Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy one,
Speaker 1: episode four of The Daily Night, the production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Thursday, February eleven.
Speaker 1: Happy b day to my dad. Uh paw as as
Speaker 1: my kid call him. Uh. My name is Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: a K. I sit in a jeep outside of church
Speaker 1: to white. I can't sense a cringe coming down. I'm
Speaker 1: here to heal this nation's woes. You look at me
Speaker 1: like one size Nazi clowns. You tell me this ain't it? Boss?
Speaker 1: I need to go inside and put prey on the cross.
Speaker 1: I'll let you down, down, down down, I'll let you down, down,
Speaker 1: down down. Also arrested for drunk driving. That is courtesy
Speaker 1: oh the smash Mouth of c l uh number one
Speaker 1: smash mouth super fan. Uh and I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined as always buy my co host Mr mild Gra
Speaker 1: Dr just say Jay's kids alright and not just Q
Speaker 1: and on Britney Spears. Mashed up just popped in my
Speaker 1: brain right before we started recording, So shout out to
Speaker 1: my uh. Just constant TV watching by myself. The queen
Speaker 1: who we will talk about today. Uh, speaking of queens,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by the hilarious, the talented Amy Miller. It's me framing
Speaker 1: Amy Miller, framing name. What would you a New York
Speaker 1: Times doc you thing look like? You think? What would
Speaker 1: you sort of center around if it was framing Amy Miller? Um,
Speaker 1: I just constant self sabotage. Maybe we'd be mad at you.
Speaker 1: By the end, we know, we know why she's not
Speaker 1: more famous. She did this to herself. Uh, what what's
Speaker 1: new with you? Amy? What is I mean? How do
Speaker 1: you even? I mean? Ralph smart and final right aid?
Speaker 1: You know like this is they're all within a block.
Speaker 1: So I like to change up the scenery from time
Speaker 1: to time. Get get a get a grocery item at
Speaker 1: right a, just go crazy, you know, treat yourself, go
Speaker 1: to a different once a week. What okay, I've been
Speaker 1: going to the grocery stores, but I really don't leave often. Um,
Speaker 1: but I have been once or twice a week, local
Speaker 1: restaurant dinner, no chains ever for food in that way,
Speaker 1: and that's been nice. Support the neighborhood folks, which cooking
Speaker 1: you're doing a ton of cooking. Has it like, are
Speaker 1: you one of these people? Because I know it's weird.
Speaker 1: I know some people who have who used to cook,
Speaker 1: who are like cooking less because I mean they have
Speaker 1: the means to cook less and just eat out more
Speaker 1: because they just don't have the will within themselves to cook.
Speaker 1: I've gone the opposite where I'm like, the only way
Speaker 1: I know how to live is through using fire to
Speaker 1: make food. Yeah, I'd say I'm cooking more, but that's
Speaker 1: because before I was on the road working as a comedian.
Speaker 1: So if I was home, cooking was very special. It
Speaker 1: was like, oh, Mama was home kids. Um. Just but
Speaker 1: he's young, as everybody knows, um, so he calls me mama.
Speaker 1: He doesn't do that. But I cook like four or
Speaker 1: five nights a week and then we'll eat out a
Speaker 1: couple But we stopped doing Like like, why am I
Speaker 1: going to Chipotle in Los Angeles? You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I get that it's easy, I order in the app,
Speaker 1: it's right there. But there's a million different places I
Speaker 1: can get a good burrito or talk or you know,
Speaker 1: go to like Viarcta even and go to their their
Speaker 1: butcher and just buy their cardnests out or wherever, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, that's the thing I've realized too,
Speaker 1: is like there's so many things that like I would
Speaker 1: just buy out because I never had the imagination or
Speaker 1: just ability to be like, wait, I think I can
Speaker 1: make that ship and actually like good too. Mm hmmmm,
Speaker 1: I know. But yeah, we're a couple of cooking fools.
Speaker 1: It's the dishes that really get you. The dishes are like,
Speaker 1: if I could cook without dishes, I would cook three
Speaker 1: meals a day. But that's why I took a lot
Speaker 1: of stews like ship in like a one Dutch oven
Speaker 1: or like grill. Oh yeah, yeah, I think one thing.
Speaker 1: I think that's why air frying has also become really
Speaker 1: popular too, because it is like sort of a one
Speaker 1: chamber just like I do all the dirty ship in
Speaker 1: there and then it's done totally. But for my Insta
Speaker 1: pop friends, you know, you've got to clean the inside
Speaker 1: of that lid too. You can't just clean the pot,
Speaker 1: wipe out that lid. No, yes, hold on, I feel
Speaker 1: like we shouldn't have to say this, but please clean
Speaker 1: the clean the leads. That's all the flavor. It's like
Speaker 1: one of those cast iron skillets. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want it to taste like soap. Come on, chili funk
Speaker 1: from the late nineties has been our that's our catchphrase
Speaker 1: for this, and we can't tell you what it means.
Speaker 1: All right, Amy, We're gonna get to know you a
Speaker 1: little bit better in a moment. But first we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a couple of the things we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about. Uh. We've all watched Framing Britney Spears.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that documentary. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the video that the Democrats showed at the second day
Speaker 1: of the impeachment of Donald Trump's second impeachment. Uh. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about why the media doesn't care about
Speaker 1: those two thousand dollar checks as much as they should. Uh.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk's uh starlink I think it's called his new
Speaker 1: Internet service, uh that you can get in on the
Speaker 1: ground floor of for a low, low deposit of nine
Speaker 1: and then five hundred dollars for the required hardware and
Speaker 1: then ninety nine dollars a month. Uh. But he's doing
Speaker 1: it to uh spread internet access to underserved communities, but
Speaker 1: you still have to pay communities famousically have seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars to just pay out off the rip like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's actually doing it to uh fund his Mars ventures.
Speaker 1: But we'll get into that. Um, we'll get into uh
Speaker 1: the new replacement for the anti Jemima pancake brand. Uh.
Speaker 1: They've they've come up with their new name and it's
Speaker 1: delicious sounding. Can't wait to get my my mouth around that.
Speaker 1: Uh all that play anymore, But first, Amy, we like
Speaker 1: to ask our guest, what is something from your search
Speaker 1: history that's revealing about who you are? I'm not. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, guys. This is more of a
Speaker 1: statement about who my friends are. I did the other
Speaker 1: morning wake up to several texts letting me know that
Speaker 1: Trey Songs had a sex tape. I did google it
Speaker 1: immediately saw it. Great, great work everybody. Um. But just
Speaker 1: the fact that I had like multiple people being like,
Speaker 1: wake up, a big news. They're calling each other being like,
Speaker 1: have you gotten ahold of Amy yet? She's she must
Speaker 1: be asleep. What the worrying about her? Window? So I
Speaker 1: love I love him and his songs and other things
Speaker 1: about him. And also his response was really funny because
Speaker 1: he was just like making coy little like tweeting his
Speaker 1: own song lyrics about his penis that he wrote, I
Speaker 1: guess that, I guess we're true. Yeah, yeah, he's the best. Anyway,
Speaker 1: It's on Twitter if you want to see it. He
Speaker 1: also hasn't really like fought to have it brought down
Speaker 1: at all, which is interesting. He's just like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: this is good advertising. Yeah, I mean, what better advertising
Speaker 1: for somebody with a good penis who sings about using
Speaker 1: that penis? You know exactly. I love I want to
Speaker 1: hear Jack say penis so many more times now and
Speaker 1: got a great that's a great penis Trey songs. Well,
Speaker 1: good hog solid, solid man, good on you man, good
Speaker 1: on you. Sorry, just text texting X tape. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I just had to make sure I'm not giving these
Speaker 1: compliments out without seeing I just had to a scrub
Speaker 1: through that real quick. And yeah, great work all around. Uh,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? Okay? Good? Both
Speaker 1: of these are in honor of the twenty one anniversary
Speaker 1: of Jim Varney's death. I'm gonna say underrated, Ernest scared stupid, okay, overrated,
Speaker 1: Ernest saves Christmas and I love Christmas and Christmas movies.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, it's not. I think I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: maybe Earnest Goes to Jail would be the my favorite.
