Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one seventy two,
Speaker 1: Episode two of The Daily See guyst the production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: February seventeen. My name is Jack O'Brien, a k Where
Speaker 1: do dad jokes come with pale fives? They don't go
Speaker 1: to rogue un or those crookid guys. It's tea easy
Speaker 1: with Jack O'Brien. Here, I'm with Miles on the Daily
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Speaker 1: games at random score video and I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined once again by my co host, Mr Miles Cross.
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Speaker 1: Crispy Chicken, famous bos, like to shoot the Coleslaw, Famous Bulls,
Speaker 1: gravy shredded, Jesus shredded, Jesus Christie. I'm a Gucci man.
Speaker 1: You know we're by La most with Enrique in here,
Speaker 1: and then you make it to famous Bulls and the
Speaker 1: detail about me watching people sip the Coleslaw juice from
Speaker 1: the parking lot. You did it all, my man. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that one. I'm still not recovered from that,
Speaker 1: from that visual that dish sipping the slaw, shooting the slaw.
Speaker 1: Just I mean, it's because you get the big the
Speaker 1: big court one, like the family side side at KFC,
Speaker 1: because that's the only way you're getting enough juice. That's
Speaker 1: what I's people who who sip they get this one
Speaker 1: and then they cracked the lid just enough so the
Speaker 1: slow didn't get out let all the row, do you
Speaker 1: And there's a whole bunch of families out there who
Speaker 1: think that can't see as dry slaw And the truth
Speaker 1: is that whoever was picking up was just shooting it,
Speaker 1: sipping him. Um well, Miles, we are thrilled, fortunate, lucky
Speaker 1: to be joined by the hilarious, the talented Blair Sucky.
Speaker 1: Oh what the daily Zi Yeah, God, that's so good
Speaker 1: to be back. It's like an exhale and guys, Fellas,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you never I've been more hyped by
Speaker 1: an opening both of holes in absolutely knock my freacking
Speaker 1: socks off. You know, you're the bruin that everybody should
Speaker 1: have been doing. U And thank you for coming to
Speaker 1: the show and it's nice to see you. You guys
Speaker 1: team U c l A U c l A Gang
Speaker 1: Brewing Gang. I mean Blair graduated a few years after me,
Speaker 1: as we found out, Uh, definitely not this definitely not
Speaker 1: contemporary is as I did some like number crunching. Blair
Speaker 1: is nineteen years old. And it's so crazy that you
Speaker 1: seem to be a bit surprised to find out that
Speaker 1: I graduated. And it was because you're making all the
Speaker 1: same generational references. I felt like we were talking about
Speaker 1: the same professors. But you know what, it's just these
Speaker 1: people have just been there for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just studied up. You know, how are your You
Speaker 1: got the blue blockers on the yellow blue light black,
Speaker 1: Like I thought it was a bit because I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you have classy super vibes and I'm loving it, Like
Speaker 1: you're you're protecting your eyes. Yeah my eyes are tired
Speaker 1: comment as girls with my whole general aura of being
Speaker 1: a sleepy girl. Um, but yeah I need some protection
Speaker 1: so um. Yeah. Lots of people ruthlessly make fun of me, um,
Speaker 1: like my friend Rosebud for wearing these, but you know
Speaker 1: here I am. I mean, look, you're doing what you got,
Speaker 1: You're protecting yourself. Yeah, shout out the Rosebud's jealous, you know,
Speaker 1: because your eyes are going to be so healthy and
Speaker 1: hers are gonna be so strained. I know she's really
Speaker 1: really overcome with jealousy about that's what she will be
Speaker 1: when she's blind. Yeah, that's me being support mother's jealous. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This conversation is identical to the conversation I had last
Speaker 1: night with my wife. She wore her blue blocker blue
Speaker 1: light blocking glasses to bed for the first time, and
Speaker 1: I was, Uh, they're not They're actually like pretty see through.
Speaker 1: I thought she was coming from the gun range because
Speaker 1: they kind of looked like those uh those like clear
Speaker 1: sea through glasses that people are supposed to wear. Yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: you wear them to bed, like to sleep with them on.
Speaker 1: You're just saying, like, I just like when she's doing
Speaker 1: a light browse y, Yeah, why can't they just put
Speaker 1: it into our screen so we don't have to wear glasses?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. There is an app that's
Speaker 1: like called Flux, I think, or they're used to be.
Speaker 1: This was like years ago, and you're it just makes
Speaker 1: your whole screen look or it definitely Flux because this
Speaker 1: is when her majesty worked at cracked and came back
Speaker 1: like you don't have flux on your thing. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is flux sucking your eyes up? I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're fucked already. But thank you. Alright, Blair, we are
Speaker 1: going to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
Speaker 1: couple of the things we're talking about today, such as
Speaker 1: and uh, the yeah Trump got acquitted again, the GOP
Speaker 1: showing everyone who they are, and the Democrats are uh
Speaker 1: you know, still being like all right, guys, come on,
Speaker 1: what's going on now? Use human emotions to shame them,
Speaker 1: and uh that doesn't work. We're gonna talk about possible
Speaker 1: crim the lawsuits. There's not much on that as of yet,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, criminal lawsuits against Trump might be,
Speaker 1: might have a future. Uh. We are going to talk
Speaker 1: about there's a good mystery on the COVID front. Cases
Speaker 1: are suddenly dropping in India. So as I was looking
Speaker 1: into that, I also noticed that, like when they say
Speaker 1: that cases were spiking in India, before it was like
Speaker 1: still under one person per one hundred thousand. It was
Speaker 1: like so low. So then I started digging into like
Speaker 1: why are cases like why why was it all Asian countries?
Speaker 1: And like Eastern countries so much better uh than the
Speaker 1: West at controlling COVID. I still so two COVID mysteries
Speaker 1: for US. Um, and we'll talk about Texas, which is
Speaker 1: another example of just uh, you know, catastrophic global failure
Speaker 1: by a western uh United States government to prepare for
Speaker 1: a slow motion disaster. All of that plenty more. But first, Blair,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: we will hopefully get to the gorilla glue challenge uh
Speaker 1: and and tell you why you you probably shouldn't partake,
Speaker 1: but you know, I mean, look if if you think
Speaker 1: you're brave, maybe but you're But first Blair, we like
Speaker 1: to ask our guests, what is something from your search
Speaker 1: history that is revealing about who you are? Um? For
Speaker 1: once it wasn't something so damning. The top was just
Speaker 1: yellow velvet pillow, So just do if that what you will?
Speaker 1: You're decorating, you know, my apartment keeps becoming progressively brighter
Speaker 1: and brighter everywhere. Um, he's trying to look like fucking
Speaker 1: lollipop Land. I don't know, really trying to like I
Speaker 1: just I'm like, I need to create my own bright
Speaker 1: world inside these walls. You know, you got yellow tinted glasses,
Speaker 1: so all velvet pillows are gonna be a little yellow
Speaker 1: for you right now. Um, save money, just get white pillows.
Speaker 1: Put those glasses on. Whoa, this is how you have
Speaker 1: friends to j no. I tried doing that. Her majesty
Speaker 1: did a lot like when I was offering that as
Speaker 1: a solution for things. Oh, we'll just put on different
Speaker 1: colored glasses. Now it looks like how we want it. Okay.
Speaker 1: I will say a little bit of a silver lining
Speaker 1: lately is that it's no longer getting dark at like
Speaker 1: five and so you I find myself going outside every
Speaker 1: once in a while. Uh and the sky looks like
Speaker 1: a like a unicorn frap from uh Man, I missed
Speaker 1: the starbucksrap just came out of nowhere for me. I
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, I don't know what you're supposed to
Speaker 1: freeze those when you buy him at the store. Wait, really,
Speaker 1: I saw some TikTok you know how TikTok. You'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna funk your what up? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: do your worst what those glass frappuccino pre made ships
Speaker 1: you buy at the store, like you freeze them like
Speaker 1: just a little bit before it becomes and then you
Speaker 1: just spin it around and then you got a frap
Speaker 1: And I was like, damn, I'm I didn't even think
Speaker 1: about that that. Let me tell me that anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah, just brightening, brightening your environment. That's like one thing.
Speaker 1: That's the next level up of like actually doing something.
Speaker 1: Uh that like I can't get to my my desk
Speaker 1: is a complete dis master of like old gum. And
Speaker 1: if these desks could talk, chack you both you and mind.
