Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one seventy five,
Speaker 1: Episode five of The Daily The Thrilling Season finale. This
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Speaker 1: podcast where we take a deep dive innue America's share consciousness.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, March twelve. My name is Jack O'Brien
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Speaker 1: Greg and I am thrilled to be joined as always
Speaker 1: by my host, Mr Miles Gray. Well I'm Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: That's Jackobie. Can I make it anymore obvious? I smoke
Speaker 1: the blunts and sell you bid days? What more can
Speaker 1: I say? Okay? So that is uh skater boy Avril
Speaker 1: Canadian just legends straight to my heart from the Brew. Okay,
Speaker 1: not the brow we've cleared that up on Discord. It
Speaker 1: is Pounce, not the Bro. Yeah alright, I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: use it like like bro shout out Brew and also
Speaker 1: shout out my boys, Chris. I'm Mike. De's your birthdays?
Speaker 1: You old washed people? So ha ha? Who are these older?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Mike, yeah that one. Well. We are thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious
Speaker 1: The Town to Dahlia Miles. Hello, thank you. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I don't have a theme song. I didn't compare. What's
Speaker 1: your favorite karaoke song? I've never done karaoke because I
Speaker 1: hate it. I'm sorry? Are you? Are you even like
Speaker 1: a private singer, like in your room, the shower, however
Speaker 1: you find the venue to sing. I'll sing in the
Speaker 1: car or sometimes if someone's having a problem, all like
Speaker 1: sing their problems to them, like I'm an annoying person,
Speaker 1: but I don't like I don't sing well problems like
Speaker 1: something ship is dissolving exactly because there's no trust and
Speaker 1: you're like, doesn't it feel better now? Is that something
Speaker 1: they're requesting? Like is that a nervous offer? That's just
Speaker 1: like just sing it back to them. That's your form
Speaker 1: of emotion therapy. Yeah, I like that. What's the song? Okay,
Speaker 1: but what's the song you do sing? We don't have
Speaker 1: to karaoke, but we all have. We have, we have
Speaker 1: ones that we belt out the belters. What's your belter?
Speaker 1: I used to like to practice darling. You know that
Speaker 1: song by Creed Can you take Me? That's a favorite?
Speaker 1: That was beautiful. Um. Yeah, where are you coming to me? Daly?
Speaker 1: Here we go, there we go, We got it. I'm
Speaker 1: here in southern California, sunny southern California, which is rainy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a very ominous cloud above my home
Speaker 1: at this moment, just one. It's like white noise. It's
Speaker 1: a chemical cloud. There was a train accident. Um the
Speaker 1: temperature today, and I'm gonna be that annoying l a
Speaker 1: person that complains about it being between forty five and
Speaker 1: fifty five, which is that those are the highs and
Speaker 1: lows where I live. Terrifying. That's not what I signed
Speaker 1: up for, asshole, asshole being southern California or Earth. I mean, god,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna break fifty That's not what we pay
Speaker 1: California attacks for. That's exactly, and it's also, but I will.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. This just gives me the reason where nine hoodies.
Speaker 1: That was yes, I just remember, you can do this.
Speaker 1: You can wear a long sleep shirt under a T shirt.
Speaker 1: I forgot this was a thing, and so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm set for like the rest of the season. Spe
Speaker 1: Avril levine accordion sleeves just like adjustable. Also, they don't
Speaker 1: put insulation in the homes out here. So it is cold. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've lived on your East coast. It's still it is
Speaker 1: chilly here. What do you cold? Yeah? Again, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to ask you where you say you
Speaker 1: hail from? But you hail from the north easterly, I've
Speaker 1: lived in Boston. But where did you say? Like your
Speaker 1: blood you know what I mean is forged genetically, all right,
Speaker 1: which yeah, uh huh yeah, I mean yeah, you do
Speaker 1: you and we'll do us over here in l A.
Speaker 1: You know, I've never seen a white person get asked
Speaker 1: where are you from from? Exactly? You know? I want
Speaker 1: to have I want Jack to have the most you know,
Speaker 1: broad experience as a human being. But like where your
Speaker 1: people from? But if I say, like if I just
Speaker 1: give a simple if I'm just like, I'm from Boston. Then,
Speaker 1: like everybody's from Boston, so somebody's inevitably gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I grew up in Braintree like that, and then I
Speaker 1: have to be like, well, I only lived there for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. Get out and Philly, I've never
Speaker 1: lived there, so I can't really what's it to challenge?
Speaker 1: You know, no name or home. All right, Dally, We're
Speaker 1: going to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we are going to tell our
Speaker 1: listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. The
Speaker 1: Derek Chovin Chalvin trial is moving forward. Um, we've got
Speaker 1: some I think five maybe even six people seated on
Speaker 1: the jury as of this recording. Uh. Speaking of police brutality,
Speaker 1: the l A City Council issued a report telling the
Speaker 1: truth about the l a p D. And they got
Speaker 1: it out there before the l A p D could
Speaker 1: issue their two reports, being like, great job, we nailed it,
Speaker 1: uh to but this one is pretty objective and it's
Speaker 1: from former l A p D commanders, So uh, they're
Speaker 1: just like y'all we've been We've talked about this so
Speaker 1: many times. What the funk are you doing. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that. We'll talk about voter suppression, just going
Speaker 1: next level. H. We'll talk about Prince Williams spirited defense, uh,
Speaker 1: his family, his family's racist past. Uh. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Sharon Osborne. We'll talk about when we're getting that check.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Tie Cave Kids movie. Holy shit,
Speaker 1: what that that is? That's sent chills. I've noticed that
Speaker 1: the parasite oscars were parasite cleaned up. That's one of
Speaker 1: those things that anytime you bring it up, people are like, wait,
Speaker 1: that was just last year. That seems like it was
Speaker 1: decades ago. Uh. But this is a new one that
Speaker 1: I'm just like, wait, what the funk that? I'm like
Speaker 1: the right right now? I'm like, am I seeing things correctly? Uh?
Speaker 1: And there's a new article on brain fog in the
Speaker 1: Atlantic that has some things to add to the discussion.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that, all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Dally, we like to ask our guest, what
Speaker 1: is something from your church history that is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are. I actually found out that my Google
Speaker 1: search history is turned off, So I feel like that
Speaker 1: says something about me, Like I'm suspicious, but so I
Speaker 1: manually went to my browser history and found Google, and
Speaker 1: apparently I was asking Google, are there women in the mafia? Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I'm going to have to admit
Speaker 1: I didn't really read the article for curiosity. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the answer is kind of no. And I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if that's just because the mafia is made
Speaker 1: up of patriarchs, or if women are just better at
Speaker 1: getting away with things so they don't get caught right, right,
Speaker 1: Like the wildest gangsters all women. Yeah, but women do
Speaker 1: generally have a lot of representation in organized crime. So
Speaker 1: based on I mean, if if I take the Sopranos
Speaker 1: to be reality, there were female bosses, you know, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. There was one, Yeah, it was, but
Speaker 1: it was very brief and she was merely like an
Speaker 1: object of like toxic masculinity, very briefly, and then they
Speaker 1: moved on and You're like, Okay, So I feel like
Speaker 1: it depends on, right your definition of mafia. But um,
Speaker 1: there's obviously like a bunch of like drug lords who
Speaker 1: are women and liked right the Miami cocaine wards. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but I I do feel like there's something about the
Speaker 1: the patriarchal nature, like you said of of the Italian
Speaker 1: mafia that resists. Um, I mean, what's the what's like
Speaker 1: the what's the truly for like feminist organized crime organization?