Speaker 1: But Christmas gets a lot of shine, and I feel
Speaker 1: like Halloween really is earnest true holiday, and that's scared
Speaker 1: stupid as a Halloween. Philm that's the one, like the
Speaker 1: Pumpkin cover. I just know every Earnest film just had
Speaker 1: Jim Varney just given that full like grin. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine um how delicately they handled the Carceol system of
Speaker 1: the United States in their analysis the Ernest goes to
Speaker 1: Jail prism from the year This is why I think
Speaker 1: it needs more credit because Ernest, across all of his properties,
Speaker 1: you would think would would go a little bit more racist,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't like at any point. No, yeah, that
Speaker 1: is true. I feel like that was the thing that
Speaker 1: my first assumption about a like Earnest thing, because I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you talk like the scary people from the movies.
Speaker 1: My grandpa shows me right, right, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, these are more kid friends. Then you really
Speaker 1: like he's like he was like a good guy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a really he was a very good guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like pretty diverse casting. And yeah, he just never
Speaker 1: goes this like sort of ignorant hillbilly route that he
Speaker 1: could have. Uh but yeah, r I p Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an amazing story that that started as a radio
Speaker 1: advertisement and the local car dealer. Yeah. Why it's really
Speaker 1: crazy is he he was like the local commercial guy.
Speaker 1: It seemed like, so he was advertising like a million
Speaker 1: different places, like in these small towns because you're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: you want a commercial, get earnest. He's the commercial guy.
Speaker 1: So you know, you could be like dueling pizza restaurants
Speaker 1: have the same guy in their commercial essentially because he
Speaker 1: just had such a good idea, I should I should
Speaker 1: do this for the neighborhood restaurants commercials, just some food. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder like if there's a someone has an archive
Speaker 1: of the Jim Varney local ads, a documentary that needs
Speaker 1: to be made there on a Latimore on YouTube on YouTube, okay,
Speaker 1: because I'm curious to see, like what because it's such
Speaker 1: a specific flavor, because like the whole hey vern thing
Speaker 1: was him breaking the fourth wall, wasn't it like about
Speaker 1: like Verne was the person on the other side of
Speaker 1: the camp wasn't it. Verne was all of us smiles. Oh, my,
Speaker 1: Verne is like really stupid, Like he's way dumber than Earnest.
Speaker 1: So yeah, as a kid, you're like, I guess I'm verned.
Speaker 1: I'm burned, I'm Verne. Was Verne? Did we ever meet
Speaker 1: Verne in the films? I mean you see his hands
Speaker 1: and stuff like he you know, he's he's like Claw
Speaker 1: from Inspector Gadget. It's like a very dumb version of Claw,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Verne. Yeah, he trademarked that thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to him. Uh. And and the Earnest films,
Speaker 1: which none of which I saw for some reason that
Speaker 1: missed me. Um, so I need to I need to
Speaker 1: do my work. Yeah, I interested to see because it's
Speaker 1: funny that I know. The last thing, the last Jim
Speaker 1: Varney thing I saw it out to watch was The
Speaker 1: Beverly Hill Billies. It was like two years ago. A
Speaker 1: lot of people's like introduction to him and then they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, he's got all these other right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but in the South, you know, it was a superstar
Speaker 1: for him. He's like killer Bees. Do you guys know
Speaker 1: that comedian? Oh? No, I thought you were talking about
Speaker 1: the actual phenomenon of Southern comedian name Killer Bees, and
Speaker 1: his tagline is save up, you better save up, just
Speaker 1: like solid conservative financial advice pretty much. Wait, what did
Speaker 1: Killer Bees look like? Did he dress like him? Like
Speaker 1: he had to have dressed in black and yellow? Right? No,
Speaker 1: he just looks like an old white guy. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's really funny. I can't. I didn't. Killer Bees is
Speaker 1: just the comedian's name. Yeah, it's pretty tight, right, Like
Speaker 1: he's not a rapper, he's b E A Z Killer Bees. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that is like one of those nicknames
Speaker 1: that like, yeah, that that's his name is like bees.
Speaker 1: His last name is Bees something there, like it's killer Bees. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's true. At S. Beasley Jr. Just started killing so
Speaker 1: hard people started calling killer Bees. Oh yeah, yeah, that's crushes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They say it stemmed from an incident in his childhood
Speaker 1: where a friend went into anaphylactic shock after a series
Speaker 1: of beastings. Beasley then threw his epinephrin pen into the river. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then his friend died, giving him the name Killer Bees. Up.
Speaker 1: I'll leeg you. I just made that up on a
Speaker 1: joke podcast. Okay, that was it was. Oh, that's amazing
Speaker 1: for anybody who, like I was confused why they thought
Speaker 1: they could make a TV show out of the Geiko Caveman.
Speaker 1: They were trying to recreate the magic of Earnest, you know,
Speaker 1: just that that's but that's the next level. That's the
Speaker 1: next level talent. I mean that also hot, kind of
Speaker 1: a hot young dude, uh back in the day, like obviously, oh,
Speaker 1: I think he's very attractive. Oh yeah, when he was unverned.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, Jim Varney, Yeah, exactly what I said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a young there's a picture of him as a
Speaker 1: young man, just like you know, making love to the camera,
Speaker 1: uh and through his eye, not literally, just like you know,
Speaker 1: he's given the camera look. That's like, damn when I knew, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish we were burned. Vern Verne always kept his
Speaker 1: hands visible, so we know he wasn't touching. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were talking about Mike, but we're talking about the fact
Speaker 1: that the Wiggles keep give the thumbs up and all
Speaker 1: their pictures because they want uh people, the parents to
Speaker 1: know that their hands are not up to any shenanigans.
Speaker 1: They're not uh doing anything, which is important. Yeah, good policy,
Speaker 1: winger around children constantly for a living right, and then
Speaker 1: just any and like and just there will always anything
Speaker 1: that could look improper untoward. You never want to be
Speaker 1: in a situation where you're like, no, I just had
Speaker 1: my hand in my pocket and they're like, we don't know, buddy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're like, Okay, this is why I do this
Speaker 1: all the time. Now. It's always thumbs up, Like, but
Speaker 1: what's in their palms? Yeah, exactly, Let's see the hands boys. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about Brittany and we're back.