Speaker 1: You're doing great. I mean you're listening is goddamn podcast
Speaker 1: for the entire nation every day. I think you're really
Speaker 1: showing up hard. Who cares about a wrapper on your desk?
Speaker 1: A little bitch rapper the most color I have his
Speaker 1: bottle of Aceta medal fin and uh some old tried
Speaker 1: to yellow tried so man aceto medal fin, which by
Speaker 1: the way, I don't think I've ever pronounced fully. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really gorgeous and all right, it's a little blue
Speaker 1: and red. They had to up the game a little bit,
Speaker 1: uh to evoke Thailand all with the Kirkland brand signature.
Speaker 1: What is it? Kan Ace tammy no fin all right,
Speaker 1: well that's I was taught to break it up in
Speaker 1: a manageable hen. I cannot even believe the amount of
Speaker 1: the audience has been educated already in these first five
Speaker 1: wild You're welcome, and that's a free education. The only
Speaker 1: reason I know that is a White Stripe song where
Speaker 1: he sings see the mean you've seen the medicine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: some kind of genius. What is something, Blair that you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? Um? Okay, so are so fucking good.
Speaker 1: I cannot even believe like we as a nation and
Speaker 1: not talking about them every day. They are the perfect chip.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they are, you know, almost entirely made up
Speaker 1: of chemicals, but they are the perfect chemicals. They are
Speaker 1: my chemicals. And the sack chips in that messless cylindrical
Speaker 1: container heavy. I'll put down two canisters on a writing deadline,
Speaker 1: no problem, won't even know what happened, blackout, put down
Speaker 1: another style of cream and on you and go back
Speaker 1: for a nacho cheese. Pringles are incredible, Pringles, said Bugles. No, No, Pringles,
Speaker 1: ba oh man, Pringles. I mean there's something about it,
Speaker 1: because you know it's a bunch of potatoes that they
Speaker 1: reformed into chip shape right with the flower. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's like a part pasta part. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's got I feel like there's a pasta nous
Speaker 1: about it where it breaks down like pasta does a
Speaker 1: little bit in your mouth. Past not the first word
Speaker 1: that comes to mind. Definitely, not so I kind of
Speaker 1: get where you're going, you know, but you know, like,
Speaker 1: do you feel like it's like part of flowery thing,
Speaker 1: like there's potato and flour mixture or is that just me?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they're so light an airy
Speaker 1: that my mind doesn't go to potato again. I feel
Speaker 1: like they're purely artificial, but in a way it works
Speaker 1: in just gorgeousness. And the thing is like people don't
Speaker 1: talk about them enough, but they're exquisite, timely and you
Speaker 1: can all timeless and you can always count on them. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are probably among the most consistent snack foods. I
Speaker 1: still remember their commercial that had the Papa Moles pile
Speaker 1: and like it was like on the beach, and then
Speaker 1: I remember the way they were shading normal chips. Was
Speaker 1: a dude who was reaching in a bag of lais
Speaker 1: and he had like the just wild grease hand and
Speaker 1: got just turned his beech shirt translucent from all the
Speaker 1: grease from eating a bag of chips. And they say
Speaker 1: greasy not funh And I was like, yo, okay, I
Speaker 1: remember those Those are genius. And it was like, once
Speaker 1: you pop, you just can't stop. Or is that a
Speaker 1: different commercial. Well, I think it's once you pop the
Speaker 1: fun don't stop. That's where greasy not fun. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: maybe my brain was rotted by nineties marketing and that's
Speaker 1: all I know, but I do know that to be true.
Speaker 1: But once you pop, you can't stop. Was also a
Speaker 1: era of pringles marketing. Right of someone? I think another one? Right,
Speaker 1: wasn't it enough? Wasn't it corn? No corn pops? I
Speaker 1: gotta have my pops? Oh yeah, well, geez you incredible
Speaker 1: recall Miles, I think, dude, because that had used to
Speaker 1: have the Jaws theme song on the commercials. I used
Speaker 1: to suck me up with corn pops because we dud
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh funk, bro was going. Because
Speaker 1: I had an irrational fear of sharks from Jaws, I
Speaker 1: would never sleep. I would never swim in a pool
Speaker 1: at night because I couldn't see the ship. Uh, so
Speaker 1: you know, I'm working through my own ship with my therapist.
Speaker 1: I remember when I went to Universal Studios and I
Speaker 1: took that tour ride and Jaws came out. I was
Speaker 1: like seven, all right, was so shocked full started crying.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the hell was that someone thought
Speaker 1: that was appropriate? Just to stop while the killer shark
Speaker 1: that's like four times his eyes as the person jumps
Speaker 1: out at me, you started crying, or the tour guide
Speaker 1: me maybe cry baby everything every time. Um Pringles did
Speaker 1: have a once you stop you, once you pop, you
Speaker 1: can't stop slogan in the nineties, which is right when
Speaker 1: junk food was becoming like engineered to be so addictive
Speaker 1: that we had a national obesity epidemics. So there's like
Speaker 1: some truth in advertising there where, uh they kind of
Speaker 1: get at the the addictiveness of of their own products
Speaker 1: but make it fun. Ad um. Yeah, if I have
Speaker 1: one chip, I'm putting down two full tennis ball containers. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That that I think is one of the most brilliant
Speaker 1: things about it is the container because that makes sense
Speaker 1: you can't make sense of what you're eating. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's also so consistent. It's always that just straight up
Speaker 1: and down stack of chips so cleanly too, and you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about them getting smashed in your
Speaker 1: backpack on the way to the beach. Yeah, Kringles are
Speaker 1: the one chip that I feel like it's appropriate to
Speaker 1: eat at the beach. It's like the snack food of
Speaker 1: the beach. For no reason other than they did that
Speaker 1: a lot in their commercials. Yeah, I think it's but
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I think because there's a lid, you're
Speaker 1: like take that sand versus like folding over the top
Speaker 1: of the back. There's also a crushed chips so easily accidentally,
Speaker 1: they're so delicate with Kringles. Holler at, let's just drop
Speaker 1: the bag off at Blair's house. Do you know what
Speaker 1: time it is? Or the cylindrical can? Yeah or that whichever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll take our money in that. More cans than fucking
Speaker 1: Shredder and Ninja turtles. Also, uh, Brad Pitt. Probably the
Speaker 1: first time you saw Brad Pitt was in a Pringle's ad.
Speaker 1: He was in a very early Pringles at at the
Speaker 1: beach crushing some Pringles. Really, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? Blair? Wait? Oh yeah, I didn't do that one. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to say, what's you know what is overrated?
Speaker 1: Um Jack and Miles, Okay, yeah, it's the word normalized.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's right up there with adulting now, folks. Next.
Speaker 1: My skin crawl when I hear the word normalized. I
Speaker 1: just want to stop the day right there and go
Speaker 1: back to bed. Normalized. Nope, I'm done, good night, see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. I hope to begin a new day then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: super normalization. Man, what are like, what are the headlines
Speaker 1: you read that are using over using it? Just you know,
Speaker 1: the internet is unmatched capacity to make you hate stuff. Um.
Speaker 1: I I expend a lot of energy like trying not
Speaker 1: to be poisoned by that. It's cancer of like making
Speaker 1: you knee your cake stuff. But when you just like
Speaker 1: mindlessly absorb it over and over every it was like normalized, normalized, normalize,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I can't read this fucking word one
Speaker 1: more time. If you're putting it in your tweets, its garbage.
Speaker 1: M hm. So yeah, that's waiting, like my tweet don't
Speaker 1: normalize white supremacy. And I'm just you know, just stweet.
Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to do A
Speaker 1: and B. Columal was like if I saw that tweet,
Speaker 1: definitely would have went with something else, would have made
Speaker 1: another choice. I think. Yeah, just normalized just means like
Speaker 1: is whack, don't make this thing acknowledge that this is bullshit.
