Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy four,
Speaker 1: episode one of the Days, Like Guys to production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: March first March, already called about it. My name is
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien. A K. A life is a highway passing
Speaker 1: by rapidly and still boring as ship. That is courtesy
Speaker 1: of Rachel McCartney at Rachel m Comedy. Very funny on Twitter,
Speaker 1: uh and not intended as an a K. But I
Speaker 1: just like so much I had to use it, and
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles grad Jack. In honor of the upcoming spring,
Speaker 1: I want to serenade you with a tale of Mountain too.
Speaker 1: You should let meetch up do. Let me be the
Speaker 1: one to give you the caffeine you won't any baby
Speaker 1: code read it perfection, make me your selection, show me
Speaker 1: the way love suppost to be. Baby, you should let
Speaker 1: me chuck do. Okay, that's from Mario. And you know
Speaker 1: what I just had to sing that I was on
Speaker 1: the It was on the discord. Shout out to Juju.
Speaker 1: You didn't say it was for Jack, but I love
Speaker 1: that Mario track, so I just i'd think that, you know, Jack,
Speaker 1: I want to chuck that is uh. You you honor
Speaker 1: the song. You honor that ak by taking it for yourself,
Speaker 1: because it would have sounded about exactly the same as
Speaker 1: my life as a highway, just the same notes if
Speaker 1: I had tried it. So thank you very much. That
Speaker 1: was beautiful. Shout out to the discord. We are thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talented, the brilliant Bridget Time. Hello, I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to be back again, so excited that I have you always, Bridget.
Speaker 1: I saw the dog. I was like, and I was like, wait, yes,
Speaker 1: we're welcome. We always have a good time, you know.
Speaker 1: I feel like the last time when we were together,
Speaker 1: we were just the country was about to be in
Speaker 1: the grips of the pandemic. And it's kind of like it.
Speaker 1: Things are wild huh out here, And it's already March.
Speaker 1: It is already marched. Birthday months okay, March fourteen. Okay, alright, Pie, okay, Pie,
Speaker 1: that's right, Pie Day, Albert Einstein's birthday. Pie Day. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: did he do that on purpose? Yes, make his birthday.
Speaker 1: It's just that some next level Galaxy brand shit. Um,
Speaker 1: Simone Biles, also Steph Curry, that's a big day. Damn Brianna, Brianna,
Speaker 1: it's a paces she wasn't born on my same birthday,
Speaker 1: but she's also I mean TikTok star Oscar Rosenstrom. Wait, really,
Speaker 1: Oscar your favorite TikTok? Yeah, and your favorite Instagram star
Speaker 1: Bryce Rivera. Also Bryce Jones, do good God, hold on
Speaker 1: no royalty, Quincy Jones, Mike Cocaine, Oh so got man,
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal. Has anybody ever ranked the best days? Like
Speaker 1: the best birthdays? I mean, obviously Christmas being number one
Speaker 1: for a Lord and Saint Jesus Christ, But otherwise, like
Speaker 1: what what would the top birthdays be? This would have
Speaker 1: to be like top five? Yeah, Einstein, Steph Curry, Simon Biles,
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones, I mean, fucking Michael Caine, it's got what
Speaker 1: the until just now that you're saying Michael Caine and
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying my cocaine. The joke of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: got it very late as as I want to do
Speaker 1: I have your do today? That Yeah, yeah, it does
Speaker 1: feel like I. I really liked that joke from Rachel though,
Speaker 1: because I feel like that is the perfect encapsulation of
Speaker 1: the pandemic boring as ship and passing by incredibly rapidly. Uh.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's March already, and yet nothing has happened. Uh,
Speaker 1: and yet everything has happened. Um, yeah, everything, you believe it? Alright, Bridget,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of things we're talking about today. Uh the COVID
Speaker 1: relief bill. Uh, COVID relief in general popular who would
Speaker 1: have think it? Uh So we'll talk about that. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about see pack We have not seen Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: speech quite yet. What we have seen as of this
Speaker 1: recording is a golden idol being wheeled in to the grounds. Uh.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about parlor, We'll
Speaker 1: talk about uh criminal minds. Uh. Oh. We might even
Speaker 1: have time to talk about falling sperm count, which is
Speaker 1: one of those stories that every once in a while
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, yeah, sperm count is down, like
Speaker 1: in the West, and then we all just move on.
Speaker 1: So Uh, there Okay, apparently at this rate and we
Speaker 1: might not even have to talk about it other than this.
Speaker 1: At this rate, the West will reach a zero median
Speaker 1: sperm count by the year Uh so that's that's low zero.
Speaker 1: You need more more sperm than that. I believe you
Speaker 1: only need one bright class. You just need to make
Speaker 1: a baby. So if we're at one, yeah, like, so
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do, Like have a great semen
Speaker 1: stockpile that we're gonna have and like you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh you're from the jackal bye Brobrian to lineage, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's very strange. Uh, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: all sorts of pop culture stuff. Uh, the surprising popularity
Speaker 1: of is that a CBS show? I want to tease it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell him quite yet what it is,
Speaker 1: but uh, it's like a pretty standard issue procedural that
Speaker 1: had blended into my mind. Is just already said the
Speaker 1: name of the show. Is that good? Ago? I did?
Speaker 1: Yeah said, I'm gonna talk about criminal minds. Hey, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, It's like, wait, I think we'll
Speaker 1: talk about criminal minds, We'll talk about zombies, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about I care a lot. The movie on Netflix that
Speaker 1: I promised to talk about on last week's episode, will
Speaker 1: actually talk about it, and also those adorable new postal
Speaker 1: trucks of the future that will be seeing in a
Speaker 1: few years, uh, and why they suck all that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Bridget, we like to ask our guest what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history? So this is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a weird one. But Jack, I think
Speaker 1: you might feel me on this because you are a
Speaker 1: fellow Wholigan. You listen to the podcast two weekly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. So they had an episode I think just
Speaker 1: the other day about Lance Bass in space. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't listened yet, I haven't listened for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Okay, the last thing I had googled was
Speaker 1: a picture of Lance Bass in space, because do you
Speaker 1: remember how there was a whole thing about how Lance
Speaker 1: Bass was going to space? Lance Bass from uh And
Speaker 1: the reason why he didn't go is because when he
Speaker 1: was undergoing you know, all the tests or procedures or
Speaker 1: whatever to get him up there, he realized he had
Speaker 1: a medical condition that was fairly serious for which you
Speaker 1: needed surgery. And so in a kind of way that
Speaker 1: like saved his life. But because they had already done
Speaker 1: the funding and whatnot and the calibrations for the weight
Speaker 1: of going into space, they had to They couldn't just
Speaker 1: not have him go because I guess the weight needs
Speaker 1: to be very precise. So they replaced Lance Bass with
Speaker 1: a Lance Bass shaped barrel. They took up the same
Speaker 1: amount of weight as actual Lance Bass. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: had to go down a deep after I had to
Speaker 1: pause who weekly and go down a deep Google dive
Speaker 1: finding out more about this Lance Bass shaped barrel. Lance
Speaker 1: Bass is apparently, Uh, he's he's a friend of the network,
Speaker 1: a lovely guy that has appeared on Will You Accept
Speaker 1: This Rose? And oh my god, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, and yeah, tell us more about your like
Speaker 1: your your journey. You wouldn't be a journey to space
Speaker 1: like the closest thing to that one, like where Homer
Speaker 1: goes to SPA. You know, it was like Lance Bass,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, cool. The one last thing I
Speaker 1: remember was in local in the local l A Valley area.
