WEBVTT - Anti-Woke Bills, Pro-Assassination CIA, and Neutral-Metaverse

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Worst Year Ever, A production of I Heart

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<v Speaker 1>Radio Together everything, So don't don't do what soaking my Mormons?

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<v Speaker 1>Alright for the week off to you guys, is this soaking?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god? All right, right right out of the gate.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know how like when you were in high school,

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<v Speaker 1>the Catholic kids in our talk, Yeah, well it's very important, Katie,

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<v Speaker 1>It's incredibly important. So Kate me you you know you

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<v Speaker 1>did you go Did you guys all go to public schools? Yes? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so sorry I was not recording. Oh well, we're

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<v Speaker 1>keeping all of this. We're keeping everything we did so far. Katie,

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<v Speaker 1>you went to a public school, Cody, you went to

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<v Speaker 1>public school. I went to a public school. We all

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<v Speaker 1>had like, like Catholic kids at the schools and also

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<v Speaker 1>Catholic schools that you like would compete with. And so

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<v Speaker 1>every time now and then you'd meet like Catholic kids,

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<v Speaker 1>and Catholic kids fucked as much as everybody else, but

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<v Speaker 1>they had been There was this widespread belief, particularly among

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<v Speaker 1>the Catholic girls that I knew in high school, that

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<v Speaker 1>it didn't count if it was but sex, that like

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<v Speaker 1>that wasn't you weren't you weren't having premarital sex if

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<v Speaker 1>it was in the ask because you can't make a

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<v Speaker 1>baby that way. Funny, it's so funny to jump from um,

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<v Speaker 1>just the most obvious thing to jump to butt sex

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<v Speaker 1>like like that is it's funny because there's enough if

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<v Speaker 1>you if you extend that logic, you could argue that, like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>the Catholic Church shouldn't have any problem with gay sex

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<v Speaker 1>because it's not sex because children can't be like under

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<v Speaker 1>their definition of it. You know, I don't know, I've

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<v Speaker 1>never understood it. But that was that was what can

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<v Speaker 1>we get the pop on? Yeah, I've been reaching out

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<v Speaker 1>to the Pope, by which I mean I have been

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<v Speaker 1>screaming at the Vatican during my weekly visits to Italy. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>But but so far, no response. I mean I've gotten

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<v Speaker 1>arrested a few times, but no, like practical response. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a form of a response, yeah, from from someone. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>So soaking is the Mormon equivalent of that, right, because

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<v Speaker 1>because kids are always as horny as as kids always are.

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<v Speaker 1>But if your religion says you can't do this, you

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<v Speaker 1>can't do that, you find ways to do this in

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<v Speaker 1>that that don't violate your religion. So you can't like

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<v Speaker 1>fuck before marriage if you're Mormon. But soaking is not fucking.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just getting your dick inside of vagina and just

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<v Speaker 1>kind of lay in there. Right, That's what soaking is. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that's what soaking is there and also that still counts

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<v Speaker 1>as sex. Well, they're not from Mormons because they're not

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<v Speaker 1>you're not humping and a currently, So I had heard

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<v Speaker 1>about soaking a long time ago. That's that's a thing

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<v Speaker 1>I've heard from enough people who like did it that

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<v Speaker 1>I know is real. Little certain about is um jump humps,

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<v Speaker 1>which some people on Twitter have said is a real

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<v Speaker 1>thing that I I can't I can't confirm from people

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<v Speaker 1>I know well who are morening. How do you put

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<v Speaker 1>your penis inside someone and just sit there? Uh, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you have a friend like any little bit. You can't

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<v Speaker 1>even like breathe because like the slightest movement, it requires

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<v Speaker 1>perfect balance, Katie, let me explain it. Because you have

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<v Speaker 1>to be you have to have two things that are

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<v Speaker 1>in perfect balance. You have to be very horny and

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<v Speaker 1>you have to be very scared of God. And if

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<v Speaker 1>your horny nous outweighs your fear of God, then you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna fuck and if your fear of God outweighs your

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<v Speaker 1>horny nous, you're not gonna sunk at all. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>then you soak. You got to keep the atoms from

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<v Speaker 1>from dancing. And maybe, allegedly the people are claiming on

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<v Speaker 1>Twitter and out jump pumping has been added where you

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<v Speaker 1>will have a friend jump on the bed because then

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<v Speaker 1>it's kind of like like thrusting. It creates the friction.

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<v Speaker 1>It creates friction, but they're not doing it someone else's.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't confirm. I know for a fact that because

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<v Speaker 1>of Mormons that I know well who were not like bullshitting,

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<v Speaker 1>that's soaking is a thing. I mean, we call that

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<v Speaker 1>a threesome. I'm pretty sure you call it are what

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<v Speaker 1>kind of threesomes? Do you have? No more monkeys jumping

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<v Speaker 1>on the bed? I mean, in a way it's a threesome.

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<v Speaker 1>It's recomplicate them. It just sucks and it's bad, like

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<v Speaker 1>it's just making a threesome. Shitty. Yeah, we have unpacked this.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we need to unpack one more thing. Because

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<v Speaker 1>if you if the goal is to keep no friction

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<v Speaker 1>in your sex and just sit there, just sit in it, right, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't subscribe to it, but or the logic, but whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>that's what's happening. In order to get it in, you're

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<v Speaker 1>creating friction. Yeah, so like you have to have a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of sex, or you have to be very

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<v Speaker 1>careful about how you get it in. I just have

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<v Speaker 1>to say, because I have to say it, that's sex.

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<v Speaker 1>It's penetration, it's sex. I don't care how them. I

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<v Speaker 1>think a variety of other things are sex too. Yeah, absolutely,

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<v Speaker 1>that is. I think it's it's it's sex. If you

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<v Speaker 1>just go down on someone or someone goes down on you,

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<v Speaker 1>those are all sex acts. It's sex if you're just

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like making out and groping and following each

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<v Speaker 1>other at the point of orgasm. Yeah, I think sex

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<v Speaker 1>is a hearty wink. Wow, I have had a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of sex with a lot of strangers. In that case, um,

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<v Speaker 1>I should get my eyes tested. I just I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>a winker. So it's not a blink. A blink is

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<v Speaker 1>not to be confused that I mean not a that's

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<v Speaker 1>not consent. That does kind of make me wonder about

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<v Speaker 1>Mormon oral sex. Like can you face soak and then

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<v Speaker 1>jump pump and that that counts more than five minutes?

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<v Speaker 1>I did enjoy the friend in the post that sort

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<v Speaker 1>of knocked this off. The person who is doing the

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<v Speaker 1>jump pumping for a friend use the phrase called to soak,

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<v Speaker 1>which is a pun on call to serve, which is

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<v Speaker 1>like a Mormon like thing. From what I understand, it's

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<v Speaker 1>amazing and good for them. Well, I do feel like

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<v Speaker 1>these people clearly have the moral upper hand from us,

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<v Speaker 1>last of us going to hell. It's very funny. It's

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<v Speaker 1>always very funny when when churches get weird about sex,

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<v Speaker 1>because the only thing it does is it is it

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<v Speaker 1>creates a generation of kids who are even weirder about

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<v Speaker 1>sex than they would have been if they'd just been

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<v Speaker 1>allowed to like do whatever when they were kids. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it is funny, and that's that's what we should

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<v Speaker 1>take away from this. But also it is upsetting people. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean a person jumping on the bed so their

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<v Speaker 1>friends can have friction, actually introduction into into non monogamy.

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<v Speaker 1>Who knows what it really should? Move on to the news.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I will say one thing, you think your

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<v Speaker 1>kids are soaking, show them sex education. The TV show

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<v Speaker 1>on Netflix, British show There's the third season just came out.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm it's awesome. It's a great show dealing about teen

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<v Speaker 1>sexuality and having conversations and about culture and how we

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<v Speaker 1>talk about sex, etcetera. And UM, that's my way of

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<v Speaker 1>wrapping up this segment, giving you something useful. And I

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<v Speaker 1>was gonna end it. No no, no, no no, it's better

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<v Speaker 1>than what I was gonna say, which is stopped talking

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<v Speaker 1>and everything disgusting. But yeah, let's talk about some news things.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what news things. I love the news. UM,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to talk real quick. This is sort of inconsequential,

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<v Speaker 1>but I think it's also indicative of the times. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>Marco Rubio introduced this bill. Speaking by the way, speaking

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<v Speaker 1>of Marco Rubio, inconsequential but indicative of the times is

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<v Speaker 1>the perfect, the perfect description of that man. The top

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<v Speaker 1>of his website, UM, his re election campaign is this bill.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's about wokeness and corporations. And we knew this

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<v Speaker 1>was coming, and speaking of soaking, we knew this was coming. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>And it's just the silliest thing I think one could imagine,

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<v Speaker 1>while also again being very indicative at the times. It's

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<v Speaker 1>called the Mind your Own Business Act, and I you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're calling it an anti woke bill. And we can.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, it's dismissive language. It's this anti woke stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>It literally uses the word woke in the bill. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't think of anything more embarrassing than a senator

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<v Speaker 1>writing a republic in writing a Mind your Own Business Act.

