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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty four,

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Speaker 1: episode three of production of I Heart Radio. It's a

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Speaker 1: podcast where we take a deep dive into America's share consciousness.

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Speaker 1: And it is Wednesday, September four, two, Yes, Miles, Birthday

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Speaker 1: Eve for everybody that celebrates. You know, I just gotta

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Speaker 1: dust my soldiers off. But it's also National Parents Day Off,

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Speaker 1: National cream field doughnut Day, National eat a hoagie Day, alright,

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Speaker 1: go to Uncle's. Yeah, National Sober Day, National Virginia Day,

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Speaker 1: National lot Live Creative Day. There we go, got it all.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to all of those things, and especially Birthday

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Speaker 1: Eve for the Yeah, are you is that your plans? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't you know. I love a hog, you know,

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Speaker 1: I love a big grinder, substance whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call and grinders nice. That's a song. You're just making

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Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, there's a Adam sandlerch song that I

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Speaker 1: believe going grinders. Oh he's grinders, Yeah, snappy Joe's uh,

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Speaker 1: lady rands. Come on, man, aren't you an elder millennial?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, look it's sometimes because I'm getting older,

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Speaker 1: I like to pretend I don't know old ship and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know what that is. Adam Sandler,

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Speaker 1: the guy from Huby Halloween. That's the only thing I'm

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Speaker 1: familiar with him. I don't Oh he did other things

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Speaker 1: before that. Huh. Yeah, I'm I'm nineteen, so I think

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Speaker 1: I follow one of his kids on Twitter. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: my name's Jack O'Brien a K. Has been a while

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Speaker 1: since those like gang referenced my milky thighs, and it's

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Speaker 1: been a while since I drank Mountain who not true.

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Speaker 1: And it's been a while since y'all's I wanted to

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Speaker 1: bite my feed again. And it's been a while since

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Speaker 1: I ran cracked too. Uh. That's Curtsey a T. DZ

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Speaker 1: Burner A little bit a while. It's been a while

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Speaker 1: since we did have been a while a K, so

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Speaker 1: we appreciate that. Speaking of the royal we in honor

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Speaker 1: of the queen who shots the Libby shots, the Libby

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Speaker 1: inspiration inspiration. Truly, you know, I'm just following the movement

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Speaker 1: of her body around with bated breath. I'm just following

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Speaker 1: everyone on Twitter being like my mom's surgery got canceled. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what is that soft power. We might get

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Speaker 1: into that today. No, it's just it's just they're just

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Speaker 1: they're just like they're a concept, massive, amazing truly. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: I'm throwed to be joined as always by my co host,

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Speaker 1: Mr Miles grad. Oh it's Miles Gray a K eight wa.

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Speaker 1: Actually we find the key. When my whole life spending wait, oh, like,

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Speaker 1: let me just actually let me let me find the

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Speaker 1: key right here, let me need my pitch pipe. Okay,

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Speaker 1: when my whole life spending money stolen from the pool

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Speaker 1: decades of ascension, I'm without a job no more. Now

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Speaker 1: I get to sit on the prone. Now, look, get

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Speaker 1: all this ship out. Mommy always said that I get

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Speaker 1: to big king someday. Now all of my subjects have

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Speaker 1: to do whatever I say. Now I get to sit

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Speaker 1: on the throne. Bring me stoling ancient bones, all right,

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Speaker 1: Shout out to King Charles Cavalier or whatever you call yourself. Bro, Bro,

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Speaker 1: you're there. That's all I think of whenever I hear him,

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Speaker 1: Whenever they say King Charles, and my mind to go

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Speaker 1: King Charles Kavlier. Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that.

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Speaker 1: Charles the third, he's ruining a great dog breed exactly Anyways,

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Speaker 1: Miles Weird thrilled to be joined in our third seat

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Speaker 1: by most of the new podcast. When the people decide

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Speaker 1: it is Jenna Spinelli, Oh, thank you both. I am

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Speaker 1: so excited to be here. I hope I don't have

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Speaker 1: to sing. Oh, I could not follow either of those

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Speaker 1: love in the love in the early odds vibes on

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Speaker 1: the show already. Login's voice is a little hard to do. Oh,

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Speaker 1: shout out, wopple House. That was That was Christie. I

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Speaker 1: was people. People don't know. The street continues when it's

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Speaker 1: that on point, and it's a it's that on point,

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Speaker 1: both timely and the lyrical. The words are all right

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Speaker 1: on beat. I gotta guess it's a yamagoch special. Shut up,

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Speaker 1: big Willie. H Jenna, where are you coming to us

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Speaker 1: from State College, Pennsylvania? Happy, Happy miney Lions? Huh indeed?

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Speaker 1: Oh man? Do you go to the sporting events, the

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Speaker 1: football or do you just kind of is that like

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Speaker 1: a monsoon season that passes by your window mostly? I

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Speaker 1: world's biggest football fan. Saxophone Okay, yes, okay, just got

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Speaker 1: hand line from like the next strap like just went away,

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Speaker 1: like yeah, from those summer like grind sessions before that was.

