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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The

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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments

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Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment

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Speaker 1: laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is

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Speaker 1: the Weekly zeitgeistal Well, Miles, we are thrilled, fortunate, and

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Speaker 1: in my Heart l a podcast studio, helping to create

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Speaker 1: shows like Fake Doctor's Real Friends. She's a fabulous writer

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Speaker 1: Teamboat Pays, the Advocate, many more. She is the brilliant,

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Speaker 1: the talented Joe Almony. I'm back in the house still

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Speaker 1: the Marvel Defender, so excited to be here today. How

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Speaker 1: are you guys doing. You have a new microphone and

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Speaker 1: You know it's hard when your brother edits the show,

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Speaker 1: were thrilled to have you back. How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: How have you been since the last you checked in?

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Speaker 1: you record three days ago? I can't. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna just rebel in that meta. Get your worth,

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Speaker 1: something from your search history that reveals something about you.

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Speaker 1: If any listeners here are girthy individuals and have access

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Speaker 1: in the market force. What are you looking for when

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Speaker 1: you say it? What's what? Like not just to swim

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Speaker 1: the thighs. You can't really surf in a budget smuggler,

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Speaker 1: which is what I normally wear at the beach is

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Speaker 1: want and I don't need to get I'm already getting

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Speaker 1: roasted by every surfer that's out there as I am

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Speaker 1: And then they see me in the water absolutely floundering

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Speaker 1: And I was like, man, I can't even swim like that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know I like short shorts too. I'm

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Speaker 1: you got that back porch that we love. Baby? What

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Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? The Mariah Carey Christmas

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Speaker 1: song All I Want for Christmas? As you? I do

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Speaker 1: I believe it was in Texas that on their jukebox

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Speaker 1: said you can't play this song until after Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: then only one time per night. And my co host

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Speaker 1: said he doesn't like any Christmas music, but he does

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Speaker 1: like that song, and I was like, you're entirely wrong

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Speaker 1: like most I like good Christmas music, but I don't

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Speaker 1: being of Kevin and Bean was like, Allison, I love you,

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Speaker 1: but I'm sorry you're wrong. It's a great song. So

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Speaker 1: many people I know, people I respect and love, have

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Speaker 1: and I know they're related, I don't I I don't

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Speaker 1: I just feel this song. I'm surprised at how popular

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Speaker 1: it is and I feel it's overrated. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: It's like it's one of those songs. I hear it

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Speaker 1: once in the right context and I'm like ha all right,

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Speaker 1: but in my heavy road strange reaction, it's kind of it, alright,

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll buy this blank VHS tape. That's what Jack

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Speaker 1: said when his fish got killed. Alright, alright, alright, another

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Speaker 1: two are floating today. More food, I mean my fish.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, more food. But yeah, like I'm I love

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Speaker 1: I like so that's the thing. I like all Christmas music,

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Speaker 1: so I don't hate one. But I can only listen

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Speaker 1: back to the old you know, like ear valium hits

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Speaker 1: of Christmas music. It is, it has reached a level

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Speaker 1: of cultural just dominance that it's I think it's got

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Speaker 1: ever play a cover of that, And yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: so omnipresent. My kids really like it. So I'm in

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Speaker 1: kind of a weird position, all right. I actually also

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Speaker 1: like it, but prising prising how many how many people

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Speaker 1: basic asked, motherfucker's are out here? Hey? Get it's good

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Speaker 1: with my day. But yeah, I'd be lying if I

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Speaker 1: said it didn't give me a little and you go,

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Speaker 1: he he all right, when you hear it at best

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Speaker 1: Buy at the beginning of the season, like, if it's

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Speaker 1: um an indication that it's Christmas season, I can accept it, right,

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Speaker 1: But when it when we're in the thick of it,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. Yeah, yeah, I feel

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Speaker 1: like not liking that song is probably as close as

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Speaker 1: you can get to the experience of being the Grinch.

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Speaker 1: Like you know how the Grinch like exactly the right size.

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm not saying that you are like a

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Speaker 1: Grinch in any respect other than that you do have

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Speaker 1: those charges of stealing people's Christmas trees for the past

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Speaker 1: I guess three years around. I had to fix the light, right,

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Speaker 1: But the just you know, the way that he can't

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Speaker 1: basically the most omnipresent thing that you could that I

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Speaker 1: could imagine somebody objecting to. That's just like like everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you could avoid that around the

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Speaker 1: Christmas holidays, really you can't. You're right, it's situational grinchiness.

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Speaker 1: But I look at it like I love Christmas time

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Speaker 1: and everything Christmas Eve so much that I can't like

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Speaker 1: one is like why do you have a Black Lives

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Speaker 1: Matter sign? Like that you're just out here killing themselves.

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Speaker 1: Like man, ma'am exhausting, Jesus Christ exhausting. What a great

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Speaker 1: time to be alive, truly truly. Yeah, I mean America's

428
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: been bad, a bad place to be alive for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. It's just like I think we're now

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Speaker 1: coming to terms with it. I just think every generation

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Speaker 1: has to continually come to terms with it though, right,

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Speaker 1: especially because we do a lot to shield our children

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Speaker 1: from terrible things for good reasons. You should be able

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Speaker 1: to have a childhood and I have to deal with

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Speaker 1: the stuff. But then suddenly it's like, okay, so we're

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Speaker 1: just gonna talk about slavery. They did what my successors.