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<v Speaker 1>Have I just have a question, have I'm sure there's

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<v Speaker 1>been lots of ridiculous names of legislation, but this one's

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good. It's always been such, you know, like, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure it has anyway, Oh yeah, the Mind your

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<v Speaker 1>Own Business Act ridiculous, just so ridiculous and um, aside

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<v Speaker 1>from just the fact that a senator wrote a bill

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<v Speaker 1>and was like, I'll use the word woke and put

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<v Speaker 1>it in quotes, and that'll that's the law. That's a

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<v Speaker 1>law that I think should exist. Is nonsense. Explain this law. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna read some quotes from Ruby's office and

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<v Speaker 1>Rubio himself because it's quite a doozy. Um. Specifically, the

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<v Speaker 1>legislation would require corporate directors to prove their quote woke

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<v Speaker 1>corporate actions were in the shareholder's best interest in order

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<v Speaker 1>to avoid liability for breach of fiduciary duty and shareholder

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<v Speaker 1>litigation over corporate actions relating to certain social policies. It

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<v Speaker 1>would also incentivize corporate management to stop abusing their positions

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<v Speaker 1>to advance left wing social policies by increasing their personal

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<v Speaker 1>liability to shareholders for breaches of fiduciary duty resulting from

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<v Speaker 1>these questions. Yes, question, so very specific um about incentivizing

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<v Speaker 1>corporate management to stop abusing their positions to advance left

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<v Speaker 1>wing social policies. Now does this work in reverse? So

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<v Speaker 1>interesting question? Probably there So spoiler, There are no no

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<v Speaker 1>co sponsors for this bill. It's bill, and it's because

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<v Speaker 1>even even the other like all of the Republicans running

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<v Speaker 1>these a lot of these companies don't want this bill

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<v Speaker 1>because it would just be it would just be creating

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<v Speaker 1>a big legal clusterfuck. And the fact of the matter

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<v Speaker 1>is everything that he's calling like corporations doing woke things

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<v Speaker 1>against the interest of the shareholders. Those corporations are only

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<v Speaker 1>doing because they see it as the best thing for

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<v Speaker 1>their them any fucking action if they don't think it's profitable.

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<v Speaker 1>None of them are doing it to be woke. They're

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<v Speaker 1>all doing it because most people hate the kind of

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<v Speaker 1>ship that Marco Rubio uh grand stands about. Because he's

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<v Speaker 1>he's playing to a tiny audience of about three percent

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<v Speaker 1>of Americans who give money to him and people like him. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>it's so yes, yes, exactly. Um, it's very laughable um

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<v Speaker 1>and also insidious. Um. But like an example of the

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<v Speaker 1>clusterfuck you're talking about, there's like language in there about um,

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<v Speaker 1>like divisive concepts of like sex, stereotyping and things like that.

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<v Speaker 1>And as I think it was Max kennerally I think

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<v Speaker 1>pointed this out where so you can sue hungry man

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<v Speaker 1>frozen dinners because that's a that's a stereotype. Yeah, about

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<v Speaker 1>that's a stereotype. You can totally do that. But that's

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<v Speaker 1>not what Marco is talking about. He's talking about like, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>companies saying like that's a bad law. It's so it's

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<v Speaker 1>so ridiculous. I want to talking about a company putting

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<v Speaker 1>up like a fucking trans Right's flag on their Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>account or something like he's talking about. What he's talking

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<v Speaker 1>about our gestures that like at most are like mildly

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<v Speaker 1>pleasant to see and and and are generally completely ineffective.

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<v Speaker 1>Like again, are things that the companies don't believe, but

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<v Speaker 1>rather they understand the way the country is going, and

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<v Speaker 1>they're trying to keep making money. Yeah, they're not. They're

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<v Speaker 1>not taking a stand for wokeness. It's Pride month, and

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<v Speaker 1>all of their competitors put up flags, So they're doing

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<v Speaker 1>the thing that everybody does during Pride months. Um. It's

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<v Speaker 1>so it's so obvious. Um. This is one other quote

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<v Speaker 1>from him that I think is very funny from him. Specifically,

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<v Speaker 1>patriotic Americans who love their country and the opportunity it

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<v Speaker 1>provides should be able to fight back against the growing

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<v Speaker 1>tyranny of the woke elites running corporate America. These are

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<v Speaker 1>often nationalist corporations. I thought the corporation for people that

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<v Speaker 1>a mass fortunes divorced from the fate of our great

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<v Speaker 1>country while pushing socially destructive far left policies, lie Boycott's

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<v Speaker 1>and canceled crusades at home. I'm sorry who burned all

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<v Speaker 1>the nikes? M hm oh, oh what what? I don't

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<v Speaker 1>remember that, Therefore it didn't happen. It must not have happened.

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<v Speaker 1>That who flushed their razors down the toilet? Um, it's

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<v Speaker 1>so nonsensical, but also an important thing about it's obviously

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<v Speaker 1>like you can use it, like I said, for like

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<v Speaker 1>hungry man dinners or whatever the funk you want, because

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<v Speaker 1>it's so vague. Um, it's vague on purpose. Uh. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's insidious. Uh. Much like when Ted Cruz tried to

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<v Speaker 1>get Antifa labeled a terrorist organization, where he used like

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<v Speaker 1>it was like Antifa but also like left wing activism

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<v Speaker 1>and like protesters associated with Antifa's all sort of vague

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<v Speaker 1>terms that could mean anything. Uh. Marco Rubio knows that

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<v Speaker 1>the term woke can mean anything. It can mean against

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<v Speaker 1>police brutality, it can mean environmentalism, it can mean anything

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<v Speaker 1>to anybody. Um. So it's just very obviously sort of

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<v Speaker 1>like yeah, like whatever, it's it's a right wing term

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<v Speaker 1>for I don't like this, yes, um. And it's so

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<v Speaker 1>it's just so funny that he's trying to do this,

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<v Speaker 1>and so like you said, like just he is the

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<v Speaker 1>inconsequential but like most appropriate fucking figure now. Um. And

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<v Speaker 1>I just thought it was important to bring this up

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<v Speaker 1>because it's so silly, but also this is but also

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<v Speaker 1>this is what these people are trying to do. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>And eventually somebody might get an actual co sponsor on

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<v Speaker 1>their terrible bill um and push this forward. Um, and

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<v Speaker 1>then it'll be a clusterfuck because you know anything can

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<v Speaker 1>mean anything else. Um, but I just thought it was

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<v Speaker 1>so funny. And uh, I can't believe he actually wrote

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<v Speaker 1>the word woke twice. It's twice in the bills. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's amazing. I can, I absolutely can. These guys. His

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<v Speaker 1>his basic seat is safe unless somebody primaries him from

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<v Speaker 1>like the right is even like more out of their

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<v Speaker 1>goddamn mind. Um. And he has no real national chance

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<v Speaker 1>of things, like he knows that there's no way Marco

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<v Speaker 1>Ruby is ever going to be president. He's tried, and

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<v Speaker 1>he was bad at trying. So the only way for

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<v Speaker 1>him to be relevant and to continue to make money

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<v Speaker 1>is to signpost. Is the virtue signal for the ship

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<v Speaker 1>that like Republicans love, like hardcore republicans love, which is

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<v Speaker 1>stupid culture war bullshit because they have nothing else, um

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<v Speaker 1>and none of it, none of this ship. Yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing nonsense. And it's all they have. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>it's like it's it's just like they it's all they have. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>When they're on like you know, the news shows, they

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<v Speaker 1>go and meet the press or whatever, and it's all

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<v Speaker 1>like culture wars stuff and it's just like now so

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<v Speaker 1>now legislatively it's all cultural war stuff. Usually it's just like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we want to cut taxes and like do that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of ship. But now it's just like, yeah, we hate

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<v Speaker 1>corporations now, but only because of the wokeness um and

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<v Speaker 1>it would require like it's so it's just like a

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<v Speaker 1>misunderstanding of the situation too, whether it's purposeful or not,

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<v Speaker 1>because the bill is to put the burden of proof

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<v Speaker 1>on corporations to show that they're far left actions are

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<v Speaker 1>in the shareholder's best interests, and as we have discussed,

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<v Speaker 1>they are because most people want that kind of ship,

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<v Speaker 1>whether or not they believe it. That's what the people want.

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<v Speaker 1>Um yeah, And it's just so obvious, and yeah, they'll

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<v Speaker 1>never there will never be any like I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>wreck heading here because the thing that the GOP cannot

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<v Speaker 1>ever do is acknowledge that, like their policies are unpopular,

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<v Speaker 1>if not hated, by more than sixty percent of the nation.

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<v Speaker 1>Um yeah, but they like the entirety of their actual

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<v Speaker 1>like political relevance is based on denying that and claiming

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<v Speaker 1>that anybody else who wins election who's not a fucking

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<v Speaker 1>paleo conservative fascists everything whatever is uh yeah, it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>everything about about their platform is about framing the other

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<v Speaker 1>side as other and bad, and they are ever ever

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<v Speaker 1>running on something that is good that we need. There's

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<v Speaker 1>cultural war, it is one hundred protecting interests and they're

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<v Speaker 1>not even pretending otherwise because what do they stand for.

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<v Speaker 1>It is it is impossible to actually improve anything with

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<v Speaker 1>any of the measures they improving improving. Democrats aren't much better, No,

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<v Speaker 1>the Democrats aren't. The Democrats haven't like are are more

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<v Speaker 1>or less incapable of improving anything, But at least their

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<v Speaker 1>politics are based upon pretending that they will, whereas Republican

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<v Speaker 1>politics are based on nothing but owning the lips. Like

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<v Speaker 1>that's all they are now because that's where the money is.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how you get the crowds, That's how you get

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<v Speaker 1>coverage in the media. Like a lot of this is

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<v Speaker 1>the media's falling. They will not when elections. We'll talk

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<v Speaker 1>about a little more with a build back better baby. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>first we gotta take a quick at break and then

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to build back better by talking about see

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<v Speaker 1>I hate plans to assassinate Julian A sance together everything

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<v Speaker 1>so don't don't and better from breaks and c I

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<v Speaker 1>a did it. They decided to do something, and they

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<v Speaker 1>find they finally did it correctly. They finally didn't fail

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<v Speaker 1>miserably after I mean finally didn't. Like I'm glad this

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<v Speaker 1>information got out, and it's good that people are like

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<v Speaker 1>up in arms about it, but it's also like, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so yeah, they were spitballing about ways to murder a

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<v Speaker 1>guy and then they didn't do it. Like in the

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<v Speaker 1>grand scheme of c I A. Fuccory, this is pretty

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<v Speaker 1>low on the list. Actually you want to read some

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<v Speaker 1>of this, sure, I mean, because it made me laugh.

