Speaker 1: Hello the Internet. I'm welcome to Season one, Episode four,
Speaker 1: Watching of My Heart Radio. This is a podcast where
Speaker 1: we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's
Speaker 1: the end of the world. It's also Wednesday, November four.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien no Akse. Today I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
Speaker 1: Miles Crap. I'm having trouble staying up to date all
Speaker 1: this news. I'm wigging out pre six report. Hope you're
Speaker 1: not short? Is it too late for the airport? Alright? Canada?
Speaker 1: Here we go, Dan an rain stool on that rain
Speaker 1: stool over here, y'all shout out to Nicholas Shoop on
Speaker 1: the disco. Nicolas shoot, oh on a shoot babe. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just trying to keep my my vibes
Speaker 1: up your I am I have a caffeine headache. I
Speaker 1: am tired. I am in a daze. I did not
Speaker 1: I think. I told you, Miles and our listeners last
Speaker 1: night that I was going to go to bed and
Speaker 1: ignore the election results. That did not happen. That had
Speaker 1: a fifteen minutes and then got a text from my homie.
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you think about this and oh
Speaker 1: my god fucked up to me right in. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't need Twitter, man, all this is that's just nonsense. Anyway,
Speaker 1: cut to my dumb ass, like with my fucking fun
Speaker 1: I found myself sitting on my bathroom floor for an hour,
Speaker 1: just refreshing Twitter and eight. Like I realized after an hour,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, shoot, I've been sitting here for
Speaker 1: an hour. Hey, it's in our third seat. The hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talented Brandy Posy, Hey babies. Good to see you.
Speaker 1: Guys are friendly faces to see this morning. So appreciate
Speaker 1: you having me on. We're thrilled to have you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think election anxiety has made me into a morning person,
Speaker 1: whether I want to be or not, because I just
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep. Yeah, I don't like just dropping my kids
Speaker 1: off at preschool this morning and like seeing the other parents,
Speaker 1: everybody looked like the walking dead. Everyone was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what happened exactly? Hello? Yeah, so what do what do
Speaker 1: we know? Since last night? We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: all sorts of ship. I am no longer at eight
Speaker 1: certain that Trump is going to win. So that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good for my mental health. Cautiously optimistic morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: contially optimistic about that branch possibly going towards the Democrats
Speaker 1: despite a party wide funk up. I will say, I
Speaker 1: just looked. I just looked to my right, and I
Speaker 1: have our our TV is on mute and Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: is speaking, and the feeling of the feeling of rage
Speaker 1: that just washed over me and just looking at her face.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I've got energy for the podcast. Baby, let's
Speaker 1: do it. People are really they're they're looking for a
Speaker 1: way to spin it. Look, it was. It was a
Speaker 1: small pulling miss, but we still are taking the country
Speaker 1: back from You're not Joe. Joe Biden got the most
Speaker 1: votes in the history of any election ever, despite his
Speaker 1: best efforts to not And that's also the country was
Speaker 1: much smaller at every last election. We're growing in size. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like, but like, but look at how big the
Speaker 1: numbers are though, right, I love a number. I love
Speaker 1: a big number. Millions and millions. That that press conference
Speaker 1: was just an all time moment of just mass hallucination.
Speaker 1: It felt like was Scarface ship for sure, and yet
Speaker 1: and yet we knew exactly like I could have. I
Speaker 1: think it was word for word what we said was
Speaker 1: going to happen. There's a clip going around of Bernie
Speaker 1: like saying exactly like state by state, these are the
Speaker 1: states that are going to be look like they're in
Speaker 1: his favor, and then he's gonna come out and say
Speaker 1: I was winning those What happened? What's what's going on? Uh?
Speaker 1: And it's it's word for word. I guess Trump probably
Speaker 1: was just tired and used that Bernie video as a
Speaker 1: script because it was straight up, like straight up, it
Speaker 1: was fucking surreal. It's just that was like by far,
Speaker 1: like at the end of like just a long fucking
Speaker 1: day to get that, like eleven thirty at night for
Speaker 1: at least on the West coast, just rambling of like
Speaker 1: we want it, y'all, and there was like you're just like, oh, fuck,
Speaker 1: this is I mean, granted we've gone very low as
Speaker 1: a country, but like to see that like out loud,
Speaker 1: that ship happened, We're like, we know he's gonna do it,
Speaker 1: we know he's gonna do Like damn he really really yeah,
Speaker 1: he actually did it into a room full of people,
Speaker 1: once again not wearing masks. Even after the president had Corona.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, his family coming out with those
Speaker 1: four smiles. Tiffany seems like she's on some ship, like
Speaker 1: she always seems like she's a little bit high. Just
Speaker 1: just got that like grin on his face, like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we did it. And then Pence didn't. Pence wasn't there
Speaker 1: for it. He was he couldn't, He couldn't come out
Speaker 1: and say it. I mean, it's it's what we've seen
Speaker 1: before with Pence, you know, closing his eyes and trying
Speaker 1: to teleport the funk out of there. Yeah, Mommy saved me.
Speaker 1: Trump Trouble was like, and we won, and now they
Speaker 1: want to count votes. And then Pence was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we feel good about where we are and we want
Speaker 1: to continue to count votes. Like just directly contradicted everything Trump.
Speaker 1: It just so, I mean, Mike Pence is really the
Speaker 1: savior of our democracy. I gotta say, guys, uh, who's
Speaker 1: all that one coming? What a nice little this little twist. Well,
Speaker 1: before we get into any of this ship, Brandy, you
Speaker 1: wanna do a search history overrated, underrated, totally optional. No, No,
Speaker 1: we'll get through a baby, right, why not internet search?
Speaker 1: So yesterday I got a little bit of a tiff
Speaker 1: on Twitter with somebody that said, oh, it's the time
Speaker 1: every four years. And we have to remember that Maryland
Speaker 1: is a state and I'm from Maryland. Go funk yourself.
Speaker 1: So I was googling. I was googling famous Maryland Marylander's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got amazing people. We got fucking Baltimore. Jada Pinkett
Speaker 1: Smith is from Maryland, Thank you very much. Don't work
Speaker 1: with us. I don't know the authentic Marylander way of
Speaker 1: pronouncing Jada. I thought it was Jada. I didn't know
Speaker 1: as Jada Jada pal that's how you do it. I
Speaker 1: just where you from in Maryland. Um, like Severn Park
Speaker 1: Glen Bernie is just south of Baltimore. Yeah, I'm from
Speaker 1: I'm from there. I love it. It's like a deeply
Speaker 1: blue state. Always people are we to think that it's
Speaker 1: main It just pisses me off that, like so frustrating.
Speaker 1: We're an original thirteen, Like fucking learn some ships. Exactly.
Speaker 1: You know about Natty Bow Exactly. It's potato chips, baby
Speaker 1: burger cookies. It's great. First burger cookies are it's actually
Speaker 1: the best cookie in the world. But they're made a
Speaker 1: factory in Baltimore. They're like a soft wafer with a
Speaker 1: giant chunk of fudge on top of them, and it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a perfect cookie, especially considering what happened
Speaker 1: last night. If I had some here, I would drive
Speaker 1: them to you and drop them off from a safe
Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll just drive to Maryland right now. That yeah,
Speaker 1: be beautiful. But yeah, that was my Internet search and
Speaker 1: my overrated, underrated, overrated CNN, obviously underrated PBS. Though I
Speaker 1: love some ugly news, I want. I want my news
Speaker 1: from some ladies with crow's feet, with a weird I
Speaker 1: just I gotta just see the reaction on your face.
Speaker 1: That's what I want. I don't want your fancy green
Speaker 1: screen ship. I just want to see like a discoloration,
Speaker 1: lazy eye. That's why I trust to tell me what's
Speaker 1: happening in democracy? Yeah, people who aren't camera ready, just
Speaker 1: people who are ready to report facts. Yeah, exactly. I
Speaker 1: don't want these people. I don't I don't need Anderson
Speaker 1: Cooper adrene of chrome bullshit. I just and is not
Speaker 1: true about anybody except Anderson Cooper and Chris Chris Cuomo.
