Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to sixty three,
Speaker 1: Episode three of DIR Day Lynce. It's a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio, and it's a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's also Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November six two, which of course means Miles November sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: National Past Food Day, National Button Day, nationally in the
Speaker 1: end of day, National Check your Wiper's Day, National Education
Speaker 1: Support Professionals Day. You know what I mean, check your
Speaker 1: wipers though, for real, man, those rains we had recently,
Speaker 1: it hadn't rained so long. I like the rubber had
Speaker 1: been destroyed in the summer heat. Like it just been
Speaker 1: cracked and flown off the wiper blade. So when I
Speaker 1: ran it, like the rubber just went floppy and it
Speaker 1: was just like smearing water all over my windshield down
Speaker 1: it becomes like a dried out earthworm. Like after exactly
Speaker 1: after a while. In Los Angeles, when I first as
Speaker 1: an East Coast transplant, when I first came out here,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, people out here do not how
Speaker 1: to know how to respond to rain like this. They
Speaker 1: drive so slow in the rain, and yeah, or faster,
Speaker 1: but but then it's necessary. It's warranted because so many
Speaker 1: things that work about you know, overcoming the rain when
Speaker 1: you're driving, or like there's just a fine film of
Speaker 1: dust on the ground at all times, and so the
Speaker 1: roads like turn into this like slimy mess. And yeah,
Speaker 1: windshield wipers like get wet once and then don't get
Speaker 1: wet for another six months and then they're just yeah,
Speaker 1: a little dried out carcasses. So check your wipers, check
Speaker 1: your wipers. Don't be caught smearing. Check your wipers exactly.
Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien, a K Potatoes O'Brien, and
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Speaker 1: And I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
Speaker 1: co host Mr Miles Gray. Miles Gray and Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: shout out to this dueling a k A from Johnny Davis.
Speaker 1: It's Miles Greg and Jock O'Brian because these are parents
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Speaker 1: Jocko Bryant. Yeah yeah, Mr Bryant, he sounds fantastic. Thanks
Speaker 1: Johnny on the disc Brian for that one. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's a great Jocko Bryant. That's probably how my dad
Speaker 1: would get my name wrong if he wasn't mind your own,
Speaker 1: even though it is his last name is, Like, there's
Speaker 1: that Jocko Briant, Jack Bryant kid. Anyways, Miles weird killed
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by a very
Speaker 1: funny comedium writer and actor you know from such places
Speaker 1: as TV doing stand up or acting in Heathers and Corporate,
Speaker 1: one of the funniest comedies of the past decade, which
Speaker 1: she also wrote for Please welcome back to the show page.
Speaker 1: Well thee oh my god, thank you so much, Thank
Speaker 1: you Paige for becoming here cracking up. I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: of all the actors Amazon my mom has gotten wrong
Speaker 1: over the years. I'll never forget. She would not stop saying.
Speaker 1: This is during you know, the height of popularity of
Speaker 1: that seventies show. She would say, Ashton Coucher, Aston Coocher,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the layers of of we've got asked,
Speaker 1: We've got coach. I mean, we're having so much fun there.
Speaker 1: And then there was a period also, I assume sort
Speaker 1: of in the same period of time she would always
Speaker 1: say Kelly Clarkston Clarkson, which is not a huge miss.
Speaker 1: It's not as bad as Ashton Coucher, but you know,
Speaker 1: those are better. I think when you're when you add
Speaker 1: a letter like it's like the height of misunderstanding a
Speaker 1: name more than wholesale like Ashton Coucher. I'm like, tell
Speaker 1: me more about this, Clarkston. Yeah, I'm sure there are more.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll come to me. And I'll shout them out
Speaker 1: throughout the podcast is underrated. Try adding teas to people's names,
Speaker 1: right does the very standard bread Pitts, which adding or
Speaker 1: taking away and was always fun. It sounds like a
Speaker 1: business here, but that Brad Pitt owns exactly belonging to Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: How are you doing, page, Where are you coming to
Speaker 1: us from? I'm here at home, you know, I'm um.
Speaker 1: This is in the wake of the delay of the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift pre sale this morning, so I'm actually feeling
Speaker 1: quite relaxed because I thought I had to worry about
Speaker 1: it all morning and now I'll worry about it at
Speaker 1: three pm. Yeah, you've delayed your slow death by a
Speaker 1: few hours. Yeah yeah. Wait are they going to just
Speaker 1: evaporate like instantly? I mean, like, I know obviously people
Speaker 1: go like on Twitter, I'm seeing people who like I follow,
Speaker 1: who live in Japan who are like, you want just
Speaker 1: like I'm ready to get these tickets? Is it like,
Speaker 1: how how if lee do you have to act when
Speaker 1: the tickets drop in order to obtain your seat? Like,
Speaker 1: is it like truly like in that moment? Or and
Speaker 1: then you have to go to the secondary market or
Speaker 1: there's there's time. It's just that the good seats go immediately.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to tell because like I have personally
Speaker 1: never been the one like making the purchase whenever I have,
Speaker 1: Like I went to the Reputation tour with Ellie mclevane,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, former guest of the Daily Sight guist and
Speaker 1: obviously host of What's your Favorite Taylor Swift Song? And
Speaker 1: she bought those tickets then, Like me and my friend
Speaker 1: Katie had tickets to the tour for Lover, which was
Speaker 1: of course canceled because it was supposed to be summer,
Speaker 1: and she had bought the tickets then and then throughout
Speaker 1: like since then, Taylor Swift has was gotten more popular
Speaker 1: and put out three albums plus her re records, so
Speaker 1: like the demand is higher. Yeah, and yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: but I'm feeling very peaceful knowing the it's not happening
Speaker 1: right now, nobody has, nobody has a ticket. You're not
Speaker 1: losing out. Well, may the May the Gods be with
Speaker 1: you on your journey for you. Well, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better at a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about we're gonna just, you know, look at some
Speaker 1: mainstream reads on what happened in the mid term election
Speaker 1: from the New York Times. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the GOP continuing to struggle with their identity as a
Speaker 1: Trump or not a Trump party. Are we still emo
Speaker 1: or not? And then we're gonna look at the Climate
Speaker 1: Summit that's happening that it is ending this week, and
Speaker 1: just a little kind of behind behind closed doors. There's
Speaker 1: the sort of big controversial things about the food and
Speaker 1: the sponsors, and then there's some things that are happening
Speaker 1: behind closed doors that feel like they should be more controversial.
Speaker 1: We will talk about all of that plenty more. But
Speaker 1: first page, we like to ask our guests, what is
Speaker 1: something from your search history? Okay, well, I was gonna
Speaker 1: say best seats so Fi Stadium, but I feel like
Speaker 1: that's just more of us talking about the same. But
Speaker 1: I also had recently googled Irish girls names, and that
Speaker 1: was because I was panicking at a show where I
Speaker 1: knew they were filming the sets. And I've been doing
Speaker 1: a joke where I say a real person's name, and
Speaker 1: I thought maybe I should come up with a different name.
Speaker 1: But it's just such a funny name to me. And
Speaker 1: I was in the back trying to come up with
Speaker 1: a fake name. And the problem with that stuff is
Speaker 1: it's the real example is always funnier, just like not possible,
Speaker 1: Like I wish I could. I'll share offline with you
Speaker 1: guys the name that I that is the true name
Speaker 1: of this real person. But I was like in the
Speaker 1: back being like, well, I can't say sirsha Everyone knows
Speaker 1: that name as Sir Sharonian Like right, I mean, and
Speaker 1: you know what, Van, I feel like that's your shift
Speaker 1: on succession. We're hearing that, you know what is it?
