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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right. My name is Jack and I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by Andrew T.
Speaker 2: What up.
Speaker 1: Miles is out? He's yeah, the wildfires are affecting a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I'm gonna just let him kind of
Speaker 1: tell his story when he gets back, but you know,
Speaker 1: sending lots of love, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure you all are as well.
Speaker 1: Uh and yeah, I mean super producer Justin is still
Speaker 1: out like a lot of people still without power. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have been evacuated. We've got somebody at
Speaker 1: our house who has evacuated. Andrew, I think you got some.
Speaker 3: Gut incoming, particularly in the middle of this record according
Speaker 3: to theirs, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but are you Have you gotten out?
Speaker 2: Much like have you? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really lucky that I'm in Echo Park in that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Number one, my air quality has always been bad. But
Speaker 3: number two, I'm just like in a really a really
Speaker 3: urbanized part of LA so that the fires, Like, I'm
Speaker 3: not in wildfire danger and if not not, I guess
Speaker 3: anything could happen. I don't want to say not and
Speaker 3: fay in that way, but like you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: the I'm not in that part. So I've been lucky
Speaker 3: to solidarity and snacks, the Mutual Aid group that I've
Speaker 3: tried to do as much as I can with has
Speaker 3: been we've been able to We usually concentrate on skied
Speaker 3: Row anyway, so we were able to get our hands
Speaker 3: on a thousand masks. Many of them are still in
Speaker 3: my car right now, but they won't be by the
Speaker 3: time this comes out. Actually, And so oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: was out on skid Row last night, getting people masks,
Speaker 3: getting people water. It's a little weird the sort of
Speaker 3: situation with the need because obviously need and sort of
Speaker 3: secondary tertiary needs because of the fire have increased everywhere.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's like an ever changing situations. So
Speaker 3: even as I say this, things might be different by
Speaker 3: the time this comes out. But currently the sort of
Speaker 3: main shelters at the Pasadena Convention Center, and I think
Speaker 3: they just actually closed the one at Pan Pacific Park
Speaker 3: and are moving supplies out.
Speaker 2: But don't quote me on this because everything keeps changing.
Speaker 3: But there's anyway, there's there's sort of a lot of
Speaker 3: immediate need for people in shelters, partially because just there's
Speaker 3: only so much space and logistical distribution and like things
Speaker 3: like food can't keep forever and things like that. So
Speaker 3: I'm hesitant to even say what the immediate needs are.
Speaker 3: But I think the in the coming days in weeks
Speaker 3: is when like real need is going to start like
Speaker 3: becoming very clear, and hopefully people continue.
Speaker 1: To pay attention and be because yeah, there there's been
Speaker 1: like an outpouring of from like across the country if
Speaker 1: people being like how can I help? And yeah, that
Speaker 1: is everything, and I'm just hoping just kind of want
Speaker 1: to tell people like pump the brakes and just like
Speaker 1: keep that energy up when it's like no longer in
Speaker 1: the news, like people actually are like now settling into
Speaker 1: having to deal with what this is, and like the.
Speaker 3: Flyers aren't even out, like you know, it's not like
Speaker 3: we're not in the aftermath and no aftermath and there
Speaker 3: isn't really anything not anything, sorry, but there's not like
Speaker 3: a specific thing that you can like immediately do that's helpful.
Speaker 3: I'm repeating myself from the future now. But one thing
Speaker 3: I will say is, especially in this stage of the internet,
Speaker 3: and it's easier than ever to like move money around
Speaker 3: if you can try to do some research on where
Speaker 3: to send your resources because like well funded and you
Speaker 3: know the places you've heard of your red clrooss not
Speaker 3: for this situation, but your planned parenthoods are typically uh,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, the best way for you to send
Speaker 3: key resources. Yeah, figure out what you believe in, and
Speaker 3: you can find a direct way to do that to
Speaker 3: help with that.
