Speaker 1: Where you Where are you based, toy, I'm in Portland.
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard you want like a bunch of episodes.
Speaker 2: But I know, I don't feel like I don't know
Speaker 2: much about you except that's fine. Yeah, that's probably we
Speaker 2: shouldn't We shouldn't discuss it.
Speaker 3: He's a cipher.
Speaker 1: It's the worst representation of me is me on these episodes,
Speaker 1: my actual personality. I'm a pretty easy person to get
Speaker 1: along with of Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, it's not Maine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like it's up to the
Speaker 1: main people to say Maine. Yeah. It's really on them
Speaker 1: for sure, which.
Speaker 2: Wasn't the case when I was a kid. When I
Speaker 2: was a kid, everybody, whenever you saw Portland, like in
Speaker 2: the newspaper or anything like that, it was always Portland, Maine.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: I was bitter because I was like, I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about Portland, May and the internet doesn't exist set
Speaker 2: and I'm convinced that my Portland is cooler.
Speaker 1: You still don't think about Portland, Maine. I have no
Speaker 1: knowledge of Portland.
Speaker 3: Maine came first your history.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Portland, Oregon was named after Portland, Maine.
Speaker 3: It was a coin flip between Portland, Maine and Boston
Speaker 3: and for its namesake, and they ended up with Portland
Speaker 3: and they truse God because I don't think we could
Speaker 3: have dealt with to Boston.
Speaker 1: The new Boston, slightly newer Boston, I mean, more white Boston.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Boston. They do a lot in common, don't that.
Speaker 1: Yeah you thought this place was fucked up until you
Speaker 1: go two hours north. It's a new Boston. It's a
Speaker 1: new Boston.
Speaker 3: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three, seventy one,
Speaker 3: episode two of Stay Just MEO.
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Speaker 1: That is nice.
Speaker 3: I want to thank you housey on Salad, everybody, all
Speaker 3: of the zeitgang for being so supportive as Miles and
Speaker 3: his family are going through it after losing their house
Speaker 3: in the LA fires. For anyone who's looking for information
Speaker 3: or just finding out about it, what happened or a
Speaker 3: way to donate will link off to the GoFundMe. In
Speaker 3: the description of this episode, it's been really cool to
Speaker 3: see the TDZ community come together to support them, and well,
Speaker 3: other than that, I'll leave it to Miles to talk
Speaker 3: about when he is back, which is probably going to
Speaker 3: be surprisingly soon because he's he's he's itching to come
Speaker 3: back and talk to us, you guys, but obviously a
Speaker 3: lot going on. So I am thrilled to be joined
Speaker 3: by a very special guest co host, a brilliant comedium
Speaker 3: writer actors into a special Daddy Long Legs is a
Speaker 3: must watch. You can go check it out on YouTube.
Speaker 3: He is the coiner of the phrase plumpers to describe
Speaker 3: his thighs, so we apologize for that, but please welcome
Speaker 3: back to the show one of our favorite guest co hosts.
Speaker 1: It's Blake Wexlann. Thank thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: This is Blake Wexler AKA when you spot my wet
Speaker 1: plump step aside wet ship, Daddy, long legs, all heavy
Speaker 1: from my thighs, wet ship in Jersey, butt drones on
Speaker 1: on my mind, wet ship, Blake Wexler means I'm plumping
Speaker 1: long time. Wow, that was that was from halky On
Speaker 1: Salad that.
Speaker 3: I prefer valid days and the house on Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what, it's probably, however, said for you to
Speaker 3: be honest, it's probably halky On. Yeah, that was the
Speaker 3: person who wrote my AKA. Also and ig it's a
Speaker 3: correct Oh that's me moments ago.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a regional really really really.
Speaker 3: Shocked by that. Mike, Blake, thank you for being a
Speaker 3: friend and for.
Speaker 1: Being It's interesting Miles is coming back so quickly. I
Speaker 1: was under the impression he wouldn't and then he found
Speaker 1: out that I might be having an extended guest hosting
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and he was like you, I think I
Speaker 1: keep apologizing.
Speaker 3: He keeps being I mean, I don't know. I'm so
Speaker 3: sorry that this is happening. I'm like, no, what are
Speaker 3: you talking about? He's like, I mean, Blake is the guest.
Speaker 3: He just bottom Blake and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah wait I was mentioned first before everything tragedy. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's.
Speaker 3: Lake and everything else going on. Blake. We're always thrilled
Speaker 3: to have you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I think Miles just has the uh sickness called that
Speaker 3: dog in him, that grind where.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, just like I saw X rays and it's
Speaker 1: just a pit bull, just a sure pure beer bread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Blake. We're thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 3: our third seat by one of our favorite guests, a
Speaker 3: brilliant anti racism educator, activist, writer, and creator of the
Speaker 3: acclaimed podcast White Homework. It's Tory Williams.
Speaker 2: Dougwa Hi, guys, thanks for having me. It's been like
Speaker 2: not that long.
Speaker 3: I'm not very flattery.
Speaker 2: I got invited back. Goodn't ridden smiles. That's awful. I
Speaker 2: will never I love Miles.
Speaker 3: That was the quickest heard someone go from saying something
Speaker 3: horrible jokingly to uh, yeah, I would never.
Speaker 1: Who's never.
Speaker 2: I'm not not to Miles. I would to other people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, yeah Jack, Yeah, Jack's kitchen strays for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: That's all the horrible things I've said about Miles recently,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, it's just the amount
Speaker 1: of shit I've talked on that guy behind his back and.
Speaker 2: To his face, just in public on podcasts. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mostly just talked about Miles. It's most of my social media. Yeah, editor, editor.
Speaker 3: Oh, so many letters to the editor, Tori. How's it
Speaker 3: going up in Portland?
Speaker 2: It's going it's uh, you know, just mostly sitting here
Speaker 2: in the dark and the cold, feeling really bad for
Speaker 2: everyone in LA honestly. Yeah, my sister's down there. She
Speaker 2: thankfully didn't have to evacuate, but it was it was
Speaker 2: touch and go for a minute. So yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: just trying to like check in on all my people
Speaker 2: and you know, do what I can. But yeah, there's
Speaker 2: like I don't feel like there's anything going on in
Speaker 2: Portland compared to like there's snow in Atlanta and like
Speaker 2: La is still burning and I'm just kind of sitting here,
Speaker 2: like how can I be helpful right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Atlanta gets those like every every once in a while,
Speaker 3: they get a snowstorm and like you hear the stories
Speaker 3: of people's cars being trapped on the highway for like
Speaker 3: three days. And I lived in Kentucky for a while
Speaker 3: and when there was any snow on the ground, it
Speaker 3: was like I mean, I mean the horses skidding around
Speaker 3: out there. No, we had cars, but the yeah, it
Speaker 3: just they they were not prepared. They had one truck
Speaker 3: that had just a you know, olive garden salt shaker
Speaker 3: that they would roll in the window and just sprinkle
Speaker 3: on the roads.
