1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza. 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, 5 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: once again by a correspondent, a stand up comedian who 7 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: you know as the host and head writer of the 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: series News Broke, the MSNBC special Red White and who 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: correspondent on that Geo's Explorer, and as a regular commentator 10 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: on Young Turk's network, the Bituation Room podcast. She's been 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: on Love It or Leave It, and it is just 12 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: a very funny comedian. Francesco. Yeah, I don't interrupt my 13 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: my intro, Miles, And this is part two of a 14 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: Francesco Fiorentini. Hi, Hi, Francesco Fiorentini. Francesco Fiorentini, How are you. 15 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: I I'm good. Yeah, this is a little bit of 16 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: a part two because my fiance was on yesterday Matt 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: Le Matt Leave, and I know he told a lot 18 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 1: of just just put out all the dirty laundry, yeah, 19 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: of our perfect engagement. And I'm not going to go 20 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 1: back and choreographic re choreographic correctly and hire a photographer. 21 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna need some reshoots, a little extra budget 22 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: for the reshoots on this one. Um, this time, you're 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: gonna ask that he not proposed to you with a 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: blue raspberry ring? Pop? Is that correct? I really wish 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: he had him because it would have been far less expensive. 26 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: He sounded so stressed. Yes, O, man, I gotta, I 27 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: gotta figure out what to do with this thing. I feel. 28 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: Here's the thing when you buy a ring. First of all, 29 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: don't consult sex in the city, because I know he 30 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: did that like fifteen years later. And then number two, 31 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: don't ask my brother. Don't ask the only man you 32 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: know of my fa like my brother wraps Christmas gifts 33 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: in newspaper still like at the age of thirty six, 34 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: you're or forties forty now, like this is the kind 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: of like he was like, Oh, so you know you 36 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: imagine the jeweler, imagine the jeweler just like the door 37 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: opens and you see matt Leeb's face just like all 38 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: dumb and in love, and you're just like, yes, oh buddy, 39 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: did your brother at least wrap it in the comics section, 40 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: of course tasteful. It's not like yeah, it's like the 41 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: international news, you know, like drought. And I remember like 42 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: one of the first birthdays where my like, you know, 43 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: because of head enormousy, my mom was wrapping the gifts 44 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: when I will go to a birthday party, like you know, like, okay, 45 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: take your gift. This is the gift for the party. 46 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: And where my mom was out of town once and 47 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: my dad had to wrap a gift and he did 48 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: in the in the funnies, you know, the comics the newspaper, 49 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: and I was so bummed out. I'm like, yo, this 50 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: looks like drash, Dad, this is newspaper. He's like, it's 51 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: the Funnies. Man. At least it's not like auto trading 52 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: section or whatever. And I was look, I was just 53 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: so mortified at like seven years old, pulling up to 54 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: Pistol PiZZ pizza place well with this jankie as gift. 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: But anyway, was it for a child? Yeah, it was 56 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: for another kid. Oh I see you man, it was 57 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: for pistol Pete Maravich. I thought you were Actually it 58 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: was like it was like a chucky cheese type place. 59 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: We had a pistol PiZZ Yeah, where did you grow up? Arkansas? 60 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: Like not what? Oh yeah, that's yeah my favorite Valley 61 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: Shotgun show because that sounds like okay, okay, l a 62 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: has been Ellie's a mess. Okay. In a place that 63 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: was a kids of restaurant in the early nineties, you know, 64 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting anything remotely close to relevant or culturally sensitive. 65 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: I love, I really want kids to understand the kinds 66 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: of birthday parties and the plate the JANKI ass places 67 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: that we had our birthday parties. You like Rocky and 68 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: Bowl Winkles with like the animatronic like like how scary 69 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: and haunting? Get like somehow we loved it? At least 70 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: that's I love Rocky and Bowl Winkles. Um, wait, where 71 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: where's Where's Rocky and Bull? It was up in the 72 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: Bay Bay area and it doesn't exist anymore. I don't know. 73 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: I think someonem got canceled. I don't know who you know? 74 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: How it is these pizza places? Right? No? I meant 75 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: like Rocky your Bowl Winkle, I did some shady ship, Matt. 76 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: We like to ask our guests, what is something from 77 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh? Absolutely. Um, 78 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: here's one how to sell a brand new engagement ring. 79 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: That's uh, that's an there. Now that sounds confusing because 80 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: you're like, but Matt, you just said you were engaged. 81 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: Well I am. She said yes to me, she said 82 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: no to the ring, and uh yeah, so I bought 83 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: a real, real bad ring, and yes, this is I thought, 84 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: I say, all right, the engagement Well, dude, I bought 85 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: a really bad ring. What happened? Okay, So she sent me, like, 86 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, a couple of months ago, she sent 87 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: me a picture of a ring she thought was cute, 88 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: and so I was like, looking too, I wanted to 89 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: buy that ring because I had no visual I I 90 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: don't know what looks good. Like. We watched Sex in 91 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: the City once and like Aidan bought carry a pear 92 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: shaped engagement ring, and like a parent and and all 93 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: of the girls sitting around like Samantha and Charlotte. Then 94 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: we're just like, oh, pear shaped. I had no idea 95 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: pear shaped was bad. So I knew not to get 96 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: a pear shaped I knew that much. And then so 97 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: I went to first I went to Tiffany's, and then 98 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,799 Speaker 1: that was really expensive, so I went to the jewelry 99 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: shop across the street from Tiffany's, and it was like cheaper. 100 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: And then I just kept showing them like what I 101 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: want is a square in a circle. I don't want 102 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: a diamond, like a conflict stone. And so they didn't 103 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: have exactly what I was looking for. So they they 104 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: made one custom which turns out when you do that 105 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: first year, you can't return it, and also you have 106 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: to pay up front. And also it was kind of 107 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: created from pictures of better rings, uh, and then kind 108 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 1: of mashed together. And then so the day of I 109 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: went in and it's like it's a London blue topaz. 110 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be like a light blue. 111 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: This is really blue. It's like it looks like a 112 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: like a Jolly Rancher blue raspberry yeah yeah, which is 113 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: a delicious flavor, but it looks really bad on a ring. 114 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: And so I I bought that, and then as soon 115 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: as I got it, I had a panic attack because 116 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: I knew it was the opposite of what she wanted. 117 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be small, but because it's 118 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: blue topaz and it's like kind of a cheap semi 119 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: precious stone, it was real big, like it looks like 120 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: seven year old, like Florida Jewish Lady jewelry. And yeah, 121 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: so I ended up. You're looking for a ring, hit 122 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: mad up. Yeah, you're looking for a beautiful blue topaz 123 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: ring that's not part of the sea from Titanic. It does, 124 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: it's like that, but it's like, you know, it's blue 125 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: or somehow. And yeah, and it's not a conflict stone, 126 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: although it became one when she saw it, and she 127 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: she definitely did not she did not like it, but 128 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: we're still in love. You had a sense, you had 129 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: a sense going in and I have this, my lady. Yeah, 130 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: oh I knew. I knew as soon as I got it. 131 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: I fucked up. And what I didn't know? Tiffany's it's 132 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: from TIFFs yah yeah yeah yeah, Hey tiff can you 133 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: make me a ring for way too much money? A 134 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: photo line? Yeah yeah, I'll mash him together and photo 135 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: shop and I'll get you something approximating something I would like. 136 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: It's a beautiful ring. If you like, you know, if 137 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: you like something kind of gaudy. But if if you don't, 138 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: still buy it from me. Uh please someone buy the ring. 139 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: So we got another ring, uh that that she loves 140 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: that's coming in the mail. But yeah, I got this 141 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: this other one though, if anyone it's really hard to sell, dude. Yeah, 142 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: no one told me. I wish someone had told me that. 143 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: I wish I had asked. That's what I wish more 144 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:02,119 Speaker 1: than anything is that I yeah, do a it'll do daily. Um. 145 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: But instead I was like, I got this. What's the 146 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: worst second happened? Take just steal my money. But we're 147 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: about to get silly. We're about to get silly. All 148 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: that do delly King of the Hilly Anyways, I'm yeah, so, uh, 149 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: that's the last thing I googled how to sell and 150 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: it's brand new, never used. You know. She wouldn't even 151 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: put it on. She didn't. She was just looked at 152 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: it when she went uh oh wow. Yeah. But I 153 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: proposed by getting down on one knee and proposing with 154 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: the box, but it wasn't open. And then she I 155 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: waited for her to say yes first and then and 156 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: then she was like, we'll show me the ring and 157 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, but it's the worst part. And 158 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: then I opened it and I was like, you still 159 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: marry me? And she was like, oh, not with that ring. 160 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: And then she kissed me and uh yeah, and uh 161 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: we're still in love though, you know. So it's it's fine, 162 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: that's good. It's all about honestly, you know. Yeah, but 163 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: if anyone has any stock tips um or just like 164 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 1: any like way to recoup a few grand, just let 165 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: me know. You know, I'll sell some drugs. I don't 166 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: give a funk anymore. You're going to take a few 167 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: flights to believe you for me. I am down, dude, 168 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: I got I got a cavernous coal and you can 169 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: shove whatever whatever drugs you need in there. Dude, I will, 170 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: you know, I'll help out. I'm just trying to help. Yeah, man, 171 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: my engagement ring put me in so much debt. But 172 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: did she take it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that's nice. 173 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah she she like specifically picked it out. Yeah 174 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: that's smart. That's a good way of doing it. But 175 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: then she was still surprised. I don't know, she must 176 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: have like put a mental block, being like, but he'll 177 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: never actually do it because yeah, yeah, no, she well 178 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: she was surprised too, you know. Yeah. She's like, you 179 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 1: look so gaunt, Jack when you propose like I sold 180 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: all my blood. Yeah, it's there's something to be said 181 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: for being a idiot, because like I was able to 182 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: get her to the location where I had like set 183 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: up this bar, which was the first place I ever 184 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: told her I loved her. Was surprisingly an Irish bar. 185 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: I was, I was pretty drunk, uh and I had 186 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: like set up the basement of the bar. But the 187 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: way I got her there was being like I forgot 188 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: my fucking credit card at the at a puck fair again. 189 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: She's like, okay, fine, we'll go back there at So 190 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: you started it with a test of her relationship. Yeah, right, 191 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: you started it with a possible crisis, like can you yeah, 192 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: passages in Malibu? Yeah, yeah, Yeah. What is something you 193 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: think is overrated? I think winter? I can can go 194 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: suck a lemon, don't eat it. We like, if you're 195 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: in the southern hemisphere, I'm sorry, but we're out of 196 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: that season, and I'm really glad about it. It's there's 197 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: nothing actually good about it, and and we can forget it. 198 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 1: This this is the best time right now. Yeah? Are 199 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: you spring has spring uh sprung? Or are you getting 200 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: into the summer days where where you are on the 201 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: East Coast? Yeah, in North Carolina, we're getting real summer 202 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 1: and so it is hot but I don't know. I 203 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: I grew up with winter outside Chicago, and then I 204 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 1: went to college and winter in Syracuse, and as soon 205 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: as I wasn't there, I like, I went to college 206 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: in winter. Yeah, it's just like when it comes to Syracuse, 207 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: that is winter. It is a geographic location where winter 208 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: has come and continues to stay. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't 209 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: miss around. Yeah did you miss it when you lived 210 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles? Not even a little bit. It was amazing. 211 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: I just I was like, oh, you can just not 212 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: deal with this. Fantastic it was an option this whole time, 213 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: just south of us. You know, it's great. Yeah, I 214 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: missed the rhythm a little bit, not enough to ever 215 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: move away from Los Angeles, but I do enjoy just 216 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: the discomfort and shittiness of the rest of the country 217 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: has to put up with. No. Uh. It does like 218 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: kind of break up time a little bit in a 219 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 1: way that makes long term memory easier to comprehend. But 220 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: it also breaks up outfits nicely. Yeah, that is the 221 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: one that is the one thing that I missed. It's like, 222 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 1: I totally agree with you where it's like winter totally 223 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: can suck a lemon. I'm not with it. I don't 224 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: want slashing my boots, but I do miss being able 225 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: to wear a long coat in that fall area right 226 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: before winter, when it's like, oh it's nice to bundle 227 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: a little bit put a scarf on. I miss that, Whereas, 228 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: like you know, it could be the most warming up 229 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: I will do was putting on slightly thicker sweatpants out 230 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: here in outlay. And that's it, you know, And I 231 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: would love to put a code on again. That just 232 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: sounds nice. Yeah, People who grew up in l A 233 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: like fetishized winter, like Miles and Daniel, they have winter 234 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 1: outfits for no reason for yeah, like maybe those three 235 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: days we traveled to the East coast for Thanksgiving and 236 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: that's about it. Yeah. I want I want winter as 237 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: a treat for a little bit, right, I want I want, 238 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: like I want to briefly watch the Peanuts go ice 239 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: skating and especially and then it's cold outside for the 240 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: two days a minute and then forgetting little that was 241 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: enough like yeah, oh little taste fun. Yeah. And finally, Blair, 242 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: what is something that you think is underrated? Okay, guys, 243 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: I just got to be straight up with you. Chip 244 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: clips are incredible. Okay, you will not catch my cereal 245 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: getting stale, No fucking way. Thank you God for this 246 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: sophisticated us inf sun that just brings joy and laser 247 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: execution into my life. Chip Clips are the silent, subtle 248 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: assassin of adding overwhelming value while asking for little to 249 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: no recognition. Chip clicks are the Scottie Pippen of how 250 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: Wold Kitchen, where yes, that's totally is it? Am I 251 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: like fucked up for not realizing that, Yeah, that I've 252 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: never I've never sealed the cereal outside of like the 253 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: box that's brilliant. One day, I just was walking by 254 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: in the store and it was like a little thing 255 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: sticking out in the aisle, you know, and I just 256 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: grabbed like a whole like a um, it had like 257 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them on one thing. And from 258 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: that day on the amount of just my life improved, 259 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: Skyrock did. And it's like I'm putting those chip clips 260 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: on on frozen diss and chips and cereal and it's 261 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: just incredible. It really is, Like, which is it the 262 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: ones that you it's like the straight bar so it's 263 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: like a hair clip one or the one that's more 264 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: like a binder clip, because you know, there's there's different 265 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: chip bag clipping technoque different one. I think if the 266 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: second one is kind of like elegant, where I was like, oh, 267 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: this is it's that kind of it's a binder clip. Yeah. 268 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: Mine is actually not like a binder one. It's more 269 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: um fastened like a close pin, but just um really 270 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: sleek plastic and wow it works really good. Yeah. I 271 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: remember as a kid, I think because this the frequency 272 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: at which I would eat cereal, it wasn't really time 273 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: for it to get stale, you know, because like it 274 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: would probably be like a boxing cereal, probably be done 275 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: within a week or so. And then I remember like 276 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: going to kids houses and like you know, like their 277 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: parents had like the ship in like the tupperware, and 278 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: like they would pour it out of like a and 279 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: I would always be like, you don't even know what 280 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: you know that the box on the other funck is stupid. 281 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: And then I'm like, yeah, that ship is way fresher. 