Speaker 1: Rather than don't normalize it, just say we all know
Speaker 1: this is a ship and we need to be arms
Speaker 1: locked together and acknowledging this whatever topic industry is horseshit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you know how some like internet words get you, um, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: when I hear adult adult ing, like I my body
Speaker 1: really turns to a child. Yeah. Yeah, you get one
Speaker 1: of those hats with the little propeller top on grows
Speaker 1: out of your head. I'm a kid. I'm never getting
Speaker 1: invited back on this podcast. You're you're coming back no
Speaker 1: matter what. Uh. The one thing I hear a lot though,
Speaker 1: is like my one friend said he hates lean into.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the other one. Like that was the equivalent
Speaker 1: of him being like, you know what I hear to damn,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, leaning in, But sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: know how to do it, Like, if you're talking about
Speaker 1: a bit, you gotta lean into a bit. I don't
Speaker 1: know any other way to make that expression. I guess
Speaker 1: over inculged. Yeah, it's too wordy, too many syllables, steer
Speaker 1: into the spin. Uh that's another version of that. I
Speaker 1: just saw aviation extra old. I just thought of a
Speaker 1: little um addendum. Also, um um also overrated loud cars
Speaker 1: and motorcycles. So that's mostly what I spend my time
Speaker 1: on Internet campaigning against um. Very troubled men pay to
Speaker 1: make their cars loud and then you know, just make
Speaker 1: a whole show careening down the street. And I really
Speaker 1: really don't like them, and I think they have little
Speaker 1: baby dogs. There's a there's a there's tension in my
Speaker 1: neighborhood with loud exhaust at the moment someone's got they
Speaker 1: have a remote start car and the pipes on here.
Speaker 1: When I say they're, they're these pipes are louder than
Speaker 1: a whiz Khalifa's house. Because the ships, I get, they
Speaker 1: they freaked the funk out of me because out of
Speaker 1: nowhere's like and I'm like, oh fuck, But you know,
Speaker 1: I get it, like you know, people want to have
Speaker 1: their gear head life. But at a certain point, I'm like,
Speaker 1: isn't there like can't you put like a manner mode
Speaker 1: on where you're like let me, let me start this
Speaker 1: like keep it low key till I get out of
Speaker 1: my neighborhood where there might be sleeping people or babies,
Speaker 1: and then turn it up or whatever. But I know,
Speaker 1: I hate being like an old man, like a nine
Speaker 1: year old man about it. But I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: I am one of the unfortunately a highly sensitive person.
Speaker 1: It really gets in my nervous system really nice. Is
Speaker 1: it traffic like by your place that gets you? Or
Speaker 1: just whenever you're is it just because or you for you?
Speaker 1: You're about tranquility? Turn everything yellow, the yellow sunglasses yellow?
Speaker 1: You know what it is is? I spend like an
Speaker 1: hour or two walking outside a day just for my
Speaker 1: health in the pandemic being inside, and it'll always be
Speaker 1: like right at the moment I'm on the phone with
Speaker 1: my grandma or something, and and then like literally the
Speaker 1: whole the whole call gets just black out. But some
Speaker 1: fucking asshole I gotta make up for the pain inside
Speaker 1: the Yeah, I wonder if he's also trying to catch
Speaker 1: your attention, you know, being like checking me out. Having
Speaker 1: a wild Car's never crossed my mind. I wear a
Speaker 1: giant mom buiser for sun protection. Nice. Also, you and
Speaker 1: my wife should hang out. She's doing the same thing,
Speaker 1: hang out and talk about some protection waving waving her
Speaker 1: fist angrily at loud cars that passed by. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even do that. I don't react
Speaker 1: at all. I just silently die a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Once I heard that the I forget which muscle car was,
Speaker 1: but one of them may be all the like Mustang
Speaker 1: and Charger and all those cars. When I heard that
Speaker 1: they had like basically a little speaker in their muffler
Speaker 1: that was like creating the ror noise, it totally made
Speaker 1: me look at that, like it's just synthetic at this point,
Speaker 1: because you just don't need Like the cars are sophisticated
Speaker 1: enough that they don't need to do that anymore. But
Speaker 1: they're like still just to like give whatever that urges
Speaker 1: a place to play. They're they're creating their like playing
Speaker 1: a sound of an old motor essentially. Yeah, and but
Speaker 1: then it will play it into your speakers in the
Speaker 1: car though, two to give you the sense that your
Speaker 1: car is that loud outwardly. Yeah, it's just I am
Speaker 1: absolutely sickened. Yeah, but I get, you know, like at
Speaker 1: a certain point, it's like I remember, you know, as
Speaker 1: a kid, you i'd ride a bike, you could hear
Speaker 1: a car behind you or something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I think as it gets quieter because now in
Speaker 1: the advent of like hybrids and stuff, and I ride
Speaker 1: my bike a lot more now, like I get hybrid
Speaker 1: sneak up on me pretty easily, but not to the
Speaker 1: point where it's everyone's safe. But I'm always like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a difference sonically in the environment where like I
Speaker 1: used to hear Old Oscar but yeah, it's more of
Speaker 1: a it's like a high pitched wine of like whatever
Speaker 1: is cooling the computer off is like the never like
Speaker 1: a slow start, though it's always violent, like they are
Speaker 1: got slam it on real hard, like everyone look at
Speaker 1: me while I make you mad, and you know yeah,
Speaker 1: or people on like motorcyle I get sometimes on motorcycles,
Speaker 1: like they'll rev to like get people's attention. Because sometimes
Speaker 1: people are like but then there are other people who
Speaker 1: are just like especially when you're gonna overpass, which is
Speaker 1: a concrete sound chamber, and someone's like, I'm gonna turn
Speaker 1: it up in here, and you're like, don't, You're gonna
Speaker 1: funk everything up, and it's just too much too much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is the thing that Harley's I guess are one
Speaker 1: of the safest motorcycles because they're so loud. And one
Speaker 1: of the big problems with motorcycles on the road as
Speaker 1: like drivers of cars just like don't register them because
Speaker 1: they're not like looking for that sized vehicle. And our
Speaker 1: brains are stupid computers that are like programmed for very
Speaker 1: few things. And so people that's like, we need those speakers. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: hit them. Okay, we'll admit I've never I've heard that before.
Speaker 1: And I just crossed the aisle to the other to
Speaker 1: understand a little bit more about my foes and my
Speaker 1: my nemesies, my enemies, and now I'll know a little
Speaker 1: bit more about their motorcycle culture trying to keep themselves
Speaker 1: safe the trucks. Still no excuse, but thank you for
Speaker 1: educating me a bit exactly. If you've got a two
Speaker 1: thousand two act legend, are a ninety two act legend
Speaker 1: with the wild asthma. Come on, now, we understand, we
Speaker 1: understand what you're trying to do. But it's okay. Nobody's
Speaker 1: judging you on how loud you can yell for your
Speaker 1: parents to come back. Yeah, I was just thinking of
Speaker 1: like things they could add to the like in addition
Speaker 1: to the motor hume, like something like unapproving, like, uh,
Speaker 1: you're from from your dad. I really didn't. I really
Speaker 1: did go to get cigarettes. And I think just kind
Speaker 1: of got complicated all the way there. I will all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back and uh yeah, another impeachment, another acquittal.
Speaker 1: You know, well, well vindic Asian, thank you. He was,
Speaker 1: he was right all along, right, exactly vindicated. So forty
Speaker 1: three GOP senators voted to a quit Trump over the weekend,
Speaker 1: which nobody was surprised by. But the fact that Democrats
Speaker 1: are still treating the Republicans the way they did like
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, eighties, Yeah, well in eighteen eighties,
Speaker 1: I feel like they used to uh like beat each
Speaker 1: other on the floor of the of Congress. I feel
Speaker 1: like they could bring that back maybe, but yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just a it's just a mess in there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's it's I think that's what's really tough, right is
Speaker 1: because from you know, the second we were fully in
Speaker 1: the Trump era, we're like, oh, yeah, this isn't this
Speaker 1: is another thing. This is like the borg has take
Speaker 1: like white supremacy borg has taken over. And it's like
Speaker 1: there's no there's doesn't be any rhyme or reason to it.
Speaker 1: It's like we're just gonna get in the way or
Speaker 1: try and dismantle anything that was it will create any
Speaker 1: kind of forward movement or progress. And yeah, like the
Speaker 1: Democrats really been like it's such a shame, you know
Speaker 1: what these people like. It's it's really it's really unsettling
Speaker 1: that they'll do this. It's like, but you knew what
Speaker 1: was going on. This has been the case, and they
Speaker 1: still want to do this thing of like, well, they
Speaker 1: weren't always like this. It's like, yes they were, but
Speaker 1: you're just at a level where the discourse has come
Speaker 1: to a point where there's no there is no thing
Speaker 1: to hide for the hide behind. For the Republicans, they
Speaker 1: used to be like, it's not about racism, it's about
Speaker 1: this thing. It's not about limiting the rights of LGBTQ people.