Speaker 1: That people with huge forearms just cranking salt into the road.
Speaker 1: There was I was in Minneapolis once for stand up
Speaker 1: and they had they were like, oh, tomorrow we're going
Speaker 1: to get three to four feet of snow. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, well I'm fucked. We're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get anywhere. And it's just nothing, nothing of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nothing, completely nothing.
Speaker 3: It will tunnel. They will build a city through tunnels
Speaker 3: of snow just to yeah, they did, it matters not
Speaker 3: to them. And then uh, and then some people are
Speaker 3: trying to build an entire like snow removal apparatus, like
Speaker 3: it's the first they've heard of snow. Every time it
Speaker 3: snows there.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get on this now.
Speaker 3: What is the Oh right, I've heard tell of this,
Speaker 3: I've heard tell of winter. Yeah, all right, toy, We're
Speaker 3: going to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 3: in a moment. First we're going to tell the listeners.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back a break.
Speaker 3: Sorry, A couple of things are talking about, just taking
Speaker 3: a look ahead. A couple of stories that are happening
Speaker 3: this week. Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing I guess is starting today,
Speaker 3: It's probably happening around the time you're listening to this,
Speaker 3: So just look at the stakes of that. And also
Speaker 3: the TikTok band is I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 3: a ton. I haven't done the deep dive research into
Speaker 3: that one yet to know why it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: But it feels more and more like it's going to
Speaker 3: happen that TikTok is going to be banned within the month.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that. We'll check with Matt Gits
Speaker 3: at his new job being a ivermectin pitch man on
Speaker 3: one of the channels is like two right wing for
Speaker 3: Fox News.
Speaker 1: Get to see you landed on his feet, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: He's doing so well.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about the business of prosecuting Trump. The bad
Speaker 3: weekend to be in the Trump prosecuting business. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that. We will talk about Lake Superior State University's
Speaker 3: list of banished words, words that they think we need
Speaker 3: to get rid of. All of that plenty more. But first, Tory,
Speaker 3: we do like to ask our guest, what is something
Speaker 3: from your search history.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find books about the history of the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal because of Trump obviously.
Speaker 3: What is happening? Can you fill me in on that?
Speaker 3: Like he wants it back?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So, like the French started it, Well there's
Speaker 2: a long history, but like the French made them most
Speaker 2: progress in like the eighteen late eighteen eighties, and then
Speaker 2: they gave up on it because they were killing too
Speaker 2: many people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like, we're actually really good at We're
Speaker 3: good at this neighbor that kills people. You're not our thing.
Speaker 3: We fight fires in the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, perfect, this is like we have the perfect plan,
Speaker 2: you guys. We have so many disposable people.
Speaker 3: For human lives and a problem like we're nineteen thirties
Speaker 3: of Russia. Don't don't mind us. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So then we came along, you know, like ten
Speaker 2: fifteen years later, like nineteen oh four to nineteen fourteen
Speaker 2: or something somewhere around there, and like finished the work, right,
Speaker 2: we did what friends couldn't do. Shocker, that's wow, I
Speaker 2: love it. I'm coming while listen.
Speaker 3: I like a joke that would be at home on
Speaker 3: this podcast and the Joe Rogan experience.
Speaker 1: Finally, thank you guys, figured out your format.
Speaker 2: This is our niche okay, and yeah, so we like
Speaker 2: we got in there, we did the job, and so
Speaker 2: Americans are like this is our obviously, like we own
Speaker 2: this shit. Panamon didn't love that, you know, but we
Speaker 2: were like we were in our like expansionist empire era, right,
Speaker 2: and so we were like, well, fuck you, we're the US,
Speaker 2: like we are going to keep it. So fast forward
Speaker 2: several decades and Carter gives it back, or he plans
Speaker 2: to give it back. He signs a treaty and is like,
Speaker 2: in twenty years, we'll give this back to you. It'll
Speaker 2: be yours. And Reagan real pissy. That was something he
Speaker 2: ran on was getting the fucking Panama Canal back, right,
Speaker 2: which is hysterical to me and yeah, but it was
Speaker 2: like the treaty wasn't even set to go into a
Speaker 2: fact until nineteen ninety nine. It didn't. That's when they
Speaker 2: got the canal back. I think they deserve it, after
Speaker 2: all of the people we killed, et cetera.
Speaker 3: It was there people. It wasn't like the resident was like, well,
Speaker 3: I have some friends and family members who I could
Speaker 3: send down there to help build this thing. It was
Speaker 3: that Panama Pah, Okay, got it.
Speaker 2: I mean Theodore Roosevelt had some disposable men. I'm sure
Speaker 2: not for that, not for that job.
Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah.
Speaker 2: So now I'm just like, okay, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: missing some pieces here because Trump is now like on
Speaker 2: this ship about we need we need to get it
Speaker 2: back because we're getting a bad deal. They're charging us
Speaker 2: too much, China's taking it over. He never, I mean,
Speaker 2: nothing he says ever made sense. And so it's hard
Speaker 2: to know, like you're playing whack a mole, and it's
Speaker 2: hard to know like where the prize is going to be,
Speaker 2: like what the purpose.
Speaker 3: Is, right, and just throwing a flurry of somewhat contradictory
Speaker 3: ideas out there to see what.
Speaker 2: Is going to see what?
Speaker 3: Because once, like the truth is no longer a concept
Speaker 3: that like holds any water in a human and then
Speaker 3: now consequently in the entire country. Like what's the point
Speaker 3: of having a coherent story? Why not just do a
Speaker 3: word cloud of reasons and then just be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: whichever one of these like gets the biggest because people
Speaker 3: click on it, We'll go with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. So that's kind of that's kind
Speaker 2: of where we are, and I am like, I just
Speaker 2: I need some more information, so I'm trying to find
Speaker 2: because the Panama Canal used to be really fucking sexy,
Speaker 2: Like it was like one of the coolest things, and
Speaker 2: it was like considered like one of the modern wonders
Speaker 2: of the world or whatever. Like people were so proud
Speaker 2: of that shit. So when Carter gave it back, I
Speaker 2: think a lot of like real Americans were very upset.
Speaker 3: Right, we were real Americans as opposed to these fake
Speaker 3: ass people who.
Speaker 2: Are havy, like, yeah, all the mind virus lives that
Speaker 2: uh pahou. Yeah, Panama should be a sovereign country and
Speaker 2: not just like something we kind of own and treat poorly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, whatever.
Speaker 3: It is pretty impressive when you look at the Panama
Speaker 3: Canal and like watch it operate. Like that's one of
Speaker 3: those things that I could like, I'm sure I've seen
Speaker 3: it on like sixty minutes or something like sixty minutes, Like.
Speaker 1: They sixty Minutes loves the Panama.
Speaker 3: Oh they'll show you how the Panama Canal. Yeah, really shit.
Speaker 3: They have like a story that vaguely includes shipping, and
Speaker 3: they're just like, we went down to the Panama Canal
Speaker 3: and there's.