282 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: How am I supposed to know what that is? If 283 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: there's not a cartoon? I know, but that just shows 284 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 1: you by the child brain at the time, like many 285 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: cocoa Chris, I can't I can't tell about the robbers 286 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: on it. I like the taste of stale food, and 287 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: so sometimes I'll like not clip the chips, and then 288 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: it creates household issues because Isaac will be like, you're 289 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: a little mouse, like why are you doing this? Why 290 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: are the chips like soft? But I kind of like 291 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: when the chips are soft, wow, So you like you're 292 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: not You're down with a little bit of stale chip? 293 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: You I love. I love a stale chip in a 294 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: flat soda. I don't know what like I should should 295 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: I should just walk into the ocean. I need just 296 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: natural contrarians. Yeah, it's true. It's true. If anyone prefers 297 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: a stale chip, let me know, because it truly, like 298 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: doesn't bother me at all. I enjoy it. I wonder man, 299 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: that could be an interesting That's like your circular hot 300 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: dogs is like pre staled chips by Jamie. Well, yeah, 301 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: I'll just sell bags of chips that I already opened, 302 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: had three chips from, and then put back in the 303 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 1: cabinet for three weeks. Touch a stale from Jamie loftus. 304 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: I hope this thing though too, where I know people 305 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: who put their chips in the refrigerator and I don't 306 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 1: understand like clipped and in the refrigerator. Well, that's that's 307 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: sort of innovative. My mom taught me to keep my 308 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: coffee in refrigerator, which was something I never considered. The beans, 309 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: who the ground beans. I don't really funk with a 310 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: whole bean myself, but oh you get the preground. Yeah, 311 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: I mean I don't have that much time or ambition 312 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: for that many steps in my coffee process. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 313 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: I I used to just drink it out of the can. 314 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: That's how much energy I put into it. But also 315 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: shout out to Sam over a timeless coffee aways sends 316 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: me wonderful coffee. Her match these drinks, Oh my beans 317 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 1: are like so good. I feel like I'm not worthy 318 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: of good coffee because I'm just so used to drinking 319 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: like Kirkland coldbrew. But like, when you actually get all 320 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: these notes, you're like, oh shit, I feel like I'm 321 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: an ad executive. We just said he had an epic 322 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: weekend or something. Yeah, exactly, all right. Anyway, um, let's 323 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back to 324 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: talk stories. And we're back and we all gotta I 325 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: don't know if it was a rude awakening, but you know, 326 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: I think I think we've been aware that the Q, 327 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: the Q movement is still out there, still going strong, 328 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: but had a big weekend. Last weekend there was a 329 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: Texas convention where various speakers, including a congressman and Michael Flynn, 330 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: just you know, repeated the lies that the Q movement 331 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: is based on, like the foundational lies that it's stolen. 332 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,679 Speaker 1: Michael Flynn even when when asked like why America hasn't 333 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: had a mean mar style uprising or que which, in 334 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: case you're not familiar, that means that like protesters are shot, 335 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 1: journalists are put in prison, and a new undemocratically elected 336 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: government is put into power by the military. He said 337 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: he thinks that would be great, that we should have that. 338 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: That's awesome. And I think it's easy to dismiss the 339 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: Q movement as sort of a collection of delusional, you know, 340 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: narcissists shouting do your own research as their singular argument 341 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: for every bizarre belief they've made up, because like, that 342 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: is what it is. But it also I feel like, 343 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: first of all, Trump is totally on board with this. 344 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,479 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman just announced that he's been saying that he 345 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: fully believes that he will be reinstated as president by August. 346 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: And that's like where his sort of laser focus on 347 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: the audits. Uh, those goalposts back, just keep moving to 348 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: back a little bit more. I was it was March 349 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: for the first storm, and that's August. He's maybe like October, 350 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: I'm telling you October, that's going to be the money. 351 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: But they're leaning into a new thread, which is that 352 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: America needs to have a M. M. Mar style cou 353 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: where the military deposes the democratically elected ruler and sells 354 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: their own like as like that that feels significant to me. 355 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: I know it's easy like a lot of people. But 356 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: but and like especially because like I feel like in 357 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: the mainstream media there's this division where it's like, oh, 358 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: the Cube movement is silly, but it's being led by 359 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who is also leading the Republican Party like 360 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: full the way, No, like it's more powerful, has more 361 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: power in that party than I feel like any individual 362 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: has ever had in one of the major parties in 363 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: in like u S history, Like he just determines what 364 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: happens there. Yeah, so I don't know, less than three 365 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: years we're going to have a major presidential election where 366 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: one of the major parties platform is this is Q 367 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: and on ship is stop the steel and is basically 368 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: tacitly an approval of an armed uprising. Yea. And if 369 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: if I remember the previous election, like the official Republican platform, 370 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 1: the platform was just of one page documents staple to 371 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 1: the front of the ten platform, and it said we 372 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: support Donald J. Trump. That was the that was. They 373 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: didn't they didn't have like issues for I think the 374 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: first time in an American election the major party wasn't 375 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: like this our candidate, and also this is what we believe. 376 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: They were just like, no, this this wonderful, strange man. 377 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: That's our entire platform. Anyway, this is democracy, that's what 378 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: we like. And any and any issues at all that 379 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: were brought to the table, we're just to refute them. 380 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna be like, that's not a thing. We don't 381 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: believe from that climate change, we're not you know, that's 382 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: a that's a liberal hoax right there. It's just everything 383 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: is everything is anti You're right, there's there's no ground 384 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: to stand on. And I feel like this is because 385 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: it's been politicized, and because Democrats recognize that it's been politicized, 386 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: they are you know, the right wing, like a right 387 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: wing terror group or a group that's threatening to overthrow 388 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: the government is being treated more passively by the mainstream 389 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: than like if a congressman and a former you know, 390 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: major military official we're talking about overthrowing the US government 391 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: for any other cause, it would be like the end 392 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: of the news cycle. But just because of all the 393 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 1: normalization that has happened, and because of the Fox News 394 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: advantage that the right has where they you know, have 395 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: all mainstream commentators and mainstream Democrats frightened of being attacked, 396 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: that they just this is being treated more passively than 397 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: it would if any left wing group like made similar claims. 398 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: It's just because of what has gone on with the 399 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 1: Republican Party and like how the Democrats have just kind 400 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: of been controlled by the right wing media over the 401 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: last you know, fifteen years. It's we're now at a 402 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 1: point where they're going to get away with us. Yeah, 403 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 1: and I wonder how much of this just springs from 404 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: most Americans don't know anything about me Edbar, Like you 405 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: can switch governments and me and Bar it's like, well, 406 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: I want to switch governments, not learning anything more. Yeah, 407 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: I mean it seems to be working out, well, yeah, 408 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: you you following me? Yeah, I mean it's still a country, right, yeah, 409 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. We I I and really filled about 410 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: the previous election because there won't be a Republican president 411 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: until January of and I think they're not processing it 412 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: very well. It seems to be the issue. All right, 413 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: Let's talk about this new book it's called The Second 414 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: Race and Guns and a Fairly Unequal America that really 415 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: kind of crystallized the conversation around the Second Amendment for 416 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: me in a way that I hadn't like fully consciously 417 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: embraced because I feel like the way the mainstream media 418 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: treats it, it's like the Second Amendment conversation, the gun 419 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: rights advocate conversation. It's just like treated as a coincidence 420 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: that those people tend to also be the people who 421 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: get furious when you suggest something as simple as black 422 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,199 Speaker 1: lives matter. But it's like, yeah, they're just like on 423 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: the same spectrum, but they're not necessarily like fully connected 424 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: to one another. And this new book by historian Carol 425 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: Anderson looks at both the history of the Second Amendment, 426 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: like when it was first formed and why it was 427 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 1: first formed, but also just sort of the present moment, 428 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: and the the big kind of present tense news story 429 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: that she looks at is Filando Castile, who was following 430 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: the n r A guidelines for how to inform an 431 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: officer you are legally carrying a gun like to the 432 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: t like it's there's a handbook where they tell you 433 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 1: how to do this in the n r A. He 434 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: did that and was shot and killed by the cop 435 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: following the letter of the law. And he was killed 436 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: for it. And this was the perfect opportunity for an 437 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: organization that is so horny for conflict and to be 438 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: like victimized, to create a martyr who they could get behind. 