Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by the hilarious and talented Chelsea Devantes. What's up? Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome you guys. It was incredible to watch you do
Speaker 1: your intro live. I felt like I was at a
Speaker 1: little concert. Thank you so much and hold up a
Speaker 1: lighter started dancing. But yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you so
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Speaker 1: some TV's emerged too. Miles is rocking his pro social
Speaker 1: Social Distancing Club shirt. Yeah, it's this is gonna be.
Speaker 1: This is gonna age very poorly. Uh yeah. But like
Speaker 1: when I explained to my kids, like in the ashes
Speaker 1: of like the Nuclear Winter, where they're like, why do
Speaker 1: we wear these garments? That's a sight gang on them,
Speaker 1: I'm like they're the only free clothes. We have lost everything.
Speaker 1: That's right, Chelsea. What have you been up to. How
Speaker 1: have you been spending your pandemic for the past month
Speaker 1: or so? Oh, that's fun. We're just checking in on
Speaker 1: the last month of the pandemic, which is good. It's good.
Speaker 1: I've gone through some intense pandemic phases, um, and this
Speaker 1: last phase is I would say this last phase is
Speaker 1: experimenting with xan x as a sleeping pill phase for me. Um.
Speaker 1: It's you know too well that ship is addictive, and
Speaker 1: they're like, you shouldn't do this, Um, but I you know,
Speaker 1: I started pandemic with z quill and moved into a
Speaker 1: CBD phase and then and then I said, it's not enough,
Speaker 1: turn it up. Yeah, so I can still remember my dreams.
Speaker 1: Fuck that give me, give me, give me some and
Speaker 1: I want to close my eyes and open them and
Speaker 1: it's daytime and I don't. And then you confused to
Speaker 1: have this weird feeling in the back of my mouth
Speaker 1: and it's so weird that does this thing to my throat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, every every every cough, every sneeze is COVID. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And what how much time do you need to feel
Speaker 1: like you had a good night's sleep, Like, what's your
Speaker 1: when you're feeling like you won? When I won? I mean,
Speaker 1: I love sleep. I would say nine hours is great,
Speaker 1: and that's something that hasn't happened in um maybe seven years.
Speaker 1: That's not I think right now. I'm at I'm at
Speaker 1: like if I only wake up for two hours in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, that's a good. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm balling, But I'm on Twitter at three am. Come
Speaker 1: find me, you know, I'm scrolling your daytime tweets and
Speaker 1: you scroll doom scrolling, doom scroll love a good doom
Speaker 1: scroll to just turn up the brightness on my phone
Speaker 1: so it just really sears the nightmares into my rain
Speaker 1: on the phone to yeah, yeah, yeah, brain. Yeah. Are
Speaker 1: you a waking up in the middle of the night eater?
Speaker 1: Do you ever snack? Oh? You know, I should start?
Speaker 1: I should start? That actually might work. Well, um, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not a snacker. I'm I'm I'm like a paralyzed
Speaker 1: I like to just to be paralyzed with fear and
Speaker 1: I don't want anything to interrupt that time with myself, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pure anxiety, a diet anxiety. Yeah, and I read
Speaker 1: I read at night, which sounds respectable, but I read
Speaker 1: m celebrity memoirs. So it's justly you know, but for
Speaker 1: you right, because now it's worth yeah, because I started
Speaker 1: uh the Celebrity Book Club podcast. Um, but I always
Speaker 1: read those books. I've been reading them since I was
Speaker 1: a teenager. It's been my it's my favorite literary genre.
Speaker 1: Don't roll your eyes. I'm looking at your eyes. Never.
Speaker 1: I would never have a medical condition that it keeps
Speaker 1: me from rolling my eyes. Oh that's incredible. Um no,
Speaker 1: I I yeah. So I've loved these books my whole life.
Speaker 1: I genuinely like reading them. But now it is I
Speaker 1: guess it's for work, right, if it doesn't interfere too
Speaker 1: much with your underrated? Overrated? Do you have a celebrity
Speaker 1: memoir that is like the gold standard? That's the Citizen
Speaker 1: Kane of the Citizen Kane of celebrity memoirs? And then
Speaker 1: it's a movie, No, and that it's a really long movie,
Speaker 1: but we still love and respect it. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say I have a few. So Gabrielle Union's incredible,
Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson, I think it's out there that it's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's really great Demi Moore probably one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: if not my far And it was reading that producer
Speaker 1: on as that was a uh that was an event
Speaker 1: for our workplace. When she was reading that, we had
Speaker 1: a new harrowing stories every day. The most secondhand book
Speaker 1: club experience I've ever had was when Anna was reading
Speaker 1: that book where she's like, oh my god, so y'all
Speaker 1: fucking drinking problem? Like what who are we talking about
Speaker 1: right now? I'm sorry to me more of the book.
Speaker 1: I caught some real secondhand uh hate for Ashton Kutcher
Speaker 1: off of Anna's reading experience of that book. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: based on his really futuristic ideas of how alcoholism worked. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of celebrity memoirs that superproducer on Hosny has gotten
Speaker 1: us up on. She is reading or just finished reading
Speaker 1: the Mariah Carry One? Are you in on that one?
Speaker 1: Oh you guys, please please? There was one to ever
Speaker 1: cop immediately. It's the Mariah Carry One. Not only did
Speaker 1: I copy immediately, I forgot I pre ordered it twice
Speaker 1: this morning? Was put on? Really that for sure? Put
Speaker 1: on a mask, risked the pandemic. Went to Barnes and
Speaker 1: Noble was like, do you have them Maria harry Memoir,
Speaker 1: Are there any copies left? And they read it on
Speaker 1: the floor. Grader reading the latest Harry Potter book just
Speaker 1: read it right there on the floor, right there in
Speaker 1: the floor of Barnes and yeah, I I. And then
Speaker 1: you know the audio book Not to Be slept On.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best, with her narrating book, yeah, narrating, singing,
Speaker 1: doing impressions of her mother. I've only read maybe one
Speaker 1: celebrity biography because Miles Davis is because that one is
Speaker 1: wild and my namesake. So I figured I'll owe it
Speaker 1: to Miles Davis to read about that, which is very entertaining.
