Speaker 1: So that that Kendrick performance is pretty mid.
Speaker 2: Right, Guys, that guy stinks.
Speaker 3: I can't understand the word he says.
Speaker 4: It was pretty mid.
Speaker 2: I read like some reviews that said the audio was
Speaker 2: fucked up at the beginning, but I didn't even I
Speaker 2: didn't know that. I didn't catch that seemed fun to
Speaker 2: me throughout. He didn't give a fuck at all. No,
Speaker 2: he was not trying to like him for the uh
Speaker 2: you know, the people who aren't familiar.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 2: No, that was the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know, Like I guess if you're
Speaker 1: not paying attention and your expectations are such that you
Speaker 1: want just that hits from his catalog, I can see
Speaker 1: how people are disappointed. But like he's this is PG
Speaker 1: Lang Kendrick, and yeah, he doesn't give.
Speaker 2: A shit at all. No, he does not know. I
Speaker 2: was at first when I like watching it as like
Speaker 2: this is a super Bowl halftime show, like I want
Speaker 2: everybody to like my guy Kendrick. I was a little
Speaker 2: bit like, ah, fuck, like I wish he had played
Speaker 2: more of the hits, But then like just encountering it
Speaker 2: as a piece of art, I was like, oh, this.
Speaker 1: With with the Sam Jackson interstitials that sort of put
Speaker 1: everything in context. It was like just the meta narrative
Speaker 1: of him being there talking about the show, about the
Speaker 1: show songs, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: That just that.
Speaker 1: Sold it for me, where I'm like, oh, really, this
Speaker 1: guy had an idea and he fucking executes.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this was definitely the most artistic halftime show
Speaker 3: I've seen.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it's up there with like the
Speaker 2: Gloria Stefan, Uh.
Speaker 3: Katy Perry when she came out.
Speaker 2: Katy Perry, Gloria Stefan. I do really like the Katie
Speaker 2: Perry one.
Speaker 3: You know that, it was great to me. I still
Speaker 3: I still think that's one of the top ones on
Speaker 3: the Like American maximalism. That was the most super Bowl halftime.
Speaker 2: Show knows the assignment and like just fully embraces it
Speaker 2: like a fucking a straight a student raising their hand
Speaker 2: at the front of hearing.
Speaker 1: People mentioned like yeah, just like the lack of the
Speaker 1: maximalism and like it's like, yeah, he could have did
Speaker 1: money trees and had like marching bands come out and stuff,
Speaker 1: and like that would have been cool, but.
Speaker 3: No, he like this.
Speaker 2: He should have had like people in tree costumes throwing
Speaker 2: money out, making it rain yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh my favorite is left swimming Pool. Oh I was,
Speaker 3: I was time show.
Speaker 2: Remember the guy floating face down in the left swimming.
Speaker 4: Pool that was the dancing bottle of alcohol.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's I watched it with somebody who's like
Speaker 2: a like theater person, and like he was just like
Speaker 2: getting texts from his friends about like this is it
Speaker 2: should be like And it's like all these like obscure
Speaker 2: theater performances I.
Speaker 1: Don't expectations seem to really rob people of the joy
Speaker 1: of experience.
Speaker 2: It seems oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was nothing technically wrong with the performed. I
Speaker 1: get why people some people are disappointed, but it was
Speaker 1: a good performance.
Speaker 2: Is anybody saying mid, I feel like that I'm either
Speaker 2: hearing like worst super Bowl show ever or like it's
Speaker 2: fucking great.
Speaker 4: I'm saying it's either mid or it's great.
Speaker 3: I think it's a lot of New Kendrick fans that
Speaker 3: thought he was going to behead Drake in effigy or something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like that this was going to be like the last
Speaker 3: stop of the Kick the Dead Body of Drake, for
Speaker 3: which it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was.
Speaker 3: Not even one of the good I know, but I'm
Speaker 3: saying but you know, but you know, motherfuckers are so
Speaker 3: literal like they wanted to see, like they want to
Speaker 3: like probably some kind of physical depiction of Drake being destroyed,
Speaker 3: some actual physit tangible red, like what's like.
Speaker 4: This exploding a giant effigy.
Speaker 3: Get in your art bag a little bit, folks.
Speaker 2: I like the people who hadn't really been following, they
Speaker 2: were just like from afar. They knew there was a
Speaker 2: story about a rap beef and they're like, I think
Speaker 2: him and Kendrick are going to make friends in the
Speaker 2: halftime show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, remember I texted you when the battle started.
Speaker 1: I was like, what if they come out with like
Speaker 1: a joint track after after their volleys and it's all
Speaker 1: just like it's like a Marvel movie.
Speaker 2: Once you accuse someone of being a pedophile, it's hard
Speaker 2: to go back. You can't really pull that one.
Speaker 4: This is before I think, this is before Euphoria came.
Speaker 2: Actually the homie, he's actually kind of the homie.
Speaker 1: This is justloy for like a joint album.
Speaker 3: Nope, best of both worlds.
Speaker 2: It was h Yeah, that was fun though just truly
Speaker 2: came with like an artistic vision in mine.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was just like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: The second I saw the stage the up he is like,
Speaker 3: this is PlayStation roomote or squid game and the performing
Speaker 3: game ship performing in a giant X while playing Peekaboo.
Speaker 1: So because that song is rumored to be uh it
Speaker 1: has something to do with X and and Drake having
Speaker 1: something to do with his death.
Speaker 2: That's the rumor.
Speaker 4: Him doing that in the Big Cakes is kind of wild.
Speaker 2: Triple X tentassium, Yeah is Pekaboo? Like I just thought
Speaker 2: that was like a weird track that we were obsessed with.
Speaker 2: I didn't know was is that like one of the
Speaker 2: hits from the album? Like he just doesn't give a Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was my number one with a bullet. I was like,
Speaker 2: I was like joking.
Speaker 1: I was like, I hope you expecting him to play Pikabood.
Speaker 3: I went to I went to her majesty. I said, oh,
Speaker 3: he's like, guess what we're about to do. And then
Speaker 3: in this living I'm like, what they talk about they
Speaker 3: talking about? Know what they talk about? The tab Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: what they talked about they talk about? Hello the Internet and.
Speaker 5: Welcome to this special week trend edition of.
Speaker 3: Dirnally zite Geististist Bite People.
Speaker 2: It's our production of by Heart Radio. This is the
Speaker 2: episode where we tell you what was trying to go
Speaker 2: over the weekend. It is the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday,
Speaker 2: super Bowl Monday, super Bowl Monday. Man, oh, this should
Speaker 2: be goddamn. Has anyone trademark that ship super Bowl Monday?
Speaker 2: Super Bowl Productive Day? Oh man, I can't believe they
Speaker 2: don't don't give us off on this day.
Speaker 3: They should? They should.
Speaker 2: I do, actually think they should. I'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Time more than super hot later. Okay, Spicy, how are
Speaker 2: you doing, Miles?
Speaker 1: Ummm?
Speaker 3: This is going to be my answer for the foreseeable
Speaker 3: future where I go all things considered.