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<v Speaker 1>It would have been like wild as fuck if they'd

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<v Speaker 1>ever done it. Really yeah. In response, the CIA and

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<v Speaker 1>the White House began preparing for a number of scenarios

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<v Speaker 1>to foil Assange's Russian departure plan. According to three former officials,

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<v Speaker 1>those included potential gun battles within Kremlin operatives in the

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<v Speaker 1>streets of London, crashing a car into a Russian diplomatic

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<v Speaker 1>vehicle transporting Assange, and then grabbing him and shooting out

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<v Speaker 1>the tires of a Russian plane carrying a Sange before

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<v Speaker 1>it could take off to Moscow's British US officials asked

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<v Speaker 1>their British counterpoint parts to do the shooting if gunfire

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<v Speaker 1>was required, and the British agreed. According to a senior

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<v Speaker 1>Administration official, um, it's so funny, you know what this

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<v Speaker 1>all sounds like, because again they didn't do this, and

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<v Speaker 1>we don't actually know if they even took any serious

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<v Speaker 1>actions to like pair for this. It sounds like some

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<v Speaker 1>fucking ci A goons watched the fifteen James Bond movie Specter. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>and then we're so amped up about it two years

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<v Speaker 1>later that they were talking about you were gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>to shoot out the fucking planes, tires, We're gonna grab him.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, aney, it's like a little just like like

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<v Speaker 1>most of the this kind of ship didn't really happen

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<v Speaker 1>all that off, especially not in places like London during

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<v Speaker 1>the fucking height of the Cold War, Like there weren't

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<v Speaker 1>people weren't shooting planes in towntown London or whatever. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm just gonna read a little bit more. It

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<v Speaker 1>is the vertical. It's unclear how serious the proposals to

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<v Speaker 1>kill it. Of course it was. I was told they

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<v Speaker 1>were just spitballing in staid of former senior counterintelligence official

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<v Speaker 1>brief and the discussions about kinetic options. Regarding the Wikily founder,

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<v Speaker 1>it was just Trump being Trump. So what this tells

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<v Speaker 1>me is this is like the writer room for We're

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<v Speaker 1>on the clock. They're paid the bullshit. Yeah yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 1>very indicative of like the silliness of the organization in general,

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<v Speaker 1>and why a lot of the like why a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of the things they do is like, wait, you try

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<v Speaker 1>to do what it sounds like an episode of Veep

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<v Speaker 1>is what it sounds. Yeah, I've got, I've got, I've

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<v Speaker 1>got some transcripts from the meeting, uh C, I agent

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<v Speaker 1>one and then the guns go and then I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be like, um, it's just like and I'm like, it's

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<v Speaker 1>another thematically, it's interesting because much like the stupid bill

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<v Speaker 1>we just talked about, it's like indicative like that's actually

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<v Speaker 1>really fucked up that they were talking about. Like it's

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<v Speaker 1>very don't don't get mystery of it is like not

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<v Speaker 1>thinking it's fucked up, but it's it's like, I'm sorry

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<v Speaker 1>to push back on action movies which now think we

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<v Speaker 1>think it's possible, we think that's a good idea. We

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<v Speaker 1>don't think about collateral damage anyway. Continue you look at

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<v Speaker 1>the wave like look at the way the Russians actually

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<v Speaker 1>carried out like assassiny missions in London. They were using

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<v Speaker 1>like really bizarre fucking uh poisons and ship that they

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<v Speaker 1>were like shooting people like fucking like umbrella darts are

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<v Speaker 1>poisoning their drinks or whatever, like that's how you do

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<v Speaker 1>this ship if you're a state, like you know what

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<v Speaker 1>the plan is, like like super and like part two,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like, well want to yeah, no, And I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure after like the bullshit session ended, the whatever

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<v Speaker 1>serious people exist in the CIA were like, no, if

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<v Speaker 1>we're killing Julia Massange, we're going to fucking poison his

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<v Speaker 1>drink by like the fact that we we own one

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<v Speaker 1>of the people who works at the Ecuadorian embassy and

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<v Speaker 1>like refills their water bottles or whatever. Like I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>they have that option if they if they had gotten

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<v Speaker 1>the go ahead to kill him, they could have done

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<v Speaker 1>it without machine gun battles with the Kremlin in London.

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<v Speaker 1>And also I don't think the Kremlin would have agreed

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<v Speaker 1>to get it, like they're gonna be like, are we

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get into a machine gun battle? Of course we're not.

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<v Speaker 1>I would probably watch that movie, sure, absolutely, especially if

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<v Speaker 1>Julian Assange is played by who should he be played by?

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<v Speaker 1>It would be a good Juliana Yeah, yeah, yeah, Scars

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<v Speaker 1>Guard yeah baby yeah, which I could see that or

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<v Speaker 1>any of them. Yeah, who's the guy from there will

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<v Speaker 1>be blood, the little Weasley kid, Paul Paul Dano, I

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<v Speaker 1>can see doing some sort of type. I know he's

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<v Speaker 1>not blonde. Like I like the idea of Julian Assange

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<v Speaker 1>being played by like a rotating cast of all the

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<v Speaker 1>Scars Guards, Like every scene it's a different Scars Guard,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're all playing Julian Assange, like the like, what's

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<v Speaker 1>that imaginarium of Dr Parnassis? That's exactly right, exactly what

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<v Speaker 1>what I want for this because the CIA got an

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<v Speaker 1>Age Ray. Yeah, I'd like the gilliam version of yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>buck it, let's go all the way with this ship

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<v Speaker 1>higher the same guys who are part of this bullshit

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<v Speaker 1>session to be the scripture of the screenwriters it is.

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<v Speaker 1>It is funny in our in our doc about this,

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<v Speaker 1>Garrison pointed out how fucked up it is that one

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<v Speaker 1>of the people within the agency who thought this plan

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<v Speaker 1>was ridiculous said, this isn't Pakistan or Egypt. We're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about London, which is literally saying, well, you can get

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<v Speaker 1>into a big gunfight in the middle of another nation's

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<v Speaker 1>capital if they're like not white, but what we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>do this? We can't. We can't do it. There, come on, people,

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<v Speaker 1>which is both very racist and also exactly true, Like

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<v Speaker 1>you could have as soon as you heard people were

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<v Speaker 1>talking about having like a fight over Assange in London.

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<v Speaker 1>No they're not. They're never going to do that. Russia

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<v Speaker 1>is not going to do that. We're not going to

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<v Speaker 1>do that because it's London. Yeah, that's racist and fucked up,

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<v Speaker 1>but that's like the way the game works, and it

0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:59.080
<v Speaker 1>is a game to these It's never stopped us before

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<v Speaker 1>being ra Yeah yeah, um good ship, good ship, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean bat ship. It's it's again. I do I

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<v Speaker 1>do want to like underscore this by saying it's horrible

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<v Speaker 1>that they're even having this meeting to assassinate, um journalists,

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<v Speaker 1>stuff about how the CIA fucking spots on you with

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<v Speaker 1>all the ship Like there was something about Greenwald two

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<v Speaker 1>in the latest tranche of of leaks. Right, yeah, so

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<v Speaker 1>this is back during the Obama White House. Um, but

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<v Speaker 1>in two US and thirteen wiki leaks helped Edward Snowden

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<v Speaker 1>get from Hong Kong to Russia after he you know,

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<v Speaker 1>did his big leak. Um. And at that point Obama

0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:44.000
<v Speaker 1>officials wanted to designate wiki leaks and two journalists including

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<v Speaker 1>like Grin Greenwald and Lauren Potress who did the story

0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:51.000
<v Speaker 1>information brokers instead of journalists, which wouldn't make it easier

0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:54.600
<v Speaker 1>to prosecute them. Um. Again, didn't get didn't get done.

0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.920
<v Speaker 1>But like, yeah, there's like really this this Yeah, like

0:25:56.960 --> 0:25:58.960
<v Speaker 1>the fact that we're laughing about this attempt. This Yahoo

0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:02.080
<v Speaker 1>story is really worth reading and it is very unsettling. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think is also like there's a there's one quote

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<v Speaker 1>in the article about like you know, it's they're just

0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:10.439
<v Speaker 1>spit balling, you know, all these options. It was just

0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:14.879
<v Speaker 1>trumping Trump. It's not trumping Trump. It's America being America,

0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:21.359
<v Speaker 1>like everyone is. Yeah, I mean I I see that energy,

0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:24.640
<v Speaker 1>just trumping Trump. But right, it's not that that's that's

0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:32.359
<v Speaker 1>the legacy if that right? But was he in that room?

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<v Speaker 1>You know? Um so yeah, I just again just hilarious

0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:41.120
<v Speaker 1>like ineptitude and bizarre like conversations from the CIA, while

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time being like, well, you know they

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<v Speaker 1>do this and it's not like Buiden's probably not having

0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:49.920
<v Speaker 1>these exact same conversations, but uh, they're always going to

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<v Speaker 1>be hostile towards uh figures like that. Yeah, and and

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<v Speaker 1>it's not good. What should we talk about now? Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna talk about the metaverse? Can we talk about

0:27:01.840 --> 0:27:05.880
<v Speaker 1>the metaverse? Can we talk about this? This metaverse, metaverse, metavie,

0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:11.000
<v Speaker 1>whatever you want about this. You've seen this. I can't

0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:18.920
<v Speaker 1>do the voice the way our friend Tom Ryman can. Um, Yeah,

0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:21.320
<v Speaker 1>what what do you? What do you what? What was

0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:23.760
<v Speaker 1>your game plan there, Cody? I'm just gonna say, Lewinsky

0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:25.960
<v Speaker 1>a bunch, maybe get a few, but a few goes

0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:30.119
<v Speaker 1>in there. Yeah, well all right, let's um okay. So

0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:32.840
<v Speaker 1>there's a good article in the Washington Post in their

0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:35.960
<v Speaker 1>launcher vertical, which I guess is video game news and analysis.