Speaker 1: But I think the next one I'll probably dabble in
Speaker 1: is like one of the managers of Arsenal has one
Speaker 1: where he's narrating it and I missed his voice, So like,
Speaker 1: tell me about your life, Arson, please. I love that.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though I like autobiographies. It don't like biographies.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it from someone else's point
Speaker 1: of view. I want you to tell me what was
Speaker 1: going on in your head, Yeah, from your unbiased perspective
Speaker 1: of how you're like, Yeah, what, Jake, is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated. I was thinking about this actually, and
Speaker 1: this is kind of a bit of an abstract one,
Speaker 1: but I think it's underrated going on websites to aren't
Speaker 1: social media. Like I was talking to someone the other
Speaker 1: day and I was like, you know, I mentioning, and
Speaker 1: they're like, why do you even have a website? Like
Speaker 1: what's the point anymore? I was like, what, Like, there's
Speaker 1: so many you know, there's so many cool websites still
Speaker 1: out there, but all anybody does is just go on
Speaker 1: social media. Now, Um, so I think that's definitely underrated,
Speaker 1: Like you can find some cool message boards and stuff.
Speaker 1: I I you know, I grew up on the internet, man,
Speaker 1: and I hate the way social media is just ring
Speaker 1: fenced it all into this like argument, but yeah, underrated
Speaker 1: going on other websites that aren't social media. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: kind of websites are you trafficking? Like? What time? What
Speaker 1: are you heading to it? After social media? Um? Horn
Speaker 1: herb No, I'm joking now, like all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 1: Like I was reading a message board the other day
Speaker 1: about Baufing radios and ham radio and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and it's really nerdy, but I was just looking at
Speaker 1: it and it was so cool to just see them
Speaker 1: in their own little community, completely detached from anyone else,
Speaker 1: like there's no one chirping in and like real fucking
Speaker 1: nerds or like vote now or whatever. It was like yeah, right,
Speaker 1: like it was a Nazi or whatever. It was just
Speaker 1: like these guys having some crazy, like very nerdy conversation
Speaker 1: about ham radios and I don't fully understand most of
Speaker 1: what they were saying, but I guess I just got
Speaker 1: lost in it, you know, And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's great. Yeah. I do that sometimes with just like plumbing,
Speaker 1: when if there's like a plumbing issue or like some
Speaker 1: issue I have to figure out around the house, or
Speaker 1: like finding a manual for something, like you go into
Speaker 1: a forum that's like just super for expert and it's
Speaker 1: like I feel like I'm in the eighties all this time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something really nice about it. Yeah, Or you have
Speaker 1: a question You're go into like a message board and
Speaker 1: you're like, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna engage
Speaker 1: this message board and I'm gonna dabble, and like you
Speaker 1: was super nice, like like doing like the most friendly
Speaker 1: man splaining of like an electrical issue. You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me walk you through this. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: this motherfucker have fifteen minutes to type this like screed,
Speaker 1: but very informative. And it was like very kind because
Speaker 1: other places you feel like read it. You go to
Speaker 1: other places where there's like communities going you ask a
Speaker 1: dumb question, what's you just sucking yesterday about this shoots
Speaker 1: and like you want to share them? Yeah? Um? On Twitter,
Speaker 1: I was like asking how to get a radio code
Speaker 1: for like the ship card that I had. This guy
Speaker 1: I'd screenshot it is somewhere. This guy would like kill
Speaker 1: yourself dickheads, Like, okay, thanks f crazy man. I was like,
Speaker 1: Twitter is not the place to ask anything, man, Nah,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I thought one of the best metaphors of
Speaker 1: the of that show, that movie, The Social Dilemma, was
Speaker 1: them talking about um how like imagine if when you
Speaker 1: went to Wikipedia, like the page just changed depending on
Speaker 1: what they thought you wanted to read. Like that's and
Speaker 1: that's what your social media reality is, and that's all
Speaker 1: anybody uses anymore. Like that's that's right. There are times
Speaker 1: when I was like I thought I used to be
Speaker 1: more into like street cars, and I'm like, that's just
Speaker 1: because at a moment I was scrolling a bunch of it,
Speaker 1: and it kept giving giving me like this information. It's
Speaker 1: weird how I found, like after watching the Social Dilemma,
Speaker 1: trying to realize how much it was informing like what
Speaker 1: I was getting interested in, like even very passively. Not
Speaker 1: that it was like I was getting you know, radical
Speaker 1: lives on the internet, but I was like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: more into like, you know, Nissan Skyline, GTR picks or
Speaker 1: things like that. And then suddenly and now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you like like fantastic throw blankets because I'm I
Speaker 1: was like cold in my house and a little blanket.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, what happened to my Skyline content? Don't? Yeah, freaky,
Speaker 1: it's freaky. Your taste in Nissans has always been a
Speaker 1: little radical. Well you know that's the thing, you know
Speaker 1: because in the Japan the Skyline people don't know this.
Speaker 1: They don't have them ships in the US, they don't
Speaker 1: know the beauty about that car. The old Japanese ones,
Speaker 1: I love them, you know, like the old Japanese right
Speaker 1: hand books ones. Yeah, yeah, And I'm like, fun, that's horrible.
Speaker 1: I see one of them old school nineties books and
Speaker 1: nissans love it. Yeah, with you on those tails, the
Speaker 1: circular tail lies baby who matmobile on a budget? Definitely?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? Okay, look my underrated,
Speaker 1: overrated or basically not one of the same. There's two
Speaker 1: sides of the same coin. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: expression to use. But texting and calling, Okay, I think
Speaker 1: hauling is underrated. Calling your homies is underrated, and texting
Speaker 1: is fine because I do it all the time that
Speaker 1: I also call all my friends. But I hate, I hate,
Speaker 1: I hate people that are just like especially on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You see it all the time. You're gonna face time
Speaker 1: me without a warning. It's like, yeah, you ugly bitch,
Speaker 1: answer your face time. I'm your friend. I don't care
Speaker 1: what you look like, stupid selfish bitch. Um. I just
Speaker 1: want to talk to you and see you. So I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of sick of this attitude of like, especially
Speaker 1: right especially right now, right now is the time to
Speaker 1: get into calling your friends if you've never been into it.
Speaker 1: But I've been into it since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to have that Garfield phone. I know,
Speaker 1: I think we got it at a garage steal um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I love. I love talking on the phone.
Speaker 1: My friends all know. My close friends know that I
Speaker 1: just love. I'll call them all the time. Not all
Speaker 1: the time, but frequently. Time flies on a phone call.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so fun. It's like it's time traveling.
Speaker 1: One of my boys called me over the weekend. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I was like, next thing, you know. He's like, damn,
Speaker 1: We're just talking for fifty minutes. And he's like, I
Speaker 1: was just calling to tell you about this one thing.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I know. And then this is
Speaker 1: what happens. You start being like, remember this, what's going on? What?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? All right, be safe children for me.
Speaker 1: Because you love each other and that's all it is.
Speaker 1: It's a phone calls are such a good way to
Speaker 1: express the love for each other. And I think also
Speaker 1: because of social media, people think that they're seeing their friends,
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, yeah, I've seen you haven't talked
Speaker 1: to this person so long. You need to call each other.