Speaker 2: Atc not good, Yeah, all things considered.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Yeah, I'm doing Okay, I'm doing okay. Every
Speaker 3: day gets a little bit easier, just a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then then you see a Kylie Minogue video and
Speaker 3: you start crying. I saw this Kylie Minogue video for
Speaker 3: Can't Get You, so like the guys shot, he's in dancing,
Speaker 3: he's entering his dancing era. So I played DJ and
Speaker 3: stuff and I'm like, oh, let me see what the
Speaker 3: fuck I can get going, dude, daft punk around the world.
Speaker 3: That music video fucking melted him. He's like, oh shit,
Speaker 3: like the way he was getting yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. I was like okay, I'm like I'm locked in.
Speaker 3: I know. Then I'm like, okay, Michelle Gondry, I think
Speaker 3: we got something. Then I said the other one with
Speaker 3: Kylie Minogue, come into my world, come come come in
Speaker 3: to me. Okay. He was fucking with that one a
Speaker 3: little confused. Then I played Can't Get You out of
Speaker 3: My Head when there's just something about the like the
Speaker 3: sort of minor key tonality of Can't Get You out
Speaker 3: of even though it's like such a straightforward pop song,
Speaker 3: which is like yeah oh. I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 3: it hit my fucking spine. I had tears running down
Speaker 3: my face. It was beautiful, damn and shout out to everybody.
Speaker 3: I did post that on my Instagram stories. A few
Speaker 3: people were like you okay, yes, yes, yes, these are
Speaker 3: beautiful tears. These are beautiful tears.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, this is the episode where we get
Speaker 2: to know you a little bit better by letting you
Speaker 2: know what we think is underrated, what we think is overrated.
Speaker 2: You want to kick us off with something you think
Speaker 2: is underrated?
Speaker 3: Underrated? My god, I say, let's see what did I
Speaker 3: say here? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, crated how well the
Speaker 3: gradual defunding of our educational system has gone for the
Speaker 3: conservative takeover, really really really important piece. Remember that documentary
Speaker 3: Waiting for Superman in twenty ten, I remember, you know,
Speaker 3: the one about how we are taking away quality education
Speaker 3: for countless kids and it's becoming harder and harder for
Speaker 3: parents to like support their kids in pursuit of a
Speaker 3: better education.
Speaker 2: Just from just.
Speaker 3: The full court press, socioeconomics, how we're not paying teachers enough.
Speaker 3: All of that come together to have a less educated populace.
Speaker 3: Not a perfect documentary because it leaves out a lot
Speaker 3: of other factors and its telling of what's wrong with that,
Speaker 3: But anyway, all that to say is I remember watching
Speaker 3: that in twenty ten, and like, as a young person
Speaker 3: working in politics at the time, I'm like, I wonder
Speaker 3: when this wave is going to hit our shores and
Speaker 3: cut to now, Like, as I look at the election
Speaker 3: and the reactions from people to the absolute fuck shit
Speaker 3: going down in terms of dismantling agencies, it's clear that
Speaker 3: all of the this is much easier when people have
Speaker 3: no idea how fucking how the government works, how.
Speaker 2: Civics, how any of it happens.
Speaker 3: How anything is structured. Like I think for people of
Speaker 3: a certain age, you're like, what the heck is going on?
Speaker 3: You know you can't do that. You need that to
Speaker 3: pay people who need their Social Security or Medica whatever.
Speaker 3: And then there are other people who are like, I
Speaker 3: never heard of it, And because I never heard of it,
Speaker 3: it's probably not going to affect me. And I think
Speaker 3: that's a really underrated part of like how like sort
Speaker 3: of not totally frictionless this is going. But when you
Speaker 3: look at Trump's approval numbers and things like that, a
Speaker 3: lot of it does have to do with just our
Speaker 3: general ignorance around civics and the basic structures of government,
Speaker 3: Like in the same way like the Google questions that
Speaker 3: were being asked and the lead up to the election,
Speaker 3: where people like, is Joe Byron Joe Joe president president?
Speaker 3: Why not I vote for Joe Byron? It's a lot
Speaker 3: and I get it, like we were spread thin because
Speaker 3: we're all toiling to survive, and on top of that,
Speaker 3: we're not we're not learning the things that we used to.
Speaker 3: But I gotta say that's that's a huge piece of
Speaker 3: I think why we're we're sort of in the place
Speaker 3: where we are when we stop investing in the our
Speaker 3: ability of.
Speaker 2: First feeling to the Democratic Party is also like not
Speaker 2: doing a good job communicating around this, Like no, no,
Speaker 2: I feel like they're communicating the us AID thing a
Speaker 2: little bit, like that's where their focus is. But like
Speaker 2: things that tend to matter more to people in the
Speaker 2: United States, like education and right, you know, like the
Speaker 2: benefits that you get right, Like, they're not really doing
Speaker 2: a good job making that makes sense. It's like a
Speaker 2: lot of yeah, hidden behind complexity.
Speaker 3: I think the other thing too, is you know, for
Speaker 3: for people who still think the Democrats are going to
Speaker 3: do like again waiting for Superman, he's not coming, and.
Speaker 2: He's not coming.
Speaker 3: It's the thing.
Speaker 2: It ain't them, It's not the current version of the Democrats.
Speaker 3: No, they have been the constant gardeners of maintaining the
Speaker 3: status quo. That to think that they can suddenly ideologically
Speaker 3: change gears so dramatically to get into like we're now
Speaker 3: fighting mode. Yeah, it's just it's a bridge too far.
Speaker 3: There are plenty of people within the party who are
Speaker 3: showing that sort of fight. But then like you see
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer and he's like leading chance of like we're
Speaker 3: gonna win. I'm like, what catch you talk whin?
Speaker 2: What win? What? Yeah? Exactly, y'all just lost because you're
Speaker 2: bad at this.
Speaker 3: Yeah is the plan you're laying out, will vote for
Speaker 3: us in the midterms after we just let this runaway
Speaker 3: train go for fucking two years straight before something like.
Speaker 2: At a time when there's a crisis, you're standing there
Speaker 2: addressing a crisis like the dismantling of the government by
Speaker 2: the other party. Rather than just saying this is how
Speaker 2: it's gonna impact you, they like try to like do
Speaker 2: a pep rally thing like we're gonna win, which was confusing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's not great. I was also like when they
Speaker 2: showed Trump during the national anthem of the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: and like there was a pop, like people were like ah.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, how popular is this motherfucker? And
Speaker 2: he is more popular now than he ever was during
Speaker 2: his first administration, which isn't like that popular.
Speaker 3: He's still still or actually he's above fifty percent. I
Speaker 3: think he's like fifty one maybe yeah, but he yeah,
Speaker 3: is more like he's getting more popular as this shit
Speaker 3: is happening because he's like it feels like he's running
Speaker 3: unopposed in certain ways, or he's like governing unopposed. Well,
Speaker 3: that's the optics. I think That's another thing I've talked
Speaker 3: about too with people like this past week, just when
Speaker 3: everyone's just kind of dealing with all their anxiety and like, well,
Speaker 3: he's doing Like one thing that Trump is is he
Speaker 3: pretends like he's not the real deal. Ever. He is
Speaker 3: an aspiring fashion he's not a polished fascist. And you know,
Speaker 3: like if he had, if he was able to actually
Speaker 3: corral Congress and do all these things through acts of Congress,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, shit, okay, But he has to do
Speaker 3: everything through executive order to sort of project this power.