Speaker 1: So framing Britney Spears. The internet is a buzz uh
Speaker 1: the Americans, I guess to a buzz. It is a
Speaker 1: single episode of a docuseries by The New York Times,
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize heading into it. I assumed it
Speaker 1: was more of just like a a Netflix documentary or something.
Speaker 1: But I guess that lends it a little extra cred
Speaker 1: since it's like a thoroughly reported uh documentary. Yeah, same,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was surprised. I thought I was, and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh, I didn't even know the series existed. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to watch all these because they like a
Speaker 1: bunch of really good other topics. But what are the
Speaker 1: other topics not Britney Spears. I watched the other ones.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're like, what the heck? It was?
Speaker 1: Utntil the episode six they got to Britney the Britney
Speaker 1: Spears Park. The episode five I think was like the
Speaker 1: teenager who hacked Twitter or something like that. So it's
Speaker 1: like stories behind the headlines, right, but this one was, um,
Speaker 1: you know I I think it was really like one
Speaker 1: of the better documentaries about a massive cultural figure where
Speaker 1: you like see the humanity more than or at least
Speaker 1: I saw the humanity more than I had really ever
Speaker 1: seen it, because she's like such an icon, and then
Speaker 1: you just see her behind the scenes like uh, you know,
Speaker 1: being smart and creative and like in control of her image.
Speaker 1: Like when they're like filming a video or you know,
Speaker 1: planning out a live show, she's like, it's her vision,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not. It's not like she's just like
Speaker 1: some cog in a in a massive pop pop music machine.
Speaker 1: It seems like she's like really in control back and
Speaker 1: at the peak of her career. And then it also
Speaker 1: like even more so really changes the way you look
Speaker 1: at like the culture of the nineties and early aughts
Speaker 1: and like how how she was treated. Yeah, it's sickening
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Ed McMahon being such a creep calling
Speaker 1: himself a boy yeah, saying I can be your boyfriend. Um,
Speaker 1: I think so. As far as her like being sort
Speaker 1: of in charge of all this project, my theory, and
Speaker 1: some of it is supported, is that this did change
Speaker 1: at some point, not just because of the conservatorship, but
Speaker 1: because I I think medication. Um, I'm saying this too
Speaker 1: because I have a friend of close friend who worked
Speaker 1: on a project with brittany where she saw her every day.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say what it is or who
Speaker 1: the friend is. I don't want her to get fired.
Speaker 1: But she was very much like, oh, she needs like
Speaker 1: a lot of handlers, Like she can't remember to do anything.
Speaker 1: And my friends theory was that she was heavily dropped,
Speaker 1: like that she was taking enough pills to be like
Speaker 1: so spaced out that she couldn't do anything for herself.
Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, she's really sweet. She's still
Speaker 1: just as talented, but like, uh, there's nothing that I
Speaker 1: can say, like directly to Brittany about anything like even
Speaker 1: like here's your lunch, like it has to go through
Speaker 1: someone else, um, because she's just like not there so,
Speaker 1: which is another kind of dark thing I was thinking
Speaker 1: of during the documentary because they don't mention that in
Speaker 1: the documentary at all. Um. And you know, people can
Speaker 1: have psycho it breaks for several reasons, and she had
Speaker 1: plenty of reasons to have a psycho Yeah, no shortage.
Speaker 1: But I do think I mean just this gossip hot
Speaker 1: gass theory, um, that there's some over medication going on
Speaker 1: to it's just so it's so fucked Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: see kind of the transition from her being this capable,
Speaker 1: you know, a director of her own fate and projects too.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not even sure if she knows those videos
Speaker 1: are going on Instagram, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, yeah, some of the videos that
Speaker 1: they show it definitely. Uh, I don't know. I hadn't
Speaker 1: like really dug into her Instagram, even though I've listened
Speaker 1: to the podcast about her Instagram. I'm like, that's probably enough.
Speaker 1: I don't have to actually look at the Instagram, But like,
Speaker 1: why actually seeing some of them, Uh, it can be
Speaker 1: a little troubling, but um, you know in terms of
Speaker 1: like pop stars being over medicated, like you know Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson was over medicated Elvis, that's probably what killed him.
Speaker 1: Like that is a thing that happens even when the
Speaker 1: pop star is not under massive attack and like basically
Speaker 1: being gas lit by the universe constantly from day one
Speaker 1: of them being famous. Um, right, and it becomes this
Speaker 1: cycle I think of, like they are under so much
Speaker 1: dress and stress that it's like, oh, take take this,
Speaker 1: you'll feel better. But then it becomes a means of control,
Speaker 1: Like now we have basically this walking vegetable, we can
Speaker 1: just be like sign here and do his dance and
Speaker 1: then we'll take your money. Yeah, it's shout out to
Speaker 1: Bab's Gray and Test Barker by the way for really
Speaker 1: like blowing this whole thing open. And I don't think
Speaker 1: they got enough credit in the documentary honestly. Um, but now, Barbara,
Speaker 1: for these years that it's been going on, it's been
Speaker 1: a wild ride. Right. We're when we're talking on the
Speaker 1: episode the day before about it and like, because yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the first thing I was like, when are
Speaker 1: they going to like pop up into this? I was
Speaker 1: like my first thought, because I'm like I I only
Speaker 1: had the understanding of this situation because of them, um like,
Speaker 1: at least to the depth that I did. I think
Speaker 1: most people like what's I think most people like what's
Speaker 1: happening with Britney Spears, But that level of like research
Speaker 1: and like reporting on just the dynamics of like the conservatorship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really off the strength of like what I
Speaker 1: had seen from there or heard from their podcast. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like the whole thing. It's this also this
Speaker 1: weird mirror that reflects back to us in this documentary
Speaker 1: because I find like I realized how much I agreed
Speaker 1: with mainstream media at the time in terms of their
Speaker 1: idea of what Britney Spears was, or like I didn't
Speaker 1: have the same like I guess like gears of empathy
Speaker 1: and understanding to be like, oh my god, they're just
Speaker 1: like badgering this poor woman, um like without actually taking
Speaker 1: a more like a deeper look at like culture at
Speaker 1: large that created pop stars that are a certain way
Speaker 1: or what cells in this industry, and yeah that's what
Speaker 1: I'm just like, man. And then I was like fuck
Speaker 1: all these people and almost like god, like also fun
Speaker 1: two thousand seven m. Yeah, well that's when the paparazzi
Speaker 1: dude talks about the money shot, Like you know, we
Speaker 1: respond to those things emotionally, like those famous paparazzi shots.
Speaker 1: Like it works because you're like, oh, funck, this person
Speaker 1: is melting down, like she's crazy. But yeah, then when
Speaker 1: you see the background of it and how much they
Speaker 1: just broke her down, and then you're like, fuck this
Speaker 1: guy too, or just like our understanding around like the
Speaker 1: vulnerability of any person under distress or dealing with any
Speaker 1: kind of mental illness versus like because everyone just defaulted
Speaker 1: to just able as jokes of like oh look at Britney,
Speaker 1: she lost, Like that's just what was that? And I
Speaker 1: think that's what's interesting again when with Craig Ferguson, like
Speaker 1: he had to wherewithal to be like this is fucking gross,
Speaker 1: even if it is like with and with women, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just break them down like our female stars and
Speaker 1: then ridicule them when they have a mental break. But
Speaker 1: also like you can have a mental break as a
Speaker 1: dude a lot of the time, and people like he's
Speaker 1: eccentric or this is his new phase, this is his
Speaker 1: new artistic phase. I mean you have to take it.
