Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one sixty eight,
Speaker 1: Episode four of Days Eye Guys, a 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 Friday, January
Speaker 1: twenty two. Uh. Let's go back to just updating on
Speaker 1: where we're at with COVID. Uh there were zero COVID
Speaker 1: deaths in New Zealand yesterday. Uh and I believe zero
Speaker 1: since September. There is zero in Australia. Uh and as
Speaker 1: a seven day rolling average zero as of when we
Speaker 1: record this. Uh And in the US there were a
Speaker 1: record four thousand, three d sixty seven on January twenty,
Speaker 1: which is the latest day. We have records rolling average
Speaker 1: of over three thousand, more than a nine eleven every
Speaker 1: day for a week. Uh So yeah, that's where we're
Speaker 1: at heading into this new administration. Uh And my name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien a K you know that. People, I'm
Speaker 1: a dad, people, I'm a dead rock. The Fenny pack
Speaker 1: all day, Fenny pack all day. I called kids. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Sport, how's it going sport? Three straight days
Speaker 1: of the same short, Dad, Please change your shorts. That
Speaker 1: is courtesy of Christina part love and sad, and I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, and you know what
Speaker 1: it libertad erbas Let's smoke Gladdah, my god. That was
Speaker 1: every Yamagucci Mane, DJ Daniel this. I took little bits
Speaker 1: from everyone. Jennifer Lopez herself, um next to the Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 1: you know, errand arms foldedmitting meme. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is for me, is j Lo. Let's get loud. That's
Speaker 1: all in our ragon. Well, we are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented
Speaker 1: Alison Rosa. Let it go, let it go, don't need
Speaker 1: my makeup anymore, let it go, let it go. Leave
Speaker 1: that bra in the draw, work from home and look
Speaker 1: like ship. That zoom filter enhance my appearance every day enhance.
Speaker 1: So good to be back, and it's so good to
Speaker 1: have you back. Then Hansing is not really working like
Speaker 1: I hope, because I'm staring at my stuff and not
Speaker 1: liking what I see. You look fantastical. Stop it. I
Speaker 1: just found out I've been I've had zoom meetings with
Speaker 1: this dude who had been. He was like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: these eyebrows, I might as well get them tattooed on.
Speaker 1: They look so good on me. Found out he's been
Speaker 1: putting on fake eyebrows for like as a zoom filter
Speaker 1: for the entire time I've I've known him. Look like
Speaker 1: they've always been like a little bit strong, you know,
Speaker 1: but like but good enough that like he was pulling
Speaker 1: it off. Uh. And then he took him off, and
Speaker 1: it was like a whole different person. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: will not reveal who that person is or how I
Speaker 1: know them, but okay, And that's fine because at first
Speaker 1: I was like, I thought you were describing like the
Speaker 1: stand set will character and arrested development and he had
Speaker 1: like fake eyebrows on, and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't come at the dude like that, but yeah, saying
Speaker 1: digitally enhanced brows for the purpose in hants enhance glowing
Speaker 1: up on a zoom call. Yeah, I got the eyebrows.
Speaker 1: They're subtle. They're pretty subtle. Like you know, you've seen
Speaker 1: the ones where like there's like the green or the
Speaker 1: blonde like goatee or whatever. This dude had the very
Speaker 1: strong like just it looked like he had a strong brow,
Speaker 1: and he does not. He has a light brow. Is
Speaker 1: that a new like catfishing thing we're going to deal with,
Speaker 1: like we're doing like zoom dating or stuff like I
Speaker 1: just I was using filters on the zoom calls, and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something at some pointed by my thinner brows different
Speaker 1: because brows are subtle, like browser, a thing where when
Speaker 1: you first see the person in person, you would be like,
Speaker 1: there's something different about you, and it would take you
Speaker 1: a little while to figure out what it is. You'd
Speaker 1: be like, did you cut your hair or gain weight?
Speaker 1: You wouldn't immediately think brows. Yeah, I brows on too low. Again,
Speaker 1: there they go, How did you guys? Uh, we're we're
Speaker 1: a couple of days past the annogue, but how did
Speaker 1: you guys? Like keep watching TV? I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: was the thing we were doing. But everybody I've spoken
Speaker 1: to a lot of people who are like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just watched it. Had it had it in the background
Speaker 1: all day. I guess there were festivities rolling through the day.
Speaker 1: My three year old is in charge of the house programming,
Speaker 1: and I just catch screens, uh that don't include his
Speaker 1: programming when I can, so I unfortunately, felt a little
Speaker 1: way moved from it because he was watching Paco Yo.
Speaker 1: Do you guys know this show? I don't know it's
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Um, I'm sure it's also on something else.
Speaker 1: So I caught up with it later in the day.
Speaker 1: But when people were tweeting about the concert, I was like, wait, what,
Speaker 1: there's a concert right now? I had. I had one
Speaker 1: of my friends just text me a thing like a
Speaker 1: reference to a Bill Withers song, and I was the huh,
Speaker 1: and are you watching? I'm like, oh no, I was
Speaker 1: using that. I couldn't more than anything. I think, like
Speaker 1: I said on the Yesterday Show, seeing that the football
Speaker 1: was no longer like the nuclear codes, no longer a thing,
Speaker 1: I was like I had so much um emotional mental
Speaker 1: bandwidth available suddenly, which was weird that I didn't watch
Speaker 1: anything because I was mostly sort of dumb struck by
Speaker 1: how at ease I was for the moment and like
Speaker 1: like it, and it wasn't being reinforced by watching like
Speaker 1: the inauguration and like seeing all the you know, pomp
Speaker 1: and circumstance of it all. But I was just more like, damn, like,
Speaker 1: I think I can like read this comic for a
Speaker 1: little bit, and it'd be like not have my thoughts
Speaker 1: spiral into some other ship because of whatever the administration is.
Speaker 1: So yeah, excuse it in a a different way. Collective exhale um.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see Amanda Gorman's poem? Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: the peak for me. Yeah, I saw that whole part.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and then okay again, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw when j Lo said let's get lad And
Speaker 1: as much as I love the youngest poet Laureate whatever,
Speaker 1: it's no Ja, Yes she was amazing. Uh speaking up?
Speaker 1: Can I steal a minute of the show just to
Speaker 1: talk parent child programming? Alison? Did your child watch Blippy
Speaker 1: at all? Oh? Yeah, we had a big Blippy phase
Speaker 1: and then he came out of it and then just
Speaker 1: like three days ago he asked to watch Blippy again.
Speaker 1: So we're headed to Blippyville. Did you know about the scandal? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did, and I found out about this. I love it.
Speaker 1: Tell them because this is too good to be true.
Speaker 1: Blippy is a dude who just it's like, it's the
Speaker 1: way entertainment. Yeah, it's the way entertainment works in like
Speaker 1: the digital age, where he was just like a cool
Speaker 1: uncle who was making videos for his nephews to entertain
Speaker 1: them and became like a viral sensation. And so now
Speaker 1: he has like a whole children's entertainment media YouTube empire.
Speaker 1: And then it comes out that in the early teens
Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen video, Uh, there's a video of him
Speaker 1: taking a ship on his friend's ass. Right, So his
Speaker 1: name is Steve, his real name is Stephen John's and
Speaker 1: he was a gross out comedian. What was his he
Speaker 1: has stage name, I don't know, do you remember? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was ploppy, Yeah, it was ploppy before oh Man,
Speaker 1: oh my god boy and underwear Man. I think were
Speaker 1: his nicknames, or at least those were the videos that
Speaker 1: got him. Steven Jake Grossman. That's what it was himself,
Speaker 1: Stephen J. Gross No, sorry, Stephen John is his He
Speaker 1: was born as Stephen Grossman. I feel like there's even
Speaker 1: a third or fourth name that he went by. Um, no,
Speaker 1: I hear it is sorry, Steazy Grossman, Steazyman. You know
Speaker 1: that's a real nickname that he had in high school,
Speaker 1: Steazy Grossman. It's amazing that he didn't even put a
Speaker 1: dent in his success as a children's entertainer. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the two things were not like nobody knew about them,
Speaker 1: that they were the same person for a little while
Speaker 1: and then it's just coming out. But yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: it came out in twenty nineteen, and you're right, it
Speaker 1: hasn't really made a dent. He's still Uh, he's still
Speaker 1: that dude. But the video wasn't like, Okay, I know
Speaker 1: you said he took a dump on his friend's ass. Dude,
Speaker 1: he was doing a parody Harlem shake. Yeah, that really
Speaker 1: kind of comes out of nowhere. Uh to to to
Speaker 1: quote to quote BuzzFeed News. Uh. In a hard R
Speaker 1: rated twist in a two thousand thirteen video that BuzzFeed
Speaker 1: News has reviewed, uh, Stephen Blippy John takes an explosive
Speaker 1: diarrhea ship on his nude friend's ass and a truly
Speaker 1: shocking rendition of the Harlem shake meat. Uh so Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do love BuzzFeed News is uh like ability to
Speaker 1: kind of code switch between BuzzFeed News has learned and
Speaker 1: review footage and then being like diary a ship a
Speaker 1: new friend's ass um interesting that that's hard? Are I mean?
Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense. I mean I feel like
Speaker 1: it's if that if I suddenly saw that I would
Speaker 1: feel like I need more warning than just an R ratings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a hard R. I I think
Speaker 1: that is poor writing on on whoever wrote that BuzzFeed
Speaker 1: News articles topolos. Oh, she's great, so it's a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit harder than a hard are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's her beat diary is ships. Yeah, No, she's actually
Speaker 1: very I hate to see what she thinks is like
Speaker 1: like n C seven. Yeah, it's just people being like
Speaker 1: what she thinks is g r R. Yeah. Um anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know right, like this is not that. And he
Speaker 1: was able to just come out and be like, yeah
Speaker 1: I did some gross out stuff. I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: get that. I've you know, people doing try and comedy
Speaker 1: on the internet. You to make some experiment with some
Speaker 1: dumb ship and then you're like, okay, that's not it.
Speaker 1: But like I'm for you as parents when you see
Speaker 1: a thing we're like, oh my kid likes this entertainer?
Speaker 1: Where do you put bad Harlem shake shitting video? In
Speaker 1: terms of like you can't watch this, like how low
Speaker 1: is that? You know what I mean? Like racism him
Speaker 1: as a person, or violent abuse, you know, like of
Speaker 1: just transgressions that are revealed about someone, You're like, oh, actually,
Speaker 1: this this actually negates all the work they've done. I
Speaker 1: have two boys. They have probably described what what happened
Speaker 1: in that video before, just because poop jokes are like
Speaker 1: the funniest thing in the world to them, and just
Speaker 1: like saying poop on somebody who's pooping would probably be
Speaker 1: a thing that they would describe. So there's definitely Like
Speaker 1: when I first saw Blippy, I was like, this is
Speaker 1: weird because he's like a middle aged dude who's dressed
Speaker 1: like a I don't know. It's like another guy who's like,
Speaker 1: do you want government cash for like with the question
Speaker 1: he looks like that to nephew, Yes, yes he does.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Uh, alright, we we've completely derailed this show.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely not what people tune in to hear about.
Speaker 1: But when you said Blippy, I was like, I know Bluey,
Speaker 1: And then I was like, damn, there's Blippy, there's Bluey,
Speaker 1: there's for everything. Was the when you said Alison coomo
Speaker 1: yo poco yo, poco yo ye. Damn, it's all out there.
Speaker 1: It is just any random syllables. Let's finally, let's pivot
Speaker 1: off of children's entertain Hey, shaping the minds of the future. Um, alright, Uh, alson,
Speaker 1: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
Speaker 1: a couple of things. We're talking about. Uh, we're talking
Speaker 1: about blues clues today. You know, we're talking about how
Speaker 1: much how much work there is to do, so much
Speaker 1: reversing to do, and what Biden got done in his
Speaker 1: first day. Uh. We're gonna talk about some technological help
Speaker 1: coming for medical workers. That seems promising. It seems like
Speaker 1: it could could Uh, I don't know, be expanded. I
Speaker 1: just want to do a quick review of Republican presidents,
Speaker 1: just how how they've been doing. We will look at
Speaker 1: some Trump regret being expressed on various uh forums four
Speaker 1: four I, and then just the wildest rumor to come
Speaker 1: out yesterday. This is not what I was expecting to
Speaker 1: be the wildest rumor. But about Jane Krakowski and the
Speaker 1: my pillow guy, um, all that plentymore. There may even
Speaker 1: be an opportunity for me to talk about the British
Speaker 1: cold gas study, Uh, the new ones. You know, that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's a special day when I get to
Speaker 1: do that. But first, Alison, we like to ask our guest,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that is revealing
Speaker 1: about who you are? So my I recently searched is
Speaker 1: tell Me Who I Am? A true story? Because do
Speaker 1: you know the documentary Tell Me Who I Am? I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty recent. And on Childish my Parenting Ish podcast,
Speaker 1: uh my co host Craig Fitzsimmons mentioned having seen it
Speaker 1: and he didn't want to tell me any details, but
Speaker 1: it was like so amazing and he's like, just go
Speaker 1: watch it. And then in uh in an Instagram comment,
Speaker 1: a listener was, I've been listening to Allison for years
Speaker 1: and I think she I know her sensibility, and I
Speaker 1: think she shouldn't watch it. It's like the worst possible
Speaker 1: thing happens to kids. It would it was too much
Speaker 1: for me, it would be too much for her. Don't
Speaker 1: watch it. So I thought, Okay, I won't. I'll just
Speaker 1: go google the plot summary, which is I am I'm
Speaker 1: I cannot handle horror. I can't handle things that are
Speaker 1: super disturbing, Like I have a dark brain that goes
Speaker 1: to those places. Anyway, I don't need outside help. So
Speaker 1: what I do is I won't watch anything awful. I
Speaker 1: just read this like I couldn't even I could not
Speaker 1: get past two episodes of Handmaid's Tale. But I know
Speaker 1: the entire synopsis because I go torture myself by reading
Speaker 1: about it on Wikipedia. So I went to Wikipedia. I
Speaker 1: now know what tell me who I Am is about?
Speaker 1: And I don't know whether I should say or not.
Speaker 1: I don't really think it's a spoiler because everything I
Speaker 1: encountered that gave a description about it says it. But
Speaker 1: it just I I won't. But I read it and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is so awful this, and I
Speaker 1: always like there's a part of me that's very naive.
Speaker 1: It's so awful. This can't be a true story. This
Speaker 1: just can't. So I was hoping to find something that
Speaker 1: says that it's a work of fiction, or like it's
Speaker 1: a someone made it up, it's a hoax, set it up.