Speaker 2: And it's easier than ever to do that. That's what
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 1: I'm the type of idiot who when the wind like
Speaker 1: just you being like and obviously the fires are still
Speaker 1: raging and like zero percent contained, like the fire the
Speaker 1: winds have stopped blowing this morning, and like my brain
Speaker 1: is immediately like, well that was scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well we are on the slope of hopefully although yeah,
Speaker 3: the weather report is a little wind back up, yeah exactly, yeah,
Speaker 3: but like we we are hopefully at the.
Speaker 2: Part of starting to be able to contain it.
Speaker 3: I mean this, you know, kind of goes with something
Speaker 3: where ought to talk about too.
Speaker 2: But like just the general like right wing finger pointing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like nothing anyone, there's no like listen, even
Speaker 3: your little Trump Nazi fire brigades wouldn't have been able
Speaker 3: to do anything against the wind and the underlying drought
Speaker 3: conditions in southern California.
Speaker 1: So unless they were like really like working against client,
Speaker 1: like taking direct client action, you know, to go maybe.
Speaker 3: As far as like Trump based actions go. I suppose
Speaker 3: this might be a little science fiction, but I think
Speaker 3: it works.
Speaker 2: I do think.
Speaker 3: Ah, you know, if you don't care about collateral damage,
Speaker 3: there's there's some amount of bombs you could have dropped
Speaker 3: on the fire that would have put it out, started
Speaker 3: other fires probably, but you could have had would have
Speaker 3: been certainly seen like less of a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk on tomorrow's episode a little bit about
Speaker 1: the role of the police.
Speaker 2: I think we talked about it two days ago.
Speaker 1: Also, this idea that the police funding is kicked up
Speaker 1: while firefighter funding was kept about the same slightly lessened,
Speaker 1: at a time when fire danger is growing and crime
Speaker 1: is dropping. But yeah, the police interjecting themselves into the
Speaker 1: story being like, don't even try it about looting at
Speaker 1: a time when like it's just not that they just
Speaker 1: have to like create a narrative that they can be
Speaker 1: the hero of.
Speaker 2: But I think it's disgusting. Yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 1: But it's like so because I was seeing like kind
Speaker 1: of a similar thing on k CAL. I was like
Speaker 1: watching local news and they were just doing you know,
Speaker 1: helicopter footage of a new fire that had popped up
Speaker 1: in Studio City, like totally not totally different, but like
Speaker 1: a new, distinct fire, and it was like located on
Speaker 1: a couple of homes were burning down, And I don't
Speaker 1: know if he'd just been like on the air for
Speaker 1: thirty seven hours in a row and was like losing
Speaker 1: his mind, but he just kept trying to blame the
Speaker 1: fire on the people who lived in the house for
Speaker 1: some reason, like he kept emphasizing, like I think this
Speaker 1: one started inside the house. I mean, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: it wasn't a lightning strike, so we know that, so
Speaker 1: it started by somebody, which was like, first of all,
Speaker 1: seems extremely unlikely, like these fires are all picking up
Speaker 1: around the city on the same windy nights, because they'd
Speaker 1: be probably being started.
Speaker 2: By each other, you dip shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And but it was just like they were so
Speaker 1: horny for somebody that they could like send the cops
Speaker 1: after it felt h you know.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like like, I mean, I know it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a blame game, but like this is sort
Speaker 3: of the reason why I don't like disaster movies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because like we as people are need like a villain
Speaker 3: that we can understand. Yeah, and so like an arsonist,
Speaker 3: a fucking you know whatever, like an inept like police chief.
Speaker 3: And it's like the real villains of this, the real
Speaker 3: villains of twisters. This is how I initially have been
Speaker 3: phrasing this. The real villains of twisters are like two
Speaker 3: hundred white guys that are in boardrooms in Dallas and
Speaker 3: you know, the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Like, there's just too many steps away from the real villains,
Speaker 3: So we need to find other villains. But it is
Speaker 3: a you know, it's how our brains are being used
Speaker 3: against us, because it's like even if even if this
Speaker 3: fucking person like like set their house on fire, even
Speaker 3: if they wanted to set a wildfire, like, yeah, they
Speaker 3: couldn't do it without the fucking you know, century of
Speaker 3: climate change that we've been doing to ourselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Albert the Butler said some people just want to
Speaker 1: watch the world burn, and everybody quote at him. But
Speaker 1: I think it's more just like people really want to
Speaker 1: get rich, and the content of that is that the
Speaker 1: world is going to turn into like a ever worsening
Speaker 1: fire vortex something something shit.
