Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy four,
Speaker 1: Episode three of Days Like Guys, the production of My
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Wednesday, March one.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, a k. A little bit
Speaker 1: of cold gas in my life, A little bit of
Speaker 1: cold gas by my side, A little bit of cold gas.
Speaker 1: All I need a little bit of cold gas. What
Speaker 1: I see? A little bit of cold gas in the sun.
Speaker 1: A little bit of cold gas all night long. A
Speaker 1: little bit of cold gas here. I am a little
Speaker 1: British cold gas study to inform you man all right.
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Johnny Davis making fun of me
Speaker 1: for constantly referencing the British cold gas Study. Um with
Speaker 1: a little lou bega uh. And I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined by my co host, Mr Miles. I hate to
Speaker 1: do this to Daniel or Justin, but here we go.
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Speaker 1: smoke it hit it rip It makes us higher, better, snack,
Speaker 1: get stronger. Thank you so much to Hank Skippy over
Speaker 1: that dap Punk just related a k and maybe that'll
Speaker 1: be vot quoted. I don't know, we'll see if dap
Speaker 1: punk that was the kind you know. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I hear they're cool. Why didn't
Speaker 1: you do that? I need you right now part a
Speaker 1: song that you were just saying from that maga Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean. And also, guys, if you do I feel
Speaker 1: like vo coding ever any one of my songs ever,
Speaker 1: h M much appreciative. It would be so funny. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know how Stalin would be like headallyaf photoshop people
Speaker 1: out of ship like you, like you start hiring ringers
Speaker 1: to just put the audio and they're like, damn jack
Speaker 1: fucking saying hallelujah and it made me cry. You guys,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I'm just I'm just gonna turn
Speaker 1: my video off here for a second. Well do this
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Speaker 1: Uh Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our
Speaker 1: third seat by the hilarious, the talented, the brilliant Mr
Speaker 1: no bro a r I P. Deaf punk. You guys,
Speaker 1: even though they haven't made a record for like ten years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, I guess they just occupy this rarefied air.
Speaker 1: You know, people were like posting things as though they
Speaker 1: had died or like they had been like dismantled or
Speaker 1: something like fucking vision. It's very weird. I don't full.
Speaker 1: I don't fully it's a spoiler for one division. Not really, No,
Speaker 1: it's not, it's not. It's spoiler for the Marvel Unit
Speaker 1: verse at La Marble University. Yeah, and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: those movies, and I don't I don't even know how
Speaker 1: to put that together. But yeah, I think it's true.
Speaker 1: Like it's not like they were put They were, you know,
Speaker 1: prolific in the last few years. It's just they had
Speaker 1: that weekend the song they did that weekend song, Starboy,
Speaker 1: and that was like literally seven years ago. They haven't
Speaker 1: really done anything. So, I mean, they've made classic albums
Speaker 1: and I adore them, and I love the whole scene
Speaker 1: they came from. I think it's so crazy that uh,
Speaker 1: Daft Punk, Phoenix and Air all came from Versailles. They
Speaker 1: lived in like Versailles in the you know, shadow of
Speaker 1: the Palace of Versailles and ended up making this like
Speaker 1: dope crazy French disco and they all went to school
Speaker 1: together and they're all like equally famous. They're all like buddies.
Speaker 1: They all grew up together. I felt like the Phoenix
Speaker 1: is like slightly younger than the other two, but they're
Speaker 1: roughly maybe mentor age, but like they definitely knew each other.
Speaker 1: Versie is not a big place, and then, uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: if I don't know, you've seen a lot of palaces.
Speaker 1: I think Versailla is pretty big. The palace for oh
Speaker 1: the Township also great Cuban restaurant in Los Angeles, Verse
Speaker 1: High is nice. Um. I also wonder how much of
Speaker 1: it is that when a band that is not associated
Speaker 1: with its actual public or or like the person behind
Speaker 1: the mask uh hangs it up. Then it's like then
Speaker 1: it's like Superman dying in the Superman comics. It's like
Speaker 1: a big deal. Um or uh, you know, just not
Speaker 1: to make another Marvel reference, I'm a real comic book Superman,
Speaker 1: you know, you know how I do. Uh, that's a
Speaker 1: really good point. It's almost like they were immortal in
Speaker 1: some way. And so to that end, like why even
Speaker 1: like make a big deal of it. Why don't just
Speaker 1: like kind of fade away, like why they have to Okay,
Speaker 1: we're done, it's over. Yeah, it would have been there,
Speaker 1: maybe something powerful where they're like there's articles being like
Speaker 1: Daft Punk still together, and then it's like been years
Speaker 1: and like, oh yeah, no, we stopped a long time ago. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just doing my thing. See I have no helmet on.
Speaker 1: So did they just make that Starboys song or have
Speaker 1: they been producing a bunch of the Weekend stuff, because
Speaker 1: you know, it was just that was like one collab
Speaker 1: and I might have done some other under the fold
Speaker 1: kind of below beneath the fold kind of deep cut stuff,
Speaker 1: but I don't really think so. They did that Tron movie.
Speaker 1: It was before the Weekends song that they did, like
Speaker 1: Tron Legacy the soundtrack for that, and then though it's
Speaker 1: super dope, and they put out like a like an
Speaker 1: expanded version of like all the you know, outtakes or whatever.
Speaker 1: And they made that at Henson Studios when a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine who lives in in l A was working
Speaker 1: there and he would see them coming in. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't wear their helmets just walking around. I was
Speaker 1: just talking about that. Another person who I knew was
Speaker 1: at Henson who was talking about seeing them without their
Speaker 1: helmets on. It's just so funny. It was just a
Speaker 1: very thing like, Yo, they're at Henson Studios. Human beings
Speaker 1: go work at Henson Studios if you want to have
Speaker 1: your childhood just demolished any because you're watching like big
Speaker 1: bird walk around without his head on and ship. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: It's just it's have you ever been to Henson Studios?
Speaker 1: I have not. It's so like it you can tell
Speaker 1: like some people that work there have worked there since
Speaker 1: the beginning, like because like the there's like a person
Speaker 1: who like works there who's like their desk is just
Speaker 1: surrounded like by like dark crystal props and stuff, and
Speaker 1: they're like so kind and like they feel like you
Speaker 1: feel like you're on Sesame Street the way some of
Speaker 1: these people interact with you and ship. And then then
Speaker 1: the like loan out space to like you know, struggling
Speaker 1: media companies who just want to be like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: on the Henson lot. And then you have a very
Speaker 1: nervous meeting that you realized did go to I L
Speaker 1: M once in San Francisco and it's the same deal
Speaker 1: industrial like magic where it's like you know you walk
Speaker 1: down the hall and they're these like the dusty asked
Speaker 1: slimer you know, like rubber suit thing and like but
Speaker 1: it's like they don't really take care of it. They've
Speaker 1: got all these like plates on the walls from like
Speaker 1: the kind of like when they used to do Matt
Speaker 1: paintings for like Star Wars backdrops, and they're just like
Speaker 1: they're all painted on shower doors. And like the person
Speaker 1: wh gave us the tour explained like, oh, shower doors
Speaker 1: were available at this like hardware store next to where
Speaker 1: Islam used to be, and it was easier than ordering
Speaker 1: the real stuff. And they're just like on the walls,
Speaker 1: but they're all like covered in dust and stuff, and
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like they really see them with the reverence
Speaker 1: that like you see because from that's from lab Wick whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm calling stuff out and they're like, oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's criminally spider fucked with all the webs on,
Speaker 1: but I get it. This is your office and like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, that's just some old ship. We don't fo
Speaker 1: u anymore. But spider fucked is a very specific condition
Speaker 1: that a lot a lot of my outdoor outdoor furniture
Speaker 1: gets that I've never heard put that way, but that
Speaker 1: needs to be immediately trademarked. Spider fucked. Alright, No, we're
Speaker 1: going to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that minimum wage hike where where is
Speaker 1: it just that? Um, We're gonna talk about gab. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about um, whether tech is making us more productive. Uh.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the upcoming inauguration of the president
Speaker 1: on the fourth of March. If you're not up on
Speaker 1: your que and on game, yeah, yeah, the real inauguration.
Speaker 1: What we saw was a fake inauguration for the corporation
Speaker 1: that is America. But the real state that is America
Speaker 1: actually doesn't have its inauguration until the fourth. Uh, and
Speaker 1: that's when Donald Trump will finally accept office. Uh. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about sneaker resellers, specifically one who got his
Speaker 1: mom's fired from being in charge of Nike North America,
Speaker 1: or not fired, he caused her to resign. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about what New York City streets could look
Speaker 1: like in the future. All of that plenty more. But first, NOL,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guest, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history? Friend? Oh my gosh, well, I just
Speaker 1: typed in trump golden calf. Seapack was for y'all's benefit
Speaker 1: for a little later in the in the episode. If
Speaker 1: you don't know what that is, I'll make sure to
Speaker 1: discuss it when when the time is right, I'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. Are you covering seatpack? And you talked to
Speaker 1: you about referenced the golden calf, but we didn't talk
Speaker 1: about the literal prayer, sessh Okay, So so you saw
Speaker 1: the Bizarro statue with like the giant, but we didn't
Speaker 1: see what up. Okay, well I just heard about this today,
Speaker 1: so you guys are way ahead of me. But that
Speaker 1: was my last my last search. What's the prayer? Dude?