Speaker 1: He was causing ways because he was in a full
Speaker 1: he was trying to buy the Brady Bunch house. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then like lost to like h G TV or
Speaker 1: something and it was a big thing. Um and apparently
Speaker 1: and this this is not official. I may be telling
Speaker 1: tales out of school, but uh, Lance Bass and our
Speaker 1: iHeart podcast host Maven one of the Great Arden Marine.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to Amazing Race together as a duo this
Speaker 1: past year, but the pandemic push it back. Oh my,
Speaker 1: but hopefully the future like two of the Great Arden, Like,
Speaker 1: I will watch her do literally anything, yeah, just as
Speaker 1: long as it involves her interacting with people right right right,
Speaker 1: And also like she's just gonna tort your lance. I'm
Speaker 1: interested like when it gets you know, because it gets
Speaker 1: tense sometimes on the Amazing Race, like what happens, you know,
Speaker 1: what happens then, because that's what that's I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm the Amazing Race. When it was Couples that you
Speaker 1: were watching a couple, a couple spiral into a divorce
Speaker 1: in real time, it was like, wow, they are really
Speaker 1: on the edge. Yeah, it's like, oh wow, great they're
Speaker 1: using this across the world game show to reveal that
Speaker 1: they have no communications skills. I was soft approached, well,
Speaker 1: my wife was soft approached about doing Amazing Rate the
Speaker 1: Amazing Race because her sister was on Survivor and they
Speaker 1: share a bunch of the same producers. And my wife
Speaker 1: was on Survivor for like the Family Challenge, and the
Speaker 1: producers liked her enough that they were like, hey, what
Speaker 1: about what about this? Uh? And then you showed up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're she was like, I don't I don't think we'd
Speaker 1: make it. Uh. Now she was on medical school. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm not a better reason. I am the least built
Speaker 1: for reality television human being that I can that I
Speaker 1: can imagine. Uh, the internal uh introverts don't do great
Speaker 1: on reality TV. I'm sure they would have tested me
Speaker 1: right out of there. Yeah. The producers probably would have
Speaker 1: sucked with you to the point that it would have
Speaker 1: been like abuse. Yeah, because that's like that's their job.
Speaker 1: It's like if someone's born, it's like, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: start fucking with them, so they'll react on camera where
Speaker 1: they would have just like tried to set my wife
Speaker 1: up with somebody else who's just like, what do you
Speaker 1: think Jack Magnus and your wife are hitting it off
Speaker 1: pretty well? There, Jack crying in the confessional. Understand magness, Magnus, Uh,
Speaker 1: I would have to just take my hat off to something.
Speaker 1: Magnet magnus. Yeah, um, bridget, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Okay, so this might be a little bit controversial.
Speaker 1: I think I'm the only person in the in all
Speaker 1: of the Internet who feels this way. But have you
Speaker 1: seen the collection of Megan McCain's hairstyles from the view
Speaker 1: I've not, but I've on my feebly app that I
Speaker 1: used to always look at headlines the still that has
Speaker 1: been coming up whenever she's been talking about things. I've
Speaker 1: always noticed It's like the last thing she had was
Speaker 1: like a weird lap, and then the other day it
Speaker 1: was something totally totally chaotic. But I didn't realize this
Speaker 1: is a thing now. Okay, Chaotic is exactly the word
Speaker 1: I would used to describe it. Um, people are are
Speaker 1: Someone tweeted a collection of her hairstyles and tweeted, um,
Speaker 1: welcome to the resistance, Megan McCain's hairstylist. I have to say,
Speaker 1: they're like, I'm not gonna you know, I think they're cute. Like,
Speaker 1: I think they're a little chaotic, and I appreciate people
Speaker 1: who like take a little bit of a risk. People
Speaker 1: are clowning her all over Twitter for these hairstyles. I
Speaker 1: appreciate a bold hairstyle risk. I take a lot of
Speaker 1: hairstyle risks. I appreciate a switch up. I appreciate a
Speaker 1: little bit of hair chaos. Uh yeah, I people are
Speaker 1: making fun of them. I think they kind of work.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm looking at a high pony with
Speaker 1: like a little like strand of curly bangs. I mean
Speaker 1: it's she's definitely like bringing some prom hair here and there.
Speaker 1: She got the extend a hair clipping. You get that
Speaker 1: pony that hide up to God. There was one that
Speaker 1: I was like, even, I have to draw the line
Speaker 1: somewhere where it was a a middle part where she
Speaker 1: had looked like she had put like purple glitter down
Speaker 1: the part, which I thought, you know, maybe if you
Speaker 1: were at a burn, but you're on television a little much,
Speaker 1: but you know what I'm saying. And burn like a
Speaker 1: burning man. Yeah, if you were like, yeah, if you
Speaker 1: were going to burning man, Yeah, if you were at
Speaker 1: a burn. Yes, I had a tattoos and like desert
Speaker 1: boots and you know, a gas mask or something because
Speaker 1: you're out in the heather. Yeah. Yeah, her high Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj ponytail is something. It's it's visually jarring a little
Speaker 1: bit when I look at multiple times, I'm like this,
Speaker 1: like someone give photoshop to try and make it like,
Speaker 1: make Megan McCain Megan the Stallion. Yes, that that's what
Speaker 1: I think is happening here. I feel that. So I
Speaker 1: feel that her hairstylist is going for um NICKI Minaj
Speaker 1: Megan the Stallion look that I appreciate. It's jarring to
Speaker 1: see it on Megan McCain, but I appreciate the look.
Speaker 1: Like maybe not on her specifically, but I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, you know, chime in and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it looks ridiculous. Even though it does, I would like
Speaker 1: to see it on somebody else. Do you think she's
Speaker 1: compensating for her internal racism. Yes, I think that someone
Speaker 1: told her these styles will make you popular with the blacks,
Speaker 1: and so she is she's leaning into them. Yeah, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: Megan McCain. I try and learn, uh and think as
Speaker 1: little as possible about Megan McCain. I almost This is
Speaker 1: why I didn't want to. This is why I had
Speaker 1: to preface what I'm saying with you know, this is
Speaker 1: an unpopular opinion, because her opinions it's like she is.
Speaker 1: I feel like her role on the like no one
Speaker 1: has ever been more aggrieved to have an easier, cushier job.
Speaker 1: Part of me is like, why don't you just quit?
Speaker 1: If you are so miserable, you clearly hate being on
Speaker 1: the view. I'll take that job. Why don't you quit?
Speaker 1: You no one's forcing you to do this. She's uh,
Speaker 1: maybe the most the most poorly treated person in the world. Accord, No,
Speaker 1: no one has ever had a harder It's I feel
Speaker 1: for her. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated?
Speaker 1: Is the Golden Globes? Uh? You know, obviously award shows.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't count on them for inclusivity or
Speaker 1: any of that, so you know that dream has long gone.
Speaker 1: But reading about the specific press junket that they got
Speaker 1: with Emily in Paris, that they were flown to Paris
Speaker 1: and this and that, and then surprise Emily in Paris
Speaker 1: when I gets nominated for a Golden Globe, it was
Speaker 1: I mean, part of me kind of appreciate that they've
Speaker 1: dropped to the veil of you know, objectivity, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta say I was a little surprised by how
Speaker 1: blatantly they are willing to be bought. I guess it
Speaker 1: was surprising to me. Oh that's that's that's how it is, baby,
Speaker 1: let me tell you. Yeah. Like the mechanics of it
Speaker 1: is very interesting. And I think it's just like it's
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where like in l
Speaker 1: A or it's like in the industry, it's very much
Speaker 1: an open secret um. But I think as things come
Speaker 1: to pass, like also looking at the makeup of the
Speaker 1: body of the h f p A because it's you know,
Speaker 1: they point out the utter lack of black members and
Speaker 1: a lot of it is because it started off with
Speaker 1: just a lot of European journalists who were you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's four you have to you have to be
Speaker 1: writing for a foreign outlet. That's sort of the way
Speaker 1: the membership works. So it's a lot of people from
Speaker 1: other countries who are representing whatever their media from abroad. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's now like it's just a lot of like
Speaker 1: older people because like you once, when you're in there,
Speaker 1: you're in there and think that's the other thing when
Speaker 1: people start seeing the nominations, like have they seen the
Speaker 1: other shows? Did they know? I Will Destroy You? Came
Speaker 1: out of that. But I think it's another I think
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a combination of a few different
Speaker 1: things of like a older, like foreign perspective on like media,
Speaker 1: or like the tastes are slightly different. And I think
Speaker 1: the age thing is also just a huge That's a
Speaker 1: really good point. And also I just want to make
Speaker 1: very clear, if someone was willing to fly me to Paris,
Speaker 1: I would vote for them for anything. So just to
Speaker 1: be very clear, I'm not, you know, begrudget these people.