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Speaker 1: I would be there, crap, that sucks, okay, and I'm

438
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Speaker 1: gonna talk to you about how we tried to extinguish

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Speaker 1: an entire like race of people when we first got here.

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Speaker 1: What that's awful. I thought we enjoyed Thanksgiving. That's not

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Speaker 1: how that actually went out. We have to problemstantly go

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Speaker 1: through this process of unlearning things that we've learned. And

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Speaker 1: I think, m it's valid because it's something way it

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Speaker 1: could stay fresh and it's uncomfortable. Like Barry Jenkins just

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Speaker 1: did this great series on Amazon called Underground, and he

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Speaker 1: spoke a lot about how he was like, I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to dwell in it. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: I can't ignore sleep. I can't not looking in the

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Speaker 1: face and address it directly. When my ancestors survived that,

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Speaker 1: I have to go look at it and stay in

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Speaker 1: these places and try to feel and come to terms

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Speaker 1: with what happened. I think it sucks, a really sucks,

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Speaker 1: but I also think it's vital. Yeah, So this article

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Speaker 1: Germany went from they're kind of national, like the zeitgeist

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Speaker 1: opinion was that like their loss in World War Two

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Speaker 1: and all the you know, revelations around the Holocaust were

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Speaker 1: a part of a Jewish conspiracy. They called it. American

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Speaker 1: financial interests had like put together this conspiracy. But as

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Speaker 1: we talked about on an episode last week, like Germany

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Speaker 1: has become you know, not they're not perfect, but they

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Speaker 1: are a model of like a nation that has actually

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Speaker 1: accounted for, like come to terms with at least and

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Speaker 1: is trying to pay reparations and like do actual things

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Speaker 1: to to deal with their past. So there there is

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Speaker 1: a a path to it. It's just a long and

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Speaker 1: painful and fucking brutal one, but like the work needs

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Speaker 1: to be done. My roommate, well, she actually just moved

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Speaker 1: back to Germany. Her grandfather was literally a Nazi. And

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Speaker 1: the way she talked to me about it, they say,

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Speaker 1: we not you never talk about the individual families because

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Speaker 1: there is that great shame about just the involvement. So

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Speaker 1: it is talked and still uncomfortable, but it's like we

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Speaker 1: all fucked up and we're going to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: And it was more of a community change and you

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Speaker 1: just don't talk about the individuals because it's just she

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Speaker 1: said it like it ate her up inside, like how

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Speaker 1: could my grandfather be such such a terrible human? You know,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if America could ever get to that. I

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Speaker 1: feel no, I want to believe, but I also feel

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Speaker 1: like we're again just as a country, just like, especially

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Speaker 1: for last year, was any indication, you know, there was

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Speaker 1: that giant swell of like, we are not gonna let

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Speaker 1: this happen anymore, and we're gonna hire so many black

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Speaker 1: people and we're going to like put some respect on

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Speaker 1: indigenous people's names and it's going to be changed forever.

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Speaker 1: And then this year to see a ton of black

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Speaker 1: freelancers talking about how projects that got picked up suddenly

488
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Speaker 1: dropped agents just not calling back, like it was just

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Speaker 1: a complete abandonment within a year. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: sort of our future trajectory. It's just kind of like

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Speaker 1: these small swells of like, oh, we don't want to

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Speaker 1: be that, but we're legitimately never going to change anything.

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Speaker 1: But please don't think of us that way. It's just

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Speaker 1: I think we prefer that contradictory state of existence. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, something will have to change because to this

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Speaker 1: point it's been just a steady rhythm of people coming

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Speaker 1: up against the reality of America's history and the reality

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Speaker 1: of America's present, and then there is a white backlash,

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Speaker 1: and you know that we're seeing that. We saw that

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Speaker 1: in January six, we'll see that probably in election, which

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Speaker 1: I'm as pessimistic about as I think I've ever been.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I just don't so something will need to change. Alright, Well,

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Speaker 1: real quick. Chris Wallace has left Fox News. It was

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Speaker 1: a surprise announcement at the end of his UH Sunday show.

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Speaker 1: He's apparently going to CNN Plus, which is CNN subscription

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Speaker 1: service that will I think compete to be the least

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Speaker 1: subscribed to service of any sort that that anyone has

508
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Speaker 1: ever launched. But maybe not. I just I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't understand why you would subscribe to that instead of

510
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Speaker 1: just have CNN on talking about whatever. But anyways, I

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Speaker 1: don't know behind the scenes machinations. I do think we

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Speaker 1: are seeing broadly, like people positioning for like the fourth

513
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Speaker 1: Reich that is going to be out in the open

514
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Speaker 1: white supremacy and fascism starting around election, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Fox is putting themselves in in position to no longer

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Speaker 1: really have that critical kind of news focused side of

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Speaker 1: things and you know, just be full Tucker Carlson ledge.