Speaker 1: The people they prayed on it, like in prayer, like
Speaker 1: laid hands upon it. Just the fucking religious people did
Speaker 1: the fucking thing we were joking about, being like, you're
Speaker 1: praying to a false golden idol. Yeah, as this is
Speaker 1: what I said. I think the only thing that makes
Speaker 1: because it's so on the nose right that they are
Speaker 1: literally trying to provoke God into bringing the end times.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's what they think is gonna have
Speaker 1: that's ther anyway, because that's what their hell bent on.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, moving the embassy or like moving the
Speaker 1: embassy in Israel didn't do it? Fuck what else you
Speaker 1: gotta do? All right, I guess we'll pray to this
Speaker 1: golden idol uh and there. So, I don't know, it
Speaker 1: just seems very imprecise. I don't think they thought this
Speaker 1: through fully, you know. And I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, they're not actually religious people. They're just
Speaker 1: using religion as like the shield to obscure their racism
Speaker 1: and hatefulness, and that's all it is. So I think
Speaker 1: maybe they I think they don't even really know what
Speaker 1: what that all means in the context of Christianity. But
Speaker 1: if anybody missed the Golden Calf, it's trump in board shorts.
Speaker 1: It looks like like we said, it looks like a
Speaker 1: big boy statue, like a Bob's big boy statue. It's
Speaker 1: not a holy acrid looking statue. It looks like ship.
Speaker 1: It looks like a Funko toy or something like. And
Speaker 1: and he's wearing flip flops and his top half is
Speaker 1: just to suit and tie, you know, too long tie.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand. It looks like a float from
Speaker 1: a retirement party or something. Um, my retirement parties have floats.
Speaker 1: We go big. What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: And I think that laser pointers as cat toys are underrated.
Speaker 1: And I have a very personal reason for this. I
Speaker 1: recently got a cat, um and she's really great, but
Speaker 1: in the morning, she likes to like just get in
Speaker 1: full crouch pounce mode and just like pounce violently on
Speaker 1: bare feet. So I literally am tiptoeing tap dancing around
Speaker 1: my living room trying to get from pointy to b
Speaker 1: and not get, you know, just mauled. So I've started
Speaker 1: using the laser point or to distract her and pointed
Speaker 1: away and then I can scurry into the kitchen and
Speaker 1: do my ship and then use it again when I
Speaker 1: come back. So for me, it's literally like a lifesaver.
Speaker 1: But I also think this. I posed this question to y'all.
Speaker 1: Is it cruel doing this to a cat knowing they
Speaker 1: will never catch this thing? Are they just like clean
Speaker 1: slate every time and they're okay with it and it's
Speaker 1: just fun for them? Or is it like maddening and
Speaker 1: driving them slowly insane? I'm no feline expert. I'll at
Speaker 1: Zeke gangway in on that, but I know my cats
Speaker 1: love it because I get this is the only I
Speaker 1: can get my cats panting, like my dog with the
Speaker 1: laser pointer can control their every move to and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's wild and it's low energy playing
Speaker 1: because it's all my wrist and you know math, a
Speaker 1: little inch movement from fifty feet away is like a
Speaker 1: whole length of a fucking yard. So I have to
Speaker 1: have my cats doing up downs and ship running up
Speaker 1: the walls because yeah, it tires them out, and then
Speaker 1: they're chilling and they're not screaming in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. Lest superdus Aronna holds me a resident cat
Speaker 1: spurt says it's good exercise for them. So um, I
Speaker 1: have some experience with uh. So I had a dog
Speaker 1: that was basically a cat spirit and a dog body.
Speaker 1: It would like stretch out in the sun and like
Speaker 1: lick its paws like a cat and just was a
Speaker 1: cat uh. And also had a thing where I think
Speaker 1: we used a laser pointer with it, like when it
Speaker 1: with him when he was young, and he like really
Speaker 1: got into it, but then it like fucked with him
Speaker 1: and for his whole life he was chasing like little
Speaker 1: glints of light like around any time they would come
Speaker 1: up the dark side of laser pointer, yeah, and would
Speaker 1: like whimper and it really fucked with him. But he,
Speaker 1: you know, he had other issues coming in. I've talked
Speaker 1: before about he was like kind of suffered from depression
Speaker 1: and got it was. Yeah. So I think typically consensus
Speaker 1: is it's it's okay unless your cat is a dog. Right.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? I think I'm
Speaker 1: probably not super alone in this these days, but I
Speaker 1: think James Cameron has become painfully overrated. Uh. I think
Speaker 1: I think Terminator two is a perfect film. And I
Speaker 1: actually just listened to an episode of The Rewatchables um
Speaker 1: on the Ringer and they dissected T two in a
Speaker 1: way that I never really thought about. I always just
Speaker 1: thought about it as it's like tent pole movie from
Speaker 1: my childhood. But it really is beat for beat, a
Speaker 1: very intentional and well executed movie, and it kind of
Speaker 1: knows exactly what it's doing. But like, who asked for
Speaker 1: four more Avatar movies? Like fifteen years after the original
Speaker 1: one came out? Uh, when no one even remembers or
Speaker 1: cares about the original one. I mean, it was like
Speaker 1: a theme park ride at best. And now he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, putting all his eggs in that franchise, and
Speaker 1: I kind of think it's gonna fail miserably. I don't
Speaker 1: know what what you guys think. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: what happens. But he's got like three or four of
Speaker 1: them planned and they're like all underwater, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're gonna look cool, but I just, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: see it underwater, like they're losing money or they're underwater
Speaker 1: as a physical submerged. Yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not invested in that universe at all. Like the fun
Speaker 1: for me of Avatar was more like, look what we
Speaker 1: do with three d y'all, You're welcome, and then no
Speaker 1: one's done it better since that it was really epic
Speaker 1: and rememberable for that and that alone, right, But you're like, savior, colonizer,
Speaker 1: savior narratives aren't going to play well in the Year
Speaker 1: of Our Lord one and beyond, especially when we were like, yo,
Speaker 1: isn't this fern gully? Also this was furn gully like
Speaker 1: dancing with wolves. That's like last Samurai. I mean it's
Speaker 1: tired man, Yeah, exactly. But for me, you know, as
Speaker 1: I ranked those films that you just mentioned, for I know,
Speaker 1: the batty rap from Fern Gully almost by heart. I
Speaker 1: had that on cassette when I was a kid, and
Speaker 1: I still recited while drunk at parties occasionally. There you go. Um,
Speaker 1: I I liked Avatar a lot when I watched it. Um.
Speaker 1: I am a serial underestimator of James Cameron. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: not been a James Cameron movie since I've been looking
Speaker 1: forward to them. Uh. That I didn't uh talk about
Speaker 1: how it was going to be a complete debacle, like
Speaker 1: starting with Titanic, that that was a whole story about
Speaker 1: like how he was losing so much money on that
Speaker 1: and it was a disaster and everybody fucking hated shooting it.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to like be there. Uh, and like it
Speaker 1: was famous for being a complete disaster before it came out,
Speaker 1: and then it became famous for being like the most
Speaker 1: successful movie of all time. Kind of the same thing
Speaker 1: with Avatar. Avatar is weird because it it is such
Speaker 1: a like it didn't You're right that it didn't really
Speaker 1: have a cultural impact other than you know Jamie Loftus's
Speaker 1: Avatar culture that she's embraced. I think it's I you
Speaker 1: can't say didn't have a cultural impact because people still
Speaker 1: want to go to the theme park and there were
Speaker 1: support groups for people who wanted to go back to Pancora.
Speaker 1: It's just weird, how Yeah, it was just most movies
Speaker 1: like that have that sized cultural impact. Like then there
Speaker 1: is some follow through, there's something that had it's afterwards,
Speaker 1: and Avatar for some reason, I just feel like as
Speaker 1: something maybe because it's so such a kind of uh
Speaker 1: insular world or like a completely closed off world that
Speaker 1: like it doesn't come up that often. And like you said,
Speaker 1: it was also telling a story that has been told
Speaker 1: a number of times, uh of like white guy comes
Speaker 1: in and becomes uh like essentially goes native and that
Speaker 1: and then that like saves them. Um. You know. I
Speaker 1: have heard recently some like a Choppo Trap House like
Speaker 1: had a like Avatar appreciation episode where they were like
Speaker 1: talking about how the politics were really like great in Avatar. Um.