Speaker 1: But that is another iconic one, right, kind of a
Speaker 1: cool name. Yeah, this is more of like a the
Speaker 1: joke I do is I call her a white girl
Speaker 1: named after a pony, and I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like Shade is not a pony name. You know, is
Speaker 1: running that that whole operation for Shi. I feel like
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with a Mary to start it off,
Speaker 1: like Mary Sheila. Oh yeah, maybe a two partner name
Speaker 1: like Mary Sheila Callahan. Yeah, maybe I could make up
Speaker 1: a whole hand fake name with the Irish last name.
Speaker 1: It's funny how it's true, like truth and comedy is
Speaker 1: always like the thing you like one of the first
Speaker 1: things you really learn when you're getting into comedy. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like to your point, even if you try to engineer it,
Speaker 1: the fact, like you know, it's just funnier because it's
Speaker 1: coming from the absolute like well of truth and that
Speaker 1: probably translates immediately to the audience even know they're like,
Speaker 1: was that the person's real name? You think it's just
Speaker 1: like the delivery and everything it comes together. How did
Speaker 1: it go? What would you come up with? And did
Speaker 1: did it hit as hard with the fake name in there?
Speaker 1: I just said her real name. It's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: And it's like a thing where I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's they're going to put that part out online. It'll
Speaker 1: be fine, and you know what, if that girl finds out,
Speaker 1: I'd honestly be shocked. But I just I think sometimes
Speaker 1: once in comedy, when it's like there's something about a
Speaker 1: show that's not being filmed, where you go like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm technically speaking into a microphone to an audience. This
Speaker 1: is not private, but it feels different when you're filming
Speaker 1: and like posting something online and all that feels like
Speaker 1: a different level. I don't know, but yeah, the real,
Speaker 1: the real example is always the funniest just is, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's something you think is overrated? Okay? I always struggle
Speaker 1: with this when I come on here because I don't
Speaker 1: want to yuck anybody's young, you know. I I I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it though, and this is sort of
Speaker 1: like a meta, maybe annoying response, But I do think
Speaker 1: actually like rating things and rankings is kind of overrated
Speaker 1: because for that exact reason, which is so uh, it's
Speaker 1: so subjective, you know, Like I think it's fun to
Speaker 1: rank things if like the three of us were like, okay,
Speaker 1: what's your top five favorite movies and then we could
Speaker 1: talk about it. So often it's like an article that's
Speaker 1: like the best movies of all time objectively, and it's like, Noah,
Speaker 1: if you don't agree, fuck you you're doing like I'm stupid.
Speaker 1: If I have a different thing, I like, well, what's funny?
Speaker 1: Because that's I think the thing that's like are rated
Speaker 1: too is people's perception of those articles, right, like to
Speaker 1: treat them like just because someone uploaded it to a
Speaker 1: content management system for a website doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 1: the word of God. Yeah that was someone who made
Speaker 1: an article. Then for you as the person, you don't
Speaker 1: have to go I don't agree. Why are they fucking
Speaker 1: with me? It's okay, don't worry about there. Just just
Speaker 1: just have your truth and just look, oh that's that's
Speaker 1: that's that persons don't worry about it because half the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny though, Jack and I do get
Speaker 1: incense though when we see like these like like rankings
Speaker 1: of like top albums, like this is stupid? Were they
Speaker 1: not a rap? So? Yeah, it's it's hard that The
Speaker 1: thing is like, that's why they're such a popular thing
Speaker 1: is because they get people mad, right, And that's like
Speaker 1: the thing that gets people to read these articles is
Speaker 1: people being like what the funk? Like this is? This
Speaker 1: is who is this person? And it's like, yeah, who
Speaker 1: is this person? They're just an employee of this magazine
Speaker 1: or whatever. Right, we need more listicals where we just
Speaker 1: have the people themselves, like, all right, Steven Spielberg, give
Speaker 1: us your own top ten films of your movies that
Speaker 1: you then you have something to really talk about there
Speaker 1: you can be like from their perspective, this is how
Speaker 1: they rank their work. That I think could lead to
Speaker 1: some interesting conversation but like if it's just random person
Speaker 1: with following saying this is the anointed list, yeah gets
Speaker 1: little Yeah, that would be interesting. Yeah, I was actually
Speaker 1: I went to a speaking of concerts, I went to
Speaker 1: Mazie Peters last night at the Wiltern. I don't know.
Speaker 1: She's a young pop artist. I really like her, and
Speaker 1: she remember she introduced one of her songs of saying
Speaker 1: this is my favorite song from the album, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh gosh, you never know. I love when
Speaker 1: that happens. Yeah, they tell you and it's like not
Speaker 1: the song you would have picked, and then yes, I
Speaker 1: could appreciation for it. That's fun. I like when like, yeah,
Speaker 1: a director comes out and it's like these are my
Speaker 1: five favorite movies and they're not like the movies you
Speaker 1: would expect of them, and you know, you discover in
Speaker 1: you Jim. I am definitely guilty of googling on multiple occasions.
Speaker 1: Like one of the best movies on Netflix this this Marth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like have you ever heard of Monty Python and
Speaker 1: the Holy Grail Ship? The Irishman is like still ranking
Speaker 1: it's Jurassic Park. But then you can like go through
Speaker 1: and just cherry pick, like the Weird Ones that you
Speaker 1: haven't heard of or you know, something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess the thing that you can do if you
Speaker 1: want to, like look at reviews and stuff as a
Speaker 1: way of figuring out what you want to consume is
Speaker 1: like if you have a reviewer or somebody that you
Speaker 1: typically agree with, it is kind of the only way
Speaker 1: to really get at that. But yeah, yeah, I wish
Speaker 1: there was more emphasis on this is my opinion. And
Speaker 1: you know, because so much of why I like certain
Speaker 1: movies or music or whatever is because of a personal
Speaker 1: connection I have with it. Because I go objectively, that
Speaker 1: is the best. Like I watched that. I watched the
Speaker 1: Lindsay low and Christmas movie. Did you enjoy it Falling
Speaker 1: Falling in Christmas or Falling christ Uh? Yeah, it was cool.
Speaker 1: I mean like it wasn't mad. I'm not going I
Speaker 1: never went to a Christmas movie being like, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. The seminal work. I'm like about physical comedy.
Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan's having fun all right, Yeah, no, totally. I
Speaker 1: think that reminds me. Actually, I just remembered. I think
Speaker 1: that last time I was on here, I was saying
Speaker 1: that the underrated thing was marrying me. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think and I had just seen it too, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go with that. Yeah, it's so much about like
Speaker 1: going in with a certain like certain expectation or recognizing
Speaker 1: like kind of the category. You know, absolutely, yeah, have
Speaker 1: you guys heard of Apocalypse? Now that's on the top
Speaker 1: ten list November? The guy, the guy who was morpheous
Speaker 1: and the Matrix is in there. What is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated besides marry me? Of course? Okay, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this. I feel like there are a
Speaker 1: lot of bands that like, we're popular a long time
Speaker 1: ago ish and they were like kind of viewed as
Speaker 1: lame or whatever, and now they's gonna be coming back around.
Speaker 1: And I think a top example of that is Red
Speaker 1: Hot Chili Peppers. I feel like for years people were like,
Speaker 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers are stupid and lame. Meanwhile, I'm
Speaker 1: back here being like I've absolutely could saying the entirety
Speaker 1: of Californication, and I'm supposed to be shamed for that.
Speaker 1: And there's a part of me that feels like as
Speaker 1: I'm seeing like when they were like performing at the
Speaker 1: v m A S and stuff, I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: glad they're I'm glad they're doing well. Anthony Keats's hair
Speaker 1: looks ridiculous. Obviously there's things that we can poke fun
Speaker 1: at the Red Hot Chili Peppers for. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I think they're they've they've been
Speaker 1: underrated for years, and I mean, spies from China do
Speaker 1: try to steal our minds elation. They were just ahead
Speaker 1: of the time, their time in pointing that out. TikTok.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, man, it's so true. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like the same thing was happening with like Sublime.