Speaker 1: Hearing each other the voices is so nice. That's also
Speaker 1: White people like listening to podcasts. It's like they're hearing
Speaker 1: their friends talk right right to the listener right now.
Speaker 1: Especially you, Uh, we are talking to you and you
Speaker 1: Rebecca the uh. I like that you just picked the
Speaker 1: two most popular names in America, Jerry and Rebecca the Yacca.
Speaker 1: You know, I am, Um, I just have to here
Speaker 1: he goes, he can't even get this, he's getting typical
Speaker 1: value behavior. Um, I I have to just say, because
Speaker 1: they're maybe listeners who are like me, or maybe I'm
Speaker 1: uniquely fucked, but I time for me, when I'm on
Speaker 1: a phone call goes actually much slower, and I don't
Speaker 1: know why. That's just problem even like with a friend. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my goh my god. I'm always like trying to
Speaker 1: figure out like the nearest off ramp. It's bad, but
Speaker 1: I mean not not close friends do you have? Oh
Speaker 1: that's that's a complicated question. Yeah, I bet. I still
Speaker 1: like feel your observation. Like I haven't talked to my
Speaker 1: homie for like six seven months, and like we've just
Speaker 1: been texting a lot, and then I called him for
Speaker 1: his birthday over the weekend and it's like totally different.
Speaker 1: It's like forgotten how much I love like the sound
Speaker 1: of your voice. Now let me get the funk off
Speaker 1: those call. But here's my thing. You get, that's all
Speaker 1: you need. Though I'm not saying you to be on
Speaker 1: the phone for an hour to catch up with people,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, a quick call sometimes it's better than
Speaker 1: like I mean, especially especially right now, we're not seeing people,
Speaker 1: you know, we're we're texting. Is time is getting lost
Speaker 1: through texting, you know, because it's like you think you're
Speaker 1: talking to people. The next thing you know, you're like,
Speaker 1: dam I haven't talked to this person, or it feels
Speaker 1: like you talk to them a lot, but really you're
Speaker 1: not because the time is going so slow in life,
Speaker 1: and then texting is like not it's not sufficient, That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. It's not sufficient. I'm sorry you don't
Speaker 1: have any close friends that you love chatting on the
Speaker 1: phone with no It is said, were you ever a
Speaker 1: phone chatter? Though? Jack evens like a kid like you
Speaker 1: know and like get off that phone, Jack, Like were
Speaker 1: you now? I had like when when I was in
Speaker 1: I had a girlfriend and I told you I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk for hours on the phone and I would play.
Speaker 1: That's how I got good at that game Labyrinth with
Speaker 1: the Marble because I hate man, you were just playing that.
Speaker 1: It's the most mine. It's totally mindless. It's more just
Speaker 1: listen to Samariam play Labyrinth and talk to Leanne. I
Speaker 1: would be on the phone with anybody for like hours
Speaker 1: at a time, like you're watching cops right now too,
Speaker 1: all right, and then not talking like ten minutes and
Speaker 1: be like, oh ship, oh my god, is this What
Speaker 1: the funk are they thinking? All right? Anyway, that old
Speaker 1: school bonding. I love that ship. Yeah I missed that. Sorry, Jack.
Speaker 1: I don't not like talking to people. Sounds like talking
Speaker 1: to everybody. It sounds like you hate talking to us
Speaker 1: right now with you? Why do you hate me? You're
Speaker 1: just trying to connect. I'm trying to connect with you,
Speaker 1: and you're just like you're like, just let me in.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think just even for a quick one,
Speaker 1: just call let's say you good, Hey, al right, fine.
Speaker 1: It's good to hear your voice. It hits so different
Speaker 1: hearing a voice. Yeah, it does. Do you think maybe
Speaker 1: were we longed for it more because we kind of
Speaker 1: came up in the time when the only thing we
Speaker 1: had to communicate with our friends was a telephone, Like
Speaker 1: even before a I am like, you just will call
Speaker 1: somebody on the phone, and yeah, but I wonder if
Speaker 1: it's so built that we still desire. That true and
Speaker 1: which is also true for you know, our parents generation,
Speaker 1: like they would you know, yeah, they love the phone. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's why I really hate that these younger kids,
Speaker 1: these kids these days, they're just not They don't they
Speaker 1: don't even know how wonderful it is because they have
Speaker 1: never really done it. You know, it's not the thing
Speaker 1: that they do. I mean, remember when three Way Calling
Speaker 1: came out, these white bitches try to trap me into
Speaker 1: talking ship. Oh man, that was so funny, like the
Speaker 1: drama that you can give it. You you're like that,
Speaker 1: let me tell you you came to the right place. No, no,
Speaker 1: you know what happened. She said, Oh what did you
Speaker 1: think about you know, Mandy? And I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: remember what you said. You said she was a fucking bitch.
Speaker 1: I do agree with that. I do agree that what
Speaker 1: you said. I didn't even know I was getting set up,
Speaker 1: but I friendship up for a little while. It was great,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Take them all down with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was like a better, better version
Speaker 1: of that mean girl scene. Right right, But what do
Speaker 1: you think of a super producer? Ana Hosnie actually, Marcella,
Speaker 1: what do I think of her. I think she's looking great.
Speaker 1: She went why we zoomed before I did the first,
Speaker 1: you know, quarantine daily sitgeist, and I was so happy
Speaker 1: to catch up with her. I forced her on the
Speaker 1: on the phone. I was like, I was like, stay on,
Speaker 1: let's catch up, bitch, and she was just like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll stay on. And then we were catching up and
Speaker 1: we were having fun. It was like we were hanging
Speaker 1: out because I do. I love especially with women, like
Speaker 1: it's just so funny, catch up. We're so great. Me
Speaker 1: and Anna kind of looked like we're related, not that
Speaker 1: Lebanese blooded me, so we looked like we're related. You know,
Speaker 1: I could see, all right, guys, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right now and we're back. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I think the
Speaker 1: back Yeah, am I in another weird delay where you've
Speaker 1: already heard sorry and I just said them, Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're a sight to behold. Um underrated. I think um
Speaker 1: The Bachelor and Bachelorette as a cultural clock on America.
Speaker 1: I think I think we could predict elections off of
Speaker 1: this franchise. I think watching The Bachelor should replace Nate
Speaker 1: Silver Um. I think it is a more accurate look
Speaker 1: at what's going on in our country, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: get enough attention for for the work it's doing. So
Speaker 1: what if we tell us what you've learned? Did the
Speaker 1: Did the Bachelor Bachelor At predict the election? To me? Yes?
