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Speaker 2: here we are.
Speaker 1: Here we are folks. Uh, Hi, Miles, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm well how about you?
Speaker 3: Oh great? This is we're like.
Speaker 1: Two hours into recording together for the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, So that's why it sounds weird. Not
Speaker 4: because we secretly hate each other, we really love each other.
Speaker 2: Because this is you say that.
Speaker 3: I told you not to say that. Okay, sorry, damn
Speaker 3: it anyway.
Speaker 1: Ruins the illusion, the illuse trent, the loose trends we got.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. This is gonna be the whole episode.
Speaker 1: I've had a cough for like six weeks. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: had one, like a wet cough too.
Speaker 2: Joel had one. I mean I might have one. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask justin if if it's subsided. Everyone's
Speaker 4: got this like for me, it's all like post nasal drip,
Speaker 4: tickling my throat from the allergies.
Speaker 1: Tickling thems vocal cords. But anyway, let's tell the people
Speaker 1: about some things that are trending. There's there's a new
Speaker 1: thing happening on in the world of I guess tech
Speaker 1: and the right. But shakespeare skepticism mainly.
Speaker 3: That Shakespeare was good.
Speaker 1: It's not that like Shakespeare like didn't exist or he was,
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of different writers. It's like, what
Speaker 1: you think Shakespeare good? I mean, let me hit you
Speaker 1: with some Baysian with the Baysian priors on that, my dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's a new book by Michael Lewis where he
Speaker 1: was kicking it with Sam bankmin Free during the collapse
Speaker 1: of his empire, and I'll I'll just quote from the
Speaker 1: book to Sam's way of thinking. The case against Shakespeare
Speaker 1: could be made with basic statistics.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I could.
Speaker 1: And this is from him. I could go on and
Speaker 1: on about the failings of Shakespeare, but really I shouldn't
Speaker 1: need to. The Baysian priors are pretty damning. About half
Speaker 1: the people born since sixteen hundred have been born in
Speaker 1: the past hundred years. But it gets much worse than that.
Speaker 1: When Shakespeare wrote, almost all Europeans were busy farming and
Speaker 1: very few people attended university. Few people were even literate,
Speaker 1: probably as low as ten million people. By contrast, they're
Speaker 1: now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere.
Speaker 1: What are the odds that the greatest writer would have
Speaker 1: been born in fifteen sixty four? The Bayesian priors aren't
Speaker 1: very favorable. God, they love they love a Bayesian fucking prior,
Speaker 1: don't they?
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, they love Baysian statistical and analysis.
Speaker 2: Dude, they're like, yes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: This sucks so bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, like it's it's a great speech about like
Speaker 1: isn't it amazing that Shakespeare was such.
Speaker 3: An incredible writer like he might yet at a.
Speaker 1: Time when like it's it's so wild that he was
Speaker 1: like just so incredible with like that that like our
Speaker 1: greatest writer lived at this time. It's a real like
Speaker 1: anomaly and it doesn't make sense. But clearly he lived,
Speaker 1: you know, he wrote, and everybody, like most people who
Speaker 1: are literate agree his ship is pretty good. And instead
Speaker 1: he's like, so therefore he must suck. He must just
Speaker 1: not be good if he listens.
Speaker 4: Sorry, that's how you just look at the world. You're
Speaker 4: like weird rigid statistical analysis. No wonder you're into effective
Speaker 4: altruism because there's no such thing for just God. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't sure I'm Shakespeare fine, I'm not a fan
Speaker 4: or a hater. I'm like, yeah, oh yeah, cool Shakespeare.
Speaker 4: But like the idea that like cool Shakespeare. Oh cool Shakespeare. Sure, man,
Speaker 4: if that's what you're into. But like the arrogance people
Speaker 4: being like this is just not that good, like come
Speaker 4: on whatever, or like I could do that really.
Speaker 3: Richard Hannania, who is guy. He's a writer.
Speaker 1: He's the author of like some books about the woke mob.
Speaker 3: I think is mainly like.