Speaker 1: Everyone's wearing Sublime t shirts or like for sale at
Speaker 1: urban outfitters and stuff, and it's like it's again, it's
Speaker 1: about perspective. It's like, I don't think that the Red
Speaker 1: Hot Chili Peppers and Sublime are like the best bands
Speaker 1: of all time, but I'm like I do. If I'm
Speaker 1: if I'm driving down the freeway, like driving into San Diego,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear what's going on with Sublime.
Speaker 1: You know, RHCPK man, that was big for a while
Speaker 1: where people are hitting us with the Red Hot Chili
Speaker 1: Peppers California Fizza Kitchen collab a case. I think ye
Speaker 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers just has this. I don't know
Speaker 1: they have this thing. I think it's because because Ketas
Speaker 1: can't sing, sir. But Heli and Ketis both have them
Speaker 1: where everybody could sing their songs because they showed you
Speaker 1: how somebody who can't sing sings those songs. I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm not I can't say and I like to sing
Speaker 1: in my car right, and same with like even in Cobaine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Nirvana is better than those bands,
Speaker 1: but like there's there's also there's an appeal of the
Speaker 1: lead singer who can't sing that I think instantly makes
Speaker 1: like it doesn't intimidate you to sing it, although that
Speaker 1: never stops anyone from singing their favorite song. But like
Speaker 1: with someone's like can't stop addicted to the shoot Gig,
Speaker 1: You're like, come on, that's fine. I could do that.
Speaker 1: I could do that. I had that in my mind.
Speaker 1: Just can't stop addicted to the bing bong, which is
Speaker 1: incorrect but actually literally written that out is like one
Speaker 1: of my favorite like the character from Inside Out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I'd like to see that collab. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see a Red Hot Chili Pepper soundtrack on
Speaker 1: the next Pixar film. Yea r H p K can't
Speaker 1: stop addicted to the bread stick? Do they even have breadsticks?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm sure they do. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean their their food is basically breadsticks. Let's can't stop
Speaker 1: but diicted to the spin dip because that's Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: really put a lot there, like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: fun to be had there. I mean, you've been pitching,
Speaker 1: we've been pitching the corporate sponsors. But job salad is
Speaker 1: barbecue goes big. You know what I mean? You got
Speaker 1: you could do it all. It's not like welcome to
Speaker 1: see p K. You got a reservation. Okay, let's see
Speaker 1: there's you can do it the whole thing anyway, is
Speaker 1: that gang? Get on that. Yeah, it's enough. Yeah, page
Speaker 1: just you look you now the toothpastes come out the tube.
Speaker 1: It's kind to embrace it. We've let it rest like
Speaker 1: a pizza dough getting ready for to be baked. And
Speaker 1: now it's risen. It's risen, it's ready, it's ready. It's like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: we were all eagerly awaiting what the mainstream media is
Speaker 1: read on the election results. We're gonna be you know
Speaker 1: that there's an article that the headlines are coming out
Speaker 1: the New York terms was the greatest mid term, the
Speaker 1: greatest election for leftist and progressive policies, and not those headlines, Miles,
Speaker 1: because that was there. I saw that. That seemed to
Speaker 1: be something. I wait, what did they say? Where? Where
Speaker 1: did you see that? In the New York Times? Talking?
Speaker 1: All right, So in the New York Times they had
Speaker 1: the headline how the mid terms became a squeaker, which
Speaker 1: is a fun word. But with that you you expect
Speaker 1: some analysis of what was actually happening here, and instead
Speaker 1: it's a lot of reporting from insiders who missread the
Speaker 1: election that there's like a It opens with the guy Maloney,
Speaker 1: who's like the D Triple C guy who was like
Speaker 1: in charge of a bunch of the strategy and then
Speaker 1: lost his own election in a massive upset and was
Speaker 1: like totally outside of this wave that they're trying to explain.
Speaker 1: It opens with a scene where he's like arguing about
Speaker 1: how they should approach it, and he writes believe on
Speaker 1: the board like a Ted Lasso quote, and but then
Speaker 1: they're like, and then he lost, So nobody really knows
Speaker 1: what's going on here. They actually like lay the bread
Speaker 1: crumbs and then it's like they just they walked right
Speaker 1: up to it and then they won't say what actually happened.
Speaker 1: So one big thing they say Democrats actually one voters
Speaker 1: who quote somewhat disapproved of Mr Biden, according to initial
Speaker 1: exit pulling by a margin of That is a far
Speaker 1: cry from the two thousand ten and twenty eighteen mid terms,
Speaker 1: when voters who somewhat disapproved of Barack Obama and Mr
Speaker 1: Trump overwhelmingly back the opposing party by margins of forty
Speaker 1: points and thirty points. So instead of losing by forty
Speaker 1: and thirty points, they won by four points. That was like,
Speaker 1: it's a huge swing, And so it would seem like
Speaker 1: this would lead to a pretty clear message that like
Speaker 1: Democrats want more progressive policy than the party is willing
Speaker 1: to give them. But you know, they're I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like they don't like the Republicans. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm that's the most So I don't have to
Speaker 1: do any ideating here. Yeah, they do mention Doob's up top,
Speaker 1: which is a big part of the answer but they
Speaker 1: don't mention that the Democrats have been unable and unwilling
Speaker 1: to codify reproductive rights, which is a way in which
Speaker 1: the desires of the voters are more progressive than the
Speaker 1: policy and the party Like just over and over again,
Speaker 1: you're it with this fact that they instead of stating
Speaker 1: that fact or you know, diving into it and you know,
Speaker 1: showing the statistics that back it up, instead of that,
Speaker 1: they just keep going back to like, well, they doubled
Speaker 1: down on this messaging strategy, and then this messaging strategy
Speaker 1: worked and this one didn't. And it's all triangulation and
Speaker 1: you know, insider, it's like an article written by and
Speaker 1: for political strategists instead of like trying to make sense
Speaker 1: of what actually happened on Earth the election. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then they also so another headline that had me hoping
Speaker 1: that maybe we're going to get like the New York
Speaker 1: Town is going to report on kind of the very
Speaker 1: straightforward message that we saw in these midterms. Democrats see
Speaker 1: a blueprint in Fetterman's victory in Pennsylvania. So it's like,
Speaker 1: how are they gonna sunk this up? Right? Like? How
Speaker 1: did some more progressive stuff? Yeah, the party a little
Speaker 1: bit a big question. The big mystery at the middle
Speaker 1: of this one. How did Fetterman outperform Biden all over
Speaker 1: the place, specifically and like white working class counties, and
Speaker 1: how it feels like a pretty straightforward explanation. You know,
Speaker 1: those places went populous for Trump because he acknowledges the
Speaker 1: system is bad and the status quo treats them badly.
Speaker 1: Fetterman was different from Biden and that he seemed like
Speaker 1: he wasn't beholden to the status quo and policies and
Speaker 1: talking points. You think they'd like dig into some of
Speaker 1: the progressive policies, He focused on some of his like
Speaker 1: class based talking points and instead, like the all they
Speaker 1: talk about is his car heart jacket, his open neck shirt,
Speaker 1: his tattoos, Like this is how they interne introduced him.
Speaker 1: But Mr Fetterman, with his tattoos and car heart wardrobe
Speaker 1: and priorities like marijuana legalization, appears to have regained ground
Speaker 1: with white working class then, like right after Mr Fetterman,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania's Lieutenant governor, who posed for his official portrait in
Speaker 1: an open all or gray work shirt, want a larger
Speaker 1: share of voters than Mr Biden did in almost every County.