Speaker 1: Because I was watching it and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: so The Bachelors is one of the number one shows
Speaker 1: in America and sort of the way when Trump was elected,
Speaker 1: they were like fifty of white women did what? Like
Speaker 1: they did what? And if you'd been watching The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, yes, of course they voted for Trump.
Speaker 1: You've not made attention to them. Um, And so you know,
Speaker 1: in that year, it was Caitlin Bristow was the Bachelor
Speaker 1: at right before the election, and this was a season
Speaker 1: where it was you know, when the woman is picking
Speaker 1: the men, she's in the position of power. And that
Speaker 1: season they brought in another woman and made the men
Speaker 1: vote on which woman they wanted to pick them, so
Speaker 1: immediately it was like we still shipped on women. And
Speaker 1: then her season was all about she like has sex
Speaker 1: with one of the dudes early on and again and
Speaker 1: they were like tripping right, and she's like, y'all the
Speaker 1: funk who I want to? Well she yeah, She's like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna suck. I want to. And then America was like,
Speaker 1: you're a slut? Right. I saw the greatest the Goat
Speaker 1: season recap with this one. Yes, and so people lost
Speaker 1: their minds and then the franchise had to speak out
Speaker 1: and sort of do ah, like, here's what slust shaming is.
Speaker 1: We don't want to do this to women. And they
Speaker 1: were you know, the whole Bachelor franchise was like, we don't,
Speaker 1: are we gonna Are we gonna allow this? And like
Speaker 1: that's the year that Like it's like, of course Hillary
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be president. Caitlin can't fuck a dude
Speaker 1: on the Bachelor without getting death threats. Um so. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, the people on the Bachelor are a specific
Speaker 1: type of person who like they always post a photo
Speaker 1: for Veterans Day. You know I'm talking about like you
Speaker 1: can celebrate Veterans Day in a lot of ways, but
Speaker 1: Bachelor candidates are like, swimsuit, swimsuit me at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: Happy Veterans Day. Here's a picture of the firework. Um So,
Speaker 1: they really tell you, like what women are up to,
Speaker 1: and uh, that year was like, yeah, we hate we
Speaker 1: we hate women. We men hate other women. So without
Speaker 1: spoiling it, we got a blue wave coming. We got
Speaker 1: a blue wave coming. Well, but we have said o
Speaker 1: our last blue wave, which was Rachel Lindsay the by
Speaker 1: and far the best human to ever be on She's
Speaker 1: a black woman. She's incredible. She's perfect in every way,
Speaker 1: kind of the way we make women who are not white,
Speaker 1: beet beyond perfect to get a chance at love. I
Speaker 1: guess no one watched her season. It's the lowest rated
Speaker 1: season of the bachelotte of all time, and it's one
Speaker 1: of the best seasons of all time because she's incredible.
Speaker 1: That was and now we're coming out with Tasia and
Speaker 1: then the next dude is a black dude. I think.
Speaker 1: I think if we're watching the Bachelorette, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a strong blue wave coming our way. Please please,
Speaker 1: Bachelorette say this could be its own podcast, just an
Speaker 1: entire podcast. It looks at the political implications of the
Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelorette. Yeah, listen, I don't have enough xan
Speaker 1: X for him to not win the whole That's what
Speaker 1: I thought. Okay, that's what I'm saying, like everybody knows
Speaker 1: and I don't know he can that Anna showed me
Speaker 1: he's a party city model because the dude is so
Speaker 1: light skinned, he would be a party city model. Like
Speaker 1: he's like somebody it's like he's a he's a Roman
Speaker 1: soldier and they're like, oh ship, he's a man. That
Speaker 1: is such a specific like level of model. Yeah, costume
Speaker 1: when you're like, yeah, this is also going to be
Speaker 1: the first time, you know, they call it whoever gets
Speaker 1: the person the winner, as if it's not your love life.
Speaker 1: But I think it's me the first time that a
Speaker 1: black dude wins ever. Wow. Yeah, and he's wing And
Speaker 1: now we have America's black man, Joe Biden running for president.
Speaker 1: Good time, Oh god, one of my favorite gradors of
Speaker 1: all time. I'll just say that right there. I'm about
Speaker 1: to talk about these experts who have been predicting that
Speaker 1: was like when we would dissolve into civil war basically
Speaker 1: since but they've been saying that the civil war will
Speaker 1: be fought with crank radios. Yeah, just arm yourself with
Speaker 1: crank radios. Um No, this is just a story busteed.
Speaker 1: Civil I mean, so there there are these experts who
Speaker 1: and you know, just watching the election coverage, you can
Speaker 1: find an expert who's going to predict anything. And these
Speaker 1: people are definitely on the in the minority who think
Speaker 1: that we're definitely headed for a civil war. One thing
Speaker 1: that makes it kind of eerie is that they've been
Speaker 1: saying around America is going to be really poised for
Speaker 1: a civil wars for ten years. That's like long before
Speaker 1: Trump was even on the scene. And yeah, they've basically
Speaker 1: been saying that inequality is the is the thing that's
Speaker 1: going to drive America to some sort of like violent conflict.
Speaker 1: That one of the two experts is in nine four,
Speaker 1: the U. S. Military like contracted the CIA to help
Speaker 1: figure out a way to predict if a state was
Speaker 1: going to like dissolve into chaos um bit like after
Speaker 1: the black Hawk Down events in Somalia where like that
Speaker 1: uh where Somalia kind of dissolved into a civil war
Speaker 1: and America felt like the American military wasn't prepared, so
Speaker 1: they contracted this guy. This guy was in charge of
Speaker 1: like creating the model that was basically predicting when a
Speaker 1: state was going to dissolve, and then he hadn't really
Speaker 1: thought about applying it to the US, and then this
Speaker 1: other expert kind of reached out to him and they
Speaker 1: started putting models together too, like see how the US
Speaker 1: would fair in one of those, and it is bad.
Speaker 1: It's not good, but uh yeah, I mean we have
Speaker 1: terrible inequality, uh, in so many different levels in this
Speaker 1: country that yeah, the the the seeds are there for sure.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's interesting sometimes when you look at
Speaker 1: other places that that fall into civil war down like
Speaker 1: religious like back like religious ideologies um or like sort
Speaker 1: of more traditional like you know, ethnic backgrounds and things
Speaker 1: like that, whereas like the US is like it's it's
Speaker 1: it's like depends on where you get your news, uh,
Speaker 1: and like what culture, Like it's more of a cultural
Speaker 1: thing that's like dividing people and so on one level,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, it's definitely enough that the fracturing is there,
Speaker 1: but it's like, are these beliefs like yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm like, what what is it going to take for
Speaker 1: it to really get to that next point where someone
Speaker 1: is beginning to say, like, oh, the reason for this,
Speaker 1: the reason my factory or the reason I have less
Speaker 1: work is because of Democrats because they did X or whatever.
