Speaker 1: My body is like fucking either because I'm forty or
Speaker 1: just from having whatever. Dude, I was so fucking sick.
Speaker 1: It was. It was awful. The worst, man, it was
Speaker 1: because it wasn't even like I think it had to
Speaker 1: have been some kind of bacterial thing because it flew
Speaker 1: through this entire friend group. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had that like Thanksgiving one time at my parents'
Speaker 2: house where like we had two baby three babies in
Speaker 2: the house and something just blew through and everybody right
Speaker 2: got hit.
Speaker 1: It was because I remember like the sequence of it
Speaker 1: was luckily I was the last to get sick, because
Speaker 1: the worst is like sick parent plus sick kid. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah when that was happening, and I had to take
Speaker 1: off like on Tuesday, like that's because it was so sick,
Speaker 1: and like she was getting sick er he was sick.
Speaker 1: Then fucking Wednesday, dude, I was. I just woke up
Speaker 1: fucking like.
Speaker 2: The worst.
Speaker 1: Uh. And you fear all your farts, you know, Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: can't trust the fart, can't trust them. I can't never
Speaker 1: trust a big fart with a smile. Never, dang, look
Speaker 1: at that fart over there. I think it's smiling at me. No, smile.
Speaker 2: Nope, I looks like it'll just be dry and loud.
Speaker 2: Why are you?
Speaker 1: No, No, that's not what's gonna happen. Do you know
Speaker 1: why you're sick? Because that sandwich had poising food poisoned,
Speaker 1: poison poison. All right, I think that was pretty good.
Speaker 2: And I think that's good.
Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition
Speaker 1: of Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's Productive by Heart Radio, and it's a podcast where
Speaker 2: we take a deep down into america shared consciousness. And
Speaker 2: it's the episode where we tell you what was trending
Speaker 2: over the weekend. What is going on with us? Miles?
Speaker 2: Are we announcing it? Are we are we acknowledging?
Speaker 1: Yep? The show is over, folks. It's been a great run.
Speaker 1: We almost made seven years, but Jack and I have
Speaker 1: decided to hang up the headphones. Is that the time on? No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no not yet.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thank god, thank god.
Speaker 2: The other thing about your This is now a show
Speaker 2: hosted by.
Speaker 1: Two Okay, okay, okay, okay, no. No, I'm babe, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm forty baby. This is day one, man, our day too.
Speaker 1: I guess Day one is my actual birthday, which was yesterday. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I wish it felt more. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: where a lot of people were like, Y know me,
Speaker 1: like you're forty. I was like, bro, I was actually
Speaker 1: in my mind I thought turning thirty was a bigger deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like once, I probably just maturity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think also like it. It feels like
Speaker 1: a very like old school like over the like shit,
Speaker 1: how our parents looked at turning forty, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that yeah kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I remember when my dad turned forty and was like, whoh,
Speaker 1: he's your dad's forty And I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: know what the fuck? He looks the same. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like Hallmark card over forty, Like turning forty is.
Speaker 2: Like bald heads, like big beer belly.
Speaker 1: You're describing me right now, big old beer belly filled
Speaker 1: with Dunkin Donuts right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I gotta get it together there. But yeah, anyway, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a wonderful, wonderful time as I recovered from
Speaker 1: my terrible health. Yeah, but yeah, I'm back. I'm back.
Speaker 1: I'm back.
Speaker 2: Sometimes your body just has to you know, let you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: let you let you know.
Speaker 1: Hey, Sometimes sometimes a virus just has to pop out
Speaker 1: and show you. Uh, that's that your body is mortal
Speaker 1: and it can be turned into a curled up ball
Speaker 1: if if it has to. You're trying to feel like
Speaker 1: forty is no big deal. Oh my friend, yeah, old
Speaker 1: my tears.
Speaker 2: Before we get into the news, we like to get
Speaker 2: to know each other a little better. Yeah, by telling
Speaker 2: you something that is going on with us, something we
Speaker 2: think is underrated, something we think's overrated. How do you
Speaker 2: want to kick us off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'll say underrated Crofton style YouTube channels, And
Speaker 1: by that I don't mean like like just chaotic gen
Speaker 1: xers screaming like into a mic. I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: this ship Crofton pulls up and he's like, I'm into mudlarking.
Speaker 1: I'm into these guys who look for fucking mind shafts. Again,
Speaker 1: during my illness, I could not fucking do anything, and
Speaker 1: it was tough to Like I needed it. I wanted
Speaker 1: to occupy my senses, but I didn't want to watch
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I didn't have the capacity to watch a
Speaker 1: show or like something funny, even like comforting, Like I
Speaker 1: thought I'd watched Simpsons and I was like, ah, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm just in such pain. That's starting to
Speaker 1: hate the Simpsons, right, No, yeah, real, I hate that
Speaker 1: feeling where you just like, can't you feel so bad
Speaker 1: that like you can't even enjoy the things you enjoy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly so. And I stumbled upon this YouTube channel called
Speaker 1: Drain Cleaning Australia and it's this this alsie guy. Mind
Speaker 1: he's from Western Australia. We're out here, we're out here
Speaker 1: in path and he he is so fucking into his job,
Speaker 1: like just just clearing out backed up drains like people
Speaker 1: like have shit exploding out of their drains.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, this.
Speaker 1: Is what dreams are made up. Boys, look at these.
Speaker 1: This thing was absolutely like chocola might like this thing
Speaker 1: is chocolate block. He keeps saying everything's chalkers because when
Speaker 1: it's blocked, and his ability again it's it's you can
Speaker 1: hear this smile like as he like, I'm just gonna play.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what clip this is, but here's
Speaker 1: you can just hear him and clear. So let's invest
Speaker 1: the guy and say you want to be clear this
Speaker 1: drine anywhere's it go pro at least will be a
Speaker 1: sticky bake. And saw the cabinet here and you can
Speaker 1: say this is the wise.