Speaker 1: I just want newscaster. Yeah. No, his face, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I can't read an emotion on his face.
Speaker 1: It's just stuck in like worried. He's got that look
Speaker 1: of like somebody who was just betrayed by his older brother,
Speaker 1: which is who he is. The pharmaceuticals first of all,
Speaker 1: because they're not looking sufficiently tired from this ship. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's exactly they're they're passing around the adderall or whatever.
Speaker 1: But Chris Cuomo just coming through with the U. Look, guys,
Speaker 1: the thing that we've learned tonight is this country is
Speaker 1: more divided than ever and we've got to come together.
Speaker 1: I was just like, are you funny? Yeah. Meanwhile, PBS
Speaker 1: News this morning there were in the same clothes as
Speaker 1: last night. They didn't even put a wardrobe changes. I
Speaker 1: love it's a scrapping network. Sesame streets there are used
Speaker 1: to be there. Come on, you see that tweet where
Speaker 1: someone was like, it looks like there's a Lauren Laptus
Speaker 1: character bit. Someone doing a Laura Lapty's character bit on PBS. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Laura. It's the lady with all the neck. Oh.
Speaker 1: There's also there's also a Rachel Maddow of like B
Speaker 1: side copy. She's great. She's got like the short hair
Speaker 1: and the glasses like you can see her crow's feet
Speaker 1: and bags of beautiful real real humans. Absolutely humans are
Speaker 1: the best. Yeah. I don't know the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: just feel like we have once again seen that the
Speaker 1: entire mainstream media, corporate media apparatus is completely poisonous and
Speaker 1: completely misguided and very difficult to overcome, just completely consuming
Speaker 1: of the kind conversation that's happening around around these elections.
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, Fox CNN, but shout out to PBS. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with with that, let's get into another what we know?
Speaker 1: What we know at this point? So yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: maybe we should just like give that time stamp of
Speaker 1: where we at. UM, So basically, right, we're at noon
Speaker 1: Pacific three eastern. I just did that math in my head.
Speaker 1: That's right, alright, beautiful mind. I did write it out
Speaker 1: on a window next to me. Um about that math. Okay,
Speaker 1: you did that. You did three hour time difference. I
Speaker 1: just did the three hour time difference. How you like
Speaker 1: those apples? Uh? That guy is one of the under
Speaker 1: rated assholes in cinema history. Though, by the way, the
Speaker 1: guy with the turtleneck sweater who's like hitting on Mini driver,
Speaker 1: he's up there with Davi Ellis from Die hard in
Speaker 1: terms of the Hall of Fame douche bags from cinema history. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So Wisconsin seems to have been called by most networks
Speaker 1: for uh, for Joe Joementum maybe in the Upper Midwest. Uh,
Speaker 1: but this is it's interesting because it seems like there's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be a recount there. He I think is
Speaker 1: winning by twenty thousand votes total, which is actually more
Speaker 1: than Trump won that stayed by. But just in kind
Speaker 1: of keeping with what we were talking about with the poll, uh,
Speaker 1: pulling media corporate media apparatus. Uh, they had Wisconsin going
Speaker 1: to Joe Biden by eleven points heading into the election.
Speaker 1: So that's an eleven point. It's a pulling miss as
Speaker 1: they as a Nate Silver and the five thirty eight
Speaker 1: people keep calling it just a pulling miss. Point is
Speaker 1: a big is a big difference. Could we just say
Speaker 1: r I P tod Nate Silver ever having a solid
Speaker 1: bowel movement again, I think he's he's just he's just
Speaker 1: done forever. I mean, husk of a man at this
Speaker 1: he lost just all the hair on top of his head,
Speaker 1: um and not Yeah, this can't be good for him,
Speaker 1: like for sure. So that's what's happening. It seems like
Speaker 1: Arizona was going back and forth, like at first Fox
Speaker 1: called it and people are saying it was too early.
Speaker 1: The Republicans have come out and said they feel good,
Speaker 1: they feel like they have a path to the votes.
Speaker 1: But it does seem like most of the outstanding votes
Speaker 1: are in Maricopa County, which is Phoenix, so that one's
Speaker 1: looking good for Biden. Similar but much closer in Nevada
Speaker 1: in that like the mostly outstanding votes are in the
Speaker 1: Vegas Reno area, But like even Vegas Reno is like fifty,
Speaker 1: it's not that big a difference, like like Arizona, And
Speaker 1: if if Biden loses Nevada, he would have to win Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, and there's a lot of it's just
Speaker 1: it's wild too. There's still a lot of I mean,
Speaker 1: we should know at least some unofficial results from Georgia
Speaker 1: and Michigan also by the end of the day, which
Speaker 1: should hold for either candidate respectively. Um, but who knows,
Speaker 1: You don't know. I don't know. It's hard to like
Speaker 1: have a real take on anything quite yet because I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, every vote hasn't been counted, and like we
Speaker 1: don't quite know down to the precinct what like everything
Speaker 1: looks like. But yeah, there's also a lot of missing
Speaker 1: mailed mail votes, like to the point that they're the
Speaker 1: usps is in court like as we record this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's a bit of it's a bit of a
Speaker 1: complicated situation because I know they're saying a lot of
Speaker 1: them weren't sca and for delivery, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people point out that like a lot of the postal
Speaker 1: workers were pulling things manually to ensure they were getting
Speaker 1: delivered on time, so they were like bypassing that scanning
Speaker 1: delivery system. So it's not totally likely that maybe like
Speaker 1: there's just box like tens of thousands of votes like
Speaker 1: sitting in certain places. But you know, we shall see
Speaker 1: because you have the judge order to sweep and like
Speaker 1: it did not happen as effectively as he had demanded
Speaker 1: from the bench. So yeah, de Joy is going to
Speaker 1: have to explain that one. But I think they, I mean,
Speaker 1: they had a rubric for judging how they were doing,
Speaker 1: like in terms of just overall efficiency of delivering, and
Speaker 1: it went steadily down as we got close to the election.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I have no doubt that there is
Speaker 1: some top notch rap fucking going on there. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: if that's why it's so hard to like have a
Speaker 1: real take take on what it is like because the
Speaker 1: voter suppression, I mean, we can't even begin to imagine
Speaker 1: and like, wow, that actually shaped out like on a
Speaker 1: like if we look at it holistically, what was going on? Um?
Speaker 1: But I will say this, you know, like I was
Speaker 1: saying before, you know, people were going to treat this
Speaker 1: like it's the fourth quarter for white supremacy and patriarchy
Speaker 1: and all that ship. And people showed the funk up
Speaker 1: um on the on the on behalf of that, and
Speaker 1: I think that is really what's um. You know, I
Speaker 1: think we're trying to see that the idea that people
Speaker 1: are going to come to their senses and bash Trump
Speaker 1: out of office is a bit of a fantasy because
Speaker 1: clearly we have people who are maybe it's too abstract
Speaker 1: for them to actually understand what that means to their
Speaker 1: lives or whatever, but they like what they see on
Speaker 1: TV at the very least, and that that's a big,
Speaker 1: big sort of uh frowny face. Well, and when you're
Speaker 1: not offered a compelling alternative at all, too, it's like
Speaker 1: you go with the devil, you know, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: still frustrating. There's I don't think guys like the screen
Speaker 1: shots yesterday that came out from like Fox's own like
Speaker 1: internal polling where you know, changing to a government run
Speaker 1: healthcare plan polls at like in favor of sucking Supreme
Speaker 1: Court action or roversus a way of leave it as is,
Speaker 1: you go U s. Gun laws should be more strict
Speaker 1: of Fox newspeople think that pathway to citizenship of Fox people.
