard to
Speaker 1: be funny. All that I don't. All I do is
Speaker 1: I just speak what's running through my brain. So oftentimes
Speaker 1: it's not funny. But it's the whole point of comedy
Speaker 1: is taking risks. So every time you open your mouth,
Speaker 1: you're basically jumping off a cliff and you never know
Speaker 1: where it's gonna go. That's why cancel culture is so
Speaker 1: damaging to people who are comedians, people who go out
Speaker 1: on stage. I'm not one of those people. I've never
Speaker 1: done stand up. I've always been okay to shut up.
Speaker 1: Just just shut up, shut up. If anyone out there
Speaker 1: is slightly smarter than him, just go out there, follow
Speaker 1: your dreams, because they're letting anyone do whatever they would
Speaker 1: and there's a chance that you can get your own.
Speaker 1: She Also, please do not look at comedy as just
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the filter off and yell ship on stage,
Speaker 1: and that's and you know, he he's like jumping out
Speaker 1: of a plane. No, saying garbage ship on stage is
Speaker 1: jumping out of a plane because there are risks involved,
Speaker 1: but if you're actually a comedian, you will make people
Speaker 1: laugh and it might feel quite comfortable. You may feel
Speaker 1: good about it at the end. But anyway, so this
Speaker 1: is I was just googling trying to find out what
Speaker 1: the ratings have been like so far, and I found
Speaker 1: Fox's Greg Gutfeld Show tops Colbert Fallon Kimmel in late
Speaker 1: night ratings race. But that is from that is a
Speaker 1: different show that they tried to launch, hosted by Greg Gutfeld.
Speaker 1: So this is that they were like, you know, what
Speaker 1: the problem was with the Greg Gutfeld Show was the
Speaker 1: Greg and the show and the lack of exclamation point.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna give it another shot, as gut felled
Speaker 1: screaming alright. So then Monday he had the debut, and
Speaker 1: I look, we like comedy here. We've all worked with
Speaker 1: very hilarious people and do that for a living. Um.
Speaker 1: Let's check out our man's opening monolog just to just
Speaker 1: to get a sense of how how he's coming out swinging.
Speaker 1: All right, here we are again, a brand new show
Speaker 1: and a brand new Greg. I'm as giddy as Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris explaining kids in cages or Woody Allen hearing about
Speaker 1: kids in cages. If you've been watching the g G
Speaker 1: Show on Saturday's welcome, If you love the five and
Speaker 1: felt the need for more g G, that's awesome. If
Speaker 1: you ended up here because you thought your TV was
Speaker 1: the microwave oven, It's good to see you, Mr President.
Speaker 1: Your pizza will be warm in two minutes. And Hunter
Speaker 1: he brought the extra cheese. Uh yeah. How many people
Speaker 1: were in the audience? Was there like three? Who knows
Speaker 1: are they doing? Are they doing? Uh? Like the soup
Speaker 1: type thing where the like the studio audience is just
Speaker 1: the camera guy. Know, we're that whole thing. It was
Speaker 1: just him sitting on his backdrop and the sick of
Speaker 1: fans just giggled off camera. It's identical the every single time,
Speaker 1: Like you know, they had to reverse the laughter too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're not even jokes. What are these jokes? I mean,
Speaker 1: the Bishop President one was the closest thing to a joke.
