Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: These are some of our favorite segments from this week,
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Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, we're thrilled,
Speaker 1: Miles to be joined in our third seat by an
Speaker 1: affordable housing advocate who is working to help address modern
Speaker 1: day redlining by trying to overturn the Thurmond Amendment.
Speaker 3: Please, welcome to the show. Use off dog.
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate that. I wish I had an AKA
Speaker 4: I could reference, but it's just you.
Speaker 3: So it's just fine. Sometimes sometimes the name is enough,
Speaker 3: you know, preced you know, Valley of the Doll. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Let's not do that dollar arts by
Speaker 3: Whole to take it back to the nineties. Is that
Speaker 3: the one some day?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well think is that? Is that doll parts? I don't
Speaker 3: not a lot of Courney Love Cobaine fans in here.
Speaker 1: Huh Okay, I was, I was Cobaine, but I think
Speaker 1: Whole went a little too hard for me. Look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm still getting over this idea of peanut butter and
Speaker 1: jelly together.
Speaker 3: I mean that's that's crazy. Oh yeah, yep, you will
Speaker 3: ache like I that's all parts, dull parts. Thank you
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four Brain, You're welcome. Uh but yusuf where
Speaker 3: you come into.
Speaker 4: Us from Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I mean kind of a seminal place in
Speaker 3: terms of housing when we're talking about housing, right, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, certainly, I think it's the type of city that's
Speaker 4: emblematic of a lot of our cities across the country
Speaker 4: that really are a tale of two cities.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: There's places in this community that are vibrant and thriving,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of other parts in the city
Speaker 4: that have quite frankly been left behind.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, yeah, oh man, I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 3: our discussion because, like as you were saying before we came,
Speaker 3: you came on, you know, like when we have these
Speaker 3: guests on to talk about a specific subject, I mean,
Speaker 3: just the thermin amendment just opens the door to so
Speaker 3: many different conversations, whether it's about our car sol system,
Speaker 3: whether it's about housing, how we view housing, and even
Speaker 3: how America even does its threat assessments, and they typically
Speaker 3: just end up being just overtly racist. And this is
Speaker 3: no exception. There's no exception.
Speaker 1: What is the attitude in Allentown toward the Billie Joel song?
Speaker 4: One of ambivalent's because well, it's a good song, right,
Speaker 4: so it's kind of hard not to like the song.
Speaker 4: But I think the city has really done a tremendous
Speaker 4: job of reinventing itself, and so you know, there's a
Speaker 4: sense that that song really doesn't represent the spirit and
Speaker 4: the future of Allentown today. So there's a level of ambivalence.
Speaker 4: But it's Billy Joels, so you can't really, you know,
Speaker 4: hate it too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he said opens up, well we're living
Speaker 1: here in Allentown, and you know, I mean that's Those
Speaker 1: are the only lyrics that I know. So I was
Speaker 1: going to try and say something profound about it, but okay,
Speaker 1: I can't remember any of the other parts. Something about
Speaker 1: a factory town.
Speaker 3: There you go, Poda, remember what that song about?
Speaker 1: Incisive commentary like, well, we're living here in Allentown is
Speaker 1: a lyric in Allentown. There it is all right, great, Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about housing in a moment, but
Speaker 1: before we get into our expert guests area of expertise,
Speaker 1: we do like to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better by asking what's either something from your search
Speaker 1: history that's revealing about who you are or something that
Speaker 1: you have recently screencapped short for screen captured that is
Speaker 1: revealing about screen shot it?
Speaker 4: Even shot screen shot it. Yeah, so my last screen
Speaker 4: shot was actually a list of Republicans on the Financial
Speaker 4: Services Committee, so directly related to this work on the
Speaker 4: the Therm and Amendment. As I'm sure we're going to
Speaker 4: get into this is this is going to be a
Speaker 4: big month because we have legislation that's going to be introduced,
Speaker 4: but we're trying to make it bipartisan, and so I'm
Speaker 4: doing a lot of work trying to identify folks on
Speaker 4: the right who might be interested in this common sense
Speaker 4: reform to extend opportunity.
Speaker 3: How's it going? How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 1: How the you see any any names on there that
Speaker 1: you're like they seem to exist in a version of reality.
Speaker 4: I tend to be an optimistic person. I always feel
Speaker 4: like the thing with legislation is the key is to
Speaker 4: actually get in front of these people. So for me,
Speaker 4: the the challenges how do you how do you look
Speaker 4: at this list and how do you mine your network
Speaker 4: to get in the door, because you believe that if
Speaker 4: you can just get in front of these people and
Speaker 4: explain what you're trying to do, common sense will prevail
Speaker 4: and you'll get through.
Speaker 3: Right. Is that do you think that's I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess there's something with housing. How do you sort of
Speaker 3: tailor this argument to appeal to someone like Ron Johnson
Speaker 3: who has dealt in all kinds of really backwards thinking
Speaker 3: out loud when it comes to things like the carcial
Speaker 3: system or race and things like that. Do you have
Speaker 3: to is he actually be like, oh, that's messed up,
Speaker 3: like people who just had a drug charge can't get
Speaker 3: in the housing? Like yeah, I want to do that?
Speaker 3: Or is it? Or like how do you thread that needle?
Speaker 3: Because from my perspective, I'm like, what do you tell
Speaker 3: Ron Johnson to try and get him to see the
Speaker 3: light in terms of something like this is common sense
Speaker 3: reform like that there's no net negative here. This is
Speaker 3: like about just like making things a little bit more equitable,
Speaker 3: And they'll be like, what is that woke? But yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm curious what's sort of what's the what's thes with
Speaker 3: something like that?
Speaker 4: Well, so I think, first of all, you always have
Speaker 4: to contextualize this in the framework of opportunity, right because
Speaker 4: in theory, everybody wants to extend opportunity to people in
Speaker 4: this country in theory. And so it was really about legislation,
Speaker 4: like the Thermin Amendment denies people have been justice impacted
Speaker 4: the ability to be judged based on market measures and
Speaker 4: assessments of risk.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So, the market has a way of predicting or suggesting
Speaker 4: how reliable you're going to be as a creditor. Right.
Speaker 4: So it's your credit score, it's your income history. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of different measures that objectively the market assigns
Speaker 4: to you to suggest your risk profile. The Thermin Amendment
Speaker 4: nullifies all of that. And so the case that I
Speaker 4: made was, Hey, give these folks access to the free
Speaker 4: market and the free market mechanisms of risk like everyone else.
Speaker 4: And you know, and I made the analogy that I
Speaker 4: can literally go to a bank right now and borrow
Speaker 4: a million dollars. I can do that, but I could
Speaker 4: not secure a town home apartment because of my twenty
Speaker 4: five year old drug distribution conviction.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: That just didn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: Wow, well, right, now.
Speaker 4: Does that translate in actual support.
Speaker 3: I mean that's the right, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, anyone, anyone can sit across from you and say, yeah,
Speaker 4: that doesn't make sense. But what you really need are
Speaker 4: folks who are going to put some capital on the
Speaker 4: table and help you affect this change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, abstraction is the root of the problems that are happening,
Speaker 1: where it's like easier to just make somebody a concept,
Speaker 1: you know that's like on your screen or like a
Speaker 1: you know, a number on a spreadsheet, and when you
Speaker 1: actually get in a room with a person and they
Speaker 1: have to deal with the fact that you know, you
Speaker 1: are a human being, it at least for that time
Speaker 1: can make a big change. But then after the fact,
Speaker 1: as a matter of like getting them not to go
Speaker 1: back to the comfortable thing of you know, a system
Speaker 1: that seems to lend itself to just abstracting people and
Speaker 1: treating people as like values on a spreadsheet. So yeah,
Speaker 1: doing doing truly the difficult important work.
Speaker 3: Andrew, what's something you think is underrated? I see something
Speaker 3: that is underrated.
Speaker 5: Something I did yesterday that I forgot that I haven't
Speaker 5: done in a while, which is just putting the vegan
Speaker 5: thing in a not vegan place to wit.
Speaker 3: I had, but go on Burger Lords.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Burger Lords has a has a vegan burger,
Speaker 5: right that is that's a it's a burger place in
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, on the one in the Highland Park's Park,
Speaker 5: and they have a vegan burger that's quite good in
Speaker 5: that it's like it's like a little on the like
Speaker 5: falafey side, Like there's like a lot of grain in it,
Speaker 5: and there's a lot of like kind of visible texture
Speaker 5: and yeah, it's just like a nice kind of like
Speaker 5: a patty of something.