Speaker 1: You know, like what do we have? I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting one of like where they're like, hey, the
Speaker 1: boss is talking, creates space for her to speak her piece. Bro,
Speaker 1: you know what where they talk like that or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But I'm curious. We'll have to google it
Speaker 1: one of these days. What is something you think is
Speaker 1: over Um? I think that sleeping in the same bed
Speaker 1: as your romantic partner is overrated. Um. I say this because,
Speaker 1: um I told my partner, like right pretty early into
Speaker 1: our relationship that this is what I require that we have,
Speaker 1: like separate bed, separate rooms. Um. And I know sometimes
Speaker 1: people wind up in that situation like after they've had
Speaker 1: a fight or their relationship is starting to dissolve or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I was like, I want this from the start.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why, like being in love means you
Speaker 1: lose your bed. That's I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: just like I'm a life sleeper or I'm an only child,
Speaker 1: but I'm just like I think everyone else is weird,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I know our situation is unusual compared
Speaker 1: to everyone else, but I'm like, no, why are you
Speaker 1: doing this? Like for you? You do? You just don't
Speaker 1: want to see you bet, I don't want to share.
Speaker 1: I just I'm like, sleeping time is for me. I
Speaker 1: don't know have like I was when I was still
Speaker 1: living alone. I got a queen bed because that's how
Speaker 1: much space I want. Like I'm gonna be outstretched in
Speaker 1: like a star shape in the center of my back
Speaker 1: on your back. YEA happy because I'm a queen. I
Speaker 1: just don't think that that should be taken away from me.
Speaker 1: I don't like, I don't know if under if do
Speaker 1: people understand like sex doesn't have to be it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to happen as you're going to sleep. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know why these things are combined. Yah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like there's something culturally. I think we saw like
Speaker 1: grandparents do that with like the separate beds, and like
Speaker 1: I remember there being like black and white TV shows
Speaker 1: where you would see it and people are just like,
Speaker 1: well that's for prudes. Let'sten moving to the Brady Bunch era.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I want my own room, not just
Speaker 1: my own bed, Like I write my space just to
Speaker 1: be me, and I definitely have read like research that
Speaker 1: says that that is like a more progressive or like
Speaker 1: a great way to um, you know, keep a relationship
Speaker 1: healthy andially like if you're saying Dahlia, like if you
Speaker 1: are a light sleeper, there's nothing that will get you
Speaker 1: more off of your ship than like not sleeping restfully
Speaker 1: that you'll carry into the next day. Because like at
Speaker 1: my house, my partner, her majesty, she likes to have
Speaker 1: all the fucking pets on the bed, so I sleep
Speaker 1: in these contorted positions where pets occupy the negative spaces
Speaker 1: that I am not and sometimes like but then I
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, I don't want to disrupt
Speaker 1: the little cat right now, so I don't want to
Speaker 1: move my arm, and then I'm like sucking myself over.
Speaker 1: If I had my own bed, wouldn't happen sort of
Speaker 1: thing might become I'm a real pioneer, Yeah, no, for real,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's like there's all sorts of like whack
Speaker 1: things that are like really good for relationships, like seemingly whack,
Speaker 1: like scheduling, like intimacy being like, all right, it's when
Speaker 1: to day eight o'clock time for like weekly cuddle sessh
Speaker 1: or whatever and which meantime? Yeah, um and yeah that
Speaker 1: this is definitely a good one. I've I've been struggling
Speaker 1: with similar thing, but with kids. Uh, my wife likes
Speaker 1: to have like doesn't mind when the kids come into
Speaker 1: our room in the middle of the night and come snuggle,
Speaker 1: and then I just get kicked to the fucking curve.
Speaker 1: It's bad. I just think there's something to be Like,
Speaker 1: we love each other and I want to keep loving him,
Speaker 1: and I think there's something to be said for just
Speaker 1: kind of like maintaining a relationship with yourself while you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship. Credit to you for knowing what your
Speaker 1: needs are in communicating them up front clearly from the beginning,
Speaker 1: which is what most people do not do, and then
Speaker 1: they end up being resentful and like, why did you
Speaker 1: break up? It's like I should have just said we
Speaker 1: needed separate beds from the jump. Yeah, I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 1: I just I just realized it sounds like I'm just
Speaker 1: alone in my room jerking off all day. But that's
Speaker 1: not what I meant. Nothing. Where's that us? Be charger
Speaker 1: the one that for that package that came that had
Speaker 1: the very vague label on it. Are you like an
Speaker 1: affectionate person? Though? Like? Are you? That doesn't mean because
Speaker 1: I think a natural conclusion be like separate beds, Like
Speaker 1: wouldn't no touching? No? I am? I like cuddling. I'm
Speaker 1: a cuddler, but I'm like, there's a time and a
Speaker 1: place and it's not when I'm sleeping, Like, get your
Speaker 1: arm away from me. Um, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Um? I was just gonna recommend a musical artist,
Speaker 1: um that I think is really underrated. His name is
Speaker 1: Illingsworth and he's based in Detroit. He's a rapper and
Speaker 1: a producer and an m C and he's just constantly
Speaker 1: putting amazing stuff on bank camp and social media and
Speaker 1: he's hilarious. He has a weekly podcast, um that he
Speaker 1: hosts on Twitch. It's called Eternal Invite, and he's just
Speaker 1: I don't understand why he's not more like too famous
Speaker 1: to talk to me? You know. Um. You know when
Speaker 1: people reach that point in their career where it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, it's time to pare down my social circle.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why aren't Why isn't he there yet he
Speaker 1: should be. He's just so interesting and funny, and I
Speaker 1: think like people should be hiring him to do, you know,
Speaker 1: to produce their songs. And his voice sounds like a
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon character. He should be doing like voiceover on people's
Speaker 1: adult animation projects and stuff. He's just he's great, he's amazing.
Speaker 1: Any particular Nickelodeon character, well, it would have to be
Speaker 1: a new one, um like similar to Doug, where everybody
Speaker 1: is like, you know, blue and purple and stuff. Right,
Speaker 1: but Roger, maybe I'm trying to remember who the characters
Speaker 1: are now. Was that Roger was like the d with
Speaker 1: the leather jacket who was like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: is he I don't know if he would be like
Speaker 1: I could see him being more like a Hey Arnold
Speaker 1: type of like a he seems like a protagonist to me,
Speaker 1: right right right? Talking about I love like people who
Speaker 1: are producer mcs because like it's such a most people
Speaker 1: are either or, and sometimes people dabbled in one direction
Speaker 1: or the other and it's never as good. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm always like out out to hear more dual threat
Speaker 1: musicians like that. How do you find out about Ailingsworth? Um,
Speaker 1: he's done some work with Open Mic Eagle and they
Speaker 1: I think they toured together something. I saw him live
Speaker 1: in l A like a long time ago, and I
Speaker 1: just started following him on Twitter and I thought he
Speaker 1: was hilarious and we just kind of got in touch.
Speaker 1: So we've only ever met on the internet, but I
Speaker 1: have I've been in the same room with him watching
Speaker 1: him perform, but I've never truly met him face to face. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's done my show a few times. Um,
Speaker 1: he's just so funny. I think comedians really like him. So,
Speaker 1: um it, you might hear him on this show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this might be an underrated that then appears on the show.