Speaker 1: It's about this thing. Now it's just fully like fuck you,
Speaker 1: I don't care he's guilty, but we're not gonna do
Speaker 1: ship because that's the side we're on, and you must
Speaker 1: be out your fucking head. If you think we're gonna
Speaker 1: vote against that, come the funck on, is what they
Speaker 1: just said over the weekend. And so now I'm like,
Speaker 1: please Democrats, they've read there. There is no there is literally,
Speaker 1: I mean, people have been begging for a deck over
Speaker 1: a decade decades now to just destroy the filibuster at
Speaker 1: this point, but now you really there's no reason at
Speaker 1: all to engage these people like they have any kind
Speaker 1: of good for their any sort of good faith actor
Speaker 1: about anything they say. They're not. They're spending all their
Speaker 1: time right now in state legislatures trying to you know,
Speaker 1: like examine the genitals of of of female athletes because
Speaker 1: they're suspicious of like trans kids competing, or trying to
Speaker 1: change the laws around voting. There it's a full court
Speaker 1: press of factory like outside of d C. And they
Speaker 1: if you're not going to acknowledge and be like, okay,
Speaker 1: well now we need to go from nine Barry bonds
Speaker 1: to two thousands, six very bonds, where my head is
Speaker 1: gigantic because I see the game is changing. That's what
Speaker 1: we need because this the game is different. And they're
Speaker 1: still trying to be like, well, maybe we can beat
Speaker 1: them fair, fair Son beat them fair. And it's not
Speaker 1: to say that ending the filibuster is unfair. It's just
Speaker 1: this really fucking outdated drill mechanism that acts as a
Speaker 1: kill switch for any kind of policy. The minority, which
Speaker 1: is always the Republicans in this case, or even they're
Speaker 1: in the majority, but the they will always use that
Speaker 1: as a kill switch for any kind of progress because
Speaker 1: what that means is by saying that by using the filibuster,
Speaker 1: that means it will take seven or sixty votes to
Speaker 1: advance any legislation to the President's desk, rather than a
Speaker 1: simple majority, which is what most people think. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Democrats have a majority, or there's like Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: can be the tie breaking vote. Now all this other
Speaker 1: stuff can happen. But with the filibuster there, that allows
Speaker 1: them to keep debate open for fucking ever. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things to where like Mitch McConnell, he's like, well,
Speaker 1: we're character rid of the Philippus. It's good for bi
Speaker 1: part of it. It's not good for it's that's bullshit.
Speaker 1: That's just there to pretend that it's there for bipartiship.
Speaker 1: The reason he doesn't use it, or like the times
Speaker 1: where he will eliminate the filibuster is when he has
Speaker 1: to get Supreme Court nominees confirmed. That's when he'll that's
Speaker 1: when he'll be like, no, just a majority, now, just
Speaker 1: a majority. We're not allowing that now because I gotta
Speaker 1: get this goon through. Or like the other thing is
Speaker 1: they have a loophole to where they don't need like
Speaker 1: there's no threat of the filibuster when it comes to
Speaker 1: certain things like tax bills or spending because they can
Speaker 1: do that under budget reconciliation, which is another process that
Speaker 1: just requires fifty votes. So it's like a loophole where
Speaker 1: they don't they'll say we needed or whatever. But they're
Speaker 1: always getting away with ship and that the ship that
Speaker 1: they use it for civil rights filibustered, the funk out,
Speaker 1: gun control, fillerbustered, the funk out the Dream Act when
Speaker 1: that ship could have gone through filibustered. So this is
Speaker 1: like what you know, we're saying that they have all
Speaker 1: these ways to undermine progress and we're still allowing We're
Speaker 1: still putting those tools on the table for them, acting
Speaker 1: as if they're gonna be like, Okay, well come on,
Speaker 1: you do think a forgiving student debt or a student
Speaker 1: loan debt is going to be good? Right? Well, I
Speaker 1: guess not if you can't get sixty of us, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. That's where it gets so fucking
Speaker 1: messy and you just want to be like, okay, come
Speaker 1: on Democrats, yeahs is it? Probably? Like who is in
Speaker 1: favor of ending the filibuster? I feel like I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of people who aren't Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer like come out in favor of it, but like
Speaker 1: what where are I mean you'll see like John Tester
Speaker 1: or like Kristen Cinema, these like you know, these fucking
Speaker 1: noodle spined Democrats senators who are like, well, you don't know, well,
Speaker 1: if we do that, then my part, it just ensures
Speaker 1: minority rule, you know what I mean. Like there's no
Speaker 1: and there's nothing sacred about it, Like it's been altered
Speaker 1: taken away many times throughout the course of the like
Speaker 1: the history of this nation. So it's just this idea
Speaker 1: like there's because there's also this fear of like, well
Speaker 1: then what happens if the Republicans are in control? We've
Speaker 1: seen what the funk happens. You're right about the filibuster.
Speaker 1: They'll do whatever the funk they have to, But then
Speaker 1: you're gonna then suddenly put the brakes on your ability
Speaker 1: to start put meaningful legislation forward because of this like
Speaker 1: fucking specter you've raised in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1: That's just actual horseshit, Like I'm just starting to see.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm failing to see what the risks are
Speaker 1: um in terms of how the GOP operates and how
Speaker 1: the the Democrats are choosing to to counter that because
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get Medicare for all or a green
Speaker 1: new deal with that. You think Mitch McConnell's gonna fucking
Speaker 1: roll with that, No, or it's a version. That's the
Speaker 1: other thing too, is you can tell where the Democrats
Speaker 1: are too, because if they don't care, then they'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well fine, that's why we have to work with them
Speaker 1: on this, and you should not. They don't fucking deserve
Speaker 1: any kind of oxygen to be heard. That's what there.
Speaker 1: There's like a thing that I thought was overly cynical
Speaker 1: when people are saying, like the Democrats don't actually want
Speaker 1: to win power, because then they have to you know,
Speaker 1: enact a bunch of legislation that uh, you know progressives
Speaker 1: want that they don't actually want. And it's like this
Speaker 1: feels like the asset test for that, Like is this
Speaker 1: are you going to kill the filibuster and like allow
Speaker 1: yourself to enact legislation because they have openly like they're
Speaker 1: not playing by any manner of rules anymore, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just very frustrating. It's I I don't I just
Speaker 1: don't get what their calculus is too, because they're also
Speaker 1: like Democrats and Republicans, like the single issue votership fux
Speaker 1: up platforms and policies so much because rather than looking
Speaker 1: at like what the majorities want and like, the majority
Speaker 1: of the country's like, convict this dude, the majority of
Speaker 1: the countries like he should be barred from holding office. Ever. Again,
Speaker 1: the majority of people are like Trump should never fucking
Speaker 1: be near office and any kind ever, and even a
Speaker 1: majority of like republic lolikings are what are they doing?
Speaker 1: But they are still focused on what the funk their
Speaker 1: colleagues are saying these other fucking goblins that they work with,
Speaker 1: thinking that's what America is. But just look, most Americans
Speaker 1: saw what the funk went down? And they're like, that's
Speaker 1: so nothing's happening. What the fuck the clock and the
Speaker 1: clock is taking like you're gonna fucking deliver meaningful stimulus,
Speaker 1: stimulus and aid to people in need. And by the
Speaker 1: time the UH mid terms come around with by allowing
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and them to muddy up everything really right,
Speaker 1: I mean, they know America at its core, like at
Speaker 1: the DNA level, as a nation ruled by a wealthy,
Speaker 1: like tiny minority, and like so I feel like they're
Speaker 1: kind of all in on that. They realize like, well,
Speaker 1: you can't actually even though the Democrats come out and
Speaker 1: say we're we're on the side of you know, popular opinion,
Speaker 1: they don't actually do the things that require them too.