Speaker 1: You know, Kanye obviously took it very far where even
Speaker 1: his biggest fans eventually were like, Okay, Trump, I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not this is too far. But for a
Speaker 1: long time, nobody would say like Kanye is struggling mentally,
Speaker 1: you know, at least he's an artist. The normal like
Speaker 1: sort of entertainment. Tonight sort of takes it's like more
Speaker 1: rockets behavior from Kanye West. And I think like once
Speaker 1: the Maga stuff happened, I was like, oh man, he's
Speaker 1: just he's hurting, like and yeah, it's it's it's hard
Speaker 1: to know what's going on. But yeah, the Brittany thing,
Speaker 1: I really it's like, you know, Jack, you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: talk about this, but like the way I instantly turned
Speaker 1: on people as I watched it, Like I didn't realize
Speaker 1: the Primier River video was a hit piece. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Diane Sawyer, Fuck Diane Sawyer. That was the worst. Hinting
Speaker 1: that interview, This woman says she wants to shoot you, Uh,
Speaker 1: what what do you have to say? It's like, yo,
Speaker 1: what the Fun's like, maybe it's because of your behavior?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and totally like acting like that is a
Speaker 1: reasonable Well it's hard being a parent, you know. It's
Speaker 1: like what and then she's like, well, you know I'm
Speaker 1: not their babysitter. Yeah, Like thank you, Brittany, thank you.
Speaker 1: She was so like, I don't know, Like the thing
Speaker 1: I was really like took away from it was how
Speaker 1: just above and beyond she went to like let just
Speaker 1: like to kind of you know, uh, persist through this
Speaker 1: just terrible behavior. Just was so patient with people, patient
Speaker 1: with the paparazzi. Was like put on a friendly face
Speaker 1: for the paparazzi and yeah, like you were saying, I
Speaker 1: mean the mental health stuff like there there's this um
Speaker 1: study that I always think about with regards to mental
Speaker 1: health that found that like, people who suffer from depression
Speaker 1: are actually they have a clearer view of reality than
Speaker 1: people who don't. Like it's basically to live a life
Speaker 1: as a not depressed person, you have to be uh
Speaker 1: adding some level of delusion to at least an hour
Speaker 1: version of America, Like Americans need delusion to not be depressed.
Speaker 1: And like with Britney Spears, it's like the things that
Speaker 1: uh like her behavior once the quote mental break happened
Speaker 1: is how I would have reacted from day one, like
Speaker 1: it was just like yo, that is how that is
Speaker 1: her being a human being. And like the part where
Speaker 1: she like took the umbrella to the car like that
Speaker 1: that seemed like the very least she could do, Like
Speaker 1: like damn, I wish someone gave her a bat or
Speaker 1: something like that umbrella. And I mean it was interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, she's her career is based on this tension
Speaker 1: between being a madonna and a temptress. And like then
Speaker 1: she I really like got the sense just from the
Speaker 1: overall media story arc that the thing that people and
Speaker 1: the mainstream media couldn't forgive her for for was having
Speaker 1: two babies with Kevin Federline in particular. But just having
Speaker 1: babies was like the you know, they were so obsessed
Speaker 1: with like are you a virgin? They were like people
Speaker 1: would literally ask her that. Uh. And then she had
Speaker 1: two babies and like suddenly the world turns on her
Speaker 1: and then that became like a thing where they like
Speaker 1: her children were withheld from her. It was like, uh so,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like knowing too. Like that moment
Speaker 1: of the back and forth was like her trying to
Speaker 1: see her kids and getting like ghosted at the gate
Speaker 1: trying to see her kids. So like you're dealing with
Speaker 1: someone who is a parent who is being denied the
Speaker 1: ability to see their kids, right or wrong, But that
Speaker 1: is the emotional space this person is in and then
Speaker 1: keep at It's like Jesus, we all everyone projected onto
Speaker 1: her immediately that she was an unfit mother and to
Speaker 1: such an extreme that she sort of almost became one.
Speaker 1: But she didn't have access to her kids. And that's
Speaker 1: like the story of Brittany is like, you know, having
Speaker 1: to figure out your sense of self when so much
Speaker 1: has been projected onto you, starting from being sexualized as
Speaker 1: a child, you know, And she did have so much
Speaker 1: of her own agency early on, and she is smart.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing with like young girls we
Speaker 1: call precocious, is that eventually it becomes just you know,
Speaker 1: that's like Dolly Parton was the same way. It becomes
Speaker 1: a defense mechanism. It becomes easier. Eventually you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can manipulate these people in a way that I
Speaker 1: will make more money. But then also I'm like, just
Speaker 1: my sense of self is crumbling because I don't know,
Speaker 1: am I an adult or a kid? Am I a whore?
Speaker 1: And my mother? You know, it's like it's so sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the fact that there's a custody issue at the
Speaker 1: center of it is I think like that that was
Speaker 1: a bigger plays a bigger role in everything than I
Speaker 1: realized heading into the documentary that like her dad and
Speaker 1: like the conservatorship is able to manipulate her because they're
Speaker 1: always dangling the idea that like she'll not be able
Speaker 1: to like see her kids over her head like that
Speaker 1: just from the start. It's like when when the conservatorship
Speaker 1: was established, it was like you said it was over
Speaker 1: her not being able to see her kids, like Kevin
Speaker 1: Federal Line was uh not responding when she came to
Speaker 1: the house to see her kids, and that was like
Speaker 1: when you know, quote mental health break happened. But that's like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's how humans are if you can't see
Speaker 1: your kids for no reason and meanwhile people are like
Speaker 1: harassing you and calling you an unfit mother, Like that
Speaker 1: is the most human response, you know. Like, I've had
Speaker 1: to grieve a lot of lofts loved ones in the
Speaker 1: last year, and it's it's our It's hard to grieve
Speaker 1: or process sh it on your own, Okay, even if
Speaker 1: you have the privacy of your own home that you
Speaker 1: are still going through it and you have to be
Speaker 1: present for that. So then add a layer of provocation
Speaker 1: from unknown people in the public with flashing lights is
Speaker 1: an absurd Like it's absurd to think that any person
Speaker 1: could navigate that and not uh, have some kind of
Speaker 1: outburst of any kind. And it's that's like when you
Speaker 1: start realizing it's like Jesus Christ, like we're getting numb
Speaker 1: to the idea of what a celebrity is because it's
Speaker 1: just like there are people that we capture instill images
Speaker 1: wearing ugg boots, drinking Starbucks or something and not ever
Speaker 1: being able to really be like, what if that was
Speaker 1: you trying just to matt the celebrity dynamics. Imagine you
Speaker 1: at your lowest point. Now add people in your face
Speaker 1: and trying to yellow this ship at you and how
Speaker 1: are you handling that? And then a media apparatus that
Speaker 1: to your point, Aim, it's like we all sort of
Speaker 1: were complicit in creating the momentum, being like, oh, that's unfit,
Speaker 1: Oh she's in trouble that yeah, and we all judged
Speaker 1: her for driving with the baby in her lap, but
Speaker 1: you know, Jack, those car seats are not easy to
