Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of mid
Speaker 1: term elect trend Results AKA I took what to pole
Speaker 1: trend um, that's what that's what called if it was
Speaker 1: an election result. But we will we will talk about
Speaker 1: poland you will explain it to me or not. Let's
Speaker 1: just let it be a mystery, you know. Anyways, the
Speaker 1: mid terms. This is our first episode since the mid
Speaker 1: terms results came in. Um. Yeah, we just don't know technically,
Speaker 1: quite literally what the balance is going to be of
Speaker 1: the House or Senate as of this time. A lot
Speaker 1: of races too close to call. Dr Oz though that
Speaker 1: was a big l he took. We do not exist
Speaker 1: in the timeline in the Schroedeger's Cat timeline where the
Speaker 1: Doctor Oz is alive inside the box. Doctor Oz is
Speaker 1: no longer and we'll cover this on the main episode tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but I do just want to give you all this
Speaker 1: little audio feast to nibble on. As Fox News was
Speaker 1: trying to understand why did doctor Oz lose when it
Speaker 1: comes to the state of Pennsylvania. Why did Doctor Oz loose? Well,
Speaker 1: it looks like according to the exit polling, it's because
Speaker 1: federman one. Yeah, damn, I don't know. They we're gonna
Speaker 1: dig that deep into the number. God is okay, but
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's a lot there. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot to take from the election, like whether that's
Speaker 1: you know, people understanding what kind of existential threats existed
Speaker 1: and they voted accordingly. Yeah, I mean, people aren't as
Speaker 1: stupid as the mainstream media wants you to believe a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, and preserving bodily autonomy is a
Speaker 1: winning issue, it turns out in a lot of cases, um,
Speaker 1: and preserving democracy and repudiation of like que mega bullshit
Speaker 1: seems to also a winning issue, or at least not
Speaker 1: uh you know, it's not a losing it. It's not
Speaker 1: a thing where like, okay, the Republicans bring a bunch
Speaker 1: of to election results doubting people into statewide elections and
Speaker 1: and just like ride the Trump wave, that does not
Speaker 1: appear to be the case to be diminishing returns on
Speaker 1: the whole. Whatever Trump's ego tells us to say is
Speaker 1: what we say. Yeah, I know, there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of head scratching going on, especially again
Speaker 1: for Trump, who, like I think most if not all
Speaker 1: of his picks just completely nose dived at the end there.
Speaker 1: So this will be very interesting to see how this
Speaker 1: affects the presidential nomination for the Republicans, because everybody's like
Speaker 1: finger pointing on the New York Post or Fox or
Speaker 1: whatever is saying it's a guy from Trafalgars fucking pulling
Speaker 1: or it's fucking Rump and his whatever. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: the other side of it is like, but Rhonda Santis
Speaker 1: one with like twenty percent king, Yeah, definitely a lot
Speaker 1: of eyes, a lot of flirty eyes being made at
Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis from the you know, right wing media apparatus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to the point that they're they're even saying,
Speaker 1: like will Trump even announced on this coming Tuesday, like
Speaker 1: he had planned because this is the weakest he's ever
Speaker 1: looked after after these mid terms, And like Laura Trump
Speaker 1: was on fucking Fox last night. She was truly doing that.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't punch a man with glasses, would you come
Speaker 1: by like trying to contend with Like, Yo, that was
Speaker 1: a big al. I just wanted to play this, but
Speaker 1: she's like, we're ready for Donald Trump, right, folks, this
Speaker 1: is her last night, and do we need to change
Speaker 1: course and we need to do it quickly? So I
Speaker 1: think if there's ever a time people are ready for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to come back, it could be right now.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens on Tuesday. Um yeah, that was
Speaker 1: after the result. I think that was like as they
Speaker 1: were coming in. Yeah, I mean it seemed like the
Speaker 1: candidates who could position themselves as outside of the like
Speaker 1: business as usual, seemed to do pretty well. Like Fetterman
Speaker 1: definitely not your usual candidate from like having policies that
Speaker 1: he returned to repeatedly that seemed to be focused on
Speaker 1: people's lives, to his style that he brought definitely outside
Speaker 1: of the mainstream, and it just remains to be. In
Speaker 1: l A, there were a lot of local wins. Former
Speaker 1: guest Ugo Social Martinez seems like he's probably gonna win.
Speaker 1: But it really remains to be seen whether the democratic
Speaker 1: mainstream media polster side is going to be like so
Speaker 1: actually like do stuff for people seems to be you know,
Speaker 1: actually talked to people about real issues instead of buying
Speaker 1: into bullshit media narratives. Um, well, we'll see if they
Speaker 1: actually learned that lesson, I could just as easily see, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, an outcome where they're like, well, Oprah endorsed Fetterman.