Speaker 1: I was wondering, is there another lawsuit that could because
Speaker 1: he has another a bunch of other ones like that
Speaker 1: could bar him from holding office again, or is this
Speaker 1: the last kind of hope for that. I don't know. Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like what the all the legal mechanisms
Speaker 1: are aside from this, but I mean there is a
Speaker 1: I mean, the the grumblings and mumblings are growing in
Speaker 1: terms of well, if clearly the like that was so
Speaker 1: stupid to have his best friends be the jury, um
Speaker 1: slash hostages, active hostages, political hostages in the Senate who
Speaker 1: are many of whom have said, Yeah, the base is
Speaker 1: kind of wild right now, so I don't really want
Speaker 1: to like cross them, so I'm gonna keep my head down. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, like what happens there? And I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's talk about the Attorney General d C and other
Speaker 1: ages possibly bringing criminal lawsuits for incitement against Trump. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, and I think that's the thing that everyone's
Speaker 1: talking about now. I mean Nancy Pelosi said, look, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a nine eleven style commission to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of this. Okay, that might reveal some things.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people also saying, like, it's a
Speaker 1: shame what happened in the in the fucking impeachment quote
Speaker 1: unquote trial, because like Jamie Raskin did, like all of
Speaker 1: the the imputer managers did a really good job of
Speaker 1: just making it so clear like this is what he's
Speaker 1: been saying, this is what the people were saying, this
Speaker 1: is what the people said. They were taking his words
Speaker 1: to mean after they committed crimes. Do you see what
Speaker 1: we're we're going with this, and a lot of people like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's actually he played out a substantial case,
Speaker 1: uh for like actual incitement charges in terms of a
Speaker 1: criminal case. Um And but I think there will be
Speaker 1: a lot of debate over Trump's First Amendment rights, like
Speaker 1: what was protected speech? What did he say? It's going
Speaker 1: to be very it's the incitement part that is really
Speaker 1: difficult to like sort of prove. But a lot of
Speaker 1: people like there it seems like he's he's dealing with
Speaker 1: more examples of unprotected speech than protected speech when we're
Speaker 1: talking about like the evidence that was being used to
Speaker 1: sort of make this case because being like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go over to the Capitol and like show them. Huh,
Speaker 1: Like that's like you what are you gonna what is that?
Speaker 1: What is that? What else is that supposed to me? Um? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think there's a lot of it's still
Speaker 1: very new. I think right now, I think Americans need
Speaker 1: to get on board with the idea that Republicans are
Speaker 1: absolutely fucking gone, Like you know, most people were like
Speaker 1: these people like I think if you listen to this show,
Speaker 1: we've been saying this for a while, but if anyone
Speaker 1: still is like, well, you know, they might just know. No,
Speaker 1: they looked at it. They looked this case dead in
Speaker 1: its eye, and in some cases they actually avoided looking
Speaker 1: at it at all because it was so clear, turned
Speaker 1: to their back on the video and start like cutting
Speaker 1: their toenails and ship. Um that they could look at
Speaker 1: that and still say, you know what, it's it's not
Speaker 1: it's yeah, maybe he was guilty, but but it's But
Speaker 1: that's what they're saying is when it comes to this
Speaker 1: kind of ship, you can be guilty, but we still
Speaker 1: won't hold you accountable because we need that. Right. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to COVID news, which is positive, but
Speaker 1: there's like a silver lining of shit that I'd like
Speaker 1: to talk about. UM. So India, we're seeing cases, as
Speaker 1: we talked about last week, drop across the around the world, UM,
Speaker 1: and people aren't quite sure why they're dropping, uh because
Speaker 1: like there's no single explanation that would make sense. There's
Speaker 1: not enough people who are vaccinated yet antibody testing, for instance,
Speaker 1: India is seeing one of the biggest drops. UH suggest
Speaker 1: only one in five people in India had the virus.
Speaker 1: So heard immunity on its own doesn't explain it. They're
Speaker 1: in general better at masking UH than the United States,
Speaker 1: but the drop is uniform across locations, even locations with
Speaker 1: poor mask adoption. So as I was reading up on this,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, the question is open, and
Speaker 1: I think it's probably a combination of all these different
Speaker 1: things UH combining to draw or draw the rate of
Speaker 1: transmission down. But as I was going through this AP
Speaker 1: article on the drop, I realized that, like India is
Speaker 1: still even at the high point where they were measuring from,
Speaker 1: it was still like below one person per one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand UM. And and I started just kind of like
Speaker 1: digging through and it's like China, same, Japan, same, And
Speaker 1: this is this is like just over the past few weeks,
Speaker 1: but Japan, South Korea, their numbers per one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: are orders of magnitude away from what you're seeing in
Speaker 1: the United States, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, UM, South and
Speaker 1: Central American countries. And you know this this has been
Speaker 1: like the Wall Street Journal wrote about this back in
Speaker 1: October about like how this trend is you know, happening,
Speaker 1: But I I feel like we don't see it brought
Speaker 1: forward as like a like the Asian societies that they
Speaker 1: looked at in the Wall Street Journal, like they interviewed
Speaker 1: people and they were like, oh yeah, like we're looking
Speaker 1: at you guys like a cautionary tale, and every time
Speaker 1: there's like a slight uptick, we all mask up because
Speaker 1: what's happening in your countries is a disaster. Um. But
Speaker 1: I feel like the other side of that, it's not
Speaker 1: being treated as like, ah, this is what you could
Speaker 1: have like sort of thing. It's it's just like even
Speaker 1: the degree to which like people are like there's the
Speaker 1: anti Asian racism that we're seeing, like attacks on elderly
Speaker 1: Asian Americans, and like these are nations that and like
Speaker 1: that people suspect that that's associated with the pandemic, and
Speaker 1: like the story not not that there should ever be
Speaker 1: like any sort of attacks on anyone, but like the
Speaker 1: the story should be that those countries are like dramatically
Speaker 1: kicking our ass in terms of like how uh they
Speaker 1: approached the virus, how they controlled the virus, how they
Speaker 1: continue to control the virus. Um. It's it's just kind
Speaker 1: of a story that I feel like is should be
Speaker 1: the main story, uh, and is getting underplayed because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it is cultural stuff, like, you know,
Speaker 1: people valuing the well being of other people in other
Speaker 1: countries as opposed to in the United States, where like
Speaker 1: the first or the biggest new social media trend is
Speaker 1: um anti math groups like people fighting for the right
Speaker 1: to not wear masks. Yeah, and I think maybe even
Speaker 1: like the way it's reported is like they don't want
Speaker 1: Americans to catch wind of how much better people are
Speaker 1: treated in other countries to exactly because you do that, like, well,
Speaker 1: let's also talk about like wage subsidies for places like
Speaker 1: Korea or Japan, uh, and how they immediately said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to take care of people's rents because
Speaker 1: if they got to stay inside, then they can't have
Speaker 1: the crush of trying to go out to make money.
Speaker 1: Then we can give them food whatever. Like that was
Speaker 1: like the beginnings of thinking about how to create relief.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think that that, to me was like
Speaker 1: one of the few things I barely see reported about
Speaker 1: comparing what the what life has been like existing in
Speaker 1: the United States as a person who may have lost
Speaker 1: their job versus these other countries, because that would piss
Speaker 1: you the funk off, and you're like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: But that is. I think that's another really under ripped,
Speaker 1: barded side of things. It's more like what's going on
Speaker 1: over there, rather than we might have a problem with
Speaker 1: toxic individualism that's literally killing the country. These countries for centuries,
Speaker 1: for eons, have been on a philosophical plane about taking
Speaker 1: care of each other or or or or duty to
Speaker 1: the community and things like that that are playing out
Speaker 1: as we see in this way too, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I talked to my Japanese relatives and it's it's there's
Speaker 1: so many things like that will compare and contrast how
Speaker 1: it's head scratching. Some things are like you wouldn't wear
Speaker 1: a mask, like people, why wouldn't people wear masks? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain that to you. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult to explain. And people like what the last
Speaker 1: time I complimented or or said Japan was doing better
Speaker 1: than the United States? Um, people were like, it's actually
Speaker 1: not that great, and they're they're definitely like ups and
Speaker 1: downs in other countries, just like uh, the United States
Speaker 1: has had. It's just that they are ups and downs
Speaker 1: are so much smaller than ours, Like the the max
Speaker 1: of the India spike that they were talking about was
Speaker 1: like forty thousand or four hundred thousand people, um, which
Speaker 1: you know is a nation of it's like three times
Speaker 1: of population of the United States. So it's like it's
Speaker 1: just nothing compared to what we're seeing in the United States.