Speaker 2: Pap trapped here.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm listening to this guy. He like plays
Speaker 1: like weird eighties karate music. When he's like yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's fire the Jenner up boys and the
Speaker 1: power washer, like the fucking jet stream whatever thing he's
Speaker 1: unclogging and then it goes like this like synth track.
Speaker 1: It's like dot and it's wow. It's like he was
Speaker 1: gonna say he has the energy of a DJ who's
Speaker 1: about to drop the beat. Yeah, he sounds so he's
Speaker 1: just like, oh, exactly, it's like, oh, I love He's like.
Speaker 2: This thing is like what I'm about to do to them.
Speaker 1: I think it's because like they all these videos, they
Speaker 1: all have like there's like three acts, you know, like
Speaker 1: there's a resolution at the end. There's like a it's
Speaker 1: like the hero's journey. It all it's all wraps up.
Speaker 1: He wins. There's sometimes there's a bunch of sewage that
Speaker 1: explodes everywhere, but he does it with such a like
Speaker 1: you can hear how happy he is that it's like
Speaker 1: working and he's always like, seriously, I love my job.
Speaker 1: Everyone like this is actually the happiest time I ever been,
Speaker 1: and You're like, this is dope, And so I realized
Speaker 1: I found my I found a channel that spoke to me.
Speaker 1: I was not put for for whatever reason, during my
Speaker 1: even with my own gastro intestinal troubles, I was not
Speaker 1: put off by seeing large amounts of raw sewage like
Speaker 1: backed up out of places.
Speaker 2: I feel like could be the last thing I'd want
Speaker 2: to see, but maybe not. Maybe just with that going
Speaker 2: on inside me, like all the yeah, when that is
Speaker 2: what's like happening in your biome.
Speaker 1: Mair of the dog they call it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're like the biome because we're all just
Speaker 2: like half biome thinking for us, you know, like millions
Speaker 2: of organisms. Maybe they're just like we want to see
Speaker 2: some like I want to see some pipe clear and
Speaker 2: porn down here if possible, right right right, that's so interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, So I recommend it. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: there's it's joyful, uh and easy to watch. So I
Speaker 1: just found that that kind of channel very underrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like somebody needs to just like do
Speaker 2: a skim Like when the before the Internet was broken,
Speaker 2: when people actually like made content on there, I feel
Speaker 2: like you could have done just like maybe a single
Speaker 2: web page that indexed things that are like good to
Speaker 2: watch when you are sick, right, you know, like just because.
Speaker 1: Normal like your brain just changes. There's like a change
Speaker 1: in the chemistry of your brain. So, yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: have a bandwidth for entertainment, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: There are what I.
Speaker 2: Gang hit us up with your sick like entertainment, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I I definitely have that. I've like got a
Speaker 2: queue of movies that i want to watch. But if
Speaker 2: I'm sick, like there's just something about that that's like
Speaker 2: too too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you feel all right?
Speaker 2: Uh my underrated as insects just a dead bug with
Speaker 2: my head, got got into bugs. Uh, just spending a
Speaker 2: lot of time driving around uh with my kids with
Speaker 2: the show. But how on it's a podcast, but how
Speaker 2: that I highly recommend, and like the person who hosts
Speaker 2: it is great and obsessed with bugs and so like
Speaker 2: even a subject that doesn't seem like it will be
Speaker 2: about bugs like wraps around to like having an interesting
Speaker 2: bug fact here and there. But I'm coming away just
Speaker 2: feeling like all the bug like a bu bugs life
Speaker 2: ants that we blew it folks like so boring compared
Speaker 2: to the reality of an actual bugs life. First of all,
Speaker 2: they're you know, these massive wars that are happening beneath
Speaker 2: our feet, like between ant colonies, like massive nations of ants.
Speaker 2: One type of vant has been like waging a world
Speaker 2: war with another type of VANT for years. But this,
Speaker 2: this is the detail that got me this weekend. Insects
Speaker 2: will just pick up and fly away on a wind gust.
Speaker 2: Like when you look up in the sky and see
Speaker 2: a clear blue sky, that's because your eyes aren't good
Speaker 2: enough to see the hundreds of thousands of bugs that
Speaker 2: are just like surfing around on wind currents at any
Speaker 2: given time above all this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or just because they're so light, they're like ah shit.
Speaker 2: Later, I don't know. Yeah, Like part of me, I'm
Speaker 2: hoping that they do it for like timing, like they
Speaker 2: just like say something awesome like that would be the
Speaker 2: greatest ability to have, is just do you like say
Speaker 2: something devastating and they because all they do, all they
Speaker 2: have to do because they're so light, is in the
Speaker 2: right conditions, just lift their hands up and then they
Speaker 2: just get taken away off sucked right off into the
Speaker 2: sky miles. I did think about you and quietly say
Speaker 2: they're getting sucked off into the sky. Shut off, shut off, nothing, nothing,
Speaker 2: but yeah, like they found a termite at nineteen thousand
Speaker 2: feet in the air. One scientist estimates that three billion
Speaker 2: insects are passing over our heads in a given month,
Speaker 2: depending on where we live. Yeah, it's just like a fucking.
Speaker 1: Rip, just talking about non byway of yeah, non flying
Speaker 1: bugs in a lot of cases. Wow wow wow, Which
Speaker 1: also goes back to my thing on alien sightings, like
Speaker 1: the sky is so fucking huge, Like we truly don't
Speaker 1: know half of the shit when it comes to like
Speaker 1: what's happening over our heads. We just think because we
Speaker 1: see a tiny white plane, that's all the tuff. But
Speaker 1: those things are like those planes are massive. Like we
Speaker 1: go to the airplane, Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's all these little fuckers flying around, and yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know, like if if that was an ability that
Speaker 2: any species had, I feel like if you're making a
Speaker 2: movie about them, like that should just be it.