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Speaker 1: before the ship he starts. Anyway, but laser saxophone tan

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Speaker 1: line removal? Did you have to get that? Or where

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Speaker 1: were you know? I mean no, I I wish I

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Speaker 1: would have thought about that, which previously would have would

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Speaker 1: have thought about that. Or you like mask your skin

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Speaker 1: off very specifically with sunscreen so you can you're just

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Speaker 1: a bathing suit tan line. Yeah, yeah, I get some

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Speaker 1: like convoluted like harness thing. Right. Amazing. Well, we're thrilled

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Speaker 1: to have you here. We're excited to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about ballot referendums and your your new show We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. We're going to talk about about referendum Michigan's

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Speaker 1: about referendum and the importance of text earning yes, among

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Speaker 1: among many other things. But it apparently could mean the

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Speaker 1: difference between having rights or not depending on how someone

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Speaker 1: chooses to litigate that. Yeah, bad faith arguments from the Republicans, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which I know nobody saw coming. We're gonna talk about Hannity,

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Speaker 1: god Emperor. We're going to talk about the soft power

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Speaker 1: of the mainstream media expecting us to give a shit

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Speaker 1: about the Queen's death. We're going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: mt A kind of going back on all COVID precautions

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Speaker 1: and just being liked whatever if you do. You this

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Speaker 1: is fun. This is really disconcerting. Yeah, So all of

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Speaker 1: that plenty more. But first, Jenna, we like to ask

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Speaker 1: our guests, what is something from your search history? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So my search history reveals that, although I love to write,

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Speaker 1: I can't spell to save my life. I often words

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Speaker 1: like initiative, and bureaucracy and entrepreneurship that I often have

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Speaker 1: why I love podcasting. Can write all you want, and uh,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if it's spelled correctly. You're not. It's

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Speaker 1: all you have to it's only you that's used your script. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I will say I've gotten better at spelling in my

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Speaker 1: I was like, well, I'm never gonna like be able

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Speaker 1: to spell I've never been able to spell bureaucracy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: proud owner of a knowledge of how to spell bureaucracy.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I think a word also might have helped.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm killer at spelling very short words. I've

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Speaker 1: I just I think I'm kind of the same, but

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Speaker 1: I just more devices of how I pronounced the spelling.

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Speaker 1: Like like I'm like, like when you said initiative, I

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Speaker 1: go yeah, and then when you said bureaucracy, I say

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Speaker 1: bury Chrissy. Well that is like the edits on this

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Speaker 1: my Miles pronounced like, can you say restaurant again? I

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Speaker 1: mean rest Tower Ran. Yeah, that's like, honestly how I

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Speaker 1: these words and just saying how you like, be a

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Speaker 1: hope now after Jack, after hearing that spelling, Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: a very young person, and uh and Miles I'm never

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Speaker 1: I'm always going to go with the don't don't trick

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Speaker 1: Would have made my life so much easier. Where were

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Speaker 1: you six months? Are okay with referendum? Though? Yeah? Actually okay? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just stop using it, like ballot referendums. That's so

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Speaker 1: much easier. What is something you think is an over rage?

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Speaker 1: I would have to say getting on an airplane earlier,

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Speaker 1: watch everybody like jockeying to get you know, their premiere

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Speaker 1: people like dudes in the key, like when a free

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Speaker 1: like they're upping the signature requirements, they're changing the number

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Speaker 1: of votes it needs to pass, and so they're trying

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Speaker 1: to like crack down on this because it has been

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Speaker 1: used to pass you know what what can might be

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Speaker 1: seen as as progressive. I'm pointing out an air quotes

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Speaker 1: policies of minimum wage, medicaid expansion. So they're trying to

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Speaker 1: take back some of that power that they feel. They

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Speaker 1: fust has it been used to like institute higher minimum

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Speaker 1: wage and think, oh it has. Yeah, Medicaid expansion passed

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Speaker 1: in Idaho, minimum wage passed in Florida, and I believe

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Speaker 1: one or two other states. Yeah, these things kind of

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Speaker 1: catch on and it has teeth like that changes too,

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Speaker 1: like that causes That's that's great, well, and that's why

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Speaker 1: it's so dangerous, right because you can enshrine these things

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Speaker 1: into law, and then on the other side you can

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Speaker 1: have cynical, wealthy groups of people or industries be like

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Speaker 1: what if we don't use clean energy, you know, and

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Speaker 1: like and what if we wear this in a very

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Speaker 1: confusing way. That's also kind of the insidious thing about

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Speaker 1: them attacking the Kurning and how confusing the like writing

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Speaker 1: on three of the lines is that the way that

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Speaker 1: the Ubers and you know, the Republicans and Kansas try

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Speaker 1: to convince people to vote their ways by making it

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Speaker 1: extra confusing, Like some of the California ballot initiatives that

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Speaker 1: I've voted on since living here are you know, just

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Speaker 1: triple negative, like just a mess, and you really, you know,

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Speaker 1: you do need that voter guide to tell you what

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Speaker 1: what's what? Yeah, it's like like verbal jerrymandering or something

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Speaker 1: like kind that in written form. Yeah, And it's always

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Speaker 1: like when I when I was doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: ballot initiative stuff in California and my political days, I

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Speaker 1: remember very like when I first started, like and I

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Speaker 1: was very naive and optimistic and I was like, what

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Speaker 1: about this? But they say it's bad and like one

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Speaker 1: of these like surly like grizzled, like you know campaign veterans,

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Speaker 1: like look at the fucking print at the end of

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Speaker 1: the ad define print that says paid for by. It's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna have some weird name him, but it's going

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Speaker 1: to be pretty clear who they sighed with there, and

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Speaker 1: then you can get an idea of who this helps.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, thank you, thank you. And

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Speaker 1: also even then I need to scratch paper to keep track,

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Speaker 1: and they're saying no on this, so they mean yes,

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Speaker 1: on marijuana cage. But what also reveals how underhanded you

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Speaker 1: can be when you have a ton of money, you

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Speaker 1: can just create these like sham advocacy groups. Like in Michigan,

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Speaker 1: they the group that was going or trying to repeal

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Speaker 1: this ballot referendum was called Citizens to Support Michigan Women

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Speaker 1: and Children. And you're like, that's what that does. But then, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess that's what my question. Is there a bias