Speaker 1: I'll give him that. Yeah, and I think, yeah, that
Speaker 1: that's definitely like been used. It's because they only say
Speaker 1: the same ship and unfortunately, like you need a bit
Speaker 1: of empathy to be humorous on some level, like you
Speaker 1: kind of need to be able to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more open about what it means to be human,
Speaker 1: or like like what a mistake is or understanding irony
Speaker 1: takes a little bit more self awareness than some guys,
Speaker 1: like if you want more because who refers to himself
Speaker 1: by his own initials in the third person? Yeah? Do
Speaker 1: you ever watch really bad comedy and it just makes
Speaker 1: you sad because you're like, wow, not only did he
Speaker 1: find he think that this was good and funny, but
Speaker 1: like a few people were laughing at this too, and
Speaker 1: that means that they all have no empathy? Is well,
Speaker 1: that just made made a little a little sad. I
Speaker 1: just want to play um one. There's like a character
Speaker 1: bit they did where they brought in like a fake,
Speaker 1: hold on a fake like, I don't know what this
Speaker 1: is supposed to be, Just you, sir, all a race
Speaker 1: male Race to Kimmel is depulture, a crowdsourced version of
Speaker 1: a hit piece. I don't know. I mean, I I
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's really hard to hear. But my
Speaker 1: favorite is underneath this one tweet that The Gutfeld Show
Speaker 1: tweeted out. Many of our past guests have just been
Speaker 1: Dunking in the tweet replies Cody Johnson, G job, great points,
Speaker 1: very funny, and well executed. I also appreciate that this
Speaker 1: Fox News show wants to stand up to people in
Speaker 1: the media who are trying to scare us. Look forward,
Speaker 1: looking forward to more, Alex Edelman, ll L, this is
Speaker 1: the worst monologue I've ever seen. It's actually kind of sublime. Greg,
Speaker 1: you hosted a show that had on two comedians a
Speaker 1: night for ten years. You couldn't hire one of them
Speaker 1: to write a monologue. Joe Splash teach you how to
Speaker 1: deliver one. Yeah, it's damn. It's so. It's really bad.
Speaker 1: It was actually worse than I expect. Honestly, I think
Speaker 1: Huckabee is expected to be very bad. Yeah, Huckabee is
Speaker 1: definitely better because Huckabee has a very specific voice that
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense, but it's almost like poetry because
Speaker 1: it's a character of like a like an old boomer
Speaker 1: who has no idea what he looks like to the
Speaker 1: artrest of the world, and he's just living in a
Speaker 1: theater of his own mind where he is the star
Speaker 1: and like the funniest person. So it has this like curtain,
Speaker 1: real energy, like absurdist humor to his delivery. Gottfeld, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very surreal because you're inside the mind of somebody who
Speaker 1: like doesn't know how jokes work, but like you start
Speaker 1: to get a sense of like how they think jokes work,
Speaker 1: and so you're like, really, it's like a very a
Speaker 1: much more specific experience than than asshole like at your
Speaker 1: college coffee shop who's eventually was about to get coffee
Speaker 1: thrown on them, or even he's just searching for his voice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's only had twenty years at Fox, and you have
Speaker 1: people who are encouraging him. This one user in the
Speaker 1: street said, first episode, you get a pass, get better writers,
Speaker 1: and learn how to actually deliver jokes, and you may
Speaker 1: be onto something. I'm curious to see. I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see someone from the right actually be funny. But I
Speaker 1: think you can do it like a half jabby, like
Speaker 1: someone who I think kind of realizes the stakes here.
Speaker 1: It's like we're getting owned in the comedy stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: it's like someone who like, all right, man, so all right,
Speaker 1: let's you know that that was you know, shooters don't
Speaker 1: even think about their misses. So we're just gonna move
Speaker 1: right on from that comedy writers would be good. Uh,
Speaker 1: learning to deliver a joke would be well, we can
Speaker 1: do what we can do. These guys, we can do this.
Speaker 1: It's like someone who like really loves like their college
Speaker 1: team and they know, like, we just need a new coach, man,
Speaker 1: we just need a new coach and we'll be able
Speaker 1: to bang with the other schools because they're like, you're
Speaker 1: objective enough to know we're not doing it, So we
Speaker 1: need a new coach. But I know we can do it.
Speaker 1: That's how like conservative feel like when they're trying to
Speaker 1: cheer on their own. Commuy's like, yeah, yeah, bad show,
Speaker 1: bad writing, bad performance, but you know, just keep at it.