Speaker 3: That doesn't make him any less dangerous. So I don't
Speaker 3: say that to like like be complacent. It just means
Speaker 3: there's a little more time to try and organize to
Speaker 3: properly resist all of this. But as it stands, like
Speaker 3: he's doing a lot to project that power, to give
Speaker 3: this sort of impression that it's like, dude, you can't
Speaker 3: do shit about anything, and now just lay down and
Speaker 3: let it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's there. They're trying to send that
Speaker 2: message and I feel like I don't know, there's some
Speaker 2: aspect of how the rest of it's being communicated, like
Speaker 2: the the response the focus is like too technocratic or something,
Speaker 2: and so it just feels like it's not picking up,
Speaker 2: you know, like aren't getting it. It's not it's not
Speaker 2: coming through. Yeah, all my underrated is consuming classic art
Speaker 2: like old things. I saw a Chekhov play over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Consuming classic art is quite underrated, hmmm, I.
Speaker 2: Think with a nice red Yeah. No, it's it's just
Speaker 2: like not the sort of ship that I'm usually like.
Speaker 2: I'm more of a pop timate like I like movies,
Speaker 2: you know, like that's kind of my go to thing.
Speaker 2: But we had a friend who was in a play
Speaker 2: that we went and saw and you know, it was
Speaker 2: a like small theater a couple dozen people and maybe
Speaker 2: maybe like yeah, like three dozen people's full house, like
Speaker 2: all those tickets were sold, but very small theater. Like
Speaker 2: you were like sitting on the stage basically.
Speaker 3: Like a little black box theater kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it held your attention, like the the like
Speaker 2: really moved. But the ship there talking about it's like
Speaker 2: written in the eighteen hundreds and it's like kids being
Speaker 2: fame obsessed and like how fame ruins people, and like
Speaker 2: just feels very much like, oh, this doesn't feel like
Speaker 2: I just assumed everybody in Russia in the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 2: was just talking about plowing wheat farms, and you know,
Speaker 2: like I didn't think there's like a universality and like
Speaker 2: a timelessness to a lot of this shit that we're
Speaker 2: dealing with. You know, back back then they were like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this new fed that's ruining kids chess right right, making
Speaker 2: them lazy and distractable. But yeah, I don't know, there's
Speaker 2: something about the experience of like communing with something that's
Speaker 2: old and being like, ah, there's been shitty people like
Speaker 2: that for decades, and you know, like they're one of
Speaker 2: the characters is just a like fame ruin and actress
Speaker 2: and like her famous like writer husband, and like they're
Speaker 2: just like such identifiable pieces of shit that I feel
Speaker 2: like a lot of people have probably encountered in the
Speaker 2: modern world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the world being terrible is nothing new at least
Speaker 3: that's you know, what you learn.
Speaker 2: From all that, and like the specific ways that it's terrible,
Speaker 2: even though it feels like things are kind of escalating
Speaker 2: out of control with new technology. And that's probably true
Speaker 2: in some ways. In other ways, it's like a lot
Speaker 2: of working with the same problems and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: getting getting similar results. Myles, what is something that you
Speaker 2: think is overrated? Oh?
Speaker 3: Our need to offer people silver linings constantly, you know,
Speaker 3: on the wet hand, when we're experiencing crisis, like I
Speaker 3: think we've all done this right, Like someone is experiencing
Speaker 3: some kind of tragic event, and we try to wrap
Speaker 3: up a conversation with like, you know, well, at least
Speaker 3: dot dot dot dot dot. You know, at least at
Speaker 3: least shit, at least you have your passport.
Speaker 2: It's my least my one go to other than comparing
Speaker 2: it to something that's happened to myself. But Miles, my
Speaker 2: house hasn't burned down. So what am I supposed to
Speaker 2: say to you?
Speaker 3: What do I say? I don't know how to say
Speaker 3: anything to this. No, anything else is uncomfortable. I get it, right,
Speaker 3: Like we don't want to leave people on a bad
Speaker 3: note quote unquote so to speak. But as someone that
Speaker 3: has been on the receiving end of countless, you know, like, well,
Speaker 3: at least you dot dot dot. But I just want
Speaker 3: to say that sometimes you just want to be like, Na,
Speaker 3: this is pretty fucked up.
Speaker 6: Huh, and accept that you know what I mean to
Speaker 6: not And I don't mean to say that it's a
Speaker 6: violence to try and offer someone a silver lining silver
Speaker 6: linings amidst all of this, But I think it's important
Speaker 6: to really acknowledge what the experience is too and to
Speaker 6: process that properly.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean I have zero perspective, like I'm saying
Speaker 3: like I don't like obviously, I'm speaking very specifically about
Speaker 3: what's happened to me in my in our home burning death.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, my voice cracked out because I was getting
Speaker 3: the clemped, I was out of breath, and I'm a man,
Speaker 3: damn it. I will not be caught on a microphone
Speaker 3: again only to k show video. Only to Kylie Minogue's videos.
Speaker 3: That's the only time I show announce of emotion. But
Speaker 3: like sometimes you again, you have to honor where you're
Speaker 3: at with a grieving and mourning process, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of labor involved in sort of making yourself be
Speaker 3: okay to comfort another person who can't fathom your pain,
Speaker 3: and that gets a little bit exhausting. I think. I
Speaker 3: think because a part of that is just sort of culturally,
Speaker 3: especially in America, we just it's all about resisting death.
Speaker 3: It's all about not accepting the inevitable. Like that is
Speaker 3: so ingrained and it's very different to me also being Japanese,
Speaker 3: where death is very normal. Death is accepted, it's part
Speaker 3: of our cycle, it's inevitable, and thus it's something you
Speaker 3: do not fear. I mean, obviously no one is like
Speaker 3: and I want to die, but it's not sort of
Speaker 3: looked at with the same horror at times as I
Speaker 3: as I noticed like in America, and I think also too,
Speaker 3: like if we don't allow ourselves to be in pain,
Speaker 3: it's also hard to adequately like acknowledge the suffering of
Speaker 3: others people when we don't acknowledge our own pain. Broad Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I try to. I think just's it's really important
Speaker 3: to like really honor where you're at emotionally, because also,
Speaker 3: like when I've had friends be like hey, like like
Speaker 3: you're doing all right though, and I'm like, nah, not really,
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's still very oriented. Yeah, And I'm like,
Speaker 3: and I'm not asking you to say something to make
Speaker 3: me feel better, Like I'm not saying that, I'm just
Speaker 3: saying things are very difficult. I'm dealing with them. I
Speaker 3: have a lot of support systems in place, but it's
Speaker 3: like so many times I'm like trying to convince myself
Speaker 3: that I'm okay or like I'm over it, yeah, without
Speaker 3: and I think that's a lot harder than just accepting
Speaker 3: allowing myself to be like, no, man, like this is
Speaker 3: this is very difficult and you have to just take
Speaker 3: it step by step rather than trying to condense this
Speaker 3: process into like a three day thing. And but yeah,
Speaker 3: but I'm on the other side of it, and I'll good,
Speaker 3: we're back, We're back, We're back to stay up all right,
Speaker 3: here we go. Yeah, it makes me feel like that.