0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.480
<v Speaker 1>Never seen it before today. When I say good article,

0:27:38.640 --> 0:27:42.240
<v Speaker 1>useful article, I it's called Epic Games believes the Internet

0:27:42.320 --> 0:27:44.199
<v Speaker 1>is broken. This is their blueprint to fix it. It's

0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:47.359
<v Speaker 1>about more metaverse shit. Um. What I like about this

0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:49.920
<v Speaker 1>is that this is from the perspective of basically everyone

0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:53.480
<v Speaker 1>else in the industry that isn't Facebook. Um. Not that

0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:56.040
<v Speaker 1>there are any good like epic are the guys who

0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:58.840
<v Speaker 1>make fucking oh god, what is that game that like

0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:02.879
<v Speaker 1>literally everyone but me in the world place Fortnite? Um,

0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:04.800
<v Speaker 1>And so it talks about stuff like that weird Martin

0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:07.320
<v Speaker 1>Luther King event they did, and like the article is

0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:09.080
<v Speaker 1>not at all critical about it just talks about how

0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:11.359
<v Speaker 1>many people attended and like how good it was, and so,

0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.800
<v Speaker 1>like I I the tone of the article, I think,

0:28:13.840 --> 0:28:17.600
<v Speaker 1>if you're like me, will be frustrating because there's not

0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:19.520
<v Speaker 1>a lot of credibility about whether or not this is

0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:22.679
<v Speaker 1>like a good idea or healthy, or whether or not

0:28:22.760 --> 0:28:26.200
<v Speaker 1>these people um have any desire but to like find

0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:29.040
<v Speaker 1>better ways to monetize the Internet. But it is useful

0:28:29.080 --> 0:28:31.840
<v Speaker 1>because this is how this is the best article I

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<v Speaker 1>found on how the people who have a significant amount

0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:39.560
<v Speaker 1>of power in techs in the in the specific tech

0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:43.320
<v Speaker 1>section that deals with like how we consume the Internet, um,

0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.040
<v Speaker 1>how they're thinking about the metaverse, which is kind of

0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:49.800
<v Speaker 1>what they're all increasingly seeing as the Internet after social media,

0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:51.720
<v Speaker 1>or at least after what kind of we know as

0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:55.480
<v Speaker 1>social media today. And I think it's useful to read

0:28:55.680 --> 0:28:57.680
<v Speaker 1>not because I think this will happen, because I think

0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:00.200
<v Speaker 1>one of the consistent things about the Internet is at

0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:02.080
<v Speaker 1>when you're trying to figure out what the Internet is

0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.760
<v Speaker 1>going to look like next, the people who are like

0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:08.680
<v Speaker 1>most powerful and influential in in in the Internet are

0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:11.200
<v Speaker 1>never the people who figure that out. If you were

0:29:11.280 --> 0:29:13.000
<v Speaker 1>if you were trying to ask that question in like

0:29:13.040 --> 0:29:16.920
<v Speaker 1>two thousand four or five, um, you would not have

0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:20.560
<v Speaker 1>guessed where we are now because like the fucking Facebook

0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:23.240
<v Speaker 1>and Twitter and whatnot, these guys were all like upstart

0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:25.160
<v Speaker 1>most of them hadn't been started yet, like the new

0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.640
<v Speaker 1>social media companies like we're all like upstarts and the

0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:31.040
<v Speaker 1>big companies that were throwing their money into places like

0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:35.400
<v Speaker 1>my Space and ship. Um. It's it's the nature of

0:29:35.440 --> 0:29:38.360
<v Speaker 1>the Internet is um insurgent in a lot of ways,

0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:40.680
<v Speaker 1>and it that always gets co opted, it becomes profitable,

0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:43.719
<v Speaker 1>and then the insurgent like Google used to be insurgents

0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:47.200
<v Speaker 1>and they become uh institutions and almost states in their

0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:49.960
<v Speaker 1>own rights as Facebook. Did you know, Um not that

0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:52.480
<v Speaker 1>Facebook was ever particularly cool, but it didn't used to

0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:57.280
<v Speaker 1>be the power you know. Um, So I'm not I'm

0:29:57.320 --> 0:29:59.800
<v Speaker 1>not particularly I don't particularly think that just because these

0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:02.040
<v Speaker 1>p bowl who are the ones in power right now

0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:05.400
<v Speaker 1>want this metaverse concept to be what we get, is

0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:07.840
<v Speaker 1>that it's what we'll get, but it's what they're going

0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:09.880
<v Speaker 1>to try for. And so I think it's interesting to

0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:16.080
<v Speaker 1>read for that context and the The overwhelming impression I

0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:18.080
<v Speaker 1>get from this article and from everything I read about

0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:20.640
<v Speaker 1>this is that all of these fucking nerds read snow

0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:23.440
<v Speaker 1>Crash when they were fourteen years old and never got

0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:26.000
<v Speaker 1>never not just never got over it, because I have

0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:29.040
<v Speaker 1>no issues with snow Crash, but didn't realize that it

0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:31.840
<v Speaker 1>was like dystopian, like it's the same thing, like where

0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:35.560
<v Speaker 1>like people appreciate like Ready Player one without kind of

0:30:35.560 --> 0:30:38.400
<v Speaker 1>acknowledging that like, well, it's a nightmare. The world deposits

0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:41.080
<v Speaker 1>is like horrible. I think he even forgot at a

0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:44.520
<v Speaker 1>certain point that like the world he he the fantasy

0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:46.320
<v Speaker 1>world he drew up, and that the future is like

0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:49.520
<v Speaker 1>a horrible night It's a nightmare. Also, like just to

0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:53.720
<v Speaker 1>that point, that movie ends with the victory being that

0:30:53.880 --> 0:30:56.560
<v Speaker 1>like the hero gets like a nicer apartment and everyone

0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:59.360
<v Speaker 1>has to like log off for an hour a week. Yeah,

0:30:59.760 --> 0:31:02.280
<v Speaker 1>it's still hell. You still live in this desert and

0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:07.440
<v Speaker 1>the environment is still destroying everyone. It's like you are

0:31:07.480 --> 0:31:13.320
<v Speaker 1>not allowed to hide from that problem as much. Um,

0:31:13.360 --> 0:31:16.440
<v Speaker 1>it's it's very dyea and snow Crash is a much

0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:18.560
<v Speaker 1>better book. I'm not pleased. Do not take this as

0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:21.600
<v Speaker 1>me Ship talking snow not neither of my praising it hugely,

0:31:21.600 --> 0:31:23.280
<v Speaker 1>because I wouldn't call one of my favorite books. But

0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:26.120
<v Speaker 1>it's it was a book that was influential because it

0:31:26.160 --> 0:31:29.720
<v Speaker 1>was it was exploring some interesting things, but it was

0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:34.600
<v Speaker 1>exploring very critically, um, what cyberspace had started to become

0:31:34.640 --> 0:31:38.040
<v Speaker 1>already then and like what the fucking nineties, um, and

0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:41.440
<v Speaker 1>positing where it would go from there. Uh. And all

0:31:41.480 --> 0:31:43.760
<v Speaker 1>of these nerds read it and we're like, oh cool,

0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:47.600
<v Speaker 1>I could have a samurai sword and uh be a

0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:53.760
<v Speaker 1>be a fucking internet samurai hero. Guy. Um if I

0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:56.600
<v Speaker 1>did that but also made a bunch of money by

0:31:56.920 --> 0:32:00.760
<v Speaker 1>selling Ferrari access to drop their car is into the world,

0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:03.400
<v Speaker 1>and like there's some there's some fucking on it. So

0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:06.120
<v Speaker 1>the guy you know, this is epic. I just want

0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:08.200
<v Speaker 1>to insure Jack and say that Sophie and I are

0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:10.760
<v Speaker 1>texting each other saying we don't know what they're talking about.

0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:14.320
<v Speaker 1>That's fine, but the metaverse real quick? Okay, no, no no, no,

0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:19.960
<v Speaker 1>this is and and I'm googling metaverse. Yeah. Yeah, that's

0:32:19.960 --> 0:32:23.160
<v Speaker 1>not going to be productive right now. I need to

0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:27.280
<v Speaker 1>be honest and and and the voice of at least

0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:29.560
<v Speaker 1>some of our listeners. I'm sure, absolutely no, we have.

0:32:29.680 --> 0:32:33.280
<v Speaker 1>We have not been responsible in just diving in because Cody,

0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:36.480
<v Speaker 1>I truly was like, did I zone out and miss

0:32:36.560 --> 0:32:39.200
<v Speaker 1>something critical? I don't think so, But then I spent

0:32:39.280 --> 0:32:42.920
<v Speaker 1>too much time thinking that. Anyway, I continue, Cody and

0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:46.120
<v Speaker 1>I are if I can say this, shameful nerds. So yeah,

0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:50.280
<v Speaker 1>Cody versus just like it's just like the Internet, but

0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:53.520
<v Speaker 1>like you're in it right, Like it's like exact representation

0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:56.120
<v Speaker 1>of like, oh, here's my avatar and I'm here and

0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:59.080
<v Speaker 1>I look it's if you've seen that Community episode where

0:32:59.080 --> 0:33:01.320
<v Speaker 1>the Dean gets the v are thing. Is this like

0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:05.280
<v Speaker 1>glasses type sh No, that would be more like what

0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:09.800
<v Speaker 1>like integrated reality, Like you log on and you're like

0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:11.920
<v Speaker 1>you're in there. Oh, this is a three D space

0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:15.280
<v Speaker 1>and look there's like a big gargoyle but that's my

0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:18.000
<v Speaker 1>friend Dan and like that's who he wants to represent

0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:20.720
<v Speaker 1>himself as, and like you go and it's so would

0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:24.239
<v Speaker 1>this be social media to it would be everything. So

0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 1>I would walk into Twitter in my room full of

0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:30.760
<v Speaker 1>friends and I'd be like, hey, Dan, um kind of

0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:34.000
<v Speaker 1>like yeah, and like Solvie is saying, like the Sims,

0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:36.160
<v Speaker 1>but your friends are there, um a little bit. Um.