Speaker 1: You're just like, yeah, there's cooler shit to be like, Yo,
Speaker 1: we got to catch this wind gust, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And they're also a good thing to get
Speaker 2: interested in, like whether you have kids or not. But
Speaker 2: like specifically if you have kids, because they're just like
Speaker 2: around us everywhere, so you just like this weekend, we
Speaker 2: were having a tough moment, my eight year old and
Speaker 2: I walking down the street. He was said, and I
Speaker 2: saw a beetle on the ground with like a cool
Speaker 2: red pattern on its back, and I was just like, hey, beetle.
Speaker 2: And then we just like focused on that for the
Speaker 2: next ten minutes. And like there's this The seek app
Speaker 2: highly recommend for any parents or just anybody interested in
Speaker 2: the world around them, because you can just put it
Speaker 2: up and it'll tell you what species it is, and
Speaker 2: then you have like reading material and like, oh.
Speaker 1: No, it's poisonous, but down shit.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so insects really shout out them insects, And yeah,
Speaker 2: I definitely have like a natural aversion to like bugs
Speaker 2: and mosquitoes. And this podcast host I'm gonna look up
Speaker 2: her name, is like, we don't know why people like
Speaker 2: they just at a certain point, as children, we're told
Speaker 2: by our parents we should be afraid of bugs. And
Speaker 2: that's why I'm like, no, it's because they like bite
Speaker 2: you and they're like annoying. There's a very good reason
Speaker 2: to like find them annoying, but they're also like, if
Speaker 2: you just take the time to pay attention to them,
Speaker 2: there is an equally fascinating side that run out way.
Speaker 1: Dismissing, dismissing them because of their grotesque exoskeletons.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, exactly. Men in black really anti bug propaganda
Speaker 2: and I won't stand for it. Miles. What is something
Speaker 2: you think is underrated?
Speaker 1: Uh? Crofton style YouTube channels?
Speaker 2: Miles, And what what I mean, of course, is by saying,
Speaker 2: what's something you think is under it? What's something you
Speaker 2: think is overrated?
Speaker 1: I thought you were just like g checking me really
Speaker 1: quick to see if I'm still standing on that YouTube
Speaker 1: ship and what do you think? Oh so you still
Speaker 1: that's your answer? Oh wow, okay, I thought you're sucking
Speaker 1: around quick.
Speaker 2: Jane Lindholm is the radio who passed her obsession with bugs.
Speaker 1: Oh she passed. I was like, wait what, yes, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, lind Holme overrated. There's like I saw another thing.
Speaker 1: Where's like like over a dozen Reagan allies are now
Speaker 1: back in Kamala Harris. You read like bush app former
Speaker 1: Bush administration officials backing Kamala Harris for all these like
Speaker 1: Republicans backing Kamala and the media treats it like some
Speaker 1: kind of like political checkmate moment where they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh look who's aligned with this side?
Speaker 2: Now, well, well, well and who's cool?
Speaker 1: And I think that's yes. I'm like, while that does
Speaker 1: indicate how sort of repugnant Trump is to these sort
Speaker 1: of like you know, traditional neo cons and also it's
Speaker 1: an indication of just how palatable the Democrats current platform
Speaker 1: is to these neo conservatives. Like that part, I'm like, eh,
Speaker 1: it's not really the flex you think it is, because
Speaker 1: it's not like again, when you look at a lot
Speaker 1: of the policies, they're you know, left of the Republicans,
Speaker 1: but that just again when you compare that to other
Speaker 1: nations we are, that's like basically center right in most instances.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just seeing like the constant, like I see
Speaker 1: a lot of like, oh oh look who just backed
Speaker 1: Kamala and I don't that doesn't mean that Trump has
Speaker 1: lost either. Although the polls are like you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're always they're always fluctuating. The swing states still seem
Speaker 1: very tight. But yeah, but to me, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's not that's not that great to be honest,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I get what we're
Speaker 1: saying that it's a unification against Trump. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, would these would these people still be there
Speaker 1: if it were advocating for things like medicare for all
Speaker 1: or like tangible gun control or these other things. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not quite sure. But either way, not the flex.
Speaker 2: That we're not having it. We're not forcing them to
Speaker 2: uh swallow uncomfortable. Uh you know policies about international relations
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: They seem pretty comfy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's not because they're suddenly cool and they're suddenly
Speaker 2: right on this issue. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's like I can look past all these super
Speaker 1: progressive policies and I still back her. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's like you know, comparative. Yeah, this feels yeah, this
Speaker 1: feels are down the middle enough for me?
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeaheah. My overrated is the phrase sir, this
Speaker 2: is a Wendy's because I was reminded over the weekend
Speaker 2: that we could be saying sir. The question was is
Speaker 2: this your handwriting based on the so I like a
Speaker 2: good sir, this is a Wendy's. Although it's like it's
Speaker 2: one of those things that you know, how the show
Speaker 2: workaholics had like the board of like jokes he must
Speaker 2: stop making yeah, like in They're They're for people who
Speaker 2: don't know their writer's room, had like all the cliched
Speaker 2: comedy jokes that they had been seeing in TV for years,
Speaker 2: like he's standing right behind me, isn't he?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: You know all that shit. They had a board like
Speaker 2: saying barring all of those, sir, this is a Wendy's.
Speaker 2: Comes up a lot in conversations, but the greatest example
Speaker 2: of that actually exists. It's not a hypothetical. It's not
Speaker 2: somebody saying something wild at a Wendy's. It is Donald Sterling's
Speaker 2: deposition from the year two thousand and three. If you
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, I don't know. Is it like too
Speaker 2: offensive to read this shit out? Is it too unpleasant?