439 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: And they were completely silent. They wanted no part of 440 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: backing Filando Castile. Meanwhile, you know, in the nineties the 441 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: Branch Davidians were raided by federal agents, and you know 442 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: members of that cult murdered federal agents. That n r 443 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: A back to them, you know, the Ruby Ridge saying 444 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: um militia movements saying they back people who murder federal 445 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 1: agents when they are white. And her argument is that 446 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: this is not an accident. The Second Amendment from the 447 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: start was designed to arm white people against potential slave uprisings. 448 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: And you know, when they were writing the amendments, the 449 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: Southern states didn't think that the federal government would help 450 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: them fight off a slave revolt with the federal army. 451 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: And so that's why they created, at least partially why 452 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: they created this second Amendment that has the everybody should 453 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: have guns and everybody should be able to form a militia, 454 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: so that they basically had the backing of the federal 455 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: government to form uh their own military. Um. And that 456 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: was like James Madison and all the Bridgingians and ship. 457 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: But then you know, they obviously heavily implied in that 458 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: is that it's only it only applies to white people. Um. 459 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: And throughout the history of the country, white armed rebellion 460 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: has been treated with a slap on the wrist like 461 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: the Whiskey rebellion, while black armed rebellion or self defense 462 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: has been treated with terror and state sanctioned murder or 463 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: dropping bombs on the whole neighborhood. Yeah, that's she didn't 464 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: talk about this in the interview that I listened to, 465 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: but the details of the Tulsa A race masacre, the 466 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: entire thing kicked off when black residents of Tulsa showed 467 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: up at a prison with guns to protect a teenager 468 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: from a lynch mob, and a shot was fired. Nobody 469 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: knows by who, but the very idea of a black 470 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: person firing a shot stirred the mob to the organized 471 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: and systematic and genocidal violence that they enacted like the 472 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: next morning. It's so interesting because, like you know, Jim 473 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: Crow was established soon after the end of the Civil War, 474 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: I mean, the idea of segregation in a two tiered system, 475 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: you know, the failed reconstruction and all that. Then we 476 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: have a hundred more years of Jim Crow, and you 477 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: wonder why, like, like our country is so racist, why 478 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: didn't they just amend the Second Amendment, Like you would 479 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: expect them to either rein in or amend or change 480 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: the sec An Amendment or just minute it altogether, because 481 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: oh my god, what if black people got weapons, you know, 482 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: just to cover their asses. But instead it was like, 483 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: now they'll just let everyone fight one another, and we're 484 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: not going to stop white mobs and everyone can defend 485 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: themselves except for if you're black. This this book sounds amazing, 486 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: and I'm sure she goes into the black Panthers and 487 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: of course, yeah, yeah, totally She goes deep into that 488 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: and how their whole stated purpose was arming themselves so 489 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: that they could police the police, because shockingly, the police 490 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: state sanctioned murder of black people goes back throughout history 491 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: to when the police were founded as like slave patrols, 492 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: and the way that they treated that was by executing 493 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: their leaders and killing people and arresting people. I mean, 494 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: there's so many books like this about so many specific things. 495 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: I just like essentially boiled down to like some big 496 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: American idea with an asterisk next to it that's this 497 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: term terms and conditions apply, right, just so you know, 498 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: like if for to some people, and yeah, to even 499 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: look at like, yeah, it's your point, Francisco, Like you 500 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: think if they could take it off the table, God damn, 501 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: black people won't have guns. We don't have to worry 502 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: about that. Ship. But there's something about the racism in 503 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: this country that's so shortsighted and just reactionary without like 504 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: really considering it and then like down the road and 505 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 1: be like, oh yeah, what was that about. Wait that 506 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: was race? Oh yeah, we didn't look It's it's been 507 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: so many years now and it's so ingrained in the culture, 508 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: and we're not really interested in again parsing through that 509 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: and understanding the motivations behind having amendments like this or 510 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: the perceived rights of things like this. But yeah, it's 511 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: just it's yeah, even liberals, like you're saying Jack initially 512 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: that that you know, they consider this untouchable, like well, 513 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, in Second Amendment rights people and you know, 514 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: and it's just it's seen as such a quote unquote 515 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: cultural almost religious, almost put in the same category, you know, 516 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: as one who's pro life on religious grounds, and that's 517 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: obviously a separate bullshit issue. Um, but like this is 518 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: sort of scene as that is super untouchable because liberals 519 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: also planned to the idea that our founding fathers were 520 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: good and that they were not racist, and yeah, maybe 521 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 1: they owned slaves, but they were good people and everybody 522 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: owned slaves and that's what the exactly what they took 523 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: care of. But it's like no, and it's okay, we're 524 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: just we're given speaking of you guys asked about myths 525 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: on this show all the time, and you know, the 526 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: founding myth that like this country is was founded by 527 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: good people and on good terms. It's like, no, we 528 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: have to We're told so many myths that uphold that, 529 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,959 Speaker 1: and it feels, it does feel scary to unravel and 530 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 1: begin to unravel those myths that we're told, you know, 531 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: Polka Hunt is totally consented to being John Smith child brat, 532 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: you know, that kind of crap that like, But it's 533 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: okay if we can replace it with like new ideas, 534 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: and we can replace it with like better aspirations. I mean, 535 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: I think you know, Obama had words the best words, uh, 536 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: he really did, and like I think he began to 537 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: carve out and I wish we could have someone who 538 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: has actually made good on his promises, you know, to 539 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: carve out this idea that we're still constructing this American dream. 