Speaker 1: But I do feel like it's more of a that
Speaker 1: is like a backlash to the backlash where it's like
Speaker 1: this is it's silly of us to say this, Um,
Speaker 1: I I still really enjoy it, Like I just very
Speaker 1: specifically remember the physical sensation of my eyes being dried
Speaker 1: out from not wanting to blink while watching it. Like
Speaker 1: she was huge Jack keep banging down the doors for
Speaker 1: Avatar Avatar four. I mean, I'm gonna watch every single
Speaker 1: one of them in the theater and I am too. Question,
Speaker 1: We'll just see about that. Let's see, right right, I mean,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean it's I think at the very least,
Speaker 1: what we know is they don't go this far unless
Speaker 1: they have the marketing research to suggest they're going to
Speaker 1: make their money back. So as much as we might
Speaker 1: not be interested or not, I think as a tent
Speaker 1: pole event, it may draw people in. But yeah, to
Speaker 1: the to the extent that the first one did, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, they do go this far sometimes,
Speaker 1: like sometimes the John John Carter of Mars or what
Speaker 1: or whatever that movie was, that like they went pretty
Speaker 1: damn far with that and then realized they were out
Speaker 1: over their skis. You know, there are flops all the time,
Speaker 1: and especially they're flops when there's a filmmaker who has
Speaker 1: had a bunch of success and keeps just getting hit
Speaker 1: after hit after hit and they just have that like
Speaker 1: create a blank check and a staff of people who
Speaker 1: don't know how to tell them the truth. Then you
Speaker 1: come then you get something like the Star Wars prequels that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know are just a very specific failure of a
Speaker 1: single person's vision. But they did well though. I mean
Speaker 1: they made money, yeah, for sure, for sure. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just or you know any number of blank Check Roberts
Speaker 1: Macis's later films. Have we talked about Cats Cats? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy had two huge hits and they were like
Speaker 1: all right, give him like, um yeah. By the way,
Speaker 1: somebody asked if I am uh fan of the podcast
Speaker 1: blank Check. I am. I like that show a lot,
Speaker 1: and they do a great job of documenting. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll do an entire series of like a filmmaker's career
Speaker 1: and you get to like watch as they go from
Speaker 1: like huge success to um, you know what what comes
Speaker 1: next when they get the heat check? Uh as it were, Um,
Speaker 1: but anyways, uh, that would be something I recommend blank
Speaker 1: Check podcast over Rewatchables. I've gone from Rewatchables to blank Check.
Speaker 1: I think cool. Check it out. Alright, guys, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we will be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back. Uh, and let's talk about that fifteen dollar
Speaker 1: an hour minimum wage, still way too low, but at
Speaker 1: least a step in the right direction. And where are
Speaker 1: we at miles? Where are we? Where are we? Who
Speaker 1: are we? Where are we? Who won? Who won? Who
Speaker 1: won the election? Who is president? Who is vice president?
Speaker 1: What did they all say on their way Joe be
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden's inner monologue? Hey, who am I? Where
Speaker 1: am I? Where's the apple sauce? The one good seapack one?
Speaker 1: Who's the boss? Where's my apple sauce? Slop? Anyway? So yeah,
Speaker 1: it does not even mean because it's all saying that
Speaker 1: is mental acuity. Yeah, sinility. Um so yeah. Campaign Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: he was out here saying we're gonna We're gonna get
Speaker 1: the fit minimum wage up to fifteen because I'm the
Speaker 1: guy who knows how to do government. Then cut too,
Speaker 1: sorry the parliamentarians and it's tricky, so we're gonna cave. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now everyone's like, who the fund is this lilmentarian? Essentially,
Speaker 1: the parliamentarian is this non partisan advisor unlike the legislative
Speaker 1: process and protocol in terms of like how the Senate works.
Speaker 1: So they'll flag stuff. You be like, well, if you
Speaker 1: want to do this under budget reconciliation, this might be
Speaker 1: a thing. They kind of just vet what's happening to
Speaker 1: make sure everything's on track. Again, it's an advisor and
Speaker 1: their nonpartisant. They're just they're just they just nerd out
Speaker 1: on the rules to let you know, make sure things
Speaker 1: all going okay. And so I've never heard of them
Speaker 1: before once. Definitely not when the Republicans were in charge.
Speaker 1: They weren't like, well, but the parliamentarian says, the Democrats
Speaker 1: might be met yeah or what. So here's the deal,
Speaker 1: this whole thing about the way check they put it in. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about budget reconciliation, which is the
Speaker 1: way the Republicans basically got every all this nasty ship
Speaker 1: done through a simple majority because it usually related to
Speaker 1: spending or taxes, and that's how they were able to
Speaker 1: pass things on a majority. The Democrats are currently trying
Speaker 1: to use budget reconciliation as a way to get the
Speaker 1: stimulus pack it's through and attached this federal wage hike
Speaker 1: of fifteen dollars from minimum wage. So the Senate parliamentarian
Speaker 1: just said, okay, like as I see it there. This
Speaker 1: could be problematic and that the potentially the Republicans could
Speaker 1: raise a point of order when they're voting on this
Speaker 1: to this specific bill or provision in the bill and
Speaker 1: potentially strip that out by raising a point of order.
Speaker 1: Now what does that mean? So here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: This just means potentially the Republicans could do that. But
Speaker 1: to understand what the parliamentarian's role is. First of all,
Speaker 1: the advice is non binding, it's just advice. The Presiding
Speaker 1: Officer of the Senate is the ultimate decision maker and
Speaker 1: can ignore the parliamentarian, in which case would most likely
Speaker 1: be the Vice President Kamala Harris. That's who. That's who
Speaker 1: would be it which was the whole the tiebreaker, everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be tie break, tiebreak. If the minimum wage is
Speaker 1: in the COVID nineteen bill and they want to raise
Speaker 1: a pin point of order, Kamala Harris could reject the
Speaker 1: point of order. Boom fifteen an hour, boom. Thirty two
Speaker 1: million people living under the poverty line would be helped
Speaker 1: and countless others. But they are looking like the Sheba
Speaker 1: dog meme with the two energies that this administration has
Speaker 1: campaign Joe at his Chester. Oh yeah, exactly, yeah, thank
Speaker 1: you for all the New York rap fans out there
Speaker 1: for you, exactly, thank you, Dunny As would say, but
Speaker 1: like out there and then in office like well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, the parliamentary so what the funk
Speaker 1: is going on? The vice So then they asked the
Speaker 1: administration what's going on. This is a quote from the
Speaker 1: Biden National Economic Council Director Brian Deese. The vice President's
Speaker 1: not going to weigh in. The president and the vice
Speaker 1: president both respect the parliamentarian's decision and the process decision. Um, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's all. Harris ran in the primary on fifteen dollar
Speaker 1: minimum wage. If you supported her in the primary, you
Speaker 1: remember this. Most people will were like she was getting
Speaker 1: a lot of support because she was like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: makes sense on top of that. But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion is a no on the fifteen dollar minimum wage.
Speaker 1: So ships already all fucked up. But there are options
Speaker 1: to to figure this out. Rather than just saying that's
Speaker 1: the roadblock, you could sort Joe Mansion out. You could
Speaker 1: try and figure out if there are other Republicans who realize, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's actually that that that will help me and my
Speaker 1: whatever re election bid. But again another pebble on the
Speaker 1: scale to shift power to the fascist in dead. No,
Speaker 1: it's not dead. They're just kind of figuring out, like,
Speaker 1: well what do we do? I know, you know, Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders said he's gonna try and force a vote um
Speaker 1: on this. But you know the other thing is like
Speaker 1: they could they could switch, they could fire the parliamentarian
Speaker 1: because it's all about how they're they're interpreting the bird rule,
Speaker 1: which is all wonky ship and you could just get
Speaker 1: another parliamentarian be like yeah, yeah, I'm good with this,
Speaker 1: but the parliamentarian doesn't matter, right, Like that's just advice
Speaker 1: they're getting. It's just like the idea of like I
Speaker 1: mean exactly, it's they don't want to they don't they
Speaker 1: want to play by the quote unquote rules. But like
Speaker 1: all the rules we're seeing in terms of voting on
Speaker 1: legislation seemed to be just there to ensure minority rule
Speaker 1: or completely muck up the gears when people are trying
Speaker 1: to swiftly you know, progress any kind of law or
Speaker 1: you know, statute. That's frustrating, so frustrating. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's and again like they're not treating it like a
Speaker 1: fucking big deal. And it's it's the progressives like the
Speaker 1: Rashida Clive's and AOC's Corey Bush type people who are like,
Speaker 1: what the funk are you guys doing? Just and it's
Speaker 1: and to me, it's no surprise that the younger members
Speaker 1: of the party are the ones who are the closest
Speaker 1: in understanding what the tensions are that are pulling on
Speaker 1: people financially in the country versus you know, twenty K
Speaker 1: Freezer Nancy Pelosi with the Jenny's blown out, like right,
Speaker 1: what I like, please listen to them like they're not
Speaker 1: This isn't like some like weird ploy to make you
Speaker 1: look bad. They're saying this, these are the needs of
Speaker 1: the American people. There's nothing, there's nothing else to that. Right,
Speaker 1: It's already a drop in the bucket. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: already not nearly enough for like a living wage new
Speaker 1: cities like Los Angeles or in cities like New York.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense that this is this hard to
Speaker 1: get through when there hasn't been a wage hike and
Speaker 1: what have how many years decades? Right? Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: seven seven, seven and seventy five cents right now, right,
Speaker 1: what about cost of living increases, Like I mean that's
Speaker 1: like basic human ship. Yeah, it's definitely not keeping pace
Speaker 1: with anything else, like in the economy, right yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean if you just look at like sort of the
Speaker 1: way like the even the rules right that were fed
Speaker 1: from like you know, your early financial literacy, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't of your annual income goes to
Speaker 1: housing or something like the thirty two discretionary expenses twenty
Speaker 1: two savings or maybe some people say don't spend more
Speaker 1: more more than a third on your income on rent.