Speaker 2: I'll just I'll skip through it. But okay, answer, Well,
Speaker 2: I fool around sometimes I do. When a girl seduces
Speaker 2: me and tells me all these hot stories and dirty things,
Speaker 2: and tells me how much she wants to suck on me,
Speaker 2: and takes my shoes off and licks my feet and
Speaker 2: touches me when I'm in a limousine. She takes all
Speaker 2: of her clothes. The limo driver said, what is going on?
Speaker 2: And she started sucking me on the way to mister
Speaker 2: Kun's house. And I thank her. I thank her for
Speaker 2: making me feel good. A question, sir. The question was,
Speaker 2: is this your handwriting? Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Donald Sterling, disgraced former owner of the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, complete human piece of shit.
Speaker 1: And one of the great racist NBA owners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, billionaire, abusive, like everything about him was racist. The
Speaker 2: way he made his money was racist, his beliefs, what
Speaker 2: he said in private, what he said in public during it,
Speaker 2: he ran the Clippers, but that this was an actual
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, very Trumpian.
Speaker 1: Very The question was is this your handwriting?
Speaker 2: This was circulating again over the weekend, and I've been
Speaker 2: trying to like double check that it's real because it's
Speaker 2: so perfect and I haven't found anybody debunking it anywhere.
Speaker 2: And it is written in the deposition style, so that's
Speaker 2: good enough for me, right right, But it's from two
Speaker 2: thousand and three, and yeah, just you can now you
Speaker 2: can now say, sir. The question was, is this your handwriting?
Speaker 2: If you're looking for a cliche to replace, sir, this
Speaker 2: is a Wendy's exactly all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back to get into some news.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back.
Speaker 2: So Trump posted that he hates Taylor Swift, and then
Speaker 2: not long after that, there was another assassination attempt, another
Speaker 2: planned attempt on his life. I don't I still don't
Speaker 2: know the details. Like we're shots fired at him. No,
Speaker 2: it sounds like they shot at him.
Speaker 1: He fled.
Speaker 2: They shot at the attempted assassin. Yeah, he fled.
Speaker 1: They he hopped in a car. They caught him like
Speaker 1: a couple mile, like thirty miles away or something up
Speaker 1: the highway thirty one. Yeah, something I think so, I mean,
Speaker 1: because the whole thing was that when he led, someone
Speaker 1: noticed him come out of the bushes and like take
Speaker 1: off in a car and they're like, that's weird, and
Speaker 1: took a photo of the car and the license plates.
Speaker 1: And that's how the cops were able to like even
Speaker 1: find him. The sheriff down there said like, if that
Speaker 1: hadn't happened, they're not sure they would have found this guy.
Speaker 2: Wow, which was troubling. It's kind of wild. Like they
Speaker 2: just were doing a sweep of the golf hole Donald
Speaker 2: Trump was about to play and noticed the barrel of
Speaker 2: a long gun poking out of the out of the bushes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why we don't have something more serious that we're
Speaker 2: talking about today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is again, this is what how many days
Speaker 1: has it even been since what July thirteenth? Like two months.
Speaker 2: Basically, I think, yeah, a little over two months. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so the last assassination.
Speaker 1: This is uh yeah, yeah, very Yeah, we are living
Speaker 1: in a wild, wild time right now. But yeah, I mean, like,
Speaker 1: you know, as it stands there, there's still the guy.
Speaker 1: I think the guy just had made his first appearance
Speaker 1: in court and they said he was very like cordial
Speaker 1: with the judge. So I don't I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means about anything. Everyone's looking for a motive.
Speaker 1: It's uh, we're still they're still there's still appiling on
Speaker 1: the evidence. The one thing that seemed clear was that
Speaker 1: he did say that seemed to indicate that he voted
Speaker 1: for Trump in twenty sixteen, vote.
Speaker 2: For twenty sixteen, and seems to be like one of
Speaker 2: these Republicans who's like the soul of our party was
Speaker 2: lost by Trump, you know, right, sullying the good name
Speaker 2: of the Republican Party. But yeah, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're already seeing all the people coming out.
Speaker 1: They're like Trump. It's like they make they talk about
Speaker 1: me so bad, you know, Yeah, they say I'm a
Speaker 1: threat to democracy. And then this stuff happens and Jody
Speaker 1: Foster won an Emmy that day. Does Jody Foster have
Speaker 1: to do something? If you remember Joe, people like to
Speaker 1: impress Jody Foster with ship like this. I mean I
Speaker 1: like to impress Jody Foster, but not like this, not
Speaker 1: like this, Ryan Rauth, Ryan that sucks up your assassin
Speaker 1: Creid is being named Ryan?
Speaker 2: Doesn't it kind of feel weird?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: You know there's good Ryan's out there, you know, not
Speaker 1: all Ryan's.
Speaker 2: But no, not all Ryan's.
Speaker 1: But right, like, I'm not saying anything against Ryan's other
Speaker 1: than that it's a name that doesn't feel like it
Speaker 1: like menacing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well yeah, assassins usually have like Lee Howvey Rillo,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, we got to
Speaker 2: give us something that sounds like it was like carved
Speaker 2: in stone, right Ryan?
Speaker 1: Right? Who is the one who was trying to impress
Speaker 1: Jody Host.
Speaker 2: Yeah, John Hinkley, Yeah right, they I mean, think about
Speaker 2: the fucked up middle name. Hinckley and Ryan Rauth must
Speaker 2: have that. They're not even putting the middle name in
Speaker 2: there describing them because like they stick a middle name. Well,
Speaker 2: they love to stick a middle name whenever somebody does
Speaker 2: the assassination. Like Lee Harvey Oswald was just Lee Oswald.