0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:38.120
<v Speaker 1>You'd have like access to all the things that we

0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:39.560
<v Speaker 1>have access to, and you'd be able to check your

0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:41.160
<v Speaker 1>like all the sort of things. But it is a

0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:44.240
<v Speaker 1>three D space that I get, like like Robert sort

0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:45.960
<v Speaker 1>of talking about, like yeah, you get like fer ariads

0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:47.680
<v Speaker 1>in your face and like all this bullshit and like,

0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:50.560
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah I did. I collected this many coins in

0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:53.920
<v Speaker 1>the metaphorse, so now I can buy this um and

0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:59.080
<v Speaker 1>the guy so epic dude. So Fortnite is like started

0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.400
<v Speaker 1>out as just like an O the shooter that was

0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:04.440
<v Speaker 1>very popular, and so it's become it's kind of like

0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.240
<v Speaker 1>I think they've kind of stolen some ideas from Minecraft

0:34:07.280 --> 0:34:09.320
<v Speaker 1>and on its become like this bigger thing where you

0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:11.720
<v Speaker 1>can do all sorts of weird media events and whatnot

0:34:11.719 --> 0:34:14.960
<v Speaker 1>in it. And everyone's been kind of debating how like

0:34:15.040 --> 0:34:17.480
<v Speaker 1>the metaverse, because the original ideas of the metaverse was

0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:20.279
<v Speaker 1>it was all one thing, right, there was no you know,

0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:23.240
<v Speaker 1>like right now we have you have Apple's App Store,

0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:25.960
<v Speaker 1>you have the Android App Store, you have these different websites,

0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:28.399
<v Speaker 1>and they're all these walled gardens, right, you can't get

0:34:28.719 --> 0:34:31.759
<v Speaker 1>like Facebook isn't allowing everyone to get in their ship

0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:34.640
<v Speaker 1>because they want to own everything. Apple isn't allowing Facebook

0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:36.879
<v Speaker 1>to get in their ship. Everybody's got like their own

0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:38.880
<v Speaker 1>little separate thing. The idea behind the metaverse was it

0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:41.320
<v Speaker 1>was just like this world and you could you stumble

0:34:41.360 --> 0:34:43.799
<v Speaker 1>into like you know this, It doesn't really matter what

0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.360
<v Speaker 1>your hardware is or whatever. Like you you experience it

0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:52.120
<v Speaker 1>all persistently. Um look an MMO or something, um and uh.

0:34:52.239 --> 0:34:54.680
<v Speaker 1>The problem is that like you have all these walled gardens.

0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:57.279
<v Speaker 1>And so the Epic CEO, the guy who's who's you know,

0:34:57.360 --> 0:35:01.600
<v Speaker 1>owns Fortnite once, doesn't like Facebook's ideas for the metaverse,

0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:03.239
<v Speaker 1>wants it all to be integrated, and it is talking

0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:07.040
<v Speaker 1>about like building a set of um standards for for

0:35:07.120 --> 0:35:09.840
<v Speaker 1>the next stage of the Internet so that you know,

0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:11.839
<v Speaker 1>Apple Like one of the things that Epic has done

0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:14.400
<v Speaker 1>is they've sued Apple over the fact that Apple exerts

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:17.160
<v Speaker 1>total control over their app store, like they're arguing. Epic

0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:20.080
<v Speaker 1>is arguing that that's monopoly. Um, I'm not going to

0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:21.840
<v Speaker 1>comment on whether or not I think that is because

0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:24.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't understand that law very well. Um, and I

0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:29.080
<v Speaker 1>don't think Epics motivation ensuing Apple is particularly like noble

0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:32.680
<v Speaker 1>or like yeah, like I don't. I don't give a

0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:36.680
<v Speaker 1>ship how that case goes. In other words, Um, but

0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:40.080
<v Speaker 1>uh yeah, I want to I'm going to read a

0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:42.560
<v Speaker 1>quote from the Washington Post article on this. The simplest

0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:44.880
<v Speaker 1>way to define the metaverse is that the metaverse is

0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:47.840
<v Speaker 1>as an evolution of how users interact with brands, intellectual

0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:53.399
<v Speaker 1>properties in each other on the Internet. The metaverse, I know, man,

0:35:53.520 --> 0:35:56.080
<v Speaker 1>I know, I know, it's bad. It's bad. Just hold on,

0:35:56.160 --> 0:35:59.200
<v Speaker 1>hold on. The metaverse to Sweeney, that's the CEO of

0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:02.880
<v Speaker 1>EPIC would be expansive, digitized communal space where users can

0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:05.200
<v Speaker 1>mingle freely with brands and one another in ways that

0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:11.279
<v Speaker 1>permits self expression and spark joy. It would be it's rough,

0:36:11.560 --> 0:36:14.960
<v Speaker 1>it's rough, it's rough. I said, this was a frustrating article,

0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:18.359
<v Speaker 1>but it's a useful. It would be a kind of

0:36:18.360 --> 0:36:22.520
<v Speaker 1>online play I know, I know. Just let me get

0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:25.000
<v Speaker 1>through this and then we'll talk about it. Would be

0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:27.680
<v Speaker 1>a kind of online playground. Where users could join friends

0:36:27.680 --> 0:36:30.600
<v Speaker 1>to play a multiplayer game like Epics Fortnite one moment,

0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:32.879
<v Speaker 1>watch a movie via Netflix the next, and then bring

0:36:32.880 --> 0:36:35.080
<v Speaker 1>their friends to test drive a new car that's crafted

0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:37.040
<v Speaker 1>exactly the same in the real world as it would

0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:39.640
<v Speaker 1>be in this virtual one. It would not be, Sweeney said,

0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:43.160
<v Speaker 1>the manicured, ad laden newsfeed presented by platforms like Facebook.

0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:45.799
<v Speaker 1>The metaverse isn't going to be like that, Sweeney said.

0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:47.600
<v Speaker 1>A car maker who wants to make a presence in

0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:49.440
<v Speaker 1>the metaverse isn't going to run ads. They're going to

0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:51.400
<v Speaker 1>drop their car into the world in real time, and

0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:53.239
<v Speaker 1>you'll be able to drive it around, and they're going

0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:55.799
<v Speaker 1>to work with lots of content creators with different experiences

0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:57.719
<v Speaker 1>to ensure their car is playable here and there, and

0:36:57.719 --> 0:37:02.240
<v Speaker 1>that it's receiving the attention it deserves. Now, that's bullshit

0:37:02.360 --> 0:37:05.120
<v Speaker 1>and dumb. I want to be really clear about that.

0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:07.319
<v Speaker 1>It's this is important, not because any of this is

0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:09.080
<v Speaker 1>a good idea or cool, but because this is what

0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:11.520
<v Speaker 1>they're trying to do. Like I'm not do not think

0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:13.719
<v Speaker 1>that this is bullshit and dumb, and I think it's

0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:16.040
<v Speaker 1>going to fail because I don't think people want that

0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:19.719
<v Speaker 1>People want Fortnite. Clearly people like playing Fortnite. I don't

0:37:19.719 --> 0:37:23.840
<v Speaker 1>think people want to like travel from Fortnite to watching

0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:27.640
<v Speaker 1>Netflix digitally with friends and then driving around like a

0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:32.320
<v Speaker 1>fake Ferrari Like that doesn't That does not seem good

0:37:32.320 --> 0:37:34.839
<v Speaker 1>good technology. And I'm not saying good in a moral sense.

0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:37.279
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying good in the sense that it actually can

0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:40.640
<v Speaker 1>can take a hold and be successful and and like

0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:44.640
<v Speaker 1>propagate virally. Right, Steve Steve Jobs was kind of like

0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:47.040
<v Speaker 1>the master of this. And it wasn't because he was

0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:49.759
<v Speaker 1>a great coder inventor. Is because he he knew the

0:37:49.760 --> 0:37:52.000
<v Speaker 1>thing that he was brilliant at. And the reason why

0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:54.400
<v Speaker 1>Apple has more money than a lot of countries right

0:37:54.400 --> 0:37:57.600
<v Speaker 1>now is he understood intuitively what human beings wanted to

0:37:57.640 --> 0:37:59.719
<v Speaker 1>hold in their hand and what they wanted to do

0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:02.720
<v Speaker 1>with it, and he gave them that and it changed

0:38:02.840 --> 0:38:05.440
<v Speaker 1>the world, mostly in bad ways. Again, I'm not trying

0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:08.680
<v Speaker 1>to praise the man here, but he understood something profound,

0:38:08.719 --> 0:38:11.120
<v Speaker 1>in deep about human beings and what they wanted, and

0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:14.200
<v Speaker 1>that's why the iPhone was such a success. This guy

0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:17.200
<v Speaker 1>does not have that understanding, and I don't get that

0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:20.319
<v Speaker 1>hint from this um, from this from anything I've read

0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:22.799
<v Speaker 1>in this article that he understands what people would want

0:38:22.880 --> 0:38:27.680
<v Speaker 1>from a metaverse. I still don't completely understand even the concept,

0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:31.640
<v Speaker 1>but let's just go with that. But what you're saying

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<v Speaker 1>makes sense to me, because yeah, the things that take roots,

0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:37.400
<v Speaker 1>that take hold are things that benefit my life in

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<v Speaker 1>my day to day and that fuel the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>you don't understand as I'm explaining this is proof that

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<v Speaker 1>it's a bad idea. Because if we if we were

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<v Speaker 1>to go back fifteen years before he went had smartphones,

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<v Speaker 1>and I took an iPhone one and I put it

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<v Speaker 1>in your hands and I said, Katie, type into that

0:38:51.600 --> 0:38:53.839
<v Speaker 1>map app the place you want to go, you would

0:38:53.840 --> 0:38:56.359
<v Speaker 1>go like, holy sh it, this is fucking amazing. Like

0:38:56.520 --> 0:39:00.799
<v Speaker 1>you would immediately get intuitive natural. That's why I like, yeah,

0:39:00.840 --> 0:39:05.080
<v Speaker 1>like kids like babies understand it. Yeah, well, and and

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<v Speaker 1>and and to that point, I'll also say, like, if

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<v Speaker 1>someone was to sit down and describe the Internet to

0:39:09.960 --> 0:39:13.759
<v Speaker 1>me in general, um, before it existed, I certainly would

0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:17.400
<v Speaker 1>have understood. I barely understand now, you know. So there's that.