Speaker 1: If we can get him. It sounds that would he
Speaker 1: should be to his management. Don't don't tell him. Don't
Speaker 1: tell him I sent you, because then you know, I
Speaker 1: might be overstepping. Oh god, Okay, we wouldn't. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: dare to do that. Yeah, be like yo, Dahlia said
Speaker 1: that you could come on the show, said you were
Speaker 1: down as fun was good. I'm just kidding. I'll give
Speaker 1: you his email address and his home address and perfect
Speaker 1: this phone number. There's something about I am looking forward
Speaker 1: to getting back to like. I I definitely didn't feel
Speaker 1: like I went to live shows as much as I
Speaker 1: wanted to before. But there's just something about seeing someone
Speaker 1: live that you really for the most part that you
Speaker 1: just like fully get the energy and appreciation and then
Speaker 1: the music is like much better going forward, Like after
Speaker 1: you like the listens feel better. Yeah, let's dope. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: to talk some knews and we're back and uh, Derek
Speaker 1: Chad Child. Then US trial murder trial, third degree murder
Speaker 1: trial is moving forward. There was a there was a
Speaker 1: bunch of action. Yeah, that was like a question, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: because before he was appealing and it was taken out
Speaker 1: and then now in a pellate court has said no,
Speaker 1: you need to reinstate that third degree charge. And that
Speaker 1: is good news because second degree would have been harder
Speaker 1: to get. Unfortunately, even though there is a video of
Speaker 1: him murdering George Floyd is not in off um because
Speaker 1: of you know what, the the things that are the
Speaker 1: just how that case needs to be tried um. And
Speaker 1: then manslaughter was the other charge that was out there,
Speaker 1: and that would not have been enough at all. So
Speaker 1: this charge carries a sentence around twenty five years if convicted,
Speaker 1: which is light again considering it was straight up murder
Speaker 1: um of an honest people were telling him to get
Speaker 1: off of the get off of his neck, and stop
Speaker 1: murdering someone, and he was just sitting there with his
Speaker 1: hand in his pocket. Now, you know, the the jury
Speaker 1: selection has is like in full swing, and we've talked
Speaker 1: about how hard it was going to be to have
Speaker 1: a jury that looked diverse and not a jury that
Speaker 1: could have been exclusively white, because there were these surveys
Speaker 1: that potential jurors had to fill out that sounded like
Speaker 1: basically saying like, do you know about police brutality? You can't,
Speaker 1: You're not good for this trial at all. And as
Speaker 1: it stands, uh, Jack, you're saying, there's six people seated,
Speaker 1: or at least at the time I was reading about it,
Speaker 1: five people had been seated, and I think, okay, three
Speaker 1: white men, a woman of color, and a black man
Speaker 1: is so far what the jury looks like. So it'll
Speaker 1: be curious to see what the other seven end up being.
Speaker 1: And yeah that hopefully this trial, I mean, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Just it's it's just it's one of those harrowing things
Speaker 1: because you're seeing how the county is already setting up
Speaker 1: for it, as if like they're protecting this courthouse in
Speaker 1: the way they would have never protected even the capital.
Speaker 1: Um all, because this is a trial where people are
Speaker 1: really trying to seek justice and ensure that there is
Speaker 1: a real outcome after another murder of an unarmed person
Speaker 1: by the police. Right, they were vetted about whether they'd
Speaker 1: seen the footage of choven uh in this according to
Speaker 1: this USA Today article restraining Floyd. Um m hmm, that's
Speaker 1: fucking wild. I mean, it's another dude, but they don't
Speaker 1: have any description beyond that. I can't believe that that's
Speaker 1: his name, Like you know, when the symbolism is just
Speaker 1: so heavy handed, like his name is really chauvin Like
Speaker 1: it sounds like chauvinist, right, Yeah, I mean. And then
Speaker 1: the other two officers, their trial I think is later on,
Speaker 1: um where they think it's like aiding and abetting a
Speaker 1: murder or I forget what the charges are for them,
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is I mean, this is a lot
Speaker 1: of eyes are going to be on this, and I
Speaker 1: feel like it's pretty easy to adjudicate this one based
Speaker 1: on like what you're seeing and the fact that the
Speaker 1: defense has to like have these weird questions insofar as
Speaker 1: like did you know this guy killed a guy? To
Speaker 1: be to be disqualifying is so fucked up? Um, when
Speaker 1: you know this should just we should be able to
Speaker 1: try this in a very straightforward manner. But you know three,
Speaker 1: three or two judicial systems as we've seen in this country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like what would they do if Donald Trump has ever
Speaker 1: like tried for any of the ship that he did?
Speaker 1: Would people have to have like not heard of Donald Trump? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It would be like cartoon characters or something, right, like
Speaker 1: what they're like, wait, you've heard of Okay, Uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's it's really that would be a really
Speaker 1: interesting one too, because I don't know what you At
Speaker 1: that point, it's impossible to escape the profile of the president. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, his his indictments are probably coming in in
Speaker 1: a matter of time, and we will talk about oh yeah, totally, totally. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's talk about a related matter. The l A City
Speaker 1: Council released a report that is pretty objective and sort
Speaker 1: of confirms a lot of the ship we saw on
Speaker 1: social media, the videos they witness, accounts of what was
Speaker 1: happening in the streets, in l A in response to
Speaker 1: the George Floyd protests. It's highly critical, which you know
Speaker 1: that I'm not saying it's all because uh a t
Speaker 1: d Zy guest was nominated to the city council. But
Speaker 1: you know, mostly that's and it notes that the l
Speaker 1: A p D it says mishandled the unrest. But like
Speaker 1: there's just first of all, it's frustrating that this same
Speaker 1: thing has been repeated over and over again. Uh. The
Speaker 1: one of the former l a p D commanders who
Speaker 1: was in charge of the report was like, I've said
Speaker 1: this ship before, um, and he's a former cup What
Speaker 1: do you mean like that, Oh, that they've been mishandling it.
Speaker 1: You're probably they've been mishandling it that they're under trained
Speaker 1: to use like that. A lot of the like goryoust
Speaker 1: ship that you saw was from these like foam like
Speaker 1: these guns that were shooting foam projectiles, but like they
Speaker 1: would just like straight up like there was one that
Speaker 1: with a dude who just had like a chunk taken
Speaker 1: out of his like scalp basically. But yeah, what one
Speaker 1: of the d tales that jumped out to me that
Speaker 1: they mentioned is secret quote shadow teams of undercover officers
Speaker 1: were sent into crowds without sufficient means of relaying their
Speaker 1: intelligence to commanders. So basically people getting to go in
Speaker 1: with without identifying themselves and just function up for the
Speaker 1: purposes of fucking shut up. But what were they doing,
Speaker 1: Like when they're saying relaying their intelligence, like being like, okay,
Speaker 1: there's people peacefully protesting, right, well, they're saying that that
Speaker 1: wasn't happening though they didn't they didn't even have the
Speaker 1: means to uh do that. So that raises the question
Speaker 1: of what is a shadow team doing if not reconnaissance,
Speaker 1: And it's probably just you know, violence, which is what
Speaker 1: we saw so frequently. I don't know that just anytime
Speaker 1: you get a term like shadow team that sounds like
Speaker 1: it's a fucking like name of some first first person
Speaker 1: shooter or something, it's just you can't trust people in
Speaker 1: positions of power to do something that is like that
Speaker 1: cartoonishly like cool, masculine, like the sort of thing that
Speaker 1: an eight year old would like play if he was
Speaker 1: playing like cops and robbers would come up with. It
Speaker 1: made me think of like the spy spycraft from the
Speaker 1: twentieth century that like all looked really cool and like
Speaker 1: gave us the James Bond movies. And then when you
Speaker 1: look at the historical document, it's like completely ineffective and
Speaker 1: like they did nothing. They just it was just like
Speaker 1: creating cool toys for people to play with. What what's
Speaker 1: the like? I mean obviously anyone who is there looked
Speaker 1: at news read about it could see police departments everywhere
Speaker 1: we're overplaying their hand and engaging in violence. You know, like,
Speaker 1: so okay, this comes out, and then are they trying
Speaker 1: to recommend some kind of records just being like objectively,
Speaker 1: this is our analysis, and then it's just more of
Speaker 1: a rhetorical thing for the police union to be like,
Speaker 1: oh well our friends over at the police nice nice
Speaker 1: research Lab said we did everything, so chill. Uh and
Speaker 1: so I don't actually know what you guys are talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the l a p D has two reports coming. They're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you got one report. We got two and one is
Speaker 1: from like a very police union. They're based basically both
Speaker 1: from police union friendly organizations. They were commissioned by the
Speaker 1: l a p D. They will presumably said LAPD fucking
Speaker 1: nailed it, and uh yeah, I mean the point that
Speaker 1: this report makes is that it's also endangering the safety
Speaker 1: of officers, so like the police should be concerned about
Speaker 1: about this, but it's just not happening. So they're basically like,
Speaker 1: our shadow team is instigating violence and then they're reporting
Speaker 1: back there's violence happening, and we're right. They're like, yes,
Speaker 1: this is correct, and we wrote about it in report. Well,
Speaker 1: so this this report was from a a former l
Speaker 1: ap D commander who now was doing on behalf of
Speaker 1: the of the city council, which you know, so it
Speaker 1: was like an independent like sort of more a citizen
Speaker 1: facing report, and but then the police are going to
Speaker 1: have their I mean, it's just been very frustrating and
Speaker 1: disturbing and scary the way the police responded to any
Speaker 1: any of the protests as just like well again like
Speaker 1: petulant children, like they went into the protests like you know,
Speaker 1: children who were like playing cops and robbers, being like
Speaker 1: I'm shadow Force one, I'm gonna function up. And then
Speaker 1: like when people are like, hey, you guys are like
Speaker 1: doing the worst. Yeah, you have no idea what it's
Speaker 1: like somebody something the intimidation to from l A p D.