Speaker 1: So that's what that's what did it for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're the most patronizing, a bunch of clowns over there
Speaker 1: who act like they know better than the people who
Speaker 1: are living their actual lives on this in this country.
Speaker 1: Um so I'm sure there'll be a way to kind
Speaker 1: of dismiss it entirely. But again, you know, uh, I
Speaker 1: think for most people who may have just like been
Speaker 1: reading the news and like it's a red wave, probably
Speaker 1: woke up to good news. But I think, honestly, for
Speaker 1: how fucking craving the GOP is, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: probably could have fucking kept some majorities, to be honest,
Speaker 1: if you really put the pedal to the metal and
Speaker 1: try to, you know, win some of these races rather
Speaker 1: than like dumping a ton of money and like these
Speaker 1: you know states where there wasn't really a chance, like Florida.
Speaker 1: But again, uh, that's why I don't work in politics anymore,
Speaker 1: and I'm over here player hating from the sidelines. But
Speaker 1: it does seem like one of the narratives I'm seeing
Speaker 1: is that it's it wasn't the Republicans even made electoral gains.
Speaker 1: What happened is that this was like a win. All
Speaker 1: their pickups were like Jerrymander districts, or most of their
Speaker 1: pickups were Jerrymander districts. So they just played the game
Speaker 1: and cheated at the game and got away with it
Speaker 1: better than we did. Is the winning talking point that
Speaker 1: mainstream Democrats seem to think it is. Yeah, I do
Speaker 1: want to shout out, you know, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of places where, like at the like state legislature level,
Speaker 1: there were some significant changes like Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin prevented
Speaker 1: like a supermajority for Republicans. So it also shows to like,
Speaker 1: even at those smaller races, people are like actually connecting
Speaker 1: you know, like party platforms with what their votes might
Speaker 1: look like within the state, especially with so many people
Speaker 1: like the rallying cry being like, oh man, I gotta
Speaker 1: kick it to the states, gotta kick it to the
Speaker 1: states where it's all ghouls. So yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna seem somewhat confusing because there's going to
Speaker 1: be like big wins for you know, right leaning people
Speaker 1: like Caruso. That race is still too close to call,
Speaker 1: but like Caruso seems to be doing pretty strong in
Speaker 1: the l A mayoral race, and he's just like a
Speaker 1: billionaire who you know, wants to use police funding to
Speaker 1: address homelessness as opposed to you know, actually preventative preventative stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: but I do think the idea of if you're able
Speaker 1: to say I'm not part of that status quo, the
Speaker 1: like Democratic Party that is like run by Wall Street,
Speaker 1: the Republican Party that is run by Wall Street, and
Speaker 1: also I'm not outside of the status quo, and believing
Speaker 1: in Q and on like the those are the two
Speaker 1: things that seemed to perform. Being outside of the establishment
Speaker 1: and also not being Q and on uh seemed to
Speaker 1: be the be the big prevailing wind. But we'll see,
Speaker 1: because who knows how it's going to be spun or
Speaker 1: even like the results are still early stages. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see what happens. Because look, even if
Speaker 1: the Republicans get a majority, yeah, it's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 1: It's also going to be a weird one too, because
Speaker 1: if they don't have a huge advantage, like trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who's like going to lead them in the
Speaker 1: house is also going to be a weird knife fight
Speaker 1: that I'm I don't know. So one day at a time.
Speaker 1: But you know, as it stands, things are still a
Speaker 1: bit up in the air, but you know they're there
Speaker 1: was definitely not a red wave. Yeah. Um. According to
Speaker 1: inside sources, Donald Trump is livid and screaming at everyone
Speaker 1: over Tuesday night's midterm results. That's what a Trump advisor
Speaker 1: told Jim Acosta. He he is taken the l Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knows. I mean, you can't look at that like
Speaker 1: when all your picks they fucking lost except for Walker, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I think is gonna look like a run off runoff.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh and then imagine right. That's the other fear
Speaker 1: is if Trump announces his candidacy in between the runoff,
Speaker 1: like now in the runoff, that could that could harm
Speaker 1: herschell Walker. But Trump also not announcing on his predicted timeline,
Speaker 1: which was created with the idea that he was going
Speaker 1: to be like riding a wave to his announcement. Like,
Speaker 1: not announcing on that would be humiliating to him, to
Speaker 1: his like very fragile ego. So that's also, I don't know,
Speaker 1: an interesting angle that's in prayers to that man's ego.
Speaker 1: I do like that they're saying they were all bad candidates.