Speaker 1: But the idea I don't is there? Right, So rather
Speaker 1: than being like so nobody has ever been funny and
Speaker 1: conservative at the same time, and you are already bad
Speaker 1: at being a comedian, like so you would be uniquely
Speaker 1: ill suited to approach that. There's like someone's got to
Speaker 1: do it, Like, it's probably gonna be you. You're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get to get there. Sheroylyn. It has been such
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the show. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you and follow you? Thank you? I've had a
Speaker 1: great time. Uh, people can find me on the internet. Uh,
Speaker 1: Sherylyn underscore vera on Instagram and on Twitter without the underscore. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got an extra underscore in my my Instagram. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know same. Uh. Where is there a tweeter
Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes,
Speaker 1: I found a tweet that I liked by Roy Wood Jr.
Speaker 1: He said, you posted that vaccine card. Now all of
Speaker 1: them vaccinated people you don't really want to hang with
Speaker 1: or hitting you up to go out. Should have kept
Speaker 1: your mouth closed. Now you had a socially distanced bowling
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. You know, it's relatable content. Relatable content
Speaker 1: is what we love here. We recently launched a show
Speaker 1: with him, Roy's Job There, produced by Nick Stump, and
Speaker 1: it's a It's a winner, folks, go check it out.
Speaker 1: But he's like one of just genuinely NonStop funny human beings. Miles.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you? Oh? You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also
Speaker 1: on the other podcast for twenty Day Fiancee UM and
Speaker 1: some of tweets that I like UM actually both related
Speaker 1: to stories we talked about today. Heno at j r
Speaker 1: Hennessy did a quote tweet that basically said, y'allho answers
Speaker 1: will be shut down forever on May fourth, and he
Speaker 1: tweets the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Uh and
Speaker 1: it feels like that. And then one more from Andrew
Speaker 1: T at Andrew t I uh says conservative comedy is
Speaker 1: about being principled and that principle is conserving the same
Speaker 1: like eight jokes to reuse for decades. And that's what
Speaker 1: we saw right there. Yep, it couldn't be more true.
Speaker 1: I want to read a little thread, oh Riffin from
Speaker 1: this person who. So it starts with a it's basically
Speaker 1: lyrics from the song I'm a Bit, uh, mixed with
Speaker 1: movie posters. Um. So it's I'm a bit, I'm a
Speaker 1: lover Robin Williams Disney's Flubber and from you responded to
Speaker 1: that with I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, what's eating
Speaker 1: Gilbert Gray? Uh? And then I'm your Hell, I'm your dream,
Speaker 1: I'm Hubie Halloween and they used the actual posters for it,
Speaker 1: and it's great. The first one is Chauncey Sugar Sweets,
Speaker 1: the second is Brad Carter, and the third is taran Ariana, Yeah,
Speaker 1: great tweets. Shout out to a year of the ant
Speaker 1: MFC Ericson for reporting that one to me. You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can
Speaker 1: find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist r at The
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Speaker 1: episodes and our footnotes or we link off to the
Speaker 1: information that we talked about in today's episode, as well
Speaker 1: as a song that we think you should go check
Speaker 1: out right now, Miles, what's the song that you think
Speaker 1: people should go to check out? The song to ride
Speaker 1: out on today? It looks just just just more remixery,
Speaker 1: but actually not remixery, more stuff they can only find
Speaker 1: on SoundCloud. Because I was just thinking the other day
Speaker 1: about concerts and going back and live music, and there's
Speaker 1: a song that Flying Lotus used to always play like
Speaker 1: or not always like if if you saw him live
Speaker 1: around two thousand nine ten, there was this track called
Speaker 1: King Midas that you would play in his sets, and
Speaker 1: I found on SoundCloud and I was just I had
Speaker 1: so many just like Sweaty Festival flashbacks, um and it made,
Speaker 1: gave me great joy and look and if y'all aren't
Speaker 1: really growned up on flying Lotus to get into it.
Speaker 1: So this is called King Midas Lost Remix Instrumental and
Speaker 1: it will be in the footnotes you can only get
Speaker 1: on SoundCloud. All right, Well, go listen to that The
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