Speaker 2: But then they were like, how do we make this
Speaker 2: sound more like it belongs in a history book. Uh,
Speaker 2: well we'll drop We'll drop that middle name in there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see and I'll see it that comes out. I
Speaker 2: think I saw Ryan Routh's middle name bandied about yesterday,
Speaker 2: but it's just like not catching on. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's like you have to you it's the like
Speaker 2: attempt that makes it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like aren't we just like past like the
Speaker 1: three name, like the three name heart Throb Era, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Like you know how like there was like Jonathan Taylor Thomas,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like people had like the
Speaker 1: three name like tight teen Tiger beat heart Throb, Chad
Speaker 1: Michael Murray. You know what I mean? That was like
Speaker 1: the way that was sort of the naming convention. Now
Speaker 1: people are just two names.
Speaker 2: So you're blaming Jonathan Taylor Thomas for the fall of
Speaker 2: the Three in a Three names absolutely JTT thing. We
Speaker 2: can't take these.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor Thomas to what has happened the last two months,
Speaker 1: And it's a new podcast I'm working on that Jack
Speaker 1: refuses to engage in, but I'm telling him this thing
Speaker 1: could blow the whole fucking lit off the JTT files. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just there's some interesting theories in there that
Speaker 2: I haven't been able to source myself.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, like I said, you gotta trust me
Speaker 1: and then verify once the show comes out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people were at first because the
Speaker 2: timing was strange because he literally tweeted, I hate Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift exclamation point, all caps, and then hours later we
Speaker 2: were hearing that there was another assassination attempt. People are like, okay,
Speaker 2: definitely a Swift e. We don't And interestingly, as people
Speaker 2: are looking into Ryan Ralth's history, nobody's talking about how
Speaker 2: many streams of you know, Taylor's version albums right in there.
Speaker 1: But sure he didn't donate to Act Blue, you know,
Speaker 1: so it really hard and I think the guy went
Speaker 1: to Ukraine too.
Speaker 2: He really said he was willing to fight for Ukraine,
Speaker 2: and I do think, yeah, he might, he might have
Speaker 2: gone over there, so big Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Guy, Well you know there there there there, there could
Speaker 1: be something there. Who knows.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump, you know you just there's something about
Speaker 1: you at the moment that is inspiring a lot of chaos.
Speaker 1: And I think, I wonder now what this is going
Speaker 1: to do to him, because like first it was like
Speaker 1: an outdoor rally. Now like golf. He loves to golf.
Speaker 1: I don't know if like it's affecting him that much,
Speaker 1: but he was like very quick to be like thank
Speaker 1: you to the decret service. But like, damn, I feel
Speaker 1: like that was like his one happy place. I wonder
Speaker 1: if he is now like again, I don't even I'll
Speaker 1: play virtual golf now, but probably not.
Speaker 2: No, no, nothing will keep him from his golf. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's very like cartoon like dipshit assassination ATTEPT. The guy
Speaker 2: just like a gun barrel poking out of some bushes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very I don't know, I feel like something you would
Speaker 2: see in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, right right. Yeah, it's a little unsettling. How again,
Speaker 1: just like the kinds of people that have like emerged
Speaker 1: to like make these attempts on his life are just
Speaker 1: they're like everyone's like there. His social media posts are
Speaker 1: like chameleon like, like someone described to not understand where
Speaker 1: this person was coming from. The Other thing is he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been in possession of a gun. So there's
Speaker 1: a whole thing of like how did he get an
Speaker 1: AK style rifle? Like who sold it to him? That's yeah,
Speaker 1: you should should not have had it. But again, this
Speaker 1: isn't about it's not gonna be about gun control. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be about both parties being like he's not
Speaker 1: my Guy's not my guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say Russia, you know aka, but the
Speaker 2: you know they You wouldn't think that Russia would be
Speaker 2: wanting to target this guy.
Speaker 1: But hey, when you when you can't legally own a firearm,
Speaker 1: beggars can't be choosers. So he just had to get with,
Speaker 1: you know whatever someone would sell them. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a I'm sure this is an ongoing, evolving story. But
Speaker 1: the bat takes from the right.
Speaker 2: I mean, so Trump came through was like I am
Speaker 2: safe and well, nothing will slow me down, especially not
Speaker 2: after you donate to me, like he turned it into
Speaker 2: a donation opportunity like it was straight away and Elon
Speaker 2: Musk meanwhile, I think, topped him by tweeting that nobody's
Speaker 2: even trying to assassinate Biden Kamala, which, like the no fair,
Speaker 2: nobody's even trying to assassinate me approach is exactly like
Speaker 2: how my children would respond if someone tried to assassinate it.
Speaker 1: How come it's not even fair? Why is ever trying
Speaker 1: to try.
Speaker 2: And get me? Yeah, exactly, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, when you're playing tag or something and like
Speaker 1: somehow like the whole group, like it's like multiple people.
Speaker 2: Come on, some fair, you're ganging up on me. And
Speaker 2: he later deleted that, Oh, which is wild because this
Speaker 2: is a man who you know he has he has
Speaker 2: a bad and stubborn, strong and wrong sense of humor.
Speaker 2: And uh later deleted it, claiming it was just a
Speaker 2: joke that nobody got his real friends who thought it
Speaker 2: was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Well, one lesson I've learned is that just because I
Speaker 1: say something to a group and they laugh, doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's going to be all that hilarious. As a post
Speaker 1: on X, turns out that jokes are way less funny
Speaker 1: if people don't know the context and the delivery is
Speaker 1: plain text. He actually said that, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. I wonder if he'll ever like make the
Speaker 2: connection that the people who are laughing around him are
Speaker 2: just like nervously laughing because those are hot person to
Speaker 2: ever live. Yeah, you are surrounded by hostages.
Speaker 1: You're Tony Soprano. You should be wondering if all those
Speaker 1: laughs are sincere all the time you want, they're not.
Speaker 2: Andrew T was pointing out while you were out that
Speaker 2: it would be so so easy for him to just
Speaker 2: hire a writer's room, like the many of the best
Speaker 2: comedy writers in Hollywood are out of it now. He
Speaker 2: could just pay people to make him look funny. But
Speaker 2: he stubbornly again, strong and wrong with a sense of humor.