Speaker 1: So it's like progressive policies that Biden didn't even touch.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like they could not have run a
Speaker 1: worse fucking Campaign's just a weird thing like they both
Speaker 1: you know, Trump did the thing where he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna grind the base out, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And look what happened. He whipped them up there there
Speaker 1: they were out there voting, and the Democrats are like,
Speaker 1: let's go after let's maybe pick off some Republicans and
Speaker 1: also leave all the progressives completely unexcited about anything, ignored,
Speaker 1: Latinos completely. Let's say we're gonna of police a ton
Speaker 1: of fucking money. Um, even though they've been we've been
Speaker 1: screaming to the fund the police the entire year. Let's
Speaker 1: never acknowledge care. Yeah, exactly, Let's pursue the only people
Speaker 1: who we know who don't vote for our party, which
Speaker 1: is rich Republicans. And that's like they just can't conceive
Speaker 1: of it. They can't like they talk about um in
Speaker 1: like class politics. The people who are in a given
Speaker 1: class know about the class directly above them and directly
Speaker 1: below them, and they like hate them with a focused fury,
Speaker 1: but they aren't even aware, they don't even know about
Speaker 1: the existence or at least like their mind can't even
Speaker 1: like wrap itself around like the people who are two
Speaker 1: above them or to below them. Like time and again
Speaker 1: we're seeing that this like what's sometimes called gentry class,
Speaker 1: like the media elites like the d n C are
Speaker 1: just completely incapable, like they cannot conceive of anybody except
Speaker 1: them and the Republicans that they have on as talking
Speaker 1: heads on on CNN. Meanwhile, they don't have like actual
Speaker 1: progressive voices on but they really love a Republican that
Speaker 1: doesn't like Trump. They can't get that. These come back
Speaker 1: used to run the RNC. Remember when the r n
Speaker 1: C made that made Michael there Tolkien black person when
Speaker 1: Obama was elected, we have that guy. That guy is
Speaker 1: on MSNBC. Now there's the platform to kind of data
Speaker 1: points on like in keeping with this. So there was
Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of millions of dollars I think are
Speaker 1: close to a hundred million dollars donated to the Lincoln
Speaker 1: Project and spent on Lincoln Project, Trump campaign, anti Trump content,
Speaker 1: and you know, basically trying to find the reasonable Republicans
Speaker 1: who were gonna vote Trump out of office. In two thousands,
Speaker 1: sixteen of Republicans vote for Trump, in three percent of
Speaker 1: Republicans voter. So that ship just does not work. It
Speaker 1: didn't work in everybody who was paying attention and didn't
Speaker 1: have a financial interest in like keeping the machine running
Speaker 1: realized that that ship wasn't working, that that's not how
Speaker 1: things actually operate. But then you know, there's just there's
Speaker 1: such a gravitational pool of like whatever the inertia of
Speaker 1: of like what what the belief has been for so
Speaker 1: many years, and it's just like that ship is changing.
Speaker 1: We have a different electorate now well, and it's infuriating
Speaker 1: too because it's like number one, we knew like Republicans
Speaker 1: weren't going to switch, but like why the funk in
Speaker 1: a year where we needed to get the Senate back,
Speaker 1: even if you got people to vote for Biden, they
Speaker 1: were still going to vote for the Republican senator. They
Speaker 1: were like, they were still going to do that. Why
Speaker 1: the fuck did you depress your left turn out and
Speaker 1: go after Republicans. We're not going to give you the
Speaker 1: Senate that you actually needed to win to actually do
Speaker 1: anything right Because they tell themselves that that's the smart
Speaker 1: thing to do, and it just so happens that the
Speaker 1: smart thing and the you know, calculating thing to do
Speaker 1: is the thing that they're wealthy donors want them to do.
Speaker 1: So it's just you know, a convenient, a convenient lie
Speaker 1: they're telling themselves. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and talk about all this ship some
Speaker 1: more and we're back. Yeah, let's just talk about that
Speaker 1: moment real quick. Last night, you know, two in the morning,
Speaker 1: East coast time, sniffles, sniffles. Uh. Never had a press
Speaker 1: conference this late. Um, it's usually just blowing rails of
Speaker 1: adderall and tweeting at this time. But he got up
Speaker 1: there and you know, like it was word for word
Speaker 1: what we said was going to happen what everybody had
Speaker 1: been preparing us for. I guess, like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to give anyone too much credit for predicting it, because
Speaker 1: it's what he told us. He was right his words.
Speaker 1: It's been telegraphing it literally for min this is what
Speaker 1: the game was gonna be. But that's cool. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he just said one up there, and it was like
Speaker 1: basically saying we won this state, we won that state.
Speaker 1: That's not true for all the time, but you didn't
Speaker 1: win anything. You're saying you might be ahead and using
Speaker 1: that very narrow optical illusion to say that you've won,
Speaker 1: but that's not what it was. And it's just a
Speaker 1: It was truly like it was surreal, you know, because
Speaker 1: we that was the moment where he became full like
Speaker 1: it like everything. We're like, okay, it's coming down to
Speaker 1: this moment where he's going to try and fucking fight
Speaker 1: at all. And yeah, that was the KAlSi wings. The
Speaker 1: dragon just appeared right behind him in that moment. I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, all right, they're like two on
Speaker 1: the nose, Like that moment in Game of Thrones is
Speaker 1: like come on, man, like yeah, yeah, exactly, that's totally
Speaker 1: what it felt like, I mean, it was crazy. It
Speaker 1: was watching watching PBS. It was very interesting because they
Speaker 1: cut back and the because they don't have ship injected
Speaker 1: in the faces, you can see their emotions. But they're
Speaker 1: also trying really hard, trying really hard to be like
Speaker 1: real news anchors. And they could see like the one
Speaker 1: main lady who's like this older woman just like with
Speaker 1: her jaw set and she's like, I've never she just
Speaker 1: took took a moment on camera yeah, and was like,
Speaker 1: I just that's not this is anti democratic. And then
Speaker 1: she just was like, let's get somebody wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about it, and she was just staring at papers on
Speaker 1: her desk and rage, I just I know, and you
Speaker 1: said here. NBC cut away immediately and was like that's
Speaker 1: that real quick, Uh not what he's saying is not true.
Speaker 1: And like I think ABC did a similar thing, and
Speaker 1: you know, other networks did it, you know, depending on
Speaker 1: what point they decided they had enough of the nonsense.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this whole thing was and then I'm gonna vote.
Speaker 1: Just I'm gonna suit to stop the voting. It's like
Speaker 1: they've already voted. You mean, the counting of the votes
Speaker 1: totally good. With people to stop voting right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. But but then also a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: you know, the punditry class, especially like a lot of
Speaker 1: the people have been focusing on what that weird legal
Speaker 1: path could be, are like it's kind of hard, like
Speaker 1: those decisive court decisions aren't looking that clear at the moment.
Speaker 1: Aside from him just saying that, and I think that's why,
Speaker 1: like some people were like, like even Marco Ruby was like,
Speaker 1: just count the votes first and kind of just duck
Speaker 1: in their heads until somebody pressed him about it. So
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio was like, no, don't do the thing Trump
Speaker 1: said and instead count the votes, or he was just
Speaker 1: like I believe in voting like that. Did he just
Speaker 1: like go straight down the middle or no? He he tweeted.