540 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: And it is why a lot of civil rights organizers 541 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: and activists call for what they they say they name 542 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: a third reconstruction, the second reconstruction being the civil rights movement, 543 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: the first reconstruction being a failed attempt. But you know, 544 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 1: of of equality and we still have to strive for that. 545 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: But and it's okay, we can let go of these 546 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: old myths, but not if liberals keep on conflating this ship, 547 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: which is so clearly racist, with some kind of religious 548 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: or foundational untouchable principle of American nous that we can't 549 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: actually reform. Yeah, and I think it's and then I 550 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: think more people have to begin to see that unwillingness 551 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: as like an absolute redline in terms of not wanting 552 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: to vote for someone to support someone like that, because 553 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,959 Speaker 1: you're like, we need representatives who are gonna look with 554 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,839 Speaker 1: a sober eye at our history, see where we came 555 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: from to understand where we need to go. Because if 556 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 1: you're already playing with this like obscure, oh, sanitized version, 557 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: you can never solve a problem. It's like looking at 558 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: you have a fucking X ray and ship and it's 559 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 1: like some crayon drawing and you're like, yeah, it looks 560 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: like that one red spot on the bone should go. 561 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: And you're like, I wish this were a real X 562 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,919 Speaker 1: ray so you could actually see what you're looking at 563 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: inside my chest where it is specifically what organs. It's 564 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: damaging because this other version of me like, yeah, this 565 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: bad we should cut it out. Isn't gonna get to 566 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: the point and isn't going to create the sort of 567 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,399 Speaker 1: forward momentum in progress that we're seeking. And yeah, it's 568 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: it's it is a hard thing, and we do need 569 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: to keep looking at it to your point of saying like, yeah, 570 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: we don't have to just talk about how fucked up 571 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: everything is. You can pivot to that and say, yeah, 572 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 1: that was the world as it was, and this is 573 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 1: the world as it should be. And these are the 574 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 1: people who were moving to try and take our country 575 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: and our society to the world as it should be. 576 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: And this is what we're still building on. See, we 577 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,320 Speaker 1: want to build on this momentum rather than like yeah, 578 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: thanks John Adams, sick bro, and then just leaving it there. Yeah, 579 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: this argument and this kind of connecting of the Second 580 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: Amendment to systemic white supremacy, just the anger and vitriol 581 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 1: and fear tied up in the Second Amendment argument and 582 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: guns rights people never fully made sense to me. It 583 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: was always I was always picturing when they said, like 584 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 1: they're gonna come for our guns, and like that I 585 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: need my guns to like protect my family. They always 586 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: talk about like the government coming for your guns, and 587 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: it's like, what are you talking about, Like that's not 588 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: even a thing that we have in our history. But 589 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: I think when you connect it to the white supremacy, 590 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: the fact that you know, we've talked before on the 591 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 1: show about the fact that they know white supremacy is 592 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: a lie. Like on some level, they know that they 593 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,880 Speaker 1: know they live on a graveyard of horrific abuses that 594 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,239 Speaker 1: propped them up to wherever they exist, and that black 595 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: Americans have every right to demand retribution and they know 596 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: that this is this lie. That every American has the 597 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: right to own guns is a massive advantage they have, 598 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: and that's why they're obsessed with stories about how crime 599 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: ridden cities are so that they can like justify their fear. 600 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: Like when when you ask people who watch Fox News 601 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: what they think a city is, like, it's it's so 602 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: outside the bounds of reality. They think it's odd that 603 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,719 Speaker 1: HBO show, yes, they did, playing out in a Starbucks. 604 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 1: That's why, and that's why they're so outraged anytime anyone 605 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: criticizes police violence. But it's why they are so like 606 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: there's all that fear, all those lies, all that hatred, 607 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: like holding the idea of white supremacy in their mind 608 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 1: and along with some part of them that has seen 609 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: that that ship is not true like them, they're trying 610 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 1: to hold those together, and that creates cognitive dissonance, It 611 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: creates angry, It creates fear, and it just really the 612 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,359 Speaker 1: the image. As I was like kind of listening to 613 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: her interview with Terry Gross's substitute teacher, I forget that 614 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: David Davy beyond Something's like Terry Gross is sub and 615 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,440 Speaker 1: then like reading up on this book, the thing that 616 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 1: kept popping into my head is that suburban St. Louis 617 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,720 Speaker 1: couple who when Black Lives Matter protesters were walking past 618 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: their home, they stood on their front lawn holding their 619 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 1: guns and like waving them at them, like kind of 620 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,840 Speaker 1: waving their right to own guns as a privilege in 621 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: the face of black protesters who would be killed on 622 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 1: site for holding guns that openly like just being like, 623 00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 1: this is our advantage. Fuck you Like that is her 624 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: whole argument really kind of ties a lot of things 625 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,359 Speaker 1: together for me. Yeah, go beyond that. I mean, the 626 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: entire Trump presidency is an emblem and homage to white supremacy, 627 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,879 Speaker 1: to the idea that if you're rich and wide enough 628 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,680 Speaker 1: and a dude, you can get away with anything. Look 629 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: at January six. I always talk about this. I'm just like, man, 630 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:32,920 Speaker 1: I've Marshawn Washington many times. I would be murdered. Just 631 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,800 Speaker 1: how close would I have gotten to breaking a window 632 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 1: the Capitol steps. Had we been you know, work like 633 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 1: protesting a war, uh, protesting the International Monetary Fund, protesting 634 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:56,919 Speaker 1: police murder like or anything. It's just so like when 635 00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: we I feel like, as a white person watching the 636 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,279 Speaker 1: January six like every white person, I don't know, I 637 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,440 Speaker 1: am half white, and I so I kind of understand this, 638 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,280 Speaker 1: but like must have been looking at and me being like, man, 639 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: white privilege really is kind of a thing, huh, because 640 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,359 Speaker 1: you know people of color in this country where like 641 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: white privilege is absolutely look at that. Look at that, yeah, 642 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: look at there's no accountability for that. A few months later, 643 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 1: absolutely and so disheartening to witness too, as a black person, 644 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: been Asian person living in this country in the same life, 645 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 1: to see they can fucking go and do that because 646 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,319 Speaker 1: they're upset that Trump isn't president. Meanwhile, we're looking at 647 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,080 Speaker 1: real fucked up outcomes for unarmed people, and you know, 648 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: it's like everybody knows. I'm like, no one's foolish enough 649 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,799 Speaker 1: to come armed to something like that. As a person, 650 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,719 Speaker 1: the game is just completely different, and the sad thing 651 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,719 Speaker 1: is too, like on the on the face of it, 652 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 1: in history, marginalized people have more of a reason to 653 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 1: be like, no, I need these guns, man. Have you 654 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: in what they do to us? Have you seen what 655 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 1: they do to us? Oh? Hell no? And how are 656 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: you gonna how are we going to move forward at all? 657 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,760 Speaker 1: When we're just kind of looking at these small issue 658 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,399 Speaker 1: or not that this is a small issue, but we're 659 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: not really looking at changing real lived outcomes for people 660 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,359 Speaker 1: and just thinking like, well, maybe if the guns are gone, 661 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: that could be something. No, how about you give people support, 662 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,359 Speaker 1: how about you give them options? How about give them 663 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 1: upboard mobility, because I'm sure most people would prefer that 664 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,040 Speaker 1: than to live in a you know, in a cycle 665 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,000 Speaker 1: of fear and violence and anger. Uh, and would much 666 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: rather be in a place of abundance on some level 667 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 1: or just to have some relief. That's why it's so 668 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: upsetting things, you know, instances like Philando Castile, because you're 669 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,839 Speaker 1: absolutely right that unarmed black people get gunned down all 670 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,000 Speaker 1: the time, and so what is too why not just 671 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,040 Speaker 1: be armed? They get gunned down by vigilantes, um self 672 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,400 Speaker 1: proclaimed vigilantes. Now I'm blinking on his name, but the 673 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 1: gentleman he was killed, the young kid who was killed 674 00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 1: last year. No, right, before um, George Lloyd, Um, I'm 675 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,480 Speaker 1: at avery. Yeah, I'm at avery, and former police officers 676 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,480 Speaker 1: and then most recently another young But it's like every 677 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,320 Speaker 1: time the conversation if someone had a gun, the internet 678 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: conversation is oh, but he had a gun, but he 679 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,520 Speaker 1: had a gun. Oh his hands were up, but he 680 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,240 Speaker 1: had a gun. Then kill him on site. That's not allowed. 681 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:25,359 Speaker 1: That's not depending again, terms and conditions apply. Like it's 682 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: the number one tool for white supremacy is this lie 683 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,399 Speaker 1: and being able to just enforce this lie within sort 684 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,760 Speaker 1: of the mainstream culture that you know, well, really only 685 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,359 Speaker 1: white people are allowed to have guns, like and if 686 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: somebody who isn't white has a gun, the police will 687 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:49,000 Speaker 1: murder them on site like that. That's unbelievable. And like 688 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 1: the fact that it's not set out loud like constantly 689 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: like that, that is the It's a shocking, like dystopian 690 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 1: reality that I just feel like people don't say Asian 691 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 1: American gun ownership soaring through the roof. I do believe 692 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:11,200 Speaker 1: in gun control except for Asian elders. I think we 693 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: should arm Asian aunties and uncles with a R fifteen. 