Speaker 3: And I just got that. I got a double burger
Speaker 3: with one beef, one vegan oat. Nice wha. Yeah you're
Speaker 3: down for the swirl like that? Yeah, okay, because I
Speaker 3: was like, they're they're they're genuinely really different. It is
Speaker 3: a burger that that doesn't really try to like em.
Speaker 3: It's not like a just worse meat burger. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like its own thing. And I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I love I love like like vegan hamburger. It it
Speaker 3: really like with impossible and stuff. It's really like the
Speaker 3: experience isn't that much different to me, especially if you
Speaker 3: use like normal cheese. Then I'm like, yeah, ok, I
Speaker 3: won't eat the be Yeah, yeah, I'll eat the cheese
Speaker 3: and look at me better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the the vegan whopper is I think
Speaker 5: I'm this one. I'm positive I have said on this
Speaker 5: show and I'll say it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The vopper, Yeah, the vopper really highlights that the
Speaker 3: taste of a whopper is just fake smoke and mayonnaise
Speaker 3: and right right right, yes, like anything else could be
Speaker 3: in there. So it is like, yeah, you can't can't
Speaker 3: be eating a beef whopper the experience with the vegan
Speaker 3: burgers or what You're still pure beef? What do you do?
Speaker 3: I have a life.
Speaker 6: I have three years left, and my life expectancy is
Speaker 6: quite I've hit my ceiling already.
Speaker 3: I'm on borrow time.
Speaker 6: But Andrew, I have a question for you. So you said,
Speaker 6: so you ordered a vegan patty and so it was
Speaker 6: was it was a double, so they were both it
Speaker 6: was a double between the same buns. How did you
Speaker 6: order it? Did you did they oh yeah, did they
Speaker 6: hesitate at all? Or were you like order two separate?
Speaker 5: And then you know because they have an option for
Speaker 5: a double anyway, and I just can I just get
Speaker 5: a double?
Speaker 3: But can I just got one? Of them vegan, and
Speaker 3: it is true.
Speaker 5: The guy taking my order looked at me side looked
Speaker 5: down at the like okay.
Speaker 3: And so it wasn't. It was admittedly a pain in
Speaker 3: the ass. How did I ring this up? Dude? This
Speaker 3: one beef? I don't know.
Speaker 6: Because it's a propertly reasonable request. It just would sound
Speaker 6: odd to the ear for.
Speaker 3: The first time.
Speaker 6: Where my friend Todd he would do a thing where
Speaker 6: he would order a small coffee at a large cup,
Speaker 6: and it would be because he wanted to add like
Speaker 6: a bunch of milk up to it, which is not cool,
Speaker 6: but like that's what you would do. And he also
Speaker 6: was like, oh but you also get more. You get
Speaker 6: charged for a small, but they will give you a meeting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because this kind of ship Todd Glass is teaching
Speaker 3: you man.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that's why he was my mentor. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: that's why I order. They have a massive like a
Speaker 6: sixty four gallon drum drink.
Speaker 3: Looks like a barrel of methylamine for baking. Is that
Speaker 3: the fabled Stanley cup? Is that what that is? This is? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't based I'm going to put a child in it.
Speaker 3: And has Blake has a construction orange Stanley cup that
Speaker 3: does genuinely look more like a code. Look at this,
Speaker 3: Look at this tormented promo cup. I got yellow Stone White.
Speaker 3: People know I'm safe. I bring I got, I got nothing. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 3: you got to have a cup that shows you're saying I.
Speaker 5: Did see a This is this is the part of
Speaker 5: fucking I guess like TikTok Instagram reels that I'm on
Speaker 5: the suggested hack, which is which was to a similar
Speaker 5: similar idea as that you get more in the small
Speaker 5: cup or small drink big cup idea is when you're
Speaker 5: at Chipotle, right when they're about to give you the
Speaker 5: second scoop of beans, go oh, actually, could I get
Speaker 5: half and half beans? Because of what they do is
Speaker 5: typically drop the the scoop they already have. They're like, fuck,
Speaker 5: it's already in the spoon, it's going in, and then
Speaker 5: they give you another scoop of another the other bean.
Speaker 3: Wow beans classically the single cheapest food you found a
Speaker 3: free walk or something like yeah. Like even they're like, dude,
Speaker 3: if you just look, you could have just asked me
Speaker 3: to hook it up. I don't give a fuck. I
Speaker 3: bring my own can Ian. What's something you think is overrated.
Speaker 7: Okay, honestly voting just kidding not. I think what if what.
Speaker 3: I was like voting finally here first? You heard it
Speaker 3: here first.
Speaker 7: This is also kind of related, but like I think
Speaker 7: cell phones and the Internet might be over I think
Speaker 7: it's done.
Speaker 3: It's just done. I mean, yeah, the internet, the Internet
Speaker 3: just seems to be the used to be the cause
Speaker 3: of and solution to all of life's problems, and now
Speaker 3: it just feels like the cause of and solution to
Speaker 3: cause of all and solution to some of life life's problems. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: weird way, Like we'll get into it later.
Speaker 7: But like with Twitter, like everyone's mad about getting the
Speaker 7: blue check mark. I didn't used to get mad on
Speaker 7: the internet. I used to look up funny videos of
Speaker 7: people getting betted, learn how to make bums.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun. Star Runner and maybe some like
Speaker 3: gnarly car crash videos on evil Chili dot com or
Speaker 3: one of those fucked up websites that I remember looking
Speaker 3: at and people like, what are you? I don't know
Speaker 3: the ships on this ship's on here, this ship's on here,
Speaker 3: and then yeah.
Speaker 7: I think they still have Wait, can I say the
Speaker 7: F word.
Speaker 3: On this podcast? Which one you can of course you
Speaker 3: can't wait. Actually that's a good question.
Speaker 7: There there was a site called E Fucked and oh.
Speaker 3: Internet U K T yes, And it's all like porn
Speaker 3: bloopers and like just like really niche porn, like one
Speaker 3: where like a dude's dressed like as an alien. You
Speaker 3: got like seven dicks and ship. Yes, look I was, Look,
Speaker 3: I was. I was in my twenties on the internet
Speaker 3: to at one point, and I remember and they used
Speaker 3: to do the wildest ship. They'd be like head shot,
Speaker 3: they'd be like all kinds of weird sounds. They would
Speaker 3: like edit into shit. Bro, I'm so glad I'm off that.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm mature, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: But that was better. Now it's like, oh, I have
Speaker 7: to see if a hundred people looked at my Instagram story.
Speaker 3: No, let me go look at far right. Yeah. The
Speaker 3: Golden era, the golden era when it was just more
Speaker 3: like yeah, it was a just a sordid lake for
Speaker 3: us to sip from, you know, yeah yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: the hits, the hits goats. See we all know. Look, yeah,
Speaker 3: so many of those things that were just for like
Speaker 3: that's how you knew like someone was like, oh you
Speaker 3: were like one of the weird bad motherfuckers. Hunh, because
Speaker 3: you knew about that ship. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: It was interesting running into those people or you would
Speaker 6: hear because it was word of mouth. It was when
Speaker 6: word of mouth was still more powerful than the Internet. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's like, hey, have you seen this this video of
Speaker 6: a guy chops this thing off? You know, Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: fake and that's fake I know you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 6: all right, yeah, don't Yeah, it's Santa Claus. It's not
Speaker 6: really that next that's my saying, if you want.
Speaker 3: Me to my Santa Claus. Is that guy from the
Speaker 3: body modification Olympics or whatever that video is where he's
Speaker 3: completely Yeah he's chopping off a wee wee. That's fake. Yeah,
Speaker 3: sorry to debunk that. Sorry to debunk that. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm here for. I've I've done the research, so you
Speaker 3: don't have to. But yeah, what were you saying?
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I don't even fucking care anymore that you
Speaker 6: set so yeah, everything's fucking all people of man, internet
Speaker 6: access some note whatever, go ahead, No, but that was the.