Speaker 1: But it's like that's the that's all they focus on
Speaker 1: there just and then and then they like get quotes
Speaker 1: from Republicans who dismissed him because he's weird looking, and
Speaker 1: that's it's it's all optics. I'm still mystified how he
Speaker 1: could do so well because he didn't release any of
Speaker 1: his medical records. He didn't do good in the debate,
Speaker 1: he embraced Biden. He's an odd looking guy in shorts
Speaker 1: in a hoodie. I thought this was going to be easy,
Speaker 1: Mr Gleason said of Fetterman. And Mr Gleason is a
Speaker 1: Republican like strategist. And then there are like two mentions
Speaker 1: of policies and campaign platform that seemed to focus on
Speaker 1: the working class, and they just bring them up in
Speaker 1: like a sentence fragment and then move on and it
Speaker 1: just goes back to like we we don't know how
Speaker 1: this guy did it. I think it's his bald head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that really seems to be. What are his tattoos,
Speaker 1: I'm like looking at I googled looking at like a
Speaker 1: breakdown of his tattoos. I guess he has one that
Speaker 1: says I will make you hurt, like from the song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and they're like, yeah, Fox was like, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? Yeah, as long as the headline that
Speaker 1: says satanic. Democrat John Federman has tattoo I Will make
Speaker 1: You hurt on his right arm that he now hides,
Speaker 1: taken from song on suicide right. It's like, Okay, that
Speaker 1: just sounds like an explanation, but it's phrased. He like
Speaker 1: he was really fucking with Trent. Yeah. It's like it's like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, but like, yeah, you look at it's so
Speaker 1: funny that they're like, what could it be? Is it
Speaker 1: his clothes? Because they don't want to investigate deeper than
Speaker 1: ship you can dress up some of the goon in
Speaker 1: it can't be that. He was like, yeah, universal healthcare
Speaker 1: support like this is These are the on his issues page,
Speaker 1: guaranteeing healthcare, supporting workers, plus the union way of life,
Speaker 1: promoting like building a clean energy future, fighting inflation and
Speaker 1: loading coss A, delivering criminal justice reform, just like these,
Speaker 1: protecting women's reproductive freedoms. He's telling you right there, these
Speaker 1: are a lot of the things that guess what appealed
Speaker 1: to even the rural in these rural areas, tatooed on
Speaker 1: his face, just like a list of Well that's what
Speaker 1: Patrick Maloney's inna doing his next his next race. He
Speaker 1: canna be like, look, I got these tattooed look universal
Speaker 1: healthcare dripping out my eye like I worked the guy
Speaker 1: in prison. See, I'm I'm with it. They don't mention
Speaker 1: universal health care once in the whole art. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: don't want to fucking reckon with the with the actual policies.
Speaker 1: And again there there this whole like class of people,
Speaker 1: the consultants, the journalists. They're so embedded and like invested
Speaker 1: in the old way of doing things in politics that
Speaker 1: they they're constantly befuddled there, like these fifty year old
Speaker 1: tools don't seem to be working anymore. Isn't his car
Speaker 1: hard jacket? No, it's fucking inequality. It's the fact that
Speaker 1: people are like, holy shit, their existential threats out there
Speaker 1: that if I don't fucking actually like begin to pay
Speaker 1: attention to who's like in positions of power, ship might
Speaker 1: just go by the wayside. Suddenly that's maybe has something
Speaker 1: to do with it. Not because he's got this like
Speaker 1: like obviously his appeal with the way he dresses is
Speaker 1: that he is a little more grounded than every other
Speaker 1: plastic doll man you send out or a person to
Speaker 1: be like, and I am the Democrat who is not
Speaker 1: the Republican exactly the other the other strategy. There. There's
Speaker 1: one part where I was like, oh, okay, they're about
Speaker 1: to say the thing. An alternative explanation for why Mr
Speaker 1: Federman did so much better than Mr Biden and Red
Speaker 1: counties besides winning some former Trump supporters is that a
Speaker 1: different spectrum voters turned out and it just gets into
Speaker 1: his ground game in those counties. And then they close
Speaker 1: it out. They do a bunch of interviewing of like there,
Speaker 1: you know, they love an interview with a blue collar,
Speaker 1: white working class voter to tell them like what they're missing.
Speaker 1: And so so they closed the article with a quote
Speaker 1: from someone who didn't vote in the election talking about
Speaker 1: both clothes. Basically they're like Mr Astle voted twice for
Speaker 1: Mr Trump and said that his presidency should have been
Speaker 1: more successful. Like some other blue collar Trump supporters, Mr
Speaker 1: Astell said Mr Fetterman seemed inauthentic to him in his
Speaker 1: shorts and hoodie get ups given them. Mr Fetterman's a
Speaker 1: fluent family supported him through his forties when he drew
Speaker 1: a token salary as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania. And
Speaker 1: then Carhart was originally designed for blue collar people. Mr
Speaker 1: asshole said about astole, Sorry he said about Mr Federman's
Speaker 1: famous workwear wardrobe. But now Carhart is one of those
Speaker 1: brands all the yuppies wear. That's the last line of
Speaker 1: the article. That's where they leave it. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's the topic ran right, And it's just
Speaker 1: so surface level and mechanics level, like what they can't
Speaker 1: possibly think that, like political strategists talking about like not
Speaker 1: understanding the results is a better, more coherent narrative to
Speaker 1: put out. It's it's just I don't know, it's pretty shocking,
Speaker 1: like even though well it's kind of what we expect,
Speaker 1: like they're trying to put up a firewall. So the
Speaker 1: discussion isn't we just need more, We just need to
Speaker 1: lean into these policies more, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like if if if they can prevent that from being
Speaker 1: the discourse that is generated off the backs of their articles,
Speaker 1: then they've done something good because everyone who reads it
Speaker 1: when they all get together, like did you read Oh wow,
Speaker 1: like the mid terms is great? Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: the look of Federman that I think is really helping.
Speaker 1: We just need more people that look like that. It
Speaker 1: looks like that's really connecting. No, you fucking googles people
Speaker 1: a fucking suffering address that and someone will be like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what you're actually you're giving me a vision of something
Speaker 1: I can invest in emotionally. Wow, that sounds like a
Speaker 1: good proposition. Yeah. I do kind of hope Joe Biden
Speaker 1: gets like gets sleeved sleeves like just because from this
Speaker 1: and starts wear like a Jeane jacket. Tattoos your skin
Speaker 1: is Like I was gonna say, do someone have to
Speaker 1: like draw, like stretch it out to make it taught
Speaker 1: enough to have the image, but then once it returns
Speaker 1: to its normal state, I have to say, is Joe
Speaker 1: Biden just go like just just rock like a fun wig.
Speaker 1: You don't have to get tattoos with you, like if
Speaker 1: you have like gen Z broccoli hair. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: a mullet would work well for him, Like it feels
Speaker 1: it already feels like he should have a mullet, you know,
Speaker 1: like that fake picture from like the I think it
Speaker 1: was like when Clinton was inaugurated or whatever, where it
Speaker 1: looks like Joe's got the wild mullet, but it was
Speaker 1: someone behind him there. Yeah, okay, maybe like a septim
Speaker 1: piercing you know, could you imagine they're so far fucking
Speaker 1: behind from being in touch. It's like the most in
Speaker 1: touch person they have is like a gen X guy
Speaker 1: who's like, I don't know, maybe he could rock like
Speaker 1: some flannel and like a Nirvana t uh docs maybe
Speaker 1: m h yeah. At at leasty're trying something, do they? Like,
Speaker 1: I'm really interested if anybody has like come across an
Speaker 1: article where a New York Times or like an interviewer
Speaker 1: a New York Times journalist is like yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: like we just know we can't say that, like where
Speaker 1: like what, I'm curious about the process, even though self selecting,
Speaker 1: it's self selecting, you know. The people that last all
Speaker 1: think the same way, so you know, very quickly they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is how we talk about it over here, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure within there they're like, okay, like we're not
Speaker 1: gonna go all far left on people when they're talking
Speaker 1: about stuff like maybe it was like real issues that
Speaker 1: regular people are like experiencing. That was maybe in the
Speaker 1: secret sauce of like talking speaking to their lived experiences
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, I understand groceries cost way too fucking much.