Speaker 3: It's just easier in a weird way. It's easier to
Speaker 3: live like that than to try and sort of convince
Speaker 3: myself like maybe I'm not as affected by everything that's
Speaker 3: going on and like the grieving the loss of my
Speaker 3: community and things like that. Yeah. So anyway, all that
Speaker 3: to say is I just think it's it's important to
Speaker 3: be very honest with ourselves about what we're experiencing. And
Speaker 3: you know, I think offering people a bit of optimism
Speaker 3: is great. I totally think it's great, and I think
Speaker 3: it's honorable and I think it's also just totally fine
Speaker 3: to like just be there with somebody when they're not
Speaker 3: doing okay, and you can you find other ways to
Speaker 3: to sort of be with them as they get through something.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, just sit with them. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: have to you don't have to solve it. You don't
Speaker 2: have to make them feel better in the moment, like
Speaker 2: just being there and accepting that they don't feel great
Speaker 2: right now. Yeah, and just yeah, being being with them,
Speaker 2: being there for that.
Speaker 3: Men have to solve ship all the time, like so
Speaker 3: many like so of my homies. You know. Look, I
Speaker 3: love y'all a lot of the times too. It's much
Speaker 3: easier like, well, you know, we're gonna get this done. Like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what, bro, what if we were just hurting
Speaker 3: for a little bit, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 3: let's that's part of the human experience. This is all
Speaker 3: part of being alive. This is all part of how
Speaker 3: we become stronger and we evolve. So let's embrace that
Speaker 3: part of it too. Hey, look on the bright side
Speaker 3: of things though, Hey, look at the right side of
Speaker 3: things though.
Speaker 2: Hot the eagles, I don't think it's like you know,
Speaker 2: brand the editor was saying, like America's unrelenting fake optimism
Speaker 2: is tiring. Like I think it's like like you said,
Speaker 2: it's like easier to do that, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: even know that like people realize they're doing that. I
Speaker 2: think it's just a strategy.
Speaker 3: Because you don't want to you don't want to leave
Speaker 3: yourself like on a note in your consciousness to be like,
Speaker 3: oh man, yeah, and then stay there, you know, because
Speaker 3: I think the other part of it, too, is to
Speaker 3: say you go, oh man, this is terrible, and the
Speaker 3: next thing you have to tell yourself is and that's okay,
Speaker 3: and that's normal, sit with it. Yeah. I think the
Speaker 3: reason we try and sort of like be optimistic and
Speaker 3: use optimism to get out of it is to just
Speaker 3: sort of not let it be the last thing that
Speaker 3: we're thinking, which is, ah, this is terrible, rather than
Speaker 3: and the optimism comes from saying and that's okay, and
Speaker 3: I can accept that.
Speaker 2: My overrated is looking on the bright side of things. Miles,
Speaker 2: you've been too down in the helps buddies. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: we got a cynic lot now. I was gonna say overrated,
Speaker 2: like just all these little quasi holidays. American culture has
Speaker 2: this time of year, like mainstream American culture, like lots
Speaker 2: of other you know, cultures, have big holidays from January
Speaker 2: to like the end of March, like which I think
Speaker 2: is one of the more depressing times of the year.
Speaker 2: So like cultures like so you have like Ramadan, Lunar,
Speaker 2: New Year, no Russ, you know, and then mainstream American
Speaker 2: culture like tries to like event invent like you know,
Speaker 2: the super Bowl, I think is one of our like
Speaker 2: little quasi holidays we give ourselves the Oscars, Saint Patrick's Day,
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day, or like these little kind of fake holidays,
Speaker 2: And I feel, I don't know, like I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know how you invent a holiday out of whole cloth,
Speaker 2: but I do feel like people are probably in need
Speaker 2: of something more spiritually like culturally significant. Then the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I feel like the super Bowl always leaves me feeling
Speaker 2: a little depressed. Like it's like a major event that's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, designed by and for people who listen
Speaker 2: to like morning Zoo radio, you know, and there like
Speaker 2: it just feels like it has that energy like you're
Speaker 2: like listening to an FM radio station I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: then tax Day is like the photographic negative of a holiday,
Speaker 2: so that's in there as well.
Speaker 3: All those things like Valentine's Day, Saint Patti's Day, Briani
Speaker 3: Pasinko de Mile, there's like the way we celebrate these,
Speaker 3: they're all just so consumption based. Yeah yeah, how much
Speaker 3: fucking beer are you gonna how many wings are you
Speaker 3: gonna eat on Super Bowl Sunday? How much what gifts
Speaker 3: are you gonna buy for your significant other on Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3: How green is your shit gonna turn on March eighteenth?
Speaker 3: From how much green crap you ate on Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, Like to that point, there aren't many that
Speaker 3: are truly about I mean again, that's just because our
Speaker 3: culture is so devoid of that kind of stuff just
Speaker 3: generally speaking, like it's we're not very spiritual. We're not
Speaker 3: spiritual really at all, and our spiritualism is tied to
Speaker 3: these like very similar centric things.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm just saying
Speaker 2: people who are like the Monday after Super Bowl should
Speaker 2: be a holiday are correct, even though super Bowl Monday
Speaker 2: a dead take super Bowl Monday, give the people some fun.
Speaker 3: Thing that I think is you create your own holidays, right.
Speaker 3: Like so my father in law his friends have had
Speaker 3: this thing they've done since like the sixties where it's
Speaker 3: called Dentist Day and all their friends have like a
Speaker 3: dent tell their work, they have a dentist appointment, but
Speaker 3: they all have a party. They all just get together
Speaker 3: and hang out, like in the middle of the week,
Speaker 3: like once a year. They're all like, all right, because
Speaker 3: no one works at the same place. They're like, hey,
Speaker 3: we all got that dent It's it's the dentist party
Speaker 3: on this day, and we just use that to get
Speaker 3: together and kind of have fun and be feel kind
Speaker 3: of cheeky because we talked about you know, we fake
Speaker 3: the we fake the dent disappointment. But those I feel
Speaker 3: like that kind of stuff is like you kind of
Speaker 3: just got to be kind of more, just figure out
Speaker 3: something that works for you too, and then you can
Speaker 3: those things morph into a tradition that you know, allows
Speaker 3: everyone to kind of get together not necessarily have to
Speaker 3: be like how many how many pounds of wings are
Speaker 3: you going to bring, just to be like yeah, then
Speaker 3: we all just get together. We all went to the park,
Speaker 3: or we all just hung out somewhere or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But I'm reading this book What the Wild Edge of Sorrow.
Speaker 2: That's about like partially about like our cultural and ability
Speaker 2: to deal with sorrow and like difficult feelings. And but
Speaker 2: the way that they do it is like by creating
Speaker 2: like rituals around that like that don't already exist for people.