Speaker 3: Thing like back then you would just be like, yo, man, yo,
Speaker 3: I've not seen this video, and everybody will come over
Speaker 3: and you would be like getting high and ship everybody
Speaker 3: gather around your computer. You're at my time, my fucking
Speaker 3: like like desktop desktop computer. I'm like, y'all not ready
Speaker 3: for this one to like h and now it's like
Speaker 3: so casual, like everyone's so decent. It's it really is
Speaker 3: like a it's a terrible evolution that's occurred, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like everyone's nothing is is like shocking anymore.
Speaker 3: And I think that's a really bad thing because overall
Speaker 3: we become numb to like really horrific shit. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that's the that's the Internet of twenty years ago, of
Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty years ago, yes, right before Obama came president. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back and
Speaker 3: keep talking about this technology thing. But yeah, the smartphone thing,
Speaker 3: let's talk about it after this and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, And the Florida Supreme Court just gave the
Speaker 1: go ahead for Rob Desanti's six week abortion band. Yeah, akay,
Speaker 1: just an overall abortion.
Speaker 3: Ban, yeah, de facto. Basically it's going to go into
Speaker 3: effect in about thirty days and then until then there
Speaker 3: I guess comparatively more humane fifteen week ban will be
Speaker 3: the law of the land. And like you said, like
Speaker 3: mind you people don't most people do not know that
Speaker 3: they're pregnant within six weeks, So this is like.
Speaker 8: Pretty much nobody. It's fucking ridiculous unless you are constantly
Speaker 8: testing yourself.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and you're like at a doctor every day,
Speaker 3: like getting like a doctor, you know, doctor visit test.
Speaker 3: But you know. Many abortion advocates have also pointed out
Speaker 3: that because it's the third most most populous state, like,
Speaker 3: engaging in this kind of bullshit puts so many people
Speaker 3: at risk, not even in Florida, but the southeast because
Speaker 3: there are not states that are able to absorb this
Speaker 3: many patients that would be seeking abortion care to Alabama,
Speaker 3: yeah exactly, or you end up in a state where
Speaker 3: they're like what you came here for?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: No? No, So yes, it's looking yeah, pretty grim and
Speaker 3: like a lot of people are like, well this, I
Speaker 3: guess this helps because for at least until November, they
Speaker 3: will have to live in a total anti choice healscape
Speaker 3: that may motivate people to vote. But in that same session,
Speaker 3: the justices also gave the go ahead for a ballot
Speaker 3: measure that would protect abortion rights in the state so
Speaker 3: that's nice, all right, meet ball rob, you get this one.
Speaker 3: But also because they're not total animals, it will be
Speaker 3: about seven months, six months of absolute horror until you
Speaker 3: can vote this thing in and then obviously that has
Speaker 3: to get ratified, et cetera, et cetera. So that's a
Speaker 3: bit of the state the state of things in Florida.
Speaker 3: And you know, now it's just sort of like saying, like, wow,
Speaker 3: they've continued to do the same playbook where they don't
Speaker 3: realize how popular abortion rights are. In abortion access is yeah,
Speaker 3: and every like we've seen this constantly solidly read states.
Speaker 3: When this is on the ballot, people turn out in
Speaker 3: droves and right, and so to protect people's access to abortion,
Speaker 3: and then Republicans after, like on Wednesdays are like, what
Speaker 3: what happened? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8: It is weird because it doesn't seem to be popular
Speaker 8: at all to ban abortion except for in this kind
Speaker 8: of weird right wing donor class that demands it. And
Speaker 8: it's like they're basically just trying to play kate this
Speaker 8: really extreme fringe of voters who seem to have no
Speaker 8: like there's not enough of them to swing an election.
Speaker 8: So you wonder why they're doing it other than just
Speaker 8: because they're assholes.
Speaker 3: Right, well, because like these donors, right, they're typically wealthy
Speaker 3: and also like ultra nationalists, Christians or like they're successful,
Speaker 3: like mall construction business in this piece, so I'll use
Speaker 3: all my money to do this kind of stuff. And
Speaker 3: it's like to your point, like these donors have there,
Speaker 3: they don't live in the reality where like over two
Speaker 3: thirds of the country lives. And they're like no, no, no,
Speaker 3: don't don't fuck with abortion access. They like they're like
Speaker 3: Francis and Peewee's Big Adventure, Like they're like a rich
Speaker 3: kid with like the most unreal demands are like I
Speaker 3: want pee wee Herman's bicycle, and it's like you can't
Speaker 3: have it, you fucking freak, And I can't have.
Speaker 8: That, then women can't get abortions is happening, No, truly truly.
Speaker 8: It's why all of the like like every culture war
Speaker 8: issue that's been like put forth by the right has
Speaker 8: been because at the behest of these you know, huge
Speaker 8: ultra right wing donor class people who are just very online.
Speaker 8: So all of the issues are very online, things like
Speaker 8: you know, woke, you know, and trans like that's that's
Speaker 8: the stuff that they are like this will you know,
Speaker 8: if I'm mad about it, then the governor better be
Speaker 8: mad about it too. And it's like, I don't think anyone.
Speaker 8: I mean, there are people going out to the polls
Speaker 8: to try to like end woke, but I don't think
Speaker 8: that on a even on like a statewide level, that's
Speaker 8: gonna flip the election for you. Yeah, people, I think
Speaker 8: forget why people like Donald Trump, And it's not because
Speaker 8: of his culture war you know stuff. It's because he
Speaker 8: just is like an asshole and he's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're like, ah see, like it's like I
Speaker 3: want that guy to be in the roast battle for
Speaker 3: me on the police exactly. That's sort of what it
Speaker 3: is like, because he'll fucking tell Hillary to shut up.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, he'll call he'll call my enemies a bitch.
Speaker 8: And it's just like, yeah, that's that's more relatable than
Speaker 8: this these like niche like right wing culture war issues
Speaker 8: that people are like, I guess I'm mad about that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. This definitely has like the the Biden
Speaker 3: camp rubbing their midst because they're like, we got a shot, now,
Speaker 3: we might have a shot.
Speaker 8: Lord, I know I mean, if if Biden is able
Speaker 8: to pull it out in November, it'll be because of
Speaker 8: how inept the Republicans are at reading a room, like yeah,
Speaker 8: for as bad as the Democrats are, they're.
Speaker 3: Banking on that. I mean they've been banking on and
Speaker 3: then there's them.
Speaker 1: It's the whole strategy, right, Like, we keep being like, wait,
Speaker 1: they're gonna run Biden again, but he's like so old,
Speaker 1: like that's such a such.
Speaker 8: A hum and more protesters go out to protest him
Speaker 8: and show up to his events.
Speaker 1: But that for a number of years now, their strategy
Speaker 1: has been basically look at them. Yeah, it's kind of working,
Speaker 1: like the I mean they yeah, I mean they.
Speaker 8: We'll see in November if it works. If it doesn't work,
Speaker 8: I'm very excited to be blamed personally.
Speaker 3: Yes, we will be all yeah, everybody who ever said
Speaker 3: anything negative about Joe Biden. They'll be like, I hope
Speaker 3: you're happy. Now you're happy. This is what you wanted, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: But it's not incumbent on the candidate. The candidate to
Speaker 3: actually appeal to a wide base, I'd be like, fucking
Speaker 3: choose this one.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: They're like yo, yo, yo, easy. I got like I
Speaker 3: got Hey, I got rights too that I'm looking out
Speaker 3: for too. I'm looking out for But it does look
Speaker 3: like if they were ever going to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: this might be a shot, I guess maybe. I mean,
Speaker 3: traditional wisdom would say Florida is not really on the
Speaker 3: table for a flip. But you again, the narrative I
Speaker 3: think Biden and their campaign wants to run on is
Speaker 3: look what happened, Like this is Trump's Supreme Court that
Speaker 3: overturned Row and then now Republicans in general, like Rob DeSantis,
Speaker 3: the meatball pudding man, also wants to continue this trend.
Speaker 3: But then I think that's what's also interesting too, is
Speaker 3: it puts Trump in a weird position because he's kind
Speaker 3: of tried to have it like both ways, you know,
Speaker 3: like in the past he's been like, I that's me.