Speaker 1: I remember when the city council is being like well,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to really look at these budgets. I
Speaker 1: remember there was like a lot of officers who were
Speaker 1: outside of like a city council meeting, basically like lightly
Speaker 1: threatening and being like we protect you guys, how could
Speaker 1: you do this? And if you are going to protect us,
Speaker 1: like who's going to protect you? And when you see
Speaker 1: that many people, you're like, oh, ship, Okay, I see
Speaker 1: what they're trying to say. But that's where it's like fun,
Speaker 1: when is the rubber going to meet the road? Because
Speaker 1: every nobody saw what happened and said bravo police, It's
Speaker 1: like you're fuck to start changing shit, start rearranging their
Speaker 1: your budgetary priorities to actually address the fucking things we
Speaker 1: were talking about back then. But I think we are
Speaker 1: too far removed from all of the nuance that was
Speaker 1: happening in that moment that the narrative has completely just
Speaker 1: gone back to very lack of critical thought going into
Speaker 1: the idea of defunding police or what it means to
Speaker 1: alter our policing, just more like you with them, are
Speaker 1: you against them? I don't know. Nuance is gone now, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: very like just basic like feuding type ship instead of
Speaker 1: like looking at it as like this is a criticism
Speaker 1: of a civil service that you are paid with tax
Speaker 1: dollars to perform. It's like, we got guns, you better
Speaker 1: fucking listen to us. We're just gonna get shadow fucked
Speaker 1: in the streets exercising your rights, right right. It's just
Speaker 1: wild to think about, like the fact that police are
Speaker 1: they're just in a different universe where they just do
Speaker 1: is that didn't make varsity football and they walk around
Speaker 1: with guns and can kill anybody they want to and
Speaker 1: get away with it. Like that's It's it's obviously like
Speaker 1: a very basic thing that I think we all accept,
Speaker 1: but like there's been various times where where I'm just like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, like just being in line behind a
Speaker 1: cop at something, or like walking to as the cop
Speaker 1: and like they've got a massive weapon. You're just like, wow,
Speaker 1: they could shoot me if they wanted to, and and
Speaker 1: it could be a murderer and be like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm police. Yeah, it's a It's one of those weird
Speaker 1: things that I feel like we've just kind of that
Speaker 1: is kind of been accepted because of inertia that I
Speaker 1: think in any like sort of sane version of the
Speaker 1: universe we would look at and be like, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a job for someone who's like, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: into killing unarmed people. What's that job? Much in the
Speaker 1: same way, if like you liked cocaine and money, you
Speaker 1: did me like I think Wall Street is where i'd work,
Speaker 1: because I don't sure there's a Wall Street part, but like,
Speaker 1: you know, where's the money and like a lot of
Speaker 1: cocaine consumption at Oh, that's the job. In the same
Speaker 1: way where it's like, yeah, like this, clearly you're seeing
Speaker 1: a pattern here out of this occupation that's only inviting,
Speaker 1: you know, like the incidences are only increasing anecdotally. You
Speaker 1: you usually hear the people who become cops. Everyone who
Speaker 1: went to like school with them is like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that is terrifying. Dude. One of the dudes I know
Speaker 1: whose HP was the backup running back and he was
Speaker 1: too tiny to play on varsity damn. So now he's
Speaker 1: just doing his little man ship on the roads. Mm
Speaker 1: hm alright, anyways, Uh, let's talk about voter suppression. Another
Speaker 1: systemic Clusterfuck, what what's what's the latest here? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's just still just one fact to put down.
Speaker 1: There are two hundred fifty three bills that are aimed
Speaker 1: at restricting people's access to voting, like two voter suppression
Speaker 1: bills on the books in forty three states right now.
Speaker 1: That's just a snapshot. We've we talked about Georgia how
Speaker 1: they were trying to turn the voter suppression clock back
Speaker 1: to eight fifty nine, but that was just the fucking
Speaker 1: tip and it's becoming it's clear now that the Trump
Speaker 1: loss has triggered the one of the most overwhelming pushes
Speaker 1: to suppress votes based on the bullshit lie that you know,
Speaker 1: we got to figure out these voting systems. They're all
Speaker 1: out of whack. So Texas, Montana, Iowa, Flori to fucking
Speaker 1: end you everywhere, you know, forty three states. Basically, it's
Speaker 1: happening in real time, and so you know, at the
Speaker 1: same time, the House is trying to push through HR one,
Speaker 1: which would make voting access much easier, like same day voting,
Speaker 1: pre registering kids so when they turn eighteen, like they're
Speaker 1: immediately registered to vote, like all these things to make
Speaker 1: voting easier, quicker, more efficient. And what they want to
Speaker 1: do is basically by having HR one there, they can
Speaker 1: remove a lot of the bullshit roadblocks from a federal level,
Speaker 1: Um and saying like this is how things are done,
Speaker 1: but Republicans are against it. So that brings us to
Speaker 1: the passage of the bill where it can't fucking pass
Speaker 1: the Senate because of the filibuster and Joe Mansion in cinema.
Speaker 1: They will not budge. So Stacy Abrams again coming down
Speaker 1: from on high to offer wisdom and guidance onto alternative
Speaker 1: ways to think about and combat this voter suppress and
Speaker 1: Um is talking about the only way to quote, only
Speaker 1: way to head that off, talking about the rolling back
Speaker 1: of voting rights, UM is to invoke the Elections Clause
Speaker 1: of the Constitution, which allows the Congress and the Congress
Speaker 1: alone to set the time, place, and manner of elections
Speaker 1: at a federal level. The judicial appointment exception, the cabinet
Speaker 1: appointments exception, the budget reconciliation exception, are all grounded in
Speaker 1: this idea that these are constitutionally prescribed responsibilities that should
Speaker 1: not be thwarted by minority imposition, which is what is
Speaker 1: happening in the Senate. So so basically create a new norm.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of the idea are just a way
Speaker 1: to bypass the filibuster, saying, consider this, like, if we're
Speaker 1: having these other ways to bypass it, this pretty much
Speaker 1: falls in line with the same ideals that allow these
Speaker 1: other processes to sort of skirt the filibuster. And you know,
Speaker 1: right now, with all these bills and a lack of
Speaker 1: anything action trying to address the filibuster, we're moving closer
Speaker 1: and closer to the point where the Democrats will quite
Speaker 1: literally just give away their power to the Republicans for
Speaker 1: the next fifteen years because they don't want to end
Speaker 1: the Philip must like that's it's gonna that's what it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. If we can't pass these laws, then you're
Speaker 1: just gonna let all these voter suppression bills rock at
Speaker 1: a state level. How the funk do you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna win an election If they're like they're they're going
Speaker 1: they're turning it up even hotter than what we've seen.