Speaker 2: The world burned, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly, but yeah, I mean and then some people
Speaker 1: I think that there are arsonists for sure, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are inherently suspecting arson. Like on social media,
Speaker 1: supers a victor was pointing out, like keep hearing people
Speaker 1: be like and I mean the police are gonna that.
Speaker 1: That was actually one part of this like press conference
Speaker 1: where they did like the handoff from the fire chief
Speaker 1: to the police chief, and they were like, and who's
Speaker 1: going to investigate the cause of all these fires? And
Speaker 1: like who you know what if it was arson? And
Speaker 1: the fire chiefs like, we have a whole department for that.
Speaker 1: By the way, you don't need the police. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the thing that is being reported, is like
Speaker 1: they just need him instigated.
Speaker 3: So but again, even the narrative of the cause was
Speaker 3: even if it's a person, it's a fucking ten people
Speaker 3: with lighters in gasoline, they are not the cause of this, yes,
Speaker 3: Like that's the thing that's like, They're not the cause.
Speaker 1: Right, They're not the cause of the circumstances that make this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of those photographs of just like the fucking
Speaker 1: palm trees like fucking doubled over and blowing and like
Speaker 1: on fire just yeah.
Speaker 2: The drought and the wind.
Speaker 3: None of those are caused by a person or even
Speaker 3: a handful of people.
Speaker 2: An industry though, yeah, I guess they are.
Speaker 3: And trillion they are caused by a handful of people,
Speaker 3: but not yeah, the ones with yeah.
Speaker 1: Not the ones you're thinking of. We are starting to
Speaker 1: get reports on the cause of the fire, which this
Speaker 1: guy went viral.
Speaker 2: We don't do it, say that again.
Speaker 3: Why is there a fire opening right now?
Speaker 2: There are multiple fires that are taking place.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm useful.
Speaker 2: You're supposed to know. Well, I don't know how it started.
Speaker 3: We don't know how it started.
Speaker 2: There, you know, when all the all the all the
Speaker 2: gay people in LA.
Speaker 1: So that the news, the local news is doing their
Speaker 1: job of like investigating this by stopping to talk to
Speaker 1: the drunkest guy on the streets of LA who who
Speaker 1: asked the question, why is there a fire going on?
Speaker 1: And they were like, oh, we better talk to this
Speaker 1: guy answer. He is genuinely curious about this. But the
Speaker 1: only reason I want to raise this is because first
Speaker 1: of all, it's going around and this is a trending episode,
Speaker 1: and also because it reminded us of this clip of
Speaker 1: the Westboro Baptist church singing there her version of poker face.
Speaker 1: That is one of the UH constantly referenced Daily's ice
Speaker 1: clips between Miles and Brian the editor and I, so,
Speaker 1: I just had you seen this before, Andrew God?
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh, you piss up God.
Speaker 3: You'll see why he's.
Speaker 1: Got oh oh oh you piss up.
Speaker 2: You'll see why he's got Oh. It really is.
Speaker 1: When the chorus is about to explode on ours, we're
Speaker 1: all waiting for them to start singing.
Speaker 2: You hate God, You hate God.
Speaker 1: Uh, the lead singer says nine to eleven and points
Speaker 1: her points her two fingers down to you know, symbolize
Speaker 1: the two the two buildings coming down.
Speaker 3: I had noticed on the second watch through that the
Speaker 3: did they like hijack like a geometry class or something.
Speaker 2: It's so weird.
Speaker 1: That was one of my first notes on this video
Speaker 1: was why is this happening? It in like an NYU classroom.
Speaker 1: Very strange. It's like it's just like has the appearance
Speaker 1: of a college lecture room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's equations of the blackbart and back, but they're
Speaker 3: not like super difficult. It's like there's there's one that
Speaker 3: just says why equals fifty eight or whatever. So it
Speaker 3: does feel like a little bit like Moron's try to
Speaker 3: do a good will hunting to make themselves look smarter.