Speaker 1: But all I kept seeing was that it is a
Speaker 1: true story, and that is my Google search history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is dark. I'm I'm looking at it right now,
Speaker 1: and it's like someone's in an accident, loses their memory
Speaker 1: and then they're relying on their twin sibling to like
Speaker 1: filling So there's this this set of twins, and one
Speaker 1: of them gets into a motorcycle accident and is in
Speaker 1: a coma and comes out of it and doesn't remember
Speaker 1: anything except like very uh maybe like a few very
Speaker 1: recent memories. Doesn't remember anything and is and so his
Speaker 1: twin brother is filling him in on everything, you know,
Speaker 1: their childhood and everything that happened up till now, and
Speaker 1: hain'ts a pretty rosy picture of it. But then it
Speaker 1: turns out should I say it, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a spoiler or not. I just know broadly, I
Speaker 1: think that there's a dark family secret. It turns out
Speaker 1: that there was a very dark family secret, yes, that
Speaker 1: involved the two boys, and that the twin covered that up,
Speaker 1: and in doing so, I believe it was pretty healing
Speaker 1: for the one who had the memories, because he was
Speaker 1: able to create this fantasy of a good upbringing. But
Speaker 1: then when their mother dies, the twin who had the
Speaker 1: memory loss stumbles onto some things and it's like, did
Speaker 1: something bad happen to us? And then it all and
Speaker 1: and then and I did relate. I do relate to this,
Speaker 1: like goes on this deep becomes obsessed with finding out
Speaker 1: the truth of what really happened, and I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I've only read about it. That's how I would be, though,
Speaker 1: I get very obsessed with like I need to know
Speaker 1: the truth of something. It's like it's a narrative kind
Speaker 1: of uh idea that we've that we were talking about
Speaker 1: kind of resonating especially recently where um, and obviously this
Speaker 1: is a documentary and I was talking about it in
Speaker 1: the context of like more fictional movies like Memento, where
Speaker 1: people are intentionally like trying to avoid reality. Um and yeah,
Speaker 1: this seems like one of the one of those sort
Speaker 1: of trying to avoid the reality of of one zone
Speaker 1: memories that I think we're seeing a lot of in
Speaker 1: popular culture. Obviously we see a lot of it in
Speaker 1: the news with Trump supporters and Alex Jones people and
Speaker 1: ship like that. But right, I mean, I think there's
Speaker 1: this question of what is the value of living in
Speaker 1: reality if reality is upsetting and disturbing? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the matrix is probably the more central idea is, or
Speaker 1: the more central text for like that choice between do
Speaker 1: I want to wake up to a reality even if
Speaker 1: that reality is less pleasant than just living in the lie? Right,
Speaker 1: and all the followers of Q who have been red
Speaker 1: pilled to the max man if they have those pill colors, right,
Speaker 1: they of course believe that the rest of us are
Speaker 1: choosing to stay asleep to the reality that they are
Speaker 1: aware of. It's And now they're having a reckoning too,
Speaker 1: they're having realizing they were post legitimately on, like can
Speaker 1: I blue pill back? But they do it. I think
Speaker 1: what they're discovering is that they they did choose the
Speaker 1: blue pill, like like with everything with the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: they have chosen the to use like the antonym like
Speaker 1: the exact opposite of the truth, and you know, or
Speaker 1: with Trump a lot of times it comes to the
Speaker 1: form of accused in the other side of what they're doing.
Speaker 1: And with with the red pill people, when they took
Speaker 1: the blue pill, that told them like, this is your reality,
Speaker 1: is that you are the hero and everybody else is
Speaker 1: against you and there's a vast conspiracy trying to hold
Speaker 1: you down and not like that you are very privileged
Speaker 1: compared to a lot of the people around you. Uh
Speaker 1: that they decided to call that red pilling when it's
Speaker 1: the exact opposite of that. Um yeah, yeah, Well, hopefully
Speaker 1: there's a way back for people because it seems like
Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised after looking more and more like on
Speaker 1: these forums and things, that they're the way they're the
Speaker 1: group of people who are into the conspiracy theory, who
Speaker 1: are like legitimately trying to be like, guys, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: we've been had, yeah, and we actually need to start
Speaker 1: dealing with that, because like there was one with this
Speaker 1: the dad wrote He's like, I fully just you know, uh,
Speaker 1: scuttled my relationships to my kids in the pursuit of
Speaker 1: what I thought was the truth. And he's like, I
Speaker 1: have a lot to do because I'm realizing I've really
Speaker 1: massively cut down, like I don't know what my future
Speaker 1: is because in search of this conspiracy theory, I've let
Speaker 1: my family go, and now I realize that this is empty.
Speaker 1: I actually need to make amends to have my family
Speaker 1: as part of my life because that's truly what matters
Speaker 1: right now. And we've been so I mean, there's all kinds,
Speaker 1: but it's interesting when you see that sort of being
Speaker 1: expressed like ship, yeah, people need to death the twelve
Speaker 1: step program for Q and on. I think people coming
Speaker 1: out of the Q thing. I also think that it's
Speaker 1: probably a sampling error, a little bit in the sense
Speaker 1: that people who have chosen to just double down and
Speaker 1: bury their head in the Q version of things. There's
Speaker 1: really not a way to express that in language that
Speaker 1: doesn't sound just completely on its surface, inherently contradictory. And
Speaker 1: so the only people were hearing from are the ones
Speaker 1: who have reconciled the fact that they were living on Yeah, yeah, totally,
Speaker 1: But you know, so central I think to a lot
Speaker 1: of this que stuff is this idea that they've discovered
Speaker 1: that children are being abused all and it goes up
Speaker 1: to the highest, you know, levels in the land, and
Speaker 1: I know that that's the thing. Like I'll see um uh,
Speaker 1: friends of friends who are mothers who are not conspiracy
Speaker 1: theorist as far as I know, start posting stuff on
Speaker 1: Instagram and I'm like, oh my god, they're getting sucked
Speaker 1: into it. Stuff about traffic. I mean, yes, of course
Speaker 1: trafficking of kids and people exist, but I can just
Speaker 1: tell like, these are que memes that you are You're
Speaker 1: not aware that you're reposting this stuff. And it's like,
Speaker 1: are the ones who are sort of waking up to
Speaker 1: having been had? Are they realizing that all of that
Speaker 1: stuff was not true? The way they thought it was. No.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably an interesting entry point because it's
Speaker 1: real and there's enough on in the real world to
Speaker 1: indicate that there's validity to those claims like of powerful
Speaker 1: people who have used children, just not the ones that
Speaker 1: they think it is right. It's when they go into
Speaker 1: this other thing of like this you know, emergency broadcast
Speaker 1: system and how the like tribunals were going to occur
Speaker 1: on the news and that's how Trump will stay in office.
Speaker 1: It's like a lot of I think those are the
Speaker 1: things that became like the loudest parts about Q and
Speaker 1: on and things like that over the last few months,
Speaker 1: and I think those are the elements that are like
Speaker 1: now they're realized, like holy shit, Like I was really
Speaker 1: into that part, but fuck, none of it happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's isolating that mothering or parenting instinct of like caring
Speaker 1: for your child. And I mean it's the same thing
Speaker 1: as the anti bax Or thing. It's like they figured
Speaker 1: out a way to uh and didn't figure it out.
Speaker 1: It's just almost like an evolutionary natural selection thing where
Speaker 1: this thing that praise on that very spe cific kind
Speaker 1: of universal feeling and kind of removes it from context,
Speaker 1: like it's basically like parent caring for your child porn
Speaker 1: where it's like removed and just like sort of made
Speaker 1: very front and center and kind of cheapened so that
Speaker 1: that's like you're just like playing on that emotion completely
Speaker 1: out of context in a way that's manipulated. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We we used
Speaker 1: up a lot of the top talking about Blippy shipping
Speaker 1: on his friend's ask. It was this is very important stuff.
Speaker 1: It is just the perfect perfect log line. It's written
Speaker 1: like that. It's uh yeah, I didn't feel like it
Speaker 1: was front act friends chest like hot Carl style. But
Speaker 1: this is no men shout out like he took it
Speaker 1: to the right and that is that is what makes
Speaker 1: Blippy blippy is he's always willing to take do that
Speaker 1: extra little spin to make it just that much more.
Speaker 1: He's a disruptor when you think of he disrupted the
Speaker 1: diarrhea ship industry. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right backs newt friends ass and we're back
Speaker 1: and Alison, as you know, we like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I think
Speaker 1: locks on doors are underrated, at least in my own
Speaker 1: personal life. All my years on this earth, the only
Speaker 1: locks I have really utilized are the ones to my
Speaker 1: front door, and you know, any entry from the outside
Speaker 1: into my house, I'll lock those doors. I locked my
Speaker 1: car door and stuff like that. Um However, I've never
Speaker 1: felt I've never needed to lock the inside bedroom door
Speaker 1: or bathroom door or all that stuff. But now that
Speaker 1: I am I've always been working from home. The difference
Speaker 1: is now my everyone else in the house, but especially
Speaker 1: my kids, are home of the time, and I find
Speaker 1: myself if I'm like in a room with my computer.