Speaker 1: Bob Woodward lurking around near that little fucking mode again.
Speaker 3: And fed some very specifically worded statements to the people
Speaker 3: we interviewed there. So the canal is kind of a
Speaker 3: work of art. You could say the Canal is kind
Speaker 3: of a work of art. I would say this house
Speaker 3: sixty minute interview has always got it's always.
Speaker 1: Not it's just weird. I am Bic pantamone.
Speaker 3: It's just wild that they show themselves feeding the statements
Speaker 3: to the people.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't feel that way at all. Stop
Speaker 1: saying that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I want them to know I came
Speaker 3: up with that ship.
Speaker 1: It was the Suez that got jammed up during COVID, Right, that's.
Speaker 3: Trouble in the Suz. Yeah, yeah that I am yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: any piece of twentieth century history. I am scanning my
Speaker 3: memory of the lyrics to we Didn't Start the Fire,
Speaker 3: trying to figure out and.
Speaker 1: It's aged, well, it holds you should ready, that's a
Speaker 1: great there's lyrics. Why I read this Panama Canal book
Speaker 1: when you just know everything for that song.
Speaker 2: I'm on the zeitgang. I'm on the discord. If you
Speaker 2: know of a book about the Panama Canal that I
Speaker 2: should read, please hit me up. I would I'd need that.
Speaker 2: I'm struggling. There's not very many. It's not sexy anymore,
Speaker 2: so people aren't writing about it quite as much.
Speaker 1: It used to be. In the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated,
Speaker 1: the front cover was just the pan Book Canal so sadly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Theodore Roosevelt in a little speedo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with a shovel and.
Speaker 2: The little hat.
Speaker 3: Okay, blow, no way, what else? That's how I found out,
Speaker 3: By the way, it's such a such a rough way
Speaker 3: to find out that.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard anything from it.
Speaker 3: I loved live the first nine years of my life
Speaker 3: wondering where the hell that guy was. What tory is
Speaker 3: something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2: So I think Spring equinox is underrated. Obviously, we're like
Speaker 2: in January. So I'm just I'm just feeling, like, you know,
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve. I love I love me a good
Speaker 2: New Year's party. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't go as hard as some people,
Speaker 2: but I like, I like it, but it's not a
Speaker 2: great time for starting your New Year's resolutions. And I've
Speaker 2: been saying this for a couple of years, and apparently
Speaker 2: TikTok recently found out about it, and they're like, guys,
Speaker 2: you guys, did you know that, like spring equinox is
Speaker 2: actually when the new year started for like most people,
Speaker 2: for most of the time.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Like this is when you should start your new journey,
Speaker 2: is in like New Year knew me. That's not going
Speaker 2: to happen in the dead of winter, Are you fucking
Speaker 2: kidding me? Like, come on, You're supposed to do it
Speaker 2: in the springtime when you're like not constantly sick or
Speaker 2: like caring for a sick loved one or needing to
Speaker 2: sleep twelve hours because it's dark for seventy two hours
Speaker 2: a day. Like, let's change this up and do our
Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions in the spring, so I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get people on board with that. That's where that's great,
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at. I don't start stuff in the
Speaker 2: dead of winter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not cool, if anything, double down on old like
Speaker 1: bad habits.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, totally. You get your little you get
Speaker 2: your whiskey or whatever your little drink is, and you
Speaker 2: just whisky. Find Yeah, find, find a new hobby that
Speaker 2: you can do while sitting on your ass in front.
Speaker 3: Of a fire, soaking wet January instead of dry January.
Speaker 2: I am doing dry January, but that's different. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mostly just I mostly don't drink the first half of
Speaker 2: the year. To be honest, I say up for the
Speaker 2: backup so I can party under your's eap and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, visible alcohol vapor is coming off of May January.
Speaker 1: I'm late to work.
Speaker 2: Sorry, just sober up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it makes makes sense. I've been doing a
Speaker 3: dry January for a while now. What Tori is something
Speaker 3: you think is overrated?
Speaker 2: Well, I never would have said this before as a
Speaker 2: two online person myself, but I'm going to say social
Speaker 2: media at this point, it's just like going down the
Speaker 2: tubes and I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: We just don't get the Internet is made out of Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the glass tubes that make up the Internet are yeah,
Speaker 2: now filling with.
Speaker 3: Ship inside the Internet looks like crypt on. You know,
Speaker 3: it's just like glass tubes everywhere, very beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's like filling with actual human.
Speaker 3: Ship, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can look at it. I think that's
Speaker 1: which was beautiful.
Speaker 2: That's the really yeah, yeah, that's the really beautiful part
Speaker 2: about it. Now, I'm I'm a little bit confused about
Speaker 2: why Zuch wants Meta to stop making money, and it's
Speaker 2: just like, let's do what Elon Musk is doing when
Speaker 2: he lost all of his money on Twitter by making
Speaker 2: it a cesspool. So yeah, I guess I'm just like
Speaker 2: rip social media this week is how I'm feeling.
Speaker 3: It's been bad man, following the the fires and then
Speaker 3: like keeping one eye on social media and the way
Speaker 3: that Twitter platforms and like gives extra extra juice to
Speaker 3: like people who are you know, saying the wildest shit possible.
Speaker 3: It's really I've had the same exact thought, is like,
Speaker 3: I know it's too late, I know the genies out
Speaker 3: of the model, but this is a bad way, Like
Speaker 3: this is fundamentally worse than media, the legacy media. Legacy
Speaker 3: media was bad. This is watching people try and blame
Speaker 3: the fires on the poorest among us when that's like
Speaker 3: the opposite of the truth has been so incredibly frustrating,
Speaker 3: And it's just it's not just the people saying it,
Speaker 3: it's that the when they say it, it gets an
Speaker 3: incredible boost because it's like, oh, that appeals to what
Speaker 3: people hope is happening, because everybody's to a certain extent
Speaker 3: bought into capitalism and like the way America is currently organized,
Speaker 3: so people like hope that they can blame it on
Speaker 3: like a few unhoused people. And then every response, like
Speaker 3: anyone who contradicts that in the comments is just gets
Speaker 3: no energy behind it. And everybody who comes up yes
Speaker 3: and with like some even less founded a rumor gets
Speaker 3: so much It's just like all of the worst possibilities
Speaker 3: of social media are now how the information economy has
Speaker 3: run during a huge crisis.
Speaker 1: You know, yep, it's I picked this is this first
Speaker 1: part is not a cool thing that I did. But
Speaker 1: we were at a bar watching like football the other day,
Speaker 1: and like people were having drinks. There's some asshole like
Speaker 1: sitting at the table next to me, just just a
Speaker 1: piece of ship. And he went to the bathroom. I
Speaker 1: had a few drinks and I like grab grabbed his
Speaker 1: phone and started looking through his Twitter account, which is
Speaker 1: not a thing that you like, that was not cool
Speaker 1: that I did that, But this.