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Speaker 1: I guess, I guess like his Tucker Carlson's Patriot Purge

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Speaker 1: documentary and quotes. It was something that Chris Wallace had

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Speaker 1: criticized and so that that might have ledged to this.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, he's had the unfortunate distinction of

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Speaker 1: being like the one of the few people who like

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Speaker 1: would try to acknowledge like some level of how bad

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Speaker 1: ship was with Trump and being objected like should a

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Speaker 1: president do that? They're like, Okay, you fucking Democrat, get

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Speaker 1: the funk out of here, and like, I know, let's

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Speaker 1: just say that's a real question. And yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's really I think the fact that

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Speaker 1: you have these sort of challengers to the throne in

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Speaker 1: like oh A n and Newsmax that's pulling them even

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Speaker 1: further off the ledge because they're seeing that they were

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Speaker 1: like hemorrhaging viewers to like Newsmax in certain like time

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Speaker 1: time slots, and that's only bad for Fox quote unquote

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Speaker 1: News because yeah, like as you see, Tucker Carlson is

535
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Speaker 1: a slowing down or Ingram's not slowing down, it's just

536
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Speaker 1: getting further and further into their sort of you know,

537
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Speaker 1: white dominated fantasy world fascism all the time. Yeah, exactly.

538
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Speaker 1: But I think that's I think people are going to

539
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Speaker 1: be surprised by how much a second Trump administration is.

540
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Speaker 1: Like the lesson they will have learned is to just

541
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Speaker 1: get rid of like anything resembling breaks on the Trump

542
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Speaker 1: train and just go like full unadulterated like authoritarianism and

543
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: fully like trying to make adjustments while he's in office

544
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Speaker 1: to keep him in office and you know, make it

545
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Speaker 1: so that he can't be voted out. So that's I

546
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Speaker 1: think where we're headed. But hopefully CNN plus can save

547
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Speaker 1: us and and N plus will get us our voting

548
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Speaker 1: rights restored. I definitely think cable news is what's going

549
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Speaker 1: to save us. I'm glad saying because that's what I'm hoping.

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Speaker 1: Person of the Year, they told us the truth about

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Thank you, Like oh God, focusing on all

552
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Speaker 1: the right stories all the time. Yeah. Yeah, Time Person

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Speaker 1: of the Year will be like Donald Trump presents Time

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Speaker 1: Person of the Year. Like Time Person of the Year

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Speaker 1: this year is Donald Trump. Yes, who's like the next

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Speaker 1: person of the year, the next most personist of the year.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's got to be Avonka, right, I might

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Speaker 1: only one who it feels like it's to suck full

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Speaker 1: of loose bullets Joe Rogan. Yeah, no, it's really dark.

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Speaker 1: I'm just hoping there's something in that week that can

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Speaker 1: happen that can prevent Trump. And I hope that, like

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are able to at some point do things

563
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Speaker 1: for people that really affect their day to day lives

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Speaker 1: and in a positive way, so we can just avoid

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Speaker 1: total fucking utter disaster in two years. Yeah, the data

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Speaker 1: set not looking too good, but we've gotta keep our

567
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Speaker 1: eyes peeled and like, yeah, I think it's more and more.

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Speaker 1: I hopefully more and more people actually get in touch

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Speaker 1: with how die or the situation, especially as it relates

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Speaker 1: to like election boards, like you're already seeing like Georgia

571
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Speaker 1: they're purging black members of elect on the election boards.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like it's they're they're very much fully positioning

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Speaker 1: themselves to be able to flip a switch and just

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Speaker 1: say like, no, man, the winners, whoever the funk we

575
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Speaker 1: say it is, and you're gonna have to fucking accept that.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's I don't think that reality has

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Speaker 1: been communicated properly in the news. Two people. It's just

578
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Speaker 1: always like wow, like they're doing a lot of news

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Speaker 1: like a voter suppression right and saying like, hold the

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Speaker 1: funk on this idea that you live in a country

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Speaker 1: where you could go and vote. I mean even now,

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Speaker 1: I mean many way would argue, you know, what, what

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Speaker 1: what good does it do now? But even further so,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about just absolute vaporware and they're you know,

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Speaker 1: even less accountability. Is that a fucking situation you want

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Speaker 1: to be in? I mean, it's already bad enough now,

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00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: and to go deeper down that hole I think is

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Speaker 1: a reality that I think Americans aren't able to fathom

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Speaker 1: because voting has always been like a thing that's like yeah,

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Speaker 1: you vote, and then like whoever get some most votes

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Speaker 1: you win? Since you're in school, are doing like school

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Speaker 1: elections as a kid, But that's that idea of like

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Speaker 1: you know, whoever has more better, like more people supporting

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Speaker 1: their ideas wins. That's uh more, very quickly becoming an afterthought.

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Speaker 1: It totally is an afterthought. And it's also just like

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Speaker 1: the entire way that electoral politics work is based on

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Speaker 1: the idea that it's not actually the amount of people

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Speaker 1: who want something that wins. I mean, if that was true,

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Speaker 1: Hillary would have won, right Like, it's sort of this

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Speaker 1: idea that is part of our system, and we've sort

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Speaker 1: of like I think because of that, there's this acceptance

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Speaker 1: of like, yeah, well that's not how it works here,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not about the most popular, it's about the

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Speaker 1: system that we have that we don't totally understand. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's sort of ingrains this idea and you

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Speaker 1: that you don't have control over anything. Um so like

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I don't know. I think it's sort

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Speaker 1: of trickles down the way that the voting suppression is

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Speaker 1: happening right now. I think you're right where there is

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Speaker 1: a disconnect from like, no, people actually are not going

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Speaker 1: to be able to vote, and like this is ultimately

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Speaker 1: going to change the fabric of electoral politics in our country.