Speaker 1: And I feel like those the order of magnitude of
Speaker 1: the problem that we've had with this comparative comparatively is
Speaker 1: just kind of being ignored by the media because I
Speaker 1: I think people don't want to acknowledge it, the idea
Speaker 1: of wearing a mask as any loss of freedom, Like
Speaker 1: that's not even saying anything about what you can do
Speaker 1: or where you can go, anything, anything anything like that.
Speaker 1: It's like the smallest thing. And when I see these
Speaker 1: people like where they're making that, they're like their movement
Speaker 1: anti mask, I mean, it's such a micro issue and
Speaker 1: the whole thing of freedoms to me, it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's the what's funny. The thing is you could
Speaker 1: never try and explain to that person, like wouldn't you
Speaker 1: say that you're outside response to this is indicative of
Speaker 1: a lifetime of always being unhindered and always doing whatever
Speaker 1: the funk you wanted to, like, relative to that is
Speaker 1: that what you think you're maybe pushing back, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? You know what I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: you can't get someone to see that. But for so long,
Speaker 1: I mean, so many of the gripes or the consistent
Speaker 1: thing is just about like you're not going to control
Speaker 1: me or make me think that this, rather than like, okay,
Speaker 1: more than that, do you give a funk about other people?
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, on a basic level
Speaker 1: of manners, regardless of if you even fucking believe in science,
Speaker 1: the idea of ever thinking that me not wearing a
Speaker 1: mask could harm someone else, regardless of I cared about
Speaker 1: help of self harm, Like, if there's a possibility science
Speaker 1: that I could do that i'm wearing a mask. I
Speaker 1: think I wonder too if it because right, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to put myself in that position, because if I did that,
Speaker 1: then for me to consider that, I would have to
Speaker 1: then extrapolate situations in which I might harm another person,
Speaker 1: which then might trigger thoughts about mortality, which I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to engage in at all. Or there's a there's
Speaker 1: like this, there's something deeply uncomfortable about having to think
Speaker 1: about something like that. So it's easier to just be
Speaker 1: dis like, just be like no, kill switch, engage, fuck
Speaker 1: a mask freedom, not because it's actually this other ship
Speaker 1: again those what they call thought killing uh cliches. Basically,
Speaker 1: I guess that's wild to think about it like that,
Speaker 1: as like denying on a but think about how people's
Speaker 1: minds work. You know, we have friends, like we all
Speaker 1: have friends who will somehow they will completely avoid a
Speaker 1: specific topic of conversation no matter what you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: that was I don't look, I don't need to know,
Speaker 1: but I clearly that's not something you're ready to talk about.
Speaker 1: And even though it's not a hot button issue, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. And I think for some it's like
Speaker 1: that sort of same thing, like this idea of mortality
Speaker 1: or that responsibility to others is like real for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: is frying a bunch of people's circuits, and they're just
Speaker 1: resorting to like, no, I don't want to engage. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to have a real discussion about that
Speaker 1: because it makes me so uncomfortable to even think about
Speaker 1: that that I'm just going to resort to this like
Speaker 1: personal freedom argument that has no like intellectual weight to it.
Speaker 1: I think people have applied it um a whole like
Speaker 1: used it as the placement for their anger. I've made
Speaker 1: it for another enemy, you know. For me, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you'll hold a door for someone, but you won't wear
Speaker 1: a mask, you know what I mean. It's like literally,
Speaker 1: it's all just it spoils down to manners from me. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it is. I mean it's a broad cultural like values problem.
Speaker 1: It's not that the people in the United States are
Speaker 1: inherently born more selfish. It's that the value set in
Speaker 1: the United States has trained them to. Um. I think
Speaker 1: this way. I mean that this Brown University School of
Speaker 1: Public Health uh dean said in the US and Europe,
Speaker 1: we wanted to get our lives back, so we acted
Speaker 1: as if the virus was under control. In Asia, they
Speaker 1: were not in denial. They understood they can have their
Speaker 1: lives back if they follow certain precautions. UM. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's kind of a very straightforward way
Speaker 1: of looking at. Another issue that there is in the
Speaker 1: Small Street Journal article is that a lot of the
Speaker 1: spread in Western Europe has been linked to young people. UM.
Speaker 1: And that I think gets at something that's probably at
Speaker 1: the core as well as like that makes Western countries
Speaker 1: and communities. Worse than dealing with this is the fact
Speaker 1: that like Eastern countries actually value their elders and are
Speaker 1: more like whereas in the West it's like antithesis. It's
Speaker 1: the antithesis. It's the you know they, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's seen in no country for all men. When he
Speaker 1: goes and visits his dad and he's like just in
Speaker 1: a trash strewn heap with like flies all over the
Speaker 1: place because nobody like he's like, once you're no longer
Speaker 1: useful in America, you just get kind of thrown to
Speaker 1: the curb like you're yeah, like it's just all about
Speaker 1: usefulness to capitalism. And then once you're old, like we
Speaker 1: try not to think about you because it's you're bumming
Speaker 1: us out with a yeah. And it's because it goes
Speaker 1: back to wait, because the thing is, rather than embracing
Speaker 1: the wisdom that comes with age, right, the US culture
Speaker 1: is about the the pursuit of escaping mortality, to escape aging,
Speaker 1: to escape these things, to forever be in this mindset
Speaker 1: of like just man's fucking kid man, just the youth,
Speaker 1: like you know, there was like this is a book
Speaker 1: called like the Death of the grown Up that sort
Speaker 1: of like maps this like huge sort of cultural swing
Speaker 1: away from like being an adult, uh like from him
Speaker 1: from like boomers and stuff, because rock stars became big
Speaker 1: and everyone's like I wanna be a fucking rock star,
Speaker 1: and then like these parents who are like, I'm more
Speaker 1: of a friend than a parent. Like it all kind
Speaker 1: of had this wave right of like changing our our
Speaker 1: our viewpoints on what an adult even is, and especially
Speaker 1: in US society, and yeah, we're looking at it now
Speaker 1: and again the idea of being safe that someone could
Speaker 1: die mortality fuck that. And also our our youth culture
Speaker 1: is all based on like so much social media ship
Speaker 1: about being out doing shit, not being at home, not
Speaker 1: helping people. Uh, your drip is so intense that the
Speaker 1: fucking you gotta call a plumber, you know, Like it's
Speaker 1: just it's emphasized all the things that when you go
Speaker 1: into this, you're like, of course that's the direction it
Speaker 1: went in, because that's just like there was a dual
Speaker 1: momentum we were going and especially for uh our consumer culture,
Speaker 1: but yeah for kids especially Yeah, um, all right, let's
Speaker 1: uh take a quick break now that we've figured out why.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Also the Texas story, what we talked about
Speaker 1: on trending yesterday. But that is another wild system wide
Speaker 1: failure of American you know, government and society that is
Speaker 1: happening in slow motion, Like they apparently knew this weather,
Speaker 1: this like freezing snap was coming, and just nobody prepared anybody.
Speaker 1: It was just like, yeah, all right, well that's gonna suck.
Speaker 1: Oh what a couple of snow flakes. Yeah, alright, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about some bullshit and we're back, and the gorilla glue
Speaker 1: challenge is happening, y'all. Gorilla glue is the one, like
Speaker 1: the one problem if you could, if you asked me
Speaker 1: to pick the one product that is not electrified, can't
Speaker 1: like electrocute you to death, that I would not want
Speaker 1: there to be a challenge for gorilla glue would be
Speaker 1: number one. Is that on the heels of the uh,
Speaker 1: the Tessica case. Just because it's such a it's like
Speaker 1: such a powerful thing. Like the first time you use
Speaker 1: gorilla glue, you're like, oh my god, this say it
Speaker 1: like you you really it's irrevocable once you use gorilla glue.
Speaker 1: That should have stuck. Man, that's a good word for
Speaker 1: it like you can't take it back. It's like a
Speaker 1: it's like a moment you can never come back, you
Speaker 1: can never Gorilla glue something my dad us you growing
Speaker 1: up and it was always like it kind of it's scary.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like you have a weapon in
Speaker 1: the high us. Yeah. Um see now, I'm like it's
Speaker 1: like activated the mischievous side of my brain. I'm like, really,
Speaker 1: it's like a weapon. I mean, obviously, like hearing the
Speaker 1: stories was enough, but it's clearly become like the new
Speaker 1: Tide Pod of this year, like the thing that you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be fucking with outside of its intended use. But
Speaker 1: somehow everybody wanna fun with garula glue. No, and it's
Speaker 1: several levels passed like a fun like you know, crazy thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's because all it is is like guaranteed injury.