Speaker 1: buckle up under any kind of dress, even if your
Speaker 1: kid is just crying and tired. So then add like
Speaker 1: a bunch of flashbulbs and people trying to get into
Speaker 1: your car and your baby's screaming, and you're like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, fucking what was like a simple girl, nice
Speaker 1: girl from the South. She's like, oh, we drove around
Speaker 1: as he's in the front of the truck all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And she's like I had to get out of that situation,
Speaker 1: like these are my maternal instincts. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: shout out to everyone operating car seats every day, because
Speaker 1: that ship is tough. I remember I tried helping a
Speaker 1: friend get their car seat and I was like, I
Speaker 1: won't spike this ship on the road. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, wait, the hook. Well, you didn't tell me
Speaker 1: there was a hook on the back of the seat,
Speaker 1: you know what I know. And then they're like, it's
Speaker 1: too loose. You gotta pull that big loop down at
Speaker 1: the bottom and fucking suck them in there, baby like
Speaker 1: a football, and I'll meet you down the street. Yeah. No.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my four year old and two year
Speaker 1: old who figured out how to use those things because
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to do it. They they're buckled in
Speaker 1: if they if they can get it buckled by the
Speaker 1: time I start the car, I thought the most revealing
Speaker 1: clip in the whole documentary was the interview with her
Speaker 1: brother where he's like, heah, man, the women in this
Speaker 1: family have a mind to their own. Man. You know
Speaker 1: it's uh, you call it crazy, you call whatever you want,
Speaker 1: but uh and the persons, like you mean, they want
Speaker 1: to exercise like their constitutional rights to like of self government.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, well, yeah, yeah, you could just
Speaker 1: tell like there's like this toxic patriarchal like family ideal
Speaker 1: on the like among you like the boys versus the
Speaker 1: girls in the family, you know, like where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my dad and I know, you know, because my dad's
Speaker 1: been telling me since I was a Kid's like I'm
Speaker 1: telling your mother and your sisters if I mean, if
Speaker 1: if if you let them loose, the world would end. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But he had to take control of her completely, like
Speaker 1: getting back for generations of strong women. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because even like that one clip they showed like the
Speaker 1: MTV comeback thing where it was like you saw like
Speaker 1: a little interaction. It was clearly like someone who is like, Yo,
Speaker 1: my dad ain't shit and it's trying to control my life.
Speaker 1: And I also I don't listen to his ass and
Speaker 1: then frustrated dad who feels like powerless but has like
Speaker 1: this other way to like exercise their power because she's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. Like like I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like this guy doesn't care about her, Like he's just
Speaker 1: he's just in this pissing contest over who has control
Speaker 1: the her. Dad um stays very private. You don't see
Speaker 1: like a lot of interviews with him, and this documentary
Speaker 1: makes it clear why, Like he's just like a straight
Speaker 1: out he's just like yeah, whatever, man, Like he doesn't
Speaker 1: really give a ship. He's not given this much more
Speaker 1: thought than like doing what he can to exercise power.
Speaker 1: And then has lawyers and like the judge not letting
Speaker 1: her hire her own lawyer was so frustrating. It's truly
Speaker 1: truly wild. I mean it's a weird thing. Like my
Speaker 1: wife and I. My wife and I were watching it
Speaker 1: and she was like asking, like, so what so they
Speaker 1: just got away with that then? And I was like,
Speaker 1: well no, because this is like bringing public pressure but
Speaker 1: like does that but effectively they did get away there.
Speaker 1: They're getting away with it because like does public pressure
Speaker 1: influence a judge's decision in a case like this, It's
Speaker 1: not like it's uh the impeachment trial. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: every man in that documentary should be jailed alongside Diane
Speaker 1: Sawyer and dig up Ed McMahon and throw him in
Speaker 1: there too. The Ed mcman clip for anybody who hasn't
Speaker 1: watched the documentary is like she is a eight year
Speaker 1: old star star search and she's great and like just
Speaker 1: has this like wild confidence and like stage presence. And
Speaker 1: then Ed McMahon comes up and it was like very
Speaker 1: first question asks her is do you have a boyfriend?
Speaker 1: And it's like what she says no, and he says
Speaker 1: why and she's like their main and I'm a boy am.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like, no, you're creepy as fuck,
Speaker 1: like a weird old skin flap ghost motherfucker. Get out
Speaker 1: my face, Get your skin tags out of my face,
Speaker 1: old man piercings skin tag Come on, get him on
Speaker 1: my face. Alright, real quick, let's talk about the impeachment.
Speaker 1: Get this ship out of the way. I'm talking. I
Speaker 1: like how We're like, funck, everyone shooting up, and we
Speaker 1: just spend forty minutes talking about Brittany were allies now
Speaker 1: we weren't before, but now we've seen the light. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the Democrats, you know, the first couple of days
Speaker 1: of the impeachment, I would say, are mostly the big
Speaker 1: takeaways or that Trump's defense team doesn't really seem to
Speaker 1: have a strategy, uh, like to the point that Republican
Speaker 1: senators are coming out and being like this is a
Speaker 1: fucking mess, like what are they doing? Like, and and
Speaker 1: they're also complimenting the you know, the Democrats for the
Speaker 1: case that they're presenting. The Democrats showed a fourteen minute
Speaker 1: video of January six that you know, is pretty convinsed.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's if you already watched the footage, you
Speaker 1: know it's pretty bad, but like it it does a
Speaker 1: fairly good job of going some of the more violent
Speaker 1: behavior alongside the words of Trump, and it's all just
Speaker 1: like very My my prediction and what I'm seeing so
Speaker 1: far is that this is just going to be a
Speaker 1: very frustrating experience of seeing a open and shut case
Speaker 1: and then watching the Republicans ignore it. Yeah, because yeah,
Speaker 1: because like it's like who needs more convincing. I mean, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the videos compelling, uh, but like it's it's purely a
Speaker 1: thing of you're dealing with like racist goons and you're
Speaker 1: trying to art like you're we're trying to use like
Speaker 1: persuasive logical arguments like with a rock, Like it doesn't
Speaker 1: that's not the language they they're not even actually interested
Speaker 1: in communicating. So this feels futile. But I also understand that,
Speaker 1: like there's a public getting the public to fully understand
Speaker 1: like what's going on because they're I'm sure some people
Speaker 1: are say like, well, I don't know, did he And
Speaker 1: that video is like it's so like linear, like a
Speaker 1: to be too people beating police with hockey sticks off
Speaker 1: the strength of the words of the president, them repeating
Speaker 1: what he's saying out loud, the timelines all there. On
Speaker 1: top of that, y'all were there that day if you
Speaker 1: recall what the vibes weren't great at the very least.