Speaker 3: Is actually satire. He didn't actually do this.
Speaker 1: Right, right, yeah, but but but I did. And and
Speaker 1: it was like I've never seen a person on the
Speaker 1: rights algorithm I guess before, like in person, And it
Speaker 1: was all like cyber trucks coming to the rescue in shit,
Speaker 1: like Elon has sent fleets of cyber trucks, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing about like incarcerated people fighting fires, you know, like
Speaker 1: actually the actual toll like and it was so scary
Speaker 1: I just put the phone. It was scarier than that guy.
Speaker 1: Like then, that guy was such an asshole. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: his phone was I think a manifestation of his his
Speaker 1: head and it was just so messed up. So to
Speaker 1: your point, social media is bad for us, and we
Speaker 1: have stuff that's as close to what we agree with
Speaker 1: as possible, and it's still a disaster. It's still the
Speaker 1: worst thing in the entire world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And also like people everybody is dealing like it
Speaker 3: has a version of social media that is like shaped
Speaker 3: around them. And so even if what you believe is true,
Speaker 3: now that we live in a world that is so
Speaker 3: formed by this, everybody can just be like, yeah, well
Speaker 3: that's just like what the people you follow think, Like
Speaker 3: everything's just relative and nothing is true, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know why this particular, Like for a long time,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's been fashionable to just be like,
Speaker 3: it's not the Internet's fault. It's like all the political
Speaker 3: forces and you know, the class consciousness, lack of class consciousness,
Speaker 3: and I'd say, yes, all of that, and the also
Speaker 3: social media is really fucking poisonous right now, and I
Speaker 3: don't know where that's gonna change. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 3: Zuck is going to turn back to his old personality.
Speaker 2: Which one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, which version?
Speaker 2: Which update was that?
Speaker 3: The fighter one? The which one? I consider this the
Speaker 3: fighter usc is?
Speaker 1: What the it was barbecue sauce Zuckerberg when he was
Speaker 1: just recorded like a twenty minute video on Sweet Baby
Speaker 1: Rays Sauce. Do you remember that it was one of
Speaker 1: the weirdest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he like, I think this all started like first
Speaker 3: started when he started getting really into smoked meats and
Speaker 3: and like, yeah, he had a video where he said
Speaker 3: smoked meats like thirty five times. And then he had
Speaker 3: a video talking about sweet baby rays, which I think
Speaker 3: is like widely available at Kroger, right, Like that's just
Speaker 3: a video.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have it playing.
Speaker 3: In every that's right. But anyways, bad times in some
Speaker 3: places and good times than others, as people continue to
Speaker 3: help one another on a like human to human basis.
Speaker 3: It's just the big institutional you know, the things that
Speaker 3: encounter humans as like values on a spreadsheet to move
Speaker 3: around and manipulate, are doing their worst work yet the
Speaker 3: most successfully they've done it. But the people continue to
Speaker 3: be good and help each other when when they can,
Speaker 3: when they're not being moved by those big forces. All right,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 3: And we're back, and let's talk about the two worst guys,
Speaker 3: two of the worst guys that Trump nominated for to
Speaker 3: control major parts of the world. First, Pete Haigsath his
Speaker 3: confirmation hearing to be what is it Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3: That's a big one, right, that's a pretty up there.
Speaker 3: So he was nominated to be Secretary of Defense. A
Speaker 3: bunch of stories immediately flooded out from people who had
Speaker 3: worked with him, both sides of the you know, former
Speaker 3: military people existing, current military people, not like left wing
Speaker 3: journalists doing like hit pieces, just anybody who's encountered him
Speaker 3: being like his mom, Yeah, his mom for instance, talking
Speaker 3: about you know, instances of sexual assault, racism, open alcoholism
Speaker 3: on par with like a cartoon alcoholic, like like having
Speaker 3: to be carried out of places constantly. Like the only
Speaker 3: thing that's lacking is like he never, as far as
Speaker 3: I've been able to find, and I've looked into it,
Speaker 3: he never hiccupped a bubble that then carried him away
Speaker 3: into the sky. But everything else that like a cartoon
Speaker 3: drunkard does.
Speaker 1: The thing he drinks out of just has xes on
Speaker 1: a big jug, a big jug of xes.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, he did promise to stop drinking if he gets
Speaker 3: the job. I love that that. That's always worked anytime
Speaker 3: somebody's had a substance, for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, this thing has a that has a complete
Speaker 1: hold over me and my life that I also love
Speaker 1: to do. Apparently we'll just stop doing it if I
Speaker 1: get this really important job. Cold turkey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyways, his so at first it seemed like he
Speaker 3: might go the way of Matt Gates, who are about
Speaker 3: to get to who you know, had to be withdrawn
Speaker 3: as a nominee for Attorney General, and but then they
Speaker 3: were like, not too, that would make President Trump look bad.
Speaker 3: So we can't. We can't let two of them go down.
Speaker 2: So suddenly they're going to make him go through with
Speaker 2: it and take all the heat.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, and he is going to get confirmed. Like
Speaker 3: that's something that I feel like has been missing from
Speaker 3: a lot of the coverage of this. At least I'll
Speaker 3: just give the full context. I think. I think there's
Speaker 3: been like there hasn't been somebody who got to this
Speaker 3: stage where you're doing like Senate confirmation hearings and was
Speaker 3: not confirmed since I think George W. Bush's administration, Like
Speaker 3: and that like there's a lot of cabinet members who
Speaker 3: are who go through this process and they're batting a
Speaker 3: thousand since George W. Bush's administration. Like, once you get
Speaker 3: to this point, it's really hard to stop the peak train,
Speaker 3: which is I don't know, like the way it's being
Speaker 3: reported is like this guy's like a an underdog and
Speaker 3: it's like, no, it would be shocking. I mean, it
Speaker 3: would obviously be deserved if he got found not able
Speaker 3: to do this job, because it seems like everybody who
Speaker 3: like took a objective look at him, like, including Republicans,
Speaker 3: were like, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, god, God,
Speaker 3: what is it? Senator?
Speaker 1: He should be on trial, like not a confirmation hearing,
Speaker 1: should be sentenced.
Speaker 3: I guess the one thing that you know you can
Speaker 3: take some sauce in is like, yes, it's very uncommon
Speaker 3: for people to not be confirmed by the Senate. H Granted,
Speaker 3: he is an uncommonly bad nominee, like just truly everybody
Speaker 3: you know, the people who are currently backing him like
Speaker 3: he is the best pick possible. When they were told
Speaker 3: about it, were like, who the fuck is that? WHOA
Speaker 3: what the guy from Fox News who says stuff that
Speaker 3: is like controversial for Fox News is going to lead
Speaker 3: the fucking US military. But yeah, so he's an unprecedentedly
Speaker 3: bad pick. The Republicans are unprecedentedly on board with the
Speaker 3: Trump cult. So I'm personally not on the edge of
Speaker 3: my seat over here. But I don't know what how
Speaker 3: are you guys feeling?