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Speaker 1: I do think there's a little bit of a disconnect

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Speaker 1: from a lot of people and like myself, including at

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Speaker 1: times included at times, as I've learned about these issues,

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Speaker 1: I think there is like a sense of well, how

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Speaker 1: bad can it be? Like we all vote it and yeah,

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Speaker 1: even independent of the suppression and the like you know,

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Speaker 1: rigging and changing that's happening at the local level. There's

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Speaker 1: also the current The Democrats who are currently empower seem

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Speaker 1: like they think, well, just that we'll get people to

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Speaker 1: vote more now because they will recognize how bad it

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Speaker 1: can get as as a strategy, and I don't, which

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Speaker 1: is so fun up. It's like, no, they want to

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Speaker 1: recognize that you can help them. They want to recognize

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Speaker 1: that when you're in power and when you have all

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Speaker 1: branches of the government, there can be actual actions that

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Speaker 1: impact someone's life, instead of learning that like the Senate

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Speaker 1: parliamentary and is a thing we've never heard that ever,

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Speaker 1: but now we can't cripnimum wage. Sorry, like that is

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Speaker 1: not a winning strategy for Democrats. They actually have to

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Speaker 1: do something to show people that when they're in power,

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Speaker 1: their lives are improved. And it's just like shocking how

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Speaker 1: little they've been able to achieve and like yeah, yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 1: I won't get too much into it. I don't really.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's I mean, and it's a habit.

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Speaker 1: It's a habit that both parties are unable to break,

638
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: right because the line really does end with is this

639
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: going to help people? Well, then we can't do that,

640
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: you know, like that there, and I think the difference

641
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: being is it you know, you see all those memes

642
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 1: in the version of like what Republicans say, what Democrats saying?

643
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: The Democrats saying the same things after like better fonts

644
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: and emojis around it, while though the substance of it

645
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: is the exact same. And yeah, I it is disheartening

646
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: in that sense. And I think that's the sort of

647
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: reality too that I think that you just can't be

648
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: uttered on TV because it's like it's too real to say,

649
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: I'm like fucking MSNBC. It's like, well, to be honest,

650
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: like there's the will to really get things done is

651
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: about around the same because when it comes to really

652
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: fighting for things that are going to help people, they

653
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: will is just not there. And there are you know,

654
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: there are transformational things that were being proposed, but we're

655
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: already seeing they get diminished and diminished and diminished. And yes,

656
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: they are still meaningful also because the bar is so low,

657
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: and I think we there's we really have to, you know,

658
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: as it's hard to I think see Americans truly demand

659
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: to get the things that they want out of their

660
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: politicians because like to your point, Ali, like it's just

661
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 1: it becomes a thing where you think, well, what's nothing's happened,

662
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: so what good is it doing? And then you see

663
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: how Democrats want to motivate the base, and it's like,

664
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,959
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, if you guys don't vote, they're

665
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: some it's gonna get bad. Well you're you're there, though,

666
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: to do that for us? Where's that? Where's the funk?

667
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: Is that? What are y'all doing? The just vote like

668
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: tweeting just vote whenever something bad happens is just not

669
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: a winning strategy anymore when you guys have power and

670
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: we did vote, and this is what's happening, So like

671
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: you need to change your tune. We voted, Yeah, try

672
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: to act on it, like yeah, I think bringing home, Yeah,

673
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna go real bad. I think it's

674
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: gonna go real bad mid term, probably slam age and

675
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: then they'll panic and then figure it out. Maybe it's

676
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: just make good time. But I also see it happening

677
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: like they doubled down on the nonsense, and you're like, Okay, well,

678
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 1: now they'll see now they'll be scared by the fact

679
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: that we lost the mid terms, and then they'll really

680
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: come out. It's like, oh, the Republicans are now controlling

681
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: the House, and they stripped everyone of committee assignments, so

682
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: now right, Yeah, I feel like that's not the thing

683
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: that's going to spur everyone to action that they might

684
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: think it is. I feel like there's a disrespect of

685
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: like the people of like well, like Democrats can't do

686
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: anything because like cinema and mansion, so like sorry, like

687
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: we just need to vote for more Democrats. Whereas like

688
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: there's this I I I don't know. I mean, not

689
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: everyone in the country is politically informed, but I do

690
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: think a lot of people understand that actually the Democrats

691
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: could do so much more and are not, and they

692
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: continue to like just bank on the like ignorance of

693
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: the people in a way that like I find is

694
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: like really disgusting, Like like a lot of the rhetoric

695
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: or at like the like rov Wade also like I

696
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: was disturbing to me for that reason, where it's like

697
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: when you got like there there were opportunities to actually

698
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: like codify this into law that we just like wasn't

699
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: a priority because abortion rights are how are like a

700
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: really important political issue for Democrats. So I do think

701
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: there's like a few like gross rhetorical ways that the

702
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: Democrats are operating right now and they're at reality is

703
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: like things were sucking dire, like Trump's gonna win, Like

704
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: we just need to like shut up and like not

705
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: like wull Republican moves like with like Supreme Court, like

706
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: do something that is actually going to change the way

707
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: the people view the possibilities of what can happen when

708
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: the Democrats in power. Yeah, all right, let's take a

709
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come back and talk about that

710
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: hockey fundraiser. And we're back and memit Oz, as we

711
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: talked about, he's running for Senate in Pennsylvania because his

712
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 1: in laws live there and I guess it's pretty crowded

713
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: field and so he it's a challenge, but he he

714
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: feels he's up to it and he but he's pissed

715
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: because the Philadelphia anchor has started referring to him as

716
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: Mr Oz and he's like put some respect on my name,

717
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: put some respect on my fucking title. And yeah, he

718
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: came out swinging. I don't know why with this like

719
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: walk and talk video. That's like again, I don't know

720
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: why he thought this needed production value, because again, just

721
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: to somebody who's directed videos, you should have your subject

722
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: begin walking before you roll the camera. So it's not

723
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: that awkward and I'm walking movement, but anyway, that's fine,

724
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's a free tip from me. But here's

725
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: him complaining about how he's been OMG canceled. Last week,

726
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: the Puldelfie Inquire had on their front page as Dr Oz.