Speaker 2: Do you have any idea how easy this is for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it's like fifth rage math, so it should
Speaker 1: be fairly easy for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will just say I feel like there's a
Speaker 3: narrative of handwringing about, like especially on Twitter, about like
Speaker 3: all the right wing disinformation and and gleeful like you know,
Speaker 3: just being so whatever about like I told you so,
Speaker 3: it is about various pieces of this fire, And I
Speaker 3: will just say a little bit like, yes, it's obviously
Speaker 3: annoying that it's on Twitter and everyone's I guess sad
Speaker 3: that it's become more overtly like right wing fascist media,
Speaker 3: But you know, as this fucking poker face things show
Speaker 3: like this is what these people have always been.
Speaker 2: Like I feel like every time.
Speaker 3: Like anything right wing kicks off, it's like this like
Speaker 3: specific cadre of I guess Democrats, resistance libs are just
Speaker 3: like can you believe this is happening?
Speaker 1: And now it's over And I'm not saying we're not
Speaker 1: really dealing with now, dummies, forever, and.
Speaker 3: They've been like this forever. So like, I think it's
Speaker 3: just that these people it's new to them, so they're
Speaker 3: very shocked by it. But it's like, I'm so sorry,
Speaker 3: but Ronald Reagan was like this, and I wasn't around
Speaker 3: for that, but I'm sure, you know, fucking Nixon supporters,
Speaker 3: Goldwater supporters, whatever, were all like this.
Speaker 1: He didn't say it quite out loud as much his
Speaker 1: press secretary said it out loud, and then he just
Speaker 1: was kind of like, well, but.
Speaker 2: These people were absolutely like. These people were out there
Speaker 2: and they have always been like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although the Westboro Baptist Church was like a family
Speaker 1: that just like they knew how to get the media
Speaker 1: to cover them. And that's what it looks like when
Speaker 1: you look at this video of them singing. It's like
Speaker 1: a mom and two daughters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of those daughters has since been like that was bad, right,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: Eleven.
Speaker 1: It's just the thing she says, Yeah, that's actually so,
Speaker 1: I know, it seems like I'm blaming your sins nine eleven.
Speaker 2: That is just a nervous tick that I have.
Speaker 3: And you know what's also amazing is like seeing nine
Speaker 3: to eleven as Godly retribution means the Westboro Baptist Church
Speaker 3: and fucking Osama bin Laden essentially have the same politics.
Speaker 1: On this day, God speaks through bin Laden, according to
Speaker 1: the Westborough Baptist Church, all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and
Speaker 1: so is Jason Statham. I spent probably a little too
Speaker 1: much time singing the praises of the movie The Beekeeper
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: I saw it on a plane. I can't be.
Speaker 1: Can't be held to any opinions of movies that I
Speaker 1: saw on a plane, but it is it's like the Equalizer,
Speaker 1: but like weirder. People have pointed out that it seems
Speaker 1: like it is catering to like maga conspiracy theorists with
Speaker 1: a story about the villain of the movie is the
Speaker 1: Writen son of the president, and people are like, well,
Speaker 1: that's a stand in for a.
Speaker 2: Hunter byde Yeah, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: Like the what about the rich son of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who is also a fucking idiot.
Speaker 3: I know I'm probably railing against these, you know whatever,
Speaker 3: like kind of moderate democratic people that are sort of
Speaker 3: seeing these things most I think, but I'm just like
Speaker 3: every action movie has always been fascist propaganda since they've
Speaker 3: ever existed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always basically the city is evil and yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean yes, it's like I'm sure they're
Speaker 3: like finding this repellent audience, but like, I don't know, guys,
Speaker 3: it's just like like, sorry, down down in the notes,
Speaker 3: someone's written that's a trumpier version of taken.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Take.
Speaker 1: It's pretty trumpy, right, I mean, foreign people are that.
Speaker 1: You gotta be scared of the foreign people. If you
Speaker 1: let your daughter go to a foreign cun like the
Speaker 1: to Europe.
Speaker 2: She's gonna get taken.