Speaker 1: And guess what, it's not because of this or that.
Speaker 1: These fucking companies they're charging whatever the funk they want
Speaker 1: and they're getting away with it. Why because their fucking
Speaker 1: government doesn't do ship to actually intervene. So that's something
Speaker 1: I see as something we can do going forward. That's
Speaker 1: that kind of ship. Not hey man, you'll like you
Speaker 1: funk with his car Hart al right, John Fetterman, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, poor people. Alright, on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ticket, Trump, Wait, we're recording this before you
Speaker 1: know when Trump is expected to announce, but it's he
Speaker 1: most likely announced already right that he's running at this
Speaker 1: I mean every if if the reporting is accurate, if
Speaker 1: as you have as you're hearing this, this dude just
Speaker 1: pulled up said I'm announcing, baby, I'm ready, And probably
Speaker 1: Jared and Ivanka won't be there because I was. The
Speaker 1: last thing I read was they have want nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the announcement because they're probably do a little
Speaker 1: rehab on their brand too. Yeah, they're trying to get
Speaker 1: to those sick Florida Party I mean, it could be
Speaker 1: this could be good or bad. I don't know. Just
Speaker 1: we we never want to have to deal with Donald
Speaker 1: Trump again, but I don't know. Rhonda Santis just freaks
Speaker 1: me out also because he's like like he's like the
Speaker 1: kid brother to Donald Trump, and like where Trump's is
Speaker 1: like older brother who had like that one good season
Speaker 1: to high school football and then just completely burnt out
Speaker 1: on his own ego. And he's like, all right, so
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that, but I can learn from
Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes, and he's like the Santists just seems
Speaker 1: like the Raptors from the newer Jurassic Park films, where
Speaker 1: Trump is like the Raptor from the first one, like
Speaker 1: dangerous in the first one, but now this motherfucker's like
Speaker 1: like communicating with the other Raptors and like collaborating and
Speaker 1: just doing problem solving. That's how it sends with Chris
Speaker 1: Pratt like yeah, exactly, exactly. Pretty soon we will see
Speaker 1: them together, I'm sure. But I just want to talk
Speaker 1: about some of the top headlines that were going into
Speaker 1: Tuesday's announcement, because everything has been like this full court
Speaker 1: press to be like he sucks, right, is he gonna
Speaker 1: be out stated, I don't know. Let's check in with
Speaker 1: all the other people in mago world, starting with Mike Pompale,
Speaker 1: former Secretary Terry of State. He said he's he ain't scared. Quote.
Speaker 1: I think he's asking, like, you know, you know this
Speaker 1: guy might announce. You know, obviously you have your own aspirations.
Speaker 1: He said, Well, we're trying to think our way. We're
Speaker 1: trying to think our way through figuring out what's next
Speaker 1: for us. But what happens today or tomorrow, what some
Speaker 1: other person decides won't have any impact on that decision.
Speaker 1: We need more seriousness, we need we need less noise,
Speaker 1: we need steady hands. We need leaders that are looking forward,
Speaker 1: not steering in the rear view mirror claiming victimhood. So
Speaker 1: that's him with his lightly spicy take. Yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: preparing himself to run against Trumpet sounds like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll see, because once he just starts being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well your wife is ugly, then like suddenly like well
Speaker 1: that does seem to be The other like comprehensive take
Speaker 1: that has been taken away by the mainstream media is
Speaker 1: that Trump is poison and he's the reason they lost,
Speaker 1: but so so I'm sure all the political analysts and
Speaker 1: strategists and consultants around all of these candidates are telling
Speaker 1: them like, yeah, it's a wide open field, Like get
Speaker 1: in there and pay me. I mean you you get
Speaker 1: a field day getting in one of these candidates hears
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal has basically said the GOP in
Speaker 1: the country would be best served if Mr Trump seeded
Speaker 1: the field to the next generation of Republican leaders to
Speaker 1: compete for the nomination. Okay, so the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: is not there. Lindsay Graham, Hey, are you down, my man?
Speaker 1: He said, let's see what he says. This is a
Speaker 1: quote from Lindsay Graham when they asked about like will
Speaker 1: you support him? This is Lindsay Graham's answer, quote, Let's
Speaker 1: see what he says. I'll tell you after Georgia. So
Speaker 1: he's given two deadlines that we'll see what he says,
Speaker 1: and so let's see what happens after Georgia. And then
Speaker 1: rond Is Santis himself. They're saying again he was doing
Speaker 1: a press conference. They're like, hey, what about this noise?
Speaker 1: Looks like Trump, you know, saying some stuff about you.
Speaker 1: What do you think about everything? That's going on around
Speaker 1: your campaign or potential campaign. And then this is how
Speaker 1: he responded. And really what matters is are you leading,
Speaker 1: are you getting in front of issues, are you delivering
Speaker 1: results for people? And are you standing up for folks?
Speaker 1: And if you do that, then none of that stuff matters.
Speaker 1: And and that's what we've done. We focused on results
Speaker 1: and leadership and uh, you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I would just tell people to go check
Speaker 1: out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: he said. Oh you, oh, you think he's got something,
Speaker 1: got some juice scoreboard, motherfucker. I won by twenty All
Speaker 1: his all his bigs got blown out. Any other questions subtle? Subtle? Interesting?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I I do feel like Trump is
Speaker 1: Bill like the announcing early, like he he loves to
Speaker 1: be in conflict, and so I feel like his brand
Speaker 1: is crisis and conflict and being in fights and ship slinging,
Speaker 1: and so he's probably making a strategically smart move by
Speaker 1: like starting early, getting all these people like talking spicy,
Speaker 1: and then he can he can create the conflict that
Speaker 1: he's I think he's he's in a better position to
Speaker 1: be like the King of the Hill type thing and
Speaker 1: shoving people back down who are trying to get to
Speaker 1: his perch versus trying to get to someone else's perch,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like if if the if
Speaker 1: the roles are inverted and it's like De santisis party
Speaker 1: now and Trump's trying to claw back. I don't know
Speaker 1: how what this, I don't know what his odds are there,
Speaker 1: But because he's still firmly at the top, I just
Speaker 1: I'm just not confident in the combined power of like
Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch's media and the establishment can get Trump to vanish.
Speaker 1: It's just because he again, he still has fans. So
Speaker 1: unless you can get the fans to like abandon, that's
Speaker 1: its gonna be a fucking It's gonna be a It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big fight, big old fight. Yeah. He's
Speaker 1: great at getting people to vote both for him and
Speaker 1: against him. So like in a in a Republican primary,
Speaker 1: I feel like the main thing that comes out is
Speaker 1: getting people to vote for it. And to the people
Speaker 1: he's gonna getting to vote against him, don't don't vote
Speaker 1: in mass in the Republican primary, at least they haven't traditionally.