Speaker 1: Just very recently, I've started locking the door because otherwise
Speaker 1: I will get a two year old who comes in
Speaker 1: and then wants to sit on my lap and then
Speaker 1: pulls my hand off the keyboard so he can hit
Speaker 1: the keyboard. And I feel like a kind of like
Speaker 1: a monster locking him out. Uh, there's someone on the
Speaker 1: other side watching him. It's not I'm locked. I'm not
Speaker 1: locked him out alone in that closet. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: see seven, I'll see right. Ask your brother who's three
Speaker 1: if you need help. Uh. Yeah, it's the It's the
Speaker 1: only way I can get any work done. Boundaries are
Speaker 1: very very important in this new at home life. For sure,
Speaker 1: it's hard. Like I you know, I have a two
Speaker 1: year old who keeps me up some nights where I
Speaker 1: only get a couple hours of sleep and I will,
Speaker 1: you know, need to take a nap in the middle
Speaker 1: of the day. Uh. And in those case, in those instances,
Speaker 1: I've noticed that I can't sleep unless the door is
Speaker 1: locked because I know they're going to come in, like
Speaker 1: the potential yeah opening, It's just like a mental block
Speaker 1: or a mental boundary that I need. Right My older
Speaker 1: one who is now a little he's almost four, he's
Speaker 1: a little more reasonable, and that's in oats. But he
Speaker 1: if he tries to get in and the door is locked,
Speaker 1: he would throw a fit. I mean it would. I
Speaker 1: would not be able to sleep through that. But Owen,
Speaker 1: who's he's almost two, and he's the one I've mostly
Speaker 1: been utilizing the lock against. Um, he just kind of
Speaker 1: tries it and then just toddles off. Yeah, he doesn't
Speaker 1: take it personally. He's like water. He's like, if if
Speaker 1: he can flow into there will if not the least
Speaker 1: resistant Exactly. What is something you think is overrated? This?
Speaker 1: And I think this is probably relatable to most people.
Speaker 1: I think chartering a yacht is overrated, thank you. I
Speaker 1: mean because the help you get on those things is
Speaker 1: not always as good as you expected to know. It's
Speaker 1: really it's really fallen off a cliff. I'd have to say,
Speaker 1: full disclosure, I've never chartered a yacht. I don't even
Speaker 1: think I've been on a yacht, but I've recently become
Speaker 1: pretty into below deck and I'm starting at the beginning.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of early road Rules, early real world.
Speaker 1: Um do you guys watch this show? Do you know
Speaker 1: the premise? So I'm very familiar with Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: the Bravo reality show. Um. It concerns the crew of
Speaker 1: a yacht, and these guests will charter the yacht for
Speaker 1: like usually I think it's three days at a time.
Speaker 1: It's upwards of a hundred thousand dollars, And every time
Speaker 1: I watch, I just think if I had the money
Speaker 1: to throw that away on a vacation. I don't understand
Speaker 1: why you'd want to go on a yacht, Like, why
Speaker 1: would you not just go to a super nice hotel
Speaker 1: if you're going to be spending an exorbitant amount of money?
Speaker 1: Because the yacht. I don't know it just it just
Speaker 1: seems like a cramped hotel that will make you see sick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's like one of those weird things that's a
Speaker 1: class or status indicator slash symbol that people are just
Speaker 1: really focused on without thinking like do I want that
Speaker 1: more than like being like, oh I got yacht money?
Speaker 1: Do I get seasick? Violently? But if you you got
Speaker 1: me fucked up? If don't think IM gonna take selfies
Speaker 1: on this boat because I feel the same way I
Speaker 1: watched him like fun if I had a hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: like I feel like I would take like seventy people
Speaker 1: to a Laker game or some ship and just go
Speaker 1: fucking like just do some wild ship like that to
Speaker 1: be like okay, three people and where everything's like so
Speaker 1: white and bleached, like I'm worried I'm gonna stain everything
Speaker 1: it right, it seems like three kind of uncomfortable days,
Speaker 1: and in the case of the show, three uncomfortable days
Speaker 1: where then people are going to make fun of you
Speaker 1: and portray you in the worst light. But that's a
Speaker 1: separate discussion, but just the three sort of like there's
Speaker 1: a jacuzzi. The food looks pretty good. It's but other
Speaker 1: than that, like the accommodations don't look particularly comfortable. I don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. But I'm not really you
Speaker 1: can take it. I think the only thing is you
Speaker 1: could you could jump off the side or take a
Speaker 1: slide off the side of a boat into the sea
Speaker 1: or like a jet ski. But like you could do that.
Speaker 1: Are they are they catching fresh seafood like from the
Speaker 1: side off, Yeah, there's no like the purveyors that bring
Speaker 1: it on or you see them shopping at a grocery
Speaker 1: store in the British Virgin Islands, which when I saw that,
Speaker 1: I was like, my god, grocery stores really do look
Speaker 1: the same wherever you are. Yeah. Uh. Super producer on
Speaker 1: a Hosnie for anybody who does watch Deckheads just joined us.
Speaker 1: She is the host of a show that has recapped
Speaker 1: I believe every single episode of Deckheads up to this
Speaker 1: season below deck up to this season called Deckheads. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is a classic, great podcast. Um, people need to
Speaker 1: check out and right now this you're not caught right
Speaker 1: this season right now there's the chef is a fucking mess. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just I just finished season two, and I'm on
Speaker 1: the reunion of season two. I can't wait up ahead,
Speaker 1: you're on your way. And by the way, for for
Speaker 1: me saying super producer around Hosnie, it just joined us.
Speaker 1: For anybody who's waiting for her to man, I just
Speaker 1: mean she just joined the zoom. But she's not she's
Speaker 1: not on the on the record. Yeah, I know. Sorry
Speaker 1: about the everyone. Uh, all right, let's talk about what's
Speaker 1: happening in the country in Washington, d C. Trump has gone,
Speaker 1: but the you know, the remnants, the damage uh is
Speaker 1: still uh, they're in in a big way. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of reversing to do, right
Speaker 1: so much. I mean there's things he was doing on
Speaker 1: the last day, being like, uh, you can discriminate against
Speaker 1: you know, same sex couple of they're trying to adopt
Speaker 1: or like just smoke bomb in this bullshit on the
Speaker 1: way out. So yeah, incomes Joe Biden. He's like, what
Speaker 1: the fun is going on in here? I mean, we
Speaker 1: don't have this in the dog. But one of the
Speaker 1: first things that I was reading was about how they're like, um,
Speaker 1: they didn't have any kind of vaccine rollout plan at all,
Speaker 1: Like not even like a bullet on a like a
Speaker 1: word document that said vaccine rollout. It was just like
Speaker 1: they're like, what the okay? Um, So yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: ton to reverse. And you know, first off, I was
Speaker 1: just wanna talk about some of the firings that happened
Speaker 1: because they were holdovers from the Trump administration who like
Speaker 1: didn't see what time it was, and We're like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, even though I'm doing a terrible fucking
Speaker 1: job in the place I'm at. First one is this
Speaker 1: guy Michael Pack, who is running the US Agency for
Speaker 1: Global Media, which basically like they oversee the Voice of
Speaker 1: America like it's like a congressionally taxpayer funded um like
Speaker 1: sort of you know, broadcasting company, and this guy just
Speaker 1: turned it, obviously into a pro Trump propaganda wing, where
Speaker 1: like if you didn't like follow his rule book on
Speaker 1: like the propaganda ship, like it better be good coverage
Speaker 1: of the president. If it goes negative, you're out of here.
Speaker 1: And you know, completely perverted that. So that guy's gone.
Speaker 1: Another one, I mean, it's voice of Voice of America
Speaker 1: is kind of pro American imperialist propaganda, right, but I
Speaker 1: mean it doesn't get political divisions, No, it ain't democracy
Speaker 1: now or an it's sucking. I mean it's it's it's
Speaker 1: not gonna get too spicy, but it's also not going
Speaker 1: to be like we love the president. Here's his his
Speaker 1: golf swing is a Trump just hit another hole in
Speaker 1: one on the day. Do you know anyone who's ever
Speaker 1: listened to it? Because I had never even heard of it.