Speaker 3: And the solution is personal, immediate vigilante.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just violence. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we do have the trailer for Jason Statham's newest movie,
Speaker 1: also made with David Air. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: accepting that a beekeeper is trumpy, but this one sounds
Speaker 1: like it might be. As a jm Our writer pointed out,
Speaker 1: it's basically taken, but this time Statham's trying to get
Speaker 1: his friends girlfriend back from human traffickers. It's funny that
Speaker 1: it's his friend's a girlfriend.
Speaker 3: I guess we'll have to see it, but it's like real,
Speaker 3: she's a friend, but you know, I we met her
Speaker 3: through my friends, so like, I don't know, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it.
Speaker 1: Also, David Harbor shows up as a blind gun toting
Speaker 1: Iraq war veteran who gives them his guns. I love
Speaker 1: a blind gun expert is great really giving people good ideas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 1: Only a matter of time until the human trafficking action movie,
Speaker 1: like because that so that movie Sound of Freedom, remember that,
Speaker 1: like being so successful that was like made by that
Speaker 1: guy who's a scam artist who claims that he recovers
Speaker 1: people who are being human trafficked and like trade on
Speaker 1: this version of human trafficking that doesn't exist anywhere except
Speaker 1: for the Instagram videos of like white women in the suburbs.
Speaker 3: Well, I will also just say that, like and this,
Speaker 3: this might be attacking something that listeners to uh daily's
Speaker 3: like guys and Daily's like I was trending do Like
Speaker 3: I would say all true crime murder stuff is feeding
Speaker 3: into the same industry of making white women feel paranoia
Speaker 3: about their physical safety as far as strangers go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like pointing the finger out of this you know world
Speaker 3: of dark, shady random violence, right, both makes them more xenophobic,
Speaker 3: makes them more racist, but also ignores the real perpetrators
Speaker 3: the most frequent perpetrators of violence against women in general,
Speaker 3: which is people they know.
Speaker 1: It was the girlfriend's boyfriend all along. Maybe yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. Maybe maybe that's the twist at the end
Speaker 1: of this. Yeah, but this one feels like it has
Speaker 1: some trunk.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying, yes, I should say I talked too
Speaker 3: about shit, I hear you.
Speaker 1: I just I'm always reminded of this one video where
Speaker 1: I saw like a blonde white woman being like, you
Speaker 1: see the zip tie on my doorhad Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that means I've been marked to be taken. It just
Speaker 1: like doesn't make any sense, but it's you.
Speaker 3: Know, my my favorite part about all those things is
Speaker 3: house stupid. They think kidnappers are right exactly.
Speaker 2: Like it's reminds me of did you ever read the
Speaker 2: Da Vinci Code? No, but you know I feel like
Speaker 2: I have because it just it's.
Speaker 1: Written with this narrative logic and it assumes that like
Speaker 1: Leonardo da Vinci is like such a dumb guy. Like
Speaker 1: it's like a dumb guy's version of a smart like
Speaker 1: he's hiding all these clues and like words, scrambles.
Speaker 2: Around the move and ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like they're they're assuming the criminal masterminds like
Speaker 1: have to remind themselves which car they've like decided to
Speaker 1: taken somebody from with zip ties. And also weird the
Speaker 1: bit about like all right, we've we've concocted our plan.
Speaker 1: Now for the last part the clues, where we set
Speaker 1: out all.
Speaker 2: The ways why people clues.
Speaker 1: That they anyways, the plot does seem to go full
Speaker 1: Quan on the human trafficking ring. Also false corrupt government officials.
Speaker 1: Again I don't know, or maybe or maybe the corrupt
Speaker 1: government officials are standing for Trump. Probably not, but we
Speaker 1: we don't know.
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing, is like the projection is
Speaker 3: always means it's both everything they're talking about. It's the
Speaker 3: reason it's like this could be either side is because
Speaker 3: they say the Democrats do it. Democrats do a softer
Speaker 3: version of it, and then you know, current Republicans do
Speaker 3: the hardest, most insane version of it.