Speaker 1: So it's just funny too, because on their right, they're
Speaker 1: also like, you know, you have the New York Times
Speaker 1: be like here's our opped where we're like take us
Speaker 1: to your poor people world and like try and tell
Speaker 1: you what the real problems are. But like, and they
Speaker 1: clearly don't understand what's going on with you know, most
Speaker 1: of like like working America, And it's just funny, Like
Speaker 1: on the right they're doing this thing where like they
Speaker 1: know they're white supremacists, like creature goblins that like everything
Speaker 1: they stand for is like repugnant to a self respecting
Speaker 1: human being. But they were even like I don't even understand,
Speaker 1: and what the heck happened? I do? I just have
Speaker 1: to play this clip from Janine Pierrot Judge Jannine Pierrot,
Speaker 1: because she's so animated trying to figure out like what
Speaker 1: is going on. It's like, yeah, don't act stupid, you
Speaker 1: know what happened. She posits that this abortion thing came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere on us, the thing that your party
Speaker 1: has been like I'm single minded, focused on getting passed
Speaker 1: for the past fifty years. Listen to this, speaking of
Speaker 1: no personal responsibility. This is her just trying to fucking
Speaker 1: figure it out. I'm like in the middle of her
Speaker 1: rant because she's already like, I don't understand Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: Afghanistan woke, Bryce gas prices shouldn't have won. But here
Speaker 1: she is where she's starting to get into this whole
Speaker 1: abortion thing. The economy, economy with Afghanistan, everything about what
Speaker 1: we've been through for the last two years has been
Speaker 1: a nightmare. And I'll tell you what won this selection
Speaker 1: for the Democrats. Sure, the young people came out and
Speaker 1: vote and they got paid. I mean, they got the
Speaker 1: student loans paid back. It was a buy out. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what happened them. But the other thing is abortion.
Speaker 1: It was all about abortion. Joe Biden didn't do abortion.
Speaker 1: Abortion just kind of fell out of the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. It married you to this year and
Speaker 1: that was it. That's all the Democrats and Needa. Now
Speaker 1: they're gonna beat their chest, they're gonna say, what's because
Speaker 1: we're so great, Joe Biden, what a leader America? Ain't
Speaker 1: some Okay, And that's all I have to say. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's not the decades long fucking war you've shadow war.
Speaker 1: They've been fighting both like overtly and covertly like, come
Speaker 1: on now, it's just wild though. Two, that they're simultaneously
Speaker 1: they're like reaping what they sow is like like just rhetorically,
Speaker 1: and they're like, ah, how did they don't like that?
Speaker 1: Sho can I why does she have like a yeah,
Speaker 1: I look, I'm not gonna speculate she you might have
Speaker 1: injured herself in some kind of this is it's just
Speaker 1: interesting to see someone animatedly, you know, talking ye like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting reveal when you're giving a passion rant
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh, you hurt yourself, you fall out.
Speaker 1: It comes in like right as she's getting the most
Speaker 1: animated it. Yeah, she's been rocking it for the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I think, yeah, she's like And also
Speaker 1: in my in my uh, in my building where I live,
Speaker 1: they didn't put up a wet floor sign and now
Speaker 1: and so that came out of nowhere and abortion just
Speaker 1: fell out of the sky. What even is abortion? What
Speaker 1: are they even talking about? Man? That is also kind
Speaker 1: of how the mainstream media is treating it. That it's
Speaker 1: just like, well, this gift to the Democrats and that's
Speaker 1: why they won, and it's it's not acknowledging like that
Speaker 1: that statistic that I'm gonna like have a hard time
Speaker 1: getting over is like usually you've, like, people who are
Speaker 1: dissatisfied with the president vote for the other party by
Speaker 1: forty two thirty thirty to forty points, and this time
Speaker 1: they voted for the president they're dissatisfied with by five points.
Speaker 1: And it's because, yeah, it's abortion is wildly unpopular. The
Speaker 1: Republican Party has been working forever to pass this incredibly
Speaker 1: unpopular thing. People aren't happy with the job that Biden
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party have been doing to fight back
Speaker 1: against it. But it's better than the party that actually
Speaker 1: passed the things. So again, it's like they people want
Speaker 1: more progressive policy than the two major parties are willing
Speaker 1: to give them. But and now the Supreme Court is
Speaker 1: basically just seen as an extension of the GOP to
Speaker 1: a lot of people because of like how like fucking
Speaker 1: chaotic some of the past confirmation hearings have been. And
Speaker 1: then on the heels of that, you see them doing
Speaker 1: decisions like man, well man, maybe we'll you know, here's
Speaker 1: here's the jobs decision. Here's us you know, maybe doing
Speaker 1: a little something to that student loan, forgive this we'll
Speaker 1: see if it gets to us. Like you can kind
Speaker 1: of see where like the rubber like hit meets the
Speaker 1: road for a lot of things too. And you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have a like to say your
Speaker 1: whole brand is like, yeah, those are all our people,
Speaker 1: the ones who are into taking away all of your
Speaker 1: fucking rights, that's our brand. Actually, oh wait you oh,
Speaker 1: they're starting to connect that. Now, what the heck happened
Speaker 1: back there for some reason that we're still looking into.
Speaker 1: We're not sure where this abortion thing came from, but
Speaker 1: it fell out of the sky. Amazing? Is that just
Speaker 1: to just absolve themselves of like saying that their party,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I'm trying to understand, like I get,
Speaker 1: I get like the very human instinct to be like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take an l on that thing
Speaker 1: I believe in, But that's me lying to myself. Is
Speaker 1: that her lying to herself? Is it? Because there's also
Speaker 1: a version where you see this to where people are
Speaker 1: so fucking out of touch that they're really like, wait,
Speaker 1: what that's not popular? Like are you for real? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's that I'm trying to figure out which
Speaker 1: one it is out of touch or ego preservation. I
Speaker 1: think it's out of touch. I think they're used to
Speaker 1: being the ones who can motivate the base with like
Speaker 1: extreme views, and they're just suddenly in the find out
Speaker 1: phase of fucking round and finding out and they are
Speaker 1: not They they're not equipped with the structural kind of
Speaker 1: ideas too to like understand what has happened here, and
Speaker 1: so they're just kind of flailing around. M Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just came out just a damn policies just kind
Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere on us, came out of
Speaker 1: the dang blue sky, you know. The heck was that
Speaker 1: all right, we'll take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back, and we're back, and yeah, I mean a
Speaker 1: thing that we kind of brushed past, but was, like
Speaker 1: Federman was one of his top campaign platform priorities with climate.
Speaker 1: Climate is I think a big reason in addition to
Speaker 1: the economy and economic inequality, but climate is also a
Speaker 1: big reason that especially young people are dissatisfied with the
Speaker 1: status quo and like so might be willing to vote
Speaker 1: against the Republicans who are like party of oil and drill, drill, drill,
Speaker 1: in favor of a party that is not doing ship
Speaker 1: while the world ends. But at least they're not actively
Speaker 1: like what they're just lying about whether they're going to
Speaker 1: do something. Yeah, I mean Federman's like he's at least
Speaker 1: has some he's genuine and he's like, look, I know
Speaker 1: we're fracking out here in Pennsylvania, so I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say that we ain't fracking no more. But also,
Speaker 1: shits fucked seriously. Yeah. Yeah, And so I think climate
Speaker 1: is probably a bigger and bigger part of this dissatisfaction
Speaker 1: with the status quo, that there is this entrenched, you know,
Speaker 1: corporate and political class that is unwilling to change things
Speaker 1: and change how we do things enough to address climate change.
Speaker 1: And we saw that in a big way this week
Speaker 1: in the final week of COP twenty seven, the International
Speaker 1: Climate Summit, which this year's taking place in Egypt. Two
Speaker 1: countries got together, put their heads together and have done all. Apparently.
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of speeches, but no talk of
Speaker 1: any new announcements or pledges before the whole thing wraps
Speaker 1: on Friday, and there's like a bunch of controversies, a
Speaker 1: bunch of people being like the menu includes like salmon
Speaker 1: flown in from the Atlantic, thousands of miles away, and
Speaker 1: I think these are like these symbolic things that the
Speaker 1: mainstream media likes to like focus on that yet at
Speaker 1: people's you know anxiety that like, well, this is a
Speaker 1: ruling class that has none of the same priorities that
Speaker 1: we have on this massive subject that is threatening the
Speaker 1: lives lives of every every human being on this planet.