694 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 1: That's it. They're the only ones. Police no guns. Everyone 695 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: else no guns, but Asian aunties and uncles we arm them. 696 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,960 Speaker 1: They patrol. Yeah, and they tell you obviously, like how 697 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,080 Speaker 1: to choose a good watermelon, and you know, how to 698 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: stay out, how to stay out of the sun. Very 699 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,719 Speaker 1: very disciplined. On the triggers. That's a bust. They're gun 700 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,960 Speaker 1: for anything. They're like, you know, I'm gonna hit you 701 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,719 Speaker 1: with it real quick first. Yeah, oh no, no, I'm 702 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 1: not gonna get loaded. I will smack you over the 703 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,400 Speaker 1: head with this. It's a big bat. That's who I 704 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: believe in army. I'm like with their little baskets, they 705 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: can carry them in the little front portion of it. 706 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,919 Speaker 1: I'm about that. There we go. All right, let's take 707 00:42:53,960 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're 708 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:11,960 Speaker 1: back and Anthony Fauci, bye bye. You're canceled, bro. They 709 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:17,400 Speaker 1: foyed thousands of his emails from during the pandemic. You know, 710 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:21,000 Speaker 1: I think everybody was hoping to find the goods on 711 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,279 Speaker 1: what was really going on behind the scenes as he was, 712 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:30,320 Speaker 1: you know, dismantling the Trump administration from the inside. And 713 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,680 Speaker 1: the spiciest nugget that's being used as a pool quote 714 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,960 Speaker 1: is where he said, all is well, despite some crazy 715 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 1: people in this world. Oh shit out of control, so problematic. 716 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,080 Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, we don't use crazy anymore. 717 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:56,319 Speaker 1: That is just wildly both misogynistic and it just it's 718 00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:01,800 Speaker 1: a bigoted phrase. Unbelievable. So this was actually an email 719 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,359 Speaker 1: response to someone who said they were worried about all 720 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,680 Speaker 1: the people who are threatening his life in the last 721 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,640 Speaker 1: of his family, so it's hard to even interpret it 722 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,600 Speaker 1: as being directed at Trump. The The email to him 723 00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: was like, I saw some news. Hope it's fake that 724 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,399 Speaker 1: you're being attacked by some people. Hope you are well 725 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,000 Speaker 1: under such an irrational situation. He responded, thank you for 726 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,160 Speaker 1: your kind note. All as well, despite some crazy people 727 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,759 Speaker 1: in the world. So what a funk? What about the 728 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,600 Speaker 1: next thing? What about the next thing? Come on, has 729 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,040 Speaker 1: got to be more than that. Give us the T, 730 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,040 Speaker 1: give us the T. I know there's tea. I've heard 731 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:40,440 Speaker 1: of tea. So I will say this, the people who 732 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,520 Speaker 1: the Q people have not had a chance to fully 733 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,960 Speaker 1: digest all of the emails. I'm sure they're going to 734 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,279 Speaker 1: find some secret codes in there to know what was 735 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:56,120 Speaker 1: really going on. But that is like, that's it, man, 736 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 1: he is really he's a professional doctor. Yeah, not a comedian, right, 737 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,120 Speaker 1: He's a guy in a in a very tough position 738 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,080 Speaker 1: where he has people literally trying to murder him while 739 00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,879 Speaker 1: he tries to make sure that a few people as 740 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:18,759 Speaker 1: possible die from a global pandemic. The his there, it's 741 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,479 Speaker 1: very consistent between what you see in the emails and 742 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,799 Speaker 1: what you saw in press conferences. The only difference is 743 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,640 Speaker 1: that he's he seems like very cautious and like wary 744 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,520 Speaker 1: of public perception in a way that I could see 745 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,640 Speaker 1: people being like, oh, he's just all about like the press, 746 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 1: and but that is in fact, like from day one, 747 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,279 Speaker 1: people are like, okay, so this is how you lead 748 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 1: during a global pandemic. You have to be steady, you 749 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,000 Speaker 1: have to be understated. Uh. And he saw that the 750 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 1: president wasn't doing that, and so like, I'm guessing that's 751 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,880 Speaker 1: why he was so careful about, you know, controlling them 752 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,960 Speaker 1: that was put out there about him, because he recognized 753 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,920 Speaker 1: probably that he was the only voice of reason for 754 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,040 Speaker 1: for the country, right, Yeah, he was. He was really 755 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,680 Speaker 1: the only rational person who was in the room with 756 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,600 Speaker 1: a president surrounded by sycophants. So I mean, you know, 757 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 1: he's he's trying to be as rational and as forthcoming 758 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,759 Speaker 1: as he can be given his current situation, and I'm 759 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 1: showing some over He's like, dude, I'm not saying anything 760 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,759 Speaker 1: an official email where someone can foya this and like 761 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,400 Speaker 1: reveal anything remotely and what my personal thoughts are outside 762 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,759 Speaker 1: of my you know position. I don't think this like 763 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,279 Speaker 1: proves that he is like that, this is actually how 764 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:47,239 Speaker 1: he is. It's just when you foy a Republican or 765 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:51,360 Speaker 1: conservative leader, it's like lifting up a rock with just 766 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,440 Speaker 1: thousands of disgusting bugs and like a smushed cat and 767 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,440 Speaker 1: a band of drugs and a murder weapon underneath it. 768 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,359 Speaker 1: Like with Faucy, you get vaguely dismissive language about people 769 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,719 Speaker 1: who are threatening the lives of his family. Get a 770 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,960 Speaker 1: fucking life, Fauci, you're such a dork. But I'm sure 771 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,120 Speaker 1: like there are some Democrats to that. They're just they're 772 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,080 Speaker 1: just they're good at their rock hiding, you know what 773 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,400 Speaker 1: I mean, the same way I think we're just like 774 00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,880 Speaker 1: I think with some Republicans you don't even need a 775 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,080 Speaker 1: foil of them because they say everything out loud. No, yeah, 776 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,319 Speaker 1: you just need to have a camera there whenever they're 777 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,960 Speaker 1: doing like, uh, you know, one of those like one 778 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,880 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a plate dinners for like the American uh 779 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,680 Speaker 1: Liberty Coalition or whatever, you know, and then they just 780 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:40,400 Speaker 1: go like everyone actually liked slavery? Is this thing on? Hello? 781 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:45,200 Speaker 1: Is this? Yeah? Slavery was fun, and you're just like 782 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: this is being taped, dude, whoa, whoa. I thought, okay, 783 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,440 Speaker 1: I thought we're all cool here. No. Yeah, oh so 784 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,439 Speaker 1: now you're gonna cancel me for having, you know, neo colonial, 785 00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:02,800 Speaker 1: neo confederate fucking sentiments. Well, enjoy the comedic stylings of 786 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:11,120 Speaker 1: Ellie Kepper. Sorry alright, Peter a real one. Yeah, alright, 787 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,279 Speaker 1: So well, she was she nineteen when she went to 788 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,640 Speaker 1: weird that she looks like a child. I was just 789 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,360 Speaker 1: I was being I saw the headline too, and I 790 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:21,880 Speaker 1: was like, oh ship. But then I was like you 791 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,440 Speaker 1: always have to do the thing and be like, what 792 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,359 Speaker 1: the fund did you do when you were nineteen? Right exactly? Yeah. 793 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,360 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I I wasn't able to do 794 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,319 Speaker 1: was win any fucking beauty patchet because I am not 795 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:38,600 Speaker 1: an attractive man. I went to one debutante ball and 796 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,240 Speaker 1: I embarrassed my high school girlfriend because I got so high. 797 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,359 Speaker 1: I was stinking in there and this was like uptight, Like, 798 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,640 Speaker 1: you know, this is like the fucking debut tomball ish it. 799 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,760 Speaker 1: I tried my best. I smoked with a huge, hefty 800 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,400 Speaker 1: garbage bag over my my torso and I smoked outside. 801 00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:01,319 Speaker 1: I did Yeah, I did my best, babe. Yeah you 802 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,840 Speaker 1: hot box the trash bag and you still got in trouble. Yeah, Like, 803 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,560 Speaker 1: you're right. I shouldn't have blown the smoke in the bag. 804 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,680 Speaker 1: That was an idea didn't stick onto my wool suit. 805 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,960 Speaker 1: I never went to a Debutan ball, but I learned 806 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,040 Speaker 1: everything I needed to from the uh, from that borat 807 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:21,399 Speaker 1: thing and a couple of magazine articles just how bad 808 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,680 Speaker 1: these dad's, I mean, how much they want to suck 809 00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,560 Speaker 1: their daughters. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a there's a 810 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,400 Speaker 1: lot of kind of like incestual dad energy, very a 811 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,040 Speaker 1: lot of like porn hub title energy. You know, let 812 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,200 Speaker 1: a butterfly kisses energy as well. Yeah, it is, Uh, 813 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,120 Speaker 1: it's real gross. I only know of debutant balls through 814 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,920 Speaker 1: like TV and movies. You know, I'm not That's what 815 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,920 Speaker 1: I thought. It was like a dance, not like this 816 00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:50,800 Speaker 1: thing where like I would be the only like or 817 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,719 Speaker 1: one of three like non white people there. Yeah, it's 818 00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,760 Speaker 1: like a cattle call for like single ladies. Is that it? 819 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,640 Speaker 1: It's like this is them, this is the adult version 820 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:08,840 Speaker 1: of this child now for for Southern wasps, former slave 821 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,480 Speaker 1: owners or whatever. Yeah, yeah, you know the same thing. 822 00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like it does very much feel. It 823 00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,600 Speaker 1: feels very gross to uh, you know, showcase your your 824 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,320 Speaker 1: hot daughter. But but I don't. I don't really blame 825 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 1: Ellie Kemper for the founding of it. I do just 826 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,399 Speaker 1: think it's funny because it was like one of those 827 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,440 Speaker 1: cancelations online that you're just like, yeah, sure, I'm not 828 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,920 Speaker 1: even gonna read it. Yeah, fucker, I have no reason 829 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,560 Speaker 1: to hate this person. But I was like, yeah, we haven't. 830 00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,839 Speaker 1: We haven't done her yet. She should be canceled. Not 831 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,200 Speaker 1: even sure? Why do I want to find out? To 832 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,399 Speaker 1: play this on the ingram Angle tonight, they're like this 833 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,839 Speaker 1: is how the liberals talk. Yeah, you see, we haven't 834 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:56,040 Speaker 1: done her yet. What do they mean? Did she come 835 00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:57,600 Speaker 1: out when she was like? Yo, that was an l 836 00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:02,359 Speaker 1: you know, honestly, I shouldn't have that was not I would. 837 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:07,080 Speaker 1: I would strong if she listens to this podcast, which 838 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure she does. I want to strongly advise her 839 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,560 Speaker 1: to just pretend none of this ever happened and move 840 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:18,680 Speaker 1: on because any apology so that's just another news cycle. Baby, 841 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,879 Speaker 1: that's just gonna keep it going. I say, just live 842 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:27,160 Speaker 1: your life, you know, keeping the impossible Kimmy Schmidt, is 843 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:32,959 Speaker 1: that what it's called? Yea, is she impossible? No, she's ubreakable. Yeah, 844 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,560 Speaker 1: continue being unbreakable. And you know, do you because I 845 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:44,560 Speaker 1: am certain that you did not found the KKK wall right, 846 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,680 Speaker 1: This is the beginning into realizing she's some kind of 847 00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,000 Speaker 1: time traveler. Yeah, dude, look at this photo of like 848 00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,520 Speaker 1: the Confederacy leaders and their wives. It's all Ellie Kimpers. 849 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,880 Speaker 1: She's married to five different Stonewall Jackson and Jack Nicholson. 850 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,680 Speaker 1: They're You're just like, is this the shining? What the fuck? 851 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:08,200 Speaker 1: She was married to General Braxton Bragg. Fox News sent 852 00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,960 Speaker 1: their equivalent of a U up text to her. By 853 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,320 Speaker 1: media critics condemned left leaning outlets Ellie kemper On Slot 854 00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,080 Speaker 1: over ties to racist ball. Uh so they like put 855 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,279 Speaker 1: out an opinion piece being like you leave this nice 856 00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,960 Speaker 1: girl alone. Yeah, yeah, I mean ties to racist ball. 857 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,160 Speaker 1: Like I feel like that's like anything anyone's ever, like 858 00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:32,280 Speaker 1: anyone who existed from any time that you probably participated 859 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,719 Speaker 1: in something with origins and terrible racism. I feel like, 860 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,720 Speaker 1: if you're white, and not even just in the South, 861 00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,640 Speaker 1: like if you're just white and lived in a suburb, 862 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:47,760 Speaker 1: you definitely participated in some sort of clan adjacent event. 863 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,080 Speaker 1: You didn't know that, you're you know you you just 864 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,560 Speaker 1: thought this was the annual k K R o q 865 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,920 Speaker 1: uh Weenie roast, and you're like, every every year we 866 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,480 Speaker 1: eat hot dogs and listen to alternative music from the nineties. 867 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,000 Speaker 1: I didn't know the clan had anything to do with it, 868 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:10,000 Speaker 1: you know they did. Yeah, Kevin and Bean, Yeah, big 869 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:16,040 Speaker 1: big clans cans, Kevin Dude, Slugo from K Rock Jet Fish. 870 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,480 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, these guys were Confederate generals too. 871 00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:24,440 Speaker 1: There's there's three K's and Striker. You know, I just 872 00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:30,480 Speaker 1: love I love K Rock is secretly KKK Rock. This 873 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,920 Speaker 1: is very very specific Los Angeles audience. But it's a 874 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:38,080 Speaker 1: it's a great joke. All right, Let's talk about Europeans. 875 00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:43,000 Speaker 1: I've been thinking about them. Finally. There such an affectionate people. 876 00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,960 Speaker 1: Can they kiss on the cheek to say hi? Yeah? 877 00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:53,480 Speaker 1: That's basically like some porno right in America, We're like, 878 00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,920 Speaker 1: what the yeah is this? Like it's so funny when 879 00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,439 Speaker 1: you see Americans like meet European for the first time 880 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:03,640 Speaker 1: and like they go, oh really okay, yeah they kiss 881 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,319 Speaker 1: on the cheek and are we having sex now because 882 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,080 Speaker 1: the deal or someone has like a joke like I 883 00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: need a cigarette after that, like really hugged somebody a 884 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,440 Speaker 1: fucking creep. But yeah, like this whole thing, like you know, 885 00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,399 Speaker 1: in America, we have to just screwed up a sense 886 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,520 Speaker 1: of like physical intimacy, like especially you know between bros. 887 00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,160 Speaker 1: You know, so like switching to the fist bump. I 888 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,760 Speaker 1: think it was a really easy alternative to show perfection 889 00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,880 Speaker 1: as a greeting in this country, especially when we're already 890 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,360 Speaker 1: a stepdad. And Europe, on the other hand, is a 891 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,880 Speaker 1: place the love flows. The kisses and hugs are ingrained 892 00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,719 Speaker 1: in the culture, and that's why at the beginning of 893 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,160 Speaker 1: the lockdowns, I remember like officials in Italy were saying 894 00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,560 Speaker 1: stay apart today, to embrace each other more warmly tomorrow, 895 00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:48,520 Speaker 1: because you want to get in, you want to give 896 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,720 Speaker 1: kisses and things like that. And that's how I agree 897 00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,880 Speaker 1: with that's how I agree with strangers putting our eyes 898 00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:02,239 Speaker 1: next to each other and so funny. So as the 899 00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:05,680 Speaker 1: lockdown looses, though, and vaccinations increase, people are wondering, like 900 00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:07,319 Speaker 1: what to do now in Europe? Like is there an 901 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,759 Speaker 1: in between on the way back to full blown vessels? 902 00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,080 Speaker 1: And it seems like everyone's been trying things, you know, 903 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,919 Speaker 1: right now in Italy they're trying a new thing, which 904 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,359 Speaker 1: is a breast bump. Now not like across the board, 905 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,719 Speaker 1: but things people have noticed to some have some kind 906 00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,840 Speaker 1: of contact work. Quote, two people greeting each other essentially 907 00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,160 Speaker 1: try to touch hearts with their heads turned as far 908 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,600 Speaker 1: away from each other as possible. God, I love the 909 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,400 Speaker 1: the I love the horny nous of the modern European 910 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,719 Speaker 1: Like they just are just like we have to do 911 00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,359 Speaker 1: skin on skin, like let me feel that heartbeat? Fun. 912 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,480 Speaker 1: I love that. That sounds great to me. I just 913 00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,520 Speaker 1: like how it looks though, Like if you saw people 914 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,399 Speaker 1: doing that, they're like, yo, do they fucking hate each other? Yeah? Yeah, 915 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:51,720 Speaker 1: it's turned it's probably like yeah yeah yeah, like about 916 00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:56,840 Speaker 1: the fight, like the right, that's very schoolyard. Yeah, like 917 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,040 Speaker 1: talking to the can due shoulder, talking to you shoulders, 918 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,799 Speaker 1: but you want to find out. Yeah, they're speaking in 919 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,240 Speaker 1: French though, so you're like, I think they're in love, 920 00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,640 Speaker 1: but either that or they're gonna kill each other. Are 921 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,960 Speaker 1: they gonna be divorced? This? But in France they have 922 00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,080 Speaker 1: This is again, this is from the Daily Beast. They 923 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,280 Speaker 1: were saying that they've gone for quote, a more elegant 924 00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:24,080 Speaker 1: bicet bump, which minimizes contact and the chance that someone 925 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,960 Speaker 1: might accidentally forget and plant a fatal smooch. So I'm 926 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,319 Speaker 1: guessing you're doing like, oh oh yeah, arms straight like 927 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,080 Speaker 1: bang yeah, or or like the side of your arm 928 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,239 Speaker 1: and the side of their arm, like you're leaning in 929 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,120 Speaker 1: for a kiss, but you don't do the kiss, yeah, 930 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,360 Speaker 1: or like do and does anyone do like a shoulder 931 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,879 Speaker 1: to shoulder with your heads? Yeah? Right, like you know 932 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,040 Speaker 1: what I mean? You know, I I'm glad that they're 933 00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:52,239 Speaker 1: trying to like do a life hack for COVID, you know, greetings, 934 00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:56,080 Speaker 1: But I mean, what about like high fives? Is that 935 00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,840 Speaker 1: I think because it looks like what the idiots who 936 00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:02,120 