Speaker 2: So maybe, yeah, like I like the idea of inventing
Speaker 2: some sort of holiday, whether it be Dentists Day or
Speaker 2: some sort of like you know holiday, if you don't
Speaker 2: already have it through like a lot of religions already
Speaker 2: have have this, But if you if you don't already
Speaker 2: have that built in, build yourself a little a little holiday,
Speaker 2: especially at this time of year, so you don't so
Speaker 2: you're not overly relying on the fucking super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have a dentist Day.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's take a quick break and we'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit more about the super Bowl
Speaker 2: and other ship. We'll be right back and we're back,
Speaker 2: And any straight did you watch the super Bowl other
Speaker 2: than the Kendrick Show?
Speaker 3: Uh No, Okay, I mean yeah, I'd be lying if
Speaker 3: I said it was on. And I was mostly like
Speaker 3: commiserating with friends and stuff, because I don't I could
Speaker 3: care less about the teams involved in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I could care I got the chief struggling.
Speaker 3: I actually know, you know what, I do love the
Speaker 3: chief struggling, especially with like that asshole Kicker and you know,
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes and just like that whole like maga shit.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, yeah, go ahead, go hold that. Although
Speaker 3: I'm I'm under no illusion that their conservatives all over
Speaker 3: the NFL, but I think also the Blake Wexler of
Speaker 3: it also shout out my boy Chris, very loyal philid
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles fans, so you know, for that from that respect,
Speaker 3: I was like, I was like, I wanted.
Speaker 2: To see the Eagles win, so yeah, and I think
Speaker 2: the Eagles fan base has one good politics, so I
Speaker 2: think we're a good oh.
Speaker 3: Famously famously famously famously unimpeached.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I mean the just stray Super Bowl observations, Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't I didn't watch the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I missed. I guess Trump was interviewed at the beginning,
Speaker 2: and you know, not surprisingly for someone who can't go
Speaker 2: through an entire press conference in the wake of a
Speaker 2: tragic plane crash without like giving his opinion on like
Speaker 2: who's to blame with like zero facts on the ground. Unsurprisingly,
Speaker 2: he just was like, yeah, I'm cheering for the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I'm here for the Chiefs because and he specifically said
Speaker 2: because Patrick Mahomes' wife is a fan of his. Literally, like,
Speaker 2: just the Chiefs swayed with the same tactics that every
Speaker 2: dictator and leader in the world is.
Speaker 3: She would had a beautiful love letter. Oh okay, it's
Speaker 3: that easy. Huh.
Speaker 2: So I wish I had seen that would have been
Speaker 2: the most important thing for me to actually enjoy the game,
Speaker 2: because the Chiefs did promptly take a massive shit on
Speaker 2: the field. Uh, specifically Patrick Mahomes, who a lot of
Speaker 2: people talk about as the best, the goat best to
Speaker 2: ever do. It didn't look like it. Last night.
Speaker 3: I kept asking a friend. I was like, all right, so,
Speaker 3: I mean this is a bad halftime score, right, like, and.
Speaker 2: He's like, well, you never know, twenty four to nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like this isn't great, right, But then
Speaker 3: other people were like, no, I mean, you know, if
Speaker 3: someone could do it, it's potentially Patrick mah Homes. But
Speaker 3: I was like, but then, based on what I had
Speaker 3: seen in the first half like ish, I was like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it doesn't have shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they looked a little bit. Uh. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean I guess I get. I get how complacency
Speaker 3: kicks in when you're like about to do your third
Speaker 3: one in a row and you're like yeah, all right Canley. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it uh yeah, a tough night for him.
Speaker 2: You know, Tom Brady was doing the game. You know
Speaker 2: Tom Brady, who is the person who's like in competition
Speaker 2: with him to be the greatest player of all time,
Speaker 2: and uh was you know, the thing that everybody was
Speaker 2: hoping for in order to like get a good game
Speaker 2: was that we'd see another comeback on par with like
Speaker 2: what Tom Brady did against the Falcons and that it
Speaker 2: would be a good you know after they got down
Speaker 2: by so much. But that didn't happen. There's a good
Speaker 2: piece of like successful quarterback psychology where Tom Brady was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just you know, after a game like this, you
Speaker 2: wake up the next morning and you're like, that was
Speaker 2: a bad dream. That is not reality. That was a
Speaker 2: bad dream, and you're just like kind of unable to
Speaker 2: accept it. But yeah, you kind of move on eventually,
Speaker 2: like just just the dark, just the darkest places that
Speaker 2: somebody like that goes to once again shout out to
Speaker 2: the flyover of the you know, air force, military planes
Speaker 2: once again sucked. Total shit. I don't know how this
Speaker 2: remains a part of the Super Bowl. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know how it remained. It's like a trying to show
Speaker 2: off military mite, but I don't know, try a new angle. Literally, guys,
Speaker 2: pointing the camera up and showing some planes fly by
Speaker 2: is the equivalent of like trying to take a picture
Speaker 2: of the moon. It looks like shit, it's not. I
Speaker 2: guess it might be cool in person, but I just stop.
Speaker 3: Throwing the fucking military industrial complex and people's faces. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like they're like, and there goes your healthcare folks right overhead.
Speaker 3: All right, now, let's toss that coin. Sure and Chris
Speaker 3: when especially when they fly like a stealth bomber, like
Speaker 3: at the fucking Rose Bowl, I'm like two is this
Speaker 3: fucking four?
Speaker 2: Yeah for little children? My kids were impressed, But.
Speaker 3: Oh my dude, the guys child bro he hears a
Speaker 3: fucking plane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it is they're still at that stage where
Speaker 5: they haven't you know, for the entirety of human history
Speaker 5: up to like whenever the Red Brothers invented flight.
Speaker 2: I think it was like nineteen seventy two, but like
Speaker 2: whenever that was, up to that point, humans were like
Speaker 2: obsessed with fly. They were like, that's crazy, Like the
Speaker 2: idea that you could fly like a bird is like
Speaker 2: the craziest thing imaginable. And like children are still like
Speaker 2: they haven't like gotten past that. They're still just like.
Speaker 3: What I know. I tell them all, get over it,
Speaker 3: clean over it, stop acting so new.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I will say, uh, worse Dad has to
Speaker 2: go to the Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady ad where there.
Speaker 2: Just did you see that one? You probably if you
Speaker 2: weren't listening closely. I hate you because you're different. I
Speaker 2: hate you because I hate you because you hate me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, I'm tired of seeing Snoops old ass
Speaker 3: up there, you know, man shucking and jiving for the
Speaker 3: dumbest ship all the time. This was that I was
Speaker 3: like at the end, I was like, oh, it's it's
Speaker 3: Robert Kraft's you know, yea faux anti semitism campaign.
Speaker 2: Yes exactly, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. This is from
Speaker 2: Robbert Craft's, owner of the New England Patriots, who uh,
Speaker 2: you know went when when he launched this anti hate organization,
Speaker 2: he like went on the rounds of cable news, saying, uh,
Speaker 2: horrible to me that a group like Hamas can be
Speaker 2: respected and people in the United States of America can
Speaker 2: be carrying flags or supporting them, equating Palestinian flag with
Speaker 2: supporting Hamas. And yeah, I mean just all saw that ship.