Speaker 1: But that's hard now, and when you look at what
Speaker 1: people need to be paid, like fifteen dollars and hours
Speaker 1: of fucking joke, right, it's it's very easy for like
Speaker 1: I mean, where there's a will, Like it's easy for
Speaker 1: me to say this, but it's true. It's been true
Speaker 1: throughout the history of American politics that like it, you
Speaker 1: can play politics, but or you can just be like,
Speaker 1: well they said no, so like that's our if you
Speaker 1: if you don't actually want to get anything done, it's
Speaker 1: very easy to do that and just pretend like it's
Speaker 1: somebody else's fault, right, But the or completely unacceptable. I
Speaker 1: mean I know this as like somebody who like, there's
Speaker 1: chores I want to get out of, and I'll be like, damn,
Speaker 1: if like one thing goes wrong, I'm gonna use that
Speaker 1: as a reason and not do this ship. When they
Speaker 1: ask why that didn't get done, I'm like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I went to the store. They didn't have the right gravel, right,
Speaker 1: so of course I'm have to push that to another
Speaker 1: few days or whatever. Ver is like, Okay, well, if
Speaker 1: you really wanted to do this ship, how come you
Speaker 1: didn't get it done? Well? How come away? Are you
Speaker 1: making it hot? I'm lazy? Okay, you sound like my
Speaker 1: four year old when I'm trying to get him to
Speaker 1: repay the driveway the damn driveway. Alright, let's talk about
Speaker 1: a couple of things happening on the right. One is
Speaker 1: gab uh. We we talked last week about how parlor
Speaker 1: is just a um. They're they're having a hell of
Speaker 1: a time providing a both gab and parlor having a
Speaker 1: hell of the time providing a competent alternative to the
Speaker 1: social media platforms that have banned uh Nazis uh. And
Speaker 1: it seems like there might be I don't know why
Speaker 1: they're so consistently bad. Like maybe it's there's an informal
Speaker 1: Internet democracy going on where the fact that most of
Speaker 1: humanity hates fascists is hurting the fascists. But uh, so
Speaker 1: we talked on Monday's episode, I think about how Parlor
Speaker 1: was hacked, stripped clean of all its data, revived as
Speaker 1: a glitchy mess with no archive, and basically rendered useless
Speaker 1: by uh not being usable on smartphones. Well, now, gab
Speaker 1: who I think a lot of people first heard of
Speaker 1: when they like live streamed just a mass shooting at
Speaker 1: the New Zealand mosque. They had seventy gigabytes of private
Speaker 1: post passwords and other data just downloaded and now being
Speaker 1: made available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. So they're
Speaker 1: the This is not being like wiki leaked, where it's
Speaker 1: just like we're dumping it and anybody who wants it
Speaker 1: can exploit it. It's actually being specifically given to targeted
Speaker 1: people who will use it for good and for research,
Speaker 1: not just for memes and lulls, not just for memes
Speaker 1: and lulls. But it is interesting just how bad these
Speaker 1: these platforms are at at doing what they what they
Speaker 1: intend to. It seems like there's like a sort of
Speaker 1: sleeping giant ization of like most people have a conscience
Speaker 1: and are are you know, not happy with that these
Speaker 1: platforms exist, and so you're able to just throw a
Speaker 1: the fact that the vast majority of people who know
Speaker 1: how to code and the vast majority of hackers are
Speaker 1: going to be on the side of you know, common
Speaker 1: decency to to funk these people over. Um. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's almost like hate kind of fux you up
Speaker 1: and you start missing a lot of stuff when you're
Speaker 1: so focused on giving your energy away to like taking
Speaker 1: it away from other people. Yeah, but hey, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean that great, great, keep fucking up and you'll
Speaker 1: you'll will people will always be able to attract this
Speaker 1: ship and try and bring some accountability to them. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is I'm sure these are great resources
Speaker 1: for the researchers. So I hope, I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: we get some something good out of it for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's just because they have such a
Speaker 1: big target on them, or are like Republicans just typically
Speaker 1: very bad with technology because you see this kind of
Speaker 1: stuff happen with campaigns a lot, or I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Like it just always have struck me that
Speaker 1: the right isn't quite that that's not true though, the
Speaker 1: Trump used technology to too great success. It's just these
Speaker 1: breaches just seem like they are either just willfully ignorant
Speaker 1: or like they don't think they think they're safe, or
Speaker 1: they don't care, or it just seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: with the with the parlor thing, they were using like
Speaker 1: a trial version of OCTA, the three factor authentication thing,
Speaker 1: and like it was just not even hard to hack.
Speaker 1: You could barely even call it a hack. They just
Speaker 1: exploited like an obvious weakness in the platform. And I
Speaker 1: think that sounds a lot like what happened here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like they're using free trials and
Speaker 1: ship like I think that was part of the parlor hack,
Speaker 1: was that, like they're part of their software was written
Speaker 1: with like a free trial that expired or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just I think this is partially like you know,
Speaker 1: polite society being like, well, it's not good for us
Speaker 1: to have money invested in Nazis. We've we've learned that
Speaker 1: from history, and therefore, you know, it's like partially the
Speaker 1: mainstream UH culture kind of working. They's a sick yacht. Dude,
Speaker 1: what is this yacht cost for Billy? He's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I went in on Nazis bro heavily on that ship.
Speaker 1: Right alright, real quick anti sponsored content. Uh yeah, let's
Speaker 1: out of here to crisis pregnancy centers whose ads were sir,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry people had to hear that ship. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: we had an ad. This is something that happens from
Speaker 1: time to time, and trying to document fucker in United
Speaker 1: States is like drinking from a fire hose of ship.
Speaker 1: But one way a terrible right wing grift can guarantee
Speaker 1: that they'll get on our radars by sneaking an ad
Speaker 1: onto our ad network and that ad appearing on the
Speaker 1: Daily Zeitgeist. That's how uh the we spent a year
Speaker 1: saying funk Fox News, Funck Wrestling bomb, fuck the Koch
Speaker 1: Brothers at the top of the episode. Uh, and now
Speaker 1: we will add funck crisis pregnancy centers to that list. Specifically,
Speaker 1: Real Alternatives ran an ad on the Daily Zeitgeist. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is just like, I mean, no, you understand this
Speaker 1: as a fellow podcaster. This is just like there are
Speaker 1: some ads that just get filled in that we do
Speaker 1: not approve. Have not. It's like an opt in, opt
Speaker 1: out in totality thing per show basically, and we then
Speaker 1: it takes us to hear to be like, oh no
Speaker 1: from this um. But you know, this is something that
Speaker 1: we have specifically asked not to have on our network,
Speaker 1: but that sometimes still sneaks through, and so this is
Speaker 1: you know, any time that happens, we do want to
Speaker 1: take a moment to kind of educate people about the
Speaker 1: shitty thing that ran an ad Uh. So real quick
Speaker 1: summary of what crisis pregnancy centers are. Uh. They disguise
Speaker 1: themselves as actual medical clinics while being staffed by volunteers
Speaker 1: with no medical training. The medical advice they give is
Speaker 1: shot through with misinformation about abortions and just about women's
Speaker 1: options when they are pregnant. Uh. It's purely ideologically driven
Speaker 1: to try to steer anyone who comes to them with
Speaker 1: a pregnancy away from abortion. Uh, and just disguising that
Speaker 1: by they claim. They give false information about pain caused
Speaker 1: to the fetus an abortion. Uh, they give false information
Speaker 1: about depression being a symptom or something that's caused to
Speaker 1: a woman who has an abortion. Uh. They will even
Speaker 1: delay ultrasounds to make sure the mother here's a heartbeat,
Speaker 1: because that's like the anti choice equivalent of like propaganda.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, the heartbeat bill right right. People who got
Speaker 1: care at a facility were told, uh that abortion is
Speaker 1: a liberal elite scheme, uh trying to at black population
Speaker 1: control basically. Um, so they do a lot of damage
Speaker 1: and uh manipulative. It's fucking evil. The fact that you
Speaker 1: set up a scam like a prank show set, where
Speaker 1: you have all this medical equipment around you to give
Speaker 1: this some semblance of legitimacy is so fucking cynical and
Speaker 1: fucked up. Yeah, Like it's a straight trash And you
Speaker 1: see billboards like when they the billboards are like worse.