Speaker 1: Candidates matter because um. Hopefully they continue to double down
Speaker 1: on the MAGA ship that people seem to be reacting
Speaker 1: badly too. Hopefully they're like, no, it was just these
Speaker 1: people particularly who were bad at the message that they
Speaker 1: all had the same message, and not the fact that
Speaker 1: our party has worked to assist radically dismantled people's rights
Speaker 1: to healthcare and rights to bodily autonomy. Not that could
Speaker 1: be no, no, but I mean, look, it's it shows
Speaker 1: like now, I'm like, I'm gonna believe Mitch McConnell when
Speaker 1: he tells donors we have a candidate quality problem, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess he was saying in the summer
Speaker 1: and people like, we'll see. But I think that was
Speaker 1: him being like, look, I'm a fucking ghoul. I know
Speaker 1: how this. I know how to fucking win a competitive race,
Speaker 1: and just parading out a sentient conspiracy theory in the
Speaker 1: shape of a human is not going to actually win.
Speaker 1: But one thing that seems to have changed is like
Speaker 1: the the idea that young people don't vote. Gen Z
Speaker 1: turned out and voted a lot, and so I think
Speaker 1: hopefully like the one way that could go is just
Speaker 1: people start respecting the values and political leanings of gen Z,
Speaker 1: which seemed to be like much more socialist than anything
Speaker 1: that America has seen before. I think this will also
Speaker 1: be the most popular genre of bulls bullshit news story,
Speaker 1: which is like analyzing, like what what's different about gen Z?
Speaker 1: Why did they turn out? And the answers the same
Speaker 1: same way they were looking at us, like what is
Speaker 1: it about millennials? We walked into a fucking just dead
Speaker 1: zone economically and have no access, no upward mobility. So
Speaker 1: we began we began questioning a lot of things. The
Speaker 1: world is ending. That's something new about this generation. The
Speaker 1: world is ending and they can see it with their eyes.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of gen Z kids who were
Speaker 1: kids watching their parents be stressed out about the meltdown
Speaker 1: of like the oh eight recession, and also being like
Speaker 1: this is fucked up and are asking questions. But again
Speaker 1: they're not like is it the policies of this country?
Speaker 1: M hm? What is it about? Oh, it must be
Speaker 1: Billie Eilish, Is it the policies of this country? Is
Speaker 1: it the assumptions that we make about politics and a
Speaker 1: reaction to the bullshit narratives that they see on the
Speaker 1: front page of our newspapers and news websites. The DNC
Speaker 1: can hire me, and I'll say, like, real, bro, I
Speaker 1: have a really easy litmus test that we can use
Speaker 1: for your candidates. If I say I took the walk
Speaker 1: to Poland, what does that mean to and then quick,
Speaker 1: thirty minutes ago, I would have been not a viable candidate.
Speaker 1: But I am currently a viable candidate, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to say I'm not gonna do what the you know
Speaker 1: pod save guys talk about look through your phone. Who
Speaker 1: do you know. I'm gonna look at your Spotify what
Speaker 1: we're listening to? That's what the fuck listen to? Old
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan? Come on, man, where's your turn up music? Anyway?
Speaker 1: But I think at the end of the day, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing too, is all the people who live
Speaker 1: at like forty foot altitude because of their installation due
Speaker 1: to socioeconomic status and things like that, are looking they
Speaker 1: I think they're unwilling to accept that they have no
Speaker 1: connection to the real world, and they're like, what the funk, Wow,
Speaker 1: what a wave these people get Like, yeah, motherfucker, people
Speaker 1: are suffering so and a lot of the times they're
Speaker 1: fed this thing of like we'll just get out and vote.
Speaker 1: That's not the only way we fix things, first of all.
Speaker 1: But there's just this like the head scratching from both
Speaker 1: sides was truly something. And again I think that's heartening
Speaker 1: to see, like people who are you know, believe in
Speaker 1: the status quo and defended to the end or like
Speaker 1: really like whoa, Okay, what the heck. Yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of unlearning that has to happen, and just
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, corporate machinery that would have
Speaker 1: to get on board with that un learning. And it
Speaker 1: hasn't always been a strong suit for the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: and the mainstream media. But we will see. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break, we'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And two stories about supposedly tech billionaires who don't know
Speaker 1: what the funk they're doing. So Meta just laid off
Speaker 1: eleven thousand people, which that's a lot of people. That's
Speaker 1: that sounds like a decent amount of your staff. They're
Speaker 1: all because you want to play video game skull and
Speaker 1: hope that people want to be as far away from
Speaker 1: humans as you do. Mm hmmm, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Somehow, I think the better idea than the
Speaker 1: metaverse right now is like human like legitimate human connection, right,
Speaker 1: like some technology where it's like have a conversation with
Speaker 1: other people and like, oh man, here's your legless fucking avatar.