Speaker 1: And people are like, yeah, so let's let's talk about
Speaker 1: how people are mad about the menu because it'll make
Speaker 1: them look out of touch. But there's also like big,
Speaker 1: gigantic structural issues with how this thing is, how's conference operates.
Speaker 1: Like one of the major sponsors sponsors this year is
Speaker 1: Coca Cola. Well, they need to drink something, jack, Right,
Speaker 1: what's the problem with Coca Cola. Well, there's a recent
Speaker 1: report that says the company's production of plastics is increasing.
Speaker 1: People are you know, pointing out that that is like
Speaker 1: they are one of the biggest polluters in the world.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, that's good. That's not bad. I mean
Speaker 1: that's bad. That's bad, which is like exactly why they
Speaker 1: would want to sponsor, right, because it makes them look like, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah them. Coke claims they're working on doing better and
Speaker 1: believe in effective climate solutions. And that's why people are saying,
Speaker 1: like this is all just greenwashing. This is like marketing,
Speaker 1: I think. And that's what's really clever too, because even
Speaker 1: with the way Coca Cola operates right like, they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we have a commitment to slash our use of plastics.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, you don't know, we can only do
Speaker 1: so much. It's our bottlers that ultimately make that decision.
Speaker 1: So we can say we're not for fucking with less plastic.
Speaker 1: But until you talk to these like six companies that
Speaker 1: determine the bottles set to ship goes into Yeah, mac
Speaker 1: really do ship for you. Yeah, and those companies have
Speaker 1: all said they're not doing ship. Do you think Pepsi
Speaker 1: is kind of like enjoying being second best now, like
Speaker 1: being like the attentions off us, like and we were
Speaker 1: actually good with the fact that nobody talks about Pepsi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about that. Pepsi is still operating in Russia,
Speaker 1: you know, doing commercials with with putin because they're like,
Speaker 1: at least we're not non joking. But I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what they think could be doing right now, and
Speaker 1: we don't know. Yeah, we don't know. I mean they
Speaker 1: make they make mountain dews, so they get a pass
Speaker 1: just because of their proximity to mountain dew, you know,
Speaker 1: like i'd do collected from mountains and put in even
Speaker 1: if it is at the expense of everyone on Earth,
Speaker 1: so be it. But there's also details from this conference
Speaker 1: that are kind of what I always suspected is going
Speaker 1: on with that, that is keeping climate change from actually
Speaker 1: like being addressed with actual policies. For instance, there are
Speaker 1: a ton of oil lobbyists at the summit making deals
Speaker 1: in closed rooms. This was has apparently been happening for years.
Speaker 1: There's one scientists who like works on carbon emissions, and
Speaker 1: it came out and said the real deals are handled indoors,
Speaker 1: you know, and closed rooms. This is the management management professor.
Speaker 1: At the first one he attended, COPS seventeen in South Africa,
Speaker 1: he tried to get into a session on carbon emissions
Speaker 1: in the mining industry, a topic he was researching. But
Speaker 1: guess what they turned me away And who walks in
Speaker 1: the room to discuss to develop global climate policy CEOs
Speaker 1: of Rio tinto shell BP, followed by the ministers. Wow right,
Speaker 1: which is how business is done. So there's just this
Speaker 1: immense inertia, like this giant global economy that has a
Speaker 1: built in logic and like a built in way of
Speaker 1: doing things, and none of it involves listening to professors
Speaker 1: instead of like you know, discussing first and foremost what's
Speaker 1: good and bad for your bottom line. And this year
Speaker 1: the lobbyists there were six thirty six lobbyists from the
Speaker 1: oil and gas industry registered to attend. Last year there
Speaker 1: was five d three, So clearly they're seeing that this
Speaker 1: is a winning strategy. And there's literally more of them
Speaker 1: than there are people representing like the humans of the
Speaker 1: countries that they're coming from. The delegations there to zero
Speaker 1: more people representing gas and on earth fuckers than anybody else.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is wild, but it's it's just
Speaker 1: a reflection of everything that you see around us. You
Speaker 1: know that the people that have the seat at the
Speaker 1: table are the businesses, and they have they literally will
Speaker 1: sit next to the politicians and be like, Okay, so
Speaker 1: how can we work this out? Because you know, we're
Speaker 1: not we don't want to change too much, but like
Speaker 1: I get y'all need to win too, so let's figure
Speaker 1: out what that can be. While we can maintain our
Speaker 1: business and that it's the same thing. You see it
Speaker 1: so many decision making like arenas for decision making where
Speaker 1: you have the companies the politicians, But what about the
Speaker 1: billions of human beings who are actually like on the
Speaker 1: brink of a human total human rights disaster. Because we're
Speaker 1: not talking about it like that. It's just like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: what what will they come up with this time? Joe
Speaker 1: Biden gave a good speech and Al Gore said something nice.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we're talking about
Speaker 1: you know, real fucked up, horrible things coming down from
Speaker 1: more people on top of the people who are already
Speaker 1: experiencing it, and the lack of addressing that situation, the
Speaker 1: lack of funds being pushed towards the countries that are
Speaker 1: right now on the receiving end of our lacks policies.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's very very frustrating because you know,
Speaker 1: you think, do you look at everything that's being reported
Speaker 1: and you you'd like to hear that there's some kind
Speaker 1: of serious discussion happening aside from like whatever piecemeal like
Speaker 1: you know, incremental thing they'll announce that like hey, it
Speaker 1: turns out, we have like six more years before fun,
Speaker 1: so we'll do things in like five and a half years, right, right, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, insidiously fund research that tells people what
Speaker 1: they want to hear instead of the research that is
Speaker 1: just motivated by the scientific method and you know, democratic
Speaker 1: truths of like, you know, this is bad for the
Speaker 1: most amount of people, but yeah, it's basically people. People
Speaker 1: are now saying that this climate change conference is essentially
Speaker 1: now a fossil fuel industry trade show, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: Every every like capitalist enterprise wants to eventually influence the
Speaker 1: most amount of money, and it makes sense that that
Speaker 1: that's where it would go. It's just further proof that
Speaker 1: like you can't fix this system with the system, like
Speaker 1: the current system is broken, and you can't use a
Speaker 1: broken tool to fix a broken system. You know, well,
Speaker 1: but you can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
Speaker 1: That's that is the answer. It's like the same logic
Speaker 1: is like, well, the same bootstraps you would pull yourself
Speaker 1: up with are the tools you need to use to
Speaker 1: fix the whole fucking thing. Mm hmm. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see. I'm for it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: all these all these oil CEOs, I'm sure have biographies
Speaker 1: that are all about how they pulled themselves up by
Speaker 1: the bootstraps and yeah, right, well you know, we shall see.
Speaker 1: I look, they still a few days. Maybe they'll surprise us,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they'll surprise us. You never know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's things don't bode well in general because
Speaker 1: the powers that be, like the status quo is here
Speaker 1: for the time being. Yeah, m and they serve the salmon,
Speaker 1: so right, and they served salmon. Also. Also the other thing,
Speaker 1: like the other big story about the food, in addition
Speaker 1: to it being like super lux and like not making
Speaker 1: any sense from a climate policy perspective, was people at
Speaker 1: the event being like, this food is garbage, this tastes terrible.