Speaker 3: We saw how how much the media was just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: what's your take. Okay, that'll be ours, That'll be ours too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He claimed that a call for a ceasefire and
Speaker 2: end of the violence were expressions of the rise in
Speaker 2: anti Semitism. So yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Same way, same way that de id I is destroying
Speaker 3: white people. Yes, oh you mean, okay, equity is equity.
Speaker 2: I want people to stop killing each other, and they,
Speaker 2: of course you hate anti smit.
Speaker 3: Now that people should stop killing each other. The thing is,
Speaker 3: I don't want like chill body to die.
Speaker 2: Specifically like that that that seems to be a real
Speaker 2: problem in there here.
Speaker 3: Why wear this? You should wear this jersey I found
Speaker 3: from the inaugural season of the x FL. It said
Speaker 3: he hate me on.
Speaker 2: The back create deep cut reference. We already talked about
Speaker 2: Kendrick a little bit up top. He brought art to
Speaker 2: the halftime show. Yeah, mileage may vary. I think older
Speaker 2: people were confused, and oh my god of Naga bro.
Speaker 2: They it's so funny how they all like how how
Speaker 2: one note the whole right wing outrage machine is because
Speaker 2: it's like, all right, what are we saying?
Speaker 3: Because we can't just say I hate hearing black people
Speaker 3: talk in public. You have to say something like I
Speaker 3: don't understand what he's saying. I wish I could understand
Speaker 3: a word of what he said, but I just don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh it's so terrible. It's so bad.
Speaker 2: He's mumbling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what most of the takes were. Then they said,
Speaker 3: somebod who's a Satanist.
Speaker 2: He every time, you're going to be able to find
Speaker 2: some Satanism in there for sure.
Speaker 3: Same ship too, Like they hated that Lettusy saying that,
Speaker 3: you know, black national anthem, lift every voice and sing
Speaker 3: at the top. You're like, an it is because yeah,
Speaker 3: I said some weird ass about that too.
Speaker 2: What is hateable about that?
Speaker 3: Because they they're like, it's because they probably want to
Speaker 3: acknowledge that there's any such thing as black American culture.
Speaker 3: And it's it's part of America. So why would you
Speaker 3: acknowledge that at the Super Bowl? Just sing the national
Speaker 3: don't sing, lift every voice and sing. I almost said
Speaker 3: lift every chair and swing as a result, you know,
Speaker 3: referencing the riverboat brawl that happened two years ago. That
Speaker 3: was a meme. And then Serena Williams c walking, I
Speaker 3: love you.
Speaker 2: Serena Williams used to date Drake is that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people were like, whoa that?
Speaker 2: I mean, a tough watch for I'd say the President
Speaker 2: of the United States and Drake in particular.
Speaker 3: Apparently Trump walked out two minutes before the halftime show.
Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, he wouldn't. He wasn't They said he
Speaker 3: wasn't in the he wasn't there for Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was surprised we didn't get his commentary.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I thought he would do all right. I
Speaker 3: figured that that's a big one. But I guess he didn't.
Speaker 2: Just a little bit more hopeful. Yeah, any complaints that
Speaker 2: I heard, I was like, oh yeah, I also wanted
Speaker 2: more like good kid mad cities, Like at least some
Speaker 2: good kid mad city.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just impossible to satisfy everyone like a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl halftime show is you know, it may may
Speaker 3: have made it in the cold open, but like the
Speaker 3: Katy Perry like American Maximalism halftime show, I think is
Speaker 3: like one of the best halftime shows in terms of
Speaker 3: like the American maximalism like.
Speaker 2: Of it always the assignment, Yeah goes above and beyond.
Speaker 3: This was like artistic, like turning the GNX into a
Speaker 3: clown car and having everybody pop out of there and
Speaker 3: like there's just so many interesting like it was. It
Speaker 3: was definitely for for a very specific audience, which I liked.
Speaker 2: The clown car was also for for the kids. My
Speaker 2: kids were like, whoa, how are so many people getting
Speaker 2: out of that actor? But yeah, also bad night for Drake.
Speaker 2: I feel like when he says certified, lover Boys certified,
Speaker 2: and the entire super Dome Yeah said pedophile, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Any anybody at least even though he didn't say pedophile,
Speaker 3: you know, he was like, Okay, I'll let y'all, I'll
Speaker 3: let y'all do that part he did minor.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: I Hear you like him young?
Speaker 2: That was still I Hear you like him young? And
Speaker 2: then the Super Bowl ads, I feel like they have
Speaker 2: a new tool where it's just like we're in the
Speaker 2: weird ad era, kind of like the you know what
Speaker 2: what Tim and Eric did for Old Spice, Yeah, has
Speaker 2: been just rippling through the ad landscape ever since then. Now,
Speaker 2: Like I feel like half of the ads are like,
Speaker 2: we're doing Tim and Eric stuff the same way.
Speaker 3: Remember like when Dollar Shave Club did that one ad
Speaker 3: that was like a long runner. Yeah, and every then
Speaker 3: every fucking company had to start doing the long runner
Speaker 3: Dollar Shave Club. And it's just funny, how certain like
Speaker 3: how the advertising world kind of like coalesces around like
Speaker 3: one aesthetic for a while, just like how every trailer
Speaker 3: had some version of the inception.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, most people in media are you know, just copycats.
Speaker 2: They're just copying.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah. There was the very strange Seal ad directed
Speaker 2: by Takawa, in which Seal sings a modified version of
Speaker 2: Kiss from a Rose that's all about mountain dew, Baja
Speaker 2: Blast and like he can't open it because he got
Speaker 2: seal flippers.
Speaker 3: How did you feel? Look, we we famously love Seal
Speaker 3: and Baja Blast and Kiss from a Rose and Kiss
Speaker 3: from a Rose one of my faves. I was a
Speaker 3: bit underwhelmed, I'll be honest. I loved when he said
Speaker 3: baha babaa bah. I was like, oh, okay, yes, and then.
Speaker 2: It was like an Aka on this show. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: straight up.
Speaker 3: But then it's just like for how long it went
Speaker 3: and it was all about his singing. I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: it kind of the well ran dry for me a
Speaker 3: little bit, like.
Speaker 2: Quickly. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't didn't strike me
Speaker 2: as like one of the better or worse ads. It
Speaker 2: was like right right in the middle, Jason Momoa just
Speaker 2: being the like I feel like his general energy in
Speaker 2: those ads is like the bad guy from The Fast
Speaker 2: and the Furious movies where he like tortures people for
Speaker 2: like a hobby. So that's kind of weird. She's I
Speaker 2: think they're like, do your do your Aquaman thing. But
Speaker 2: I'm always reminded of when he's like sitting around having
Speaker 2: a tea party with a bunch of dead bodies at
Speaker 2: the beginning of The Fast and the Furious movie.