Speaker 1: I get it. I think that was probably the most obvious.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh wow, it really I guess that is
Speaker 1: how it works. And then I think also seeing um,
Speaker 1: the movie Music, seeing Kate Hudson, I haven't I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the film, but you know, seeing Kate Hudson be
Speaker 1: nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in the
Speaker 1: film Music when it was so widely you know, panned,
Speaker 1: I I guess it was a moment of this seems
Speaker 1: not to reflect the genuine tastes. It seems out of
Speaker 1: step with the tastes of you know, people that I
Speaker 1: listened to and people that make up my community. So
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right that, like the people who
Speaker 1: are doing the voting. They're just so you know, they're
Speaker 1: not the people who make up you know, my community,
Speaker 1: the people on Twitter that I you know, think of
Speaker 1: its taste makers. It's like, yeah, that's why I like,
Speaker 1: I mean, and i've but I've said this ship too,
Speaker 1: Like I look at the nominees, I would be like, y'all,
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing over there? Like what's going on?
Speaker 1: You gotta take it kind of take it in balance.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, it's awards season is always
Speaker 1: like a big talking point. But yeah, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the snumps were glaring. But that's why, over time,
Speaker 1: I think we have to just sort of release our
Speaker 1: idea that like any of these awards shows are indicators
Speaker 1: of how good anything is anymore, because we talked about
Speaker 1: how they leave so many things out that completely take
Speaker 1: out like any semblance of objectively saying this was the
Speaker 1: best this thing or whatever or this got people in
Speaker 1: the seats, which we have to give a shout out
Speaker 1: for that, you know, on some level, rather than like, well,
Speaker 1: what was high art the whole. Yeah, Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: it's so influential within the industry of like what ends
Speaker 1: up getting made and like whose careers then take off,
Speaker 1: especially the Academy Awards, and it's just it's so biased
Speaker 1: and like gammable, whether it be the gifts that people
Speaker 1: are bought or whether it be like if you make
Speaker 1: a movie about movies, they're like brilliant sir a movie
Speaker 1: in which a film producer is the hero. And it's
Speaker 1: like I watched Malcolm and Marie last night and it's
Speaker 1: basically that. Uh and for the Hollywood for impress, Like
Speaker 1: I always talked about how the Tourist a that Johnny
Speaker 1: Depp Angelina Jolie movie from two thousand and ten was
Speaker 1: like I remember it coming out everyone being like, this
Speaker 1: is a turd, and then that got nominated and I
Speaker 1: think Johnny Depper Angelina jo only were nominated for like
Speaker 1: one of the major awards and it won something big.
Speaker 1: And but it's a movie about Europe, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like set in Venice, and presumably they like had sent
Speaker 1: people to Venice to to get them to vote for it.
Speaker 1: But this is actually so fascinating as like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't live in l A has no connection to how
Speaker 1: movies and how films get made. This is fascinating to
Speaker 1: hear the intermachinations of how it all works. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of it makes you believe in yourself
Speaker 1: a little bit more, to be honest when you look
Speaker 1: at it at the same time, because you're like, it's
Speaker 1: not that these people are so good, it's that that
Speaker 1: there's a certain way they get there too. So there's
Speaker 1: no like you don't have to I think for any
Speaker 1: creator who's like, well, I'm not at this level, it's like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways to do this, and sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not because it's off the strength of your work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that nothing makes you feel better about like your own
Speaker 1: creativity than like finding out about the the nepotism in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, okay, so this is just like a
Speaker 1: family business type ship that they're like Elizabeth Olsen is
Speaker 1: the Olsen Twins younger sister, but also she's fantastic. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's one of those weird things. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how to like what other industry is
Speaker 1: like this, you know, because yeah, politics, politics, like even
Speaker 1: like basketball coaching is like that. That's a like everything
Speaker 1: is like this. I feel like, you know, the people
Speaker 1: who have success want their children to have success, and
Speaker 1: so they like push them in that direction and then
Speaker 1: they have all the connections in the world and yeah,
Speaker 1: that ship just happens, except for like sports doesn't quite
Speaker 1: work out that way, like for actual athletes. But man,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of reading up on music and have
Speaker 1: you heard about this stuff? Yeah, just music in general
Speaker 1: music the movie it's pretty good stuff with music is
Speaker 1: so like, it's funny to me because I have in
Speaker 1: in past lives, I've worked really closely with celebrity pr
Speaker 1: in other podcast gigs. And what's funny to me about
Speaker 1: music is that everybody now agrees and sees that this
Speaker 1: this movie was a terrible mistake. It might have been
Speaker 1: like able to sneak by when it was first made,
Speaker 1: but now and like it certainly does not fly. And
Speaker 1: still watching the kind of PR machine that I know
Speaker 1: works behind the scenes and this kind of work, like
Speaker 1: seeing other celebrities post about it because you know, they
Speaker 1: gotta they got, you know, an image and some some
Speaker 1: text to post, and then seeing their you know, their
Speaker 1: followers like did you know this movie is really ablest
Speaker 1: and a lot of the community is really against it,
Speaker 1: And then being like, no, I didn't know it's been
Speaker 1: really funny to watch those two things bump up against
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah. Um, alright, well, uh, we are going
Speaker 1: to we'll have to watch music if we're gonna speak
Speaker 1: too much more about it. But yeah, I just read
Speaker 1: this Sias movie. This is directed and written by Sia uh.
Speaker 1: And it's about a newly sober drug dealer whose little
Speaker 1: sister is on the spectrum. And it shoots a lot
Speaker 1: of uh scenes from inside the little sister, whose name
Speaker 1: is Music, uh, from inside her head. And so you
Speaker 1: get like a person who's not on the spectrum's version
Speaker 1: of what it's like inside the head of a person
Speaker 1: who is on the spectrum. And people people say it's
Speaker 1: not they didn't nail it. Creative for yourself. Yeah, uh, ambitious,
Speaker 1: ambitious opening gambit for a film career. Alright, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break, uh, and we will be right back
Speaker 1: and we're back. Uh. And so COVID relief is popular. Um,
Speaker 1: and yet you wouldn't know it based on just watching
Speaker 1: the conversations that happen on Capitol Hill around it. It's
Speaker 1: just all this finagling and maneuvering and it's frustrating. It's
Speaker 1: very popular. Like we've known it's popular, but so there's
Speaker 1: new polling that shows how popular it is, and it's
Speaker 1: it's just exhausting to talk about how taking care of
Speaker 1: people is literally the fucking answer to nine nine percent
Speaker 1: of our problems right now. Just taking care of people,
Speaker 1: not arresting people, not having more cops or less cops
Speaker 1: or whatever, just more care, more generosity, more kindness. Because
Speaker 1: people are lacking. They're suffering from lack. And the answer
Speaker 1: isn't to debate how much a working mother needs in
Speaker 1: stimulus money. It's that they people need money, and they
Speaker 1: need it quickly. So many experts talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: how the current administration can do more to actually deliver
Speaker 1: tangible relief to people rather than passing a bill just
Speaker 1: to take a box to say, you passed a relief
Speaker 1: bill and you can walk into the mid terms with that,
Speaker 1: and then also water it down enough to not anger
Speaker 1: the fucking subterranean demons across the aisle that you're for
Speaker 1: some reason considering when you're creating this legislation. So when
Speaker 1: you look at like how that this debate is going,
Speaker 1: even like internally with Democrats, you think, just go full force,
Speaker 1: full hot, whole hog with the relief, help people out.