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like it's good to remember that
Speaker 2: Trump had a ninety two turnover eight for his first term.
Speaker 2: So he said, isn't gonna last even if he gets confirmed. Crazy,
Speaker 2: you know, like, I just, I just I think he's
Speaker 2: going to be one of the first to go. I
Speaker 2: think you're right, it probably will get confirmed because I
Speaker 2: feel like they are. They are kind of in that
Speaker 2: panic mode of like, oh, we can't lose another we
Speaker 2: can't let another ship go down here, right. But I
Speaker 2: think that it's so Pete's energy is so antithetical to
Speaker 2: like top brass military to me that I don't think
Speaker 2: I think those people are going to have a hard
Speaker 2: time taking him seriously.
Speaker 1: Right, you want to know he wants to be trusted
Speaker 1: with military secrets, A full blowocol just a cartoon drunk like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it has to be carried from place to place.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I will say it does. Reading history books.
Speaker 3: A lot of the military brass themselves like also, yeah,
Speaker 3: stiff drink.
Speaker 2: In self medicated. I think a lot from some trauma.
Speaker 2: Let's say right.
Speaker 3: Right, Rant was had a dry Yeah yeah, it was
Speaker 3: like yeah, like this guy he doesn't try to stop drinking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's just like us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say, you know, Trump's first administration, he
Speaker 3: didn't think he was gonna win, didn't really want the job,
Speaker 3: it seemed like at first, and so he wasn't like
Speaker 3: making picks that would be a fit for him, Like
Speaker 3: as we talked about, like his first administration was a
Speaker 3: group of people around him basically trying to insulate the
Speaker 3: world from how bad a president he was. And now
Speaker 3: he's nominating these people who are seen as bad picks
Speaker 3: because they will do the sorts of shit that Trump
Speaker 3: will ask them to do. So I don't know that
Speaker 3: it will be like that quick a turnover. I like
Speaker 3: it will, I hope, So I hope it's as like
Speaker 3: it's going to be incompetent. But is it going to
Speaker 3: be incompetent just from a like what it does to
Speaker 3: the world, or will it be incompetent in the sense
Speaker 3: that like nobody can agree with one another and everybody
Speaker 3: keeps getting fired and quitting like the first time around,
Speaker 3: which would be by far the preferred outcome. But it
Speaker 3: does just seem like they're at least a little bit
Speaker 3: more like that because his choices are coming from loyalty,
Speaker 3: like that being the only value that.
Speaker 1: He's doing qualification.
Speaker 3: I do wonder if like he's going to be like
Speaker 3: as these people are ending the world, like he's he's
Speaker 3: going to be happy as a clan because you know,
Speaker 3: they're doing what he told him to do.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that yeah, that reminds me that like heg
Speaker 2: Seth is connected to this like cultist preacher out here
Speaker 2: my way. He's actually in Idaho, Doug Wilson, Oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: who's in Moscow, Idaho and is just like a really
Speaker 2: horrible person but like has a lot of his theology
Speaker 2: is pretty fucked up. Like he's very he's like very
Speaker 2: like misogynistic as like a point of like as like
Speaker 2: a theology, as like a theological point. But also like
Speaker 2: the Bible is pro slavery, So I am pro slavery.
Speaker 2: Like that's how fucked up this dude is. So he
Speaker 2: like says these things out loud, and like this is
Speaker 2: the dude that like heg Seth considers to be like
Speaker 2: a spiritual mentor or whatever. So like I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: not saying I'm not scared. I'm very scared because like
Speaker 2: the influences in Hegseeth's life that he's chosen are malicious
Speaker 2: people who want to harm others. Yeah, you know, like
Speaker 2: like even setting like the Trump loyalty piece aside, like
Speaker 2: he has these really sort of horrific influences that he's chosen,
Speaker 2: clearly chosen to have in his life, and so you know,
Speaker 2: I think that like he could potentially do a lot
Speaker 2: of damage. But he also he's just not He's he
Speaker 2: doesn't have any of the like law and order energy
Speaker 2: that I feel like the military sort of expects, right,
Speaker 2: which seems weird. See, he just doesn't feel like a
Speaker 2: fit in the culture to.
Speaker 1: Me, I agree. I think maybe that's the reason. I mean,
Speaker 1: none of this will work out. Well, he will be confirmed,
Speaker 1: but to try to be optimistic while there's still a
Speaker 1: brief window to be optimistic that he won't. I think
Speaker 1: that so it's no one being confirmed or sorry, everybody
Speaker 1: being confirmed since George W.
Speaker 3: Bush.
Speaker 1: I think also my hope is that yes, he's the
Speaker 1: least qualified, event he's the worst candidate, but also it's
Speaker 1: very in your face how bad he is and how
Speaker 1: off I mean, even his energy, even if we're like
Speaker 1: reaching for that too, where he's on TV constantly, so
Speaker 1: it's not like you have to read an article to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, is this guy a piece of shit?
Speaker 1: Like you can just watch him pretty quickly. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so I wonder if maybe that because of how readily
Speaker 1: available his whole image is. And I mean still no,
Speaker 1: because he's been nominated. Everybody knows that he's been nominated,
Speaker 1: so he'll still probably be confirmed. But I do wonder
Speaker 1: if now because that stuff is so much more obvious
Speaker 1: that I guess, like, what's the difference between him and
Speaker 1: Gates is that people actually the Gates was a pedophile,
Speaker 1: you know, like is that where we're drawing the line
Speaker 1: at this point? Maybe that was it?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, I think it was the like the Gates report,
Speaker 3: which I feel like people have really kind of metabolized
Speaker 3: and moved forward with pretty pretty quickly, was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he was paying for sex with children so for for
Speaker 3: like a number of years, and doing and doing drugs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I wonder how much of it is also
Speaker 3: like drugs instead of alcohol, you know, where like alcohol,
Speaker 3: that's what that's what we expect our legal Like Nixon
Speaker 3: was hammered for most of his presidency. Yeah, but to
Speaker 3: your point, like his kind of weird youth and like
Speaker 3: right wing influencer Groyper shit, like it feels like a
Speaker 3: really bad version of like First Kid is First Kid
Speaker 3: the one where like a kid is present or is
Speaker 3: that just like the son of I.
Speaker 1: Forget which son of First Kid.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, where it's just like what if this guy,
Speaker 3: no no rule, says a Fox News host, can't be president,
Speaker 3: you know, you can't be head of the military. Anyways,
Speaker 3: I need to go back. And if I seem distracted,
Speaker 3: it's because I'm trying to read the plot synopsis of
Speaker 3: First Kid and it you're always yeah, that's right, all right,
Speaker 3: just really quickly. Over the weekend, I think I think
Speaker 3: some people were still waiting for this, this outcome to
Speaker 3: be better news. Because Trump had his sentencing hearing for
Speaker 3: you know, he's a convicted felon now because he broke
Speaker 3: election laws in order to and and regular laws in
Speaker 3: order to be elected president first time around, a like
Speaker 3: water Gate level scandal that people just now taken stride.