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Speaker 1: towards lay masses, Like has there been a bias towards

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Speaker 1: like the bad guys to this point or is it

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Speaker 1: just like the big famous cases from the last few

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Speaker 1: years have been used for bad purposes. That's you know,

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Speaker 1: I think like any political tool, there's there's there's both

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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, yeah, And it is hard to get

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Speaker 1: these things repealed in in some cases, especially if it's

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Speaker 1: something that the legislature and the courts want to keep,

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Speaker 1: like we in the in the series. One of the

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Speaker 1: episodes is about three Strikes in California, Like that was

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Speaker 1: an ball measure pass in the nineties and they've been

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Speaker 1: trying to get rid of it ever since. There's something

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Speaker 1: on the ballot this year. There's something else planned for

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Speaker 1: twenty four, like they're still trying to reform it or

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Speaker 1: hopefully get rid of it all together. Yeah, and you know, meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is out here talking about now he's not

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Speaker 1: talking about he is saying he's going to introduce a

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Speaker 1: federal abortion band bill when Republicans take the Senate, and

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Speaker 1: most people are like, have you not heard how fucking

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Speaker 1: unpopular that staying, I don't what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: But since most decisions at the highest levels are made

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Speaker 1: by dudes, so that think they are not intergalactic levels

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Speaker 1: of out of touch, they believe that this bill helps

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Speaker 1: the GOP. And what they're doing, what they insist on,

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Speaker 1: is that they're operating from this framework that they believe it.

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Speaker 1: It's like by us saying we want a fifteen week band,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna sort of we're going to show how we

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Speaker 1: counter the Democrats rat quote unquote radical policies of the

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Speaker 1: always used words like late term abortions or abortion on

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Speaker 1: demand to try and be like they'll do anything. They

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Speaker 1: don't care about anybody, and they fail to recognize that

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Speaker 1: their stance is basically, you don't have say over your

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Speaker 1: own body. And there's really no way to lighten that up,

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Speaker 1: but and I think it was Axios. They were saying, quote,

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Speaker 1: Graham's bill is designed to present Republicans as being more

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Speaker 1: mainstream on abortion by pushing a partial band over either

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Speaker 1: a full band or what they characterize as democrats quote

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Speaker 1: abortion on demand position. So they're like, hey, we're fine,

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Speaker 1: this a little bit of a band, Like we're not monsters,

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Speaker 1: wink wink wink. We are Okay, We're um and that's

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Speaker 1: this is all just it's all tactical, just piecemeal ship

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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, what they want

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Speaker 1: is a total band. Yeah, so hopefully I mean that.

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Speaker 1: It seems like that's a bad strategy, like a bad

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Speaker 1: by him. So well he he looks so nervous at

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Speaker 1: this press conference. He was like yeah. They're like, have

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Speaker 1: you talked to Mitch McConnell about this fam And he's like,

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Speaker 1: I talked to these ladies, these ladies behind me about it,

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Speaker 1: and they were like, yeah, yeah, we talked to him.

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Speaker 1: It was like very odd. I don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 1: But it's again not a good look. But like we see,

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Speaker 1: like time and again, like the decisions that are made

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Speaker 1: by politicians, like on either side, like people failed to

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Speaker 1: realize how fucking out of touch they really are, and

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Speaker 1: they're like up and this is great, and people like

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Speaker 1: you just said the Dobbs decision was good because it

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Speaker 1: allowed states to make this decision. Now you're pushing for

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Speaker 1: a federal band. He's like, well, the Democrats wanted to.

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Speaker 1: I think, he said, the Democrats are defining who they

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Speaker 1: are with their bill, So we're defining who we are

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Speaker 1: with this one. Yeah. I mean, while other Republican candidates

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Speaker 1: are like furiously trying to remove abortion references from their

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Speaker 1: websites and deleting old social media posts and all this

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah, what are some ballot initiatives like

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Speaker 1: victories in the recent past or upcoming that you that

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Speaker 1: you're kind of inspired by and covering on your podcast.

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Speaker 1: So there was there were a couple in eighteen. One

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Speaker 1: was the Amendment for Campaign in Florida, which restored voting

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Speaker 1: rights to formerly incarcerated people that passed with like sixties

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Speaker 1: something percent of the vote. Like we're saying, some of

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Speaker 1: the minimum wage campaigns, and there's been some really interesting

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Speaker 1: ones to curb predatory lending as well, like paid a

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Speaker 1: loans and all that kind of stuff. So I mean

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Speaker 1: not like the sexiest issues, right, but stuff that like

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Speaker 1: really matters to people. And and of course I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: following all of the reproductive rights measures closely, and I

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Speaker 1: think that, you know, depending on what happens in in Michigan,

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Speaker 1: if the right to abortion is upheld in the in

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Speaker 1: the state constitution, I think we could see that it

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Speaker 1: tried in other states. Kind of like marijuana like started

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Speaker 1: in Colorado and California. Now it's like it's on the

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Speaker 1: ballot in like Nebraska and Oklahoma and all these places.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that, you know, we could definitely

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Speaker 1: see that become part of the reproductive right strategy moving forward.

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Speaker 1: M hm nice. Alright, let's let's talk Hannity real quick. Man.