727
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: This morning they just announced no more doctor, even though

728
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: a practicing position taking care of patients. I've done thousands

729
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: of heart surgeries. They don't want to call me doctor anymore.

730
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: I won't be canceled. Oh my god. Hell yeah, video

731
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: rules so dumb, Like like I love I love the

732
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: little tilt shift depth of field. It felt very cinematic.

733
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: But again just from you know, just a quick direction

734
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: note you could have you could have trimmed the top

735
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: down right, because doing it like that, it's like and

736
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: he's in a parking lot. I feel like he's going

737
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: to tell me about the deals on cars they have

738
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: crazy crazy down right, He like throws the newspaper out

739
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: of frame. Someone hands in him an umbrella from off camera.

740
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: He puts it because it's raining deals and like the

741
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: water comes down. But that's not the only thing. It's

742
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: like that Dollar Shave Club commercials. So you know, he

743
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: he released this video. He's complaining about being canceled. But

744
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: the thing is, the Philadelphia Inquired they made a conscious

745
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: decision not to be like, let's funk with doctor Oz

746
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: that they didn't want to use like these titles when

747
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: reporting on candidates, Like they just don't want to have

748
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: these honorifics to you know, just to kind of a

749
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 1: level playing field so people might not be swayed by

750
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: this title. So they said, quote, do not use doctor

751
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: on first reference for anyone with the title, whether they

752
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: are a medical doctor or have a doctorate in a

753
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: non medical field, to avoid complaints of unequal treatment from

754
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: individuals who worked hard to achieve doctorate's in non medical fields.

755
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: Because sometimes they'll only give doctor to like an m d.

756
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: And it's in like, you know what, we don't need it.

757
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 1: All they're saying is we don't want to just habits

758
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: seem like, you know, there's any kind of our thumbs

759
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: are on the scale in any possible way. They are.

760
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: The only exceptions that they have are for obituaries and

761
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: Dr Martin Luther King Jr. So shout out acquired, inquired

762
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: for that. But yeah, I mean, I think it's just

763
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: clear that you know, Oz, doctor Oz is like this

764
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 1: TV character and this whole campaign is about It's about

765
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: brand awareness. He knows that he's not going to win

766
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: because he has any kind of mind for legislation. He's

767
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: there because in the Culture Wars he's emerged as a willing,

768
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, embracer of bullshit pseudoscience to normalize it on TV.

769
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: And so for him not being able to, like the

770
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: thing with Donald Trump is Donald Trump was his brand name,

771
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: you know, mement Oz is not Dr Oz's brand name.

772
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: Doctor Oz is his fucking brand. So I think that's

773
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: why he's just out You're being like, I don't what

774
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: they're canceling me because that's my brand. It's Dr Oz erasure.

775
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: They're erasing him, if I understand correctly, it's their style guide.

776
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: So it's not just for political candidates, it's like across

777
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: the board, and I used to work in magazines that

778
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: had style guides and things, and so it is an

779
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: interesting debate because generally you you always defer to the

780
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: style guide, except you know, communication to the readers is

781
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: more it is more important than the letter and the

782
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 1: law of the style guide. So in a situation like this,

783
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to come out on his side

784
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 1: because that would make me bark. But in a situation

785
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: like this where people do know him, like you're saying

786
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: that's his brand as doctor Oz, do you make an exception?

787
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: I say, I don't think so because in this context, right,

788
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: you're trying to treat people as political candidates who are

789
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: like people running for office, and you want to give

790
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: people like you want to say, oh, this is Connor

791
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: Lamb who is running, who's also running, Here's Jon Fetterman

792
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: who's also running. And there you'll typically give a description

793
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: mahmod Oz who is out practicing blah blah blah blah blah.

794
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: Like you know, if you're writing it up, you're not

795
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: gonna avoid mentioning. You know, what qualifications they may have

796
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: or what they do for work as it relates to

797
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: their candidacy. And if it was like little Kim running.

798
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: They're not going to be referring to her in the

799
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: paper as little Kim. No, they're going to call her.

800
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna call her, uh queen be put the hex

801
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: on the whole family dressed in all black, like the

802
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: woman as her first and all about the Benjamin's goes.