Speaker 3: That's because of my Supreme Court rogue got overturned. And
Speaker 3: then when they when they talk about a six week
Speaker 3: ban that desanton is talking about, he's like, that's terrible,
Speaker 3: that's terrible. Yeah, And you're like, well, hold on, what
Speaker 3: is it? Because he's I guess he's smart enough to
Speaker 3: know how fucking wildly unpopular the issue is maybe or
Speaker 3: he was just saying that because at the time he
Speaker 3: was running against Ron DeSantis and he's like, whatever he
Speaker 3: says is bad. So what is he gonna do. Is
Speaker 3: he gonna embrace the new band and be like, exactly,
Speaker 3: they're doing it right down there. Or is he going
Speaker 3: to be like, actually, vote for the ballot proposition and
Speaker 3: get that and help and shrine those rights and then
Speaker 3: lose the vangelicals Because that's also that's like half the
Speaker 3: battle with him, Like with the reason the Bible people,
Speaker 3: like the Bible people weren't up in arms about him
Speaker 3: selling bibles is because he's low key being like, yo, bro,
Speaker 3: test me. You're gonna have a seat at the table
Speaker 3: when it comes to national policy, right, but just let
Speaker 3: me fucking make my coins real quick. Look, you saw me.
Speaker 3: You saw the fucking wild, fake moral panic over trans
Speaker 3: a day of visibility falling on Easter. We got your back.
Speaker 3: We will keep the outrage going. But yeah, it's not
Speaker 3: it's not quite quite clear how he'll play. And I
Speaker 3: think that's where the Biden camp feels like, well, whatever
Speaker 3: he says, it's gonna be tough, and then we'll be
Speaker 3: able to campaign off of that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know what, would be easier, is running
Speaker 8: like a candidate that people like.
Speaker 3: Now traditional wisdom would say something like that.
Speaker 8: But you know, I mean, it's weird how low the
Speaker 8: bar is, because like the bar set right now, we're
Speaker 8: setting the bar at not a president doing anything good,
Speaker 8: but just saying that he will do good thing. And
Speaker 8: they're not even giving us that. They're not even giving
Speaker 8: us the veneer. It's not even like the lie of
Speaker 8: like no, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna try and you know, uh,
Speaker 8: broker a piece or you know. It's just like they're like, well, no, Israel,
Speaker 8: it's the right to exist. And uh, they're.
Speaker 3: Like we had that UN resolution we abstained from voting on.
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, we have the UN resolution that we helped
Speaker 8: water down to a degree in which we were okay
Speaker 8: enough to abstain. Yeah, and it's like you're you're not
Speaker 8: even trying to pretend.
Speaker 3: Well. I think that's where again there's like this difference
Speaker 3: between the high information voter and the and most people
Speaker 3: who are probably I mean like if obviously he's not
Speaker 3: gonna attempt to appeal to like voters like who are
Speaker 3: like hauling out all these inconsistencies. No, for those who
Speaker 3: aren't like for the people who I was like, why
Speaker 3: doesn't you get credit for the economy. It's like, well,
Speaker 3: you could do stuff that like hits people in the
Speaker 3: pocketbook or at least hearing like, oh, you're going after
Speaker 3: like these sort of predatory price gouging practices of companies
Speaker 3: or something like that signals like oh, they're like I
Speaker 3: get that. Yeah, my bread is cheaper, or my milk
Speaker 3: isn't as much money, Like I buy so much milk now,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna baby, I'm like, this is beer money. Basically,
Speaker 3: you're spending on gallons of milk like those used to be.
Speaker 3: That's used to be what beer costs. And I was like, damn,
Speaker 3: especially that whole milk. I don't know why that's more expensive.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I do because they don't it right,
Speaker 3: because they.
Speaker 8: Don't cut it's.
Speaker 3: Sniff and base shiple milk. Yeah, I guess heavy cream
Speaker 3: is really the reality. But the other thing too, is
Speaker 3: like if that ballot measure about enshrining abortion access into
Speaker 3: the law isn't enough, the Florida Supreme Court also approved
Speaker 3: another ballot measure that would determine whether or not recreational
Speaker 3: cannabis can be a thing in the state. So you've
Speaker 3: got a body autonomy and weed on the ballot, so
Speaker 3: that may help bring out some voters enough to do
Speaker 3: something that would change the overall color of Florida. I
Speaker 3: who knows, who knows, who knows. But that's also like
Speaker 3: the bill for the recreational cannabis one is like very
Speaker 3: it's like put forward by like the biggest medical marijuana
Speaker 3: company in Florida and the building and it's like us
Speaker 3: and like our twenty four friends get to run rough
Speaker 3: shot over the state with you when you leagualize cannabis.
Speaker 3: So that one's a little bit murky too.
Speaker 8: Also, the price of the brick is going up. Yeah,
Speaker 8: Like I get it. You guys want to control of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well you know, free market.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Democrats every time they every time
Speaker 1: we have a national election coming up there like and
Speaker 1: Florida it might be in play, and it's always all
Speaker 1: it just like gets further and further away from being here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the only for me, the one thing
Speaker 3: that I feel could help is the fact that the
Speaker 3: Republics have no monies right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dollar amounts are really they slim Pickens over
Speaker 3: there because a lot of the money isn't going just
Speaker 3: to Trump and the RNC is like, sorry, we're this
Speaker 3: guy's piggybank. I know it affects down ballot candidates, right,
Speaker 3: can you do something on your own? Maybe? And I'm
Speaker 3: sure it will get probably sorted out, because these are
Speaker 3: gigantic political machines. But you know, as it stands, if
Speaker 3: that's the situation, yeah, you might be able to see
Speaker 3: how they're like, oh yeah, that might that might be
Speaker 3: a get Yeah.
Speaker 1: We did talk about how on Monday's Trending episode that
Speaker 1: Trump had like a good financial week where he spontaneously
Speaker 1: became like five billion dollars richer because truth Social essentially went.
Speaker 8: Public went public down.
Speaker 9: But like the day that we talked about that, like
Speaker 9: the shares dropped by like some crazy I think three
Speaker 9: or twenty eight percent or something like that because of
Speaker 9: the statistics the we'd so he lost a billion dollars
Speaker 9: of that valuation already. Yeah, which I'm curious when is
Speaker 9: he gonna dump all his shares?
Speaker 3: Honey?
Speaker 1: He has six weeks or six months until he can
Speaker 1: do that, so oh six months, yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: he can maybe borrow against it. So he might be
Speaker 1: able to liquefy a little.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh you want to borrow against this rapidly tanking
Speaker 3: stock price. Sure, sure, what do you want for it?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: Billion?
Speaker 8: I love that he can just go to any financial
Speaker 8: institution and they're like, all right, you can literally take
Speaker 8: this money and never pay it back.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, now, this one with that one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy five million dollars bond he put he paid recently
Speaker 3: in New York. That was all from a dude who
Speaker 3: was like the subprime car loan king, like yeah, and
Speaker 3: he's like he's a prime car yeah, and he's bowed
Speaker 3: up with like this bank. Like he's like a huge
Speaker 3: stake in this bank that is the one doing the lending.
Speaker 3: And they, like a lot of financial reporters, like this
Speaker 3: company does stuff where they can. It looks like money
Speaker 3: laundering made easy with this bank and how they like
Speaker 3: loan and give bonds out to people. So whatever, Like
Speaker 3: we said, this is just the full.
Speaker 1: System of the system. You have the America. All right, So, Miles,
Speaker 1: you pitched an idea to the bank robbers of America. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you pitched it as a movie. But I think I
Speaker 1: didn't know that you were pitching to the real world
Speaker 1: bank robbers a string of eclipse related bank heists where
Speaker 1: each each heist is timed to the eclipse.
Speaker 8: Everyone's looking away. I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone's looking at.
Speaker 3: On Law enforcement different places have states of emergency where
Speaker 3: they're having to put all their resources.
Speaker 1: In one because there's so many tourists. So if you're
Speaker 1: going in like scheduling the bank robberies in the path
Speaker 1: of totality, love this idea. We have another piece of
Speaker 1: news related to the eclipse and the criminal carcerole system.
Speaker 1: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision recently
Speaker 1: announced that they would be canceling visitations on April eighth,
Speaker 1: aka Eclipse Day twenty twenty four in facilities that lie
Speaker 1: in the path of totality. And it's not just visitations.
Speaker 1: They'll be instituting a system wide lockdown, meaning that inmates
Speaker 1: will be locked in their housing units between two and
Speaker 1: five p m. Supposedly as a safety precaution.
Speaker 8: Because they might look at the sun.
Speaker 1: I don't get like, is this just the powers that
Speaker 1: be retaining their like ancient fear of eclipses.