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Speaker 1: He was on one on his show the other night,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, he's basically trying to list all of the

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Speaker 1: crimes that Donald Trump is accused of as proof that

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Speaker 1: everybody else is crazy and that Donald Trump is like

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Speaker 1: being persecuted. He's being persecuted. Man, Like conscious pilot right now, Barabbas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you got ponscious pilot over here. Merrick Garland just

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Speaker 1: doing whatever he wants to. But you know, this has

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Speaker 1: been a wild week, like just in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days, right that just beyond the Mara Lago classified

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Speaker 1: documents thing, there are new subpoenas for Trump's like that

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Speaker 1: in regards to like Trump's spund raising like practices with

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Speaker 1: his superpack, potentially opening up some like wire fraud charges

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Speaker 1: for the dumb Dumb's got subpoena by the d o

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Speaker 1: j for their part in the fake collector's plot. Hey

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Speaker 1: dumb dumb here. Hey, hey you Bore s Epstein. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here you go. You're dumb dumb. You've been serving out

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Speaker 1: of here. Uh. And also the Senate Judiciary Committee announced

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Speaker 1: that they would be investigating Trump's like misuse of the

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Speaker 1: d o J. A is like his like attack dog.

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Speaker 1: That's just in the last two days. Okay, so handed,

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Speaker 1: He's like, what's going on. They're doing everything they can,

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Speaker 1: And in this he goes down this list of all

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Speaker 1: of these fucking crimes he's being investigated for, as if

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Speaker 1: to say they they're just so obsessed with this guy,

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Speaker 1: aren't they. But it's it's like the worst cell phone

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Speaker 1: I guess that you could see because it's wild to

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Speaker 1: see this list of charges copin you can't fucking believe

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Speaker 1: it or is witch hunt. The emoluments clause investigation from

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Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee, a House Ways and Means investigation

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00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: into the Trump's taxes, Another House investigation into Trump's hotel ease,

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Speaker 1: Another House investigation into far gift disclosures, a dcro the

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Speaker 1: Trump's inauguration fundraising, another similar investigation from the Southern District

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Speaker 1: of New York and the Eastern District of New York,

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Speaker 1: and from New Jersey's Attorney general. One impeachment investigation into

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Speaker 1: a regular phone call with Ukraine. A second impeachment investigation

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Speaker 1: into January six yet a regular phone call, just no

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Speaker 1: bias there. He was having a perfectly fine it was

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Speaker 1: an excellent phone Weird, you are supporting a con artist?

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Speaker 1: Does that? Maybe? Maybe, maybe that's the answer to the

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Speaker 1: number of crimes that people are No, he's not a

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Speaker 1: path someone who has used every amount of power he's

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Speaker 1: gotten to bully and commit more crimes. And he we

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Speaker 1: made him the president of the United States. It's but

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Speaker 1: it's bonkers. Yeah, like he he commits crimes like other

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Speaker 1: people breathe. Yeah, this is this doesn't surprise anyone except

603
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Speaker 1: you get over it. The emoluments clause like whatever, that

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Speaker 1: just did the wrong place at the wrong time, like

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Speaker 1: different times. I mean, you know, I don't even really

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Speaker 1: the John McClain of you know, the Bruce Willis and

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Speaker 1: die Hard kept showing up at these places that would

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Speaker 1: get terrorist attacked. That's like terrorists attackeded, I think is

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Speaker 1: the correct. Yeah, he got dactyl. He he just kept

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Speaker 1: showing up with places where people were doing fraud and

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Speaker 1: crime and then joined in on it because pressure. He's

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Speaker 1: just uh, he's just got to get new friends, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a deal there. But yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: all I mean, I'm really curious to see how when

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Speaker 1: Sean hannerd Hannity begins to intersect with a lot of

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Speaker 1: these investigations. That's always interesting with like him and even

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Speaker 1: like Lindsey Graham earlier were like there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: smoke around, especially with Lindsay Graham where he's like, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to testify about how I may have meddled

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Speaker 1: and shipped in Georgia. Yeah, just a I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is waiting with bated breath to see, uh anything happens,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, I think that's really what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, when's it happening. It's like, is it

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Speaker 1: gonna anything or like Lindsay Graham, like, look at this

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Speaker 1: abortion ban over here, so you're not looking at all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff. Don't talk about me being you know, indicted.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. Look, maybe this will be a

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Speaker 1: smoke bomb that will distract everyone, but I think at

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Speaker 1: this point it's just getting him a lot of people

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Speaker 1: just confused. And like this guy fucking stinks. This guy stinks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he's even gesturing at a thing that is like

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Speaker 1: politically a loser for him, but just anything to anything

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Speaker 1: to make noise and you know, rile people up. But

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Speaker 1: this does the abortion band really really does seem to

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Speaker 1: be a loser for them, and they don't seem to

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Speaker 1: be able to come to grips with that. Yeah, Oh, Linda,

637
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: there's a just all this click went up. I don't

638
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: know what it says, but Mitch McConnell has just been

639
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 1: asked about Lindsey Graham's abortion bands. So maybe this will

640
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: be good, maybe it won't, But I just want to

641
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Speaker 1: play it to hear what Ms McConnel has to say abortion.

642
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Speaker 1: If you take off asked if you take the cent,

643
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Speaker 1: we put it entirely to the States. Well, with regard

644
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: to his bill, you'll have to ask him about it.

645
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: In terms of scheduling, I think most of the members

646
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Speaker 1: of my conference, I prefer that this we don't with

647
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: at the straight level. That's someone who listens to the

648
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: pools and also sheep in the middle of that sense

649
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: he's looking. I mean, look, if Mitch is sweating too, man,

650
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: he's losing control. Also, you'd love to see it. But

651
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: also it's at everyone else's expense. So I don't know

652
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: what to make of it, right, all right, do we

653
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: have anything that like leads point points to Hannity being

654
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: involved other than just the fact that he was likely

655
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: Trump's like number one advisor that oh they were mean, yeah,

656
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: there apparently him and many Fox people, right wing news

657
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: people come up in text messages that have been you know,

658
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Speaker 1: obtained by the d o J or the committee. So

659
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it could just be stuff where

660
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: like we've seen he's like, hey, man, tell Trump to

661
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: knock it off. Man, it's a bad look. Or if

662
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: he's really also you know, if it gets a little

663
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: bit more insidious than that, not sure. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about

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00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: the queen. Mm hm, and we're back and yeah, the

666
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: mainstream media just seems is like continues to be paralyzed

667
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: by the death of the queen, just like the number

668
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: one trending thing on Twitter, like that's all that's on CNN.