Speaker 1: He said taking days to count legally cast votes is
Speaker 1: not fraud, and court challenges to votes cast after the
Speaker 1: legal voting deadline is not suppression. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: as as um having frustrating and foolish it as these
Speaker 1: people are, I do think it's important for Republicans to
Speaker 1: actually come out and you know, just a fact check
Speaker 1: that ship. Yeah, but it's the damages I think done
Speaker 1: because you know that's what he's now all his talking heads,
Speaker 1: his army of you know, like the new Gingriches and
Speaker 1: ship are out there, you know, saying this exact same thing,
Speaker 1: like it's fraud. They're counting votes? Are they so like
Speaker 1: new gingrich is? I believe you. I believe he went
Speaker 1: out to say something like there's a couple of people
Speaker 1: have not you know, like full throated saying it, but
Speaker 1: they're keeping that alive without really pushing back on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like we'll have to see we had. This has
Speaker 1: to be examined. But yeah, right, um, but again, I
Speaker 1: think that shows you that they know that that's the
Speaker 1: only way that they feel it's going to be close
Speaker 1: to like for them eking out of victory, Like it's
Speaker 1: close enough. But I mean everything we're seeing is like
Speaker 1: it could quite literally be down to the cuticles nail biter,
Speaker 1: which is so fucking surreal. But also I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna be honest. I in a way, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like relieved it's fucked up, but like
Speaker 1: I have, people always have this sensation of how fucked
Speaker 1: up they think the country is, and it's like there
Speaker 1: was always this like middle ground and be like I
Speaker 1: don't know, you never know, like you can see what happens,
Speaker 1: and then like this vote happens, you're like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Like of the country is a ship. Yeah, they're on,
Speaker 1: like they're they're they're there for the fucking to maintain
Speaker 1: the superiority of whiteness in this country or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Because I think even when you see votes like in
Speaker 1: the Rio Grand Valley where a lot of like Latino
Speaker 1: voters were voting for Trump, it's it's not just that
Speaker 1: it's about whiteness either. It's about ideas about self sufficiency,
Speaker 1: which is like that bootstrap ship or just just patriarchy
Speaker 1: and that like you're not really into the you know,
Speaker 1: equality for people who don't look or think like you
Speaker 1: or live like you. Um, and like we're you know,
Speaker 1: we're getting to see that you can mean a lot
Speaker 1: of things too many people simultaneous. I mean, I even
Speaker 1: know there are a couple of Asian Americans in my orbit.
Speaker 1: I'm not really friends with them that I know that
Speaker 1: they are talking pro Trump ship from a very narrow
Speaker 1: it's good for small business thing. But I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you use different justifications because
Speaker 1: they like that doesn't bother you that much, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, the racism doesn't bother you that much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ultimately you're willing to make the concessions for the thing
Speaker 1: that benefits you directly. Yeah, you think at least you know, well,
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, yeah, we just also just like I think, uh,
Speaker 1: dis count how much like religion as a cancer on
Speaker 1: this country in so many different ways, and people will
Speaker 1: you know, vote against their own interests in the name
Speaker 1: of you know, all that bullshit constantly. And also there's
Speaker 1: like massive misinformation campaigns like you know that have been
Speaker 1: aimed at different groups of people as well. I mean, like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's infuriating too to to just
Speaker 1: live in a world of like several different sets of facts.
Speaker 1: I do. Him coming out and specifically talking about Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and Michigan last night was the moment where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think Biden might have won this because he is
Speaker 1: doing a thing you would only do if you were
Speaker 1: super desperate. Um, because I feeling like how Clinton's supporters
Speaker 1: are feeling like maybe there might be a couple of
Speaker 1: books you never know even though everything is pointing to
Speaker 1: not good. Do we think there's any strategy beyond that
Speaker 1: that like he is going to so enough discord to
Speaker 1: create enough chaos too, then you know, start the armed
Speaker 1: conflict that he was hoping to start because he likes
Speaker 1: to see people suffer and because it's his only chance.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got I got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a left field theory actually, because there was like a
Speaker 1: clip of him from a rally the other day talking
Speaker 1: about how like, I don't know if I if I lose,
Speaker 1: I might have to move to another country. Well to
Speaker 1: be awful if I go to another country, And the
Speaker 1: first time I've heard him like even acknowledge that he
Speaker 1: might potentially and I like still don't like, I don't
Speaker 1: think he wants to be president anymore, but he also
Speaker 1: doesn't want to lose. But I think if he can
Speaker 1: build the narrative that he was run out by corrupt
Speaker 1: American forces, he can start the network in another place
Speaker 1: without an next tradition. Because here's the thing, he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to lose a presidency because he doesn't want to lose,
Speaker 1: But also southern District of New York is going to
Speaker 1: come after his ass real fucking hard. So I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be like, oh, I was forced out
Speaker 1: of the presidency, I'm going to live in exile and
Speaker 1: start whatever the funk he's going to do somewhere else.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit out of the wall of the ballpark,
Speaker 1: butter and followers just need the barest. It was a
Speaker 1: slipper of an excuse to follow him. And I saw
Speaker 1: some headling something about like someone was talking to Lackland
Speaker 1: Murdoch or Rupert Murdoch about like the possibility of Trump
Speaker 1: They're being a Trump news network that goes up against Fox,
Speaker 1: and he was like, bring it, like we love competition, um,
Speaker 1: which is very very interesting because I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I have a feeling we now know that Trump
Speaker 1: is um is fucking here to stay. No matter how
Speaker 1: you look at it. That's just what it is. It's
Speaker 1: not if this wasn't a flash in the pan thing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that he just emboldened people. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: this sort of evolution of white supremacy has been going
Speaker 1: on for you know, since sixteen nineteen, I guess, um,
Speaker 1: And it's always managed to be like a consistent through
Speaker 1: line in this country and I don't know. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I should feel okay that I've always
Speaker 1: known that this is an ain't ship country, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing I'm seeing those results too well, Myles
Speaker 1: not it is I like the last the last day
Speaker 1: and this is like a dark comparison, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: But like I this selection has the last week has
Speaker 1: felt like the week that I felt when my mom died,
Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, this horrible thing is about
Speaker 1: to happen, but you also feel a relief that it
Speaker 1: finally happened and you can move on with whatever comes next.
Speaker 1: But like there's a finality that it's like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: now at least the thing that I was worried about
Speaker 1: fucking happened, and now there's now there's for momentum of
Speaker 1: some kind. Yeah, I mean weird feeling. I definitely feel
Speaker 1: invigorated and like newly focused, just based on the insidiousness
Speaker 1: of the mainstream media and like their partnership with the
Speaker 1: d n C. I think we were kind of glimpsing
Speaker 1: it when we were, you know, covering the primary and
Speaker 1: you know the way that they just like really never
Speaker 1: gave Bernie a chance as like a serious candidate, and
Speaker 1: it was just you know back then, but then like
Speaker 1: we just kind of move forward because that's just how
Speaker 1: elections work, and the winning candidate you move forward with them.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, it's not a lot of criticism of
Speaker 1: the you know, senators also just just lying down and
Speaker 1: allowing Amy Carmi Beret to fucking get confirmed. And I
Speaker 1: think that's another thing that suppressed a lot of support
Speaker 1: for Democrats too, because you're like, what the funk was that?