Speaker 1: So it's just like very disheartening, and a lot of
Speaker 1: experts are like, this is the most fucked up thing
Speaker 1: happening right now amongst the omni fucked crisis that we're
Speaker 1: you know, facing. But as it relates to votes, this
Speaker 1: is something we really need to keep our eyes on
Speaker 1: because like that the rules are gonna get switched up
Speaker 1: on people and they're gonna be at a polling place
Speaker 1: with no way to vote, right, Yeah, And this is
Speaker 1: all being done in response to made up conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: about you know, how people were voting multiple times or
Speaker 1: you know whatever, whatever the fuck either of you all
Speaker 1: vote absentee or early or anything like that outside of
Speaker 1: like going on E Day, I went early to vote
Speaker 1: polling place. I voted by mail early, right, And I'm
Speaker 1: I don't California, it was luckily when not one of
Speaker 1: those states, but like even ones where you think things
Speaker 1: are on the level, Like I implore you too, like listeners,
Speaker 1: to look at what is happening in your state houses,
Speaker 1: to be fully aware, because this is how they carve
Speaker 1: out this minority rule by changing the rules in forty
Speaker 1: three states and negating the actual ability of people to
Speaker 1: just exercise their vote. It's it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's violence at every level now, um, And this is
Speaker 1: just so squarely aimed at reducing the vote of people
Speaker 1: of color as well, especially like it's just but we
Speaker 1: knew that we saw where the games were made and
Speaker 1: how people who are winning their elections were carving out
Speaker 1: those majorities. But this is, you know, this is their
Speaker 1: reflexive clap back from them a party that has to
Speaker 1: maintain the facto white supremacy. Yeah, I mean Mansion, like
Speaker 1: the the idea that Stacy Abraone's putting forward, Like would
Speaker 1: mansion or cinema every go for that? Like yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not ending the filibuster. I think that's
Speaker 1: why it's like, well, then do fucking this thing at least,
Speaker 1: like what are y'all doing? And also it's almost like
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing? Why is it even? Why are
Speaker 1: we even? Like yo, take Joe Mansion and Cinema and
Speaker 1: be like, yo, we need to get you right because
Speaker 1: this because of you, You might funk this up for
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of people, because of your whatever whoever
Speaker 1: is paying, whatever your donors are telling you to do
Speaker 1: or whatever, you're fucked up. Ideology is like we're at
Speaker 1: a point where maintaining the filibuster just allows the Republicans
Speaker 1: to fucking stop at all. So you really hope like
Speaker 1: they're like are they seeing the problem the same way
Speaker 1: that I think regular people are seeing and an activist
Speaker 1: are saying it, Yeah, the fact that we have to
Speaker 1: convince people to care about like the filibuster or like
Speaker 1: there's just all these different ways that politicians since basically
Speaker 1: Reagan and Clinton on the Democrat side, have like been
Speaker 1: buffered from having to answer to voters, like with these
Speaker 1: like non majoritarian institutions who basically have all the power.
Speaker 1: They regulate the economy, they make decisions that actually matter,
Speaker 1: and we don't vote for the people on like these
Speaker 1: you know, central banks or you know, the massive corporations,
Speaker 1: and they have huge influence on the politicians. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing that they're trying to keep going more so
Speaker 1: than like looking out for the best interests of people.
Speaker 1: That seems like that's the Democrats way of sort of
Speaker 1: m o for for the foreseeable future unless something changes drastically.
Speaker 1: I mean it might just change and that they completely
Speaker 1: seed their power, and it's like it's just like what
Speaker 1: the okay, this is really the this is how it's
Speaker 1: going now. You know, like there don't have the imagination
Speaker 1: or you know that they don't give a ship at
Speaker 1: the end of the day because where they're at socio economically,
Speaker 1: the problems of that world probably won't get to them,
Speaker 1: and it's like they're systematically Like there's so much like
Speaker 1: the way that these institutions have kind of insinuated themselves
Speaker 1: into the system is by is through complexity. Like it's it's,
Speaker 1: you know, you need to have a law degree, you
Speaker 1: need to like understand these like massive markets, you need
Speaker 1: to understand all this ship. And so it's only people
Speaker 1: who have like graduate degrees and like, you know, are
Speaker 1: it's it's a very small like group of technocrats who
Speaker 1: can even like understand the ship enough to you know,
Speaker 1: care and do something about it. And that's like a
Speaker 1: whole other, I don't know, a whole other issue we have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's uh, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about other stuff. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and uh. The Megan Marco Prince Harry Oprah interview has
Speaker 1: the the issues raised there and have been put to
Speaker 1: rest by Prince William. He has he came with the
Speaker 1: fire take he was walking out and reporter goes, so
Speaker 1: have you spoken to your brother at all? And he's
Speaker 1: like blah blah blah blah blah, and he's like, but
Speaker 1: what about these these allegations? Are you? And then I
Speaker 1: think that. The reporter literally goes, are you a racist
Speaker 1: fem to which he replied, we are very much not
Speaker 1: a racist family, very much not a racist family. I mean,
Speaker 1: we are in fact so un racist that we believe
Speaker 1: the one person of color out of the family and
Speaker 1: through the and through the child to the wolves. Um,
Speaker 1: So how can we be racist? I said, a woman
Speaker 1: of color was almost part of my family. How could
Speaker 1: I be racist? We come from a long line of
Speaker 1: colonizing the entire world because we believe that their inferior
Speaker 1: to us. But we are not racist. At one point,
Speaker 1: we thought the earth fucking belonged to us, that the
Speaker 1: sun would never set on all this ship we own.
Speaker 1: That was the motto. You know what I mean? Uh?
Speaker 1: And but I get it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You caught yourself in a weird spot. Suddenly you're like,
Speaker 1: but now I'm racist just because of the racist past
Speaker 1: of this entire monarchy. It's just not fair everyone, And
Speaker 1: he's in a very small circle of the people. It's him,
Speaker 1: it's his wife, or it's his dad, who could have
Speaker 1: been the person who was speculating about the color of
Speaker 1: the baby's skin before I was born. So I think
Speaker 1: the hotter hotter tape. Either did it or you're protecting
Speaker 1: the person who did it. Right. The hot speculation is
Speaker 1: maybe as Kate, because if it was Kate, like that
Speaker 1: would just be you know, they're like, okay, right, because
Speaker 1: we expect it from every like everyone else you'd expect
Speaker 1: it from. I mean not that you say you don't
Speaker 1: expect it from anyone, but Kate Middleton would probably have
Speaker 1: the biggest uh, you know, rehabilitation to overcome of like
Speaker 1: her image if she's outed as like the but in
Speaker 1: terms of like direct line to power, right, those are
Speaker 1: the people who are in line to inherit the throne.
Speaker 1: So um, if if William stepped aside, but she never would,
Speaker 1: would that it would go to Harry, right, he would
Speaker 1: be the next. No, wouldn't it be that his son?
Speaker 1: Oh ship, Yeah, okay, that's gonna that's it takes a
Speaker 1: minute from my my brother from another mother to to
Speaker 1: have that crownp on his head. Yeah, And this whole
Speaker 1: thing it just continues like it has a life of
Speaker 1: its own because we're getting another version too, because there's
Speaker 1: so many British expats that live in the United States,
Speaker 1: so like we're getting the ripple effect over here too.