Speaker 1: When a lot of people are starting to kind of
Speaker 1: like also just kind of start figuring out like it's
Speaker 1: capitalism and slightly like the oligarchical class too, that there's
Speaker 1: like what the because both sides do talk about how
Speaker 1: these rich people are taking ship, so they're yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's but it's it's yeah, but I get it. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like when you look at sort of the
Speaker 1: factors of like sort of the boxes that need to
Speaker 1: be ticked, like we're we've ticked many or part part
Speaker 1: like halfway through the checkmark of taking a box fully,
Speaker 1: But how are we going to have a civil war
Speaker 1: when the one side has all the guns and the
Speaker 1: other side has no guns? Right? That's what I've always
Speaker 1: been like, I feel like the liberal side of this
Speaker 1: conflict it feels too cure when yeah, what you're saying
Speaker 1: is absolutely true, like what the police are on one side,
Speaker 1: the people with guns are on one side, and like
Speaker 1: the liberals have a mainstream media that I was willing
Speaker 1: to like roll over for the Iraq war like both times,
Speaker 1: but you know what we have. We have Netflix shows
Speaker 1: with really strong female leads and they couldn't really yes,
Speaker 1: spiritually it's going to be Yeah, well I mean there's
Speaker 1: also the uptick and like gun registrations has been coming
Speaker 1: from the left both sides. Yeah, but especially like they'll
Speaker 1: exponentially people in the left or was like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I guess I need to be able to clap
Speaker 1: somebody if it goes down. Um, but like it's definitely, um,
Speaker 1: the tension is there. I don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to be like door to door neighbor versus neighbor or
Speaker 1: more like these things where you see these groups like
Speaker 1: Patriot Front who like their chat logs just came like
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed released some of their chat logs or they're talking
Speaker 1: about like we have to prepare for violence, uh, no
Speaker 1: matter who wins, and like they're they're groups like that
Speaker 1: that are organized who aren't even aligned with the left
Speaker 1: or the right. They're purely there for like the establishment
Speaker 1: of or just re establishing the United States as an
Speaker 1: ethno state. Um. And why are they going to just
Speaker 1: fight against local governments? Is it like that what we're
Speaker 1: seeing with Gretchen Whittmer where people are going to just
Speaker 1: go after very specifically politically It's who knows. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like the sheriff, there was a local sheriff who was
Speaker 1: on board with the Gretchen Whitmer thing, and like that
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I think that the degree to which
Speaker 1: the police are ready to enact violence, not just on
Speaker 1: people who are protesting, but just ready to do it
Speaker 1: because they feel like they're being attacked, is someone underrated.
Speaker 1: But the BuzzFeed article about these two experts does end
Speaker 1: on sort of a hopeful note because they said that
Speaker 1: America was going through a very similar thing in the
Speaker 1: twenties into the thirties, as like a lot of Europe
Speaker 1: was sliding into fascism, the US was flirting with fascism.
Speaker 1: A lot of like Hitler's ideas came from the US.
Speaker 1: But then the US elected FDR, and you know, he
Speaker 1: was able to enact like kind of socialist policies that
Speaker 1: I I do think, like what to your point, Miles,
Speaker 1: like that if everybody just understands, oh, it's like the
Speaker 1: inequality is what's causing all of this, and inequality can
Speaker 1: be addressed, then I think we're back on the right path.
Speaker 1: But this means believing Biden is our new FDR, or
Speaker 1: at least he he can hold things off until the
Speaker 1: new FDR comes along, or or really it's about putting
Speaker 1: pressure on him constantly if he's elected, so he can
Speaker 1: cave to the progressive wing because the progressives are more
Speaker 1: mobilized to try and get out there there, you know,
Speaker 1: like like limousine. Liberal class people are not hitting the
Speaker 1: streets because their needs are fully met. But there are
Speaker 1: so many people who are realizing what the stakes are
Speaker 1: in this country and what the pathway there, which is refreshing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it all depends on if you know, it's
Speaker 1: just about these competing explanations for your disenfranchisement or your
Speaker 1: lack of opportunity. And I think some people who are
Speaker 1: progressive can see that there's a very the way this
Speaker 1: country is set up is meant to benefit a very
Speaker 1: small number of people while having the rest suffer. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people on the right are
Speaker 1: sort of disconnected from that reality. They just see suffering
Speaker 1: or lack of opportunity without wanting to explore it much
Speaker 1: further and just say, voice, I trust, what's the explanation.
Speaker 1: And it seems like even now, like those explanations are
Speaker 1: they're like wearing thin a bit, you know, like they're
Speaker 1: not they're not as captivating as ship used to be
Speaker 1: when you can be like it's the damn immigrants, Like
Speaker 1: that's kind of like dwindling to like that's not as
Speaker 1: like oh right, because you can even tell like when
Speaker 1: Trump even says that he's even tired of being like
Speaker 1: and you know, these people come here and they don't
Speaker 1: pay taxes and uh so they're a drain what else
Speaker 1: spidering like right, yeah, because I think like racism can
Speaker 1: only explain ship to a certain point, like where you know,
Speaker 1: because racism isn't like a logical thing, like it can't
Speaker 1: it's hard to really explain. Yeah, it's like how do
Speaker 1: I make that jump though? It's like a Disney character,
Speaker 1: It's like we're okay, oh yes, my racist, I'll open
Speaker 1: my racist heart to the possibility that this nonsensical explanation
Speaker 1: is how I will better in my life. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when people's needs are met, they're less likely to look
Speaker 1: around in anger at people around them. I think that's
Speaker 1: the bottom line to your point about like the thing
Speaker 1: that can save people is have people's needs met. If
Speaker 1: you are not starving, you're less likely to be trying
Speaker 1: to figure out a solution to that that could end
Speaker 1: in violence. Or if you need employment, or other opportunities
Speaker 1: for upward mobility. Um, so yeah, who knows, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: see you. You just gotta wait for Alec. Don't forget
Speaker 1: what's his name, Robinette Joe Robinette Biden, Yeah, j RB.