Speaker 1: Everything we've seen is never like whoa close call with
Speaker 1: guerrilla glue. This person almost blah blah. It's like no,
Speaker 1: this person glued themselves to a train and then they died.
Speaker 1: You know that. It's like, oh god, so this guy, Um,
Speaker 1: I think down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana named Lenise Martin,
Speaker 1: the third, he is a I think aspiring rapper. He
Speaker 1: put on his Instagram page age and would do the
Speaker 1: gorilla glue challenge. And I'm just gonna play because this guy,
Speaker 1: he's convinced people are y'all, y'all are fucking too much,
Speaker 1: too much frantic energy around this gorilla glue stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just glue, y'all um. And so he put this challenge out.
Speaker 1: He wanted to create his own challenge. And let's take
Speaker 1: a little listen. You're right here. I'm gonna sure you're
Speaker 1: from Grill and Blue right here, super Blue Rill myself.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it, put it on this cup, put
Speaker 1: in my mouth. Then it will be the licking and
Speaker 1: get at all. So right now, he's saying, I have
Speaker 1: a have a red Solo cup. I got a fucking
Speaker 1: new bottle gorilla glue, and I'm gonna show you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put it a little bit of grilla glue inside
Speaker 1: of this red Solo cup. I'm just look it right
Speaker 1: off because it's glue, y'all. She says, it's gardage. He's
Speaker 1: telling you. So he's gonna put so anyway, he puts
Speaker 1: the fucking glue on the cup and then the next
Speaker 1: slide isn't. In his Instagram post is him at the
Speaker 1: fucking hospital with a solo cup to his lip, and
Speaker 1: he was like, I thought I could lick it off
Speaker 1: to moisten it and pull it right off, but that
Speaker 1: didn't work. Everyone, he's too damn ol. He's got I'm
Speaker 1: guessing he's my age probably at least uh they Yeah,
Speaker 1: they said it was. It was removed with the medical
Speaker 1: teak technique he described as quote painful peeling. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was one of the things from the Tesca Like for
Speaker 1: people who haven't been listening, as we give beat by
Speaker 1: beat updates of the Tesca Brown case, she got confused,
Speaker 1: I think more justifiably than a lot of people are
Speaker 1: giving her credit for, because there are products called like
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's not glue hair product and gorillasnot.
Speaker 1: And so she thought gorilla glue was usable in her
Speaker 1: hair and it was just a solid mass until she
Speaker 1: was able to go to a plastic surgeon and get
Speaker 1: it softened via like some medical, medical grade adhesive remover. Um.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that I learned from that
Speaker 1: is that gorilla glue is actually water activated. It gets
Speaker 1: harder when it comes in contact with water, he said.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, if um all of his
Speaker 1: painful peeling procedures don't go right, he might have to
Speaker 1: have the tip of his lip surgically like removed. Blair
Speaker 1: has has opted out of this conversation. There is what
Speaker 1: if you've ever been at a football game and seeing
Speaker 1: somebody knocked out and their arms are locked up what
Speaker 1: we call fencers pose, you have Fencer's pose. The reacting
Speaker 1: to that again, And so I'm sensitive when I think
Speaker 1: of other people in pain. It's like I can't handle it,
Speaker 1: and to think I I know what gorilla is like,
Speaker 1: and I just feel so bad for these people. I
Speaker 1: don't want them to do it anymore, especially when the
Speaker 1: girl I I didn't follow the case. I kept seeing
Speaker 1: gorilla glue headlines, so I didn't really know what happened
Speaker 1: till just now. Her not doing it on purpose makes
Speaker 1: it so much sadder to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh. Also,
Speaker 1: these doctors are like modern day like racle people, like
Speaker 1: having to deal with some who put gorilla glue specialist.
Speaker 1: You go renal issues with your kidney, I know, well,
Speaker 1: let's take you to that person. You've got something wrong
Speaker 1: with your ear hold on gorilla glue on your lip
Speaker 1: or your head, and doctors can't can't also just like
Speaker 1: no thanks, they're like right in front of what do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, emergency room. Emergency room should
Speaker 1: have a judge at the entrance. Is just like now
Speaker 1: he's got to lit that cup on his mouth for
Speaker 1: the next three weeks. I'm sorry. Would you say you
Speaker 1: put gorilla glue on a solo cup for Instagram challenge? Okay,
Speaker 1: so the exit is right there. You can take your
Speaker 1: ass home with that dumb ship. Because we have people
Speaker 1: who are actually injured for the Graham, I uh, I
Speaker 1: do wonder how how what percentage we should have an
Speaker 1: er doctor on to tell us what percentage of injuries
Speaker 1: or for the Graham. Uh I bet there's a good
Speaker 1: handful of them. Um. This one also hurts because I've
Speaker 1: I've had that, like with a lip stuck to something
Speaker 1: really cold, you know, and then yeah, yeah, very dumb
Speaker 1: and dumber, and you like peel it off and there's
Speaker 1: just like a raw patch underneath it for a while.
Speaker 1: That's that's very uncomfortable. And this is like that times
Speaker 1: a hundred. I mean the fact that dude surgery for
Speaker 1: the tip of your lip. I mean, like that's where
Speaker 1: it's like you feel bad because some people are so
Speaker 1: stupid that now they're in this situation. I'm not be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: he didn't deserve that because he engaged in the act,
Speaker 1: didn't act directly. But it's like, damn, y'all, come the
Speaker 1: funk on, I need to come clean about something right now.
Speaker 1: Tear chair, right now. Okay, Look, when I was about
Speaker 1: probably nine years old, and look, I was only I
Speaker 1: was the youngest in my family, only girl, and I
Speaker 1: just would do anything to share air with my older brothers,
Speaker 1: Like I just wanted to let them me be around them.
Speaker 1: So this is about the time when they would go
Speaker 1: up to a metal sign on the street and kick
Speaker 1: the bottom and pretend to smash their face on it,
Speaker 1: right to get the sound going. Yeah, and I wanted
Speaker 1: them to like me, and I want and I went
Speaker 1: up and fucking headbutted the ship out of the sign
Speaker 1: and knocked myself out and go out of concussion. Okay,
Speaker 1: so ship on these TikTok motherfucker's. But I really can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a place, and so I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: sit this one out well, look, but that's how you
Speaker 1: learned to march borrow the beat of your own drum. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's for sure. I don't know how I still
Speaker 1: managed to be stay wildly intelligent, but I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we all have a past, is what I want to say.
Speaker 1: And um, I forgive everyone. I love to you all.
Speaker 1: The best physics lesson I ever got was when I
Speaker 1: was six riding my bike and I just stuck a
Speaker 1: like pretty hefty like stick in the spoke front spokes
Speaker 1: of my bike and it just flipped over like and
Speaker 1: I just ate complete ship. And it was just I
Speaker 1: don't know what I was thinking, Like I knew something
Speaker 1: would happen, but I didn't realize like, oh wow, like
Speaker 1: there is a counterintuitive amount of force that like you
Speaker 1: can just get totally fucked by. I was like when
Speaker 1: I try to eat dog food out of my dog,
Speaker 1: my dog's food when they were eat the dry food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've done it a bit the side of my fucking
Speaker 1: ear off basically, you know. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: the fund, did you that's an animal just stuck your head?
Speaker 1: You do? Yes, an a little hospital. No. I wasn't
Speaker 1: like that bad. It wasn't like anything that needed stitches.