Speaker 1: We have the money to do it. And when you
Speaker 1: look at the just the numbers, the polling that's come out,
Speaker 1: it's very pop alert in its current state, especially with
Speaker 1: people that are called swing voters. And now what's the
Speaker 1: swing voter? Now, let me just let me read these
Speaker 1: facts and just envision these people for a second that
Speaker 1: are saying they funk with the Joe Biden stimulus. Of
Speaker 1: respondents who split their ticket in the election between Trump
Speaker 1: and down ballot Democratic candidates supported the bill, eighty three
Speaker 1: percent of those who split their ticket last November between
Speaker 1: Biden and GOP candidates back to the bill. Sixty of
Speaker 1: voters who backed Hillary Clinton in sixteen and Trump in
Speaker 1: approved of the legislation, and those who voted for Trump
Speaker 1: in sixteen but switched to Biden in supported it. First
Speaker 1: of all, who is the person who went Clinton to Trump?
Speaker 1: Who are you? There's that that one? A bunch of
Speaker 1: people over Yeah, I think there's this attitude like I
Speaker 1: forget who it was that said this that we didn't
Speaker 1: need COVID relief immediately because American families have have been
Speaker 1: sitting on money waiting for the economy to reopen. I forget,
Speaker 1: I forget who said it, um, some Republican, but it's
Speaker 1: I think there is a real disconnect between the actual
Speaker 1: lived lives of people out there right now and the
Speaker 1: people who are making these decisions. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: think they understand how many people, most of whom are
Speaker 1: moms and women, are struggling right now. Like women are
Speaker 1: going through a crisis, and truly it is not just
Speaker 1: a women's crisis. It's in everybody's crisis. You know, women
Speaker 1: are dropping out of the workforce, women are are are
Speaker 1: really struggling. And so I think that the fact that
Speaker 1: the people who are making these decisions are so out
Speaker 1: of touch that they have no sense of what your
Speaker 1: average person is actually going through, and that this that
Speaker 1: COVID really yeah, no ship it's popular. People need sucking money, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's just so simple. It's so simple, right,
Speaker 1: It's it demonstrates something, right because it is so clean
Speaker 1: cut what they should be doing based on you know,
Speaker 1: they're elected to represent the people. The people are like,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you just look at the plurality of people,
Speaker 1: everybody is behind this one direction that things should be going.
Speaker 1: They should be increasing aid to people. Uh, because of
Speaker 1: the pandemic. But they're not. And that's the fact that
Speaker 1: they're not I feel like, and this is probably why
Speaker 1: it's so exhausting, why it feels so exhausting to me,
Speaker 1: is that they're they're not actually willing to engage you
Speaker 1: with the truth, right, Like they're not. Nobody is saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we can't give you that much money because uh,
Speaker 1: capitalism and like all the all the real reasons they
Speaker 1: won't give it to you. So they're just making the case,
Speaker 1: letting you make the case, making the case as well.
Speaker 1: But then quietly, behind the scenes, all this bullshit and
Speaker 1: maneuvering is going on, and nobody's nobody's there to make
Speaker 1: the actual case for why why there's pushback, right, that's
Speaker 1: just quiet They leave that part unsaid, and so it's
Speaker 1: just this exhausting process of arguing them, being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, and then nobody doing anything right.
Speaker 1: You can't like there's nothing really that you can do
Speaker 1: about that, because and that's that's what's so frustrating and exhausting,
Speaker 1: is that like you can say what's true and they
Speaker 1: can agree, and then nothing happens. They have like little
Speaker 1: stop gaps built in where they can just make nothing happen,
Speaker 1: and we have the money, Like if and if COVID
Speaker 1: showed us anything, is that we the United States has
Speaker 1: money to fund whatever it is that that we decide
Speaker 1: is worth funding. And so it's not it's not as
Speaker 1: if we don't have the money too to do this.
Speaker 1: We completely do. But it's all of these ridiculous ideological
Speaker 1: considerations of like, well, if we give people money, then
Speaker 1: maybe they'll I don't know, pay their rent. I actually
Speaker 1: don't even know, like what the what the downside is
Speaker 1: if we give people this money that they obviously need,
Speaker 1: then it will be bad because capitalism it really we
Speaker 1: have the money to fund it. We as a country,
Speaker 1: we have decided what we want to prioritize. And it's
Speaker 1: so disgusting to me that in the United States we
Speaker 1: have not prioritized the need the financial needs of citizens.
Speaker 1: It's just it makes it makes me so sad. I
Speaker 1: have so many friends in other countries that are like, oh,
Speaker 1: you all just got some of you got a check once,
Speaker 1: some of you, Wow, I've been getting relief payments every
Speaker 1: month consistently. Good luck. You know. It's it's really, it's
Speaker 1: really hard just to hear, Yeah, it's it's what we've
Speaker 1: been saying, that capitalism is there to protect the interest
Speaker 1: of capital, and you know, capital being like the people
Speaker 1: with the money. Where where is the vast majority of
Speaker 1: the wealth. It's concentrated with like a small group of
Speaker 1: people and corporations and like entities, and the whole system
Speaker 1: is designed to keep it that way, to protect the
Speaker 1: interests of the people who already have it. And so
Speaker 1: that that's the thing that they can't that they won't say,
Speaker 1: and so it's the thing that just gets left unsaid,
Speaker 1: and they're pretending to agree with you, especially the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is pretending to agree with you, but they just
Speaker 1: won't do the thing because that that would be acting
Speaker 1: against the interests of capital. And if it's such a
Speaker 1: weird game, because they have to stay empowered to protect
Speaker 1: their capital. But the thing is to stay empower you
Speaker 1: have to appeal to poor working people or just normal
Speaker 1: people who need help that capitalism is ravaging. So it's like,
Speaker 1: how do I keep selling them the poison thing while
Speaker 1: pretending I'm the antidote. And it gets really confusing, and
Speaker 1: especially like I get that mid terms are part of
Speaker 1: the calculus, you know, and some people say what you
Speaker 1: do now isn't gonna matter in two Actually it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be front of mine for mid term voters. And
Speaker 1: I think that is fair to say that it might
Speaker 1: not be. But at the very end of the day,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you rather put those people have the memory of thinking, well,
Speaker 1: what happened when the Democrats and that's right, they actually
Speaker 1: came through with help while other people were arguing about
Speaker 1: who can are participating in kids sports? Um, I was
Speaker 1: out here needing a check to so for my family
Speaker 1: to survive, and to withhold that and just make it
Speaker 1: like a drip rather than like a del uge that
Speaker 1: someone will be like, yo, that was significant. Um, that's
Speaker 1: just such a misstep and they're gonna fucking pay for
Speaker 1: it again. And it's just sad because again, that's it's
Speaker 1: so easy. Just take care of just take care of people,
Speaker 1: that's all like. And I get that there's other people,
Speaker 1: there's competing interests that are your donors, but at a
Speaker 1: certain point we've got to figure it out. I think
Speaker 1: you're so right. And I also think that there is
Speaker 1: a you know, you brought up this sort of quote
Speaker 1: unquote culture war stuff. Well it seems like one party
Speaker 1: is is not interested in governing. Right there. It's like clear,
Speaker 1: you know, when Marjorie Taylor Green films herself putting an
Speaker 1: anti trans sign up, that's not gonna get money in
Speaker 1: someone's pocket. That's not gonna get that's not gonna help
Speaker 1: a constituent, right and so it's clear to me that
Speaker 1: there is one party that is completely just not interested
Speaker 1: in governing. Their interested in stunts and okay, fair, but
Speaker 1: I do think that the people on the other side
Speaker 1: are are exactly, like you said, missing this great opportunity
Speaker 1: to be the people that when one party was just
Speaker 1: just disinterested and checked out, be the people who consistently
Speaker 1: got took care of people. That's what people want. People
Speaker 1: don't care. I think that Americans don't care. I think
Speaker 1: that most Americans don't care about all of these little
Speaker 1: stunts and all of that. They want, you know, some
Speaker 1: to government and take care of them and give them
Speaker 1: what they need and give them support. And so I
Speaker 1: firmly believe that, and so I do truly want the
Speaker 1: Democrats to step up and provide that consistently. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the support and pulling the will go
Speaker 1: down because they were more generous with stimulus checks, you know,
Speaker 1: like that all the all the information is there to say,
Speaker 1: funk whatever. These greedy people are saying. People need help,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately the people who are making these decisions, a