803
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think this is one of those moments

804
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: where again it's the brand awareness. And it's funny too,

805
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: because there is another medical doctor running in this same race,

806
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: Dr val Arcouch. And you know she said, I have

807
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: no problem with this. That's fine. I'm really here to

808
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: talk about these ideas I have is potentially a senator

809
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: and not to say, like, because I'm a doctor, vote

810
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,439
Speaker 1: for me. And you know she's also not out here

811
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: saying things because she's an actual obstetric anesthesiologists, like your

812
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: vagina is a self cleaning oven, So you know, Dr

813
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 1: val Arcouch, I might have a little more sense than

814
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: Dr Oz here. Yeah, this is also like so basically

815
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: it's not that they created this rule. After doctor Oz

816
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: like became a candidate. They wrote an article in which

817
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: the front page headline, and photo caption, and first sentence

818
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: all referred to doctor Oz as doctor Oz and then

819
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 1: they came out more like, actually, we realized that does

820
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: not fit with our style guide and like they were

821
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: basically doing reacting to the reality you were talking about, Miles,

822
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: that this is a brand Doctor Oz and like so

823
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: that is how he exists in most people's brains as

824
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: Doctor Os. But like that is doesn't stick to it

825
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: doesn't fit within the rules of their of their style.

826
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: It's they didn't make a change, which is what I

827
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: assumed at first. It's just there was a mistake to

828
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: run it as doctor first time. But the idea that

829
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: we want to elect that TV personality into office as

830
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: opposed to we want to lack this person of substance

831
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: who happens to have a show the former terrifies me.

832
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: It's what we've already done and didn't go well, and

833
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: apparently we're doing it again. We'll see. All right, Well,

834
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: let's talk about Mr Big, not Dr Big, but it

835
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: is officially his name, Mr Big. So this is going

836
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: to be technically a spoiler for the Sex and the

837
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 1: City reboot and just like that, So if you haven't

838
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: seen that and for some reason are her like really

839
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: holding out hope to be caught off guard by the

840
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 1: twists and turns um and there is a big twist

841
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: in the in the first episode, then maybe stop listening here. Okay.

842
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: So in the first episode, we opened with Carry being

843
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: married to Mr Bib played by Chris Noff, and then

844
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: at the end of the first episode, Big guys of

845
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: a heart attack after exercising on his peloton bike. He's

846
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 1: discovered by Carrie, who, despite the fact that he's clearly

847
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: still alive when she finds him, doesn't call an ambulance

848
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 1: or anything for several minutes until her voiceover reveals that

849
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: he died. It's a very strange, prolonged scene, like kind

850
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: of on the level of that, like it reminded me

851
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: of the Lonely Island sketch with the where they keep

852
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: shooting people in the music. Yeah that what you say thing,

853
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: because it's just like, wait, so he's like he's still alive,

854
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: but he's holding his arm. Criminal charges should be brought

855
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: against Carrie on the bathroom floor, right, he's like in

856
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: the bathroom shower, but like he's still like sees her

857
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: focus on her. Maybe he but like he looks a

858
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: little vacant, but definitely the move is to immediately call

859
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: nine one one as you're trying to, but instead she

860
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,439
Speaker 1: like jumps into the shower and then like starts hugging him,

861
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: and I mean, you know, people react when experiencing grief

862
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: and shock in different ways. But and then I think

863
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: at one point she starts like trying to perform mounce

864
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: in mouth on him, which seems weird because he's still luck.

865
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: But anyways, I don't know where they're like kissing, but

866
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: it was like a weird like I do not recall

867
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: her doing any sort of resuscitation. It was just a

868
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: real like and then you see her special shoes that

869
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: she had worn that day, which she apparently wore when

870
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: they got married. They get all wet, but it just

871
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: seemed like a like now I'm just gonna hold you

872
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: and it's inevitable that you're going to die, when in

873
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 1: real life, probably in real life, there's there was probably

874
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: time to do something right, right, Yeah, I mean, yeah,

875
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: that's a terrible reaction as someone's having a medic emergency,

876
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: and yes, console somebody, but my first thing is like

877
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what the funk to do. Yeah, she

878
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, what what the fund is happening?

879
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god? You know, she was just a heart attack.

880
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: Hold on, I can also hold someone and be on

881
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: the phone. Okay, carry the fuck. It's yeah, it's probably

882
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: just bad writing, which I would say the this reboot

883
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:28,919
Speaker 1: thus far suffers from a great deal of but they um, yeah,

884
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: so Peloton the news story. This became a news story

885
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: because there hasn't been in recent memory a example of

886
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: product placement that so directly kills one of the characters,

887
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: like through its use as advertised. Basically, like the the

888
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: idea that you're like democratizing like spin classes and like

889
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: putting it in fifty something guys homes so they can

890
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: like do the workout in the in the privacy of

891
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: their own home. Like that is basically the pitch of Peloton, right,

892
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: And that is also the exact thing that kills this guy,

893
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:12,479
Speaker 1: is that like he probably shouldn't be exercising as hard

894
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: as he was. He probably shouldn't be exercising without somebody present. Well.

895
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: It's also super weird though, because in the show and

896
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: in the culture around the show, it is understood that

897
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: this Peloton ride is what did him in. I guess. However,

898
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: I feel like that doesn't have to be the truth,

899
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: because someone who has a bad heart, like maybe he

900
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: it was gonna go at that time no matter what

901
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,240
Speaker 1: he did. So I'm it's weird that in the show

902
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: that's what they have seemed to the conclusion they seem

903
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 1: to have reached. The second episode, someone's like, that fucking bike,

904
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: it's it's Steve and he says that fucking bike right,

905
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: all right, Miranda, But I don't think it's clear that

906
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: that is what at it. I don't think so, right,

907
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: But isn't that like why Peloton like had to act

908
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: as if there's a whole forensic analysis or they're like whoa, whoa, whoa,

909
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: what the fun right? Trying to put that on the bike.