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree on that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's that's why I'm like so frustrated that, you know,
Speaker 1: his defense goes out there and absolutely just they just
Speaker 1: embarrassed themselves with like non arguments or rebuttals or even
Speaker 1: presenting like some kind of case or counter argument, and
Speaker 1: and yeah, we're in a world where these other people
Speaker 1: can just shamelessly set the country in a direction that
Speaker 1: it's absolutely doesn't need to be going yet. Yeah, I saw, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of people were trying to get
Speaker 1: Julie Juliani kicked off Twitter because he's he's like putting
Speaker 1: this message out there that the insurrection was BLM. And
Speaker 1: it's like it's so. But even just looking at the
Speaker 1: number of retweets, because ill like do investigative work and
Speaker 1: go in and be like what people are retweeting this?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And it's definitely like a
Speaker 1: lot of bots and not real humans, but for sure
Speaker 1: a handful of people that truly believe that just like
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense. We know all these people's backgrounds,
Speaker 1: We like what you know, we saw them get arrested
Speaker 1: at their grandmother's homes. It's like we've seen ship they've
Speaker 1: posted before like there's just no chance that it's it's
Speaker 1: and and and and they're armed with like this phrase.
Speaker 1: I've heard these thought terminating cliches that they can deploy.
Speaker 1: The second critical thought has to enter their mind. So
Speaker 1: if it's if it's saying something like you know, you
Speaker 1: can just dismissively be like well, George Soros and b Let,
Speaker 1: it's like, hold on, you're just you're getting You're just
Speaker 1: going on this take to avoid critically analyzing what was
Speaker 1: just said to you, like like really walk through it.
Speaker 1: But it's easy and like this is like in this
Speaker 1: document I was watching about just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how you can reverse of course from Q and on
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, they're gonna I don't know about that. But
Speaker 1: the when you see that sort of that's that pattern
Speaker 1: of like, uh, communicating, it's like you actually can't go
Speaker 1: anywhere because the second there is a moment that critical
Speaker 1: thought has to enter, they've safeguarded themselves with these like
Speaker 1: talking points or empty platitudes whatever to avoid it. So
Speaker 1: that's I'm like, it's I don't know at what point
Speaker 1: you break through. I mean knowing Tom Cotton and Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz like had trouble watching the video physically like trying
Speaker 1: to look away, I mean says something. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just more I think it
Speaker 1: just underscores the fact that they're shameless and they were
Speaker 1: just trying to avoid feeling anything because they know what
Speaker 1: they're about to do. Right, Can I go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom again? Ted, you just went to the bathroom, I know,
Speaker 1: but I gotta I gotta go again. Could I I
Speaker 1: gotta go to Yeah? Sat, my foot hurts? What? No,
Speaker 1: we're to seeing pizza. Oh man, I left my Cranberry
Speaker 1: CD on the quad. I need to go get that
Speaker 1: before someone snags and all of a sudden, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they believe in COVID have a fever. I'm coughing.
Speaker 1: I need to go. Uh all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come right back, and we're back. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about those two thousand dollar checks that are
Speaker 1: no longer even being talked about. It's now we're now
Speaker 1: talking about I didn't even get my six okay, suspected fraud.
Speaker 1: And they're just like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's just
Speaker 1: like it's happened to a ton of people with California
Speaker 1: unemployment and with the um with the stimulus check that
Speaker 1: it was just like you go on and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: have I got my check yet? And then they're like,
Speaker 1: we sent it to this bank account number and it's
Speaker 1: not my bank account at all. And then they're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can like claim a credit on your taxes, but
Speaker 1: otherwise it's just gone, like there's nothing they can do.
Speaker 1: It's wild. I mean, it's the amount like it's because
Speaker 1: the whole effort to try and provide any kind of support,
Speaker 1: stimulus package, anything, it's just been so fucked up and backwards.
Speaker 1: And like we, for whatever reason Democrats keep getting to
Speaker 1: the point where they're like, yeah, man, helping people is
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, and then three weeks later,
Speaker 1: like but like way less though, because like you don't
Speaker 1: want to give rich people money, and you're like, what's
Speaker 1: the funk is going on? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because in the in the in the election cycle, it
Speaker 1: was like yes, and like they're campaigning on these two
Speaker 1: thousand dollar checks blah blah blah. But then once Joe
Speaker 1: Biden got in office, things started changing a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean the pushback stort of began in December when
Speaker 1: like the two thousand dollar idea came out and like
Speaker 1: Trump was minded people like whoa, okay, that's we like
Speaker 1: that um. And then like as the four hundred dollar
Speaker 1: thing came out, like they were trying to lower the thresholds,
Speaker 1: which would potentially deny aid to half of Americans, Like,
Speaker 1: don't don't even don't even think of like who you
Speaker 1: think is getting the money. Just think in terms of
Speaker 1: numerically who's getting help. You're saying less than half knowing
Speaker 1: how many people are being affected by the pandemic. Like no,
Speaker 1: so based on also they're earning from the year before
Speaker 1: the pandemic, right, because a lot of those are from
Speaker 1: your old I R from your taxes. So you know,
Speaker 1: at that time, the media just didn't batn eye when
Speaker 1: it went to fourteen hundred dollars and like, and then
Speaker 1: suddenly at the end of January, they all rallied around
Speaker 1: this study from a billionaire funded think tank that basically
Speaker 1: manufactured the consent and cemented the sort of quote unquote
Speaker 1: logic that helping people may actually be bad. It was
Speaker 1: coming it comes from it's it all comes out of
Speaker 1: I believe it's Harvor and it's called Opportunity Insights. This
Speaker 1: think tank is funded by the family foundations of Mark Zuckerberg,
Speaker 1: Mike Bloomberg, and Bill Gates. So this study comes from
Speaker 1: this billionaire think tank, and what they're looking for insights
Speaker 1: into opportunities, so it can't be a bent god. So
Speaker 1: then this then, once this study came out with very
Speaker 1: little like footnotes and things like that, all these media
Speaker 1: outlets started just jumping on it. The Washington Post how
Speaker 1: a headline and said, quote, cutting off stimulus checks to
Speaker 1: Americans earning over could be wise. New data suggests, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is from Bloomberg Biden. Stimulus risks giving money to
Speaker 1: people who won't spend it. Uh. The Washington Post editorial
Speaker 1: board said, quote targeting relief to the neediest, thus freeing
Speaker 1: up more resources for higher priorities such as vaccines and
Speaker 1: safe school reopenings, comports with progressivism properly understood. It's not
Speaker 1: progressive to give money to the rich. They're using really
Speaker 1: fancy title to pretty much say, save up killer bees
Speaker 1: economic plan. I mean shit, at least they would at
Speaker 1: least that's a plan, rather than like just sort of
Speaker 1: obscuring the fact that you're about to be just enact
Speaker 1: mass cruelty on the country. And but by that point
Speaker 1: it was too late. The study had gained so much momentum,
Speaker 1: and it was like the basis of so many like
Speaker 1: opinion pieces and segments on like all the networks, like
Speaker 1: you know, like no one like was free of this, uh,
Speaker 1: this study. But then you come to find out they
Speaker 1: start adding sort of like their methodologies for this study,
Speaker 1: and it's fucking flawed, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: the first one is the income data that they used
Speaker 1: to even uh to extrapolate who's going to spend and
Speaker 1: won't spend. It comes from using zip code level income data,
Speaker 1: which actually is a very It removes all nuance of
Speaker 1: who lives in a zip code, not everyone, it's not
Speaker 1: a monolith of one income. And there we should be
Speaker 1: immediately suspicious because it's not like this hasn't been studied already.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of peer reviewed studies out there about like
Speaker 1: what giving people money does, and the majority of peer
Speaker 1: reviewed studies says like contradicts what this one very specific,
Speaker 1: hastily thrown together study says. And it's it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they needed that to say the thing they wanted
Speaker 1: to say, so like, that's the that's the reason we
Speaker 1: went with one study as opposed to the scientific consensus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the majority of peer reviewed studies is this. But according
Speaker 1: to this non peer reviewed study from Mark Zuckerberg, giving
Speaker 1: poor people money bad like fuck, and then you know
Speaker 1: it on top of it, there there's like this whole
Speaker 1: salt cap for this tax cap that Democrats are talking
Speaker 1: about repealing, which would benefit like the benefits of repealing
Speaker 1: this cap would go to the top five percent of earners.