Speaker 1: And you know, Sharon Osborne, I think may get one
Speaker 1: of the crowns. And I mean that with a pun
Speaker 1: intended of the some of the worst takes I've ever
Speaker 1: heard in trying to pick a side in this Pierce
Speaker 1: Morgan Megan Markle thing. It's like, okay, so on the talk,
Speaker 1: she was already like going on about like free speech.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't understand if it's free speech. Like
Speaker 1: that's when you're like no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: That okay, you've already lost because you're using free speech
Speaker 1: to talk about something that is so just tainted with racism.
Speaker 1: And then her co host Cheryl Underwood, um, you know
Speaker 1: it's a black woman, was trying to like explain some
Speaker 1: just listen to this exchange because it's it's it's just
Speaker 1: it's just fucking disappointing. I am I I feel even
Speaker 1: like I'm about to be put in the electric chair
Speaker 1: because I have a friend who many people think is
Speaker 1: a racist. So that makes me a racist. And for me,
Speaker 1: at sixty eight years of age, to have to turn
Speaker 1: around and say I am racist, I'm I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: pause right there. What was that Sharon a racist? Is
Speaker 1: that is that how you talk anyway? It's about her
Speaker 1: that I will ask you again, Cheryl. I've been asking
Speaker 1: you during the break. I am asking you again. And
Speaker 1: don't try and cry, because if anyone should be crying,
Speaker 1: it should be me. This is the situation. You tell
Speaker 1: me where you have heard him say Educate me. Tell
Speaker 1: me when you have heard him say racist things, and
Speaker 1: educate me. Tell me it is not okay. I can't
Speaker 1: even standing here, Cheryl labor to fucking explain to Sharon
Speaker 1: Osborne what the funk she's talking about? But boo, this
Speaker 1: trash off the stage. Educate me, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: to listen to anything you said. And don't cry. What
Speaker 1: the funk was that you're talking. You're looking at someone
Speaker 1: who undoubtedly has experienced racism in every flavor and capacity,
Speaker 1: trying to let Sharon Osborne understand the nuance of what
Speaker 1: it means when someone is dismissive of you describing an
Speaker 1: event where you have been discriminated against or treated unfairly
Speaker 1: with you know, with racial prejudice. And she's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't like nuance. Point to the thing on the
Speaker 1: chart that's racist, and it's like, see if this is
Speaker 1: the game you're playing. You're not actually in interested in
Speaker 1: being educated, not at all, not at all. Oh that
Speaker 1: the guy who brought up he said, like pures Morrigan.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, Mega Mark will cut you off. And
Speaker 1: you've been like mad about it ever since. I assumed
Speaker 1: that was like from a journalistic standpoint, like he had
Speaker 1: been asking, like she used to be a source that
Speaker 1: worked with him and then she stopped working with him,
Speaker 1: and uh, he had his feelings hurt, like professionally about that. Um,
Speaker 1: but somebody surfaced a clip recently, Uh that showed that
Speaker 1: he actually like went on like you know, just that
Speaker 1: they were friendly. Uh. They had a couple of pints together,
Speaker 1: and then uh she ghosted him, according to him, Uh,
Speaker 1: and he's his feelings are hurt, that's and that like
Speaker 1: let let's let's just play the clip because it really
Speaker 1: does speak well. Two hours in the pub, she had
Speaker 1: a couple of dirty martinis, had a couple of pints.
Speaker 1: We got up brilliantly, and then I put her in
Speaker 1: a cab and it turned out to be a cab
Speaker 1: that took her to a party where she met Prince Harry.
Speaker 1: And then the next night they had a solo dinner together,
Speaker 1: and that was the last I ever heard from Mega Marco.
Speaker 1: I've never heard from her again. So what happened? And
Speaker 1: she ghosted me? Ryan? Mega Marco ghosted it? Did she?
Speaker 1: Do you think she just went? I'm afraid I really
Speaker 1: liked it. This is why it hurts shut up, your
Speaker 1: fucking scoundrel. The fund is that I don't think that
Speaker 1: was a date. I think he thought that was a date, right,
Speaker 1: and she didn't think it was a date. And he's
Speaker 1: still mad, right. And then because he's doing that thing too,
Speaker 1: was like because you know, like right after that, like
Speaker 1: this she met Harry, because which is you're putting out there?
Speaker 1: You know, like what if I paid for her martinis,
Speaker 1: I paid for her cab and she still didn't put
Speaker 1: out right? Yeah, what the fuck? And also I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely like he had that look in his eye, which
Speaker 1: is like the entitled man like sort of fantasy world
Speaker 1: you live in where you can't see what the situation
Speaker 1: is and you're like, I took this box and I
Speaker 1: took to this box and there was no copulation. I
Speaker 1: do not understand where is the thing that I am owed?
Speaker 1: And then the fact that he that that person that
Speaker 1: the I guess it was meteorologist called him out for
Speaker 1: being so brutal and just endlessly uh talking shit about
Speaker 1: Mega Markel in the media. Was like that was the
Speaker 1: breaking point where he was like that probably has something
Speaker 1: to do with your personal passed with her, and that
Speaker 1: was the breaking point. That was like that's it. I'm mouth,
Speaker 1: I'm out. I mean, that's right. Alex Beresford is the
Speaker 1: name of the dude. And yeah, he really he said
Speaker 1: later on too, He's like I didn't want him to quit.
Speaker 1: I wanted him to listen, right, Yeah, I mean, but
Speaker 1: you know what, Alex, you can't save him. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about him. You know, Sharon Osborne might be able to though.
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, it's just like that thing, like it's
Speaker 1: it's for whatever reason when people aren't they themselves don't
Speaker 1: understand the nuance of racism. It's just just like immediate
Speaker 1: it's like, I know racist, I'm not racist. This is
Speaker 1: not racism. It's like Jesus, why are you shouting? Then? Relax? Well,
Speaker 1: but either way, we we found out there very much
Speaker 1: not a racist family. So we're good moving on. Nothing
Speaker 1: you're seeing here. I heard that the whole family doesn't
Speaker 1: have a single racist bone in their entire family history,
Speaker 1: in a racist bone in their entire stolen history museum,
Speaker 1: not a racist bone contained in those artifacts we've stolen
Speaker 1: in fact us. It's funny too, because when you really
Speaker 1: think about it, like, yeah, like the monarchy is like
Speaker 1: the boss level of like white supremacy. See like if
Speaker 1: you're like, if you're doing like you're tracing it back,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because we we're getting a
Speaker 1: second hand, like we're just taking the ship y'all gave
Speaker 1: us and made it better in America. I guess I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you really want to say out a mystery people who
Speaker 1: hold my beers? But like in this sense, like the
Speaker 1: sort of inability to just zoom out a bit and
Speaker 1: look in the context of our global history, like where
Speaker 1: this this institution is placed, and and being like if
Speaker 1: we let's not really acknowledge that in a significant way,
Speaker 1: that still allows for these people who are alive now
Speaker 1: to not suffer the sins of the past monarchs. The
Speaker 1: frustrating All right, let's talk about a new entry into
Speaker 1: the I can't believe this happened in the last three years, right,
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. This is fucking wild to me. The
Speaker 1: Tie Cave Children Rescue was June. In July, we had
Speaker 1: we had this show was up and running. I I
Speaker 1: vaguely remember like looking at a visual of like how
Speaker 1: narrow the cave is or how harrowing it was, and
Speaker 1: like trying to describe it. I assumed that was like
Speaker 1: I don't know, before this podcast, maybe like on a
Speaker 1: on a previous podcast or something. I honestly thought it
Speaker 1: was in my mind that makes sense, but because I
Speaker 1: thought it was last year, like twenty nine or two
Speaker 1: years ago, twenty nineteen, but that felt like two years
Speaker 1: ago or three years ago, so I wasn't sure. But
Speaker 1: that was jarring to see that because we knew that
Speaker 1: immediately that like we're like, okay, so this is a
Speaker 1: movie the second we heard about it, and it did
Speaker 1: become a movie, which I guess is now being directed
Speaker 1: by Ron Howard, and the apparently they've got the casting
Speaker 1: is pretty far along. I think the most recognizable names
Speaker 1: for america An audiences is our Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton,
Speaker 1: and Vigo Mortenson. And so Mortenson is playing someone who
Speaker 1: plays like the British Cave Rescue Council. I think that's
Speaker 1: the guy who Elon Musk called a pedophile. Oh who's
Speaker 1: gonna play Elon Musk? Though? I wonder if if there's
Speaker 1: a part for him. Farrell plays John v Lanthan, a
Speaker 1: veteran cave diver. Okay, fantastic, and Edgerton is Dr Richard
Speaker 1: Harris and uh, just a cave diver. Again, it's just
Speaker 1: a bunch of cave They're all cave divers. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna watch this? Is it gonna be good?