Speaker 3: What Also, how did Casey affleck stinking ass get back
Speaker 3: on TV? I mean, I mean, I know his brother
Speaker 3: dry through that commercial, but I was like, bruh, he was.
Speaker 2: Good at Oppenheimer. We'll give him a pass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's back. Baby.
Speaker 2: He was wildly convincing psychopath and Oppenheimer. So yeah, it
Speaker 2: seems like a good, good enough guy. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know, Like the the fleshy hat one. Did you
Speaker 2: see that the two B one? Yeah, where the kid
Speaker 2: has like a cowboy hat like built into his head
Speaker 2: like on like his skull is the shape of a
Speaker 2: cowboy hat. Yeah, but like the brim has like weird
Speaker 2: bends in it, so it like makes you be like,
Speaker 2: is he in pain?
Speaker 3: Like no, man, hey man, Nope, nope, no, cowboy hats
Speaker 3: perfect on the brim. You know, he's he's been wearing
Speaker 3: that thing for a while. It has been doing hard
Speaker 3: work in that skull is because isn't that thing like
Speaker 3: and like he gets older, right, and then he goes
Speaker 3: to a bar and he sees some like fantasy fans
Speaker 3: who got like gandolf skulls, but they got a real
Speaker 3: cowboy hat on top of their gandolf skull.
Speaker 2: Because they think it's just like cowboys are like back
Speaker 2: in fashion or something like.
Speaker 3: Just be you.
Speaker 2: I didn't totally follow it, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I have to.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 2: It's like one of those things. It's like a you know,
Speaker 2: Currosawa film. He needs to be rewatched multiple times to
Speaker 2: fully like get the layers. Same with the Ram Glen
Speaker 2: pal Ram Truck Goldilocks ad. This is NI plus ad
Speaker 2: where all the characters are inceptioned. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: For some reason, the cowboy had attached the head felt
Speaker 2: like a body horror thing to me. Really freaked me out.
Speaker 2: And then I was looking for AI stuff and there
Speaker 2: was a Google ad hyping Gemini AI that contained information
Speaker 2: that was not not accurate. Like it's like a Wisconsin
Speaker 2: dairy farmer who finds that Gouda cheese comprises fifty to
Speaker 2: sixty percent of global cheese consumption and there's a blogger
Speaker 2: who was like that can't be true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then our pizzas have Guda on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are like, what are you talking about? How
Speaker 2: could that be so like a thing that it's just
Speaker 2: wild that they had an ad a Super Bowl ad
Speaker 2: aimed at like getting people familiar with this product that
Speaker 2: is all about like finding and contextualizing information, and it
Speaker 2: had like a fact that I any human could tell you.
Speaker 2: It's like they highlighted the problem with AI is like
Speaker 2: the lack of human intervention to be like, guys, we're
Speaker 2: gonna need to double check that the GUDA can't possibly
Speaker 2: comprise fifty to sixty percent of global cheese consumption. And
Speaker 2: so a blogger pointed that out, and then somebody from Google,
Speaker 2: Jerry Dishler, was like, actually, Gemini scours websites, and multiple
Speaker 2: sites across the web include the fifty to sixty percent stat.
Speaker 3: Okay, there are multiple websites that til you vaccines cause
Speaker 3: autism exactly and exactly the problem. That's the fucking problem.
Speaker 2: And when you Google like what is the most consumed
Speaker 2: type of cheese, Like it's not even it doesn't even
Speaker 2: like those aren't the first ones that came up. It's
Speaker 2: it's so wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah good, I mean, what a perfect, un ironic encapsulation
Speaker 3: of what that whole thing is. Yeah, and then having
Speaker 3: some dude be like, well, actually, just yeah, it's an
Speaker 3: It's an l man. I'm sorry you spent millions of
Speaker 3: dollars to just post something that made your product look
Speaker 3: worse than it is. Wondering like what how what search
Speaker 3: terms did they use to get to Google, like in
Speaker 3: the Netherlands or something, you know what I mean, Like specifically,
Speaker 3: I don't know what the fuck like where they're Google,
Speaker 3: like sixty percent of global cheese consumption global being used
Speaker 3: like globally within these five families in the Netherlands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah, I don't know. Very confusing anyways.
Speaker 2: Also shout out to the Alien ads. There's an Alien
Speaker 2: ad with Pete Davidson for Pam I think I thin
Speaker 2: it was like a Super Bowl ad for Pansy, But
Speaker 2: then there was a good one with Tim Robinson and
Speaker 2: yeah for Totina's pizza.
Speaker 3: Rolls, and that sounds like a good match. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also cool quote from Tim Robinson last week that people
Speaker 2: were like, yeah, at the time that Lauren decided to
Speaker 2: have Donald Trump host SNL writers weren't thrilled. One writer
Speaker 2: at the time said Lauren has lost his mind. Someone
Speaker 2: needs to take a gun and shoot him in the
Speaker 2: back of the head. It was Tim Robinson.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's who Tim Robinson.
Speaker 2: Tim Robinson said that at the time.
Speaker 3: They go.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I think that's the trend I'm getting. We're
Speaker 2: ready for the big disclosure, guys. That's what our Super
Speaker 2: Bowl ads are telling us. There's also one where like
Speaker 2: a UFO beam of Light is trying to steal someone's
Speaker 2: Derrido's I think, hey.
Speaker 3: They got to get us in touch with the stakes
Speaker 3: here for when the aliens come try and take our dors.
Speaker 2: That's right, all right, let's uh, let's take a quick
Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back. And we're back. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: And uh, Ice is putting up numbers, baby, in terms
Speaker 2: of comparisons to the Gestapo. They're just crushing it, putting
Speaker 2: up huge numbers there there.
Speaker 3: I mean, all last week you were hearing about ice
Speaker 3: raids in so many different states that happened in Chicago,
Speaker 3: there was a huge Denver and in Denver they said
Speaker 3: they were there to quote capture over one hundred members
Speaker 3: of the violent Venezuelan gang trend de AG, which is
Speaker 3: the one that they used to first foment that first
Speaker 3: immigrant panic when the are like they're they're kicking down
Speaker 3: doors and they're they're robbing people there, they weren't. So
Speaker 3: apparently after this raid they arrested one alleged gang member
Speaker 3: and twenty nine other people were detained for unspecified reasons,
Speaker 3: which is fair.
Speaker 2: You know, they would specify, you know, they would throw
Speaker 2: claim those people were gang members if they had any
Speaker 2: way of.
Speaker 3: And anecdotally, I'm I've heard all kinds of shit, of
Speaker 3: people just getting stopped, people fucking impersonating ice to fuck
Speaker 3: with people. There's like, it's this whole fucking wave of uh,
Speaker 3: you know, raids is like brought upon all kinds of shit.
Speaker 3: And now there's news that they're hearing up for like
Speaker 3: some kind of huge action in La. Yeah, and like
Speaker 3: you're saying, everyone's like, yeah, this is very geheimstatz polite
Speaker 3: si if I may use the full name of the Gestapo. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's unbelievable, and I think it was crazy,
Speaker 3: as Jam points out, our writers just like how a
Speaker 3: lot of people were like, yeah, this is like the Nazis,
Speaker 3: but then it's actually the Nazis were inspired by America's
Speaker 3: horrible treatment of in the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 2: Hitler was a huge fan of the United States, like
Speaker 2: just generally and inspired by a lot of American culture
Speaker 2: and this one in particular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised there isn't a move of conservatives be like,
Speaker 3: we need to reclaim Nazism for America.