Speaker 3: So the judge, Judge Juan Merchan's sentence came down and
Speaker 3: it was a quote unconditional discharge, which legal experts have
Speaker 3: pointed out is quote virtually nothing in terms of punishment
Speaker 3: end quote, which were the terms that I was interested in.
Speaker 3: The punishment terms was kind of what I was looking for.
Speaker 3: In those terms, could we get one. It turns out no,
Speaker 3: you cannot have a punishment because he is about to
Speaker 3: be president and the idea like he might be president
Speaker 3: from fucking jail, dude, Yeah, was never going to happen.
Speaker 3: Because of the way power and money work in this country.
Speaker 1: One of those phones like him, you know, doing press
Speaker 1: conferences through the little phone in the glass is just
Speaker 1: not yeah feasible.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, because he's too cheap and those things
Speaker 3: cost a shitload of money to private equity. That's actually true.
Speaker 3: The private equity industry took over those phone systems and
Speaker 3: like charge you like five dollars a minute to talk
Speaker 3: to your loved ones from prison, or you.
Speaker 1: Could fight a fire. It's up to you. You want to
Speaker 1: talk through a phone, you can fight one of the
Speaker 1: most interous fires.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Meanwhile, Jack Smith handed in his report and then
Speaker 3: promptly resigned from the Department of Justice. Uh so you
Speaker 3: know is that true? Yes? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is so bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, that's what it reminded me of. Well,
Speaker 3: Trump was like, I'll fire him within fifteen seconds of
Speaker 3: taking office, so he knew he was gonna get fired.
Speaker 3: It's still like I don't know take the firing man like,
Speaker 3: like nobody was surprised by this, considering the Trump said
Speaker 3: he would fire him within seconds of taking office. But
Speaker 3: remember like the first administration, when the first big national
Speaker 3: scandal was that he was willing to fire Komy because
Speaker 3: Kme was investigating him. Like it was like at first
Speaker 3: it was like he fired Komy and Komy's investigating him,
Speaker 3: that sure looks suspicious. And then he like went on
Speaker 3: an interview with Lester Holt and was like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: fired him because he was investigating me. I didn't like
Speaker 3: that too much, right, and everybody I still remember that
Speaker 3: being like the most like everybody was so outraged and
Speaker 3: like holy shit, like this is we finally got him, right,
Speaker 3: like this is he just admitted to doing the most
Speaker 3: illegal thing and then it was just like further like
Speaker 3: just made pointless by like a thousand more awful things
Speaker 3: he did right after that.
Speaker 1: He's tall and annoying. What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: He's tall and he keeps fucking looking into my things?
Speaker 1: But yeah, would you want someone like that working for you?
Speaker 3: But now people like preemptively fire themselves because there's no
Speaker 3: chance of there being any sort of outrage on behalf
Speaker 3: of like him fireing, so it would just be like
Speaker 3: a web for him.
Speaker 2: I would still want I would still want to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Trump fired.
Speaker 3: Me, Like yeah, I don't know. I feel like a person.
Speaker 2: With integrity would have a great reason to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I fucking got fired by Trump. Give me a book deal,
Speaker 2: Like I feel like you could get something out of it,
Speaker 2: you know. And he was just like, oh, okay, I'm.
Speaker 3: Scared by report. Hey look over there.
Speaker 2: You can't fire me. I quit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. It's just a petty thing. As for the report,
Speaker 3: which is supposedly pretty damning for anybody who doesn't isn't
Speaker 3: already accustomed to just like imagining the worst possible thing
Speaker 3: and then that thing being true and then nobody giving
Speaker 3: a shit. Merrick Garland has been trying to release part
Speaker 3: of it publicly, but it's being held up by Trump's
Speaker 3: co defendants, who are saying, like, you know, they still
Speaker 3: might go to trial, and they can't like release this
Speaker 3: report because it would be prejudicial against a jury that
Speaker 3: might eventually decide their fate. So interesting, So people are
Speaker 3: just saying Garland should drop the cases all together since
Speaker 3: Trump's about to take office and that will free him
Speaker 3: to release the report anyways, or you know, who knows
Speaker 3: what Trump will do with it. But bad weekend for
Speaker 3: anything approaching justice in general, especially with regards to this administration.
Speaker 3: But there is that cool Mark Zuckerberg Joe Rogan interview,
Speaker 3: so we can can all look at that.
Speaker 1: And you can, and if you listen to it multiple times,
Speaker 1: you hear new things each time. I found when you
Speaker 1: listen to it, So yeah, it's not a one and done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 2: I got to listen to it on like two point
Speaker 2: five speeds, so I miss a lot actually, so that
Speaker 2: I understand. Go back and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Torri, we just met each other. You seem like someone
Speaker 1: who would love to listen to it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take notes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be. It's easier for notes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mm hmmmm. He was talking about like the feminization
Speaker 3: of the workforce or something. I don't know he really was. Yeah, Zuckerberg,
Speaker 3: that's like what his whole thing. He's just like fully
Speaker 3: been replaced by a maga chug like it's wild. I wonder. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I saw people speculating as to whether he's getting divorced.
Speaker 3: I am curious how that's all going over in his household.
Speaker 3: Brutal anyways, brutal for him. I worry about their relationship.
Speaker 1: I know, brutal for the sanctity of marriage. That's what
Speaker 1: I was talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that, that theory is like, oh, his wife,
Speaker 3: a billionaire, is going to be so mad at him.
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably haven't seen him in two years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've stopped counting on billionaires to have normal human emotions.
Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's take a quick break because I want
Speaker 3: to tell you guys about Lake Superior State University's words
Speaker 3: banished words list and all. Also tell you that Lake
Speaker 3: Superior State University is a real university, which I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, if you say so, Jack.
Speaker 3: We'll take a quick break. We'll actually look into that.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back and we're back and all right.
Speaker 3: So I'm on the website for Lake Superior State University
Speaker 3: and the headline is superior education, superior experience, Superior you.
Speaker 3: So they are really leaning into that, well.
Speaker 2: Too hard, that's too much of a lean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to back up a little bit. What
Speaker 3: is the thing that we have going for us more
Speaker 3: than any other University. The fact that we have superior
Speaker 3: in the title.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I was waitelisted here, but go ahead
Speaker 1: Lake Superior.
Speaker 3: Anyways, they do have a good editorial gimmick. Though we
Speaker 3: have that show on our network. This is a important
Speaker 3: with the cast and creator the show Workaholics, and they
Speaker 3: talk about this board that they had in the writer's
Speaker 3: room for Workaholics that was a list of like retired
Speaker 3: like jokes to banish huh, including uh, he's right behind me,
Speaker 3: isn't he? Like that's the one that I always remember,
Speaker 3: like people like saying something really bad, like bad about
Speaker 3: somebody and then everybody looking at them and then going,
Speaker 3: he's right behind me, isn't he.