Speaker 1: But in college one of my professors had a I
Speaker 1: think he had a segment on it, and that's when
Speaker 1: I first heard of it, and then I hadn't thought
Speaker 1: of it again until I think today. But I don't
Speaker 1: even know where you listen to it. It's not piped
Speaker 1: into our homes like North Korea. No, it's just like
Speaker 1: I know they have there's digital presidence TV radio. But
Speaker 1: you don't think it's right. It's specifically designed to spread
Speaker 1: the gospel of America to other countries for the Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I think it's mostly for like it's abroad where
Speaker 1: you'll see it more than like you got to look
Speaker 1: for it here otherwise it's out there. Um. This other
Speaker 1: woman is cath Lean Cranninger, who was running the CFPB,
Speaker 1: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was doing fantastic work. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know Elizabeth wore and had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with that and be like, um, you may need to
Speaker 1: like set something up to make sure people are being
Speaker 1: predatory as fuck. And you know, she gets in there
Speaker 1: and the Trump administration completely just destroys it. She's scrapped
Speaker 1: like rules that restricted predatory payday lending, like from lenders
Speaker 1: from going after like UM veterans. And she also during
Speaker 1: the pandemic change like made a rule change that let
Speaker 1: debt collectors just harass people with unlimited texts and calls
Speaker 1: and emails about like what are you paying us? So
Speaker 1: that person is out there. But the funny thing was
Speaker 1: there was this rule built in the the CFPB that
Speaker 1: said the person running it could not be fired by
Speaker 1: a president, and like went all the way to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court and they're like, they're like now that that
Speaker 1: actually shouldn't be the case, and she herself supported it.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, no, yeah, there shouldn't be protections for
Speaker 1: this for this role because obviously that was done to
Speaker 1: keep someone like Trump from interfering. So she's like, it's fine,
Speaker 1: and we've come back around, and that's why you are
Speaker 1: now able to be fired by Joe Biden. Miss so
Speaker 1: for that. Uh. Then the other one is just the
Speaker 1: guy who is running the National Labor Relations Board, like
Speaker 1: you know, the people who enforce laws with like unions
Speaker 1: and workers like their ability to you gotta have collective
Speaker 1: bargaining unionized what. Uh it's that thing everyone says in
Speaker 1: media is going to be real bad for you if
Speaker 1: you try it. Do those are what are you gonna do? Well,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Fucking create boundaries for a
Speaker 1: more humane payment and treatment. You don't want that. You
Speaker 1: don't want that, you don't like. You know, when you
Speaker 1: work in a job, how if someone inflates a rat
Speaker 1: outside your place of business, it means you're doing a
Speaker 1: great job. These are the people who are like trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of the rats. We got five rats, yeah,
Speaker 1: five rats out of five proved five rats up? Um,
Speaker 1: So yeah. This guy again, he was the most like
Speaker 1: epically anti union coon you've ever seen. He tried to
Speaker 1: limit like employee free speech, like it was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: if managers want to steal wages, go off, kings and queens,
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. And he also tried to
Speaker 1: basically seized total control of this agency by demoting all
Speaker 1: of like the regional directors so he could consolidate his
Speaker 1: own power, which would have completely fucked any kind of
Speaker 1: like labor moves. Um, so thank god that happened. That
Speaker 1: was just that was just some people, Okay that b
Speaker 1: I didn't have to fucking just shoot out. Not to mention,
Speaker 1: like all of the policies that were signed um on
Speaker 1: Wednesday as well, can we just take a quick look
Speaker 1: at because I mean, the all those policies are pretty
Speaker 1: in line with what we've come to expect from the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, like try you know, not necessarily the not
Speaker 1: having a vaccine rollout plan at all, but like all
Speaker 1: the people who are fired like that is it's the
Speaker 1: deregulation thing. It's the you know, let big business do
Speaker 1: their thing. Uh, don't don't hem them in with rules
Speaker 1: requiring them to be humane to uh two Americans. I
Speaker 1: just wanna like, now we have another piece of evidence,
Speaker 1: Like I thought the evidence was already fairly overwhelming from
Speaker 1: the past, you know, recent history of the place that
Speaker 1: Republican administrations leave the country. Um. We just it just
Speaker 1: seems like can we can we all agree that the
Speaker 1: Republican Party are are a disaster when they get the presidency. Uh.
Speaker 1: We have George H. W. Bush who lost after a
Speaker 1: single term. Uh. George W. Bush who ended with historically
Speaker 1: low popularity and a financial crisis that was the direct
Speaker 1: result of the stuff we were just talking about. Biden
Speaker 1: having gotten the surplus he had that came in with
Speaker 1: the surplus side down deficit. Yeah. Uh and a started
Speaker 1: unnecessary wars that resulted in millions of deaths. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you know, just war path on deregulation. Uh that led
Speaker 1: to a financial crisis that we're still feeling the effects
Speaker 1: of them. Will be fair, you can kind of tie
Speaker 1: that back to Bill Clinton because he basically deregulated the
Speaker 1: funk out of Wall Street. I mean, look, that's why,
Speaker 1: that's why we're always looking at versions of the same thing.
Speaker 1: But like, at least Democrats will be like, look on paper,
Speaker 1: you want to at least get the ship right. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be like, hey, we made money over
Speaker 1: it just feels like in a sane world, Uh, we
Speaker 1: should all agree that it's not a thing where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta go both sides, and like the
Speaker 1: Republicans restore Bounce. At this point, the Republicans are a
Speaker 1: a you know, insurgent party that is trying to tear
Speaker 1: down the American government. The Democrats should be like a
Speaker 1: center right party, and then we need a uh you know,
Speaker 1: the Republicans should become an irrelevant right wing extreme and
Speaker 1: then there should be a insurgent left that takes more
Speaker 1: and more power as the generations move on and people
Speaker 1: who actually give a shit about human rights become the majority.
Speaker 1: Like that in an ideal world that's where we're headed.
Speaker 1: Do you think that will really happen? Like people make
Speaker 1: the point that that you're you're making all the time
Speaker 1: that like the the Democrat Democratic Party right now in
Speaker 1: Europe would be considered right, Yes, exactly, And it seems
Speaker 1: like that there there's just a lot of cognitive in
Speaker 1: the country. UH to to borrow a phrase from UH
Speaker 1: the symptoms of COVID nineteen just like a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of brain fog that we're we're trying to
Speaker 1: get through. But in a in a world where people
Speaker 1: are like, I just don't know what the argument is anymore,
Speaker 1: like or how there's anyone intellectually arguing for Republican UH
Speaker 1: rule who isn't actively being paid by the Koch brothers.
Speaker 1: There's some libertarian who is just trying to put their
Speaker 1: thumb on the scale. Yeah, I think democrats also need
Speaker 1: to do do a thing now where like we just have
Speaker 1: red lines, like you know, the speaker was like, okay,
Speaker 1: we got We'll try and find bipartisanship where we can,
Speaker 1: like and I okay, yeah, where you can. The here
Speaker 1: are places where you cannot find bi partisanship and should
Speaker 1: not look for it anything to do with human rights
Speaker 1: or the treatment of people at all. There's no there's
Speaker 1: no argument on like is humane treatment of a person like,
Speaker 1: so I don't think I think you can only find
Speaker 1: it in certain things like funding the military or other
Speaker 1: ship like that. Maybe you can find it, but like
Speaker 1: to to give people like an inch on like well,
Speaker 1: how much funding do you want to give to you know,
Speaker 1: to giving like an honest, clear eyed assessment of systemic
Speaker 1: racism within law enforcement, you know, like you can't find bite,
Speaker 1: Like there's no point there because it's just going to
Speaker 1: weaken like that sort of the pursuit of whatever you
Speaker 1: you're going after. So I I hope that they can
Speaker 1: start being like sort of describing what the take is
Speaker 1: from the people across out, like they just don't want
Speaker 1: anyone to have healthcare, Like, it's not about the choice.
Speaker 1: Let's just stop like y'all you know the mendacity uh
Speaker 1: and how you know, mendacious and spurious the ship that
Speaker 1: is coming out of these people now, Like it can't
Speaker 1: just be like, well what do they mean by that?
Speaker 1: It should be like, yeah, y'all are trash, you're lying,
Speaker 1: and come back with some something that is a substance
Speaker 1: rather than some talking point from an industry to defend
Speaker 1: their profits, because that's all it is. Um. But yes,
Speaker 1: let's just quickly go down some of the things Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden did wednesday. He got in there, he started
Speaker 1: signing ship. First one up, Um, let's see here a
Speaker 1: hundred days masking challenge. That's not something on TikTok talk,
Speaker 1: but it's basically saying nationwide face mask and Social Distancing
Speaker 1: mandate in federal buildings. Great. I like that. What else?
