1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: I've never told you protection of I Heart Radio. So 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: this is gonna come as zero surprise to probably anyone listening, 4 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: including you, Samantha. But I have a post it note 5 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: on my computer that is it's called nerd cred and 6 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: it just has random assortment of things, okay, and you 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: know it makes sense to me, but it doesn't make 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: sense to probably anyone else. But it as like I 9 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: survived the snap, the Thano snap. I just keep track 10 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: of these things. So my question for you today is 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: do you have a favorite X Man character or do 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: you have one that people tell you that's who you 13 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: would be? And I will tell you why I'm asking this. 14 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: This is a very especially knowing the topic we're about 15 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: to jump into the left field. Um I I don't 16 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: know if I've ever been told I am like a character, 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: but we know typically when an Asian character is introduced, 18 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: and that's that one representative character, people automatically be like 19 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: you Asian person, that's you, right, which is what I 20 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: know of the original Wolverine story where he goes to Japan, 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: which I am not Japanese. As a reminder, and they're 22 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: all way colder than me. It's also one of those 23 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: story lines that I'm like, he sleeps with a very 24 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: young girl, and I'm very disturbed by this whole plot 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: line because they're forcing a romance that's obviously not really 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: a thing for them. Side note, but would I I 27 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: don't think I would be. I don't know. No one's 28 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: ever said you remind me of the superhero character, so 29 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: I can't really say to that my favorite. I do 30 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: love Jane Gray, her complexity is very unique, but I 31 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: also love Elliott Pages character, and because I think that 32 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: it's really cool that they are able to go through walls. Yeah, 33 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: Rogue was my favorite. Rogue originally did that in the comics, 34 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: not to be that person, but you are take pride 35 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: in that. I try to be a nice version of 36 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: that person. Yeah. When I was growing up, I loved 37 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: X Men. I did read the comics, and Rogue was 38 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: my favorite. I do think her storyline is really interesting 39 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: now that I'm older because in the movies, yeah, she 40 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: does choose to give up her powers essentially for a boy. Yeah. 41 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: I guessed to be able to touch people though, And 42 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: that's the thing is, like, I get it, that does suck, 43 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: but it also makes her extremely powerful, or she can be. 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: But I highly recommend Samantha that next time and we 45 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: can all hang out in person again and we go 46 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: to our local bar, Aspen Bowl. And what your X 47 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: man is? Because he's the reason I know. He told 48 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: me I'm X twenty three and it's Logan Wolverine's daughter 49 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: kind of Oh yeah, anyway, I didn't know either. I 50 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: had to look it up. But then I was like, okay, man, 51 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: this is the good one, thank you. It's that the 52 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: one in the Final Wolverine where he kind of takes her. 53 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: She has similar powers to him. I think. So she's 54 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: a great character. I was. When I was reading about it, 55 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: I was like, bad, thank you. I made a note 56 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: of it my nerd cred. But the reason I'm asking 57 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: this is because one of my very very favorite slash 58 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: complicated slash please don't get me started talking about it 59 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: topics is how confusing the Marvel slash d C slash 60 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: Sony universes and how it impacted the Soy lines if 61 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: you're looking at something like even one division, like, oh 62 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: they did that because of weird laws owns what But 63 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: they made it into a story for this Samantha's been 64 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: with me at a Universal theme park, and I'll be like, well, 65 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: because of the contract, Disney can't take away the whole 66 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: like I have always. I will go on and on 67 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: and on about it, but You've been a great source 68 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: for that because I'd be like, wait, wait, wait, because 69 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: one of the rituals with one divisions. After I watch it, 70 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: I start texting you to find out why. Essentially yes, 71 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: and I'm like, let me tell you about this all 72 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: between those in the nineties with Marvel and Disney in 73 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: twenty century Fox, and You're like, just tell me what's 74 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: going on here? It Just tell me what's happening. Stephen 75 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: Colbert just did a funny because this is the Snyder 76 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 1: cut just came out and he did like a funny 77 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: post credit scene where he was trying to explain like 78 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: he had all the like bubble charts of who owns what. 79 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: That's really good. But I wanted to bring that up 80 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: because we are talking about a handful of laws today 81 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: unrelated to comics and entertainment. So before we get into it, 82 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: today's date is March and I think when we did 83 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: this outline, originally it was like the so a lot 84 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: of things have changed and are changing. But we wanted 85 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: to talk about the Equal Right Amendments, some updates on 86 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: that one and the Violence against Women's Acts and some 87 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: voting stuff. So on March the U. S. House passed 88 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: the Joint Resolution to do away with the deadline for 89 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, only weeks after a federal 90 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: judge ruled that it was too late that they couldn't 91 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: change that. The vote was two two and four. In 92 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: the words of California Democratic Representative Jackie Sphere, there can 93 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: be no expliration date on equality. It now faces a 94 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: tough vote in the Senate though, and also the filibuster. So, 95 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: but we want to talk about that too much. Yeah, 96 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: and you can actually go back to our past episode 97 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: on the e r A for more info. But at 98 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: the beginning of Virginia became the needed thirty eight state 99 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: to ratify into the twenty eighth Amendment. Opponents argue it 100 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: is too late that when the bill was originally introduced 101 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two, it was set to expire in 102 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, but it did not reach the ratification 103 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: threshold specified which it didn't is states over the years 104 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: have attempted to withdraw the ratification, but the intent of 105 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: the e r A s to legally provide protections against 106 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: discrimination based on sex, and there have been again attempts 107 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: to update it to be more inclusive in terms of gender, 108 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: to encompass transgender folks, which really really, really really