Speaker 1: Don't watch The Carry Washington Anita Hill movie, or your
Speaker 1: belief in Biden goes down. Yeo, I mean I think
Speaker 1: most people who Yeah, you can also just read the
Speaker 1: real history, but you could also watch the Carry Washington
Speaker 1: and need a Hill movie about it and it'll go
Speaker 1: down a little easier, right. Uh, But to that point,
Speaker 1: FDR was also a racists like socialite, so um, you
Speaker 1: know people can still enact internment caps policies, policies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's America, you know what I mean, and spurs. We're
Speaker 1: seeing it, and yet we're still like, yeah, man, this
Speaker 1: thing could work, I think so I wh Yes, there's
Speaker 1: articles uh from like I just having to come across
Speaker 1: this like Irish article from like the Irish Times or
Speaker 1: what one of their newspapers where they're like everybody's worried
Speaker 1: about this election. They're just like, yo, what is to
Speaker 1: these fuckers? Like they who? Because yeah, suddenly you found
Speaker 1: out the nicest house on the block was had a
Speaker 1: bunch of all racist hoarders living inside, and the garbage
Speaker 1: is spilling out into the neighborhood, and you're like, what
Speaker 1: the funk? I thought that house had all their ship
Speaker 1: they were the ones going around calling people out on
Speaker 1: their ship. Look at all this bullshit spilling out the
Speaker 1: front door. They don't even know how to Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then I think a lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, we believe that bullshit too. To a
Speaker 1: certain extent, I feel like it has to feel so good,
Speaker 1: like it's it's like going if you went into the
Speaker 1: Kardashian house and it was just full of rotting garbage,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, tight, I'm so happy about that. That's
Speaker 1: that's what's everyone's experiencing now. Yeah, it's that Michael Jackson
Speaker 1: eating popcorn gift over and over again. Just yeah, from
Speaker 1: around the world, or I'm just I'm sure at a
Speaker 1: certain level it folks with your whole like worldview, Like
Speaker 1: if you were buying into like the media propaganda that
Speaker 1: was being pumped out of the US for decades that
Speaker 1: you're like, dude, America is like this dope ass place, man,
Speaker 1: where it's all good and to a certain extent. I mean,
Speaker 1: depending on who you are in this country, you have
Speaker 1: been experiencing some semblance of a civil war with a
Speaker 1: constant assault on your existence. So it's that's why I like,
Speaker 1: when I look at this, I'm like, honestly, though there
Speaker 1: are people out here who really are this, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much worse it could get. I guess the
Speaker 1: difference being some stranger is shooting them in the street
Speaker 1: or something. But for all intents and purposes, they have
Speaker 1: no support from you know, the municipalities, from the communities
Speaker 1: and things like that, from the fucking law enforcement, whatever
Speaker 1: you wanna call it. So it's all. It all depends
Speaker 1: on how you're looking at it. It's like when people
Speaker 1: say they're like, who's to say that? Like, if you
Speaker 1: say there's no hell, who's to say that this isn't hell?
Speaker 1: Right now? Yeah? That is my favorite Instagram quote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do that cursive but with that lovely cursive fun on
Speaker 1: like fake parchment core, Who's to say this isn't Who's
Speaker 1: to say this isn't hell? Live laugh, scream, just like
Speaker 1: live laugh, civil war, live laugh. Register for a gun,
Speaker 1: even if you're a Democrat. The New York Times recently
Speaker 1: reported on a story that we've been checking in with.
Speaker 1: I thought I had my mind made years now, for years,
Speaker 1: literally years. We're three years into this motherfucker. Um. So,
Speaker 1: when the Trump administration first started, there were accounts of
Speaker 1: CIA agents and diplomats working in Cuba getting attacked by
Speaker 1: these like sound weapons. They would like get out of bed,
Speaker 1: suddenly a beam of sound would hit them and they
Speaker 1: would have concussions concussion like symptoms, and it was wild story.
Speaker 1: People were like, they're using like sci fi weapons on Americans.
Speaker 1: But then like as it went on, like the symptoms
Speaker 1: were so vague and they all overlapped with like symptoms
Speaker 1: of aging. It was like my hearing is worse and
Speaker 1: my balance is worse, and it just had a lot
Speaker 1: of the hallmarks of mass hysteria. The other reason that
Speaker 1: it had the hallmarks of mass hysteria is the broader
Speaker 1: context was the Trump administration wanted to pull people out
Speaker 1: of Cuba because they wanted to just withdraw and do
Speaker 1: away with all the all the progress that the Obama
Speaker 1: administration had made in Cuba. So there's new information that
Speaker 1: is putting a shred of doubt into my thinking on that.
Speaker 1: That is what what was happening, because they're saying that
Speaker 1: there have been these attacks throughout the world, including in Russia,
Speaker 1: UM and in China. And I knew that there had
Speaker 1: been some in China around the same time. I thought
Speaker 1: it was all part of like a similar Like once
Speaker 1: they heard what was happening in Cuba, they were like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: maybe the same thing is happening to me get in
Speaker 1: on this. Yeah, but there's also people who were attacked
Speaker 1: in Russia. Uh, like they got out of bed in
Speaker 1: their hotel and suddenly like they had a concussion, even
Speaker 1: though nothing had happened to them. So now these c
Speaker 1: I agents who were attacked or like pointing out that
Speaker 1: there is a pretty clear theory that you could come
Speaker 1: to that this is all Russia, that Russia is doing
Speaker 1: it in Cuba because they don't want American Cuban relations
Speaker 1: to improve. Uh. They did it to see I agents
Speaker 1: who were undercover in Russia. Um, they did it to
Speaker 1: people in China because they don't want American Chinese relations
Speaker 1: get to go well. And the Trump administration is actually
Speaker 1: ignoring it everywhere that's not Cuba, because the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: you know, like just does not want to have have
Speaker 1: negative interactions with Russia with regards to any any mistreating
Speaker 1: of American you know, it would be of a piece
Speaker 1: with um, you know, the Trump administration ignoring the fact
Speaker 1: that Vladimir Putin and Russia was putting bounties out on
Speaker 1: them on US soldiers. So you're saying you're moving from
Speaker 1: the mass hysteria column because before you were firmly I
Speaker 1: believe that, Like when this story first came out, I
Speaker 1: remember you bringing up a lot of other sort of
Speaker 1: mass hysteria things that had gone on where people were
Speaker 1: all believing something was going on. And now you are
Speaker 1: at She's being like, all right, maybe it's microwave weapons.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's microwave weapons from Russia. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I've always said I'm I'm open to like being
Speaker 1: convinced either way. I think it's it's just a super
Speaker 1: interesting mystery. I think the way that the human mind
Speaker 1: can create these mass hyster areas that are in fact
Speaker 1: like become physical is really fascinating. That's a super interesting subject.
Speaker 1: It happens all the time. It's more common and more devastating,
Speaker 1: more powerful than anybody than people usually give it credit for.