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Speaker 1: Just everything is just about where her body is right now,

670
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: Like this is where we're recording this on the day

671
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: that her body was being transported, and like the Queen's

672
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: body or the Queen says goodbye to Scotland for the

673
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 1: last time, and just this like false solemnity or maybe

674
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: they are solemn, maybe they are really like broken up

675
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: about this ship. But it's I don't know. It seems

676
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 1: like everybody I know is looking at this and being

677
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: like still they're still talking about this ship, like just

678
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: anything to talk to, not talk about what's going on

679
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: in this country. I'm sure be ready to. Like it

680
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: looked like MSNBC just took a black suit vacation to London. Yeah,

681
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: the channel round the clocks, like Katie Turr or any

682
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: of the people just all block. Oh and then we're oh,

683
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: this is all moral, Oh, this is this is King

684
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: Charles acting like an absolute child, losing it over a

685
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: pen every bloody time, be stinking things shut. I don't

686
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: give a fuck. Is that? What do you say? Have

687
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 1: you seen that clip where he had the clip where

688
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: he like dusts it away, like no, he's signing, and

689
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: he's like getting so mad. He's like, I've said the

690
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: wrong date? Is it the twelfth of thirteen? I can't

691
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: it's hold on, I'm gonna pull it up because he's

692
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: he is very whiny about a pen, and then like

693
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: I guess he may have gotten like ink on his

694
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: hand and Camilla is like, oh no, hold on, I'll

695
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: play it to you, and like this is on CBS,

696
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: is like a Twitter account. They're like, check out him

697
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: signing this piece of paper. Oh god, it put the

698
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: wrong date down. She said, you signed the twelfth prilier.

699
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: It's the pen. It's going everywhere. And then people are

700
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: rushing in to take the pen from her and help

701
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: him wipe his hands, like somebody just walked into the

702
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: room with a revolver, Like there, did you hear that? What?

703
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 1: I can't bear this bloody thing? What they do everythink

704
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: he's talking about a fucking fountain pen. Shut the funk up, dude,

705
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: that's the bane of your fucking existence. This bloody thing.

706
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: I'm now the fun king everything time. Every can't bear

707
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: the bloody thing. It's hiring. Yeah, it's truly exhausting to witness,

708
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: and it's it. It is interesting to see the mainstream

709
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: media continue to just press and press and press and

710
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: like make, you know, pretend like we give a ship

711
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: and that. Look, I'm I'm going to continue to use

712
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: the fact that the queen died as an excuse to

713
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: cancel social engagements and like play dates for my kids

714
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 1: or like meetings that I miss at work. That's because

715
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: I'm a lazy and bad person and I'm not going

716
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: to sit here and pretend like this is not a

717
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: great excuse because the mainstream media has given us license

718
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: to do that. But I it just feels so I

719
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: feel like we this story is a new level of

720
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: like out of step with how people actually feel. Because

721
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: we have social media, we're able to at least have

722
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: other people we we can blooe and like see other

723
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: people booing, like hear other people doing like like the

724
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: young man that was arrested for calling Prince Andrew a

725
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: sick old man. Yeah, it's not just the accidents. When

726
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: the CNN reporters like and how devastated are you, and

727
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: the woman's like not at all. Sorry, I'm not into

728
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: fucking and that. Yeah, okay, fair point, moving them along.

729
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: But yeah, I know, I feel like maybe the news

730
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: anchors just they've been in Ukraine with their north face

731
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: fleeces on for like six months. Maybe they just wanted

732
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: to break put on their nice clothes for a little bit,

733
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, they go back there. And the story about

734
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos quote tweeting CMU professor Carnegie melon which you know,

735
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: Carnegie Mellon is the name of the university, so professor

736
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: dr Ujuna who said she was glad the queen was

737
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: I hope she experienced pain, and Jeff Bezos quote tweeted

738
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: that and said, this is someone supposedly working to make

739
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: the world better. I don't think so. Wow, but it's

740
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: just because we don't have God. I don't think so.

741
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: I think this is the thing, right us not giving

742
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: a funk. I mean, look, it's one thing for us

743
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: to be in the United States not give a funk

744
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: about the queen. That's its own thing, but like for

745
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: most people to not give a funk, especially people from

746
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: like the Commonwealth and former colonies. It's like just an

747
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 1: acknowledgement that's like we don't have God's like we don't

748
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: think this is a God, this is well right or

749
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: whatever it is God's and kings these concepts that we

750
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: have people in positions that make them fucking untouchable or

751
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: that we would never dare to speak ill of them.

752
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: A lot of these other people think they are you know,

753
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: like Jeff Bezos does probably consider himself on some level

754
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: like this exalted person and it's probably holy rationalizes why

755
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: has so much money because I'm doing something great And

756
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: this is how they would talk, that's how you make

757
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: the world better. No, I make the world better because

758
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm making a spaceship for three people, right that I

759
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: get to ride around on and go right, and it

760
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: would be it would be really like we talked about this.