Speaker 1: It's got to be.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be, baby, gotta be fresh. Talking a lot
Speaker 2: of workaholics today. But meanwhile, fear not because, as you're
Speaker 2: pointing out, we don't know all the details right now.
Speaker 2: The facts are emerging on the ground, and you know,
Speaker 2: the story is shifting as we speak. It might be
Speaker 2: different by the time you hear this. I do just
Speaker 2: want to alleviate any concern that people had that like,
Speaker 2: we weren't going to get to the bottle of this
Speaker 2: because Ron DeSantis has pledged that Florida will conduct its
Speaker 2: own investigation into the attempted shooting.
Speaker 1: Oh not that FBI. Yeah no, no, no, that we're
Speaker 1: doing our own. Actually, we're doing the floor We're doing
Speaker 1: this shit Florida style. Incidentally, in twenty twenty two, eighty
Speaker 1: two percent of violent crimes in Florida were quote not solved.
Speaker 1: So that's twenty percentage points worse than the national average, which, Jesus,
Speaker 1: the national average is shockingly hot. He's like sixty percent,
Speaker 1: I mean, sixty.
Speaker 2: Two percent of violent crimes go unsolved. Like why do
Speaker 2: we even how? What is the argument that the.
Speaker 1: Numbers the numbers are are telling a different story, that
Speaker 1: this form of law enforcement is not effective. But hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: but no we need more money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to be foresting to see more resources.
Speaker 2: It's interesting to see what Florida's investigation finds. So now
Speaker 2: it was a totally different guy. Is actually Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's actually Kevin Hart, Like what why he's not
Speaker 1: even like political?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like them.
Speaker 1: I don't like that guy.
Speaker 2: All right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about some other politically motivated violence. Will be
Speaker 2: right back and we're back. And over the weekend, the
Speaker 2: city of Springfield, Ohio, which was in the news following
Speaker 2: the debate after Trump claimed that they're stealing the dogs,
Speaker 2: they're stealing the.
Speaker 1: Cats, they're eating them.
Speaker 2: So bomb threats have continued to plague Springfield, Ohio since
Speaker 2: that happened. Hospitals have been sent into lockdown, multiple days
Speaker 2: of school evacuations, thanks entirely to the Republican's alf coded
Speaker 2: racist conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1: All right, this show is hosted by two men over
Speaker 1: the age of forty.
Speaker 2: That's right, And you know remember his favorite treatwood cats,
Speaker 2: saying eight cats and dogs, bro. But I mean Haitian
Speaker 2: immigrants are unsurprisingly afraid to leave their houses after being
Speaker 2: targeted by vandals, and just you know, I'm sure we're
Speaker 2: already afraid to leave their houses after that debate, you know, right,
Speaker 2: absolutely just turned into like monsters in all of this
Speaker 2: because of a fucking Facebook post that was nonsense.
Speaker 1: Again, we talked about this. I think maybe the day
Speaker 1: you were out, or I think it is probably the
Speaker 1: day before I had to be out, But just about
Speaker 1: how this again, there's no evidence of this. They're like,
Speaker 1: the cops are like, we've never even had a call
Speaker 1: about anything remotely like this. What are they talking about?
Speaker 1: And the woman who's behind it is now just like
Speaker 1: so sad because she it's like fourth hand information. Yes,
Speaker 1: she said again, the claim about a missing cat didn't
Speaker 1: even involve her neighbor's daughter's friend, which is what the fuck, dude,
Speaker 1: This is like when I lied about like meeting Michael
Speaker 1: Joy when I was like fifth grade, but rather an
Speaker 1: acquaintance of a friend of the neighbor. And again she said,
Speaker 1: it just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen.
Speaker 1: And this is the funny thing. This woman is now
Speaker 1: like posts to like after being interviewed, like yo, what
Speaker 1: the fuck, Like, what's going on here? She wanted to say,
Speaker 1: look the original poster of this. She described herself as
Speaker 1: a Democrat that supports Trump, and then she said, quote,
Speaker 1: I'm not a racist, she said, through heavy emotion. This
Speaker 1: is I think her talking to NBC News, adding that
Speaker 1: her daughter is half black and she herself is mixed
Speaker 1: race and a member of the LGBTQ community. Everybody seems
Speaker 1: to be turning it into that and that was not
Speaker 1: my intent. Lee said, this is the original poster of
Speaker 1: that Facebook thing that she pulled her daughter out of
Speaker 1: school and is now worried about her safety with so
Speaker 1: much attention on her family. Please get the fuck out
Speaker 1: of here. Okay, I like, you're like, I honestly I
Speaker 1: didn't care about this safety of these Haitian people. But
Speaker 1: now my family somehow getting unwanted attention, and now I
Speaker 1: am sorry. And I did not mean that my daughter
Speaker 1: is half black.
Speaker 2: Yes, and again the sourcing on the information that was
Speaker 2: like cartoonishly my daughter's friends neighbor, you know, or sorry,
Speaker 2: my neighbor's daughter's friend. She was like, it actually was
Speaker 2: not that. It was an acquaintance of a friend. So
Speaker 2: it's like even less.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like total It's like fuck, man, I talked.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, who is this person? I don't know. Look,
Speaker 1: I made it up. I'm racist. I'm sorry, I'm backwards.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of really backwards beliefs. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is and the way that the Republican.
Speaker 2: Is voting for Trump. Yeah, it's wild. They I think
Speaker 2: when you were out we were covering the way the
Speaker 2: New York Times covered the debate, and they went and
Speaker 2: interviewed a undecided voter.