Speaker 1: I saw some people have McDonald's driven in through the
Speaker 1: desert just to, you know, just so they could eat
Speaker 1: something normal, and oh my god. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: everything you would expect in your worst nightmares about like
Speaker 1: where you are, like most ham fisted satire of how
Speaker 1: the world actually operates. Why can't there be like a
Speaker 1: Leftover's type event at CP seven or like kind of
Speaker 1: a potluck style, like everybody brings something. Oh I met
Speaker 1: the TV show where those people vanished in the rapture.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but I'd also make the meat leftovers. That
Speaker 1: would be more thank you, Now we're not wasting. Okay,
Speaker 1: got some old McDonald's fries, the salmon skin from earlier. Okay,
Speaker 1: we can do someone. Everyone should be shopping vintage and
Speaker 1: and you know, drifting, and they should be having a potluck.
Speaker 1: Make the meat a freaking diet where it's like all
Speaker 1: just food from a dumpster that's been salvaged. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not often God, that you're going to get all
Speaker 1: the bad guys in one place and could just wrapture
Speaker 1: him away to fun down right. Yeah, anyway, think about it. Guy.
Speaker 1: If you exist really Page as always, such a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you on the daily zeitgeist. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff? Thank you for having
Speaker 1: me pleasure to be here as always. Um you can
Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram at page Weldon and also if
Speaker 1: you live in Minneapolis or surrounding areas, I will be
Speaker 1: there this weekend, uh Friday and Saturday the eighteenth and
Speaker 1: nineteenth at the Comedy Corner Underground doing to show we
Speaker 1: would do that joke. Yes, yeah, don't find out all right,
Speaker 1: you can tell you can tell, you can tell her,
Speaker 1: you can find her and tell her I'm talking about her.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be really fun. This place is really cool.
Speaker 1: It's like a small kind of like punk rock, indie,
Speaker 1: uh comedy venue. It's under a bar in seven corners
Speaker 1: called the Corner Bar. Two shows. There'll be local comics
Speaker 1: on it. I think it'll be really fun. It's too
Speaker 1: cool to be outside, so come on inside, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And is there a tweet or some of the work
Speaker 1: of social media you've been enjoying. Okay, So I have
Speaker 1: been enjoying on TikTok. I'm a big fan of this
Speaker 1: girl at Sad Girl Swag. It's g r L Sad
Speaker 1: Girl Swag, and she does reaction videos that are like
Speaker 1: swag or not swag about whatever she's watching, and like, listen,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people doing these type of
Speaker 1: reaction videos on TikTok, but damn, she just I just
Speaker 1: love her like she'll do. Okay, let me let me
Speaker 1: play one that I enjoyed recently, So send send a
Speaker 1: let me send her account in the chat so that
Speaker 1: you guys can be enjoying these videos. I just think
Speaker 1: she's funny and somehow every time she declares something swag
Speaker 1: or not swag, I'm like, she's right, Like I agree,
Speaker 1: like that is swag and that is not swag. Take
Speaker 1: a look, which which one? Which one? Which one should
Speaker 1: we play? For? Let's play play this one where we're
Speaker 1: looking at the Reese's peanut butter ups in the hydraulic
Speaker 1: press over here. Okay, yeah, here we go. Welcome to
Speaker 1: Swaggernaut Swag. I've seen this before. We're gonna get chocolate spaghetti.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, swag. Of course I love it. It
Speaker 1: was spaghetti. Maybe I like it swag. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that one. It looks a little scary. It looks like
Speaker 1: a monster right there. I don't know. This is my
Speaker 1: gummy bear, gummy warm swag. Ok you gummy be okay swag.
Speaker 1: I just will do like the ones where it's like
Speaker 1: the random videos that are all over TikTok of like
Speaker 1: this person's for some reason running over a bunch of
Speaker 1: objects with their with a tire, or like the you know,
Speaker 1: like any number of these like satisfying quote unquote videos
Speaker 1: to watch assess is it swagger good? Good? Gotta know,
Speaker 1: gotta know they're just pleasant to watch. I like her, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just like how also like she's really distilled her
Speaker 1: just everything into it could be it just fits into
Speaker 1: swag or not swag, and it's applicable to anything. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: And and I love whenever you look at like I
Speaker 1: love looking at the comments on any of TikTok. But
Speaker 1: like everyone's always like, how are you always right? Like,
Speaker 1: how do I totally agree with everything you just said?
Speaker 1: I'm so confident? Yeah, that's unfortunately I regret to inform
Speaker 1: me that is. And she has like, if you watch
Speaker 1: enough of her videos, you go like you also start
Speaker 1: to be able to tell like her taste right right,
Speaker 1: right right. She's like, no, this isn't swag for her,
Speaker 1: but for me swag. M Yeah, Miles, where can people
Speaker 1: find you with the tweet you've been enjoying? Find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Find Jack
Speaker 1: and I on our basketball podcast Miles and Jack got
Speaker 1: NBA boost Ease, I said, NBA boost the man. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, it's it's hard being at the top of
Speaker 1: the comedy basketball pod dog pile. Right, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a thing. Oh and we are come by and check
Speaker 1: that out. Uh and also Sophie, Alexander and I on
Speaker 1: four twenty Day Fiance. We were talking to fiance some
Speaker 1: tweets that are like, really, it's from Chris Astrada, which
Speaker 1: this fool guy It's got renewed for a second season,
Speaker 1: right to that at Chris Astrata eighty five tweeted as
Speaker 1: a Mexican slash Latino, I actually don't feel represented by
Speaker 1: the name war character in the New Black Panther movie
Speaker 1: because I can't swim. If Naymar was wearing basketball shorts
Speaker 1: at the beach and only going in knee high into
Speaker 1: the ocean, then I would have felt seen, Oh the God,
Speaker 1: like you got me there. Chris shout out to Chris,
Speaker 1: my friend, amazing tweet. I've been enjoying at o X
Speaker 1: Food Bar tweeted. Fun fact FTX appointed the en Ron
Speaker 1: Liquidator as the CEO replacement for SBF. Another fun fact
Speaker 1: built by Traders four Traders was the tagline for both companies,
Speaker 1: both Enron and ft X, and then Christopher Hooks responded
Speaker 1: that that is true, and then Christopher respondent Elizabeth Holmes's
Speaker 1: dad was a VP at Enron. We're living in the
Speaker 1: Enron century. If you don't know the story of Enron.
Speaker 1: For our younger listeners or you know, anyone, it's worth
Speaker 1: going and finding documents. It's it's just wild, wild, blatantly.
Speaker 1: They were making up money, paying it to themselves and
Speaker 1: then got caught and basically got away with it. And
Speaker 1: a bunch of swag or not swag though. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but just a lot of people learned an important lesson
Speaker 1: from that, you know, and then the rest of the
Speaker 1: country who wasn't paying attention to that, learned that ship on.
Speaker 1: After the two financial collapse, It's just like, yeah, yeah, no, note,
Speaker 1: none of this, it's all none of this really matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, where it does matter, It's just none of
Speaker 1: none of your rules really matter. It's none of this
Speaker 1: is real. Anyways. You can find me on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: link off to information that we talked about. We'll link
Speaker 1: off to the pages swag not swag recommendation, as well
Speaker 1: as a song that we think you might enjoy Miles.
Speaker 1: What song do we think people might enjoy? I think
Speaker 1: I just hurt my neck? Youllent footnotes, Um, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 1: This is a remix of Stroll Elliott and James Okay,
Speaker 1: the James Brown Remix by Strow Elliott. And it's like
Speaker 1: a mashup of James Brown and Fella Cootie. That's why
Speaker 1: it's called machine No Makes Sex because let's based off
Speaker 1: the Fellot Pooty Water No Get Enemy. Uh So this
Speaker 1: is Machine No Makes Sex And this is kind of
Speaker 1: a it's a dope afrobeat remix of of James Brown.
Speaker 1: So check this one out. Amazing. All right, we'll link
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