Speaker 1: majority of them aren't around other people or have not,
Speaker 1: are too far removed in their own life from that
Speaker 1: time in their life when they needed help what it
Speaker 1: was like to be like, oh shit, I'm literally having
Speaker 1: I'm going check to check by a fucking margin of
Speaker 1: sense that I'm having to carve out by getting rid
Speaker 1: of my internet, trying to do it half with my neighbor,
Speaker 1: trying to do all this other stuff. And that's just
Speaker 1: not real to them. And I think it's there's such
Speaker 1: a lack of compassion and the even a bill to
Speaker 1: even see through these people's eyes, that it's just not real.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, even with the Republicans, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's that party has also just become a
Speaker 1: group of people who are so comfortable materially that they
Speaker 1: can waste their time and culture war bullshit, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And there's plenty who aren't. But if
Speaker 1: that's the tone of your party, everybody kind of gets
Speaker 1: lost because there's definitely a group of people who are
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to just talk about this bullshit all day because, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're saying, hanging up, inflammatory, antagonistic, anti trans you know,
Speaker 1: homophobic nonsense has no effect on anyone's you know, day
Speaker 1: to day unless really you don't need you don't need
Speaker 1: any other help. You're like, I'm good materially. I just
Speaker 1: want to see them get mad and we talk. I
Speaker 1: always bring up this anecdote from like a d n
Speaker 1: C insider who talked about how when they're deciding if
Speaker 1: somebody is good enough, like a good candidate too, to
Speaker 1: be a candidate for a democratic like party, uh possession
Speaker 1: or just anything, run for anything, the one of the
Speaker 1: first tests they do, or the first test they do,
Speaker 1: is go through your cell phone and look at how
Speaker 1: many like how much money is in there, essentially uh
Speaker 1: in your contacts and uh the like. I I think
Speaker 1: about this all the time, which is why I bring
Speaker 1: it up a lot. But it's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: just and therefore they can donate to you. I think
Speaker 1: it's and therefore you are trusted by the people who
Speaker 1: are trusted to make decisions within this system. You're trusted
Speaker 1: by the people. Right, You're trusted by the people who
Speaker 1: control the capital and will allow you to win an
Speaker 1: office and will allow you like you have social ties
Speaker 1: that are going to hold you accountable to rich people. Essentially,
Speaker 1: Like that's what they're doing. It's not. It's not just
Speaker 1: like well like because they they could find ways to
Speaker 1: fund and more and more like people are finding ways
Speaker 1: to fund through um, you know, online like and through
Speaker 1: just like mass movements. But the thing that is actually
Speaker 1: important to them is that you have powerful people and
Speaker 1: people with capital behind you, and like that just it's
Speaker 1: at every level of the system, whether it's mainstream media,
Speaker 1: mainstream Democrats, mainstream I mean, now the Republicans have like
Speaker 1: spun off into and you look and it's no, it's
Speaker 1: no coincidence that the people who are screaming the loudest
Speaker 1: for you know, higher wages or more relief aren't part
Speaker 1: of the big D Democrat party, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's and they had to come in their own way. Um.
Speaker 1: And and that's already causing tension because you have people
Speaker 1: now coming in who are trying to really advocate and
Speaker 1: there are plenty people who are you know, big D
Speaker 1: Democrats who aren't necessarily totally corporatized, but they're not allowed enough,
Speaker 1: you know. And if they if they really feel this way,
Speaker 1: they need to start making moves because it's not going
Speaker 1: to help you at all state IMpower work. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: remember hearing UM back when Stacey Abrams was running for governor.
Speaker 1: UM like a hit job on her that was like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you know she has all these unpaid student loans?
Speaker 1: Don't be done And she was like, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: unpaid student loans. Guess who else does? Everyone in the country.
Speaker 1: It is so common trying to make it seem like
Speaker 1: she was financially irresponsible for having for running for governor
Speaker 1: while having unpaid student loans. Like how out of touch
Speaker 1: can you get? Most people under a certain age still
Speaker 1: have unpaid student loans. I know what I do write
Speaker 1: like it's and yeah, it's like I think the idea
Speaker 1: that you would need to have a certain kind of
Speaker 1: financial comfort to even be vetted to run her office,
Speaker 1: it's just really so it just so it just shows
Speaker 1: you all that's wrong with our political system. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: thinking how many people who decided to change careers because
Speaker 1: they think of what the cost is going to be
Speaker 1: and alter the course of their life completely. I mean,
Speaker 1: like very subtly. I remember being like, how much loans
Speaker 1: do I need if I want to go there? I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: state schools here, we come, Like I just for me personally,
Speaker 1: it just didn't. I saw some of my other friends,
Speaker 1: like they were talking about the debt, like the debts
Speaker 1: they were about to take on and go to like
Speaker 1: Occidental or you know these other private universals like oh ship,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want anything to do
Speaker 1: with that ship. Um. But yeah, it's it's but again,
Speaker 1: it's just to maximize profits for these other people as well.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Speck real quick. You guys know more
Speaker 1: than we do at this point. We're recording this before
Speaker 1: Trump's appearance over the weekend. But they wheeled into Speck
Speaker 1: like a golden statue of of Donald Trump. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like it looks like the Frishes Big Boy uh
Speaker 1: or the I don't know if that's a Big Bob's
Speaker 1: Big Boys. It's in Dayton, I think is where I
Speaker 1: had Frishes, so they might Yeah, it might be a
Speaker 1: Hardis or hard He's uh Karl's Jr. Type thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I have the vibes very Yeah, it's cartoonish.
Speaker 1: It's it's clearly like, uh, Trump took a beach day
Speaker 1: from the Oval, because up top it's business and down
Speaker 1: below it's red and white and blue American flag board
Speaker 1: shorts with sandals um on a surfboard. I think. But
Speaker 1: my whole thing is like, is this I get it.
Speaker 1: Everybody's yes, it's the idolatry of you know, they love
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Golden Calf and Israelites and fall sidles, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: But like it's so on the nose that this is
Speaker 1: either some kind of Sasha Baron Cohen bit or are
Speaker 1: these people so hell bent on bringing the end times
Speaker 1: that they are literally just going a whole hobby. Like, yo, God,
Speaker 1: put the smash on us. What more do we have
Speaker 1: to do? We have a false idol, we're trying to
Speaker 1: get it popping in Israel. Please come back. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't what, I don't It's it has me so fucked
Speaker 1: up because it's just so aggressively fucking I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just on the nose. There's no other word for
Speaker 1: this ship. Yeah, and also I have to say it
Speaker 1: kind of looks it's kind of given me Fonzie vibes.
Speaker 1: Something about the way it looks he's given me like
Speaker 1: the fons It's also like the uh suit up top
Speaker 1: like board shorts below. Thing is like straight out of
Speaker 1: like somebody's retirement party. Like it's like they're throwing a
Speaker 1: retirement party for him. But I don't know, like maybe
Speaker 1: this is the first thing we get of Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: rebrand where he comes out as like the fun retires.
Speaker 1: What if he came out and was like, see my
Speaker 1: legs work, yeah, my god, gosh, and see all four
Speaker 1: of his quads. That's where for the best fonses just
Speaker 1: doing leg presses the time, never skipped leg day, in fact,
Speaker 1: all day day, motherfucker. It's yeah, I don't know. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm like, who is this for? Because the previous
Speaker 1: story about the stimulus relief shows that it's it's the
Speaker 1: divisions in the party is more than just Trump or
Speaker 1: no Trump. So what like, you know, are the Trump
Speaker 1: stands like in the GOP like up top sort of
Speaker 1: like the Nancy Pelosi's and that they're sort of like
Speaker 1: whatever the larger movement is of the party they're going
Speaker 1: along with without being like, wait, some people that voted
Speaker 1: for the president also want relief, Like shouldn't we factor
Speaker 1: that into like our policy making, But no, they want
Speaker 1: to just fucking kiss a golden idol. Yeah. The other
Speaker 1: thing to say is that, you know, as much as
Speaker 1: it's like easy to like laugh at seepack and like
Speaker 1: everything that's like, oh wow, you've been canceled. Now what
Speaker 1: in this golden idol stuff? You know, it's in the end.