Speaker 1: And this is what the Democrats are talking about right
Speaker 1: now in the Ways and Means Committee, talking about like, well,
Speaker 1: how can we do this, and actually we'll offset that
Speaker 1: by raising the taxes and the other just like that's
Speaker 1: not how that's gonna work. Like people are gonna lose
Speaker 1: out because of this. So that you have the media
Speaker 1: just really focused on this one thing while not really
Speaker 1: bringing up that they're doing the same thing of letting
Speaker 1: the money, you know, continue to flow upward to the
Speaker 1: rich um while removing any sort of support from progressive
Speaker 1: tax codes that we could have. Yeah, America has got
Speaker 1: a lot of fucking Like it seems very clear to
Speaker 1: us that like the world is being run by a
Speaker 1: very small group of extremely wealthy people. But I think
Speaker 1: we're at the beginning of the Roaring twenties right now,
Speaker 1: and then like when the the big crash or uprising,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes, happens, like that that will be years
Speaker 1: on because you still see like all the stories like
Speaker 1: Andrew Yang is winning like for mayor, like it's all
Speaker 1: just billionaires. Man. People fucking love billionaires. They just trust billionaires.
Speaker 1: There's like some residual trust left over from whatever, Like
Speaker 1: the rich equals good thing from the early twenty one
Speaker 1: century was it was the game stop thing was so
Speaker 1: like scary for for them too. It was like a
Speaker 1: little you know, a little crack in the armor of
Speaker 1: like oh ship, Like if enough for people or middle
Speaker 1: income people get together and make a plan, like they
Speaker 1: can enact real financial change, and like we don't want that.
Speaker 1: Don't collectives on the air, don't let people start googling
Speaker 1: that ship. We're eventually going to get to the place
Speaker 1: where people are like, okay, billionaires like should be inherently
Speaker 1: mistrusted like that. There is a inherent flaw in any
Speaker 1: human mind that is willing to accumulate that much wealth.
Speaker 1: And I think with you know, broadcast television, mainstream news,
Speaker 1: it's because you have gazillionaires on the networks where millionaires
Speaker 1: tell you the news. And so we just had why
Speaker 1: I watched news Max exactly you can tell by the
Speaker 1: suits they're not doing that great. Um. Well, speaking of
Speaker 1: people loving them, a billionaire Elon Musk has a new
Speaker 1: internet service uh that is being pitched in the mainstream
Speaker 1: media as like his solution to the fact that you
Speaker 1: can't get broadband out into the countries or two underserved communities.
Speaker 1: So this is going to use satellites, low flying satellites,
Speaker 1: the Starlink products uh, and it's part of Elon musk SpaceX.
Speaker 1: Uh uses a series of satellites that communicate directly with
Speaker 1: a dish you purchase, so you don't need fiber optic
Speaker 1: cables or other infrastructural hurdles. Uh. It does cost, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned up top, ninety nine dollars a month and
Speaker 1: the dish costs five dollars. But now hear us out
Speaker 1: here does right, that's a that's a note for me,
Speaker 1: dog Uh A cool cool American idol reference by me.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's not even American idol. It's just
Speaker 1: accepted like just vernacular. Yeah, it's like know what I mean,
Speaker 1: not that cool. But uh, it is causing some controversy
Speaker 1: because the satellites, Uh, it's not like a handful of satellites.
Speaker 1: It is forty satellites that they're going to launch, so
Speaker 1: our sky will be swarming with the satellites. Uh, and
Speaker 1: that will make it difficult to impossible for people to
Speaker 1: observe any ass s troids that are might hit Earth,
Speaker 1: which is an existential crisis, an existential threat. Like I
Speaker 1: I feel like we like scientists. We'll hear when a
Speaker 1: scientists like, oh, there's a there's one that would end
Speaker 1: life on the planet that's going to come within uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple hundred miles, so check that out.
Speaker 1: But like we don't. You know, it's not because of
Speaker 1: the way the human mind is wired. We're not like
Speaker 1: aware that that is something that is constantly going on
Speaker 1: in the background that people are like always looking for
Speaker 1: a asteroid that's going to Yeah, what is his goal? Like,
Speaker 1: I mean again, I don't trust billionaires, so like what
Speaker 1: I can't. It's just hard for me to believe that
Speaker 1: he just really wants everyone to have Internet, Like I don't.
Speaker 1: I just can't. So, like, what is the sinister end
Speaker 1: goal to filling this guy with the most nineties names? Starlink? Starlink,
Speaker 1: it's a WWW on your computer? Yes, starlink, I remember
Speaker 1: whose did you guys have a starlink account? It was
Speaker 1: right after uh the By the way, speaking of nineties words,
Speaker 1: wasn't it cool that Brittany's best friend and assistant her
Speaker 1: last name was cool Lata, like the like the Starbucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was actually my favorite part of the thing. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, she was sore about Felicia and Brittany's
Speaker 1: I just want to see the world through her eyes,
Speaker 1: like her description of the chunnel, and like taking the train.
Speaker 1: She was like, we took a train that went under
Speaker 1: the ocean, and it was a train. It was like
Speaker 1: hanging outside. She was like in her like little Paul
Speaker 1: Frank monkey t shirt from that. It's the coolest thing
Speaker 1: we ever did, Just the coolest thing. I just love it.
Speaker 1: Something so pure. Anyway, Anyways, what's what's his endgame here?
Speaker 1: His endgame is to use this very expensive product to
Speaker 1: uh fund his missions to Mars. He knows that those
Speaker 1: are going to be expensive. Um, he is planning too.
Speaker 1: I knew he was interested in Mars, but he's got
Speaker 1: like some Bond villain type ship cooking up. He wants
Speaker 1: to have a city on the planet Mars by that
Speaker 1: will be libertarian and will will be ruled by him.