910
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: They're like, he could have died fucking carry, you know,

911
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: and you're gonna put this on the Peloton right. Look

912
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: at his lifestyle and he smokes and eats steaks, and uh,

913
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: maybe he has a history of it in his fictional family. Yeah,

914
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: so they're just a writer. Jam looked up some other

915
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: examples of like bad product placement that backfired on these

916
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: massive corporations, so we don't really need to feel bad

917
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: for them. But Coke wasn't thrilled that they're They had

918
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: a commercial that appeared in natural Born Killers, which is

919
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: this very like postmodern cutting back and forth between like

920
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: different types of media. And Coke had one of their

921
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: commercials intercut with footage of headless, bloody bodies and natural

922
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 1: born Killers, which is decidedly against the Coke brand manifesto

923
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: as far as that, yeah, right exactly, there can be blood, yeah,

924
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: but the heads have to be attached. Reebok invested one

925
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: point five million dollars in Jerry McGuire only to have

926
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: one the one reference to Reebok in the movie be

927
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 1: people getting junior shouting fuck Reebok. I think this one

928
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: comes the closest, maybe too being like the Peloton one,

929
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: being like the Peloton one, because like they got it

930
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: in the movie and then they made fun of the

931
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: one thing that is like the bad part of Reebok

932
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: that it's like the lesser of the shoe brands. It's

933
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: not who you would want to be sponsored by. You

934
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: would want to be sponsored by Nike and so, and

935
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: that is I think the context in which Cuba getting

936
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: junior shouts fuck rebuked, so like that seems like it's

937
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: close to what what we're talking about. Mad Men also

938
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: always like routinely used real companies but then there was

939
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: the Jaguar incident when they get a Jaguar account it's

940
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: run by a really creepy piece of ship who would

941
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: only give Don Draper his business if the company forced

942
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: one of the characters to have sex with him, and

943
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: then like as it that one also feels like like

944
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: the Peloton thing struck me as like, okay, maybe the

945
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: head writer of the Sex and the City reboot like

946
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: has a personal beef with Peloton, like he had a

947
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 1: bad experience with Peloton and has a vendetta. The Jaguar

948
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: Madman example is also feels like that because not only

949
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: is like the head of jag Jaguar a piece of ship,

950
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: but then like the guy who brings in the business

951
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: ends up killing himself and he tries to do it

952
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: by like putting a hose from the tailpipe of the

953
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,760
Speaker 1: Jaguar into his front driver's side window, but the car

954
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: like fails, so that's the only thing that stops him

955
00:55:56,320 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: from doing that. That's compounding them, yeah exactly. But anyways, Peloton,

956
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: in addition to having one of their medical advisors issue

957
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: a note like talking about how big is a you know,

958
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: unhealthy piece of ship and it wasn't there, it's not

959
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: our bike. He fucking he's an unhealthy fat guy. Then

960
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: also they partnered with Ryan Reynolds for some reason. He's

961
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: not in the ad, but the Peloton wife ad that

962
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: he counters, so they partnered with him to whip up

963
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: a tongue in cheek commercial featuring chrisnth and Jess King,

964
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: the Peloton instructor from the show, and they they're basically

965
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:46,439
Speaker 1: like in a on a couch together and like saying, oh,

966
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: let's go for a ride soon on the peloton, and

967
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: like it's supposed to be like, uh, the they're actually

968
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: having fun, it ends up feeling like they're in like

969
00:56:55,400 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: a creepy like purgatory afterlife and in which you have

970
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 1: to like write a peloton your entire within moments going

971
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: to hell. I like, you know Anna in the chat

972
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 1: right now saying she suspects that there's this was a setup,

973
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 1: that they knew what they were doing the whole time,

974
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: that they were maybe in cahoots. That's a little difficult

975
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: given how in the toilet like peloton is. At the

976
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: moment they're like, yeah, that would be cool, and then

977
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: it'll it'll maybe mess up with the brand identity a

978
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: little bit more. It is interesting not to be too

979
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: cynical about it, but before I even heard actual reviews

980
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: of the reboot, when it aired, I saw all like,

981
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: I knew someone's going to die because of a Peloton.

982
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was going to be big. For

983
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: some reason, I assumed it was the Peloton teacher. I

984
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: was confused. But I was seeing all these articles about

985
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: the relationship, you know, about that shocking Peloton death, So

986
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: clearly there was some kind of pr campaign, Like I

987
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: don't think that that was so I think what happened

988
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: for sure, they knew about it before we did, right,

989
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: Peloton knew about it before we did. They got probably

990
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:14,959
Speaker 1: either had it screened for them or leaked out. And

991
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: you know, they have like corporations have intelligence agencies working

992
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: for them, just the same as governments. So I'm sure

993
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: they were all over it. I doubt that they encouraged

994
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: them to, uh, like do this, because a brands are

995
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: like not that smart. They're not that kind of smart, right,

996
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: they always like play it safe. But also they have

997
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: been killing people like recently, and it's been a huge

998
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: like hit to their share prices. Pelotons have been killing. Yeah,

999
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: so they had a treadmill that killed a child, and

1000
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: there was a like call to issue a recall on

1001
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: their treadmills, and they you know, pumped the brakes on

1002
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: that they wanted to examine whether that was the right

1003
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: thing to do based on how not profitable it was.