Speaker 1: It's like a confused pregnant person with their hand on
Speaker 1: their head and it's like, oh are you pregnant, don't worry,
Speaker 1: We're here to help. And then they want to talk
Speaker 1: about of just doing whatever you want to do with
Speaker 1: your own body, um, which is so fucked up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you to eat a pilish ship. When I read about
Speaker 1: it originally like from from this, I've never heard of it. Um,
Speaker 1: it sounded to me like super CULTI like they're trying
Speaker 1: to like, you know, indoctrinate women or like get them
Speaker 1: to convert to Christianity or something. But it turns out
Speaker 1: it's it's it's also like it's it's it is that,
Speaker 1: but it's also like you know, in terms of the data,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of people that are already going in
Speaker 1: that direction anyway, So I don't quite understand. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: there's a study on it that says like it's a
Speaker 1: lot of preaching to the converted and like the people
Speaker 1: who take advantage of it usually we're already planning on having, uh,
Speaker 1: giving birth to the child. But that the study is
Speaker 1: a little bit limited in the sense that it it
Speaker 1: only sampled people who went to those clinics and then
Speaker 1: actually gave birth, so it doesn't sample anybody went to
Speaker 1: those clinics and then had an abortion. And either way,
Speaker 1: the existence of something like that is fucked up. And also,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is look at the advertising
Speaker 1: strategy of them, and like, like the billboards, Miles, you're
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that they're like putting ads just
Speaker 1: like blasting ads across podcast networks to be like hey guys,
Speaker 1: we're here to to help. Um. You can go to
Speaker 1: www dot expose fake clinics dot com uh, to kind
Speaker 1: of learn more about about this practice. But it's also
Speaker 1: taxpayer funded, so yeah, cold t but also you know,
Speaker 1: funded by you your money, so um. All right. This
Speaker 1: is an article from Wired that I really liked. It's
Speaker 1: written by a guy named Cal Newport uh who just
Speaker 1: released a book called A World Without Email, and he
Speaker 1: basically raises this overarching point that tech might not be
Speaker 1: might just be making us busier and not actually making
Speaker 1: us more productive. Right, No, I mean it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: who the thought for all the times we're like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: because look we all see ship and we see a
Speaker 1: technological advancement, go oh wow, that makes that thing so
Speaker 1: much easier. Actually, thank you technology. Um. And he just
Speaker 1: kind of raising this point. It's like we have to
Speaker 1: kind of stop defaulting to being like, all tech makes
Speaker 1: working so much easier and collaborating easier and therefore will
Speaker 1: be more productive when the data does not support that
Speaker 1: at all. He's talking about when the PC came out
Speaker 1: and began being worked or introduced into workplaces, people were like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this thing is great and it's making everything easier. But
Speaker 1: a lot of when they really started crunching the numbers
Speaker 1: as to what was happening, um like in these like
Speaker 1: major corporations with the introduction of computers. They were like, nah,
Speaker 1: there's there's this kind of a disconnect between like what's
Speaker 1: easy and like what's effective. It seems to actually like
Speaker 1: it sort of rearranges people's time in a way that
Speaker 1: causes more issues. Like so, for example, they did a
Speaker 1: study like back in the late eighties and nineties about
Speaker 1: these five major corporations that were replacing their typing pools,
Speaker 1: like where people were the typest to get you your
Speaker 1: documents and ship with word processors, where people could like
Speaker 1: type on computers and get that ship quote unquote a
Speaker 1: lot easier or quicker. But they found that the typing pool,
Speaker 1: all their work fell to the people whose work they
Speaker 1: were supporting as a typing pool, and then created a
Speaker 1: need for now more expensive, higher paid managers to keep
Speaker 1: the newly minted typists to keep churning out the work.
Speaker 1: So it really increased staffing costs by with not even
Speaker 1: this not a proportionate increase in output or productivity. So
Speaker 1: now the focus is being put on this for so
Speaker 1: for this writer talking about you know, slacking email is
Speaker 1: kind of like this whole new thing where you know,
Speaker 1: this is a quote from him says in two thousand five,
Speaker 1: just based on numerous studies found in two thousand five,
Speaker 1: we were sending and receiving fifty emails a day. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, it jumps to sixty nine. By
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven it was ninety. Today we send and
Speaker 1: receive an estimated one hundred twenty six messages, checking our
Speaker 1: inboxes once every six minutes on average. So we're basically
Speaker 1: spending more time just talking about work and not having
Speaker 1: like the uninterrupted hours to do the work. Um, so
Speaker 1: that's why they're like, what, we actually need to have
Speaker 1: a reckoning here because like gmails now, even finishing our
Speaker 1: sentences which seems convenient, but like, is that actually gonna
Speaker 1: make me more efficient? And we'll just give you allow
Speaker 1: you to get to the next email quicker. Right. You're
Speaker 1: you know, constantly distracted. And I think the answer to
Speaker 1: this problem isn't easy. Even as the author of the
Speaker 1: opinion pieces, it's not going to be easy. But we
Speaker 1: have to actually begin to slow down and begin to
Speaker 1: solve this issue because it's it's like this weird, this
Speaker 1: that's the productivity paradox as it's called like we don't
Speaker 1: know how much is actually helping and points to like
Speaker 1: other industries where they have more of like a project
Speaker 1: like project management protocols where teams spend less time talking
Speaker 1: what they're doing, and it's like checkboxes and being like,
Speaker 1: these are my tasks I have to get done. Tic
Speaker 1: tic tic tic tic, I'm done. I can check in
Speaker 1: when I'm done with my tasks, versus like, hey, where's
Speaker 1: that test? You know, there's just checking in on this
Speaker 1: task and leave people to their own devices to just
Speaker 1: start work uninterrupted. But that only works for specific industries.
Speaker 1: And I think it's this I think opinion piece raises
Speaker 1: like the larger question of how are we going to
Speaker 1: uh ourselves try and solve this problem by taking a
Speaker 1: moment to look at these inefficiencies. Yeah, giving us busy
Speaker 1: work that we can do efficiently while not making our
Speaker 1: overall productivity any higher, and also not giving us like
Speaker 1: any way of any time to think about whether like
Speaker 1: the overall like philosophical and ethical implications of the work
Speaker 1: we're doing. Like that's that's feels like a huge chunk
Speaker 1: of what we're dealing with, Like in a world where
Speaker 1: the problem is that we keep observing the same social
Speaker 1: injustices over and over and over and nobody's ever doing
Speaker 1: anything about them. Like that that feels uh, super relevant,
Speaker 1: that we're that weird and like just that I feel
Speaker 1: like this expands to social media too, right, Well, I
Speaker 1: mean the way you talk about too, it's just sort
Speaker 1: of like what the pandemic offered people societally, societally for
Speaker 1: a moment where ships slowed down very quickly, and now
Speaker 1: we had in one year increased class consciousness, increased consciousness
Speaker 1: around white supremacy and things like that that I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I don't think those things are unrelated,
Speaker 1: like because we had the time to think, to see,
Speaker 1: to process versus like I gotta get I gotta I
Speaker 1: know that should happen, Oh, another unarmed person got killed,
Speaker 1: but I gotta send these emails. Oh my boss hitting
Speaker 1: me up on slack. I gotta get, Like, Yeah, where
Speaker 1: do you find the time to say? Wow? How do
Speaker 1: I solve? Like I'm seeing people who are hungry in
Speaker 1: my neighborhood? Like what am I? How? What what's going on?
Speaker 1: How do how do we are there things I can
Speaker 1: put my energy towards on the flip side of that though.
Speaker 1: That's probably how Q and Non started too. You know,
Speaker 1: people have this like gap they needed to fill, you know,
Speaker 1: and like like you know, soccer moms at home clicking
Speaker 1: around on the internet looking for something to kind of
Speaker 1: validate their feelings, you know, and then that's when they
Speaker 1: go startling down these like internet rabbit holes. And I
Speaker 1: think that's how that picked up so much steam and
Speaker 1: got mainstream so quickly. So I do think there's like
Speaker 1: a dark side to it as well. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think anything is absolutely good or bad, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think but overall, uh, I think we're we would greatly benefit,
Speaker 1: at least in the context of I mean ship. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad people woke the funk up even slightly, but
Speaker 1: what cost The other thing, though, with our workplaces now
Speaker 1: is how are we like we have to like kind
Speaker 1: of think about what this whole way of work, like,
Speaker 1: what our whole mode of working is and is it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to do this thing of like everyone
Speaker 1: is interconnected at the exact same time, and we can
Speaker 1: start firing off messages to each other without overloading our
Speaker 1: own circuits and capacity to just do like focused you
Speaker 1: know work whatever our jobs are, or even like all
Speaker 1: these like unnecessary zoom meetings about other meetings, and like
Speaker 1: you said, it's all just meta think kind of about
Speaker 1: talking about working instead of actually doing something. You have
Speaker 1: to like talk about it first and then kind of agree,
Speaker 1: and you could have just done all that in the
Speaker 1: first place, or had to be like one email instead
Speaker 1: of a our you know, waste of time zoom call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they talk about even just like how certain activities
Speaker 1: in the beginning with like a computer were more efficient.
Speaker 1: Book just it creates more work, right, So like if
Speaker 1: you if you're like there was a you're running a business.
Speaker 1: Instead of having an accountant update your ledgers that were
Speaker 1: on paper, a business owners like, well, I got quick books,
Speaker 1: Now I got a spreadsheet. Now I can do this,
Speaker 1: and I can do it maybe just a little bit
Speaker 1: worse than my account right exactly, which is fine, I
Speaker 1: get it. It might be easier than this paper book
Speaker 1: that you have to like work through. But over like
Speaker 1: to saying, but practically business owners now just have less
Speaker 1: time to do the other things that might be more
Speaker 1: important because they're like, well, since it's easier, I can
Speaker 1: take this on. And what we're doing is we'll be like, well,
Speaker 1: that's easier. I can take that on. I can take
Speaker 1: it on, and then we're really we're becoming more and
Speaker 1: more unbalanced. Yeah, I think that's part of an overall
Speaker 1: issue that like will be continuously documenting of just overall
Speaker 1: like kind of broad but invisible social issues that are
Speaker 1: giving us a lot of the issues that we're having
Speaker 1: right now. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, and we're back and real quick update.