Speaker 1: It was just like enough that like it. My father's
Speaker 1: laughter made my cries more intense, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah there, and they're like what you do? What the
Speaker 1: funk are you doing? I'm like, what you thought you
Speaker 1: could eat out of? And I'm like, I wanted you
Speaker 1: to like me as much as you remember head butted
Speaker 1: the door at Blockbuster and shattered the glass and then
Speaker 1: you got all mad at me. There's something about the
Speaker 1: US and like the response to COVID not to like
Speaker 1: try and tie everything together, but like the like, well
Speaker 1: it can't be that, but like just lack of imagination
Speaker 1: of like what, like what can't be that bad? And
Speaker 1: then it gets really really bad and people are dying,
Speaker 1: and then we're like, well but you can't like imagine people.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's because I really it's like funk
Speaker 1: around find out. It really thematically fits the United States,
Speaker 1: except we don't find out just fucking around and then
Speaker 1: from everyone. Yeah, while some people, like the fucking wealthy
Speaker 1: people can funk around and then everyone beneath them finds out,
Speaker 1: you know, and then that's and then but the people
Speaker 1: who do the fucking around never find out. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is brilliant. Go I'm gonna put this on. We need
Speaker 1: to put this on the in d C. On a
Speaker 1: monument somewhere. They stick a spoke in the front wheel
Speaker 1: of their bike and somebody else's bike flips over like
Speaker 1: or like or it's like they're they're like in the
Speaker 1: in the seat they hit the spokes, but they're launched
Speaker 1: off the bike onto another bike seamlessly, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. While everybody was in the baby
Speaker 1: seat in the back just like fucking head smashed into
Speaker 1: the concrete. Oh man, uh what a visual, Little Blair.
Speaker 1: Oh nice corn dog anyone? Oh where the kids go.
Speaker 1: It's been such a pleasure having you as always. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you and follow you? I love corn
Speaker 1: dogs so much? Okay, um god, it was great to
Speaker 1: be back and Happy Valentine today on Sunday. Also everyone, um,
Speaker 1: you can find me at Blair Saki B L A
Speaker 1: I R S O C C I on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 1: And I have a breath work class I'm teaching, um
Speaker 1: because I got certified because I'm uh, you know, mysterious
Speaker 1: saspitch um and so yeah, and so if you guys
Speaker 1: want to come to that you can purchase tickets in
Speaker 1: my um Instagram bio and it's on March eighth, and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really vodacious time. That'll
Speaker 1: be good for everyone, no problem. A lot of times
Speaker 1: I have to ask the take the role of asking
Speaker 1: Layman's UM questions about politics. That's my role on this podcast,
Speaker 1: UM because I know that a lot of other listeners
Speaker 1: have the same questions, and I'm not afraid to ask them.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid. I'm not I don't seek in front
Speaker 1: of people. UM. Breath work is a two part active
Speaker 1: UM breathing technique, and UM, what's cool about it, It's
Speaker 1: like it's a very physical experience and instead of like
Speaker 1: trying to meditate in like a quiet room and like
Speaker 1: silence your thoughts because you're focusing so much on this
Speaker 1: very physical thing, if passes your mind and you go
Speaker 1: straight into the stratosphere. Yeah, yeah, I love terms and
Speaker 1: conditions do apply. Yeah, that's gonna be cool. Is there
Speaker 1: a tweet or some other work of social media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Yeah, I thought in my friend Robbie Sloas tweet.
Speaker 1: He's so funny. He's a friend and comedian friend of
Speaker 1: mine in New York and his tweet was comics will
Speaker 1: be like we're truth tellers, roving philosophers who speak truth
Speaker 1: to power and also catch me this weekend at the
Speaker 1: Looney Bin or next weekend at Off the Comedy Club.
Speaker 1: It made me laugh really hard. H Miles, where can
Speaker 1: people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter?
Speaker 1: Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also other podcasts for twenty
Speaker 1: day Fiance if you watch ninety Day Fiance or Married
Speaker 1: at First Sight, that will would get down over there
Speaker 1: with that talk um. A tweet that I like, just
Speaker 1: a nice and easy one from Reductress at Reductress, just
Speaker 1: the just this lady in a nice like knit scarf
Speaker 1: looking out of nice winter windows saying I might be
Speaker 1: perfect on the outside, but on the inside my socks
Speaker 1: are sliding down. Which it's just so funny because I
Speaker 1: had to throw socks away earlier this morning because I
Speaker 1: was like, God, it's the end, baby. These things are
Speaker 1: now just like weird foot gloves that don't stay on.
Speaker 1: There's nothing I throw away more reluctantly than socks and underwear.
Speaker 1: I will ride. Is there something you can't Is there
Speaker 1: an article of clothing you will discard immediately, no problems,
Speaker 1: no questions asked. Actually no, okay, pretty much hang on too.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, Miles, like, I'm impressed by
Speaker 1: that discipline on this exact same way. It makes me
Speaker 1: feel like extremely adult for some reason when I make
Speaker 1: the conscious choice to toss out a bad pair. But
Speaker 1: I feel like it's easy because you just kind of
Speaker 1: forget and you you accept them as something that is
Speaker 1: just living with you. Interesting and um, how many toxic
Speaker 1: relationships have you been in? Okay, I'm just curious. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It might be a microcosm. Don't know. If
Speaker 1: you're doing the same thing over and over, you're saying
Speaker 1: this item is useless. It's actually an inconvenience to me.
Speaker 1: But I will I will compartmentalize quite literally, put in
Speaker 1: another part of the drawer until it emerges again, just
Speaker 1: for me to read enact the same cycle of behavior
Speaker 1: out and not advocating for myself. I don't know. That's
Speaker 1: been my time at Miles of great Twitter Instagram. Thank
Speaker 1: you a little Cunney, many little brouted to my attention.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy to say I'm talking about left and
Speaker 1: right there you go toss out, toss out those relationships
Speaker 1: like loose ass socks. You're not gonna lose out on them.
Speaker 1: You're really not. You're not. I'm telling you, if that's me,
Speaker 1: If that makes it easier for someone listening right now,
Speaker 1: a bad relationship is as good as uselessly that you
Speaker 1: don't need them, and it might feel weird to throw
Speaker 1: it away because you're like, oh, it's a sock or relationship.
Speaker 1: Trust me, you can get these things like fifty for
Speaker 1: two cents anyway. I never space in your drawer for
Speaker 1: the new ones. Um, oh my god, I feel so
Speaker 1: exposed you. So much of my drawer spaces socks that
Speaker 1: I haven't worn in eleven years. Um, it's it's dumb.
Speaker 1: It's bad. Are you do that? You ever did that thing?
Speaker 1: You put the sock on, and you know it's a
Speaker 1: rap because the elastic just goes. It's like just around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bunch of dust blows out from your ankle. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not still not gonna throw them away? Yeah, those
Speaker 1: all those all come in handy later, I'm sure. Uh tweet,
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying. Uh is. I thought this was just
Speaker 1: gonna be the brand Gorilla Glue like getting in on
Speaker 1: the fun of the gorilla glue ship. It's it is
Speaker 1: at gorilla glue. That is the Twitter handle and it
Speaker 1: says our quote, our quote glue is made by jacking
Speaker 1: off a Western Loland gorilla named esteban uh. And it
Speaker 1: just it has their logo. It says gorilla glue. It's
Speaker 1: it's amazing that they got that and are able to keep.
Speaker 1: And Stephen Douglas tweeted if the Cruella trailer doesn't feature
Speaker 1: a children's choir singing a haunting, slowed down cover version
Speaker 1: of a certain Hamn song, what are we even doing here?
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist. We're
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Speaker 1: we post our episodes and our footnote where we link
Speaker 1: off to the information that we talked about today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song that Miles will recommend to
Speaker 1: you right now because I'm loaded, don't know where to
Speaker 1: point this thing. Okay, for all my shot a fans
Speaker 1: out there, War of the Hearts man, it's a great track,
Speaker 1: but what happens when people start remixing just that line?
Speaker 1: I'm loot at um. This is called shot a loaded.
Speaker 1: You can't get this track on Spotify. You don't have
Speaker 1: to go to SoundCloud and go to e hyphen tn
Speaker 1: itase page because this track. If you like a shot,
Speaker 1: if you like shot A plus with a little bit
Speaker 1: of turn up, you're gonna want to turn this one up.
Speaker 1: So take this one one and start your week with it.
Speaker 1: Or I mean not it's started, but you know, get
Speaker 1: through the hump, get through them. Uh yes, all right?
Speaker 1: Well the Daily just thinking about my wedding song is shot.
Speaker 1: I was just taking away which one? By your side?
Speaker 1: By your side? Yeah? You think I leave? It's happy baby.
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't it. I wouldn't lie if I
Speaker 1: said her majesty and I are like that. Uh but
Speaker 1: the Neptunes remix, I love that you call your girlfriend
Speaker 1: her majesty. That's incredible. I mean the one and only
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? On high Good for you? Well.
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