Speaker 1: Restructure the federal government coordination to the COVID nineteen pandemic. Fantastic,
Speaker 1: rejoined the World Health Organization. Low bar, but I love it.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else have we got on federal building? Right?
Speaker 1: I guess that specific jurisdiction, but let's see it. And
Speaker 1: I feel like, well, maybe you're right. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's got more jurisdiction. I mean he should. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems like he should just be like the fucking everywhere, Okay,
Speaker 1: Like in my house, I have a rule you have
Speaker 1: to wear a mask. Yeah. He's also he's got Susan
Speaker 1: Rice as the incoming Domestic Policy advisor, so she will
Speaker 1: be looking at reviewing equity in their programs, like across
Speaker 1: the federal government and how money is going to certain
Speaker 1: communities and maybe not going to others. So that's something good.
Speaker 1: That's ah, that's the start. Uh, you know, counting non
Speaker 1: citizens in the census again, um, which is a thing
Speaker 1: just like returning that back to like get an accurate
Speaker 1: account of who our neighbors are and people who live
Speaker 1: in the country. Strengthening more workplace discrimination protections because you know,
Speaker 1: Trump went way loose with that, defending Dreamers, ending the
Speaker 1: Muslim band. There's a lot that he had to do
Speaker 1: to be like, oh my god, this is just to
Speaker 1: get back to fucking negative one, not even zero, just
Speaker 1: to get to like negative one. We're because we're a
Speaker 1: negative three million, um. And then the thing that got
Speaker 1: a fucking you know, stupid Ted Cruise. Talking aside from
Speaker 1: ending the Keystone XL pipe blind um and provoking other
Speaker 1: gas and pipe or gas and oil developments, he also
Speaker 1: said he's going to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. And
Speaker 1: you're like, well, this is the thing this fucking guy,
Speaker 1: so Ted Cruz, when that came out about rejoining the
Speaker 1: Paris Climate Agreement, we all know that the Paris Climate
Speaker 1: Agreement has nothing to do with the air quality or
Speaker 1: number of days of sun we all want for the
Speaker 1: city of Paris in France. That's just the place where
Speaker 1: the people gathered to come together as a global community
Speaker 1: and figure out what the funk do we do before
Speaker 1: we've maybe have already passed a point of no return
Speaker 1: of cooking this thing and Ted Cruise tweets joining the
Speaker 1: Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he's more interested in
Speaker 1: the views of the citizens of Paris than in the
Speaker 1: jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do
Speaker 1: little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods
Speaker 1: of Americans. Seth Rogan aptly replied, fuck off, um, you
Speaker 1: white supremacist fascist. And then which I feel like, is
Speaker 1: you know a very appropriate thing to say to Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz um like when he says anything out loud, unless
Speaker 1: it's something like I'm retiring forever and will now begin
Speaker 1: to live the rest of my days in a doomsday
Speaker 1: bunker underground. Why did he choose Pittsburgh in particular? Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: was already but but Pittsburgh was already like the mayor
Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh was like, we're not changing from the Paris
Speaker 1: climate accord. Yeah, not to mention like all of the
Speaker 1: you know, reversing the election ship was hinging on, like
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania as it's like, what the fund do you care
Speaker 1: about anyone in Pennsylvania? You were trying to take all
Speaker 1: their votes away too? Is Ted Cruise? And this is
Speaker 1: a question I have for so many people. Is Ted
Speaker 1: Cruise really that dumb no? No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: And I think we actually have to stop even like
Speaker 1: going down that route or like the jokes about it
Speaker 1: being like, oh my god, at this rate, he thinks, well,
Speaker 1: like this is it's because this is the thing he
Speaker 1: knows that his followers will eat that ship up, because
Speaker 1: they're not going to do the critical thinking past that
Speaker 1: they're like, oh right, a thing to say whatever that
Speaker 1: is is bad. He knows damn well has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Paris. He's not that fucking stupid. And I
Speaker 1: think that's why it's like, No, you're a fucking liar
Speaker 1: and you're just you're just trying to play everybody because
Speaker 1: you think you're just smarter than some of the people
Speaker 1: that vote for you, that you can get away with
Speaker 1: a take like this to get you know, is a
Speaker 1: thing that I don't think Democrats do be wilfully deceitful
Speaker 1: to wind up the base. I don't think that, but
Speaker 1: but it seems, well do you think they do? Jack? Uh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I think they do. I mean
Speaker 1: I think they get caught into like they get caught
Speaker 1: into fearmongering ship that. Yeah, I mean I think it's
Speaker 1: different levels, less brazen, but I think a cruise and
Speaker 1: like what you're seeing on Fox News post Trump in
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours forty eight hours is bordering
Speaker 1: on like incoherence like that. I feel like it's maybe
Speaker 1: this is just me having like because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: recalibrate miles. I think you put in our dockets like
Speaker 1: getting coming out of a cave where you haven't seen
Speaker 1: some light and like now suddenly you're like trying to
Speaker 1: recalibrate to a world that does have some light. And
Speaker 1: but but it seems like they're like the Fox News
Speaker 1: Hannity like had a big headline that was like four
Speaker 1: hundred Joe Biden presidency Day one, four hundred thousand deaths.
Speaker 1: Like it just seems extra incoherent. That Pittsburgh thing. He
Speaker 1: chose a city that was already like it might as
Speaker 1: well be called the Pittsburgh Climate Accord, Like they were
Speaker 1: already on board with that. It just seems like they're
Speaker 1: extra like the brazenness is now going to a point
Speaker 1: of just like lie ugical incoherence. Yeah, because unfortunately not
Speaker 1: unfortunately they sided with illogical takes and sentiments and philosophies
Speaker 1: like white supremacy and this idea that you know, you
Speaker 1: you shouldn't extend humanity to every single person in this country.
Speaker 1: When you're arguing on behalf of that the you you're
Speaker 1: eventually gonna cook that ship down to the dumbest part.
Speaker 1: Like just when we were talking about with the Trump's base,
Speaker 1: like you leat that ship just simmering. It just turns
Speaker 1: into this Google that just looks like bullshit like at
Speaker 1: first like oh cool, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's cooking, and they're like, oh, it's all bullshit, like
Speaker 1: this is all nonsense. It's all nonsense, like the fact
Speaker 1: that it has nothing. You won't even actually um meet
Speaker 1: us where we're trying to talk about this issue, which
Speaker 1: is climate change, like and rather than doing that, you're
Speaker 1: just gonna go to these really disingenuous, fucking not like
Speaker 1: intellectually bankrupt arguments like well it got hotter today, or
Speaker 1: it's colder now, there's what's global war me It's like
Speaker 1: we're not talking literally, but I understand because that's how
Speaker 1: you're trying to just you know, divide people along these
Speaker 1: lines of being like, well, if they're not going to
Speaker 1: care about the nuance because they're so set and being
Speaker 1: like I'm team read, then yeah, you can get away
Speaker 1: with just saying that, well, we're like, well great, the
Speaker 1: world is still overheating, right. It's arguments and what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: just like you were talking all the ship about coronavirus
Speaker 1: and vaccines. Your dumbass is probably gonna be like I
Speaker 1: can't wait to flee to my you know, climate change
Speaker 1: resistant haven, while other people are like dealing with the
Speaker 1: fallout of my inaction, like it'll they always when it's time,
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, no, pivoted because now it helps me.
Speaker 1: I don't care. They're just fucking lizard brained people, and
Speaker 1: I think you'd hope to just like we don't. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like the other politicians don't need to extend
Speaker 1: them any respect or anything anymore because they're actively They're
Speaker 1: just they're here in such bad faith now and it's
Speaker 1: just getting worse and worse. He's gonna take a cruise
Speaker 1: cruise on the Ted Cruise yacht and just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he escaped. What does he need to stop climate change for?