Speaker 1: with the accents you when they invade their country on tours, 937 00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,799 Speaker 1: like the tourism tours. Yeah, that's like a fucking top gun, 938 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,120 Speaker 1: no funk that we have do our ship properly. We're 939 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,399 Speaker 1: gonna be a chess bump, right. It sounds awkward as hell, 940 00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,680 Speaker 1: but I would say considering that Jack and almost made 941 00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:16,720 Speaker 1: out when we saw each other for the first time 942 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,120 Speaker 1: in physical space after a year, Like I get it, 943 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:20,520 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like sometimes you need to 944 00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:25,400 Speaker 1: be like yo, we were here. Physical contact is important 945 00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,080 Speaker 1: not just between Miles and I, but as a as 946 00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,400 Speaker 1: a society, we we need that ship. And I think 947 00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,040 Speaker 1: that's true. If we had more of a culture of 948 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:39,040 Speaker 1: kissing and hugging when we saw each other, like maybe 949 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:43,480 Speaker 1: we'd have like fifty percent less mass shootings. Yeahs, and 950 00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,320 Speaker 1: people just like greeted each other with like affection or 951 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:51,120 Speaker 1: like this like despair pit of masculinity where you're a 952 00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:55,360 Speaker 1: completely rendered inert like innationally around other people because like 953 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,440 Speaker 1: I cannot do this. I should just go lift weights 954 00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,959 Speaker 1: or I must shake hands, say sup from you see 955 00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,440 Speaker 1: like in other countries how affectionate men are with each other, 956 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,880 Speaker 1: and you immediately see a different sort of quality or 957 00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,760 Speaker 1: level to that like these friendships or the bonds than 958 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,200 Speaker 1: you do when like dudes are just like throwing beer 959 00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:17,240 Speaker 1: cans at a wall, or some ship men have like 960 00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:25,480 Speaker 1: an internal combustion engine that converts every emotion into anger. Yeah, yeah, 961 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,720 Speaker 1: I love that. We really are like just so repressed. 962 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:34,920 Speaker 1: We're basically a steam engine. Like, bro, yeah, you become 963 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:41,480 Speaker 1: the little engine that should Yeah. So, like the other 964 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,240 Speaker 1: things that they're saying, like, look, we get that people 965 00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,080 Speaker 1: are getting vaccinated and numbers are beginning to stabilize, but 966 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,480 Speaker 1: still like, please exercise a monicum with caution because we're 967 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:51,680 Speaker 1: still trying to figure out like all of the nuances 968 00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,800 Speaker 1: of even transmission with vaccinated people and you know, knowing 969 00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,960 Speaker 1: what to do, especially with the elderly. So this one 970 00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:02,160 Speaker 1: expert said that vaccinated grandparents hug are unvaccinated grandchildren from 971 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:05,959 Speaker 1: the back. You know. He suggests they hold their breath 972 00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,200 Speaker 1: from it. But you know, I want to make it. 973 00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,320 Speaker 1: I want to make it a little bit. Yeah. The 974 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,240 Speaker 1: words they use was hit it from behind the back, 975 00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:22,240 Speaker 1: hold your breath stank so bad. But like but he said, 976 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,960 Speaker 1: hold your breath begin because it's all about the exhalations. 977 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,200 Speaker 1: And this one Italian expert strongly warns against what they 978 00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,800 Speaker 1: call the aunt's kiss, which is a full lipped cheek 979 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:34,840 Speaker 1: plant as they say, because again you're leaving, there could 980 00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,320 Speaker 1: be saliva left. You might be touching your that and 981 00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,720 Speaker 1: then touch your mouth or touch your eye or something 982 00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,440 Speaker 1: like that. So it's you know, it's it's, it's, it's 983 00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,120 Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit tough, and I get it. 984 00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,000 Speaker 1: You know, my heart goes out. But being being from 985 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,880 Speaker 1: two cultures that are famously not very affectionate, I've found 986 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:55,440 Speaker 1: it like, yeah, I have no problem like not being affectionate. 987 00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,880 Speaker 1: When I greet people. I like to hug. That's what 988 00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,040 Speaker 1: else I like to do. And I'll admit I I 989 01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:02,760 Speaker 1: definitely one of those guys who like went to Europe 990 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,520 Speaker 1: and someone greeted me with the cheek kiss and I 991 01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:08,720 Speaker 1: spent most of the time like I had a like 992 01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:11,280 Speaker 1: a meltdown, just like I don't know where to go, 993 01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,520 Speaker 1: and then I just walked away. The masculinity challenge, I 994 01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:21,439 Speaker 1: ever thought about this shot in your pants. Yeah, there's 995 01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,360 Speaker 1: this other thing though, too, like because then there's such 996 01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:26,760 Speaker 1: a culture of predatory men and you know, consent culture 997 01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,640 Speaker 1: not existing here that like even hugging you want to 998 01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:32,240 Speaker 1: be like is that cool? Because I like there's a 999 01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,600 Speaker 1: five and ten chance that I'm some fucked up evil person. 1000 01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,080 Speaker 1: Like there's like, you know, there is kind of a 1001 01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,600 Speaker 1: middle ground somewhere where it's like even before the pandemic, 1002 01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,480 Speaker 1: I stopped hugging people as much because I used to 1003 01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:51,320 Speaker 1: just like that was just how I greeted people. And then, uh, 1004 01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,640 Speaker 1: you know you kind of realized that, like, well, not 1005 01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,200 Speaker 1: everybody is like into hugs, and I'm not going to 1006 01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,840 Speaker 1: force that on anyone. That's why you like, I think 1007 01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,480 Speaker 1: they do things like I'm a hug Are you a hugger? Yeah, 1008 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm a hugger, and then they're like alright now, yeah, 1009 01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,160 Speaker 1: but you know, I would love to be in a 1010 01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:14,960 Speaker 1: culture where we all just made out all the time. 1011 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,720 Speaker 1: So that's sick too. Yeah, I mean there's yeah, we 1012 01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,440 Speaker 1: we've talked before how they're should do that just started 1013 01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,680 Speaker 1: bringing just like bros doing cheek to cheek kisses. Now 1014 01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:26,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean to see if we could 1015 01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:28,960 Speaker 1: start a movement, Yeah, see if it will catch on 1016 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,920 Speaker 1: obviously being like yo or you know, if you're vaccinated 1017 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:35,800 Speaker 1: right well, which is the thing that they're also writing 1018 01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:37,760 Speaker 1: in this article that like there are still people who 1019 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,480 Speaker 1: acting like it twenty nineteen, but it's usually like immediately 1020 01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,680 Speaker 1: followed with like or prefaced with like unvaccinated. Yeah, bring 1021 01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:50,120 Speaker 1: it on in it, that's what I say, see your cars. 1022 01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that there's cuddle parties that have 1023 01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,280 Speaker 1: like started becoming a thing because we lack the ability 1024 01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:03,600 Speaker 1: to like pre pandemic rights. Yeah, yeah, pretty pandemic. But 1025 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:07,600 Speaker 1: like that's although I know some people who are like, yeah, man, 1026 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,200 Speaker 1: I've been going to like raves the whole time. I 1027 01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,360 Speaker 1: actually met somebody at a thing who like got to 1028 01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:15,560 Speaker 1: drinks in and was like, yeah, I've been going to 1029 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,520 Speaker 1: like a couple of raves, like and it was pretty wild. 1030 01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:23,960 Speaker 1: But like, you know, people don't give them. Yeah, my 1031 01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:28,440 Speaker 1: grandma things things were bad, but but they want us 1032 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,840 Speaker 1: to be here, so here we are. We got for them, 1033 01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 1: for them, I rave for them. But like back in 1034 01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,320 Speaker 1: the day, I feel like so much of like Madmen 1035 01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:43,680 Speaker 1: culture of people just having like irresponsible workplace affairs, and 1036 01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:48,080 Speaker 1: partially because they were like drinking at lunchtime, but also 1037 01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,680 Speaker 1: you know, like that's how people used to get their 1038 01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:55,440 Speaker 1: skin to skin, and you know, they it's like a 1039 01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,960 Speaker 1: human need that we just like don't acknowledge at all. Yeah, 1040 01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,040 Speaker 1: I mean, but you know, the Italians also probably cheat 1041 01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:05,280 Speaker 1: a lot too with their secretaries. I feel like we 1042 01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:10,800 Speaker 1: we definitely are a culture that like does not show 1043 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,800 Speaker 1: affection on the outside, and then uh, like affection is 1044 01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,920 Speaker 1: just seen as something God doesn't want you to do. 1045 01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:22,840 Speaker 1: At least that's like culture. So it's like, no, you know, 1046 01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:25,880 Speaker 1: if you do that, Jesus Christ, So just make sure 1047 01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,040 Speaker 1: you do it in secret, and uh, you know, fucking 1048 01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,720 Speaker 1: orange Europe on vacation or in Europe on vacation at 1049 01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,760 Speaker 1: a hostel. You know, if it happens, it happens. Come on, guys, 1050 01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:41,560 Speaker 1: just be less uh creepy and misogynistic like men from Europe. Yeah, exactly, 1051 01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:47,400 Speaker 1: the whole continent. All right, that's gonna do it for 1052 01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:51,560 Speaker 1: this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. 1053 01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,960 Speaker 1: If you like the show, uh means the world to Miles. 1054 01:03:56,120 --> 01:04:00,520 Speaker 1: He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a 1055 01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:43,760 Speaker 1: great weekend and I will talk to you Monday. By