0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:21.120
<v Speaker 1>But but I think if I were down before the

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<v Speaker 1>Internet and said, hey, this technology will allow every single

0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:26.800
<v Speaker 1>person in the world to be in contact with every

0:39:26.800 --> 0:39:30.640
<v Speaker 1>single other person persistently forever. You would say, holy shit,

0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:33.160
<v Speaker 1>that sounds like a big deal, and you would be right.

0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:36.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm not completely using this in my argument about it.

0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:38.839
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying that, like there's a part of me that's like,

0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:41.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Things surprised me. I didn't think TikTok

0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:46.200
<v Speaker 1>would take off. But um, you know that people. But

0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:50.160
<v Speaker 1>but but my what, especially this past year of being

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<v Speaker 1>in our homes and being more isolated, I find resentment

0:39:53.640 --> 0:39:57.760
<v Speaker 1>more and more personally with everything technology related. I crave

0:39:58.040 --> 0:40:04.240
<v Speaker 1>my moments of not um. I need boundaries between myself

0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:07.640
<v Speaker 1>and my internet. So anything that threatens that is like

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<v Speaker 1>a no go for me. But also I don't to

0:40:10.160 --> 0:40:13.960
<v Speaker 1>your point, I don't think people in general want that. No. No.

0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:16.560
<v Speaker 1>And the thing is, there's a difference between technology that

0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:20.560
<v Speaker 1>can make money or be successful in technology that changes things,

0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:24.360
<v Speaker 1>and that can that can alter the fundamental way in

0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:28.120
<v Speaker 1>which we interact with reality. Smartphones fundamentally altered the way

0:40:28.160 --> 0:40:31.520
<v Speaker 1>we're interacted with reality. So did social media. They both

0:40:31.680 --> 0:40:34.080
<v Speaker 1>Number one, were immediately intuitive, which is why you got

0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:35.920
<v Speaker 1>a Facebook, Katie, That's why you got like a Twitter

0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:39.240
<v Speaker 1>because you've got what these things were offering, right, something

0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:42.200
<v Speaker 1>with a smartphone. The fact that you cannot there are

0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:44.480
<v Speaker 1>of course, I'm and I'm sure you could build a

0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:48.040
<v Speaker 1>metaverse like Sweeney's talking about that ten twenty million people

0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:50.319
<v Speaker 1>would get on board with and like it would be profitable.

0:40:50.520 --> 0:40:53.160
<v Speaker 1>But it's not going to change the work's going to

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<v Speaker 1>be adopted on a mass skill because most people you

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<v Speaker 1>have to sit down and try to explain them why

0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:00.360
<v Speaker 1>they might be interested in this and are going to

0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:04.720
<v Speaker 1>be like what you are, like jumped to ten years

0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:08.040
<v Speaker 1>from now, when all the kids hanging out in the

0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:14.200
<v Speaker 1>metaverse are you know, ganging up on the year uh

0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:18.440
<v Speaker 1>and booking out there you know whatever? Yeah, Donald Trump

0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:22.080
<v Speaker 1>with a big Samurai sword Junior complaining about how his

0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:24.919
<v Speaker 1>algorithms are getting crushed. I think the kids want to

0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:29.640
<v Speaker 1>listen to nerd out over K pop stars, um, and

0:41:29.680 --> 0:41:32.560
<v Speaker 1>they want to do drugs while lighting dumpsters on fire.

0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:37.080
<v Speaker 1>Minecraft And at the end of the day, kids are kids, right,

0:41:38.200 --> 0:41:42.120
<v Speaker 1>And so such a good point, Cody, Such a good point.

0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:46.480
<v Speaker 1>Just in time for this ad break, let's just soak in.

0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:51.000
<v Speaker 1>Let's soak in the capitalism. Well, maybe we can get

0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:53.560
<v Speaker 1>communism to do a jump hump while we're soaking in

0:41:53.680 --> 0:41:56.719
<v Speaker 1>capitalism and have a social democracy. I need to like

0:41:56.880 --> 0:42:10.960
<v Speaker 1>work with more women together everything don't all right, we're back,

0:42:12.160 --> 0:42:15.440
<v Speaker 1>we built back better, We've builded and that's that's our

0:42:15.480 --> 0:42:18.280
<v Speaker 1>next subject. I'm sorry for making you all think about

0:42:18.520 --> 0:42:21.239
<v Speaker 1>the fucking metaverse, but I I used to be. I

0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:24.080
<v Speaker 1>got my start in tech journalism, which is a nonsense.

0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:27.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah that was like I was going to

0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:29.920
<v Speaker 1>cs in the Mobile World Congress, right and about this

0:42:29.960 --> 0:42:32.080
<v Speaker 1>was back in like the heyday of like this is

0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.840
<v Speaker 1>back when everyone cared whenever Apple released a new product

0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:37.680
<v Speaker 1>because it was going to be a big deal, you know, yeah, yeah,

0:42:37.840 --> 0:42:42.480
<v Speaker 1>it was alive. Um, you learned something new about Robert

0:42:42.480 --> 0:42:48.440
<v Speaker 1>Evans every day, built backway, build back better? Is that

0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:52.799
<v Speaker 1>what we want to talk about now? Yeah? Yeah? Why

0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:55.080
<v Speaker 1>do we care that things add to the national debt?

0:42:57.200 --> 0:42:59.239
<v Speaker 1>Do you want to explain that to me? Because people

0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:06.480
<v Speaker 1>have tried and I never understood. I don't think so. Um,

0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:10.600
<v Speaker 1>it only matters to whoever's not the party in power, right, Yeah,

0:43:11.560 --> 0:43:13.880
<v Speaker 1>It's just that, no matter what people say about like

0:43:13.920 --> 0:43:16.399
<v Speaker 1>what could happen? If I feel like for my entire

0:43:16.480 --> 0:43:20.200
<v Speaker 1>life it's increased beyond what twenty years ago anyone thought

0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:25.280
<v Speaker 1>was physically possible, and it's no one did anything. It's fine,

0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:27.120
<v Speaker 1>Like it's not fine. The world's fucked up, but it's

0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:31.160
<v Speaker 1>not sucked up because the debt's high, right, I think,

0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:34.479
<v Speaker 1>and Garrison pointed this out in the Dock as well.

0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:40.719
<v Speaker 1>But god damn it. Everything comes down to how well

0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:44.799
<v Speaker 1>yeah spin and how the media portrays it. So you

0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:47.719
<v Speaker 1>look at the way this conversation is framed for this

0:43:47.840 --> 0:43:50.960
<v Speaker 1>build back better, and they're talking about it costing three

0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:53.759
<v Speaker 1>and a half trillion dollars, which does sound like a

0:43:53.760 --> 0:43:56.799
<v Speaker 1>lot of dollars. It's true, it's a lot of dollars.

0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Talking about the fact that this is over a ten

0:44:01.200 --> 0:44:06.080
<v Speaker 1>year period of time, so it's actually just one point

0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:09.239
<v Speaker 1>two per cent of the U. S economy over the

0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:12.440
<v Speaker 1>next ten years. So it's actually not when you put

0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:16.960
<v Speaker 1>it in context. But people do not well some people,

0:44:18.760 --> 0:44:21.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, people on the other side are leading with

0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:25.640
<v Speaker 1>or omitting that because it doesn't benefit their argument against it.

0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:28.360
<v Speaker 1>And I don't know why the media, I don't know

0:44:28.400 --> 0:44:31.720
<v Speaker 1>why more media coverage, I mean, I do it's clicks

0:44:31.960 --> 0:44:36.920
<v Speaker 1>they want cosationalist I think people arguing and it's so

0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:40.520
<v Speaker 1>much of public person I mean, all public perception is

0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:44.320
<v Speaker 1>shaped by the media, and it's it's frustrating because, like,

0:44:45.120 --> 0:44:47.439
<v Speaker 1>if you want to put this in some perspective, we've

0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:51.040
<v Speaker 1>spent six to seven trillion dollars is kind of one

0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:53.400
<v Speaker 1>of the middle estimates for how much we spent on

0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:55.799
<v Speaker 1>the war on Terror since two thousand and one. I've

0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:57.520
<v Speaker 1>I've heard some that are more like nine or ten

0:44:57.600 --> 0:45:01.280
<v Speaker 1>summer less, but like six to seven trillion pretty reasonable

0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:03.880
<v Speaker 1>is like a whole price tag, So like three and

0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:07.200
<v Speaker 1>a half trillion for ten years. It would we would

0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.080
<v Speaker 1>be spending what we spent on the War on Terror

0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:11.600
<v Speaker 1>that we clearly could afford to spend because we did.

0:45:11.960 --> 0:45:15.240
<v Speaker 1>Except for we would be spending it like not murdering people, presume,

0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:18.640
<v Speaker 1>making people's lives better instead of ending there. And I'm sure,

0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:21.279
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure as much of it would be bullshit as

0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:24.960
<v Speaker 1>the War on Terror because the government's bad at everything,

0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:28.000
<v Speaker 1>but it would at least not be bombing people. Presumably

0:45:28.400 --> 0:45:31.840
<v Speaker 1>there'd be some steps in the right direction. Yeah, hopefully

0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:35.160
<v Speaker 1>we at least get some fucking bridges fixed. That would

0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:40.839
<v Speaker 1>be good, would be good, Yeah, um, some would be good.

0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:43.840
<v Speaker 1>Less bridge collapses. I don't know, I just can't bring myself.