Speaker 3: You don't know what's Yeah.
Speaker 8: We don't know what kind of power they will attain
Speaker 8: from the sun, right, Like, doesn't that.
Speaker 1: Kind of feel like what they're They're they're making everybody
Speaker 1: be locked away for the three hours of the eclipse,
Speaker 1: and you're.
Speaker 3: Lucky we don't do it every month during the full moon.
Speaker 1: As a safety precaution. We don't know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: What is the threat exactly? I mean, are they listening
Speaker 3: to the show and they're like, Oh, that'd be a
Speaker 3: perfect wave? Is it that? But like i'd imagine is
Speaker 3: pretty secret, like because it goes a little bit shadowy
Speaker 3: for a couple of minutes, They're.
Speaker 8: Like, oh, no, man, they'll hide in the eclipse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, well, what can we do? You know what
Speaker 3: kind of lockdown?
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of crypto zoological beast they
Speaker 1: turn into when the eclipse happens. But like they had
Speaker 1: already purchased a large supply of solar eclipse safety glasses
Speaker 1: to distribute to distribute to the incarcerated population, and then
Speaker 1: they just were like, nah, fuck that, we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna hang on to these. This is really odd, Like
Speaker 1: why clearly like that shows real intent to allow people
Speaker 1: to observe the eclipse. When you're like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess you got to look after their little eyeballs. So yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get these little cardboard little shields.
Speaker 3: They can hold up in front of their eyes and
Speaker 3: then be like, no, that's it, system, Why lockdown? Like
Speaker 3: in another context, it feels like in a family, like
Speaker 3: one of the kids broke a rule, so we're not
Speaker 3: going anymore McDonald's. Yeah, and so is that what happened?
Speaker 1: And it's just punidyde like they uncovered a planned escape
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 3: On the day of the eclipse. It's very very odd,
Speaker 3: and it's just like just like already our carcial system
Speaker 3: is so fucked up. It's like, can some of the
Speaker 3: people who are locked up for having drugs on them
Speaker 3: look at the eclipse?
Speaker 8: They're gonna need to explain this because it is it's
Speaker 8: so that is such a baffling move that I want
Speaker 8: to know what the thinking is like this is I
Speaker 8: literally can't think of a single reason outside of like,
Speaker 8: I don't know, we just thought it would be like
Speaker 8: kind of fun and cruel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, we want to look.
Speaker 1: At the eclipse, and so we can't be looking at
Speaker 1: them and the eclipse at the same time. So lock
Speaker 1: them away and yeah, go out there. It's like the
Speaker 1: worst parents in the world.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've actually decided to lock my kids in a closet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, no, we're gonna go to the Disneyland hotel, but
Speaker 8: they're gonna stay in the hotel.
Speaker 3: The whole time.
Speaker 8: We're gonna be out on that We're gonna ride All
Speaker 8: Star Wars.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it looks like the furre. I mean
Speaker 3: Governor Kathy Hochel, who is having system wide subway lockdowns.
Speaker 3: She is saying again, there's twenty nine counties in New
Speaker 3: York that are also in the path of totality. So
Speaker 3: New York is I think just also full on state
Speaker 3: of emergency.
Speaker 8: What do they think an eclipses.
Speaker 1: I'm confused states one of the states of emergencies because
Speaker 1: they've like been advertising this is like we're in the
Speaker 1: path of totality, come to Niagara Falls, and they people
Speaker 1: heard them and they're having unprecedented levels of like travelers
Speaker 1: planning to come that they're just like unprepared for. That
Speaker 1: is I mean, but the prison one doesn't really make sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the prison they're already in a place. Yeah, there's like
Speaker 1: no nobody's coming to the prison to view the eclipse.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's just weird that even a state of
Speaker 8: emergency for like visitors, like they've never had like a
Speaker 8: fucking music festival like.
Speaker 3: This, not like this.
Speaker 1: They said that the Indian like the tourism that's coming
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis like clips is the tourism that came to
Speaker 1: Indianapolis for the fucking super.
Speaker 3: Bowl by like orders of magnitude, Yeah a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, it's like three super Bowls. Okay, Now
Speaker 3: I'm wondering, what are these guys know that we don't
Speaker 3: know about how cool eclipses are.
Speaker 8: I mean, I know eclipses are cool and stuff, but
Speaker 8: it seems like it's weird that everyone like more so
Speaker 8: than the super Bowl or like.
Speaker 3: We've got to go to see this. Have you been?
Speaker 3: Have you seen? Have you been in like a full
Speaker 3: blown path of totality eclipse experience.
Speaker 8: Or just I guess I haven't.
Speaker 1: I guess running your mouth all right, Yeah, that's fair,
Speaker 1: that's fair.
Speaker 8: Ignorant as dude, I listen, I'm sure it's I'm sure
Speaker 8: it's sick. I'm sure, Thank.
Speaker 3: You, dude. I just admitted sick. Dude.
Speaker 8: The reason I admit it's possibly sick, but like not no, possibly, dude,
Speaker 8: don't fucking minor Indiana sick. I don't think anything that that.
Speaker 1: Is the question that we're going to get the answer
Speaker 1: to get an a legal gun while you're there. I've
Speaker 1: been I've been speculating that like all the footage I've
Speaker 1: seen of people in the paths of totality from recent eclipses.
Speaker 3: They always give me the.
Speaker 1: Impression of like people after they just saw the phantom
Speaker 1: menace and are trying to still trying to convince themselves
Speaker 1: to what they just saw.
Speaker 3: It was awesome, but like that, And.
Speaker 1: So I'm but I'm I think what's driving this like
Speaker 1: massive like hoge like you know, movement of humans to
Speaker 1: the path of totality that's happening is that people have
Speaker 1: had these experiences that I think, like my experience with
Speaker 1: the past two eclipses has been underwhelming.
Speaker 3: And the first thing you.
Speaker 1: Hear when you're like that call that an eclipse, which
Speaker 1: is what I scream at the sky as the eclipse
Speaker 1: has happened. The first thing people say is like, oh,
Speaker 1: you have to go to the path of totality. So
Speaker 1: I feel like these like the marketing has been perfect
Speaker 1: to drive people to the path of totality for these
Speaker 1: upcoming eclipses.
Speaker 3: This is a clip of people in the path of totality.
Speaker 3: Or it starts off it's sunny. Okay, here, here's here,
Speaker 3: it's about this sunny day. Here we go. Oh sars,
Speaker 3: it's been darker. Look now it looks like it's six
Speaker 3: p m. Seven pm. Dang bro yeah look at that.
Speaker 10: What oh fuck I mean the sun's getting tiny, the
Speaker 10: sun gets tighty screaming.
Speaker 3: That is crazy. Yeah, this is.
Speaker 1: You need to go to the path of totality. Matt
Speaker 1: leave and brand the voice modulator reached my my full eventuality,
Speaker 1: fired fired up.
Speaker 3: I do just want to say.
Speaker 1: Six and maids in New York have filed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: arguing that them being denied the chance to witness the
Speaker 1: eclipse violates their constitutional religious rights. Sure yeah, fuck that, Like,
Speaker 1: let them get let them watch the eclipse, and if
Speaker 1: they turn into a mythical beast like you seem to fear,
Speaker 1: then that's great news. You know, that makes the world
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 3: More exactly, Warden of the Department of Corrections. If that happens,
Speaker 3: option the ip inevidently that from the millionaire turn into
Speaker 3: monsters during a total eclipse. Otherwise, shut the fuck up
Speaker 3: and let people be outside like they would be outside
Speaker 3: in any way. It's just more like you want to
Speaker 3: give them cardboard I shields or not. Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: because like I mean, one of the guys who's the
Speaker 3: plaintiff in that he's an atheist, who argued prior to
Speaker 3: them pulling the plug on this saying like it's my
Speaker 3: right to be able to observe this, Like I'm not
Speaker 3: as an atheist. I'm like I observe through the marvel
Speaker 3: of scientific discovery, So experiencing a solar eclipse is part
Speaker 3: and parcel of that my belief system. And then there
Speaker 3: are other like and they're just saying, so what what's
Speaker 3: the deal? And then so they granted this guy the
Speaker 3: opportunity like I think last month, and then they did
Speaker 3: a U turn on it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well I guess prison wardens aren't as cool
Speaker 1: as we all thought.