Speaker 1: I just have to say again, this is a collection
Speaker 1: of hateful people in formal business attire and medieval battle
Speaker 1: armor that are gathering to discuss how to move forward
Speaker 1: with their agenda to take people's rights away. That's what
Speaker 1: is being discussed. Aside from all the other ship we
Speaker 1: can laugh about. That is what they are talking about.
Speaker 1: And it's not just goofy idiots that are chucking it
Speaker 1: up for the lulls um. They just appear this way
Speaker 1: to people with the antithetical value set, uh, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: well this is nonsense. No, no, no, these people are
Speaker 1: for real in there and they are trying to do it,
Speaker 1: even in their weird, misguided way. They're they're about what
Speaker 1: they're talking about. Oh yeah, I remember a decade ago
Speaker 1: looking at like these pictures of Nazi Party, like Nazi
Speaker 1: rallies in the United States during like in the lead
Speaker 1: up to World War Two, and like just how many
Speaker 1: Nazis there were, And that's seeming weird to me. That
Speaker 1: doesn't seem weird to me anymore. Like it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we still have those. Yeah, they just wear suits now
Speaker 1: and worship a golden idol. It's more cartoonish than yeah. Alright,
Speaker 1: real quick, while we're talking about the right wing parlor. Uh,
Speaker 1: their little app is back a little a little Parley's
Speaker 1: a little Parley. Um oops, it came back to life
Speaker 1: like a glitchy Jason Vorhees at the end of January.
Speaker 1: It's now controlled by Rebecca Mercer of the Mercer family. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it has a new web host, uh sky Silk,
Speaker 1: which claims that they won't uh they also won't stand
Speaker 1: for hate speech. But they also have a troll filter
Speaker 1: that you can turn on and off. Uh, so like
Speaker 1: you can just be like give me the full dirty
Speaker 1: troll experience and like, oh wow, just straight hending, no cut,
Speaker 1: no coca straight how do they wait? But how do
Speaker 1: you say you won't allow hate speech? There's they're skirting
Speaker 1: that by saying, well, there's a filter if it offends
Speaker 1: you or like just just gaslighting, just you know, being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we would never allow that sort of hate speech, but
Speaker 1: not but all's being like, and we stand for First
Speaker 1: Amendment rights, and you know they're going to define First
Speaker 1: Amendment rights as hate speech. The CEO of Sky Silk
Speaker 1: Kevin Mitosian. His background is a two thousand four Dean
Speaker 1: Cane thriller. Uh he's a he's a like failed right
Speaker 1: wing film producer who produced the movie Lost starring Dean
Speaker 1: Caine in two thousand four. Uh so like purely a
Speaker 1: play getting people to rent a movie because they think
Speaker 1: they're renting the ABC show. Yeah, that came out that
Speaker 1: fucking year too, Like could it be wrong? Oh my god? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to have such a crush on Dean Kane
Speaker 1: from when he was on Lois and Clark. I had
Speaker 1: such a massive crush on him and seeing the seeing
Speaker 1: how far I have so wrong? Young me was so wrong? Yeah,
Speaker 1: young young mustle was wrong about can't we can't be
Speaker 1: hard on our form ourselves as long as we know
Speaker 1: now and they're doing better. But I remember Dean came
Speaker 1: be like I just saw my friends like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's part of Japanese, right, yeah, and that was and
Speaker 1: then the god I mean, but there he is. Just
Speaker 1: just show yourself, Dean. There, you are a piece of ship.
Speaker 1: But Parlor's biggest threat continues to be Parlor itself because
Speaker 1: the website just yeah, the website operates at a snail's pace,
Speaker 1: wasn't working at all on smartphones, which is not good
Speaker 1: for a app, and they're not accepting new users as
Speaker 1: of early February. Uh, and returning users discovered that all
Speaker 1: their old posts and content had been removed. Uh but
Speaker 1: now in the hands of the do o J right exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know they were all skimmed. Uh hackers, people who
Speaker 1: are like, oh, it's just there. Yeah, I just noticed Parlor.
Speaker 1: The entire post history of all Parlor is on my
Speaker 1: desk by accident. Yeah. Um yeah, this is none of
Speaker 1: what you just said is surprising to me. I do
Speaker 1: a lot of work on platform accountability and platforms and
Speaker 1: how they how they contribute to things like hate speech
Speaker 1: and online harassment and disinformation and misinformation. Every expert in
Speaker 1: the field has said the reason why Parlor is not
Speaker 1: going to have a big impact is because you know,
Speaker 1: on bigger platforms like Facebook and Twitter are able to
Speaker 1: really have that bigger infrastructure and that bigger digital footprint. Partler,
Speaker 1: it's never going to be able to have that. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: folks on the far right, a big reason of what
Speaker 1: they like to do online, for a big reason why
Speaker 1: they're online in the first place, is to harass others.
Speaker 1: You know, they like sending the mean tweets. They like,
Speaker 1: you know, saying like oh liberal tears, snowflakes, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. They enjoy that. That's a
Speaker 1: big part of why they are online. And so on
Speaker 1: a platform like Parlor, where everybody already shares their terrible
Speaker 1: far right opinion, it's going to be a lot less
Speaker 1: fun because they can't do that really fundamental part of
Speaker 1: why they're online. And so I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to be this platform that everybody who's the platform flocks to.
Speaker 1: The aggression and violence is the point, not not necessarily
Speaker 1: the ideological content, right exactly that like they really enjoy,
Speaker 1: you know, harassing others and just causing chaos. And so
Speaker 1: if they're pushed to their own little jankie almost inoperable
Speaker 1: corner of the web. I just don't see it as
Speaker 1: a huge threat in that there. Yeah, they're they. I
Speaker 1: think the reason why people who are like to be
Speaker 1: awful to others on social media do that is because
Speaker 1: they want to harass others. And so if they're just
Speaker 1: kind of insular, it will just be it'll just be
Speaker 1: a place for them to plan like mass uh, movements
Speaker 1: of mass violence and be easily observed by law enforcement
Speaker 1: officials because they because it's a shitty website, you know security. Oh,
Speaker 1: so they plan their crimes in the same park every time.
Speaker 1: That's how we caught them. They go to the same
Speaker 1: park and they talk out loud about their activities and
Speaker 1: we just we just kind of walk in and then
Speaker 1: we're like, all right, it's really easy. They don't they
Speaker 1: still haven't figured it out, but you know, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. And actually things like this Parlor story,
Speaker 1: we we can hear you cover them on your podcast, right,
Speaker 1: that's right, you can find me at there are No
Speaker 1: Girls on the Internet on this very podcast where we
Speaker 1: talk about really all the ways that marginalized voices shape
Speaker 1: the Internet, particularly platforms like Parlor. So please check it out.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. I mean, we
Speaker 1: we talked about the low sperm count. Just keep it up.
Speaker 1: Let's keep an eye on that, guys. We don't want
Speaker 1: the median sperm count to drop to zero. I'm also
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out, like how how worried to
Speaker 1: be about this, because it seems like vague. Some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that's driving down reproductive rates is you know,
Speaker 1: just like people having access to birth control and like
Speaker 1: very healthy things, but then there is like things like
Speaker 1: a higher level of miscarriages and reproductive health problems rising.