Speaker 1: That's sweet, right, pretty sweet man, But I mean it
Speaker 1: says immersive. Um, it's a wild how much that that
Speaker 1: stock has plummeted, Like just we're talking about Jim Kramer,
Speaker 1: who's like, I don't know what's happened here, just a
Speaker 1: lot of bluster from the management. I think they lost
Speaker 1: eighty billion dollars a couple of weeks ago. And that's
Speaker 1: a lot of money. That's that is like enough to
Speaker 1: crash the economy of a of a lot of countries
Speaker 1: around the world. Um okay, I just so hard, such
Speaker 1: a big number. It just all feels make believe, But
Speaker 1: I'll believe you. Good luck. Mark. And then Elon Musk
Speaker 1: so like his whole big kind of um top priority
Speaker 1: when when he took over was like this verified idea,
Speaker 1: which was like, okay, so the one kind of currency
Speaker 1: for being official on Twitter is this check mark that
Speaker 1: we give out based on whether you're like a journalist
Speaker 1: or you know, I actually don't know because I've never
Speaker 1: been verified um, but there his idea was to just
Speaker 1: kind of start selling that, which would totally render it useless.
Speaker 1: It didn't it didn't make any sense like on the surface,
Speaker 1: and then none of the details of how he was
Speaker 1: planning to roll it out made it any more sense.
Speaker 1: But he was adamant that like we get this out,
Speaker 1: and we get this out quick. It started appearing. I
Speaker 1: saw it on my sidebar that like you could Twitter
Speaker 1: verified like click this to figure it out. And then
Speaker 1: there was like also supposed to be an additional official
Speaker 1: check mark by established account names, and that was already
Speaker 1: showing up, and then like it just disappeared again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, so there was the blue and then the
Speaker 1: official to say, because verification isn't that word is so
Speaker 1: fucking stupid verifying should you're verifying that somebody has eight
Speaker 1: dollars this month that's the most you can under this
Speaker 1: new model. That is all it verified. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: fucking identification. No, you're paying to lick this dude's boots.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's all you're fucking doing. And it's wild
Speaker 1: to see now like how much uh like it's you're
Speaker 1: already starting to see how it's all getting fucking wonky,
Speaker 1: like somebody verified like a Lebron James account was like,
Speaker 1: I'm requesting a trade, thanks a lot, like show part
Speaker 1: of me was like, okay, that's fair. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you man, thanks, thanks a lot for your service.
Speaker 1: But then again it was done off like it was
Speaker 1: sort of one of the bigger examples that I saw
Speaker 1: of like see what happens you put a checkmark by
Speaker 1: saying people breathlessly take it because I see the blue
Speaker 1: check mark. But apparently now there's like a thing you
Speaker 1: can do where you can actually like click on the
Speaker 1: person's verified thing and you can see that like oh,
Speaker 1: this person got they checked because they're a herb and
Speaker 1: they paid for Twitter blue. So there's that. But like
Speaker 1: there's already fucked up accounts like lives of TikTok or
Speaker 1: like at Gaze against Groomers or whatever the funk it
Speaker 1: is with verified check marks trying to again like all
Speaker 1: that does for the visual aesthetic of Twitter. I think
Speaker 1: like if you don't think critically, you're like this is
Speaker 1: legitimate now, yeah, And he just keeps saying about how
Speaker 1: the playing feels leveled. It's like, dude, no one isn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just creating additional computer Yeah, and all right, should
Speaker 1: we tell the people what taking the walk into Poland
Speaker 1: means or do we just let them find out for themselves?
Speaker 1: Miles take the walk. Look, if you took the walk
Speaker 1: to Poland, you know, okay? And if not, uh, maybe
Speaker 1: you haven't heard the new Little Yachti song. I think
Speaker 1: I talked about this on the show because somebody tagged
Speaker 1: me in a couple of Little Yachtie Poland's memes already.
Speaker 1: But it's just this fucking earworm with the most ridiculous
Speaker 1: chorus I've ever heard. We're a little White. He's just
Speaker 1: saying I took the walk to Poland. And he's not
Speaker 1: talking w A l K. He's not talking w okay,
Speaker 1: he's talking about the World War two. Okay, No, not
Speaker 1: blitz Creek okay. It's he's talking about a brand of
Speaker 1: fucking lean And it's just that he I guess he
Speaker 1: can't put the bottle down, so he took it with
Speaker 1: him to Poland. That's it. Yeah. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: like Hotline Bling and like some of those songs that
Speaker 1: are just like so simple and dumb that they just
Speaker 1: like sweep through the culture, and everybody's obsessed with it
Speaker 1: very briefly, except I think this one is undeniable and
Speaker 1: it's going to conquer the globe. You heard it here first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well, those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending on this Wednesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, get the booster, get your flu shot, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. Bye bye,