761
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: I think maybe in the trending episode that the the

762
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: idea that they might not be able to control their

763
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: legacy in after death is probably one of the most

764
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: horrifying things, where they're like, are people gonna see walk

765
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: on my grave? Well, it's just like yeah, even in life,

766
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 1: Like I feel like he's feeling panicked because this is

767
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: the destabilization of the same unspoken rules that keep him

768
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: cause it it away from criticism, you know, like he

769
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: is someone who has accumulated immoral wealth and spends all

770
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: his time thinking of ways to protect that wealth by

771
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: maiming people without consequence for the purposes of like purely

772
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: greed and maintaining a power. So like anything that is

773
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: like chipping away at the armor of people just being

774
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: like it's to have some decency, folks. And even Carnegie

775
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: Mellon University came out like disavowed her tweet, which is

776
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: very fucking frustrating, Like this is supposed to be a

777
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: a institution of higher learning and instead they're like, we

778
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: we're all for personal expression, but for some reason not

779
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: in this case because Jeff Bezos called it out. Could

780
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: you imagine he's like, I might have to withhold that

781
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: endowment if you don't tweet something that makes me feel

782
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: good about my little spat I had with the person

783
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: who was correct. Yeah, but I think it's like many

784
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: other things, man, like we hold these we can't like

785
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: America can't reckon with its like fucking foundation of violent

786
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: colonization and slavery, Like we cannot fucking talk about that,

787
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: like plainly oh, you're extreme, and it's the same ship,

788
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: like they feel that some institutions are unassailable and to

789
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: begin to deconstruct that, I think is the first steps

790
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: to people unshackling themselves from these fucking fake gass histories

791
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: that we tell ourselves to be like fine with everything

792
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: that's happening. The number of enslaved people is growing currently,

793
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: like that, the United Nations head set a goal to

794
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: eradicate all modern slavery by between the number of people

795
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: enforced labor of forced marriage grew by ten million because

796
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: we were seeing increased inequality and because of climate change,

797
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: which is again caused mainly by massive corporations being not

798
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 1: held accountable, like the exact same ship that Jeff Bezos

799
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: is benefiting from and worried about when he decides he's

800
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: going to come down and you know, police the speech

801
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: of somebody around the death of the queen. Like that,

802
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: it makes a lot more sense, like once you kind

803
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: of think about it in the context, like capitalist power

804
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: isn't just enforced through human caging, although that is like

805
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: the main way it's enforced, but it's also through instilling

806
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: in us like values that make the monarchy or you know,

807
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: jeff Bezos or presidents seem decent and pleasant and you know,

808
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: speak to us when you when you internalize that ship,

809
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: it ends up speaking to you in your own thoughts,

810
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: like when you're when you're alone, you're like outnumbered because

811
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: these ideas have our things we've like grown grown up around.

812
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: They're they're like showing us beautiful images of this, like

813
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: polished jet taking off from Scotland, and like that's what

814
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: we associate with this old racist woman who was like,

815
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, forcing enforcing a bunch of regressive values her

816
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: whole life. Right, I think that's the and I think

817
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: that's kind of part of it, right, is like we

818
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: for for like sort of capitalism and inequality to keep

819
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 1: moving at the speed that it does. More like regular

820
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: people can't look at someone with extreme wealth and see

821
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: that that's on the that that that's that's borne out

822
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: of a ton of suffering. That it's not just like

823
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm so rich, Wow, it's I fucked over a lot

824
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: of people to get this ship. It's fucking ugly. And

825
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that's happening right now is

826
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: like so many people like you want to talk about

827
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: the fucking monarchy, right now and people like we just

828
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: like the Disney version where there's a king and a

829
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: queen and prince and princesses, and we don't we know

830
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: nothing of subjugated people or stolen land, and I think

831
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: to connect them so vividly is really fucking it's sucking

832
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 1: up people who want to hold on to this idea

833
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: that like it's just like, no, it's like this fine,

834
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: it's like it's a ceremonial or whatever. No it's not.

835
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: It's it's an institution that's responsible for untold suffering. That's

836
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: what it is. And I think that's we're trying to

837
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: avoid that conversation, just talking about how she loved Balmoral

838
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: where she could get away from the press, right. Yeah,

839
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 1: And it is regressive. I mean the values that she

840
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: represented are regressive. They're not progressive. They are like a

841
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: part of a really brutal, dark past. And for a

842
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: American university to come through and be like, yeah, we're

843
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:28,439
Speaker 1: we think you should be a nicer, darker, it's it's

844
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: pretty wild. Yeah. Also, like it's not like Bujuanya was

845
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: like I'm just firing off a hot take. She's Nigerian,

846
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Speaker 1: you know anything about history? Like that's the other thing,

847
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Speaker 1: people that aren't connecting to all these people, like especially

848
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Speaker 1: on the day of the death, people like I can't

849
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Speaker 1: believe people from these like from the Commonwealth would say

850
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: something like this, like you really have no idea? Really?

851
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Speaker 1: All right, finally, let's talk about this new m T.

852
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: A poster that is literally going up in New York

853
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: subways is up already, so for context, there was a

854
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 1: poster that went up during the pandemic that was yellow

855
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: with like black kind of smiley face stick figures that

856
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: said how to wear a mask, cover your nose and mouth.

857
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: And the first one with somebody wearing it around their chin. Nope,

858
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: then somebody wearing it around there on their nose, not

859
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: covering their mouth, not quite mouth, not nose, try again,

860
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,240
Speaker 1: and then showing somebody wearing it. Right, that's the one, fine,

861
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: like well designed poster. Now New York has put out

862
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: a poster that is the same thing, except now it

863
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: says masks are encouraged, but optional, And then it shows

864
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: the person wearing it correctly and it says yes. Then

865
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: it shows the person wearing it with their nose exposed,

866
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 1: and it says yes over the nose but not the mouth.