Speaker 2: What origins of woke?
Speaker 3: His origins of woke?
Speaker 1: President of CSPI Center or who the fuck knows what
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 4: The Center for the Study of Partisanship in Ideology former
Speaker 4: UT Austin.
Speaker 1: Huh, I wonder what happened when at UT Austin. Anyways,
Speaker 1: he has come through and said, pretty sure, if you
Speaker 1: gave me a year, I could write Shakespeare quality work,
Speaker 1: Like if someone hadn't read all of Shakespeare and you
Speaker 1: randomly gave them me or him on average, they couldn't
Speaker 1: tell the difference. Of course, without the blind test, people
Speaker 1: would pretend it wasn't as good. I don't have time,
Speaker 1: of course. Okay, so I don't think I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: But if someone wanted.
Speaker 3: To, so I could write Shakespeare quality work. But I
Speaker 3: don't have time.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, it's such a great dude, that's the same thing.
Speaker 1: Was just be fucking boring.
Speaker 4: This is such rage a with the fucking glasses being
Speaker 4: broken energy, Yeah, go ahead, these are indestructible glasses. Break Yeah,
Speaker 4: I dare they can't break. And then when they do it,
Speaker 4: I don't care do it.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I have time.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, okay, this guy also too.
Speaker 4: As I read more about his book, well, this guy's
Speaker 4: a fucking trash white supremacist man. He's talking about like
Speaker 4: the fucking Civil Rights like act. It was like the
Speaker 4: origins of the downfall of America.
Speaker 3: Complete.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, gay, but hey, I'd love to see you try.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not even out here.
Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, I couldn't write a fucking sound it
Speaker 4: if I wanted to, yeah, because my brain isn't in
Speaker 4: that space. But I bet I could smoke a more
Speaker 4: weed than Shakespeare. I'd be a better battle rapper than
Speaker 4: William Shakespeare.
Speaker 1: Oh man, way do you see uh lin Manuel Miranda's
Speaker 1: Shakespeare biopic?
Speaker 2: That's could it shot?
Speaker 4: Like those YouTube like rap battle videos where it's like
Speaker 4: a whole like there's like a whole cipher of people.
Speaker 3: And he's like, oh, next, big Bill.
Speaker 2: With the fucking ruffled collar and ship.
Speaker 1: Big Willie shaky spear is uh. Dan O'Brien once called
Speaker 1: him in a column, and I've never forgotten Big Willie
Speaker 1: shaky spear, shaky spear. All right, Kevin McCarthy, We're not
Speaker 1: We're not through with him yet, folks.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's claiming that what what happened in Israel,
Speaker 1: uh is probably gonna happen in the United States when
Speaker 1: you look at the dang border right here on there,
Speaker 1: And have you.
Speaker 4: Seen, dude, that was another huge misinformation ship that goring there,
Speaker 4: Like oh yeah, like Hamas is activating terrorist cells in
Speaker 4: the United States because.
Speaker 2: Of the poorest southern border.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: Like it was so weird to see people share like
Speaker 4: potential like warnings but not give detail or like if
Speaker 4: you actually care about people, wouldn't you like alert people?
Speaker 4: Or you're just saying like I've heard some weird stuff
Speaker 4: and it's all because of the border.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: We found we found a way to make it about
Speaker 4: everything else again.
Speaker 3: But anyway.
Speaker 1: He also doesn't know when to quit, and is saying
Speaker 1: that he might be open to reclaiming the post from
Speaker 1: which he was ousted last week.
Speaker 3: This fool is just dude, can't Yeah, who is this?
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, Apollo Creed I liked, So it's not
Speaker 4: someone I want to be like, stay down, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, was that was that him? When they're like stay down?
Speaker 2: You seeing like that?
Speaker 3: What's a boxing movie where they're like stay down?