Speaker 1: In everything, the best indication that it is trumpy is
Speaker 1: that it was co written by Sylvester Stallone, who is
Speaker 1: disappointingly way more. I'm way more in this than I
Speaker 1: should be. You are a magic Trump supporter, Andrew. My
Speaker 1: favorite genre of movie growing up was Sylvester Stalone movies
Speaker 1: like I didn't like. When I was like five, the
Speaker 1: first movie I saw in theaters was Rocky for Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first movie that I written. My first movie experience
Speaker 1: that I remember is my dad going to see Rambo
Speaker 1: at the theater and coming home and describing it too
Speaker 1: like I and and then like yeah, I got to
Speaker 1: see Rambo three in theaters at an age where like
Speaker 1: I don't know why they were letting me in to
Speaker 1: see that, Like yeah, I love, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3: It's like formative, but like, I think this is why,
Speaker 3: this is why, the advantage of just inherently being able
Speaker 3: to grain AsSalt all white people media has helped me
Speaker 3: see the world more clearly, I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I'm not saying it's not fun, but
Speaker 3: come on, these guys are.
Speaker 1: I had a lot riding on his politics turning out already.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying have been.
Speaker 1: Like I've also talked a lot about how like the
Speaker 1: politics of Stallone movies are the most jingoistic bullshit, like yeah,
Speaker 1: like the movies he writes, the movies that he stars in,
Speaker 1: but it was you know, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of all these guys. Jimmy Carter's funeral happened was
Speaker 1: a reunion of ex president's vice president's first ladies, and
Speaker 1: uh Trump had to shake hands with Mike Pence. Mike
Speaker 1: Pence willingly shook hands with uh Donald Trump, the guy
Speaker 1: who wanted to tried to.
Speaker 2: Have him hung.
Speaker 1: Karen Pence was serving kunt mother, but in many senses
Speaker 1: of the word both what her husband calls her, because
Speaker 1: she was the way she was ignoring the Trumps.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: Yes, general question, Yeah, why the fuck it? Like, isn't
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter allegedly one of the good guys, Like why
Speaker 3: the fuck is Trump even invited.
Speaker 2: To his funeral?
Speaker 1: I think it's just like all presidents to go to
Speaker 1: the thing of the president, go to the funeral of
Speaker 1: the presidentsident Trump can't come because he's a Democrat man
Speaker 1: Like Democrats believe in nothing if not decorum, like the
Speaker 1: number one thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I mean there there's just like a
Speaker 1: lot of like, oh, look at Al Gore back here, mean,
Speaker 1: mugging Trump. The main thing I will come away with
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump and Barack Obama sitting next to each
Speaker 1: other and like just Trump.
Speaker 2: Cracking Obama up. Obama just laughing his ass off while
Speaker 2: Trump is like saying stuff to him. It's like we did,
Speaker 2: we did know who Obama was, but it is wild
Speaker 2: that whatever remains of his personal brand, he's willing to
Speaker 2: just be like, eh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna give a fuck. These are my people,
Speaker 1: my former presidents. Only they know yeah yeah, the wild one.
Speaker 1: So like, I don't know, maybe Trump catches him off
Speaker 1: guard and you know, and he's like, you know, nervously laughing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wasn't there, but there there's also
Speaker 1: a moment where George W. Bush like gives him a
Speaker 1: little belly tap as he squeezes past him that is
Speaker 1: like very fraternal, like very much like, so like it
Speaker 1: might as well give him a like dick tap, like
Speaker 1: a bag tag as he walked. Yeah, like real like
Speaker 1: old homies from way back energy.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought we had talked about this, but
Speaker 3: I didn't realize I hadn't. But like, my big disillusion
Speaker 3: moment with this class of people was the learning. Ruth
Speaker 3: Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scullia were good friends. Good good families,
Speaker 3: would go on vacation to each other with each other
Speaker 3: routinely friends, which really put a like Notorious RBG spin
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 2: For me, I was like, oh, so fucking not.
Speaker 3: Like I as a human being would be like if
Speaker 3: I would had been in a room within a live
Speaker 3: antonin Scalia, I probably wouldn't, but my thought would be like,
Speaker 3: would it be justifiable from a like human rights perspective
Speaker 3: to do violence upon this man?