Speaker 1: Like it was this a film for a pre COVID world?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, like I remember at the
Speaker 1: time like, oh, that could be interesting. But part of
Speaker 1: me now is like I think, a I'm really angry
Speaker 1: at the fact that I don't know how when, how
Speaker 1: linear time operates anymore. Yeah, not at all. Well, all right,
Speaker 1: So there's a an Atlantic article that's kind of on
Speaker 1: this subject, act of like the brain fog and like
Speaker 1: the fact that we can't really remember what things were
Speaker 1: like before. I can't remember what things are like now,
Speaker 1: let alone what things were like before. And like I
Speaker 1: think I was describing the fact that like when I
Speaker 1: like started parking in this building, I could remember like
Speaker 1: where I parked. But after like four months of parking
Speaker 1: in the building, I had no idea because each memory
Speaker 1: was just like going into this sea of like nearly
Speaker 1: identical memories, and so it was just like and like,
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about every day now. It's like
Speaker 1: every day just goes into this sea of nearly identical days,
Speaker 1: and I have no kind of frame of reference or
Speaker 1: like you know, point to orient things around. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of part of this theory. This guy, Mike Yassa,
Speaker 1: who's a neuroscientist that you see Irvine, says that we're
Speaker 1: all basically walking around with some mild cognitive impairment based
Speaker 1: on everything we know about the brain. Two of the
Speaker 1: things that are really good for it our physical activity
Speaker 1: and novelty. And a thing that's very bad for it
Speaker 1: is chronic and perpetual stress. And basically living through a
Speaker 1: pandemic is exposing people to micro doses of unpredictable stress
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, Like feeling like your things are
Speaker 1: out of your control is one of the greatest cause
Speaker 1: of stress or contributors exacerbators of stress um and I
Speaker 1: feel like we've all felt that way a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing, here's this like calling cascading collective trauma
Speaker 1: is the other way I've heard this talked about, where
Speaker 1: it's this again, it's every level. It's COVID, it's economic recession,
Speaker 1: it's racial unrest, it's disaster like natural disasters. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we're and then on top of it, there's like a
Speaker 1: media environment too that I've seen saying it is compounding
Speaker 1: these stresses just by the kind of meta you and
Speaker 1: just on top of it is just a recipe for like, yeah,
Speaker 1: just consistent like low grade trauma that is, you know,
Speaker 1: building up over time. It's a little tough. Is that
Speaker 1: why ty Caves feels like it was, you know, two
Speaker 1: decades ago? Exactly cell phones back then? I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I'm like they had divers. Were they going around those
Speaker 1: like copper helmets, like those old diving bells? They okay,
Speaker 1: did they come out? Alright? Did they find on the cord? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The kids are and I think there's just the one.
Speaker 1: I think one person yeah at this point right there,
Speaker 1: like yeah, they're in their sixties. I think, yeah, they
Speaker 1: got grandkids. They're doing all right. Dally, have you done
Speaker 1: anything like in terms of addressing the monotony of lockdown like,
Speaker 1: have you created strategies to combat these things? Are you
Speaker 1: even experiencing something like that? Because I feel like people
Speaker 1: have different resiliency levels when it comes to the lockdown.
Speaker 1: I feel I'm definitely experiencing that. It's actually very cathartic
Speaker 1: to read like terms that like language for it, um,
Speaker 1: because I kind of thought I was just getting old
Speaker 1: and losing my memory, but it seems like it's a
Speaker 1: bit deeper than that. So yeah, definitely, I Um, I've
Speaker 1: been I'm a stand up comedian, so I've all my
Speaker 1: shows have had to go on zoom now and um,
Speaker 1: It's it's not ideal, but it's also a great way
Speaker 1: to keep talking to people. Um. If I don't do those,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking to my dogs and that's insane because
Speaker 1: I talked to them with this voice and I can't
Speaker 1: do that voice a day. So it's um, that's one
Speaker 1: thing that helps kind of just I have something to
Speaker 1: look forward to a few times a week. Um, And
Speaker 1: it does kind of break them and not me. But
Speaker 1: other than that, it's so hard for me to remember
Speaker 1: when things happened. I'm like, was that early in the pandemic?
Speaker 1: Was that five years? Oh, I don't know, I've been trying.
Speaker 1: I've also been trying to do like morning pages, which
Speaker 1: is just like, um, it's like the artist way, like
Speaker 1: journaling like seven fifty words every morning just to like
Speaker 1: articulate what is triggering depression or just vents or just
Speaker 1: talk about what's articulating thoughts. Yeah, because I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what I did this week. So um, that's
Speaker 1: been extremely helpful. Just getting one of my friends, one
Speaker 1: of my comedy friends said, it's kind of like um,
Speaker 1: taking a ship in the morning. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: like you get that out of your system, right, And
Speaker 1: that's been really helpful for me. Your first seven words,
Speaker 1: my first seven yea. Indeed, having dogs is good too.
Speaker 1: They forced you to go outside and write fresh air. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But like with kids, though Jack doesn't, doesn't that somehow
Speaker 1: break it up or there is also a pattern to
Speaker 1: with like the ebb and flow of them. They definitely
Speaker 1: break things up for sure. It's just like every other
Speaker 1: part of the life that's like framing it and just
Speaker 1: physical location. I remember watching my nieces and nephews or
Speaker 1: like I remember that's like those are parts of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I remember, like doing it safely and being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like well we can watch the kids for a little
Speaker 1: I remember that because it's like so much going on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, with the COVID the funny thing, and there's
Speaker 1: this other research paper that you know, they're they're talking
Speaker 1: about the just cascading trauma fact or whatever, and they're saying, so,
Speaker 1: what do we do about it? What do you think
Speaker 1: the solution is? From experts just in general? How can
Speaker 1: we remedy what's happening for people that are stressed out
Speaker 1: right now? What do you think the solution is to
Speaker 1: this the pandemic being over? I don't know, or you know,
Speaker 1: what can the government do, you know, like help people?
Speaker 1: That's all they're saying. They're like, the trauma is compounded
Speaker 1: when on top of it, there are people who are
Speaker 1: being like I have no like there's no I have
Speaker 1: nowhere to turn. Yeah, I'm not getting educated, I'm not
Speaker 1: getting ppe, I'm not getting rights as a worker. They're
Speaker 1: saying all of these things would be just particularly effective,
Speaker 1: um for like those that are you know, especially at
Speaker 1: higher risk for for COVID and things like that. So
Speaker 1: it's just like a you know, it's like the simplest things,
Speaker 1: but we're just would never I don't know, just across
Speaker 1: the river, across the Rubicon into like help. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: America has always been like a very like cold world,
Speaker 1: and I think this is just like laying there how
Speaker 1: like live and let die, like with the emphasis on
Speaker 1: the let die side of things. Uh, it really is.