Speaker 1: I want to show that's just that, Like that's just
Speaker 1: the like the most like gat out. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But so Lakespeare or State University has that for the
Speaker 3: English language. Basically they twenty they have their twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five list of banished words, words that need to go away. This, truly,
Speaker 3: Lakespeare State University could just be a blog with like
Speaker 3: one good gimmick. I truly, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like it might be a degree mill. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, like that name is thrown me off.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that phrase before. I love that.
Speaker 2: A degree mill, yeah yeah, yeah, like a pay for
Speaker 2: your degree situation and you just get a little print out,
Speaker 2: You're like a PDF, and you print it out and
Speaker 2: you put it on your wall in your office. It's perfect.
Speaker 3: A lot of times people have gone to degree mills
Speaker 3: don't have not heard that phrase blake, so oh shit.
Speaker 3: They try and keep that one out of your vocabulary
Speaker 3: when you're going there.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I do remember Emerson College offered a course
Speaker 1: called Monsters, the actual class at By College, so yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that was a degree mill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just you just watched Monsters, Inc. And
Speaker 3: then Monsters University and.
Speaker 1: I minored, and Mike was asking, all.
Speaker 3: Right, I do want to read through the list, see
Speaker 3: if there's any in here that we want to back
Speaker 3: co sign. So some of this just seems like older
Speaker 3: people being like, I don't like the way young people talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: For instance, cringe is the number one banished word. I
Speaker 3: feel like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm voting to keep personally. Yeah, it's just fine whatever,
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 3: Fun is overused, maybe like eighty percent less use, but
Speaker 3: it's fine.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 3: Game changer. I don't know why now, like right, it's
Speaker 3: not a new term. This is not a new term.
Speaker 3: It's probably overused, so let's reduce. I would lobby for
Speaker 3: a seventy percent use reduction on game changer, and that's
Speaker 3: the way out. Yeah, I feel like, yeah, maybe ninety
Speaker 3: percent use reduction when it comes to people working in
Speaker 3: tech and finance.
Speaker 2: Crypto bros.
Speaker 3: Yeah, era as in I'm in my flop era.
Speaker 2: She you know the era is just a word, and
Speaker 2: are using it correctly? Like what it's okay?
Speaker 3: Sure, I think I think this one's fine. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't need this to be removed. I'll
Speaker 3: allow era to continue dropped for something being released. I
Speaker 3: don't need that one to go, if you know, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't need that one to go. Now we're getting
Speaker 3: into the territory where I kind of I have one
Speaker 3: foot in with Lake Superior State University. Sorry not sorry?
Speaker 3: Is I never feel good when this one's used. I
Speaker 3: feel like I think this can go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right, like the cell by date was many
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and it's generally just used for rude behavior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's like yeah, sorry, sorry, not sorry,
Speaker 1: I sworn in front of your grandmother. You know it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well that's yeah, a little bit, a little bit rude, yeah,
Speaker 1: or something that you don't apologize for. Sorry, not sorry,
Speaker 1: I have an allergy.
Speaker 3: It's a close relative to somebody being like I am
Speaker 3: not racist at all.
Speaker 2: But you know it's like, yeah, that's good point.
Speaker 3: So sorry, not sorry. I've never liked I would be
Speaker 3: fine to see that one go. We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 3: treat this list as you've nominated some potentials Lakespire State University.
Speaker 3: We'll we'll tell you which one actually works. I think
Speaker 3: that's gonna win personally. Sorry. Up next to skibbity, which
Speaker 3: is like a thing that eight year olds say, you
Speaker 3: can't you can't come in and be like eight year
Speaker 3: old shouldn't say this is stupid because that they're right
Speaker 3: up here. This viral word may have resonated with a
Speaker 3: younger crowd, but for many it is just noise. That
Speaker 3: just means you're old. That just means like, I don't
Speaker 3: like when people are talking about skibbity shit, but like
Speaker 3: that that's just like kids, yes, just your kids.
Speaker 2: Like nobody is saying skibbity to me except my children.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a children's thing, and this is not how
Speaker 3: language works. You can't be like, stop saying this kids.
Speaker 3: Nobody cares about a skibbity toilet, skibbity fizz or skibbity
Speaker 3: ohio phantom tax at this point, this is a direct quote.
Speaker 3: At this point, nobody even knows what it means, and
Speaker 3: it just annoys people. I think you're using people as
Speaker 3: a stand in for yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't know what about I've never heard it before.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have kids, but maybe yeah.
Speaker 2: You don't mean to you don't need to hear it.
Speaker 2: It doesn't it doesn't matter. I don't know. But like,
Speaker 2: kids are obsessed with it. But yeah, like skibbity toilet
Speaker 2: s givvy ohio like, and my and my kids still
Speaker 2: have It's been around for years at this point. My
Speaker 2: kids still fight over what it means. What's the definition
Speaker 2: of skibby interesting?
Speaker 3: And that's how you know it's hard?
Speaker 2: Uh huh, Yes, it is, yeah for five year olds.
Speaker 3: And I also know it needs to stick around because
Speaker 3: when Blake just admitted that he didn't know what it meant,
Speaker 3: I felt so much superiority over him.
Speaker 2: The only reason I know anything now is because I
Speaker 2: have a twelve year old yeah right, and that's my
Speaker 2: only connection to the youth.
Speaker 1: I live near a school, and when recesses, I just
Speaker 1: open up my windows so I can hear new words.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and immediately told the.
Speaker 2: Neighbors are like Jesus Christ, who is this guy who's
Speaker 2: watching our kids?
Speaker 1: Every recess is watching.
Speaker 3: Just one of those big ear horns. All right, this one.
Speaker 3: I agree with the sentiment. This is one that I
Speaker 3: have noticed over the past year. It can't be fully banished,
Speaker 3: but people saying one hundred percent when they agree with
Speaker 3: something one hundred percent, oh my god, or one thousand
Speaker 3: percent as like I've heard conversations where that's all people
Speaker 3: say back like back and forth, just repeatedly, just peppering
Speaker 3: other people's statements with one hundred one thousand percent and
Speaker 3: then thus and then returning the.
Speaker 1: Favor it's two thousand percent, three three thousand percent. I
Speaker 1: do say one hundred percent a lot. And this sucks.
Speaker 1: This is worse than you knowing the other words skibbitty.
Speaker 1: This is you feel called out. Yeah, yeah, well I
Speaker 1: feel helped actually, like I feel like this is a
Speaker 1: good note, Like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I use it that often. Honestly, I'm thinking of
Speaker 2: like all the economists who like can't do their jobs
Speaker 2: anymore because we're canceling one hundred.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't bet. I've never heard that dynamic of like
Speaker 2: people just sitting and saying one hundred percent back and
Speaker 2: forth to each other. That feels like I don't listen
Speaker 2: to Joe Rogan. That feels like a Joe Rogan day.