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna be doing all right. I mean
Speaker 1: by that like logic, it's like Ted Cruz is he
Speaker 1: related to Cuban singer Celia Cruz, so therefore he is
Speaker 1: a communist? Yeah, Like literally, that's where where they seem
Speaker 1: to be at. Let's take a quick break, and I
Speaker 1: want to talk about just some of the reactions we're
Speaker 1: seeing across uh social media and online from Trump supporters.
Speaker 1: And we're back, so just a couple I thought telling
Speaker 1: screen caps parlor, there are people on parlor somebody's screen
Speaker 1: Capps saying, Uh, Trump is a deep left plant. Before
Speaker 1: running for office, he was a registered Democrat. He hung
Speaker 1: out in New York with the Clinton's, not the Bushes,
Speaker 1: um not the Reagans. After the election, eight long time
Speaker 1: GOP political operators stone Man of Fort were convicted or
Speaker 1: played guilty and went to jail. Why now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden and all together. Sure, Trump pardon them, but
Speaker 1: not until after they all went to jail. Uh. These
Speaker 1: guys s from the Capitol were invited to d C
Speaker 1: by Trump. They went to the Capitol like he told them.
Speaker 1: He even said he would go with them, and then didn't.
Speaker 1: They tried to be good soldiers and they're all ending
Speaker 1: up in jail and marked terrorists. Trump even denounced what
Speaker 1: they did afterwards. Since Trump has been the leader of
Speaker 1: the GOP, the GOP has lost control of Congress, the Senate,
Speaker 1: and the White House. The party has shattered. If a
Speaker 1: significant portion of the GOP continues to support Trump, the
Speaker 1: left well run rampant in two Uh. He's always wanted
Speaker 1: to be an actor. W w E home alone the Apprentice.
Speaker 1: This was the role of a lifetime. I'm royally piste.
Speaker 1: I can't believe the left would pool such a thing.
Speaker 1: It's the left. Uh, they're stealing our government right out
Speaker 1: from under our noses. It all makes sense to me now.
Speaker 1: So it's secretly Trump was secretly the left, which these
Speaker 1: are all people who have never had the realization that
Speaker 1: their parents weren't ship. I really think that they're so
Speaker 1: they're so skilled at coming up with bullshit to allow
Speaker 1: them to see the world the way that feels best
Speaker 1: to them. Yeah, like whereas Democrats bad. So if Donald
Speaker 1: Trump did this, oh, then here we go, brain pretzel
Speaker 1: up at Anne and throw the parmesan on because now
Speaker 1: he's a deep left plant like it. It's never that.
Speaker 1: Let me just switch my focus to my side and
Speaker 1: look at let me go through the material I have
Speaker 1: to to do investigating on my side, because it's clear
Speaker 1: there are people who have the ability to do that
Speaker 1: and are able to be critical, Like they're not so
Speaker 1: tribal that they're like, nope, we are in valible and
Speaker 1: the purest people that it goes this far. Yeah, it's sure, Okay, um,
Speaker 1: hell of a plan. Completely fucked it up for everybody.
Speaker 1: But now people who haven't realized that Trump was a
Speaker 1: left plant and are still trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: just happened to them. I just wanted to read from
Speaker 1: the Donald dot win. Uh, okay, where did we go wrong?
Speaker 1: Is the headline? So Biden is president? I actually thought
Speaker 1: that Trump had a chance until the end. Let us
Speaker 1: analyze what made us think Biden somehow wouldn't win in
Speaker 1: the end. And I think by until the end they
Speaker 1: mean like right when he was sworn in on the
Speaker 1: Bible and Trump they were like, what the fuck? Did
Speaker 1: not dude? I bet it's about to so help me.
Speaker 1: So number one thing they can't explain? What did Trump
Speaker 1: mean with the best as yet to come? Question mark
Speaker 1: Trump is not the nothing burger type? Two? Why was
Speaker 1: Flynn so sure ten out of ten that Trump would
Speaker 1: get for more years? Question Mark three? I feel certain
Speaker 1: that there was a massive voter fraud, But could I
Speaker 1: be wrong? I think it's crystal clear, But maybe I
Speaker 1: just got sucked into a brainwashed cult. Question Mark four? Trump, Pompeo, Lynn,
Speaker 1: pal Flynn, that watermark guy at Alex Jones. They all
Speaker 1: seem so confident. Why did they just act or were
Speaker 1: they confident? If so? Why? Five? If all this is
Speaker 1: just a big freaking larp and nothing Burger. I have
Speaker 1: just witnessed a massive brainwashed cult in real time. Man,
Speaker 1: I was part of it. Very interesting. Yeah, six, Why
Speaker 1: act so confident? If you can't back it up, you
Speaker 1: will just look like a full Lynn looks like a
Speaker 1: full now Flynn. Also, why not play it safe? Why
Speaker 1: all the hopium? Uh? So that is exactly that. That's
Speaker 1: just interesting to like watch somebody go through that mental process.
Speaker 1: It is a it is a question that you know,
Speaker 1: what if you weren't paying attention to how Trump has
Speaker 1: behaved throughout his entire career, long before he uh tried
Speaker 1: his hand at being president. Uh. He is always making decisions,
Speaker 1: making claims that suggests he thinks that tomorrow doesn't exist,
Speaker 1: and then finds ways through sheer, privilege and bullying to
Speaker 1: just fend off the consequences until he can get another
Speaker 1: good break. But that has been a pattern over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. Um, and it just seems like
Speaker 1: I don't know that there was just too much Why
Speaker 1: would they do that? Why would why would why? Why
Speaker 1: would my dad cheat on my mom? Why would that happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe something else like it's like there's
Speaker 1: never this thing to actually then investigate, well, is it
Speaker 1: possible because you're unwilling to examine why like that, maybe
Speaker 1: this ecosystem is like the one you have accurately described,
Speaker 1: even on the left on how media works, how people
Speaker 1: can perpetrate certain takes just to get more followers, more impressions,
Speaker 1: more hits, more likes, and it's there's a way to
Speaker 1: make money off of that of getting momentum going with
Speaker 1: an audience. Is it possible That's That's the exact same
Speaker 1: thing they were doing too. It's like it it's so
Speaker 1: close to just fucking looking at your situation and being like, right,
Speaker 1: greed exists everywhere, everywhere, and I'm also fell prey to
Speaker 1: it because I'm not willing to be objective enough about
Speaker 1: like every like or not everything, but at least take
Speaker 1: a second to be like, do I have to take
Speaker 1: this hook line and sinker? Yeah? In terms of the
Speaker 1: future of the Republican Party, I do think it's very
Speaker 1: important what what happens in the Senate and terms of
Speaker 1: Trump's ability to run again, because I don't like I
Speaker 1: hear people. I was talking to a friend of mine
Speaker 1: who volunteered for Biden and Philly and is very like
Speaker 1: he thinks that the Republicans will exercise Trump from the
Speaker 1: party with the idea that they've now learned the lesson
Speaker 1: of Trump is, um that Republicans supporters creve authoritarian rule
Speaker 1: and they'll just like replace Trump with someone who's not
Speaker 1: such a walking disaster like that. That would be the
Speaker 1: ideal thing for Mitch McConnell to believe right now, so
Speaker 1: that he does go through with removing, like exercising Trump
Speaker 1: from the party, which is I think what a lot
Speaker 1: of people on the left hope, I just where I
Speaker 1: guess in the a lot of liberals hope. Um. I
Speaker 1: I think that I I hope that that's what happens,
Speaker 1: because I think like Tom Cotton isn't going to have
Speaker 1: the same appeal. I would love to see the Republicans
Speaker 1: be like, oh, well, Tom Cotton is our future. We'll
Speaker 1: just have him be racist and because like I feel
Speaker 1: like they and a lot of people are underrating the singular,
Speaker 1: the singular nous of Trump and like his appeal of
Speaker 1: just being a messy bitch who loves drama, who like
Speaker 1: just loves to like he craves conflict, loves to talk
Speaker 1: shit like that is so much of what it seems
Speaker 1: like his supporters were reacting to him, just like talking
Speaker 1: shit about Colin Kaepernick and like NFL players kneeling like
Speaker 1: that is the thing that really that that you won't
Speaker 1: have with Tom Cotton, and that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the that like groundswell of support that even they
Speaker 1: didn't understand was coming from. But that the idea that
Speaker 1: it was singular gives me hopium um because I think
Speaker 1: I am one of these people who is worried that
Speaker 1: will have four to eight years of relative progressive is
Speaker 1: um and then this thing that has been like uncorked,
Speaker 1: that we're now aware that half the country is racist
Speaker 1: and angry and uh hasn't studied history or at least
Speaker 1: wasn't haunted by history, and is determined to repeat it um,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we will have someone who who
Speaker 1: has the same politics of Trump but is less adult like.