Speaker 1: Trump's secret inauguration is this week. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you booked your room at the Trump Hotel and DC yet,
Speaker 1: but yeah, if you, if you haven't been paying attention
Speaker 1: to the Q and on the World, o Q and
Speaker 1: on Q actually hasn't posted since December. But there are
Speaker 1: theories being propagated by the Sovereign Citizens UH, a loose
Speaker 1: movement of anti government extremists who believe they are immune
Speaker 1: from the law. There are some really fun videos of
Speaker 1: these people who are just getting called the fun Around
Speaker 1: and find Out clips on YouTube where you get to
Speaker 1: see them funk around and find out in one very
Speaker 1: satisfying clip. They're also started with like a nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: super anti Semitic theory based around posse comitatas and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all it all goes back to, you know. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: But so they believe March four is going to be
Speaker 1: Trump's the real election because uh three was the year
Speaker 1: when inaugurations were changed from March fourth to January. UM.
Speaker 1: And in case you don't recognize, nine thirty three is importance,
Speaker 1: that was the year the f DR sold the U
Speaker 1: S citizens uh to foreign interests. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you knew that, but that happened. Uh so Trump
Speaker 1: there The big piece of evidence they're pointing to that
Speaker 1: proves this is true is that Trump's d C hotel
Speaker 1: jacked up its rates by one eight percent for March fourth.
Speaker 1: Usually the least expensive room at Trump International is four
Speaker 1: dred and seventy six dollars, but now it comes at
Speaker 1: five per night on that night. By the way, just
Speaker 1: a fun little effect, the least expensive room at Trump International,
Speaker 1: uh comes with a king sized bed with a opulent
Speaker 1: headboard topped with a gilded crown. UM so cool, just
Speaker 1: to set the scene. But yeah, the reservations team from
Speaker 1: the hotel, I think Snopes did some reporting on this, uh,
Speaker 1: and the reservations team was like, it could just be
Speaker 1: because so many people are trying to book a room
Speaker 1: that night because they believe this bullshit theory. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's just demand what are they gonna do the qing
Speaker 1: On community. I mean, like you can only kick the
Speaker 1: can down the road so much before there's no can
Speaker 1: or road to even do this with anymore, like the
Speaker 1: moving of the goal posts. And I see this a lot,
Speaker 1: like especially in the fallout of the fallout of like
Speaker 1: the reality check of the inauguration that a lot of
Speaker 1: people had of like trying to figure out what they
Speaker 1: start saying now, like do we keep saying that we
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen? Do we not? Are we
Speaker 1: sure about this March fourth thing? Like especially for the
Speaker 1: people who are peddling this bullshit, because clearly they're worried
Speaker 1: too about like well I can't like I can't funk
Speaker 1: up my my trustworthiness as a que and misinformation peddler
Speaker 1: that Like it's also there's divides within Q and On
Speaker 1: to be like, well, I don't some people think it's
Speaker 1: March fourth. I don't know, right, Yeah, Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: like an internal schism between people who at first said
Speaker 1: March fourth, it was going down, but then started backpedaling
Speaker 1: when they realized that literally nothing that they've been predicting
Speaker 1: has actually happened, and so they uh you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's now a pattern among the smart que people to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, this is going down, it's March fourth,
Speaker 1: and then like right before that, be like, actually we
Speaker 1: just got new intelligence, and uh we're gonna push that
Speaker 1: off to March. I think actually I meant March and
Speaker 1: then March forty five, and really that is April fourteen, Like, um,
Speaker 1: actually that's what is MA tax day? April five teen.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, y'all essentially makes so much sense. Uh
Speaker 1: you should do this for a living. Um, but other
Speaker 1: better conspiracy theories and the motherfuckers take years. But they
Speaker 1: think that, like they're also the people who are like,
Speaker 1: we need to take things into our own hands and
Speaker 1: make this happen on March four. So uh there they
Speaker 1: have uh left I think five thousand National Guard troops
Speaker 1: in d C just to because there is so much
Speaker 1: chatter around this, I mean there's always like like what
Speaker 1: does that look like? If this thing happens the way
Speaker 1: they're hoping, they just like wheel him into town on
Speaker 1: like a golden chariot and like found him or something like.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like some fucking Ghostbusters ship it sounds
Speaker 1: like or something. It's really really sinister brothers, Like what
Speaker 1: the like they? I mean though, it really is fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's that like it's like you would write it in
Speaker 1: your own way. Joe Biden, uh and Comma will be
Speaker 1: in cuffs and they have to walk by the President
Speaker 1: Trump as he salutes them flippantly and we're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: And then he's it's like, what the I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I guess that's how invested these people
Speaker 1: are in there, Like fantasy World, Yeah, that's their avatar,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like going back to Pandemic
Speaker 1: and Pandora Baby, Oh my god, it's exhausting, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder what that overlap is from the Pandora support
Speaker 1: group people and like January six and insurrectionists. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're definitely providing the same service to people right there.
Speaker 1: Remember then, remember that time there is research that's suggesting
Speaker 1: that like most queuing on people like don't actually believe
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's like more of a like half hearted
Speaker 1: they read about it because it's like a fun story
Speaker 1: for them to believe in, but it's like they're not
Speaker 1: actually going to do anything with their chest out. So
Speaker 1: those are probably the April people. Yeah, but I mean
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like even when they
Speaker 1: do like those poles and it's like only seven percent
Speaker 1: of Americans and you're like, that's millions, Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah. Let's talk about sneaker resellers. This gentleman,
Speaker 1: uh who goes by the name of what is the
Speaker 1: West Coast Streetwear on Instagram? I think, oh, give him,
Speaker 1: don't make him sound cool. I think he's very cool, Miles.
Speaker 1: He's a piece of shit reseller. Just the built in
Speaker 1: hostility for this guy. Uh. Okay, let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: as a fucking lifelong sneaker head, as all sneaker has
Speaker 1: no now, the refrain is the game is all fucked
Speaker 1: up now. Yes, it used to be people fucked with
Speaker 1: sneaker because they wanted them, some to collect, but mostly
Speaker 1: to wear because that was our way of expressing or
Speaker 1: something like yo, I got these fresh kicks on or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's just that's there are personal thing um. And then
Speaker 1: resellers completely fucked the game up. Where these people try
Speaker 1: and buy a large amounts of product to take away
Speaker 1: from people who want to wear them personally, and then
Speaker 1: they resell them on your ebays or your stock x
Speaker 1: or consignment stores for massive profits. Because sneaker culture has
Speaker 1: become much more popular that now coveted pairs of shoes
Speaker 1: are going for thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars,
Speaker 1: sort of like the ticket scalpers using bots and all
Speaker 1: of that, I mean similar and no different bots are
Speaker 1: being used for sneakers, and like sneaker drops where suddenly
Speaker 1: it used to be like you could line up outside
Speaker 1: of a foot locker and if you were there in
Speaker 1: the morning when they opened up, you could get the
Speaker 1: shoe you on it because you were there because you
Speaker 1: bothered to get up, or you were online you bothered
Speaker 1: to refresh the foot locker or Nike website and then
Speaker 1: you get click and then you were like, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I got my ship. But now ship it's like fucking
Speaker 1: locals devouring ship. Like the second you try and load
Speaker 1: the page like sold out and you're like, how in
Speaker 1: the fund did this happen? Well? I uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was just uh if nothing else an interesting look
Speaker 1: at like, how what you're describing happens for somebody who's
Speaker 1: like I, only you know, I'll try and get get
Speaker 1: the shoes when they dropped every once in a while,
Speaker 1: almost never am successful. Uh And eventually, like you know,
Speaker 1: spend too much money on the shoes on stock X
Speaker 1: or got um the reason for that? Uh? He So
Speaker 1: the this is just like a a look at his
Speaker 1: day on a day that there's a big shoeedrop. Uh.
Speaker 1: The day of these easies were released, he'd woken at
Speaker 1: three am, signed onto the messaging platform discord um, gotten
Speaker 1: fifteen members of a cook group, a term sneaker resellers
Speaker 1: used to describe like basically people who work for them.
Speaker 1: Uh to they all just like get together, use a
Speaker 1: use code and buy up all the shoes um, which
Speaker 1: are supposed to only go to one customer. Uh. By
Speaker 1: six am, the shoes were sold out and his bots
Speaker 1: had rung up one and thirty two thousand dollars on
Speaker 1: his m X, And then, in almost as a little
Speaker 1: time as it had taken him to buy them, he
Speaker 1: had sold them for a twenty dollar profit. Um. So, wait,
Speaker 1: where do you get on? Uh? So, how does a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old young man have so much capital. So uh,
Speaker 1: the reason this is making news yesterday is that this
Speaker 1: young man's mother, uh turns out and this the article
Speaker 1: actually mentions, this is the head of North American operations
Speaker 1: for a small uh you wear a company called Nike Shoes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I heard it was also on his mother's corporate AMMX
Speaker 1: that he was using to buy up shoes. And also
Speaker 1: I heard that he was using his mother's discount to
Speaker 1: procure even more pairs from certain outlets. Allegedly he denied.