0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:47.640
<v Speaker 1>Like every time there's like some like like right now

0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:52.520
<v Speaker 1>there's this, uh, there's this chicken game going on about

0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.600
<v Speaker 1>like whether or not to raise the fucking debt ceiling

0:45:54.640 --> 0:45:57.840
<v Speaker 1>again every time run out of money and like a

0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:02.120
<v Speaker 1>couple if they don't, and it's every time, it's stupid.

0:46:02.480 --> 0:46:05.239
<v Speaker 1>None of the money's real, and that the dumb thing

0:46:05.320 --> 0:46:08.640
<v Speaker 1>about it is that nine times out of ten it's

0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:11.000
<v Speaker 1>going to be nothing, but it is something that could

0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:13.759
<v Speaker 1>go horribly wrong, Like it's it's it's like that. I

0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:17.920
<v Speaker 1>keep thinking back to him, fucking Otophane Bismarck talking about

0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:20.920
<v Speaker 1>like in the days before World War One, the h

0:46:21.239 --> 0:46:23.640
<v Speaker 1>they're kept being these crises in the Balkans. The king

0:46:23.680 --> 0:46:26.200
<v Speaker 1>would get assassinated or like something would you know, one

0:46:26.280 --> 0:46:29.200
<v Speaker 1>state would like take a village from another, and like

0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:31.000
<v Speaker 1>everyone would be on the brink of war because the

0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:33.120
<v Speaker 1>Balkans were all tied up in the system of alliances

0:46:33.200 --> 0:46:35.560
<v Speaker 1>and everybody knew that one day one of these things

0:46:35.640 --> 0:46:38.160
<v Speaker 1>could go too far and all of these states could

0:46:38.200 --> 0:46:39.719
<v Speaker 1>not pull back from the brink and you would have

0:46:39.800 --> 0:46:43.680
<v Speaker 1>a calamity, which eventually happened. Um and Bismarck. When everyone

0:46:43.719 --> 0:46:46.200
<v Speaker 1>would talk about how the European War was going to happen,

0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:48.239
<v Speaker 1>Bismarck would be like, Oh, it'll probably be some damn

0:46:48.320 --> 0:46:50.239
<v Speaker 1>fool thing in the Balkans. And he was right. It

0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:51.960
<v Speaker 1>was some damn foul thing in the Balkans, bis Maark

0:46:52.040 --> 0:46:54.799
<v Speaker 1>nuody was talking about, and it's this is that kind

0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:57.840
<v Speaker 1>of thing. It'll probably be nothing until the day in

0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:01.239
<v Speaker 1>which like everybody misjudge is just a little bit, and

0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:04.640
<v Speaker 1>then it's a calamity um and then like the government

0:47:05.040 --> 0:47:09.040
<v Speaker 1>shuts down, and because of a cascading series of other

0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:11.479
<v Speaker 1>things that happened at the same time, we're not able

0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:14.160
<v Speaker 1>to respond with it. Maybe there's a hack on power infrastructure.

0:47:14.200 --> 0:47:17.239
<v Speaker 1>There's a natural that some series of fucked up things

0:47:17.320 --> 0:47:20.880
<v Speaker 1>happened during this like no government for a while because

0:47:20.920 --> 0:47:23.359
<v Speaker 1>like we ran out of money bullshit, and like there's

0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:26.360
<v Speaker 1>a horrible problem and you can't fix it and you

0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:28.520
<v Speaker 1>can't pull back, and you can't just go into Congress

0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:29.960
<v Speaker 1>the next day and say, you know what, nobody was

0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:33.279
<v Speaker 1>serious about this bullshit. It'll be too late and a

0:47:33.360 --> 0:47:36.320
<v Speaker 1>bunch of like the problem isn't that like the states

0:47:36.400 --> 0:47:38.840
<v Speaker 1>prestige will be diminished. It's that a bunch of regular

0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:43.359
<v Speaker 1>people will die or be otherwise horribly, horribly affected. And um,

0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:48.280
<v Speaker 1>it's frustrating. And everybody's complicit. Who's at least fucking politics?

0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:53.239
<v Speaker 1>And I hate it and they should all. I don't

0:47:53.280 --> 0:47:55.320
<v Speaker 1>want to say work at Denny's like working at Denny's

0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:57.640
<v Speaker 1>as bad. I want to say work at Denny's because

0:47:57.719 --> 0:48:00.320
<v Speaker 1>it would objectively mean they would be helping this iety

0:48:00.400 --> 0:48:06.319
<v Speaker 1>more than they are affect their outlook on the worldly. Clear,

0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:10.800
<v Speaker 1>I have a thousand times more respect for any given employees. Absolutely, no, no, No,

0:48:11.040 --> 0:48:14.040
<v Speaker 1>that's clear. That's a that's a point well made. Because

0:48:14.440 --> 0:48:17.920
<v Speaker 1>they're so out of touch with the reality of of

0:48:18.520 --> 0:48:22.560
<v Speaker 1>being in the workforce, of interacting with humanity, that they're

0:48:22.640 --> 0:48:25.480
<v Speaker 1>so disconnected that their heads are just so far up

0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:27.879
<v Speaker 1>their own asses that they don't see what's happening around

0:48:27.920 --> 0:48:31.120
<v Speaker 1>them or they don't care. They don't care. Everybody in

0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:33.239
<v Speaker 1>Congress is very out of touch with reality. They can't

0:48:33.239 --> 0:48:34.640
<v Speaker 1>don't even know how to kiss their wives. It's only

0:48:34.640 --> 0:48:37.160
<v Speaker 1>because I saw Josh Holly kiss his wife today. There's

0:48:37.160 --> 0:48:41.120
<v Speaker 1>a photos the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Um, it's

0:48:41.160 --> 0:48:43.320
<v Speaker 1>like these personally closed lips, like their lips are like

0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:46.160
<v Speaker 1>each of one of their lips is like like imploding,

0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:49.319
<v Speaker 1>Like it's they're going inside their own mouths and then

0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:53.680
<v Speaker 1>impressing them against each other. Kind of all the sexy

0:48:53.880 --> 0:48:57.640
<v Speaker 1>talk this episode, they keep getting they live. We've let

0:48:58.080 --> 0:49:02.839
<v Speaker 1>our political class because of like everything becomes so disconnected

0:49:02.880 --> 0:49:05.919
<v Speaker 1>from regular people that they're not like people in most

0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:07.719
<v Speaker 1>of the ways that matter, by which I mean like

0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:10.680
<v Speaker 1>your life would seem like an alien fantasy to them,

0:49:10.719 --> 0:49:12.239
<v Speaker 1>and you can see them all like even when like

0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:17.440
<v Speaker 1>people who are broadly speaking regular get in like Alexandriacasio Cortez,

0:49:17.480 --> 0:49:20.040
<v Speaker 1>they change over time. It can't not it like it's

0:49:20.160 --> 0:49:24.640
<v Speaker 1>it's meant to to to disconnect and break you, um well,

0:49:24.719 --> 0:49:28.240
<v Speaker 1>because you you're in this position of equivocating with everybody

0:49:28.320 --> 0:49:30.960
<v Speaker 1>and like trying to compromise or like being torn and

0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:33.799
<v Speaker 1>all this, and you're living in this weird universe where

0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:35.920
<v Speaker 1>like all of the things they say makes sense and

0:49:36.040 --> 0:49:38.080
<v Speaker 1>all of like the things that like the horrible things

0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:39.759
<v Speaker 1>they say about each other in the news, like they're

0:49:39.760 --> 0:49:41.440
<v Speaker 1>all very nice in person and their friends and like

0:49:41.480 --> 0:49:42.880
<v Speaker 1>this is the game that we're all playing, and we

0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:44.759
<v Speaker 1>all make money off of it, and like you can say,

0:49:44.800 --> 0:49:47.960
<v Speaker 1>Kristen Cinema's gotten sucked into it hardcore. She's like marching

0:49:48.040 --> 0:49:50.239
<v Speaker 1>in black block at the fucking W T O and

0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:54.319
<v Speaker 1>Seattle fifteen years ago, and now she's like meeting now

0:49:54.400 --> 0:49:58.560
<v Speaker 1>she's bombing a fucking infrastructure bill in the interest of

0:49:58.600 --> 0:50:00.920
<v Speaker 1>oil and gas companies, so the the very party, so

0:50:01.040 --> 0:50:03.160
<v Speaker 1>that she can stay in the in the game with

0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:06.359
<v Speaker 1>her with her new friends and and be in power. Um,

0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:08.480
<v Speaker 1>I mean a lot of it. A lot of it

0:50:08.760 --> 0:50:14.160
<v Speaker 1>is pressure, a lot of it is the institution. It

0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:17.279
<v Speaker 1>is done, and those people who try to stand up

0:50:17.320 --> 0:50:22.440
<v Speaker 1>against it ultimately get sucked in because that's how they

0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:24.960
<v Speaker 1>get more power. That there's just different ways. But it's

0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:29.200
<v Speaker 1>not good. It's there should be more, much more term

0:50:29.280 --> 0:50:34.200
<v Speaker 1>limits to everything that is wrong with us as a society.

0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:36.279
<v Speaker 1>I think comes out there. I'm reading a book right

0:50:36.280 --> 0:50:39.200
<v Speaker 1>now called cult Ish and as in like English right

0:50:39.360 --> 0:50:41.640
<v Speaker 1>or Spanish, and it's talking about the language, the way

0:50:41.719 --> 0:50:45.040
<v Speaker 1>cults use language and that brainwashing isn't real. But what

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<v Speaker 1>actually happens is when you were in a community that

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<v Speaker 1>is like reinforcing in a number of social ways and

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<v Speaker 1>also introduces you to a new kind of language base

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<v Speaker 1>that kind of makes it impossible to identify with anything else.