Speaker 1: And I've heard Tom Cotton mentioned of her, Josh Holly mentioned,
Speaker 1: and then I am concerned about that. I hope you're right, Jack.
Speaker 1: The ones I'm concerned about our Tucker Carlson and Ivanka Trump.
Speaker 1: Those are the two who I think have a chance.
Speaker 1: But I do think if there if they do, like
Speaker 1: fully rebuked Trump, that would be a good thing for
Speaker 1: the future of the country. So I'm hoping I just don't.
Speaker 1: I don't trust Mitch McConnell to do that because I
Speaker 1: think tactically it doesn't make sense from the pure machiavellian
Speaker 1: power monger perspective that he seems to view literally everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's also too like that appeals
Speaker 1: to people who don't understand how anything works, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So rather than hearing about like here's
Speaker 1: the way we're gonna make insulin cheaper um or saying
Speaker 1: insulin is expensive, huh, you just do this thing like
Speaker 1: everyone's so corrupt, Huh, what the fuck? And they're like yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's where I'm at in my level of discourse. So,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's it's just there's varying degrees of
Speaker 1: like what people get pulled into. Because I think there
Speaker 1: that's why there were people who just were suddenly got
Speaker 1: interested in politics, because it was just someone was just
Speaker 1: talking about in a way that like seemed more accessible
Speaker 1: to them. Uh. And then also like with their you know, grievances,
Speaker 1: they're like, Okay, the lots aligning here, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: it there is something to like that ability that just
Speaker 1: brought in a ton more people who just like sort
Speaker 1: of felt a certain way. He was an entertaining figure.
Speaker 1: Once he was in office, I was no longer entertained
Speaker 1: by him, but I mean back when he was a
Speaker 1: TV star, he was people did want to watch him
Speaker 1: entertaining ship big yeah, uh yeah, I mean he was
Speaker 1: like a cartoon villain or a poor person's idea of
Speaker 1: what a rich person is, or like what they would do.
Speaker 1: I think there's a John Mallaney joke about that, yes,
Speaker 1: and it speaking of John Mallaney jokes that it was
Speaker 1: recently revealed that the Secret Service was looking into him
Speaker 1: for comparing Trump to Julius Caesar and an SNL monologue.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what they were worrying about while uh A,
Speaker 1: we were on the war pet or on the path
Speaker 1: towards a nine elevens worth of people dying every day
Speaker 1: from COVID. Uh it feels like an important endeavor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Scy's maybe he didn't really got to rehab. Has anyone
Speaker 1: seen him lately, right? I Mean that's got to be stressful,
Speaker 1: Like I actually know comedians who have been approached and
Speaker 1: kind of hassled by the Secret Service and it's very stressful.
Speaker 1: Even that was during Obama. That was Obama. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was Obama. Yeah, and like they fucked with my friend,
Speaker 1: very very heavy. Uh. Some people might know I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I'm just not gonna bring it up.
Speaker 1: But um, when for something that couldn't be more of
Speaker 1: like literally comedy, right, like you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And still like okay, what do you all you think? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's funny? Huh And he's still every time it's like
Speaker 1: a joke because every time he flies on a plane
Speaker 1: there's like some bullshit that he gets hassled by the
Speaker 1: T S A U. And if you know who we're
Speaker 1: talking about, like just the least again like a millennia
Speaker 1: esque in terms of how funny is but also threat
Speaker 1: levels like how scared. Anyways, Alison, it's always so nice
Speaker 1: having you on the daily love coming on this show.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys having me. Where can people find you here?
Speaker 1: You follow you? Oh? Please follow me on social media
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Speaker 1: is your New best Friend that comes out Monday and Thursday,
Speaker 1: and Childish, which comes out every other Wednesday. You and
Speaker 1: is there a tweet or some of the work of
Speaker 1: social media you've been enjoying. Yes, Virginia soul Smith tweeted,
Speaker 1: My children are currently fighting over an invisible bike that
Speaker 1: the seven year old won't share. I pointed out to
Speaker 1: the three year old that she could just ride her
Speaker 1: own invisible bike, and she laid down and sobbed. But
Speaker 1: I only want hers. We're done with this week now. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know that is so that that just resonates so
Speaker 1: much that a fight that I think I've witnessed in
Speaker 1: the past forty eight hours. Yeah, I would always turn
Speaker 1: into like some Adam like Adam Sandler and Big Daddy
Speaker 1: where he suddenly is a parent and the kids like crying.
Speaker 1: He's like, all right here there's the what's the one
Speaker 1: that's the invisible? Um, miles where can people find you?
Speaker 1: What's tweeting? Twitter? Instagram at miles of gray and thence
Speaker 1: hit up Twitch on Friday. That's today Twitch dot tv.
Speaker 1: Sace will be there around, you know, doing our thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some tweets that I like this one is the first
Speaker 1: one is from at rax King is Dead. The tweet
Speaker 1: is science should invent a kind of bear who is
Speaker 1: little and lives in my house and I can play
Speaker 1: with him, and I agree with that. I would love uh.
Speaker 1: I love that. Another another tweet uh is from a
Speaker 1: disrupt the Human at Disrupt the Human tweeted quote, let
Speaker 1: people enjoy things end quote. Okay, I enjoy critical analysis
Speaker 1: and being a hater, so all right. And then this
Speaker 1: other one is from at Virgo. This is just somebody
Speaker 1: just put in their own dialogue over the inauguration scene.
Speaker 1: So like when Michelle Obama's talking to j Lo and
Speaker 1: a Rod, this comedian is just adding their own dialogue
Speaker 1: and it's just so fucking funny. I can't. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna retweet and check the video out because there's moments
Speaker 1: when like Bill Clinton comes in and it's like this
Speaker 1: ship talking here. Here's just a little bit of audios.
Speaker 1: You can understand what the vibe is. I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's stand again. It's so good. Hey did you see
Speaker 1: go go Bert? So that's like Michelle a bump it.
Speaker 1: So watch this video. It's so fucking funny. Yeah, good laughs,
Speaker 1: good laughs. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Marcel Aaraguo
Speaker 1: tweeted canceled student loan debt in the word hestory. Uh
Speaker 1: Rainy Gay tweeted today is the only day you can
Speaker 1: tweet this, and uh used a screen cap from The
Speaker 1: Simpsons that says, as you know, it's Lisa as president.
Speaker 1: She says, as you know, we've inherited quite a budget
Speaker 1: crunch from President Trump, which was an actual thing that
Speaker 1: they mentioned in The Simpsons as a joke because obviously
Speaker 1: Trump could never be president. Um. And then in relation
Speaker 1: to that, Nathan at Humanstein tweeted, the Simpsons didn't predict anything.
Speaker 1: We just haven't fixed any of America's problems since. Um.
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Speaker 1: link off to the information that we talked about in
Speaker 1: today's episode, as well as the song we ride out
Speaker 1: on Miles. What are we riding out on today? UM?
Speaker 1: Just to kind of pivot off that idea of we
Speaker 1: haven't learned anything or changed anything. Uh. This is a
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Speaker 1: who's the daughter of Bobby mcferron. Just great vocal artist.
Speaker 1: She's a dope. All of her ship is dope. They're
Speaker 1: her brother to the whole family. Is super talented. But
Speaker 1: this is a remix by Phote of Madison mcfarren's song
Speaker 1: learn Your Lessons, So it's got a little more of
Speaker 1: a beat to it, but her vocals were very soothing,
Speaker 1: and I feel like that's well me just learning our
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