867
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Speaker 1: You do you, And then person without a mask on

868
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: it says yes, and then it says, let's respect each

869
00:52:56,239 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: other's choices. So it's the it's this is just diversity

870
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: of opinion. We have to have a nice wide diversity

871
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: of opinion. And if my opinion is that I should

872
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:14,959
Speaker 1: be able to sneeze on your elderly immunocompromised relative with

873
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: my COVID germs, because I I feel like it, because

874
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: then like, hey, you do you? That's my choice, okay,

875
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: and my and and that's why it's you can't fucking

876
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: talk to me about it because it's my choice and

877
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect anybody else because it's my choice. Oh wait,

878
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: it does affect other people. Oh yeah. M just it's

879
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: really it's weird to make a meme like out that's

880
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,959
Speaker 1: announcing we don't give a funk anymore. Yeah, it really

881
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: seems it's a parody of their own like how they

882
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: felt during the pandemic, and it just it feels dangerous

883
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: like on for a number of reasons, just on a

884
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: very specific like health policy level, but it also feels

885
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: like it's in a category that we've talked about of

886
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: these stories where like the right wing kind of fascist

887
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: version of the story eventually wins out quietly in the

888
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: mainstream media. In terms of like how the mainstream media

889
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: and mainstream culture view it, I'd put it in the

890
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: category with like cops claiming that the protests of caused

891
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: the murder rate to go up, and the idea that

892
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: giving people money during the pandemic is causing inflation. It

893
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: seems like the mainstream media is to react to public

894
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: outrage and public opinion in the moment with like a

895
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: lot of energy, but then after the fact to like

896
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: sort of correct the record, after our attention has kind

897
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: of moved on and there's no longer the ground swell

898
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: of energy and emotion, right, Yeah, So, like they're they're

899
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: on board with criticizing the police while there's energy for it,

900
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: but then they come back and falsely reports statistics that

901
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: suggest criticizing the police this is causing people to murder.

902
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: People were that they're, Hey, that's what my buddy the

903
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 1: cop told me. Who's my white source for my crime reporting? Yeah,

904
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Speaker 1: it's the mask sign reminded me of I don't know

905
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: if either of you have ever been in a sheets

906
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: convenience store gas station. It's popular in the mid Atlantic

907
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,919
Speaker 1: region Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina. So they're

908
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: like a pretty right wing kind of company. But in

909
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: the like first year of COVID, they had signs up

910
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: there like yeah, masks suck, but like, we're legally obligated

911
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: to tell you you have to put this on. It

912
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: was literally like we are if we don't do this,

913
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna get sued. That was like the subtext that

914
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: they're messaging to ask people to wear masks in their stores.

915
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: Are they named after what they like to wear when

916
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: they go out riding on horses at night? Yeah, I

917
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: don't know it's and and so the story with these

918
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: with the subway in particular is that like the police

919
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 1: have never enforced mask mandates on the subway, and now

920
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: especially like the police have never worned their masks on

921
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:18,439
Speaker 1: the subway. Like those signs that were being like, hey,

922
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: could you please wear your mask correctly were the closest

923
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: we had to like actual like policy being enforced because

924
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: the police did not when when there was a fine

925
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: associated with not wearing a mask, the police admitted they

926
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: issued very few, quote of of these fines, despite the

927
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: fact that more than one in ten riders were unmasked

928
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: at the height of the pandemic, and the cops were

929
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: usually the ones not wearing the mask. Yeah, that was

930
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: like the meme I felt like on New York Twitter

931
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: was like just people taking pictures of cops like maskless

932
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: even though they're like, hm, I thought the policy was different, fellas,

933
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: but they're, well, the mask mandates were not enforced. They

934
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: continue to aggressively target fair evasion. Good good, because you

935
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: know what, Jack, the m t A is losing so

936
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: much money from people's secually, it would be cheaper. It

937
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: would be cheaper if they didn't do that. Okay. It

938
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 1: was reported that the city wanted to spend two million

939
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: on cops to say two d million in fair evasion. Okay,

940
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: so you're spending fifty millions. How about this, pay me

941
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: fifty millions, Like yeah, it's like the the idea that

942
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people believe that, like this

943
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: is all to try and like make things run more smoothly.

944
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: Like the the m t A is literally slowing down

945
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: service in order to fight fair invaders by not opening

946
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: rear bus doors. So it's they're they're making everything less

947
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: efficient in order to fight poor people and you know,

948
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: basically make it easier to cage poor people. And I'm sure, yeah,

949
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, like you're talking about how they're wing

950
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: version or like perspective on the story wins out. I mean,

951
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 1: it's always whatever is best for capital, right, you know,

952
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: because if if we are going to still talk about masks,

953
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: then we still have to have, you know, good faith

954
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: discussions on people who need support if they're not able

955
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: to work or if they are immuno compromised and shouldn't

956
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,919
Speaker 1: expose themselves to something that could like terribly wreck their health.

957
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: And we would have to have that because if we

958
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: give a funk about mass, then we need to continue

959
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: that momentum. If we're like, not's all good, then you're

960
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: already operating from a position if someone says, well what

961
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: about this, like well, it's all good, you don't gotta worry,

962
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: it's all good, Like it's up to you. It's really

963
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: up to you. It's really up to you. It's up

964
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: to you. And it's every single time it's just sort

965
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: of like, well, what about diversity, equity and inclusion. They're like,

966
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: we said that up until like September, and then y'all

967
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: moved on the World Series or some sh it happened,

968
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: and then we got to fucking slither back into our

969
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: cave holes and act like nothing was happening, because it is,

970
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: like you're saying, the energy is like you're driving a

971
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: car and everyone's like we want to go to mcdonne

972
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: annals or like we want minimum wage. You're like, all right,

973
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: I'll put the car in that direction. Everyone's like yeah

974
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: they asleep, all right, We're going back to fucking home depot.