Speaker 1: What am I fighting for? Yeah? What the funk? Like,
Speaker 1: you're not fighting? So who the funk are you? Like,
Speaker 1: y'all are just trying to get reelected? What happened to
Speaker 1: actually understanding the threat that her confirmation presents to millions
Speaker 1: of people in the country. But you're just like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna give them, Lindsay an old hug,
Speaker 1: thanks die Fi. Yeah, it's just their inability to even
Speaker 1: conceive of the existence of either the progressive working class
Speaker 1: people on the left or the progressive working class people
Speaker 1: on the right. Does violence to humans on the ground,
Speaker 1: to like who have actual demands and needs and like
Speaker 1: this is this is the thing that is actually inspiring
Speaker 1: to me you know, with some of the local elections
Speaker 1: and the progressive candidates like Nikki A. Rahman, who are
Speaker 1: looking good right now, I still you know, David Rue
Speaker 1: is a rat fucker of the highest order. So I'm
Speaker 1: not pleased there until that's finally called. But you know,
Speaker 1: the like for for Trump to double down on the base,
Speaker 1: which seems to be like the way that this is
Speaker 1: going now, like the commercial wisdom that you don't double
Speaker 1: down on the base, like the base is there and
Speaker 1: then you have to like reach out to these other
Speaker 1: like broader coalitions. That's just bullshit because we're too polarized
Speaker 1: at this point to for that matter, Like you just
Speaker 1: need to motivate your base, and you can like grow
Speaker 1: your base. You can reach these new uh chunks of
Speaker 1: the population who you might not have planned on reaching
Speaker 1: with your like spreadsheets, like Trump did with uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Hispanic voters in Florida and Texas, Like the the spreadsheet
Speaker 1: didn't tell them that. But there's just that energy that
Speaker 1: is behind all those racist rallies that apparently like picked
Speaker 1: up people. But so on the progressive side, like on
Speaker 1: the way to double down on the base on the
Speaker 1: democratic side is like helping people it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's like a good it's a good message, like you
Speaker 1: have and you have a thing that is going to
Speaker 1: appeal to both sides in that, like you just want
Speaker 1: to take care of people and you just need to
Speaker 1: lose this fucking like dogma about like people being scared
Speaker 1: of socialism. I didn't see that, and fucking anywhere the
Speaker 1: people the idea was injected and how they were communicating
Speaker 1: and like Miami too of like raising the specter of
Speaker 1: communism and socialism, uh, like to try and affect people's
Speaker 1: votes and things like that. But like at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like people just there's such a branding problem,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I went live on
Speaker 1: I G and I was like, fucking I'm a run
Speaker 1: and my platform would just be everything for everybody, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And just be like WHOA, what's that?
Speaker 1: How about me? Can I get this? Like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: go ahead? What you need? Education? Got you? What do
Speaker 1: you need? Surgery? Got you? What do you need? Me
Speaker 1: to call it spending, fine, let's call it deficit spending.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna spend fucking money to give people what
Speaker 1: they need. And like, as long as we have a free,
Speaker 1: fair press, Like it doesn't it doesn't matter, like all
Speaker 1: of this bullshit that people are like I had somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody from I don't think they officially work
Speaker 1: for votes saving America. I think they're just like, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody who listens to the crooked John's the John's fabrow uh.
Speaker 1: And you know they were saying, like, look at all
Speaker 1: this money we raised, like because I was retweeting something
Speaker 1: pisadists tweeted about, like them just having this like secretive,
Speaker 1: weird way of like dealing with the problems of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party to like, look at all this time we
Speaker 1: got like all this energy. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I appreciate like that and that effort, and
Speaker 1: that energy is not fully done in vain, but it's
Speaker 1: being misdirected. It's being coordinated by people who are too
Speaker 1: blinded by the media. They've grown up like just eating, sleeping, breathing,
Speaker 1: and they can't see what they can't see people. And
Speaker 1: it's all through this like weird distancing media lens. And
Speaker 1: you know it's actually it like sands down the humanity
Speaker 1: of of the message. It like makes it really blunts
Speaker 1: the effectiveness of the thing that people on the on
Speaker 1: the left are trying to do. And not just like
Speaker 1: on the left, but even like the Democratic Party, Like
Speaker 1: when when you get down to it, like a lot
Speaker 1: of the ship a lot of their policies, like is
Speaker 1: just a lesser alternative to like actually humanist ideas, but
Speaker 1: like they it just gets sanded down and fucking yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're in a fucking pandemic and we still
Speaker 1: Biden can't say everyone should have health care, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean he won't even say we should legalize marijuana.
Speaker 1: And how many states just legalized it fucking yesterday. Florida
Speaker 1: just voted in a fifteen dollar minimum wage. Like the
Speaker 1: policies when people are like the direct democracy actually happens,
Speaker 1: are overwhelmingly and the progressive side of things, and the
Speaker 1: fact that they won't move that direction is it's like
Speaker 1: there are money laundering party. That's all they exist for that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they actually want to fucking win
Speaker 1: anything at this point, right well, because I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're like the media
Speaker 1: is like for people who live in a media bubble,
Speaker 1: they don't even realize the media quote unquote that people
Speaker 1: were presenting the news to you are already in a
Speaker 1: fucking bubble that is so fucked up and disconnected from
Speaker 1: the reality of what life is like for working people
Speaker 1: in the country that like to even enter that bubble
Speaker 1: like your fucking nine degrees removed from the reality of
Speaker 1: most people, and the fact that like we're not talking
Speaker 1: about how we don't have we still not getting the
Speaker 1: kind of unemployment relief benefits that people need that is
Speaker 1: going to fuck the economy. It's on on paper, everyone's like,
Speaker 1: this is fucked. We're heading for something fucking awful if
Speaker 1: you're not actually helping some of these people. But again,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are still consumed, especially in the media,
Speaker 1: like why have friends who work at Humana and you know,
Speaker 1: a bank of a mayor ka what they're telling me,
Speaker 1: it's like you're talking to the fucking destroyers man, Like
Speaker 1: that the funk are they going to tell you? Do
Speaker 1: you notice that we didn't get a Joe the Plumber
Speaker 1: or Kevin Bone this time, because I think that like
Speaker 1: anybody at like that level would have been like, no,
Speaker 1: this is bullshit, I hate all of this. Like they
Speaker 1: couldn't the media couldn't spin that into their narrative. In
Speaker 1: any way and was supporting Trump I think this year,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was Jourgensen, but like one of those
Speaker 1: like right wing ideals. All right, let's take one more
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back and talk about the Senate
Speaker 1: and other bright spots to offset the depressing ass Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan crying face that is the Senate. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and Miles, as you wrote in our doc, the Senate
Speaker 1: is basically just a Michael Jordan's crying face. No way
Speaker 1: to cut that. I mean, yeah, that could be. There's
Speaker 1: close races. I mean, Susan Collins fucking got reelected by
Speaker 1: pump faking with her head fake to the voters with
Speaker 1: that lay mass fucking any comedy barnacle. Uh vote against
Speaker 1: the confirmation like that wasn't gonna do ship, but apparently
Speaker 1: that was enough to trick people. Um fucking I mean,
Speaker 1: Doug Jones lost. I think we saw that coming. He did.
Speaker 1: He did the right thing by voting to impeach, and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well that's a wrap on that.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of people you want in office
Speaker 1: who are like, I don't think like I'm here to
Speaker 1: do what's right, not to do what's good for my
Speaker 1: re election. Yeah. Sure, when you look at like what's
Speaker 1: going on with the you know, the balance of the Senate,
Speaker 1: you're like, maybe you could have, but that thought's all
Speaker 1: done in dustin. It doesn't matter because we have to
Speaker 1: do what's right. And then you get people like Turtle
Speaker 1: Fuck and Lindsay they're keeping their seats, which isn't a surprise.
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was a nice idea, like
Speaker 1: Amy McGrath was never going to do it, you know,
Speaker 1: Charles Booker might have, but yeah, and I mean when
Speaker 1: you look at Corey Bush getting into the into the
Speaker 1: House in Missouri, the first black woman I believe to
Speaker 1: represent the state of Missouri, um, you know, she was
Speaker 1: you know, a Ferguson protester, activist, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And that's getting tear gassed like five years ago. With Booker,
Speaker 1: you have someone also in the streets who was like,
Speaker 1: I'm living the same life as my constituents. I'm not
Speaker 1: some fucking you know, pharma powered skin sack who's just
Speaker 1: like just says ship every couple of months on TV
Speaker 1: and then gets your vote. It's I think that's another
Speaker 1: thing to just you know, keep in mind that like people,
Speaker 1: the real people tend to actually be winning. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that with some of the bright spots,
Speaker 1: but with the Senate, Yeah, if this ship is not
Speaker 1: going to go blue for a while, especially as we
Speaker 1: like pass through these results and make sense of what
Speaker 1: this partisan divide actually looks like. Because you thought maybe,
Speaker 1: well maybe Biden this state will go and then that
Speaker 1: will help downballot, it just was, it just wasn't happening. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, I think especially with the lack of resistance
Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court confirmation, that was also just such
Speaker 1: a scid just bad, bad look, um, that a lot
Speaker 1: of people we just weren't feeling it. And now you know,
Speaker 1: we're not looking at if Biden wins. You're looking at
Speaker 1: a democratic House, a Republican Senate, and of you know,
Speaker 1: a conservative Supreme Court, uh, and a Democrat in the
Speaker 1: White House. And it's like, what's done exactly? But who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's that bipartisan magic we we we heard about,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, based on people trying to run
Speaker 1: your fucking bus off the road, I don't see how
Speaker 1: that understanding has reached. Yeah, that's not really gonna go
Speaker 1: down the Trump Taliban is a just been emboldened more
Speaker 1: than anything by this ship. What will the Republican Party
Speaker 1: look like if Trump loses? I guess we have plenty
Speaker 1: of time to contemplate that if he does, in fact lose.