needed 109 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: right now, which conservatives have veheminently protested it against. And 110 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: now we see that as a protect our children in 111 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: sports bs um and we talked a little bit about 112 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: that before. But yeah, Also on March seventeen one, in 113 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: the wake of the Atlanta shootings that took the lives 114 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: of seven women, the US House voted to re authorize 115 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 1: the Violence Against Women Act, or the v a w A, 116 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,119 Speaker 1: after expired in twenty nineteen when the Republican controlled Senate 117 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: refused to hear it, though Congress did temporarily authorized funding 118 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: to keep programs going, in part because of the rise 119 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: of domestic violence during COVID lockdowns. Seventy two Republicans voted 120 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: against it, only twenty nine Republicans voted for it. The 121 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: language in it is gender neutral, and it calls for 122 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: punishment of on tribal offenders on tribal lands and improved 123 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: language access finally, so a brief history in nine. This 124 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: law was co authored by then Senator Joe Biden and 125 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: most recently reauthorized in one of several reauthorizations to broaden 126 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: the protections it offered. Its purpose is to provide services 127 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: like gender based violence training, national domestic abuse hotlines, and 128 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: funding for women's shelter in order to curb stalking, domestic violence, 129 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: and sexual assault. When it was first introduced, it allocated 130 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: one point six billion to these programs and also implemented 131 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: a rape shield law that prohibited prosecutors from using sexual 132 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: histories against women. One of the main arguments opponents have 133 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: about this act has to do with the so called 134 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: boyfriend loophole, which has to do with an unrelated federal 135 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: law making it illegal for people convicted of abuse against 136 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: a current or former spouse from purchasing a firearm. As 137 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: part of the broadening of the v A w A, 138 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: boyfriends who have had a training order taken out against them, 139 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: or been convicted of stalking, our sexual assault, or assault 140 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: against a partner or x would be included in an 141 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: instead of spouse just spouse. According to the FBI, boyfriends 142 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: are almost as likely to kill and quote intimate partner 143 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: as husbands are. In twenty nineteen, the n r A 144 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: spoke out against this act because of the boyfriend loophole. 145 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: Others say they are against it because it extends protections 146 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: to transgender individuals and might as well put this l 147 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: in here. But with this and the many instances of 148 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: light of shootings that we've seen around the country, we 149 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: know that Georgia just passed a law to make it 150 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: easier to get guns, even though we just had a 151 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: mass shooting a couple of weeks ago, which is a 152 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: whole other conversation and it's still going as Colorado also 153 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 1: had their big conversation about the n r A blocking 154 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 1: several bills that allowed for the access to a R 155 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: fifteens and still access seen that so uh yeah, of 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: course the bill isn't perfect. Their debates about contributes to 157 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: incosperration of marginalized communities, and these conversations again are worth having, 158 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: especially when we talk about the jail system and the 159 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: incosperration system in itself. We should have this conversation because 160 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: it affects those who are most likely to be victimized 161 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: to begin with. But the primary objections by elected of 162 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: Republicans about gun rights and trans rights are at the 163 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: very least ridiculous and order still waiting to see what 164 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: the Senate will do again. Yeah, filipbusters. Oh yeah, that's 165 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: the reaction. Yeah. And then we we did want to 166 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: touch on some voters suppression news here in our home 167 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: stade of Georgia. On Mars t five, Georgia Governor Brian 168 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: Kent passed several election laws aimed at making voting more difficult, 169 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: including prohibiting volunteers from handing out food and water to 170 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: those in line waiting to vote. As many of the 171 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: rightly pointed out laws that make it harder to vote, 172 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: many voted in racism are what may the line is 173 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: longer in the first place. But this is one of 174 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 1: hundreds of similar laws proposed across the country. So right 175 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: in Texas is just pushing theirs right now as we 176 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: were talking, they are doing the same tactics as Georgia did, 177 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: in which they are producing a very large bill and 178 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: pushing it through very quickly without allowing a lot of 179 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: people access to it, which is what happened to Georgia. 180 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's public for Texas, but that 181 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: you're trying to get through very quickly, and yeah, there's 182 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: hundreds of proposals all over the country to suppress votes. 183 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: And it's very very obvious, even to the fact that 184 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: our secretary of State, who was such a hero at 185 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: one point in time to Georgia for actually, you know, 186 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: going against the president at that time, saying that there's 187 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: no signs of fraud and everything's being fine and quit 188 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: stalking our people, and yet taking that narrative and pushing 189 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: these new laws in saying, quote, it protects and gives 190 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: more opportunity, which is bs because you just rearrange English 191 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: and yeah, you're giving more access to those who already 192 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: have access. Fine blank. So yeah, well, I mean that's 193 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: also very frustrating. Part of their argument is like we're 194 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: trying to restore faith in the voting system, like you're 195 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:19,119 Speaker 1: the ones that destroyed the faith in voting right anyway, anyway, anyway, 196 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: that is definitely something we are are going to keep 197 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: an eye on, and we need to keep an eye 198 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 1: on when we talk about the importance of local elections. 199 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: This is one of the things that we're talking about. So, yeah, 200 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: those are some laws that we I wanted to discuss 201 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: in this mini episode if there are any other laws 202 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: or initiatives or anything else happening here around the world. 203 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: We always love hearing from you listeners. What X men 204 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: character are you and why is it not X women. 205 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: We've got to be more inclusive, so you're bringing it 206 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: back around, huh. If it wasn't clear. X Men is 207 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: the most complicated legally in terms of like why Scarlett 208 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: Witch in Marvel but not called Scarlet It which anyway, 209 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: she is an excellent comics I'm getting off topic. 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