Speaker 1: So she resigns, Yeah, she resigned. I'm genuinely not sure
Speaker 1: if she's leaving out a shame or because she's going
Speaker 1: to go run his business with him, because she sees
Speaker 1: a market. Because the way they talk about this is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, this is I mean, this is the thing
Speaker 1: that is I opening about this article is that they're like,
Speaker 1: this is just what stock traders do every day, Like
Speaker 1: what this dude does they And that's always been my
Speaker 1: suspicion is that like the stock market is all about
Speaker 1: just finding these little inefficiencies, making people pay, just gaming
Speaker 1: a vast system to try and eke out like find
Speaker 1: a market, make money off that market, and not provide
Speaker 1: literally any value to anyone, not to mention if you
Speaker 1: have access to one of those like Bloomberg terminals or whatever,
Speaker 1: which costs like a hundred thousand dollars a year or
Speaker 1: something insane that access to, or if you have this
Speaker 1: kind of insider information on you know, the sneaker situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense, and we're obviously moving towards this,
Speaker 1: like everything is a commodity, you know, society, like with
Speaker 1: things like you know, bitcoin and cryptocurrency that literally represent
Speaker 1: nothing but are just bought and sold and traded and
Speaker 1: using all this energy. And so I'm sorry put on
Speaker 1: a soapbox, but it's just it's all kind of part
Speaker 1: and parcel of the same conundrum, right. Yeah. The big
Speaker 1: issues for me too are like one, as a sneaker head,
Speaker 1: specifically his mother's purview. In his there's purview was running
Speaker 1: the sneakers app, which anyone who tries to buy hype
Speaker 1: sneakers nose Nike only has one way to get this.
Speaker 1: You go on this app, you join a que or
Speaker 1: a lottery system, and you pray to the consumer gods
Speaker 1: that you will get a hype sneak. Most of the
Speaker 1: time you don't. It's like a meme in the senior community.
Speaker 1: It's like Yep, took an L, taking taking another L
Speaker 1: this Saturday morning or whatever, and then to know that
Speaker 1: this guy's mother is running. I mean like there's there's
Speaker 1: so many more questions I have because it's like it's
Speaker 1: almost like like so like someone at Nike was back
Speaker 1: during their own product out of sneakers to the resell
Speaker 1: market just to get so is this different and maybe
Speaker 1: less like going to you there are more rather than
Speaker 1: like some of those boutique shops like on Melrows that
Speaker 1: have like the sneakers in plastic, like maybe like last year's.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the same thing. They're just doing it's
Speaker 1: on consignment to like they're not selling it for the
Speaker 1: retail price. If you're not selling ship for the retail price,
Speaker 1: I'm angry, uh And I get it, but that sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to go to these secondary markets to get
Speaker 1: the shoes or whatever. All that to say, a very
Speaker 1: small problem, a very small minor problem overall for most people.
Speaker 1: But like when you also look at the amounts of
Speaker 1: money that's being it's just like it's it's again, it's
Speaker 1: just a it's just a mirror reflection of America, but
Speaker 1: we're just seeing it play out in this very specific way.
Speaker 1: I mean the whole, the whole. So capitalism we we
Speaker 1: keep talking about is a system that is designed to
Speaker 1: preserve capital and like help people with capital maintain their capital.
Speaker 1: That's not but like this this is illustrates sort of
Speaker 1: something that we're seeing with like like you said, no,
Speaker 1: the bitcoin, the top shot, like the digital trading cards.
Speaker 1: It's like value is being completely decoupled from and like
Speaker 1: they're not they're not providing any value. They're just like it, shoes,
Speaker 1: I guess are more than any of those other things.
Speaker 1: But it's it's just finding inefficiencies, squeezing money out of
Speaker 1: other people, you know, preying on people who are less
Speaker 1: advantaged than you. And it's just like the whole, the
Speaker 1: whole argument for a market economy is like that it
Speaker 1: uses yet value and like demand and supply to like
Speaker 1: allocate things intelligently, and we've just completely lost track. Like
Speaker 1: that's that's gone and never coming back. So like I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that argument. Like when when people
Speaker 1: are trying to argue that like socialism is bad, it's this,
Speaker 1: this is not better than anything you can get healthcare.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, how much can we get away with
Speaker 1: charging people to ship? Like, well ship, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: pay it, why are we gonna pay? Why are we
Speaker 1: gonna do it for less? Not to say that sneakers
Speaker 1: are the same as like life saving insulin or something
Speaker 1: like that, but it's there, like with this resell market
Speaker 1: is like, well, how thirsty are you for this thing?
Speaker 1: Because that's how much it costs. It's not what it's worth.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pray on how desperate you are to
Speaker 1: even because danials in the chat right now, Yes, on
Speaker 1: stock X there are PS five's, there are video cards
Speaker 1: their ship that is not even sneakers that people are
Speaker 1: like and yeah, you're just being like, okay, well how
Speaker 1: bad is your fomo poppy? I think it's interesting bring
Speaker 1: up with healthcare firms. I mean, it really is just
Speaker 1: about like a lack of empathy there's there in this system.
Speaker 1: There's just no thinking of individuals. It's just like, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is all. It almost sounds cliche to say allow,
Speaker 1: but it's like just profits over everything and you don't
Speaker 1: think about human beings, and like you know, in socialist
Speaker 1: countries or places, where they have socialized healthcare they do,
Speaker 1: or they you know, subsidize artists and people that are
Speaker 1: choosing to live their lives in this way where they're
Speaker 1: providing this amazing thing for other people to enjoy that's
Speaker 1: considered valuable, you know. And they're people are there people
Speaker 1: are no better than our people. They they're people are
Speaker 1: not uh, you know, don't have more empathy. It's just
Speaker 1: a system. They have a system that takes that empathy
Speaker 1: and that like fundamental understanding that we will not allow
Speaker 1: somebody to die because they don't have enough money. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they take that as a baseline, like that is
Speaker 1: what the entire system is built on. Uh. And we
Speaker 1: have a system where that is drilled out of it
Speaker 1: by billions of dollars of marketing and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: things that are designed to distract us from from our empathy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on site for this reseller. I'm telling you that
Speaker 1: the sneaker community hates this little fucking guy. Is this
Speaker 1: is the other thing. He he would post these images
Speaker 1: of like hundreds of boxes of like Yeezy's or Jordan's,
Speaker 1: and the people post that people flex like this on
Speaker 1: Instagram all the time. These resellers, and you're like, how
Speaker 1: the fund does this person have this many pairs of shoes,
Speaker 1: Like it's impossible, Like you don't know enough people that
Speaker 1: are have enough addresses, And when you start seeing these stories,
Speaker 1: you're like, of course it's someone who's fucking hooked up
Speaker 1: at this level. Um. But yeah, he was not like
Speaker 1: admitting to the author of this article like who his
Speaker 1: mom was. But uh, at the beginning of the article,
Speaker 1: when he was still collaborating with them, he was like,
Speaker 1: if you know the right people here, this is the
Speaker 1: city to sell shoes. He lives in Portland. Mom is
Speaker 1: the head of Nike. Um. Nor the right people can
Speaker 1: give you access to stuff like that or to stuff
Speaker 1: that like a normal person would not have access to. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's amazing that he was shrewd enough to be born
Speaker 1: to the head of Nike North America. What a brilliant businessman. Hey,
Speaker 1: but you know what how American? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Using your parents connects to start fucking making your own
Speaker 1: nepotism one and then not even being like ashamed of it,
Speaker 1: almost using that as another like sub flex within the
Speaker 1: like stacks of sneakers. Is yeah, I got it, and
Speaker 1: you don't. I mean, that's the takeaway. When the reporter
Speaker 1: was like, so we know that your mom is the
Speaker 1: head of nig North America. He was like, you can't
Speaker 1: mention that in the article. And they were like, of
Speaker 1: course we're going to mention that. And so he then
Speaker 1: stopped cooperating with the with the article. And the thing
Speaker 1: is that's not going to hurt his recall business. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: people are gonna still buy. You know, people were still
Speaker 1: the hypoc because now it's global and it's not just
Speaker 1: Americans that are paying out, like it's all over the place.
Speaker 1: And yeah, let's let's talk about something hopeful real quick.
Speaker 1: Uh New York City streets two points a a vision
Speaker 1: uh that that has been put out there. Uh So
Speaker 1: New York City has been through a lot of changes
Speaker 1: since the pandemic, and we've talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: how why why change back? If you know they converted
Speaker 1: miles and miles of road uh to you know, just
Speaker 1: uh pedestrian and you know parking or not parking, uh,
Speaker 1: dining areas and just like basically open, open source communal
Speaker 1: space and that somebody has kind of put together a
Speaker 1: plan where you would take one in every four of
Speaker 1: the city's nineteen thousand miles of driving lanes and three
Speaker 1: million free on street parking spaces and open just you know, thousands,
Speaker 1: a thousand miles of pedestrian streets um mile. As you
Speaker 1: put this together, yeah, well it's just a good it's
Speaker 1: a great I mean, it's funny. Now, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who um, like especially in New York politics,
Speaker 1: who are bringing this up as an issue for the city,
Speaker 1: Like the there's local people who were for the municipality
Speaker 1: wore like we should really think about making this permanent.