Speaker 1: But I like curious what that like, who is stepping
Speaker 1: in and you know, just sucking the energy like from
Speaker 1: that base. McConnell, Right, yeah, I mean McConnell himself said like,
Speaker 1: we got problems. Um, Like he's he's really sort of
Speaker 1: shook by the fact that the suburbs in Kentucky like
Speaker 1: didn't weren't giving the same kind of support that they
Speaker 1: normally do. Um and realizes that they've completely pushed out
Speaker 1: like college educated people, women and things like that, and
Speaker 1: they have a long road to get recaptured that. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, when you look at it, someone else
Speaker 1: might encounter to Mitch McConnell say, but I don't know, bro,
Speaker 1: look at all these other people that just showed up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like maybe they just fuck them,
Speaker 1: you know, and just focus on the distasteful Mitch. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but Mitch always looks long term. That's the thing. I
Speaker 1: think that's why he was also like if I hit
Speaker 1: my judge project complete, then whatever if we lose is
Speaker 1: everything for two or five, two to four years, that
Speaker 1: doesn't ultimately matter to him. And that's how a lot
Speaker 1: of conservatives are talking like on the internet to which
Speaker 1: is sort of like they're loving, they are fucking giddy
Speaker 1: like and even like knowing that the White House might
Speaker 1: not go the way they think, they're like, hey man,
Speaker 1: those Democrats totally funked up though they could, did not
Speaker 1: know how to read the room, and they spent all
Speaker 1: this money for what um and the Lincoln Project bube bye.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is just that they also feel
Speaker 1: good is that they have a conservative majority fucking super
Speaker 1: majority basically uh in the Supreme Court, and they're like,
Speaker 1: at least we got that, because then we can just
Speaker 1: do our thing and just kind of take it to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and maybe get things done that way. Well,
Speaker 1: even at the federal level, to where it's like the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court can just choose not to hear cases that
Speaker 1: conservative judges have already heard on the federal level and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, we don't want to take that that's
Speaker 1: actually decided. So like that's like the insidious part of
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court of that level to where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's ship that we're not even gonna hear
Speaker 1: about on that level that gets past Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's why, Yeah, we're regardless of even the outcome of this,
Speaker 1: whoever is in the White House, the this the last
Speaker 1: four years to fucking just shock wave is going to
Speaker 1: extend for decades. Yeah, exactly. I take slight pleasure and
Speaker 1: knowing that both of Arizona senators are blue right now,
Speaker 1: that feels that that's that's the tiniest liver of a
Speaker 1: happy Senate moment. Yeah, you know, I don't know how
Speaker 1: close uh everything else is gonna be like in Georgia.
Speaker 1: But again I will say this, you know, like the
Speaker 1: other thing is as bad as it seems to be,
Speaker 1: like half the country's fucked up, there's also there are
Speaker 1: also bright spots that I have to remind myself of
Speaker 1: because regardless and I think we keep talking about this
Speaker 1: no matter who the president is. I think if you
Speaker 1: listen to this show and you like vibe with how
Speaker 1: we fucking get down, it's that we're always about fucking
Speaker 1: everything for everybody, uh, and we're not there where everything
Speaker 1: for a very small group of people. Um, and we're
Speaker 1: not quite there of like the kinds of equality that
Speaker 1: we're looking for. But across the map you look in
Speaker 1: New Mexico, they're sending an all woman of color delegation
Speaker 1: to the House to represent them. Uh. Sarah McBride will
Speaker 1: be the first trans woman to serve as a state senator.
Speaker 1: Richie Torres will be the first openly gay Afro Latin
Speaker 1: X congress person. Um. There's also one more openly gay
Speaker 1: black congress person in New York, um, who I'm forgetting.
Speaker 1: Then you have things like you know, the squad was
Speaker 1: reelected very comfortably. Uh. Like again, Corey Bush winning in
Speaker 1: Missouri is something to fucking feel good about, So you know,
Speaker 1: it's weird, but you're also seeing that, like, real people
Speaker 1: are also doing well, you know, depending on where they're running. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there were some uh losses that were gained in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen that were wiped out, But there is something too
Speaker 1: to see, like that people who are speaking a very
Speaker 1: different kind of politics are able to stay in office.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that Democrats need to fucking
Speaker 1: catch up to real quick, like forget whatever, like the
Speaker 1: Republicans are just selling you fear and hate and all
Speaker 1: that ship and like that works for a certain group
Speaker 1: of people, But then you have other people who are
Speaker 1: like you know, the Katie Porter's, the aocs whoever, that
Speaker 1: are just kind of talking straight and not trying to
Speaker 1: use all this over politicized language to just be like
Speaker 1: this is what are your life is like under this policy?
Speaker 1: Like this is what we need to do. That's I
Speaker 1: think we need we need to actually nurture that a
Speaker 1: bit more because that seems to be very very effective. Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason we all like you know,
Speaker 1: Bernie as much as we did is because he's very
Speaker 1: good at plainly speaking that. I mean, the number of
Speaker 1: like older Trump voters that I know that have told
Speaker 1: me that they would have voted for Bernie is you know,
Speaker 1: because they respect they respect him. He's his own man,
Speaker 1: and he says what he means. He doesn't do all
Speaker 1: that bullshit. I mean, it's it's it's infuriating. And that's
Speaker 1: the way they all they all talk because they mean it.
Speaker 1: And if you believe, and if you actually truly believe
Speaker 1: and live your fucking values, then then you don't have
Speaker 1: to do that weird lie thing. And people will respect it.
Speaker 1: It resonated, just like when people make good music. You
Speaker 1: know's like difference pop music and fucking art, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean when you're like, man, that's pop music.
Speaker 1: That's some producer just said, Okay, what's charting. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: take a blend of these styles and here's your song,
Speaker 1: Katie Perry. Uh, let's put me goos on the track,
Speaker 1: and now you've now you're on the charts. Rather than
Speaker 1: true self expression, that like resonates on a completely other level.