Speaker 1: But I also think that there's now, you know, context
Speaker 1: that makes it possible that you know, the reason we
Speaker 1: only had the Cuba like details on the Cuba thing
Speaker 1: was because the Trump administration is covering for Russia to
Speaker 1: try and you know, keep things quiet because Trump is
Speaker 1: homies with Putin. I had not heard of this. This
Speaker 1: is very interesting. Microwave weapons. Wow, super interesting. I'm just
Speaker 1: going from pretty firmly in the this is hysteria camp
Speaker 1: to having one foot that like, I'd be perfectly willing
Speaker 1: to believe that it's hysteria and one foot in the uh.
Speaker 1: It would also make sense to me if Trump was
Speaker 1: covering up for a bunch of Russian attacks, because that
Speaker 1: just seems to be what he does. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was willing to ignore you know, bounties, one straight
Speaker 1: up bounties on US troops. How does that? That's another Like,
Speaker 1: the more distance I have from the final debate, the
Speaker 1: more I'm like, there's so many things that they could
Speaker 1: have brought up that I was just thinking, Like he
Speaker 1: didn't bring up the bounties. He didn't bring up he didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they just democrats just get themselves, like they triangulate
Speaker 1: themselves into a corner. Where they just like think that
Speaker 1: they have to be you know, delicate and balanced and
Speaker 1: um careful about their wording, and it's like, no, just
Speaker 1: say the thing you think. And I think if Biden
Speaker 1: had brought up market wave weapons and a debate, I
Speaker 1: think everybody would be like paying attention all those undecided
Speaker 1: like what what do my mind? So, yeah, this lost
Speaker 1: opportunity right there. Yeah, I wonder if it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all time wasted on fracking. And it's like so
Speaker 1: funny how they there's all this concern about there's no
Speaker 1: middle class and da da, and yet you you know, mathematically,
Speaker 1: if you started talking about things like minimum wage or
Speaker 1: the working class, you're immediately going from a topic that
Speaker 1: maybe only effects like the people directly involved with fracking
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania two millions of Americans across the entire country.
Speaker 1: Because then you're like, oh, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: fun fracking is, but you start maybe we can talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about this minimum wage and how
Speaker 1: even fifteen dollars isn't actually a living wage either, and
Speaker 1: maybe we could talk a little bit more about that,
Speaker 1: because I don't think there's any person unless you're such
Speaker 1: a craven racist, which means you're like a Trump supporter
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be like, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: about how minimum wage should be more money so people
Speaker 1: could actually like raise a family on that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear about, Like what the what? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember when my my mom would say, like in the seventies,
Speaker 1: they would have my she and my dad would have
Speaker 1: like these random jobs like minimum wage, but like you
Speaker 1: can they pay their apartment, they got groceries, they were
Speaker 1: able to, you know, have a family, like all those
Speaker 1: things that minimum wage used to do. And now it's
Speaker 1: it's nothing. You can't sustain life. So I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know why you like people just seem to forget
Speaker 1: what that used to bring. Uh you know what that
Speaker 1: used to mean for a family, right, it would seem
Speaker 1: like being the party that cares about people and that
Speaker 1: once uh the once the majority of people to have
Speaker 1: a have a living wage, like all the people who
Speaker 1: are being left behind like that, they would be the
Speaker 1: party that wouldn't have to carefully choose every word and
Speaker 1: like use political speak. But the Democrats that feel like
Speaker 1: can't get out of their own way a lot of
Speaker 1: the time, I mean, forty two percent of Americans make
Speaker 1: under fifteen fifteen dollars an hour, So just what you
Speaker 1: could you go from a wedge issue niche niche wedge issue,
Speaker 1: you're talking about fracking, and you start talking about minimum
Speaker 1: wage a little bit more, talking about hey, people understand
Speaker 1: the pandemics hard. I understand you might have a child.
Speaker 1: You know, actually you should probably be making at least
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars an hour if you are a single
Speaker 1: parent trying to survive in a metropolitan area. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's all this whatever. I mean, I think that's
Speaker 1: I think that's because both parties are just so ill
Speaker 1: equipped to begin talking about those issues because they all
Speaker 1: all those roads ed back to the donor class that
Speaker 1: actually need to be taxed more uh and need to
Speaker 1: be earning like making less profit. So it's just always about,
Speaker 1: you know, let's talk about minimum wage and then we'll
Speaker 1: just leave it there and then have arguments over like
Speaker 1: what's what what a relative living wages based on where
Speaker 1: you live in the country, rather than like addressing the
Speaker 1: need of Americans to be able to live in a
Speaker 1: way that their labor is uh compensated in a in
Speaker 1: a you know, proportional manner, proportionate manner. Yeah, right, Like
Speaker 1: they haven't raised the minimum wage in eleven years. That's
Speaker 1: never happened since it was first established. Congress has never
Speaker 1: let it go and change for so long. Like, how
Speaker 1: how do you not just like be like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: this is this is the problem. We will change. This
Speaker 1: guy hasn't and refuses to and is just focused on
Speaker 1: the stock market. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and let's do
Speaker 1: a little brain bleach news before we get back into
Speaker 1: some election bullshit. Quick breath of fresh air. Mind is
Speaker 1: giving away tomato blood ketchup via TikTok. That's a headline
Speaker 1: on the tap that's also a sentence that's definitely never
Speaker 1: been said before. That's I mean, like, that's the most
Speaker 1: twenty headline that is not a doom based headline, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like normally you're like, like, is
Speaker 1: your vote transforming into a wuhan bat and biting your
Speaker 1: elderly relatives? I would also be like, guess that sounds
Speaker 1: like headline, but this the idea of yes, pretty self explanatory.
Speaker 1: Hines rebranding Ketchup as tomato blood and using TikTok to
Speaker 1: get the buying of gen Z, and I was just
Speaker 1: I mean the bottle. Look, I'm not gonna lie. The
Speaker 1: bottle looks cool. I actually prefer the tomato blood aesthetic
Speaker 1: than our typical catchup thing. But they're not like thinning
Speaker 1: the catchup or anything. It's actual blood consistency. I would imagine, Well,
Speaker 1: I would have to check that out as opposed to
Speaker 1: just being a label like who knows could you handle
Speaker 1: if it was less viscous but had the same flavor,
Speaker 1: if it was the consistency of like Cholula. Yeah, Chula
Speaker 1: is kind of a viscous but not quite like thick,
Speaker 1: you know, putting thick as catchup is yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what. The one thing I think about is like
Speaker 1: this is such a non controversial thing or it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: tomato but cool Hines, Like what would happen if Hines
Speaker 1: got political? You know what I mean? Because they're such
Speaker 1: an American brand, like you could be racist as fuck
Speaker 1: or you know, so left that you're you fucking left earth. Uh.