Speaker 1: Well rock He's like, I'm gonna throw in the towel
Speaker 1: and he's like, we're not You're not right. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: that's maybe the big big energy of like no towel, no,
Speaker 1: no towel. You're like, oh, sir, buddy, okay, but like
Speaker 1: but I'm not rooting for you, so in a way
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, go ahead, yeah, yeah, yeah, no towel,
Speaker 1: no towel. Right, right, Actually, get up, get on up,
Speaker 1: Get on up, James Brown.
Speaker 2: Come on now, let's see it.
Speaker 3: Show the intro music for Apollo Creed entering the room.
Speaker 2: That's okay, so we've got something here.
Speaker 3: Woke, get on up, all right, Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 1: So he floated the possibility on Monday that he might
Speaker 1: be open to reclaiming the post, summoned reporters to Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill to lay out a plan to defend Israel and
Speaker 1: rescue American captives, and it just felt like he was
Speaker 1: still trying to interview for the job that he just.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's like truly has that energy of like
Speaker 4: dress for the job that you want, right even though
Speaker 4: you don't have it where it's like, okay, you might
Speaker 4: say that, but we already saw who the news speaker is.
Speaker 2: It's the little guy with the with the boat tie
Speaker 2: who likes to do smash. He smashed with the gavel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does her gabble anymore?
Speaker 3: Like is that his thing? Maybe?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I think they're on a recess right now.
Speaker 2: They may be coming back.
Speaker 4: But again, it's also just another complication because as much
Speaker 4: as you know, like any kind of aid package that
Speaker 4: would potentially go to Israel like has to be you know,
Speaker 4: what Congress would need to vote on that, but without
Speaker 4: a speaker and like it being in dis like it
Speaker 4: makes things a little bit sticky.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is it's a lot. There's a lot
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 4: There's a lot going on, and Kevin McCarthy just doesn't
Speaker 4: know when to I mean maybe he does know.
Speaker 2: It would be so.
Speaker 4: Wild if he was able to regain the speakership. That
Speaker 4: would just make their republic like somehow No, there's no
Speaker 4: way they can look more clowny or unseerious at this point,
Speaker 4: so it would be predictable at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really feels like one of those things where like, wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: have you ever known somebody who like that they're trying
Speaker 1: to break up with someone, Like they break up with
Speaker 1: them for like a minute, and then like it's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're going to get back together, even though really I
Speaker 1: feel like.
Speaker 4: They say they break up all the time, it's not
Speaker 4: even fucking real. Dude, Yeah, just said the next wedding, So.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest about our conference.
Speaker 1: Is our conference just going to elect somebody to throw
Speaker 1: them out in another thirty five days, That's what he
Speaker 1: told reporters. So like, I don't want the job back,
Speaker 1: but like, come on, sure, if you get somebody else
Speaker 1: isn't the same hang on her home runs, just putting
Speaker 1: it out there. All right, let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. We'll be back, and we're back,
Speaker 1: We're back, and yeah, so, uh, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of there's like viral tweets going around that I
Speaker 1: keep seeing like people being like you should reach out
Speaker 1: to your Jewish friends and like let them know that
Speaker 1: you care about them and that you stand if it
Speaker 1: is real, And I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, I guess it's never a bad idea to let somebody.
Speaker 1: Know that you're there for them if they're going through
Speaker 1: a difficult time as the implied, and let them know
Speaker 1: you stand with Israel. That is getting lumped in. It
Speaker 1: feels disingenuous and fucked up. But yeah, like I think
Speaker 1: we all hope our Jewish friends know we stand with
Speaker 1: them in opposition to anti Semitism and the slaughter of
Speaker 1: innocent people, and hope they would stand with us in
Speaker 1: opposition to white supremacy and the slaughter of yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Palestinian people.