975
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: Like that's sort of the ebb and flow of these, uh,

976
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: these moments in our culture. But yeah, it's makes you

977
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: making distance disheartening England. It's it's just like like we're

978
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: reducing the risks of the pandemic and already talking about

979
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: how many people are having like suffering from long COVID

980
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: and how that's actually a dimension of the labor force

981
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: diminishing because of people suffering long COVID. But we're still

982
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: in you do you yeah, like phase yeah, you do

983
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: you well? And also like the like people are still

984
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: confounded by like why there's no one to fill open

985
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: jobs like hello, you know, it's like oh yeah, it's

986
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: like sort of like amnesia between like not connecting these

987
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: stories together. It's I don't know why there's nobody to

988
00:59:55,880 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: work because of the great resignation. Everybody they could do better,

989
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: But as this street Journal story proves, they're all sorry.

990
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, there's so many yeah, the quiet quitting war

991
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: that there's more articles keep coming back that are like

992
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: employer clap backs. You think it's like, wow, okay, okay,

993
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: this will be an ongoing story. I'm sure. I feel

994
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 1: like company towns are coming, like they're gonna, they're gonna.

995
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: They've got so much power at this point in the

996
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: United States that's already kind of getting near that. Yeah,

997
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: yeah there, But I think they'll probably become more and

998
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: more popular because they just get the benefit of the

999
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: doubt way too easily in the mainstream media. Jenna on

1000
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: that late note, it's been such a pleasure having you.

1001
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Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? Yeah,

1002
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Speaker 1: So I'm on Twitter at Jenna Spanelli. My podcast is

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Speaker 1: When the People Decide at The People Decide Pod, and

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Speaker 1: I work for the McCartney Institute for Democracy at Penn

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Speaker 1: State Democracy dot PSU dot e d U nice And

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Speaker 1: is there a tweet or some of the work of

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Speaker 1: Have you all seen the thread about the bulldog with

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Speaker 1: Um Now, some tweets are like, I like a couple good,

1029
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Speaker 1: A couple of videos on TikTok are hitting good. First

1030
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: one is from like a lot of people are showing

1031
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: reactions of like little girls watching the Little Mermaid trailer.

1032
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: This one is like amazing, is this that's white girl?

1033
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: The white girls watching? But what she says at the

1034
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: end is just fantastic. I'll play the end. So she's

1035
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: watching the whole teaser and she's just saying that fantastic

1036
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Speaker 1: line and then she's about to look at the camera

1037
01:02:54,240 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: to react at her mom. Jesus, was it gives me?

1038
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Speaker 1: Or was that with Whitney Houston? Is it just me? Yeah?

1039
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 1: I mean the way she was hitting those lines, I

1040
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't be mad at you. And then this other one

1041
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: is from at only zans. But he it's this guy,

1042
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: this guy who's like watching domino videos on TikTok, and

1043
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: he's responding to them by like just saying what his

1044
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: emotional state is as he watches the dominoes and it's

1045
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: somehow as only Zans describes it, he described every feeling

1046
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: I have like I was having at the exact same points.

1047
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: So this is him watching a little dominoes that go around.

1048
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: Please hurry, Oh, I've seen this, swow. I want to

1049
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: see someone else. It's so interesting. Doesn't happen in the

1050
01:03:54,880 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: next two seconds? What's this? I swears to go. The

1051
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: video has two minutes and the whole thing is just like,

1052
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: come on, single lanes and he doesn't even know anything

1053
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 1: about don't like everything, just like, what are these? But

1054
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Speaker 1: it's just it's on point and uh yeah, fantastic video.

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Speaker 1: All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack

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Speaker 1: Underscore O'Brien on Miles and Jack I met Boost. These

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Speaker 1: the dumbest NBA podcast that is officially made with the NBA,

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Speaker 1: tweet somebody today years old tweet I was today years

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Speaker 1: old when I found out, tweeted, just now finding out

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Speaker 1: that rabbits can swim. Also learned their ears going to

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Speaker 1: swim mode when they do. This is news. And then

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Speaker 1: a video of a rabbit swimming and yeah, their their

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Speaker 1: then SI tweeted, I asked my husband if he knows

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Speaker 1: rabbits can swim and he casually says, yeah, President Jimmy

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Speaker 1: sorry what And that is a true fact that you

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Speaker 1: should go look up the story. Jimmy Carter had had

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Speaker 1: a very strange well, first of all, he believes that

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Speaker 1: he has encountered extraterrestrial life and like says that, but

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Speaker 1: also he had a very strange encounter with a swamp

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Speaker 1: rabbit that was massive and swam up to his boat

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Speaker 1: while he was out, like canoeing, tried to attack him.

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Speaker 1: True King Jim Carter, and then Simon Sheer tweeted, I

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Speaker 1: Reich and tweeted a quote from her. To engage in

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Speaker 1: political struggle is not just frightening. Frightening, it is painful

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Speaker 1: because power is not just out there, It is also

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Speaker 1: offs the information that we talked about in today's episode

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Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

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Speaker 1: When as a song do we think people might enjoy it?

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna enjoy. The new Steve Lacey album

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Speaker 1: is fantastic. Do you know about him? Is fantastic guitar player, producer.

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Speaker 1: This is a track off there called Mercury, and he's

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Speaker 1: like such a versatile artist, Like you know, he obviously

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Speaker 1: just killing like soul, R and B guitar lists and stuff,

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Speaker 1: but this is like a little more Latin browbacky and

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Speaker 1: he does it really well, but with a modern twist.

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Speaker 1: So this is Mercury. By stay all right, we'll go

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