Speaker 1: Who knows, Like they don't seem to think that it's
Speaker 1: because people are having better access and like there's more
Speaker 1: reporting because they have better access to reproductive care. But
Speaker 1: the theory, and it's at least if there's some chance
Speaker 1: that it's true, is very scary. The theory is that
Speaker 1: they're chemicals and are plastics and man made materials that
Speaker 1: are causing this drop in sperm count. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: it feels like another one of those capitalism um eco
Speaker 1: disasters where like sort of like the disappearance of the bees,
Speaker 1: where an important but like very fragile link in the
Speaker 1: chain that allows us to vibe is threatened by something
Speaker 1: we've been doing without realizing it for years. We know,
Speaker 1: why do we know? That's what they say. It's like
Speaker 1: some uh their best theory is there's like some something
Speaker 1: in plastics that is causing uh, it's causing it. But
Speaker 1: they also said it could be uh and not going
Speaker 1: to be very popular. Could be a diet obesity. Uh
Speaker 1: smoking which is weird because people used to smoke away
Speaker 1: more and marijuana smoking. Oh yeah, I know that one
Speaker 1: for sure that can can do it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: well yeah, I mean whatever. Maybe well we get to
Speaker 1: see Children of Men. Yeah, I was just gonna say
Speaker 1: it's the same plot. No, yeah, it's Children of Men
Speaker 1: meets How High or uh that long opening scene, like
Speaker 1: if we're matching them, they're like they're leaving a dispensary.
Speaker 1: It's like a super long cut and like all right,
Speaker 1: see you later. And then you go to like a
Speaker 1: trash can down the street to like roll your blunt
Speaker 1: and then the ship explodes behind you. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love that opening scene though, great visuals. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: scene in the car. Yeah, that long shot where the
Speaker 1: people come out of the Yes, that is that is.
Speaker 1: I actually watched how Too of how they did it.
Speaker 1: They have a car that's split in half, so yeah, masterful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what they like because like how it shot is that
Speaker 1: the camera not to get all movie wonky, but the
Speaker 1: camera like moves around the car and you're like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: how how does that work? And they had this model
Speaker 1: car that is split in half so that the camera
Speaker 1: can get all around it. Go back and watch it
Speaker 1: and you'll see what I'm talking about. But it is
Speaker 1: such a it's a masterful scene. That's always so interesting
Speaker 1: when the special effect is like you're like, look at
Speaker 1: those computers. Man, that's pretty cool. And it's like, no,
Speaker 1: we cut a car in half for in Terminator two,
Speaker 1: like all the scenes with Linda Hamilton's uh and the
Speaker 1: t one Housan like pretending to be Linda Hamilton's that's
Speaker 1: a that's Linda Hamilton's identical twin. They cast a woman
Speaker 1: who has an identical twin for like they were able
Speaker 1: to do that scene because she had an identical twin.
Speaker 1: That's how they did that special effect. It's wild. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back, and all right, we've been teasing it all episode.
Speaker 1: There is a certain TV show that I have not
Speaker 1: mentioned yet that is very popular, Criminal Minds. But Miles,
Speaker 1: why don't you reveal what it is? All right? It
Speaker 1: turns out that the hit shows drum roll please please,
Speaker 1: after these Nielsen numbers came out from the end of January.
Speaker 1: And I'm look, I know that from watching like We
Speaker 1: TV or my other trash shows. I would see the
Speaker 1: as like Criminal Minds is here, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: I know people watch it. But Criminal Minds drew the
Speaker 1: most viewing time on Netflix with nine wait, yes, let
Speaker 1: me get this right, nine hundred eighty four million minutes
Speaker 1: of viewing time. That beat Bridgerton, which is at nine
Speaker 1: hundred thirty six. Okay, now that came out that month, right,
Speaker 1: that was the month bridge Oftin came out. I believe so.
Speaker 1: And Criminal Minds hasn't like dropped a new episode like no,
Speaker 1: I mean this shows from it started in two thousand five.
Speaker 1: So essentially, okay, nine eight four million minutes is like
Speaker 1: the equivalent of seventy four thousand people binging the entire
Speaker 1: three hundred plus series in that time. More a ton
Speaker 1: of people just getting it in with you know, shamar more.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I saw Shamar Moore doing the
Speaker 1: crip walk. I should have smeared off his lip gloss,
Speaker 1: as DJ quick One said. But the whole like that
Speaker 1: is just wild to me, that this that we still
Speaker 1: are like this true crime thing is like it's always
Speaker 1: front of mind, like this thing of like watch the
Speaker 1: bad bad guy get caught. That's more than will the
Speaker 1: guy uh shoot up the club and finally impregnate the show.
Speaker 1: It's really uh okay, but the but don't worry, the
Speaker 1: office is still the goat when it comes to all
Speaker 1: time minutes streamed UM. But it's weird, like maybe this
Speaker 1: is some dark horse because it's just growing and growing
Speaker 1: and growing. But the one thing is Netflix points out
Speaker 1: Nielsen's don't cover mobile streams. It's usually on TVs or
Speaker 1: set top TVs that are UM that are like factoring
Speaker 1: into those ratings. That makes sense because I feel like
Speaker 1: this is a I mean, this feels like a CBS
Speaker 1: show right like even if it's not like it's the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that would skew towards like my parents
Speaker 1: will be really into criminal minds and that that feels
Speaker 1: like it might like if you took in streaming, like
Speaker 1: there would be some other show that kids are watching.
Speaker 1: Probably The Office would just be even bigger than we realized. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what the what the differences in
Speaker 1: those sets of numbers, Like if you said this is
Speaker 1: the this is the streaming ecosystem versus the set top
Speaker 1: TV ecosystem of Netflix, I wonder if it's like super different.
Speaker 1: But I also imagine a lot of people will also
Speaker 1: watch off their mobile and then cast to their TV,
Speaker 1: so it's did that count? I don't know. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, are people who are actually figuring
Speaker 1: out these ratings like versed enough in the ways that
Speaker 1: we get down with consuming things like why just look
Speaker 1: at TV? Like I'd imagine a lot of this. There's
Speaker 1: a way to get this other data as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Neilsen just announced that they're going to start doing movie
Speaker 1: uh streaming data as well, because that's now the only
Speaker 1: way to figure out if people watch the movie is
Speaker 1: through streaming. So I would be so curious to see
Speaker 1: those you know, I know that we were going to
Speaker 1: talk about I care a lot one of those movies
Speaker 1: where I was like, oh, it's number one on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I guess everyone's watching it and you know, it's like
Speaker 1: I would be very curious to know what people, particularly
Speaker 1: in quarantine, like what movies are people just like, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: I guess we're all going to watch this together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk about I Care a Lot
Speaker 1: because that's like something like Criminal Minds that has three
Speaker 1: hours of episodes that people can stream, like has a
Speaker 1: huge advantage because, uh, like the data that they used
Speaker 1: to determine like how hot something is is the number
Speaker 1: of minutes. And so the fact that I Care a
Speaker 1: Lot was number one on Netflix, Like, movies don't usually
Speaker 1: last that long at the number one spot. Is it
Speaker 1: just me that thinks that's the worst title for a
Speaker 1: movie that they've ever heard? Yes, I watched remember it's
Speaker 1: impossible to remember. And when you're trying to get somebody
Speaker 1: else to watch it with, you like, oh, I want
Speaker 1: to watch this movie. What's it called? I Care a Lot?