Speaker 1: So he's basically trying to create a Mars like city,
Speaker 1: a Martian. Why am I legitimately worried he'll be able
Speaker 1: to do it? Like I'm convinced that you can just
Speaker 1: like own space if you have enough money and no
Speaker 1: one will stop you. Yeah. So there's a yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a thing called the Outer Space Treaty that says,
Speaker 1: like you can't do that, like international law applies on
Speaker 1: Mars as well as the Moon, as well as all
Speaker 1: other parts of space. Um but Ranus even but he is,
Speaker 1: he is in in the user agreement for Starlink, there
Speaker 1: is something that asks people to agree that there is
Speaker 1: no uh, nobody has jurisdiction over Mars, and that he
Speaker 1: does that he can basically create his own planet. It
Speaker 1: asked simply put, declaring Mars as a free planet is
Speaker 1: essentially yes, it by getting people to sign up to this,
Speaker 1: and it's also it's got wild stop the steel vibes,
Speaker 1: where like Trump was raising money off of this effort,
Speaker 1: I mean, like he wasn't really going to spend the
Speaker 1: money on that and this in the same way He's like,
Speaker 1: I have this thing I'm gonna dangle, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use that money for this other thing. Thank you. And
Speaker 1: also when you we've talked about broadband in the issues
Speaker 1: that we have in this country with broadband, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: there are huge infrastructural problems, but a lot of the
Speaker 1: people who are underserved from WiFi actually live in just
Speaker 1: cities too because of lack of actors because that ship
Speaker 1: is too expensive. So it's you know, it's like half
Speaker 1: you're half solving a half problem while also fully funding
Speaker 1: your Mars funk fest. Like this would be a dope
Speaker 1: thing to introduce, like as a thing that everybody had
Speaker 1: access to, like and do it right. Yeah, But he's
Speaker 1: doing it to fund his Mars country because he's a billionaire.
Speaker 1: That's how a billionaire's mind works, is that they're going
Speaker 1: to accumulate as much wealth and power as they possibly can.
Speaker 1: So he wants to colonize Mars, and his plans are
Speaker 1: that he wants to have people like it's going to
Speaker 1: cost you a million dollars to get to Mars, but
Speaker 1: then when you get there, you can get a job
Speaker 1: at SpaceX to work off the million dollars day in
Speaker 1: dentured martians. Martians servitude is his plan. Fuck you bro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is the dude, who are pocket this
Speaker 1: dude people Like I hear people quote this dude like
Speaker 1: he is fucking confucious, Like it is the most frustrating ship.
Speaker 1: How how much people love billionaires? Right now? Show me
Speaker 1: the billionaire that wants to live under the ocean. That's tight.
Speaker 1: Give me like a king, some king trit and motherfucker
Speaker 1: who's like, I'm gonna build a bubble under the ocean
Speaker 1: and live under there like that, and anybody if hey,
Speaker 1: if you're down to live that underwater under the sea life,
Speaker 1: come through his free baby, please thank you. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking for friends to chew with me in the Kingdom.
Speaker 1: I would also like to take a water slide down
Speaker 1: there instead of like whatever uncomfortable as ship is going
Speaker 1: to be taking people to Mars. Give me a water
Speaker 1: slide that goes to your undersea kingdom. I will serve
Speaker 1: you king. Or it's like a thing like at that
Speaker 1: Atlantis resort where you take like a water slide that
Speaker 1: like goes into clear tunnel and you actually descend forty
Speaker 1: feet under sea level. But then you have figure out
Speaker 1: the science so you don't get the bends and the
Speaker 1: pressure change, you don't suck you up and then you
Speaker 1: like kind of get out the two ship. Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm here. Yeah, And the first ticket goes to Brittany's
Speaker 1: old assistant because she loves being in a tub. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Yeah, to honorary first tickets to Felicia and Brittany.
Speaker 1: You know my favorite thing too, is like in his
Speaker 1: Mars colony, I mean, does he he must realize it's
Speaker 1: gonna be all white men up there, right, Like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fucking nerdfest of just billionaires who are
Speaker 1: like who I don't They're gonna have to ship women
Speaker 1: up there for them to reproduce. Yeah. Yeah, free ticket
Speaker 1: for Mars to you, girl, you want to join me
Speaker 1: as Yeah, the worst, Amy. It's been a pleasure having you,
Speaker 1: the best having you. Where can people find you? Follow you? Experience?
Speaker 1: You follow me on to her Amy Miller Instagram, Amy
Speaker 1: Miller Comedy and I have some videos and stuff up
Speaker 1: there and that's my podcast. Who's Your God? Is also good?
Speaker 1: Very good? Um? And is there a tweeter some of
Speaker 1: the work of social media you've been enjoying. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is a tweet I really enjoyed on Sunday from Mia Galuppo,
Speaker 1: who I guess is a writer for The Hollywood Reporter,
Speaker 1: and she said this super Bowl could have been an
Speaker 1: email and really spoke to me as someone getting exhausted
Speaker 1: from every communication now having to look at me in
Speaker 1: my home. Not you guys. You guys are great, at
Speaker 1: you so glad you can see me. So many things
Speaker 1: can just be an email at this point, like I
Speaker 1: don't need a FaceTime, you just leave me alone. Miles
Speaker 1: where can people find you? And what's the tweet you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Uh? Instagram, Twitter, miles of gray at miles
Speaker 1: of great technically and then check out four twenty days
Speaker 1: Beyonce the other probably talking about ninety day and married
Speaker 1: at first. I just you know, a little trash tasting menu,
Speaker 1: if you will. Um some tweets that I like first
Speaker 1: week from Super Producer and hosni At and Hosnie saying
Speaker 1: I only very recently realized that Connor McGregor isn't a
Speaker 1: Tom Hardy character. Another one is from Nicole Buyer at
Speaker 1: Nicole by Er. Why Yes, I went on a mass
Speaker 1: date today in a park. I was wearing a giant
Speaker 1: medical boot. Yes, oh baby, you know it did my
Speaker 1: wig slide back far enough that I had to catch
Speaker 1: it before the GUSTA Winn claimed it as her own. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: yes it did. She's back baby great. I just love
Speaker 1: that one. And uh, actually the song of the day
Speaker 1: is actually a tweet that I like. But I'll get
Speaker 1: to that when we get to the song, all right. Uh.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: A couple of tweets I've been enjoying at tweet Potato
Speaker 1: three fourteen tweeted cool a man dying halfway through a
Speaker 1: cart wheel? Uh. And Mike Scully tweeted a story for
Speaker 1: his childhood fifty seven years ago. Today, my family and
Speaker 1: seven year old me watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Speaker 1: and my dad said, quote, Jesus Christ, get a load
Speaker 1: of these assholes. Oh man. You can find us on
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Speaker 1: information that we talked about today's episode, as well as
Speaker 1: the song we ride out on mile What is that song? Okay,
Speaker 1: so this song was a tweet I saw from at
Speaker 1: I still love her underscore and this the tweet she
Speaker 1: plays this elementary school band playing Steaks is High is
Speaker 1: the feel good content I needed today, and it's these
Speaker 1: little kids playing day Lost Souls Steaks is High. Like
Speaker 1: you can tell their teacher is so dope because he's
Speaker 1: got like a J. Diller projection in the background. Obviously
Speaker 1: this beatub co produced by So it was just it's
Speaker 1: just cool to see like this moment where like kids
Speaker 1: are like jam me like and they're not the best musicians,
Speaker 1: but there's no matter if you play music or not,
Speaker 1: you can relate to like the joy of someone creating
Speaker 1: and like children doing it, and it's it's it's just pure,
Speaker 1: it's happy. So you're gonna hear it. But definitely check
Speaker 1: out the tweet. I'll retweet that and just enjoy. I'm
Speaker 1: sure somebody could give me a quote of like if
Speaker 1: these kids are like when you were this age, like
Speaker 1: the Beatles, or like Chubby Checker was as old as
Speaker 1: that day Lass Albee is or whatever, that would make
Speaker 1: me turn into dust and blow away. I will do
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