Speaker 1: There are people who are running for a mayor who
Speaker 1: are like making this part of their platform about taking
Speaker 1: the streets and like being like it wasn't this great
Speaker 1: how we had like from being in our apartments. We said, hey,
Speaker 1: you can kind of walk outside and stretch your ship
Speaker 1: out and do what you gotta do in the public space.
Speaker 1: So this group called Transportational Alternatives is saying, okay, of
Speaker 1: the streets, if we modify it for pedestrians, what can
Speaker 1: we do. So yeah, Jack, you're saying, a thousand miles
Speaker 1: of pedestrians streets is the first thing you would create.
Speaker 1: Then it could open one car free block for play
Speaker 1: outdoor learning, and pick up and drop off outside of
Speaker 1: each of the city's sevent d public schools. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: I like that put every resident within a five minute
Speaker 1: walk of five hundred miles of bus lanes and forty
Speaker 1: miles of bus ways, and within a quarter mile of
Speaker 1: five miles of like real bike lanes, like protected from
Speaker 1: cars bike lanes, like legit bike lanes, which is because
Speaker 1: people were bikes. It's not necessarily a case in New
Speaker 1: York City's current bike lanes. You're you're basically out there,
Speaker 1: uh dodging and like bumping up again, like trying to
Speaker 1: box out a taxi while you're riding and praying a
Speaker 1: door doesn't fly open in the middle of you know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get to where you gotta go. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, it would put it just does all these things.
Speaker 1: It would They could potentially plant fifteen thousand new trees,
Speaker 1: the equivalent of adding almost an entire central park to
Speaker 1: the city's canopy uh thirty eight million square feet for
Speaker 1: neighborhoods to allocate for whatever they want. You want to
Speaker 1: build a little uh five, like a little a soccer
Speaker 1: court for some street footsall cool, you want to build
Speaker 1: a basketball, handball court, whatever, the garden whatever. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then also it established hubs for street vendors, benches, trees,
Speaker 1: public bathrooms, bike charging outside of every one of the
Speaker 1: subway stations. Like there's when you think of like all
Speaker 1: these things that it happened, it makes you really realize
Speaker 1: that the like how much we can actually use these
Speaker 1: kinds of public spaces because right now it's like I know,
Speaker 1: I have my house, I walk to and from on
Speaker 1: this sidewalk, and then I go to my destination and
Speaker 1: everything in between just kind of like something I passed
Speaker 1: through versus something that will add to my sense of community,
Speaker 1: because that's ultimately what the one of the higher benefits
Speaker 1: of something like this. Yeah, I want to start highlighting
Speaker 1: more ideas like this that are like like we should
Speaker 1: not settle for anything less than this, Like we should
Speaker 1: not settle for In Los Angeles, the same thing is
Speaker 1: uh happens with like uh, like the one percent has
Speaker 1: all these country clubs that are the best park space
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles that you have to pay two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year to access. Um like it's and
Speaker 1: on our taxes are funding and our taxes funded uh,
Speaker 1: it's bonkers. And it's just like there are these things
Speaker 1: that we just take as like well that's given, because
Speaker 1: that like our if you just view them with fresh eyes,
Speaker 1: make literally no sense. They should not exist and we
Speaker 1: need to, you know, just realize that we can change
Speaker 1: these things. We like the vast majority of people would
Speaker 1: benefit from changing these things. And yeah, there's uh so
Speaker 1: this is an overall movement in New York City. If
Speaker 1: you live in New York City, Uh, get on it,
Speaker 1: like find a way to contribute. Uh and l A,
Speaker 1: let's let's do something about these fucking country clubs. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm so pissed about the country club. I remember, like
Speaker 1: I had a friend who like, whose backyard would look
Speaker 1: you could like look into a country club and You're
Speaker 1: like it was the first time I had seen a
Speaker 1: country club. You know what the fun is that you
Speaker 1: gotta park And they're like, oh no, that's the Wilshire
Speaker 1: country Club. This is somebody who's on my hockey team
Speaker 1: who's family was doing very well and we had a
Speaker 1: team party there and I'm like they're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys can go on the golf course to play
Speaker 1: bacchi And I'm like what the funk are y'all talking about?
Speaker 1: And I look in their back like I just thought
Speaker 1: it was someone else's yard. And then we hopped the
Speaker 1: fence and I'm like, it's this whole fucking golf course
Speaker 1: in this part of town. I didn't know as a
Speaker 1: kid was here. And You're like, this place looks fucking magical.
Speaker 1: Yet again, we're limiting the access to people who, you know,
Speaker 1: I really don't need it and don't deserve it, cutting
Speaker 1: off our outdoor spaces to like children, anybody you can fund,
Speaker 1: go work all your devil sticks. The rich guys can
Speaker 1: go there and like network and that. That's literally you
Speaker 1: think they're spending two hundred thousand dollars a year because
Speaker 1: they love golf. They're doing it because they know it's
Speaker 1: a good investment to you know, make more money. And
Speaker 1: it's like a yet another it's a literal like castle
Speaker 1: wall being put up by the one percent, uh to
Speaker 1: allow them to do business where nobody else can access them.
Speaker 1: So fuck country clubs and uh fuck New York City
Speaker 1: streets until they are all parks or least the vast
Speaker 1: majority turn New York into I am legend just mannequin
Speaker 1: parties in every intersection. Yes, thank you. Uh no, it's
Speaker 1: been a pleasure having always Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1: Where can people uh find you and follow you? Sure
Speaker 1: you can find me. I'm pretty much just on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm at how Now Noel Brown or you can listen
Speaker 1: to me on one or all of three podcasts, and
Speaker 1: I'm on Corporeally uh stuffing they Don't want you to Know,
Speaker 1: with Ben Bolan, who's also a recurring guest on Daily
Speaker 1: Zeitgeys Folks with no and Matt Frederick another amazing I
Speaker 1: heart executive producer and uh in podcast Hose. And then
Speaker 1: I'm on a show called Movie Crush with Chuck Bryant
Speaker 1: from Stuff You Should Know Are We just kind of
Speaker 1: talk about movies once a week. And then I'm also
Speaker 1: on Ridiculous History with Ben Bolan again, who is like
Speaker 1: my official work wife. So yeah, all of those are
Speaker 1: everywhere you get podcasts. Uh And is there a tweet
Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying. Well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say enjoying, but I think it's a really
Speaker 1: good point. Celeste ng, who wrote Little Fires Everywhere, did
Speaker 1: a really nice hot take based on some things I
Speaker 1: think that. Trump Junior said at Sepack, it's weird how
Speaker 1: it's cancelation and quotes when an artist's own trust wants
Speaker 1: to remove racist work, it's no longer proud of. And
Speaker 1: that was in response to, you know, Trump saying the
Speaker 1: Muppets are canceled, but it's literally just Disney putting a
Speaker 1: little you know, historical disclaimers saying we're aware that some
Speaker 1: of these jokes might not have aged well over time,
Speaker 1: or like say the fact that, like you can't get
Speaker 1: Song of the South on Disney Plus right. Uh, Miles,
Speaker 1: where can people find you with tweet you've been enjoying?
Speaker 1: Find me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also
Speaker 1: the other podcast for Twenty Day Fiance where Sophia and
Speaker 1: I are currently on a campaign, or try and get
Speaker 1: Seth Throgan to come on the podcast ever since he
Speaker 1: interacted with one of Sophia's tweets, So support us as
Speaker 1: we endeavor for the Canadian stoner to grace his presence
Speaker 1: on that podcast. You know, he's also but he's a potter.
Speaker 1: He's really into pottery and making pottery. He throws, he
Speaker 1: throws them, you know what I mean? Um, a couple
Speaker 1: of tweets. I like one. It's from uh Katherine Spears,
Speaker 1: former guest, Great Great Food writer. She tweeted, I once
Speaker 1: dated a guy who had been dumped for Will Forte,
Speaker 1: and he got really angry that I didn't think Will
Speaker 1: Forte was the hottest guy on U s no um.
Speaker 1: Another one is from Lindsay Gibbs at Lynn's Sports l
Speaker 1: I n Z s p O RTS, tweeting, stop glamorizing,
Speaker 1: quote the grind and start glamorizing. Getting seven plus hours
Speaker 1: of sleep at night, having healthy relationships, feeling safe at work,
Speaker 1: taking sick days, being paid a living wage, working hard
Speaker 1: when you're at work, UH, boundaries, and self caring your
Speaker 1: way to success one hundred percent. These are words that
Speaker 1: we do not use enough when talking about navigating our
Speaker 1: live work lives. So yeah, sleep, healthy boundaries, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Self care like not torturing yourself then
Speaker 1: telling yourself it's gonna be okay. Don't listen that voice
Speaker 1: in my head that's been riding with me since birth,
Speaker 1: that's kind of been fucking with me. Um. And then
Speaker 1: also Reductress at Reductors tweets quiz did your souls meet
Speaker 1: in a past life? Or did you match on Hinge
Speaker 1: five years ago? Oh? Man? Yeah, the world is like
Speaker 1: a half memory now. It's like, I know, I fucking
Speaker 1: recognized that Hinge five years ago. How you doing? I'm married? Uh?
Speaker 1: Tweet I enjoyed. Michelle King tweeted all negative book reviews
Speaker 1: should end with quote. Despite all this, it's pretty impressive
Speaker 1: that this person wrote a book. Uh, and I agree.
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