Speaker 8: Yeah dude, what happened to them?
Speaker 1: I know, not as cool ask made them seem.
Speaker 3: I saw The Last Castle with James Gandelfini, Robert Redford. Anyway,
Speaker 3: how is it? Can you get a little taste of
Speaker 3: what would be like in the path of totality there, Matt, Yeah, God,
Speaker 3: my d the song is making me calm.
Speaker 1: I don't know, guys, you happy, just a family friendly
Speaker 1: event the children.
Speaker 8: Oh god, oh look at that.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 8: The sun is Oh it's getting smaller. It's getting smaller hard.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, this is the part right after that. This
Speaker 3: is now that same clip. This is from Greenville, South Carolina,
Speaker 3: where now the eclipse is now waning and their sun
Speaker 3: is coming out. So I guess we could totally hear
Speaker 3: like what the full I guess release for lack of
Speaker 3: the better word is for people.
Speaker 11: Sunnier, sunnier, sunnier outstanding.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that outstand. I mean, look that's I'm
Speaker 3: only standing in a field.
Speaker 12: That's like truly like they cut to his little kid
Speaker 12: who's just standing there with his little glasses on, just staring,
Speaker 12: so all he did was see the sun kind of
Speaker 12: dim and then come back.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like there's something magical about the idea of it,
Speaker 1: right like that, like looking around, like someone needs to
Speaker 1: make that movie.
Speaker 3: It'll be dope.
Speaker 1: Miles needs credit LIKELYPTO.
Speaker 3: And but then like just sitting in a field.
Speaker 1: Watching the sun turn into a smaller sun and then
Speaker 1: come back feels I don't know, like even in that one,
Speaker 1: which was dope, feels like people are like, ah, so
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Then huh, okay, you want another group of people hooting
Speaker 3: and all for an eclipse. Everyone has the same reaction
Speaker 3: when they clip.
Speaker 8: Oh man, oh it's happening. It's happening, is as big
Speaker 8: as the sun.
Speaker 3: I think it's just I think it's like partially people
Speaker 3: wanting to experience something like they can't without doing drugs.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's that too, that would be true
Speaker 3: because she's like, what the fuck. I'm like, well, I've
Speaker 3: been in a fucking k hole before, relaxed, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. But like this, I get it to
Speaker 3: This feels like there's just so much, there's so many
Speaker 3: sensations that it engages. And again, I only say this
Speaker 3: because I can't go to no fucking pat totality.
Speaker 1: My whole thing is I'm pissed that I want to
Speaker 1: have totality that I didn't plan well enough, and so
Speaker 1: I am just telling you all, it's gonna sucks.
Speaker 3: Telling your kids, Dad, my friends are going to the
Speaker 3: Niagara Falls are we are we going to It's gonna
Speaker 3: fucking suck. It's not even gonna be losers. He's only
Speaker 3: doing that because he's cheating on their mom and he's
Speaker 3: trying to make good and break the clips.
Speaker 8: Because I can't affortunately do them to an imax, but
Speaker 8: we can't. That's rapports, Okay, Yeah, that's tourism. Just yeah,
Speaker 8: preemptively hating on the Eclipse.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 8: I mean, just like if everyone was getting naked, having
Speaker 8: no children allowed obviously, just adults naked and voice changer, yeah,
Speaker 8: and a fantos voice changer, then I get it. But
Speaker 8: until that, if an orgy breaks out in the path
Speaker 8: of totality, you and I will go next year.
Speaker 3: You know, there is some kind of adult only total
Speaker 3: weird masks Dreek something like they cut what's what's that
Speaker 3: ancient Greek drug that they all drank back at wine? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the.
Speaker 8: They're all drinking wine, not arrows.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's some anyways, oh and bane or some
Speaker 1: shit like you know, there's just like an old.
Speaker 3: Opium we're talking about. We Yeah, they were enlightened, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean? But yeah, I could definitely see
Speaker 3: some like all right, everybody gets your fulk clothes off,
Speaker 3: the totality is coming. Yeah, and then yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 3: there are people who are trying to time an orgasm
Speaker 3: out to the totality for.
Speaker 8: Sure, and and you know, but I also think it's
Speaker 8: like equally as likely as there's like five people who
Speaker 8: are like, it's time for our group suicide, you know
Speaker 8: what I mean, Like they're gonna be like that that
Speaker 8: comment cult, you know. Yeah, yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 8: It feels, you know, a little bit of something for everyone.
Speaker 8: I don't want to yuck their young, So.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but yeah, you know, if I a
Speaker 3: field in the shadows of the eclipse, go aheads do
Speaker 3: please do? I don't muzzle. Is that like what I feel?
Speaker 1: I just like, that's not That's not when I'm at
Speaker 1: my most like ability, like able to like appreciate deep
Speaker 1: like spiritual things like.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean, like when you're looking at
Speaker 8: the sun or when you're fucking.
Speaker 1: When I'm fucking coming to the middle of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not like I feel like I kind of miss
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 8: I want to see you, fuck demon ship are you doing?
Speaker 3: I feel the most.
Speaker 13: Apart from God when I am fuck great, that's the
Speaker 13: that's I think the best option I've heard ever. Want
Speaker 13: to shout when the sun begins there.
Speaker 3: And here's your proof. Yeah, all right, we'll be right back,
Speaker 3: and we're back. R f K two. I guess I
Speaker 3: like saying r f K two.
Speaker 5: I was enjoying the outro to the last segment where
Speaker 5: it did sort of sound like j LO and RFK
Speaker 5: were on tour together.
Speaker 3: Yeah I know, Yeah, I mean, who knows. That might
Speaker 3: help for ticket sales. Tickets are available, Tickets are available,
Speaker 3: They are widely available. Please please, We got RFK coming
Speaker 3: to so if we all anti vaxers, you can come
Speaker 3: through and hear a couple of conspiracy theories into Yeah
Speaker 3: you know, I'm real and Josh Wool will be there too,
Speaker 3: so anyway, RFK Junior has been in and out of
Speaker 3: the spotlight obviously since he announced he's running for office.
Speaker 3: Whether it's tales of people farting loudly during his arguments
Speaker 3: over whether or not Ashkenazi, Jews and Chinese people were
Speaker 3: immune to COVID, or about how he lied about celebrities
Speaker 3: coming to his fucking birthday party. He's always getting attention
Speaker 3: for the wrong reasons. And sadly, he continues to make
Speaker 3: things worse for himself because every time he's in these stories,
Speaker 3: he just denies they ever happen, but people are like, dude,
Speaker 3: you said it, or like your your people sent the email,
Speaker 3: what do you mean, like you had nothing to do
Speaker 3: with it. And recently he was on Chris Cuomo's show,
Speaker 3: Remember That Guy, where Cuomo brought up the fact. He's like,
Speaker 3: you know what, dude, you're just just for the record,
Speaker 3: but you got a pretty wild fucking track record of
Speaker 3: the same freaky shit, like all kind I remember you
Speaker 3: said Bill Gates is gonna put five GM people's brains
Speaker 3: and stuff and take your money or something like that.
Speaker 3: And then he had like your COVID conspiracies, you're an
Speaker 3: anti vaxxer, you're kind of the you're kind of one
Speaker 3: of the biggest faces of the anti VACS movement, and
Speaker 3: also your nine to eleven stuff. And I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: play this clip because he's just does not this, does
Speaker 3: not want to talk about it at all, like in
Speaker 3: this very very very like suspicious way. Again, so I'm
Speaker 3: willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe
Speaker 3: he has some kind of debilitating memory loss or maybe
Speaker 3: he's just full of shit. But here you decide to.
Speaker 14: That suggestion that, whether it's nine to eleven, nor the
Speaker 14: deep state or vaccines, that you believe wacky things.
Speaker 15: I don't know what you're talking about nine to eleven.
Speaker 15: I you know, I don't recall saying anything about a conspiracy.
Speaker 4: I came out you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: It came out of the interview.
Speaker 14: I do not well in the Bergen interview where you
Speaker 14: were saying you're not sure what happened. You know what
Speaker 14: I'm talking about, Bobby, I'm not. I'm not, you know,
Speaker 14: trying to be sneaky about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm not trying to be goy. Chris. I just
Speaker 15: I you know, I think if you go back and
Speaker 15: look at that interview or any interview, I never I
Speaker 15: never voiced a conspiracy there there is.