Speaker 1: Ship Well what a way to end things. Uh da,
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you, see your stand up all that? Because stuff? Um,
Speaker 1: my website is Dalia Mallek dot com and I'm just
Speaker 1: Dahlia d A l I A on Twitter and Dahlia
Speaker 1: Malick on Instagram and all all the other socials. Uh
Speaker 1: what is there now? Clubhouse? If you want to, I'm
Speaker 1: on the sea house. Yes, I've been. Um, just whenever
Speaker 1: I'm like eating lunch alone or something, I'll hop on
Speaker 1: there and give people bad advice. I've been creating a
Speaker 1: room called bad Advice for from bad people, and I'll
Speaker 1: just like pretend to be an expert on all of
Speaker 1: life and give people advice that's very ill advised. Um,
Speaker 1: do you sing it? I should. That's a great idea.
Speaker 1: I will next time. Is there a tweeter? Some of
Speaker 1: the work of social media you've been enjoying. So this
Speaker 1: is by Kevin Tit for real. Um, it's comedian Kevin Titt,
Speaker 1: who is based in d C. So that's Kevin Tit
Speaker 1: f r e A l um. So this is like
Speaker 1: the GOP talking and then the Democrats talking, So GOP
Speaker 1: fun get let's just do slavery again? Um, No, we
Speaker 1: are better than that. Maybe something more like indentured servitude
Speaker 1: so easy. I loved it. I love that. I that
Speaker 1: was like my most recent retweets. So I just I
Speaker 1: mean another point, the two of the two lovely parties
Speaker 1: in d C. I mean, what about all the ground
Speaker 1: Democrats seated to not get one vote? Yeah, the bill
Speaker 1: passed with not a single Republican vote? And why did you?
Speaker 1: Why did you? Why even water it down? You? Why? Why? Why?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like the absurdity of all
Speaker 1: of it is just on display, and then like fuck man,
Speaker 1: Miles where it can people find you? And what's a tweet?
Speaker 1: You've been in joy? You can find me on Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Um, you can find
Speaker 1: me on Let's see the other show for twenty Day
Speaker 1: Fiance where we're talking about ninety day fiance in a
Speaker 1: little bit herb. You get it, you get the vibes,
Speaker 1: come by, We have a good time. We also talk
Speaker 1: about married at first sight. Another reality trash because we're
Speaker 1: trash dwelling single sould organisms some tweets that I like
Speaker 1: at uh dis x pix tweeted the point of Twitter
Speaker 1: is to say things you're sure of. Another one from
Speaker 1: Max Guappo, tweeting, I don't want a fourteen hundred dollars stimmy.
Speaker 1: In fact, I want fourteen hundred dollars taken out my
Speaker 1: bank account. I love hustling hard and getting it out,
Speaker 1: getting out the mud hashtag no handouts. Then um, a
Speaker 1: few more. This was from Reductress at Reductress, Okay, boomer,
Speaker 1: this five year old doesn't know his rising or moon sign.
Speaker 1: And then there's another one that is that's so hard
Speaker 1: to describe, but is Julie Grinder at Julia Bridged uh tweeted,
Speaker 1: I'm worried. This clip has changed my life and it's
Speaker 1: like the reveal from the Masked Singer where I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know what happened. They spoiler alert for
Speaker 1: the Mass Singer. If you have not, if you don't,
Speaker 1: if you care about spoilers. It singer dancer. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's what do you mean the mass singer? Is
Speaker 1: it the mass singer? The mass? There's two shows. Now
Speaker 1: there's a masked dancer. Now I believe, so, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I out here, Jack, get us out of here. Um no.
Speaker 1: But the mass singer, the snail was revealed and it
Speaker 1: was Kermit the Frog. So it was like puppet sception
Speaker 1: and like everyone's like minds are being and the video
Speaker 1: is cut together so dramatically. It's like a fucking coked
Speaker 1: out fever dream. That whole show. Every clip I see
Speaker 1: of it seems like it is a Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: a different world. Yeah, who is controlling the Kermit? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Well that's what's we're gonna find out next,
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be a Kermit on the next episode.
Speaker 1: Then you're going to reveal that it was a fausey
Speaker 1: inside a Kermit. God. Just just like the juxtaposition to
Speaker 1: like of these like celebrities being like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's karmat and like literally being like Kermit arms with it,
Speaker 1: but like like juxtaposing that with like the situation in
Speaker 1: our fucking country right now. It's like, it's just we're
Speaker 1: truly at you know, bread and circuses time. Now, so
Speaker 1: we have reached the height of culture, the heights. It
Speaker 1: is the cool zone, has Robert Oppins described it. Paul F.
Speaker 1: Tompkins tweeted, if there are any sound editors reading this,
Speaker 1: you don't have to add feedback every time a microphone
Speaker 1: appears on screen. Uh and Adam serious? Uh at brow
Speaker 1: Tweeting tweeted, customer, I'd like to buy a bagel with
Speaker 1: cream cheese. Me. Uh, sorry, we only take cash. Manager,
Speaker 1: Can I talk to you? There's all a picture that
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's photoshopped or not, but root
Speaker 1: beer flavored vape juice flavored root beer. It's a root
Speaker 1: beer flavored vape juice flavored. Yeah, it's like a two
Speaker 1: leader root beer is mimicking rut beer flavored vape juice. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that appears to gotta be fake. But
Speaker 1: and yet it doesn't matter. Kermit was in the snail, y'all,
Speaker 1: so anything it's possible. Have you ever vaped root beer?
Speaker 1: Does it taste different than real root beer? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a probably great question. It's probably got a little smoke. Like, No,
Speaker 1: this is an artificial root beer. It's not right. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not naturally derived root beer you're used to that
Speaker 1: comes from the earth. Uh and uh and a granted,
Speaker 1: a d h D coach UK tweeted something that I
Speaker 1: did not know was a symptom of my a d
Speaker 1: h D. But this makes sense. A d h D
Speaker 1: is spending the day in waiting mode because I have
Speaker 1: a thing at one pm? That is that not normal?
Speaker 1: Is that that just us? Anyways? You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. Were at the Daily Zeitgeist
Speaker 1: on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page on a website,
Speaker 1: Daily za geist dot com where we post our episodes
Speaker 1: and our footnotes where we link off to the information
Speaker 1: and we talked about in today's episode, as well as
Speaker 1: a song that we recommend you go listen to. Now, Miles,
Speaker 1: what song is our recommendation for today? Okay, you inbound
Speaker 1: past me the ball and I'm dishing to the wing
Speaker 1: to Dahia right now to recommend to Ailingsworth track for
Speaker 1: is that gang to listen to? Oh? Hell yeah, I
Speaker 1: love this play. Okay, So this is from the album.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask for this, which I recommend the whole album.
Speaker 1: This song is called as an Adult. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I should tell you what it's about or just
Speaker 1: let it be a surprise tell just like let us know,
Speaker 1: let give us a give him a reason to listen.
Speaker 1: It's an autobiographical song, so it's about a time that
Speaker 1: ellings were um shipped his pants as an adult experience
Speaker 1: for common than you would think. Um. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know so many people. Uh, and I'm really glad
Speaker 1: that it has a theme song count. So right now
Speaker 1: we have the shifting your pants as an adult anthem
Speaker 1: from Ellingsworth right to your ears. But check that out
Speaker 1: in the foot notes because that's what we'll link off
Speaker 1: to it. Alright, go check that out. The Daily zy
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Speaker 1: going to do it for this morning. We are back
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