Speaker 4: Like I think it's a little I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's like the same kind of like binary right in
Speaker 4: just like so many people are experiencing this in from
Speaker 4: so many different perspectives, whether you're like come from an
Speaker 4: oppressed form or colonized society, community culture that is looking
Speaker 4: at it this way, from people who have friends or
Speaker 4: family in Israel who are just absolutely aghast at like
Speaker 4: how horrific the violence is. I think the thing that's
Speaker 4: really alarming for me is how much the media airwave
Speaker 4: battle is being won by Israel and their interests, because
Speaker 4: I'm seeing so many things that is just casually saying
Speaker 4: the most dehumanizing language, Like Marco Rubio, he is not
Speaker 4: able to differentiate between Hamas and Palistine Indian people living
Speaker 4: in Gaza. He's like the way that like Palestinians are
Speaker 4: even being all lumped in this together as a way
Speaker 4: to be like, yeah, like they need to be eradicated,
Speaker 4: And you're like, who, I'm just saying Gaza, it's got
Speaker 4: to like it. That's what's really freaking me out, Like
Speaker 4: the momentum at which we're just accepting violence around this
Speaker 4: whole thing and not actually trying to understand like how
Speaker 4: this can how we can like overcome anything, if there's
Speaker 4: any sort of solution here, and just rather than being
Speaker 4: like yeah, so that terrible thing happens. So I guess
Speaker 4: now just have to destroy a city where the median
Speaker 4: age is like eighteen because like almost children, Yeah, almost
Speaker 4: half of the people that live there are are children
Speaker 4: in Gaza.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Israeli Defense minister like saying we
Speaker 1: are fighting human animals and we act accordingly in a
Speaker 1: speech where you know, is also saying like we are
Speaker 1: imposing a complete siege on Gaza. There will be no electricity,
Speaker 1: no food, no water, no fuel, everything will be closed.
Speaker 3: Like that shit is just like that's like five alarm fire.
Speaker 1: And as that is being said at that time, as
Speaker 1: that press conference was happening, that is when like NBA
Speaker 1: teams are coming up like making statements about standing with Israel,
Speaker 1: and you know, the President of the United States, it's
Speaker 1: taught making statements about standing with Israel, and yeah, it
Speaker 1: just it feels like, I don't know, the same thing
Speaker 1: is not being said about standing with innocent Palestinian people
Speaker 1: being slaughtered.
Speaker 4: No, no, And I think that's that's what's a little
Speaker 4: bit weird, is I mean not weird like we were
Speaker 4: saying before America, especially American media, because we also have
Speaker 4: our colonial history.
Speaker 2: It's just like a dimension that isn't spoken about.
Speaker 4: Like so many things I see like on CNNMSNBC are
Speaker 4: like the like horrific violence committed by Hamas. So now
Speaker 4: like that rhetorically feels like therefore every person in Gaza's
Speaker 4: fair game to die. And that is where like you're like,
Speaker 4: we're completely losing sight of everything. But I don't know
Speaker 4: if what I expect because America's you know, like again
Speaker 4: they're steadfast to send whatever is needed there. I don't
Speaker 4: know at what point America gets involved. I know you
Speaker 4: hear like the punditry class talk about it's like, well,
Speaker 4: this is where this is Joe Biden's moment where he
Speaker 4: has to project power and he has to project the
Speaker 4: authority of the United States. And I'm like, this is
Speaker 4: such a weird calculus about Joe Biden's reelection that like
Speaker 4: it's going to be all this like bluster talk when
Speaker 4: we're talking about so many innocent people, like the people
Speaker 4: of Israel are bearing the brunt of the foreign policy
Speaker 4: decisions of their government, and the people of Palestine also
Speaker 4: are caught up in this mix too, And then you
Speaker 4: have people like Marco Ruby was like there's no off
Speaker 4: ramp for this. There's no off ramp for this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that inevitability I think is really disturbing and not
Speaker 4: taking into again like the like how different it is
Speaker 4: like this, Like again, like the defenseman was saying, they
Speaker 4: have the ability to cut off power and water and
Speaker 4: food to Gaza. That is that is asymmetrical.
Speaker 1: Uh, Like I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to do
Speaker 1: that to yes, yes, and people to non military.