Speaker 1: Would it be justifiable to not do violent? You know,
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: And the fact that like fucking again, badass notorious RBG
Speaker 3: willingly spent money to hang out patience like that's like
Speaker 3: fucking really made it odious for me, where I was like,
Speaker 3: no democrat believes anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 3: At least have the decency to make it look like
Speaker 3: you hate this person who is evil.
Speaker 2: You can't even do.
Speaker 1: That, you're brandon out of your point out. I really
Speaker 1: looked like George Bush is walking by him, going what up?
Speaker 2: Playboy? He probably is, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if we've ever talked about this, but I
Speaker 3: had an opportunity years ago to go to an event
Speaker 3: at the Crawford Branch, and I turned it down because
Speaker 3: I was like, and multiple people you gotta go, you
Speaker 3: gotta And some people were like, I mean, we're going
Speaker 3: to pass up a chance to call Bush a war
Speaker 3: criminal to his face. And first of all, I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm not really trying to go out by the Secret
Speaker 3: Service like that.
Speaker 2: But second of all, it was just this thing where I.
Speaker 3: Was like, you know, not not to compare it a
Speaker 3: discredited theory of competency, but Bush has put in his
Speaker 3: ten thousand hours of being called a war criminal, and
Speaker 3: I will be doing it for the first time, and
Speaker 3: whatever happens, he's going to be better at it than me.
Speaker 3: Like this interaction, I just like, you know.
Speaker 1: And he became a president by being like a charming,
Speaker 1: unassuming motherfucker.
Speaker 3: I would be like, you have blood on your hands,
Speaker 3: you know whatever, and he'd be like, all right, buddy,
Speaker 3: you want to be here like the hundred percent how
Speaker 3: it would go, And I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: But also it's like I hate him. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: genuinely think.
Speaker 3: He's a mass murderer and I would not want to
Speaker 3: meet him or be you know, hosted by him.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And fucking.
Speaker 3: Ruth Bader Ginsburg can't at least pretend to believe that, like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Speaker 1: I know that is wild though, that as a part
Speaker 1: of that illuminati club that you're in where you get
Speaker 1: like black eyes from being punched by Jay Leno, that
Speaker 1: you almost got to go to the Crawford Ranch.
Speaker 2: That's it was just weird. It's a it's a tough situation,
Speaker 2: but yeah it's bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wall Wall your favorite song shuts the Eye Wide
Speaker 1: shut or.
Speaker 2: Andrew t what a pleasure having you as always?
Speaker 3: I feel like I really casually just dropped a pretty
Speaker 3: insane story that I can't tell all of but that's it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I know, I like I yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: can all just assume we we know how you got
Speaker 1: that invite and no, uh.
Speaker 2: I mean man as always, mind you follow you all
Speaker 2: that good suff.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Joss Racist, Andrew Tea, if you're feeling
Speaker 3: up for it, not God Solidarity and Snacks is the
Speaker 3: mutual aid group that I try to work with as
Speaker 3: much as possible. I don't actually know if is the
Speaker 3: best way to send your want to do something about
Speaker 3: the fire. We are going to be out serving skid Row,
Speaker 3: but I know skid Row is not one of the
Speaker 3: immediately affected places. I don't know it's fucking happening though,
Speaker 3: but you know, and we're trying to help around the city,
Speaker 3: but it just seemed like our usual beat was the
Speaker 3: place where there.
Speaker 2: Was also need.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if that's the right thing, but
Speaker 3: look up. There's so many resources out there. I genuinely
Speaker 3: can't even tell you what the best place is. But
Speaker 3: if you can, if you find it, if you find
Speaker 3: these words compelling, send send money, send resources, but also
Speaker 3: try to spend the time to not do one of
Speaker 3: the Big five or whatever the fuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, take your time.
Speaker 1: It's still going to be needed, and especially going to
Speaker 1: be needed, especially like once it's no longer on the
Speaker 1: front page of the New York Times and Drudge. You know,
Speaker 1: all right, that's going to do it for this Thursday.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get your vaccines, get your flu shots, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will talk you out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Fight