Speaker 1: Oh another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they watched the debate with them, bought snacks
Speaker 2: for the undecided voters. So the undecided voters are being
Speaker 2: rewarded for being undecided, quote unquote, and they're like, I
Speaker 2: really worry about you know, women's rights and like our
Speaker 2: right to control our body. But Trump really on immigration,
Speaker 2: and it was like, and She's like, and that's not
Speaker 2: a thing that bothers me or affects my life in
Speaker 2: any way, but the fact that he says it is
Speaker 2: what really like matters to me. So it's like, it's
Speaker 2: just that he says he says racism, is the fact
Speaker 2: that he.
Speaker 1: Knows how to be racist towards people who are not
Speaker 1: from America. Yes, rather who aren't white. Sorry, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: am I saying? Yeah, there's only yeah, so that's what
Speaker 1: I like. Yeah, So I am decided about that.
Speaker 2: Jd Vance, who was the first person to repeat this
Speaker 2: story and kind of elevate it, went on CNN on
Speaker 2: Sunday for an interview with Dana Bash, where he strenuously
Speaker 2: argued that the bomb threats have nothing to do with
Speaker 2: anything he did. When she was like, So what do
Speaker 2: you think when there's like bomb threats and schools being
Speaker 2: closed because of the cats and dogs thing, why not
Speaker 2: actually be constructive and helping to better integrate these Haitian
Speaker 2: immigrants who are legally here into the community. And he
Speaker 2: he thought that was disgusting, actually thought that was he
Speaker 2: you think I did what Wait, what you're saying? What
Speaker 2: I find violence disgusting and that you said that is
Speaker 2: really disgusting because hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1: What he said, quote, there is nothing that I have
Speaker 1: said that has led to threats against these hospitals. These hospitals,
Speaker 1: the bomb threats and so forth, it's disgusting. The violence
Speaker 1: is disgusting. We condemn it. And then Dana Bash is like, Senator,
Speaker 1: this happened after you and President Trump on the debate
Speaker 1: stage said that cats and dogs were being eaten. And
Speaker 1: then he just like completely side steps it. Pivots scared
Speaker 1: nine something due dang Ya and then.
Speaker 2: They got straight up Yeah. Then he just straight up
Speaker 2: admitted that they will create stories to further this is wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, You're like, I'm sorry, you'll you'll create what This
Speaker 1: is him again now trying it's now sort of trying
Speaker 1: to justify why he will he would even say such
Speaker 1: filthy nonsense out loud.
Speaker 4: The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump
Speaker 4: and I start talking about cat means.
Speaker 1: If I have to, if I just create stories so
Speaker 1: that the American.
Speaker 4: Media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people,
Speaker 4: then that's what I'm gonna do, Dana, because you guys
Speaker 4: are completely letting Kamala Harris coast.
Speaker 1: You had one interview with her.
Speaker 4: You talk about pushing back against me, Dana, you didn't
Speaker 4: push back against the fact that she casts the deciding
Speaker 4: vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, which is why a
Speaker 4: lot of Americans can't afford food and housing.
Speaker 1: You just said that you're creating. Yeah, there you go
Speaker 1: touts back on that. Oh, he's doing the thing where
Speaker 1: he pretends he can't hear.
Speaker 4: So you just said that you're creating the story.
Speaker 2: Is that, Danta?
Speaker 1: Oh you're lying now. You just said that this is
Speaker 1: a story that you created.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I can't even hear you.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 4: We are creating, we are, Dana. It comes from first
Speaker 4: hand accounts from like Dana.
Speaker 1: It comes from lies that I'm making up in my
Speaker 1: head to pretend like I'm hearing them from people. Okay,
Speaker 1: are we clear on this?
Speaker 2: God? Oh my god, the god liberal media.
Speaker 1: Is like, so, oh my dude, you actually have the
Speaker 1: best last name for this job. Because you were just
Speaker 1: bashing me right now. It's like fucking so unfair, dude,
Speaker 1: Like why are you bashing other people? It's just because
Speaker 1: I make shit up so wild to be like, I'm
Speaker 1: if I have then to be like, I have to
Speaker 1: create stories. Like so you're creating stories.
Speaker 2: So the the story that you just said you had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with you, you created that. You just said,
Speaker 2: yeh what you said that.
Speaker 1: Then you're like, yeah, DJ academics and that Migos interview,
Speaker 1: you're like, hmm, the what it looks like liptop bat
Speaker 1: and Boosie, I'm sorry what my ear? My ear? He
Speaker 1: did that I think last week or two weeks ago too,
Speaker 1: where he got pressed about something he said and he
Speaker 1: was like, sorry, I think my earpiece isn't working.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he has a lot of trouble hearing what
Speaker 2: people are asking him when convenient.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine, yeah, what his marriage is like. If
Speaker 1: his sort of response to accountability is to be like,
Speaker 1: my senses have all began to shut down for some reason.
Speaker 2: I sorry, I can't hear you, babe.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm sleeping, babe. Sorry, I'm sleeping.
Speaker 2: In the afternoon and you're driving.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm sleeping, babe, can't. I don't even know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Don't even know what's going on?
Speaker 2: All right, I do have some kind of startling news
Speaker 2: disturbing for people like me. We're continue to be under attack.
Speaker 2: Me and my fellow soup cous We mustn't stay sleeping
Speaker 2: in our comfy beds much longer, because, mark my words,
Speaker 2: they're coming for us. First, Jesse Waters says it's not
Speaker 2: manly to like soup. Then my mother in law compliments
Speaker 2: me for being a rare man who likes soup, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I can read between the lines, am.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now Campbell Soup is dropping the soup from their name. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: most associated with soup is dropping the word from what
Speaker 2: I guess they used to be called the Campbell Soup Company.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I think that's what it's technically called. Right
Speaker 1: of their website is Wait, there's Campbell's Soup camp. First
Speaker 1: of all, there's other funny, fucking, weird sort of Berenstain
Speaker 1: Bears thing. I was like, was it called campbell Soup
Speaker 1: Campbell's Soup? Like the ashes are always blending into each
Speaker 1: other there, because there's the Campbell Soup Company, then there's
Speaker 1: Campbell's Soup. So there's no aposts the company. If you
Speaker 1: go to their actual company website, it's called Campbell Soup Company,
Speaker 1: not Campbell's Possessive Campbell Soup Company. The label says Campbell's Possessive.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot. Look, man, I'm always on my
Speaker 1: toes ever since the fucking six point eight weeks thing,
Speaker 1: so You'm just always like trying to make sure I
Speaker 1: know I'm standing in Tara firma, you know what I
Speaker 1: mean before Anyway.