Speaker 4: A civilian population again, and the argument will be is
Speaker 4: like that that I've heard people say that, like the
Speaker 4: people in Gaza should have known that Hamas was going
Speaker 4: to do this, Therefore they're complicit and we're it's just
Speaker 4: like it's wild how even on the other side. And
Speaker 4: and then but then you now see like more you
Speaker 4: see increased Islamophobia, you see increased anti Semitism, right, and
Speaker 4: all that rhetoric is just like spiraling in a way
Speaker 4: that like I'm it's just this just looks like it's
Speaker 4: it's just going to get worse and worse and worse,
Speaker 4: Like for the entire region.
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree to be against the
Speaker 1: murdering of children and innocent.
Speaker 2: Across the board. It doesn't seem like too hortic, but
Speaker 2: that I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but again, that's that's why I'm like, uh, I,
Speaker 4: there's so much like this conflict is so loaded and
Speaker 4: there's so much tension around it that like one sentence
Speaker 4: can be perceived like eight hundred different ways depending on
Speaker 4: your worldview. And I think that's also a really dangerous
Speaker 4: thing because it's it's also like it's just creating even
Speaker 4: increased conflict between I'm even seeing it like in Instagram
Speaker 4: posts between people like that we're not really political, but anyway,
Speaker 4: I'm we're just here watching in awe and then I'm
Speaker 4: just left here thinking of like even the United States
Speaker 4: place and all of this, and it's all, fuck, it's
Speaker 4: we're all we're all so connected in this way that's
Speaker 4: really unavoidable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I like, innocent children, innocent people have been
Speaker 1: being killed on the Palestinian side for a long time
Speaker 1: and it was just being ignored. So like that's when
Speaker 1: people are like, you know, call your friends on this side,
Speaker 1: not that side. It's like, well, you know, that doesn't
Speaker 1: that doesn't really make sense to me, And it does
Speaker 1: seem like I can see how like something that seems
Speaker 1: well intentioned like that can feel like a fuck you
Speaker 1: to one's side, you know.
Speaker 4: The sort of like both sides of it too isn't helpful.
Speaker 4: But again, I think like everyone is trying to point
Speaker 4: out like that what is important to them in this instance.
Speaker 4: But we're we're looking at a situation that from the beginning,
Speaker 4: we're just seeing that the violence begets more violence, yeah,
Speaker 4: and more destruction, and it's poisoning everyone at the end
Speaker 4: of the day. But this is what happens when people
Speaker 4: are colonized or occupied. It will fucking destroy you as
Speaker 4: a person. Yea, Like when the place that you believe
Speaker 4: you live, the country you believe you have, is gone.
Speaker 4: That does things that most American people don't understand either.
Speaker 4: And I think there's also like a very there's a
Speaker 4: unique American ignorance that I see like applied to all
Speaker 4: of this too, that people just look at it through
Speaker 4: like the perspective of whatever they know, which is really
Speaker 4: narrow in the context of shit that can happen to
Speaker 4: you as a human being on planet Earth. Like you know,
Speaker 4: we're we live in a place that fortunately has never
Speaker 4: had a fucking like ground war, air war like reach
Speaker 4: its shores like to the continental mainland, so it's like
Speaker 4: an obscure thing, and airstrikes are like, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 4: sirens gone, and I see it on TV without understanding
Speaker 4: like what the horror is of that. So yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of people are learning in real time, it feels
Speaker 4: like online, which.
Speaker 2: Is very, very freaky.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like the United States particularly has the
Speaker 1: muscles built up for ignoring the consequences of like aerial bombardment,
Speaker 1: Like you see a flash of fire and a cloud
Speaker 1: of dust, and that's just a thing that happens on
Speaker 1: the news in a foreign country like that, that's the
Speaker 1: only context that Americans have, And so that's.
Speaker 4: When I think that's why the invasion of Ukraine was
Speaker 4: like horrifying to a lot of like American people, because
Speaker 4: they suddenly saw themselves in the faces of these like
Speaker 4: Western European looking people. Yeah, like, oh my god, that's horrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, we seem to.
Speaker 1: Come back to white supremacy repeatedly, over and over again. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, well, those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending. We are back tomorrow with the whole lest
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bite bite