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<v Speaker 1>And like that's how cults work, and that's how you

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<v Speaker 1>know every degree of cult from like the low its

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<v Speaker 1>like fucking cross fit or burning Man that that aren't

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<v Speaker 1>really harmful, that are just like make use of some

0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:09.640
<v Speaker 1>of those things because they're attractive to people to like

0:51:09.880 --> 0:51:12.719
<v Speaker 1>hardcore cults, and like you, like the fucking Congress is

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<v Speaker 1>somewhere in the middle. It's a cult, though it is

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<v Speaker 1>a cult, Like it's this weird fucking culti society that

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<v Speaker 1>these congressmen and a handful of lobbyists are all in

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<v Speaker 1>um and and the worst thing that can possibly happen

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<v Speaker 1>when you are in it is that you get kicked out,

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<v Speaker 1>So you'll do everything to stay in and generally that

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<v Speaker 1>keeping the donations coming and whatever. It's fucking Sophie. Sophie

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<v Speaker 1>just sent a picture, the picture of them kissing to

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<v Speaker 1>the text thread and it is an early Those are

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<v Speaker 1>those are like two kids. Those are like preschool kids

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<v Speaker 1>having their first kiss. But they don't want to have

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<v Speaker 1>you talked about Josh Holly's come yet. Oh god damn it. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to talk about something else here. Most of

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<v Speaker 1>us live in areas with them, those those weird kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like caterpillars that are all like spiny, and they're

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<v Speaker 1>different colored, like they're kind of like they're like brown

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<v Speaker 1>and red, and they sort of inch along the ground

0:52:04.760 --> 0:52:06.680
<v Speaker 1>and if you touch them they sting like hell. Although

0:52:07.160 --> 0:52:09.360
<v Speaker 1>that's the come that comes out of jaw. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of those poisonous little caterpillars just sort of

0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:16.279
<v Speaker 1>like pumping together a piece of merch that's kind of

0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:20.799
<v Speaker 1>like those, um, those charts, those nature diagram charts. Yeah,

0:52:21.000 --> 0:52:27.520
<v Speaker 1>that's different. You know what it should be, you know

0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:30.360
<v Speaker 1>the political those political compass memes where it's like a

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<v Speaker 1>square and you've got like authoritarian left Aubertary, libertarian left libertary.

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<v Speaker 1>It should be that and then marked up by politicians

0:52:36.320 --> 0:52:40.000
<v Speaker 1>and their come types, because like you know, some spinier

0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:43.520
<v Speaker 1>than others, some is dustier than others. Um yeah, some

0:52:43.760 --> 0:52:48.440
<v Speaker 1>is just a literal pile of cobwebs. Some Can I

0:52:48.600 --> 0:52:52.919
<v Speaker 1>just pitched that awful great idea that that's that's what's

0:52:52.920 --> 0:52:57.319
<v Speaker 1>gonna give us enough money to detach from society. Can

0:52:57.400 --> 0:53:04.480
<v Speaker 1>I talk about something else? Okay? Please? A little update? Uh?

0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:07.680
<v Speaker 1>I A c still is not officially authorized a strike,

0:53:07.960 --> 0:53:11.279
<v Speaker 1>but that is percolating. But I wanted just to bring

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<v Speaker 1>this up again in the context of Catherine Heigl Um

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<v Speaker 1>real quick, and you guys might be surprised what I'm

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<v Speaker 1>talking about. Well, do you remember how a while back

0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:29.480
<v Speaker 1>Katherine Heigel talked vocally and publicly about unsafe working conditions

0:53:29.560 --> 0:53:33.440
<v Speaker 1>on set and how you know they were working seventeen

0:53:33.480 --> 0:53:36.600
<v Speaker 1>hour days and how it was really unreasonable. People can't

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<v Speaker 1>get home to see their families, and their lives are disrupted.

0:53:39.800 --> 0:53:44.480
<v Speaker 1>People are driving home exhausted, etcetera. And everybody said she's

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<v Speaker 1>a bit, she's hard to work with, she's unlikable. Um

0:53:50.120 --> 0:53:55.360
<v Speaker 1>and her career I very much do I stay. I

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<v Speaker 1>have a knee jerk reaction when I hear Katherine Heigel's name.

0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:05.000
<v Speaker 1>I think diva. It's true and everybody, you guys know

0:54:05.080 --> 0:54:09.760
<v Speaker 1>what I'm talking about this y and and she posted

0:54:09.880 --> 0:54:12.400
<v Speaker 1>and I want to applaud her. She posted about this

0:54:12.480 --> 0:54:15.640
<v Speaker 1>her support of IOTSY and then went on to say

0:54:15.680 --> 0:54:18.040
<v Speaker 1>what happened to her She started having years of feeling

0:54:18.080 --> 0:54:20.560
<v Speaker 1>like was I too much? Was I unreasonable? What happened

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<v Speaker 1>in her head? Self conscious and her career is completely changed.

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<v Speaker 1>So I do remember her complaining about that and then

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<v Speaker 1>not being in stuff anymore. Not she was written off

0:54:31.080 --> 0:54:35.880
<v Speaker 1>the show Seth Rogan and Shonda Rhymes. Everybody threw her

0:54:35.960 --> 0:54:40.600
<v Speaker 1>under the bus. Barbara Walters said nobody cares to her.

0:54:42.160 --> 0:54:45.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean, like on an interview she says, nobody really

0:54:45.600 --> 0:54:49.200
<v Speaker 1>cares because like, we don't sympathize with you, like, this

0:54:49.400 --> 0:54:51.640
<v Speaker 1>is all stuff that happened everybody. It was a public

0:54:51.680 --> 0:54:54.520
<v Speaker 1>it was a joke. She was a joke. And um

0:54:55.560 --> 0:55:01.520
<v Speaker 1>interesting considering the sausage party, the animators were treated incredibly poorly.

0:55:01.600 --> 0:55:06.320
<v Speaker 1>They I wanted to bring this up partly because I

0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:08.920
<v Speaker 1>think it's important, partly because I seem to be um

0:55:09.800 --> 0:55:13.680
<v Speaker 1>championing this one argument a lot lately, which is we

0:55:13.800 --> 0:55:15.600
<v Speaker 1>all have to revisit the ship that we used to

0:55:15.640 --> 0:55:18.880
<v Speaker 1>find acceptable as we're calling it out now. Not to

0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:22.440
<v Speaker 1>say that like, oh, we all owe a massive apology,

0:55:23.000 --> 0:55:25.279
<v Speaker 1>but we have, but yeah, we we should all like

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<v Speaker 1>look at our own behavior and how it has been

0:55:28.320 --> 0:55:31.319
<v Speaker 1>conditioned by the media. You know, the same with build

0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:36.200
<v Speaker 1>back better, and how we receive this news. We're being

0:55:36.280 --> 0:55:39.239
<v Speaker 1>fed a narrative, whether you know it or not. And

0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:42.160
<v Speaker 1>it's really important for us to do this work of

0:55:42.239 --> 0:55:44.719
<v Speaker 1>looking back and looking now. And and it hasn't even

0:55:44.760 --> 0:55:46.840
<v Speaker 1>been that long a period of time. We're talking like

0:55:46.960 --> 0:55:51.360
<v Speaker 1>ten years. And I'm glad that people are finally noticing

0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:54.680
<v Speaker 1>this and seeing and speaking up and being supportive of

0:55:54.760 --> 0:55:57.400
<v Speaker 1>each other when they're talking about abuse, because that is

0:55:57.440 --> 0:56:02.080
<v Speaker 1>abuse as well. Sorry, Okay, soapbox, but it's all connected

0:56:02.120 --> 0:56:04.520
<v Speaker 1>to me, and that's where my mind's at these days.

0:56:04.960 --> 0:56:08.279
<v Speaker 1>They're on that soapbox. Okay, I'm hopping back on. Are

0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:12.319
<v Speaker 1>you prepared to apologize for what you've said about Josh

0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:15.520
<v Speaker 1>Holly's come? Yeah? What do you specifically have said and

0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:20.359
<v Speaker 1>nobody else? Yeah? Because you know I'm never apologizing, right,

0:56:20.719 --> 0:56:24.839
<v Speaker 1>I will. I am prepared to apologize suggesting we make

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<v Speaker 1>a nature chart out of Josh Holly and other senators

0:56:28.360 --> 0:56:31.640
<v Speaker 1>comes when I when I get elected to Congress, I'm

0:56:31.680 --> 0:56:34.040
<v Speaker 1>doing a filibuster. I don't care on what, and I'm

0:56:34.080 --> 0:56:37.360
<v Speaker 1>just going to laboriously describe the comes of every single

0:56:37.440 --> 0:56:44.759
<v Speaker 1>other elected leader. So wherever Robert Evans is honestly like

0:56:45.200 --> 0:56:48.040
<v Speaker 1>the only person I can imagine getting elected to public

0:56:48.120 --> 0:56:51.960
<v Speaker 1>office and not um falling into the machine. Oh, I'd

0:56:52.000 --> 0:56:54.920
<v Speaker 1>be horrible. No, it would I would immediately get corrupted. Um,

0:56:55.200 --> 0:57:00.759
<v Speaker 1>you'd be taking, would be I'd take everybody's, wouldn't write

0:57:01.160 --> 0:57:03.040
<v Speaker 1>I want my I want, I want I want my

0:57:03.120 --> 0:57:05.920
<v Speaker 1>bear cat. Look, bear cats don't buy themselves, Katie, I

0:57:05.960 --> 0:57:08.560
<v Speaker 1>want one for each foot. I'm not gonna wear shoes anymore.

0:57:08.560 --> 0:57:10.839
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna have a different under armored vehicle under each

0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:15.399
<v Speaker 1>leg every day. A vehicle, right, It's not like it's

0:57:15.400 --> 0:57:17.800
<v Speaker 1>a vehicle. But I'll have some pet bear cats to

0:57:18.000 --> 0:57:21.600
<v Speaker 1>the animals and with them in Kristen Cinema as we

0:57:21.960 --> 0:57:25.440
<v Speaker 1>as we uh do our weird little dances when we

0:57:25.560 --> 0:57:31.640
<v Speaker 1>vote down. That is some fan art that I would

0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:35.800
<v Speaker 1>love to see. You've got your marching orders, guys. I

0:57:35.840 --> 0:57:39.040
<v Speaker 1>think that's it for us this week. Te us out

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