1004
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: Do you know what happened but with the child, No,

1005
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I think it involved like them

1006
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: getting stuck underneath or something. It's really horrifying. Treadmills in

1007
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: general are fucking dangerous and exercise is terrible, you guys, Yeah,

1008
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: but exactly it's the devil, right, ye, satanic panic. So

1009
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: I would say, don't hate Peloton for like killing a

1010
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: fictional character. I hate them for fighting a recall for

1011
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: a product they knew led to the death of a child.

1012
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: And also their stock is like so a lot of

1013
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: people were reporting that the stock was down based on

1014
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: this storyline. The stock has been down like overall like

1015
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: across the you know, yeah, I didn't know that because

1016
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: I had heard that it went down in relation to

1017
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: this show. So I was like, wow, that actually not

1018
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: that I have, you know, not that my heart bleeds

1019
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: for Pelton, but like that does suck for them if

1020
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: this caused that, But no, this didn't cause that. It's

1021
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: that and they just they they over forecasted what they thought,

1022
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, how many more sign ups they'd have in

1023
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: one without realizing like what reopening would do for people's

1024
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: exercise habits. Yeah, but I'm just surprised they didn't really

1025
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: put the knife in and carries like getting really specific

1026
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: to like slam Pelotons, like, oh my god, big, why

1027
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: did you take a power zones class with Alex Toussaint.

1028
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: You know it's too hard for you, and like looking

1029
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: directing the camera with those but who knows it was

1030
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: a real Peloton instructor who played the instructor in the show,

1031
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: though they changed they changed the name, but did get

1032
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: the actual instructor to Allegra, everyone's favorite anti histamine. They're

1033
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: always like, hey, what happened when you shot with the

1034
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 1: Sex and City? What what went down to anything? How

1035
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: was it with Peloton? Yeah, like that's another example of

1036
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: like how they probably like figured out yeah, nothing, nothing,

1037
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: it was really fun. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, the guy died.

1038
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mr Peloton, But I mean I like this

1039
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: goes directly towards like what is a risk with Peloton,

1040
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, you see him doing the

1041
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: workout and he's being like coach slash, like you know,

1042
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: yelled at by an instructor who's you know, hundreds of

1043
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: miles away from him, and but like is telling him

1044
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: to like, you know, really step it up. And it's

1045
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: like he's a six year old guy, and like who

1046
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: probably thinks she's attracted. I mean they make jokes about

1047
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: how he thinks she's attractive throughout the show, So it's like,

1048
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, it feels like that's not a great

1049
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: like set up for people not to die of heart attacks.

1050
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: Like That's what I'm curious about is like how many

1051
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: people are dying against any exercise video service, you know,

1052
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: like if you're doing P ninety x or and you know,

1053
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 1: like stuff like that in the past. Like at a

1054
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: certain point you have to know yourself. And if you

1055
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: she sees me, Miles, she sees me. She likes me

1056
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: to play Devil's Advocate with pen and the Ax or

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Speaker 1: you know what is typo is that what it was

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Speaker 1: called that um you know that you're watching something taped,

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Speaker 1: whereas with peloton there is the illusion that they that

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Speaker 1: it is two ways and that it's unique, you know,

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Speaker 1: the direction is like unique to you, and this is

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Speaker 1: his thousand th ride and he's excited that he's going

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Speaker 1: to get a shout out from the instructor who he

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Speaker 1: has a crush on. So they're really just like kind

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Speaker 1: of hone in on the on it. But I'm like,

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Speaker 1: in my mind, like that doesn't seem logical, you know,

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Speaker 1: like to would be like, no, man, these pelots they'll

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Speaker 1: fucking kill you because they try and get you to

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Speaker 1: do more than you can. That's do you have a peloton?

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Speaker 1: Why is that relevant? Good question? Because I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: love Alex too Zones class. I've noticed people who do

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Speaker 1: peloton immediately become converts to it and are like it's

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Speaker 1: actually pretty great, Like I kind of love it, and

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Speaker 1: so I'm just curious. Yeah, I'm not going to do

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Speaker 1: an ad for them right now based on what we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about, but there's they're definitely parts of it

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Speaker 1: where I'm surprised for me as such little motivation to exercise,

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Speaker 1: that something got my stinking ass to do something more

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Speaker 1: than like for a week straight. Yeah, this is what

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Speaker 1: they say. This is what they say. That's what they say,

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Speaker 1: That's how they get you next thing. You know you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about my death on this thing. So

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Speaker 1: you do have one comment? If I were to have one,

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Speaker 1: I hope Peloton would understand what the value is of

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Speaker 1: my brain, Ambassador SI, particularly tumultuous time at the moment,

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Speaker 1: your chill for the bike. If you did have one,

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Speaker 1: how many times would you find yourself using it? Like

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Speaker 1: on a on a weekly basis? How frequently we're time?

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Speaker 1: What four times a week? If I did yeah, if

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Speaker 1: if I did it? Which if I did it? By O. J. Simpson.

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Speaker 1: It's about me owning a ploton. All right, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like

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Speaker 1: and review the show. If you like the show, uh

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Speaker 1: means the world to Miles. He needs your validation. Folks.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will

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Speaker 1: talk to you Monday. By S.