Speaker 2: That was our idea. Actually, so you guys need to
Speaker 2: fucking chill out with Nazi comparisons. Yeah, give us credit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this was like stuff they were doing,
Speaker 3: Like you know, they were screening people that were coming
Speaker 3: from Mexico to quote force to strip naked, subjected to
Speaker 3: screenings for homosexuality, low IQ physical deformities like clubbed fingers, okay,
Speaker 3: doctor Mengola. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Eugenics was hugely popular in the United States, like in
Speaker 2: the early twentieth century.
Speaker 3: They're like, all right, well we lost the slavery thing.
Speaker 3: Else how else can we try and get our fingers
Speaker 3: into everyone's lives? Make other people? And then this is
Speaker 3: the other wild thing to disinfect quote unquote disinfect people
Speaker 3: as they were coming through they were using these like gasoline, kerosene,
Speaker 3: sulfuric acid, and even fucking zyklon b, which is the
Speaker 3: exact same gas they used in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, what.
Speaker 2: If we just like crank that up a little bit,
Speaker 2: Like we like where they're going with us, but what
Speaker 2: if we just cranked it up a little higher?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, And I mean, like to the point, there's
Speaker 3: like this one author who points out David Dorado Romo
Speaker 3: this like actually no, no, no, this is a consequential.
Speaker 3: Author even has a quote from Hitler in nineteen This
Speaker 3: is a quote from Hitler in nineteen twenty four. Quote,
Speaker 3: the American Union itself has established scientific criteria for immigration,
Speaker 3: making an immigrant's ability to set foot on American soil
Speaker 3: dependent on specific racial requirements on the one hand, as
Speaker 3: well as a certain level of physical health of the
Speaker 3: individual himself. And this was like, yeah, just just in
Speaker 3: his musings, Like wow, interesting, interesting how they figured that out.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think the one thing that we have
Speaker 3: seen is that every time Tom Homan goes on TV
Speaker 3: and he's like, bah, this is I'm not getting away
Speaker 3: with it, like how I want to the Ice like
Speaker 3: Ice guy. He it's every time. It's because he's lamenting
Speaker 3: that people are know their rights. So I think it's
Speaker 3: really important for people to understand that that is the
Speaker 3: best defense against these raids right now is purely being informed.
Speaker 3: And like all immigration advocates, legal experts, they've been sharing
Speaker 3: information all across social media and things like that, how
Speaker 3: you should never open the door for Ice. This is
Speaker 3: something you know, they need a warrant signed by a judge.
Speaker 3: Ice will be like we have a warrant and you're like,
Speaker 3: who's it signed by. It's like my friend who also
Speaker 3: works at ICE, and that's you go, no, that's not valid.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Nice fucking try. Never leave your home to
Speaker 3: follow them, to be like, oh I got a warrant
Speaker 3: over here, come check it out. Just exit your domicile.
Speaker 3: Never do that.
Speaker 2: They're like vampires. It's so crazy, like.
Speaker 3: And yeah, otherwise you can be like, no, I'm good.
Speaker 3: Also have this garlic. I have a ton of garlic
Speaker 3: and wooden stakes in here. You're not gonna like it.
Speaker 3: Don't sign anything. And again, for people who like want
Speaker 3: to help, there's a lot. There's a huge need for
Speaker 3: people who like notaries or like lawyers, people who can
Speaker 3: work as interpreters because as Tom Holman said, like in Chicago,
Speaker 3: that those raids did not go as well because he
Speaker 3: said the people were quote too educated.
Speaker 2: Too too well educated. That's what that was, a quote
Speaker 2: from fucking borders are, Tom Homan. They're too well educated.
Speaker 2: They call it, No, you're rights. I call it how
Speaker 2: to escape arrest. Oh okay, yeah, it is my right
Speaker 2: to escape arrest. If you don't have you don't have
Speaker 2: anything on the asshole they call it.
Speaker 3: It's such a stupid Again, you're so dumb. You just go.
Speaker 3: They call it no your rights. I call it getting
Speaker 3: away with the with your crime and what and what
Speaker 3: of you sir and what have you? Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 3: is just uh yeah, I mean this, this is not
Speaker 3: slowing down. But this is again like there's no catch
Speaker 3: all at the moment to how this is how we
Speaker 3: all push back and how we resist these things. But
Speaker 3: there are clearly there are ways to slow this thing down.
Speaker 3: One of them for sure is to inform yourself and
Speaker 3: others in your community who could be at risk from
Speaker 3: harassment by ICE to know what their actual rights are,
Speaker 3: rather than you know, finding the guy who just put
Speaker 3: on a you know, a fucking tactical vest with police
Speaker 3: on it and be look, I know everything. Now come
Speaker 3: come with me, so I can, you know, completely violate
Speaker 3: your rights, So you know, can let's continue to inform
Speaker 3: ourselves at least in this in this dimension or at
Speaker 3: least this aspect against pushing back against this ICE nonsense.
Speaker 2: He He also said that the Colorado raid didn't go
Speaker 2: as well as he had hoped so because of local
Speaker 2: activists and community members. So it is work like this
Speaker 2: is the sort of local action that can actually be
Speaker 2: helpful while we're waiting to figure out what's going to
Speaker 2: happen at a more national level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because when you read like the writings of people
Speaker 3: that were involved in like resistance movements like in World
Speaker 3: War two and stuff, it's like the theme there isn't
Speaker 3: always like it's not to beat the Nazis, like we cannot.
Speaker 3: We just don't have the infrastructure or the ability to
Speaker 3: fight off an entire army like that. The point is
Speaker 3: to cause as much friction as possible, to make things
Speaker 3: as difficult as possible, to sabotage when necessary. And these
Speaker 3: are the kinds of you know, ways we're seeing that
Speaker 3: sort of play out in these like very sort of
Speaker 3: micro scenarios. Yeah. But yeah, I mean again, which is
Speaker 3: so weird to think it's like, yeah, we're sabotaging them
Speaker 3: by knowing our rights, unfortunately that's the way, but telling
Speaker 3: them what is legal, right, Yeah, all right, those are
Speaker 3: some of the things that are trying on this Monday morning,
Speaker 3: February tenth.
Speaker 2: We're back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the
Speaker 2: show with the Great Blair Saki, So you can tune
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Speaker 2: flu shots, especially your flu shots. Right now. I was
Speaker 2: talking to a doctor who's saying that the flu shot
Speaker 2: this year in particular, like people who are getting this
Speaker 2: year's flu without the flu shot are down for like
Speaker 2: two weeks. People who have had their flu shot, it's
Speaker 2: more like a two day situation. So this year in
Speaker 2: particular feels like a good one to get your flu
Speaker 2: shot if you haven't already. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 2: and we will talk to yell tomorrow. Bye bye.