Speaker 1: That like like Hinz is just accepted as like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's catch up here, that's catch up. Straight up
Speaker 1: and down the middle that if they were like instead
Speaker 1: of tomato blood, they're like, what about this fall laborer blood?
Speaker 1: To bring awareness to the disposable attitudes we have towards
Speaker 1: certain occupations in the pandemic, Like would Republicans full room?
Speaker 1: They have to they have to go hunts Like that's
Speaker 1: like I feel like they have a line. I feel
Speaker 1: I do feel like that would be the one brand
Speaker 1: that they would go. I mean, we can't, we can't
Speaker 1: do that. Come on, but could they? But what if
Speaker 1: you were instead of Nikes? But come on, man, I
Speaker 1: got I can't There is there a brand that could
Speaker 1: get political and America like conservatives would really have trouble
Speaker 1: being like I can't fucking put that down? But why
Speaker 1: is there that down? Bud heavy bud? Yeah, they'd probably
Speaker 1: just switch over coffee. They don't give a funk about um,
Speaker 1: Like and I'm sure if it was there's enough truckmaker
Speaker 1: that you could just pivot from one truck company the
Speaker 1: other one. But I would like like Ford and yeah,
Speaker 1: you would need like Chevy Dodge and four like a
Speaker 1: mecca like yeah, negas word like rock and they're showing
Speaker 1: like immigrant workers, you know what? I mean who are
Speaker 1: actually doing the hard work in this country and being
Speaker 1: like to the real workers of this country. We salute you,
Speaker 1: like we're spending more money to like into programs for
Speaker 1: job security and trade school for people for a better
Speaker 1: tomorrow then, because I know, like people truck people are loyalist.
Speaker 1: Fuck you know what I mean, like truck I know
Speaker 1: people like especially like a Silverado stuff. I know some
Speaker 1: people who's like their dads are Silverado people and their
Speaker 1: kids are Silverado people, and they still just have this thing.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I'm just I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: create a bad time for consumers who like Coke v Pepsi.
Speaker 1: I feel like that that would be the switch. How
Speaker 1: that How would that look in Georgia? Though? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: if if Coke got super woke Coke, I hope they're
Speaker 1: listening and like scribbling down some ideas because some of
Speaker 1: that shouldn't stop. Okay, that's the actually need to do.
Speaker 1: It was stock numbers rather than Coke zero. How about
Speaker 1: woke heroes? Coke zero salutes the woke heroes? Could you
Speaker 1: get could you put down? Do you like Pepsi more
Speaker 1: than Coke? Are you coke? Pepsi? People? Does it matter
Speaker 1: to you. That's all the same to me. Yeah, kind yeah,
Speaker 1: if if there's anything I'd like, No, I'm the only
Speaker 1: pepsi in that pepsi. Like, if there's pepsi at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: there's a better chance that it's gonna have mountain dew.
Speaker 1: That's that's only. That's that's when your eyes light up. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know what I just thought of if the opposite happened.
Speaker 1: It's like candy corn or something like terrible that everyone
Speaker 1: hates came out as like hating Muslims and all the
Speaker 1: likely and you're find like, you know what, I could
Speaker 1: mean this more, but keep that, go ahead, keep that one.
Speaker 1: That's for you. Didn't need that. We're talking crabmaga. Does
Speaker 1: that happen? Yeah. The Israeli self defense system where the
Speaker 1: it's the most you know, like when you can take
Speaker 1: a class there. I just remember it's all these former
Speaker 1: i DF dudes, goons who are like just work as
Speaker 1: bouncers in l A now and like they're in their
Speaker 1: off time. They they're like being like, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach you, Okay, every fucking thing, every context
Speaker 1: of like a self defense set up. The dude was
Speaker 1: describing assault like he'd be like, you know, okay, So
Speaker 1: this next one, he's like, hey, come here, bro. So
Speaker 1: let's say you with your girlfriend out and this guy's
Speaker 1: talking ship. He wants to kiss your girlfriend or something.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna walk up to him and you're gonna
Speaker 1: get them like and you're like, whoa, what is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, and none of these is a
Speaker 1: thing happening where someone is confronting me. It's you're saying
Speaker 1: I'm someone every time that every situation was like maybe
Speaker 1: this guy is talking ship to you, like would be
Speaker 1: the start of how you would break out of a choke.
Speaker 1: And you're like, what is any of this ding that?
Speaker 1: That's the that's the prof got class I took that
Speaker 1: I was telling you guys about. Was it they were
Speaker 1: they really raising the stakes in your class? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because it was for women and it was sort of
Speaker 1: like krafmaga will save you from your sexual assault that
Speaker 1: is faded in your life. This is you're going to
Speaker 1: get out of it. And so they'd be like here
Speaker 1: I am, I'm coming in for the rape. What are
Speaker 1: you do? And you're like now for real or like um, yeah,
Speaker 1: But what I realized in that class was that I've
Speaker 1: got about seventeen minutes in me before I'm done. Like
Speaker 1: they'd be like run around the room, throw some punches,
Speaker 1: and at seventeen minutes, I was like I can't. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I won't until you still have to work on the pluck.
Speaker 1: The pluck. This is what happens if someone chokes you
Speaker 1: from the front. Here you're nine blocks against knife attacks whatever.
Speaker 1: They all remember I had to do all those things.
Speaker 1: That was all when I was a very angry teenager. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to learn how some men never
Speaker 1: become not angry teenagers. No, yeah, they become self defense
Speaker 1: teachers exactly. Um, shout out to therapy, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, that's the other's the other path. No
Speaker 1: longer I no longer need physical violence to express myself.
Speaker 1: I just heard. I think it was on my favorite
Speaker 1: murder that U one of the like pressure points you
Speaker 1: can use when defending yourself is like reaching into your
Speaker 1: assailants mouth and pushing like under their tongue. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: which that that seems like you would lose, there's really here,
Speaker 1: And then behind your jaw you do these fingers screw
Speaker 1: the type things behind your job bone you can get
Speaker 1: if somebody in a finger hold like this and you
Speaker 1: press up on their index finger, you could fucking do
Speaker 1: some Steven seig ship to somebody like, oh, welcome tows
Speaker 1: agro corner from two thousand two. Can I take your
Speaker 1: self defense class for ladies? Now? Yeah, that's just so
Speaker 1: chill though, it's like ineffective because I'm like, I've turned
Speaker 1: a corner. I'm like, you know, honestly, like it's just
Speaker 1: about like surrounding yourself with awesome people. It's the best defense.
Speaker 1: But will you be able to forgive you yourself? All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeit. Guys,
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