Speaker 1: And people like, I don't know something about this, uh,
Speaker 1: in the same way the politicians speak, because I think
Speaker 1: most people are so turned off by this stale ass
Speaker 1: you know, fucking seventy year old people being like, well, like, bro,
Speaker 1: we don't like that's not resonating with people. And also
Speaker 1: people are so yeah, and people are so getting are
Speaker 1: getting so fucked up in their day to day lives
Speaker 1: with the lack of opportunity and ability for upward mobility
Speaker 1: that you using these like weird platitudes. It does nothing,
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It just doesn't move the needle for enough people.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why, you know, embraced the fact
Speaker 1: that the way we're gonna like, you know, Jack, you're
Speaker 1: talking about how a lot of the people talk about
Speaker 1: how we could possibly restore this just terrible chasm that
Speaker 1: we have between left and right in this country because
Speaker 1: of inequality. Is that we have to fucking tackle inequality.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's sucking it. That's it. You're not mad
Speaker 1: at some fucking made up person in you know, Minnesota
Speaker 1: that you think is in Ilha and Omar's district who's
Speaker 1: practicing Sharia law because you lost your gig at the
Speaker 1: fucking wherever you were at you know what, I think
Speaker 1: that's and when your needs are met, you're less. You're
Speaker 1: not out there in the streets looking for a reason
Speaker 1: to be like, who do I gotta funk up? Because
Speaker 1: I don't have ship right now? And all you need
Speaker 1: is somebody smart enough to be like, oh you're angry, here,
Speaker 1: come here, come here, I gotta explaination for you. It's there, Yes,
Speaker 1: stay with yeah, man. I want to treat you with
Speaker 1: dignity because you deserve dignity and all the things that
Speaker 1: come along with it in this country. And that happened
Speaker 1: that that is regardless of where you come from. At
Speaker 1: a certain point, you know, if we can get away
Speaker 1: from the scarcity mindset that so that every angle of
Speaker 1: capitalism wants you to feel because as it's ultimately a
Speaker 1: fucking pyramid scheme. Um, you know, that's the only way
Speaker 1: it doesn't like there's there are it's just American capitalism
Speaker 1: that is like you have to have the threat of
Speaker 1: starving to death or else, like it doesn't work, and
Speaker 1: it's like, no, that's actually the thing that makes it
Speaker 1: not work is the fact that people are terrified starving
Speaker 1: to death. They want like they want their kids to
Speaker 1: They want to feel like, yeah, even if I lose
Speaker 1: my job, my kids are going to be able to
Speaker 1: eat that. Yeah, Or I don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: them not being able to get go to school or
Speaker 1: get a proper education. If they want to go to university,
Speaker 1: they can do that and not going to debt that
Speaker 1: they just are ending up being in some kind of
Speaker 1: you know, indentured servitude to your student loans. Yeah. If
Speaker 1: the if the choice is between making seven dollars an
Speaker 1: hour for the rest of your life or being a
Speaker 1: quarter of a million dollars in debt for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life, Like what kind of a choice actually
Speaker 1: even is that? Yeah? Who gives it. It's like I'll
Speaker 1: take the note day and what's your other point? You know,
Speaker 1: it's like about how these things work that people are
Speaker 1: open to that, right, Like look at Florida, righty, it
Speaker 1: goes red, but they just passed a fifteen dollar minimum wage,
Speaker 1: Like so yeah, they that where they're like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: well you know fair is fair. I'm not like I'm
Speaker 1: sucking with drop all the way, but you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, minimum wage should be fifteen dollars. Like there's
Speaker 1: still it's funny because then you can even see that
Speaker 1: reality still resonates across the board of like how that
Speaker 1: means upward mobility. When you have fifteen dollar minimum wages,
Speaker 1: that means that I get a little bit more. That
Speaker 1: means I can do a little bit more when you
Speaker 1: speak to people's material needs than people will respond because
Speaker 1: people are ultimately going to be worried about their own
Speaker 1: ship and how their bills get paid. Right. One of
Speaker 1: these guys on eight was like, people who are confused
Speaker 1: by that should look at this like scattered chart that
Speaker 1: I created that shows that there's a big contingent of
Speaker 1: Republican voters who are fiscally progressive and it's like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: poor people tend to, you know, support each other because
Speaker 1: they know what a dollar actually means. You know, could
Speaker 1: traditionally always tip more, you know, yadda, YadA, YadA. It's uh, man,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm I'm a I'm pro jock.
Speaker 1: After this election, I'm done with nerds. Yeah, where's the
Speaker 1: guy who's shoving Nate Silver around? Yeah? That the chart
Speaker 1: nerds are done? I want, like, I want like a
Speaker 1: bro that kisses his bros to be in charge. That's
Speaker 1: what I want. I want to brow that will just
Speaker 1: hug his bros. Yeah, I want um. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that does for pulling, but I'm down for that too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly what it does for pulling, It'll translate because we
Speaker 1: are into it. Yeah, and I'll be able to tell
Speaker 1: that there's something genuine kiss my bros. Yeah. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about a couple of less serious, less important outcomes.
Speaker 1: How do you easy? Do you got a lot of them?
Speaker 1: I think has sixties some thousand votes across the country.
Speaker 1: But man, Tennessee, what is up with y'all? The Tennessee
Speaker 1: owen thousand votes for Kanye West, very popular in like
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Kentucky. Those were like two of his Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Then Minnesota comes in next with seventy hundred votes, then Kentucky, Kentucky, Colorado,
Speaker 1: Uh you know, yeah, man, So you said a video
Speaker 1: of him submitting his vote where he just wrote his
Speaker 1: name in and then he didn't fill out the rest
Speaker 1: of the ballot and he was like, the first time
Speaker 1: I've ever voted. I'm like, man, that's the most American
Speaker 1: thing I ever scene in my life, right in yourself.
Speaker 1: You don't have a chance and completely throw your vote
Speaker 1: away on every other thing exactly, just be like, I
Speaker 1: don't care about any thing else. I only care about myself,
Speaker 1: and I'm not qualified, but I will be president. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: that truly. Yeah, did sum it up. It's like, and
Speaker 1: I'm voting for me. Fuck y'all um. And then the
Speaker 1: other big thing that I think this is new in
Speaker 1: these United States, ore Agon, y'all fucking wild with the
Speaker 1: decriminalizing the possession of street drugs, like all of them,
Speaker 1: like you can. I'm pretty sure the the monologue at
Speaker 1: the beginning of pulp Fiction now applies to ore again,
Speaker 1: where he's like, you can can possess the ship you
Speaker 1: can like get pulled over, but they can't search you
Speaker 1: like all that. Ship like that. It also opens up
Speaker 1: money that can go into like treatment facilities and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Things aren't criminalized, and people that do have
Speaker 1: problems like can actually get it taken care of because
Speaker 1: I won't be afraid they're going to jail for it.
Speaker 1: I should clarify that I don't think heroin is good
Speaker 1: and that people should be using it, but I just
Speaker 1: think that yeah, uh, the cars state is not the
Speaker 1: way to deal with it. No, not at all. And
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I mean, you see a lot of
Speaker 1: places that have go through this process of decriminalizing these drugs,
Speaker 1: like it works out in the end. It's never the
Speaker 1: thing where they're like, oh, I don't know, man, now
Speaker 1: babies are fucking smacked out of their minds on the street. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Like this is because we don't need to do this
Speaker 1: fucking ridiculous drug war um and actually just go like
Speaker 1: to see people where they're at and be like, Hi,
Speaker 1: you probably don't want to be hooked on drugs, right,
Speaker 1: so let's figure out a way to get you off
Speaker 1: of that or whatever. At the very least, we don't
Speaker 1: have some prison pipeline. We're just creating more dollars for
Speaker 1: like the private prisons because you have some kind of
Speaker 1: substance abuse issue. Well, yeah, there's a lot of anti
Speaker 1: carstole victories. J that's very exciting. I feel good. I
Speaker 1: liked that. I was. I mean, at the very least
Speaker 1: like I feel good about my city. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people like local elections may have gone and
Speaker 1: the way they wanted. But like in l A, there's
Speaker 1: really wonderful Jackie Lacey looks like she's on her way out.
Speaker 1: The district attorney who's so chummy with the police. Um.