Speaker 3: Okay, sir, you can't this is something no one can
Speaker 3: do in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: You can't be like, yeah, go check the tape, motherfuckers.
Speaker 3: Everything is there. Everything is there. So again in this clip,
Speaker 3: people just said, okay, here it is. Let's just cut
Speaker 3: to that Earner interview. Chris Cuomo is referencing and just
Speaker 3: hear what exactly what version of the nine to eleven
Speaker 3: thing he was in on.
Speaker 15: There's I know, there's strange things that happened that don't seem.
Speaker 3: What are the strange things.
Speaker 15: Well, one of the buildings came down that wasn't hit
Speaker 15: by a plane, so you know it wasn't Building seven
Speaker 15: or Building ten.
Speaker 3: That collapse because two of the world's biggest buildings collapsed
Speaker 3: on top of it.
Speaker 15: No, they didn't collapse on top of it. My offices
Speaker 15: were down there. My offices were closed.
Speaker 3: So one of the buildings in next to the trade center.
Speaker 15: Oh, there's pictures of it collapsing. There's nothing collapsing on top.
Speaker 3: He goes on and on, and I think this is
Speaker 3: interesting about Building seven. After the investigation, they're saying that
Speaker 3: all of this debris from the collapse started all these
Speaker 3: fires within the building and like burnt the floor out
Speaker 3: and then like a major structural column failed and that's
Speaker 3: why it collapsed. And he's just like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: I was down my offices were down there. I'm just
Speaker 3: saying weird stuff. I wonder if, like, again, do you
Speaker 3: think in his mind he's like, that's not a conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory because it's true. Yeah, or if he's just like, look, bro,
Speaker 3: why you got impress me right now? Man, I'm trying
Speaker 3: to fucking I'm trying to be an unseerious candidate for
Speaker 3: president right now.
Speaker 6: For once, I'm like glad that I'm not a part
Speaker 6: of one of these legendary political families because I don't
Speaker 6: have access to whatever Tanning bed the Kennedys and the
Speaker 6: Cuomos used, because whatever it is, it is it is
Speaker 6: a faulty bed.
Speaker 16: Yeah yeah, for real, they really they their goose is
Speaker 16: cook look like for their size, are tried out those
Speaker 16: size definitely dry.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, brittle, brittle, delicious. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: it's so good. Yeah. But I mean, like it's interesting
Speaker 3: too because even with all this, right, he's still polling
Speaker 3: in a way that has both Republicans and Democrats being like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck? This guy could really fuck shit up.
Speaker 3: But you know, because we talk about how slim the
Speaker 3: margins are, especially in some of these swing states, and
Speaker 3: if enough people go the RFK way, that could be
Speaker 3: great news for either Biden or Trump. Depends on who's
Speaker 3: polling you're looking at But the thing is, there's still
Speaker 3: one unknown about all this. He's currently only on one
Speaker 3: ballot for November, because you when you run as an independent,
Speaker 3: you need to gather a certain amount of signatures to
Speaker 3: get onto the bat to get that get that ballot access.
Speaker 3: So right now, the state of Utah is the only
Speaker 3: one where I believe, like as of this reporting, he
Speaker 3: is officially on the ballot. He keeps saying things like,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm in the process. We're getting out there
Speaker 3: in Nevada, North Carolina, New Hampshire, a couple other places,
Speaker 3: and then those secretaries of states secretaries of state for
Speaker 3: those places are like, we don't have any We don't
Speaker 3: have any shit from him yet, Like the deadline's coming up,
Speaker 3: we don't have nothing from him. I think I'd imagine
Speaker 3: he's probably close, because why spend all this fucking money
Speaker 3: just to be like, well, y'all can vote for me
Speaker 3: in Utah. Like that's not that's not a proper candidacy.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why a lot of people have
Speaker 3: looked at his new VP pick, the very wealthy Silicon
Speaker 3: Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan, with some raised eyebrows and be like, oh, Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe you need her cash to help your ballid access
Speaker 3: mission here. So we're not we're not quite sure where
Speaker 3: this ends up, but I mean we could know very soon,
Speaker 3: I mean within the next few months, Like it'll be
Speaker 3: clear how far along he is, because some of those
Speaker 3: deadlines are approaching, like in April and May.
Speaker 5: I will just say, listen, I think it's been pretty
Speaker 5: clear that Democrats are not exactly candy political operators or
Speaker 5: good at this at their their basic jobs. But they
Speaker 5: should be able to run a campaign where he is
Speaker 5: not a problem problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that should be on them. I think it's probably right.
Speaker 3: They're like they're they're keeping their powder dry, so to speak,
Speaker 3: to be like, right now, we got to go all
Speaker 3: in on just basically being like Trump is bad. Don't
Speaker 3: talk about like the promise of what a Biden administration
Speaker 3: part two would look like. Just focus on him, back him,
Speaker 3: back him. But it truly is like it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, if it's like this disconnected, if you need
Speaker 3: people this disconnected from reality to win against Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: you shouldn't have a political party that needs these people
Speaker 3: for real. For ill. Did you see that there's a
Speaker 3: new day of Hotel special on Netflix. I was like,
Speaker 3: I haven't seen I even heard from that guy in years.
Speaker 3: And he had this one joke. He's like, you're talking
Speaker 3: about Trump. He's like, but don't worry. I'm a Biden Man,
Speaker 3: Hunter Biden perfect, Davil, I'm a Biden Man. Oh Man,
Speaker 3: But Blake, are do any of Are you you feeling
Speaker 3: the it's for r f K two or no, you're
Speaker 3: you're you're probably you're out on him. You're about You're
Speaker 3: a hunter Biden Man. Right, I'm Abiden. I was.
Speaker 6: I was an RFK one guy for a while, you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, the sequels never better than the than the original,
Speaker 6: but like, no, yeah, no, it's he does every time.
Speaker 6: He's one of those guys where you think he's crazy.
Speaker 6: The idea of him in your head has to be
Speaker 6: crazier than the real thing, you know, because we try
Speaker 6: to caricaturize like people and then you watch clips and
Speaker 6: it's like, no, that's pretty spot on. Yeah he does
Speaker 6: look that way, he does talk that way, he does
Speaker 6: say those things, he does believe those things. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 6: he does do those push ups with that form. He's
Speaker 6: always the same.
Speaker 3: Wait, what's his push up for him? Perfect? Wait.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's like, he seems like a guy that does
Speaker 5: perfect push ups?
Speaker 3: Is he? Oh yeah, he loves him. Oh oh, that's
Speaker 3: I remember that when he was like wearing the denim jeans,
Speaker 3: looking like he was like an eighties like like prison
Speaker 3: gang type.
Speaker 6: It was a breathable it was one of those breathable
Speaker 6: workout denims.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now almost certainly from a company that has advertised on
Speaker 5: Daily's like Geist.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's go. Oh he's he keeps it low.
Speaker 3: He's really trying to keep Yeah, good for him. Got
Speaker 3: to where is he working out? It looks like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: is he already? I think it's so he was gas
Speaker 3: after like six I mean he's he's pretty old. It's
Speaker 3: pretty you sound.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he looks like he'd been doing push ups already.
Speaker 3: That's right, right, we caught him just burnt my tries. Dude,
Speaker 3: I just did that bro late. Also, that's it's rich
Speaker 3: coming from a guy who would do like two push
Speaker 3: ups and be like, I need to smoke weed for
Speaker 3: the rest of the day after this. No way, not
Speaker 3: for me. I'm trying to find a way. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I find it much easier to work out if I'm
Speaker 5: a little Stone because I hate I hate working out
Speaker 5: here is I'm trying to find a way to make
Speaker 5: this joke without advocating political assassination because I think it's
Speaker 5: getting most mostly wrong. Good display except that dude, except
Speaker 5: that dude in Japan who just like changed.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we just hit him with that PVC shotgun.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was wild too, because after that, people were like,
Speaker 3: the way the media and Japan handled it wasn't like yo,
Speaker 3: this dou it is Wow, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 3: How dare he? They're like, well, what made him want
Speaker 3: to go after and then they're like whoa hold on
Speaker 3: a second, and then that really fucking disrupted a lot
Speaker 3: of the party politician Japan. Not in a revolutionary way,
Speaker 3: but enough the whole thing became about oh yeah this
Speaker 3: is oh yeah, maybe he has something, maybe he was something.