Speaker 1: It's so weird weird exchange. Yeah, So, I mean a
Speaker 1: movie has like one tenth to one of the minutes
Speaker 1: available to stream. So it's just, you know, people are
Speaker 1: less likely to watch a movie ten times than they
Speaker 1: are to watch all ten episodes of Bridge or Tin
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I also feel like it's a solid
Speaker 1: like con Artist heist caper. I don't want to like
Speaker 1: Overstate like how profound I care a lot is as
Speaker 1: a movie, but I I also feel like it ties
Speaker 1: into like what I was talking about last week about
Speaker 1: nomad Land being like a movie about crumbling empire, like
Speaker 1: sort of a post apocalyptic movie that takes place in
Speaker 1: the aftermath of America um where people are just like
Speaker 1: going around with like remnants from like their richer grandparents,
Speaker 1: and you know, like they have the remnants of wealth,
Speaker 1: and they're like working in these robot operated Amazon factories
Speaker 1: and just like trying to scrape together enough to eat
Speaker 1: and like living out of bands and stuff. And in
Speaker 1: this the target it of the like protagonist con Artist
Speaker 1: is old people. She like scams old people out of
Speaker 1: like money that they've made in like previous generations and
Speaker 1: like in America's salad days essentially, and like we're spend
Speaker 1: the movie like rooting for somebody who you know, it's
Speaker 1: definitely like an anti hero situation, but we spend the
Speaker 1: movie rooting for her to like get all the money
Speaker 1: from like just like clean out the safe of America's
Speaker 1: like past prosperity. I don't know. I feel like the
Speaker 1: amorality of it, that dynamic of trying to take money
Speaker 1: from old people before they die. Like all feel like
Speaker 1: they're probably resonating with current America for the same reason
Speaker 1: that we're like kind of obsessed with scam. Scam artists
Speaker 1: are like our knew pirates. They're like modern America. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like if there's a genre of movies about
Speaker 1: the end of American capitalism the way Westerns became him
Speaker 1: like the movie about the end of the American Frontier,
Speaker 1: I feel like our cowboy Gunslinger will be the con artist.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, there's also like something that feels like
Speaker 1: with con artists, it feels like that's fine because they
Speaker 1: got it and I don't. So like you're already kind
Speaker 1: of on board with a like specific scams, not ones
Speaker 1: that you're just like swindling elderly people they have nothing
Speaker 1: at all and die destitude, but like when you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I get this corporation or this other thing, because it's
Speaker 1: speaking to this feeling that maybe not a lot of
Speaker 1: people can articulate that they feel like there's a reason,
Speaker 1: like why do people have it? And I don't um
Speaker 1: Without getting into the complexities of our you know, economic
Speaker 1: system and all that, but like, yeah, it's just a
Speaker 1: good place to launch off. And man, I hope. I
Speaker 1: think the other thing is you can see yourself being like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like you could do it too, Like you
Speaker 1: could fucking turn the tables to Not that it's motivating people,
Speaker 1: but it's just kind of like feels in this place,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't feel too far off, uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: realistic enough to give you a little bit of I
Speaker 1: guess hope that you can steal from the greedy. Is
Speaker 1: that where we are to give a little bit of
Speaker 1: a like a spoiler alert where if you really don't
Speaker 1: want the ending theme spoiled. I really loved how at
Speaker 1: the end of the movie the protagonist, I guess, despite
Speaker 1: being totally amoral, she kind of finds this very particular
Speaker 1: kind of girl boss success. Actually reminded me of a
Speaker 1: Cheryl Sandberg, you know, on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine,
Speaker 1: and nobody is really questioning the immorality of her behavior.
Speaker 1: They're just like, wow, what a rise? Really? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: girl bas like wait to wait, a wait to sleigh, Yes,
Speaker 1: Like they're just completely and that's that ring so true
Speaker 1: with how we treat people who kind of do have
Speaker 1: an amoral rise, especially if they're women, a certain kind
Speaker 1: of white woman. I think yeah, And I mean, even
Speaker 1: though the title is ineffective, like it does, it gets
Speaker 1: like I feel like the central grift of capitalism, like
Speaker 1: disguising just the predatory nature of capitalism behind being like
Speaker 1: I care a lot, we care, Uh Amazon cares for you.
Speaker 1: And that's why, like that just that is the central
Speaker 1: grift that's at the core of the whole thing. And
Speaker 1: like that's also her central gift. She pretends to be
Speaker 1: a caretaker, but really she's like emptying their wallets. And
Speaker 1: you know that's also every every corporation in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of the pandemic, being like in these trying times, you know,
Speaker 1: in these trying times, funk around it's and it's on
Speaker 1: site with your poor ass. Don't up this master card.
Speaker 1: Hop It's like yes, like I remember those like tweets
Speaker 1: like here at Arby's we're a family, Like are we
Speaker 1: really Arbies right? I'm like, I guess diarrhea inducing food
Speaker 1: makes his family? Then yeah, thanks, aunt? Did you like
Speaker 1: uh caro lot I it's funny. I watched it with
Speaker 1: my partner I by the end, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: what a skewering of capitalism. Love it. He had such
Speaker 1: a visceral negative reaction like I have never seen. He
Speaker 1: was like, this movie really valorizes greed in a way
Speaker 1: that is responsible. So I it was. I found it
Speaker 1: funny how we had such such big different reactions. I
Speaker 1: think it can be a really polarizing film. I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, And I also like, I like a movie
Speaker 1: that you know, it's a little it's a it's not campy,
Speaker 1: but like it's a little like, um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how seriously it takes some of what's
Speaker 1: going on, which I really like in a movie. But
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. Yeah, to check it out. Um, alright, Bridget,
Speaker 1: it's been such a pleasure having you. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you on? Follow you? Well, please check out my
Speaker 1: podcast on this very network I Heart Radio, called There
Speaker 1: Are No Girls on the Internet, where we dived into
Speaker 1: all the ways that women, people of color, and other
Speaker 1: marginalized voices shape the Internet. Uh. If you enjoyed talking
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Speaker 1: So you can also find me on Twitter at Bridget
Speaker 1: Marie and on Instagram at Bridget Murrie in d C.
Speaker 1: Uh and is there a tweet or some of the
Speaker 1: work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh? There is. So.
Speaker 1: I have this really amazing uh person that I follow
Speaker 1: on Instagram and also on Twitter. She's a model. Her
Speaker 1: name is Ken Tremendous and she tweeted getting vaccinated for
Speaker 1: being fat. Ask not what you can do for fat phobia,
Speaker 1: but ask what fat phobia can do for you, which
Speaker 1: I was funny, Miles, where can we find you? And
Speaker 1: what's tweet You've been enjoying social media? Man? You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: Also the their podcast for twenty day Fiancee. We're talking
Speaker 1: about ninety day uh. So tweets I like their all
Speaker 1: from Reductress. The first one at Reductress so is this
Speaker 1: is for people in inter relationship interracial relationships, um, especially
Speaker 1: for uh you know, women of color and their hair
Speaker 1: and wearing a bonnet. But this tweet is how to
Speaker 1: explain what a bonnet is to your white partner in
Speaker 1: a condescending way. I love that. Another one from Reductress
Speaker 1: how to seem present on Zoom even though you're looking
Speaker 1: at the latest photo shoot of Sue Bird and Magan Rappino.
Speaker 1: And finally, this is what his great grandmother. Sure has
Speaker 1: harsh opinions on women with short hair for someone with
Speaker 1: a literal pixie cut, and it has like an older
Speaker 1: grandmother with the we know that the short the shorter
Speaker 1: mom hair rocking it. You can find me on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Jack Underscore O'Brien and a tweet I've been enjoying
Speaker 1: from Sore and Booie at Soaring lq D tweeted no
Speaker 1: idea why this was sitting in my drafts folder. It
Speaker 1: was selfish of me not to share. Uh. The ice
Speaker 1: and water dispensers. How your refrigerator poops and peats. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it gives water without any ice, but it almost never
Speaker 1: gives you ice without water. Um that's true man, Uh,
Speaker 1: ice without water? Try that this weekend and give Try
Speaker 1: and give your toilet ice without water. See, yeah, it works. Uh.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian.
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Speaker 1: post episodes on our foot notes, we link off to
Speaker 1: the information that we talked about today's episode as well
Speaker 1: as the song we recommend Miles. What is two days recommendation?
Speaker 1: This one is track from Khalila k E L E
Speaker 1: l A and it's a remix um her album from
Speaker 1: a few years ago, Hallucinogen. But this track is called
Speaker 1: Rewind but it's the Sporting Life remix and it just
Speaker 1: got It's just like her vocals are fantastic and the
Speaker 1: productions like super aggressive, and I just like the juxtaposition
Speaker 1: of like, you know, beats that will make your next
Speaker 1: snap into and then also a voice that will also
Speaker 1: repair your neck repeatedly so you can continue the cycle
Speaker 1: of neck snapping and repair throughout the track. So this
Speaker 1: is Rewind but the Sporting Life Remix by Khalila. It's
Speaker 1: a recommendation with the juxtaposition that is gonna do it
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