Speaker 1: And now we have you know, Gascon possibly who looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to be the the new l A
Speaker 1: County d A who was formerly in San Francisco. UM
Speaker 1: but did a very you know, good job of you
Speaker 1: know of of criminal justice reform. Um. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's you know. And I think with Nythia also hopefully
Speaker 1: winning over David Rue, it shows like a lot of
Speaker 1: people who she was such an outsider and we're like
Speaker 1: Rose and now this ship is not going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think the conventional wisdom for someone entering the race,
Speaker 1: but over time, like building this coalition and getting the
Speaker 1: word out about what she stands for and what her
Speaker 1: vision is of the of the city could be resonated
Speaker 1: with enough people that they're like, I like that, rather
Speaker 1: than the person who just listens to the real estate
Speaker 1: developer class um in the city on how to run
Speaker 1: the city, because that's what most of these city council
Speaker 1: members are. People need to look at the video of
Speaker 1: even if you're not from l A, you don't know
Speaker 1: who the funk David Rue is, David r Y. You
Speaker 1: check out his inner Like somebody just went up to
Speaker 1: him on the street while he was like out there,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get out the vote at a
Speaker 1: little like table and just started asking him questions about
Speaker 1: his policy and like how he ran his campaign. And
Speaker 1: it's clear that he can't even like think on his
Speaker 1: feet to the point that like all he can just
Speaker 1: say like three things over and over again. It's wild,
Speaker 1: but it's a great illustration of what we're talking about
Speaker 1: with the people who are just you know, convenient, uh,
Speaker 1: willing to take money from the right people um and
Speaker 1: have have the right connections as opposed to any sort
Speaker 1: of ideas or are actually out here to put ideas
Speaker 1: in motion that are going to actually help people. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's energizing to see that happen in a local level. Okay, cool, awesome,
Speaker 1: Next city council racists in two years and we can
Speaker 1: flip a couple of major seats, and that work needs
Speaker 1: to start tomorrow yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly this week.
Speaker 1: We'll give you this week. Yeah. I think that's the
Speaker 1: thing too, is for all people. Also, Like if you're
Speaker 1: disheartened at what's happening at the federal level and you
Speaker 1: feel like you have the fucking energy in you and
Speaker 1: the heart to you know, represent your city or state
Speaker 1: or whatever, fucking do it. Because if you have of
Speaker 1: just a real heart in your body, you're gonna probably
Speaker 1: smoke these robots in a debate because these people are
Speaker 1: just so used to cruise controlling into into office because
Speaker 1: of like how it works, like every most politicians are
Speaker 1: just like it's like nascars being like, all right, who's
Speaker 1: your sponsor? Like where I'm on your back as you
Speaker 1: enter like the Capitol building, so we know and who
Speaker 1: are you pulling for? We need more people of like
Speaker 1: you know, who are out here not for the glamor
Speaker 1: of being in office, but to actually serve their communities.
Speaker 1: And we're seeing I mean, that's what I'm hoping is like,
Speaker 1: let's you know, I've just nurture this wave of people
Speaker 1: entering politics too, and the local level and ship even
Speaker 1: at the federal level. We're seeing but like make it,
Speaker 1: like make it less of this thing where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could never run for It's not it's not It's
Speaker 1: not a fucking, you know, fantastic mythological thing that happens.
Speaker 1: Like you just have to, you know, want to do it,
Speaker 1: and you will probably find a coalition of people that
Speaker 1: will support you. Yeah. We've had Nthia Um, we've had
Speaker 1: Mariah on. These are people who were outsiders who came
Speaker 1: in and one office by just being smart and wanting
Speaker 1: to help people or just seeing an opportunity being like this,
Speaker 1: no one runs against this person in my town. Yeah
Speaker 1: fuck it, let me just see what happens. Oh look
Speaker 1: you mean now I'm the person who is representing my town. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's solidarity that comes from that too, is the really
Speaker 1: beautiful thing and will connect you to your community and
Speaker 1: really make you feel like you you live in a
Speaker 1: place that that you can actively help and um, work
Speaker 1: towards making a better place and like that just feels beautiful,
Speaker 1: and then it takes away a lot of the helplessness
Speaker 1: of what stuff. The federal level kind of feels like
Speaker 1: as well, too, right, you know, Brandy, it's been a
Speaker 1: pleasure having you here on the dailies. I geist this
Speaker 1: day after the election, doesn't it feel like? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know when the last time you did a
Speaker 1: bunch of hard drugs with Jack, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I just like, I'm like when I used to go
Speaker 1: to raves and then had to go to work like
Speaker 1: in the morning the next year. Yeah what Yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels hungover, doesn't like or hungover or just like my
Speaker 1: brain is vapor lit. Yeah, honestly, my heart I had
Speaker 1: to do. I had to breathe through some ship yesterday
Speaker 1: because I just want to tell everybody I know that
Speaker 1: who knows who the president could be? But please, do
Speaker 1: not live in the future. Do not waste all of
Speaker 1: your energy with thoughts just fucking torturing yourself of what
Speaker 1: the future could look like, because like h T H
Speaker 1: O you g H T S either way, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, big player, Jack. But
Speaker 1: I think that's the I think. Really just focus on
Speaker 1: the present. Uh, not to say that you're ignoring the
Speaker 1: issues that are around you, but like, don't burn yourself
Speaker 1: out by worrying, because look, they're like, we know that
Speaker 1: there are plenty of people who are thinking the same way,
Speaker 1: and we have to have each other's backs. So just
Speaker 1: be ready, but don't don't fucking freak yourself out. Please,
Speaker 1: please don't freak yourself out, um, because either way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we got fucking work to do. Like it's not
Speaker 1: fucking you know that we saw it over the summer,
Speaker 1: Like there are people like we are, there are people
Speaker 1: of good conscience out there, but also damn there are
Speaker 1: a lot of ain't shit racist people too, and eventually
Speaker 1: we have to figure out how to like figure out
Speaker 1: how we can deprogram that part of the country. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping it's a boy addressing inequality. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that's what would drive a lot of people's hate engines.
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot a lot of it is that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so please just you know, do yourself a solid too.
Speaker 1: We're still we're still figuring it out. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a marathon, baby, And guess what if you want
Speaker 1: to go back to brunch, talk about this ship at
Speaker 1: brunch exactly, and then and then do some ship after brunch.
Speaker 1: That's how that's got to go. Brandy. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you and follow you? And what's the tweet you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Um? You can find me on Twitter and
Speaker 1: Instagram at brand Dazzle UM. And then I have a
Speaker 1: podcast called Lady to Lady that's very fun so you
Speaker 1: can come listen to that every Wednesday. UM. And then
Speaker 1: I it's funny because we've been talking about Corey Bush
Speaker 1: a lot and she The first thing that made me
Speaker 1: smile this morning waking up is she tweeted a video
Speaker 1: of her editing her Twitter bio to say congresswoman elect.
Speaker 1: And that mean I'm like I generally have like goosebumps
Speaker 1: even like saying that right now. Like it's it's very
Speaker 1: cool to see the positives, uh, and like where things
Speaker 1: where where I believe the will is moving. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: a contrary to everything that both parties want, um, but
Speaker 1: the will is there. We are on the right side
Speaker 1: and we got this and that was like a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing to see. M hmm, yeah, son, follow me, follow her,
Speaker 1: follow her More importantly, than me. Squad's blowing up baby
Speaker 1: Jamal Bowman in New York. Yeah, look at them just ship.
Speaker 1: I'm excited they're worried with AOC. I'm excited for them
Speaker 1: to see how few fools Corey Bush is about to suffer.
Speaker 1: Can find you with tweet you've been enjoying. Find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also the
Speaker 1: other podcast for twenty Day Fiance, where you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm jacking out of the matrix and I'm jack
Speaker 1: into the reality the reality TV matrix just to escape
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's I don't really not I don't
Speaker 1: really have a tweet that I like. I just I
Speaker 1: want to remind people that the votes have to be counted.
Speaker 1: That's We're just gonna wait for that to happen. We'll
Speaker 1: obviously come back to tell you, like as as we
Speaker 1: know things, but really just uh, focus on the moment
Speaker 1: at hand and just realize that like the work that
Speaker 1: has to be done, like a lot of it is
Speaker 1: going to be a person to person in our communities
Speaker 1: as well. Uh, and that like you know, if in
Speaker 1: a world that feels like there is not a lot
Speaker 1: of humanity, show somebody some humanity because it's it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. Uh. Tweet I've been enjoying Brodie Coopta tweeted
Speaker 1: my worst fears have come true. America is being really
Speaker 1: random at the height of the Men and that made um.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter a check under squirrel Brian.
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Speaker 1: lose to your favorite joke. That's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: this afternoon. We'll be back probably even later if anything
Speaker 1: changes in the election, um, and we will talk to
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