Speaker 3: One, one hundred percent suck one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Okay, maybe I'm anti one hundred percent and
Speaker 2: I didn't know it until Yeah.
Speaker 3: Again, it can't be fully banished. We need one hundred
Speaker 3: percent for my spelling tests. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Otherwise we don't have all the percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. But I agree that this should be flagged
Speaker 3: for people, for for people who need help not leaning
Speaker 3: on the same phrases over and over again, like maybe
Speaker 3: make yourself your own workaholics writer's room cliche board and
Speaker 3: just keep an eye on it. You don't need to
Speaker 3: stop using it one, but you can say I agree,
Speaker 3: maybe say totally agree. I concur right. First, I like
Speaker 3: to I like to shorten for sure to fursh and
Speaker 3: for other people like it too, that's a lie. They
Speaker 3: don't sure.
Speaker 1: Other people like it to the most defensive person.
Speaker 3: Everybody likes it when I do that. The last two
Speaker 3: kind of song utilize what what are you talking about about?
Speaker 3: I get that use works just as well, but it's
Speaker 3: it's kind of up there with like game changer as
Speaker 3: a thing that's used too often in business speak. And
Speaker 3: also cops. I feel like love to use at that
Speaker 3: time that I utilized my taser.
Speaker 2: To oh yeah, cops writing reports.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, sorry, not sorry, but I utilized myser.
Speaker 3: And a child. And then period, point blank period.
Speaker 2: I still like period.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 1: I fucked with period, like, yeah, it's a good way
Speaker 1: to not let the other person speak after you've said something,
Speaker 1: you know that's helpful. Yeah, say something, say period and
Speaker 1: then they don't get to.
Speaker 2: Talk, no follow ups.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, I period.
Speaker 2: God, this list reminds me of all of the like
Speaker 2: these are the remember all the blogs that were like
Speaker 2: these are the words we're canceling this year from like
Speaker 2: two thousand and four on like MySpace probably MySpace era
Speaker 2: of like all basically and it was just essentially all
Speaker 2: of the like ave and like youth general slang, and
Speaker 2: they were like, we're not using any of these anymore.
Speaker 2: And it's like that's not how language works.
Speaker 3: Interesting, you've chosen those particular words. Uh.
Speaker 2: But it was like that was like a yearly thing
Speaker 2: like end of the year. That was what they did
Speaker 2: for the wrap up, was like here's all the work
Speaker 2: terms were canceling. This was before we said canceling that way.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that was the energy of it. And
Speaker 2: I'm just like, why are why this is a twenty
Speaker 2: year old format? Like what are you trying to bring
Speaker 2: this back?
Speaker 1: This makes me wish I attended this school. I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest takeaway from this is I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: if this is the kind of research this university is doing,
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't be involved.
Speaker 2: Do they have like do they have like undergrad like
Speaker 2: because isn't this a way to just make all of
Speaker 2: your students constantly say cringe araage wrist drops, Well they're
Speaker 2: in class, Like, I don't know. I feel like kids
Speaker 2: when you tell them not to do a thing, like
Speaker 2: to do that thing because yeah, you didn't give them
Speaker 2: a reason not to. It's not hurting anybody. I don't know.
Speaker 3: O great, I'm looking back through their archives. By the way,
Speaker 3: this is on a list of Lake Superior State University traditions,
Speaker 3: along with the snowman burning.
Speaker 2: That okay, sounds interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm uncorn questing. So those are the two unicorn questing,
Speaker 3: snowman burning, and a witch word vanishing. Yeah, so this
Speaker 3: tradition a tradition unlike any others, goes back to nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy nine. But it does feel like a lot of
Speaker 3: the stuff is just right, like cliches for writers to
Speaker 3: look out for, like last year's wait for It side
Speaker 3: hustle is. It's just like trendy things young people say,
Speaker 3: slay to your point where they're like, we don't like it.
Speaker 3: It makes us feel uncomfortable. Don't don't talk about slaying.
Speaker 3: That's that's weird. We don't know anybody who actually uses this,
Speaker 3: We've just heard of people using it.
Speaker 2: So I also feel like it's kind of antithetical for
Speaker 2: a university to say certain words shouldn't be used, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if.
Speaker 3: This is any other university toy, i'd agree, but Lake
Speaker 3: Superior State University, I feel like we can we can
Speaker 3: count on them to be the arbiters of sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: we two and aren't allowed. Twenty twenty two, they tried
Speaker 3: to tried to retire. Wait what, that's just a thing.
Speaker 1: Your heart here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a clarifying, y using statement.
Speaker 3: So it is no good Karen. Of course they tried
Speaker 3: to retire in twenty twenty one because they were tired
Speaker 3: of people calling them that.
Speaker 2: Definitely, yeah, wow, all right, anyway, fun they seem like
Speaker 2: a fun time.
Speaker 3: Check out Lakespeare State University ls s US. I've also
Speaker 3: probably been getting by with with being confused with LSU
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 1: Probably, Yeah, I got a heavy ring finger on my
Speaker 1: left hand, or I keep from looking up tigers scores
Speaker 1: at LSU. I can't believe they got good for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, Tory Williams Douglas, what a pleasure having you
Speaker 3: on the Daily Geist as always? Where can people find you?
Speaker 3: Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: I am still on the internet on social media, Like
Speaker 2: I said, I'm on the discord also, so I feel
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Speaker 2: I think is how they have that formatted, which is silly.
Speaker 2: You can change it to whatever you want. So I'm
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Speaker 2: is not a thing I knew existed, So we're talking
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Speaker 3: Go check Torri out. Is there a work Amedia that
Speaker 3: you've been enjoying.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is uh. This is from uh. It
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Speaker 2: which is just the racist crows from Dumbo trying to
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was.
Speaker 2: Like one of the first like Twitter level skeets I've seen.
Speaker 2: I was like, yep, save it.
Speaker 3: There it is there, it is Blake. It's what a
Speaker 3: pleasure of having you? Where can people find you? Is there? Work? Amedia,
Speaker 3: you've been enjoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was so much fun. Torri, You're awesome. Jack
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Speaker 1: just born with loser stink on them and no amount
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Speaker 1: whole time we were talking, I was thinking about that
Speaker 1: because it is just he's just like, however you want
Speaker 1: to use the term loser, like Zuckerberg is just a loser,
Speaker 1: like the feminist whatever, fucking horseshit, he said, like the
Speaker 1: feminine workplace or whatever he was talking about, and then
Speaker 1: like his heel turn, not even a heel turn, because
Speaker 1: that would imply that he was a good guy at
Speaker 1: some point. It's just just some guys they just like
Speaker 1: want to kiss the ass of like whoever they think
Speaker 1: is the cool guy at school, and right now they
Speaker 1: think it's that pig who's gonna take office, so like
Speaker 1: it's it's just embarrassing, and I think they're losers. You
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Speaker 3: Put notes or dub plate. I'm going to nominate to
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Speaker 3: what is that? Is that what young kids are calling
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