Speaker 3: But anyway, with this RFK joke that you.
Speaker 5: Just I'm just trying to find it somehow, But since
Speaker 5: you keep calling him r f K two, I I
Speaker 5: I was looking for some version of we just need
Speaker 5: Sir Hans Hans.
Speaker 3: Sir haunt to the fourth Hower.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably don't assassinate anyone, almost certainly.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, not at all. Yeah, it's it
Speaker 3: usually never works, usually never win, but sometimes can shift
Speaker 3: the conversation. Okay, let's move on to another character from
Speaker 3: From Our Lives, Jeffer Lopez Jlo Jlo one. This is
Speaker 3: a quick one because last month, right, I don't know
Speaker 3: if did any of you catch that. I started watching
Speaker 3: that Amazon things she did because I knew it was
Speaker 3: just gonna be fucking all over the place. I couldn't
Speaker 3: watch it. Yeah, it's like a fever dream musical basically. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think she probably saw, like how Beyonce was doing
Speaker 3: visual albums. She's like, I can do that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm a little surprised that, yeah, go ahead, no no, no
Speaker 3: ahead with the headline. No, what do you mean was
Speaker 3: surprised of what does she attempted it? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 5: I'll be surprised, that's the thing you say next, I'm
Speaker 5: only surprised because I'm reading ahead in the document.
Speaker 3: No, No, that's fine, that's fine. It's called ruining the
Speaker 3: segment Andrew. But so basically, she had this tour like
Speaker 3: launching alongside this like visual musical album whatever thing she
Speaker 3: did on Amazon, but she just quietly canceled, like the
Speaker 3: last seven stops on the new tour because of alleged
Speaker 3: quote logistical issues with the promoter. And then most people
Speaker 3: were like, I think it's because all of these tickets
Speaker 3: aren't sold, but who knows, who knows, who knows? And
Speaker 3: because of that, I think it lends a little bit
Speaker 3: more credence to that idea, that theory, because now Jlo
Speaker 3: has also rebranded the name of her tour from the
Speaker 3: this is Me ellipsis now, which is the you know
Speaker 3: name of the Amazon thing, to now this is Me
Speaker 3: Live the Greatest Hits. Yes, And to me, that sounds
Speaker 3: like you're just trying to be like, hey, man, I
Speaker 3: know that, man, I know that. I know that musical
Speaker 3: shit was way too confusing, but trust me, Jalo is
Speaker 3: back baby, and we're gonna have waiting for tonight. Whoa
Speaker 3: with all that shit, I'm real all those hits so
Speaker 3: so so please please buy a ticket. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, is that is are we are we all
Speaker 3: in agreement here that that may be what the case
Speaker 3: is here. If you if you suddenly read title your
Speaker 3: tour to be like, okay, not the new album, just
Speaker 3: all the stuff I made? Yeah, no new shit, right right?
Speaker 3: Proven you will like this dating Jennifer Lopez. Enjoyable Jennifer Lopez,
Speaker 3: if you had my love for three hours straight on
Speaker 3: a are you ready? But yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 3: hope it works out for her, but I still always
Speaker 3: I don't know if any of you. There's this Vanity
Speaker 3: Fair piece that was written in the lead up to
Speaker 3: her releasing this Amazon thing, And I bring this up
Speaker 3: a lot because it's just so funny. It's a very
Speaker 3: like honest, like reporting on the process of her making
Speaker 3: this Amazon thing, where everyone in her life that is
Speaker 3: important to her told her to not do it. Oh,
Speaker 3: and that like please, like you don't need to do this,
Speaker 3: Like it's gonna be different. Even Ben Affleck's like I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, like I've made shit on my own. It's
Speaker 3: not easy, and it's gonna cost her so much fucking
Speaker 3: money when nobody wants to do it, Like it's just
Speaker 3: like nobody wants to have my back, none of it.
Speaker 3: I just didn't realize this was like considered such an overreach,
Speaker 3: Like I I guess I didn't realize that, like j
Speaker 3: Lo is that much less popular than I think? Well,
Speaker 3: it was more this specific. It was more this specific.
Speaker 3: It was the direction of this thing, which is like
Speaker 3: this like deep abstract dive, deep dive into her subconscious
Speaker 3: love life and having all these very confusing visuals like
Speaker 3: all these people like there was like a council of
Speaker 3: astrological signs played by different people like sad Guru, the
Speaker 3: YouTube guy, and like Nail De gross Tyson and like
Speaker 3: Jane Fondas and it there's like a bunch of just
Speaker 3: weird stuff in it, and people are like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I think what they want to say is like, girl,
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is like good.
Speaker 17: You know, I'm just saying, yeah, a staged a stage concert,
Speaker 17: a stadium tour production where she just re does like
Speaker 17: a live staging of the cell okay yeah, or out
Speaker 17: of sight or just Eddie, but you.
Speaker 3: Know, is it just sell just do some Yeah, yeah
Speaker 3: that's t sing joint and yeah yeah do that. Wow.
Speaker 3: She should just have tarsum do the fucking visuals, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean and freak out her audience of
Speaker 3: like people who are like, you know, wine moms, yeah
Speaker 3: or whatever. The Jlo democrat? What is the Jaylo demographic? Nowadays?
Speaker 3: I'm actually kind of curious, like, you know why wine
Speaker 3: moms and older club like, are there people? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to think of people who like, you know
Speaker 3: who the Taylor Swift fans are. You know who a
Speaker 3: Tina Turner fan is. You know who a Beyonce fan is?
Speaker 3: You know who a Madonna fan is? J Lo. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I get it, but I just can't. I can't, like
Speaker 3: I can't sort of visualize them in like a whole stadium.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's maybe because maybe.
Speaker 6: It's a Vegas crowd, you know what i mean? Right, yeah,
Speaker 6: wherever tourists are no one who lives in the place
Speaker 6: that the concert is in, go and then another place.
Speaker 3: And then people disappointed that she's not actually Selena and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh yeah, fuck, just do it. Do a whole, Yeah,
Speaker 3: a whole Selena.
Speaker 5: Just do greatest hits in character in your various movie characters.
Speaker 3: Wow, I love that. Yeah, you got it. If it
Speaker 3: is like an eras tour, you know what type of
Speaker 3: things like, Okay, so now I'm on my cell tarsum thing.
Speaker 3: I'm in my Selena thing. I'm in my she got
Speaker 3: out from fly fly Girl to fucking Selena to riveting,
Speaker 3: riveting stuff. That was Wait, I'm just trying to look.
Speaker 3: I need to see because that jump, that's it. That's
Speaker 3: called an iconic jump. Because Rosie Perez wasn't she also
Speaker 3: a fly girl? I think, I believe. So just do that.
Speaker 6: These ideas take you from Amazon Prime to an HBO, you.
Speaker 5: Know, like this gives you some prestige or a series
Speaker 5: of tiktoks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is the pinnacle? Yes, I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: look through. Let's see. Man, what why am I not seeing?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 3: Oh? Producer? God right, she's a multi hyphen man. I was.
Speaker 3: I was looking at all her producing credits. Okay, let
Speaker 3: me scroll down, stroll down, scroll down. Okay, So, okay,
Speaker 3: did did some TV? Did some that TV show South Central?
Speaker 3: I remember that one in nineteen ninety four, she was
Speaker 3: in Jack. I forgot that, the Robin Williams movie. Then Selena,
Speaker 3: then obviously Ana Conda. Then you turn a big snake
Speaker 3: on the stage. Yeah, comes out, wow exactly, but oh
Speaker 3: and she goes it just starts off snakes don't bite.
Speaker 3: And then John Voight comes out and he goes, hey
Speaker 3: don't And when he references his scar, Oh my god, dude,
Speaker 3: I love that monologue he gives and the contest of
Speaker 3: the perfect killing machine. Anyway, look it up die but yes,
Speaker 3: good luck to you, Jennifer Lopez. I feel like that
Speaker 3: will probably work if just people like, look, I'm doing
Speaker 3: the hits, bro, I'm doing it. It's like a super
Speaker 3: Bowl halftime show. And that's fine. Get your money. Look,
Speaker 3: trust look, we've all, we've all made mistakes trying to
Speaker 3: self produce an Amazon distributed you know, just art piece,
Speaker 3: so very relatable, and we got your back.
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