Speaker 2: So anyway, you can read all about it in my
Speaker 2: favorite book, Hot Chicken Water for the Soul, because that's
Speaker 2: where this is headed. They're racing soup.
Speaker 1: They're racing an outreage. Yep.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it's kind of weird that they still had soup
Speaker 2: in their name. Like I feel like they just pivot
Speaker 2: because you know, it's kind of it is a little weird.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, like just to be called Campbell's Soup. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, did their branding team, just like wake
Speaker 2: up from the late eighteen hundreds. I feel like they
Speaker 2: should be selling vape juice by now, Like, why are
Speaker 2: they just a soup company? What are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? They make what else? Yeah? Actually it's mostly do
Speaker 1: they own a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: They do And the soup company was just throwing us
Speaker 2: all off that.
Speaker 1: I think that's how they you know, that's how they
Speaker 1: got in. But then they're also like, dude, do you
Speaker 1: like fucking do you like cape cod chips?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, you like goldfish, you like snyders of handover pretzels,
Speaker 1: you like v eight I.
Speaker 2: Mean v it's basically soup, Like that's the secret nobody
Speaker 2: wants to talk about. But it's just called soup you drink. Also,
Speaker 2: all the other things that you mentioned great crumbled over soup.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that is true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were sticking to it. I think they need
Speaker 2: to for some reason. I really want the Campbell Company
Speaker 2: to branch out into vape.
Speaker 1: Just for whatever reason. I feel like, dude, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess this.
Speaker 2: Would I cam, would it be tough? I need to
Speaker 2: check with Jesse Waters if it would be tougher if
Speaker 2: I was vaping my soup instead of eating it.
Speaker 1: Probably he Hannity would definitely agree.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the funny thing, Like the thing he objects to,
Speaker 2: the pursing of the lips and the like holding a
Speaker 2: delicate object in your hand and bringing it to your mouth.
Speaker 2: That that this is what Jesse Waters objects to about.
Speaker 1: You've seen it.
Speaker 2: You've seen it, and so yeah, your buddy Tuger Carlson
Speaker 2: and h fucking Hannity vape Like the second the camera
Speaker 2: cuts away from there.
Speaker 1: And that's a bit of lip persing on a cylindrical object. Well, look,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, what it is. I think Campbell's could
Speaker 1: pivot because we already trust them with things that we ingest.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, Campbell's isn't gonna make like a
Speaker 1: shitty vape juice. I've been trusting them for years. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I do want cream of mushroom soup vape juice.
Speaker 2: Yeah is Brian editor said, soup flavored vapes. Bro take
Speaker 2: me to Cloud City, Lando Calrissian.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, dude, hopp my best bin fucking twin Speeder.
Speaker 2: I do feel like that would be kind of good, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, in the way that they can like make
Speaker 2: vapes taste like anything. Why not a little chicken soup?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh? RFK is back, He's got bro He's
Speaker 1: got an announcement. Oh, I don't, haven't. I just want
Speaker 1: to play this because he had a he had a
Speaker 1: camp fucking Trump campaign event in Glendale, Arizona, I think
Speaker 1: somewhere in Arizona with Tulci Gabbard, you know, because he's
Speaker 1: out there, he's Team Trump now and he just again
Speaker 1: he he has he did the thing that he's always
Speaker 1: good at, which is like finding a way to make
Speaker 1: like like make himself the central figure about a larger
Speaker 1: point and also just in a side that isn't quite
Speaker 1: relevant anyway. This is just funny. This is a funny
Speaker 1: thing to hear. And I'm just gonna play it no
Speaker 1: context because I just think it's really funny that he's
Speaker 1: doing this on stage at a campaign of it. This
Speaker 1: is RFK with an important announcement. Listen up, I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you something that nobody knows. Uh. Oh, this
Speaker 1: week I receive it.
Speaker 3: Right after I endorsed President Trump, I received a letter
Speaker 3: from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were
Speaker 3: investigating me for collecting a whale speciman twenty years ago. Wow,
Speaker 3: it's fifteen years past the statue of limitation. But they're
Speaker 3: opening an investigation.
Speaker 1: And this is when he goes there. He goes, he
Speaker 1: starts rambling a little more, and then he's like, they're
Speaker 1: weaponizing the government. Man. Wow, I'm just sawing off whaleheads
Speaker 1: on my own, a whalehead enthusiast, and now I have
Speaker 1: federal agencies looking into shit.
Speaker 2: Huh yeahed like that is a thing that hit for
Speaker 2: collecting a whale specimen. But they're coming out after me
Speaker 2: for everything. Dude, not not having had my license plate
Speaker 2: registration renewed on time, collecting a whale specimen?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: They're weaponizing the government? Okay, yeah, sorry, dude, you pulled
Speaker 1: You heard about a fucking way a beached whale that
Speaker 1: like a fucking carcass that washed ashore, and you say, kids,
Speaker 1: get in the van and get the power tools and
Speaker 1: you go to pull up to saw its head off
Speaker 1: and then take it home. While your daughter kick Kennedy
Speaker 1: was talking about how the whale juice was getting everywhere.
Speaker 1: That could be it. Wow, that could be an interesting
Speaker 1: vape flavor. Whale juice.
Speaker 2: Whale juice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Campbell's soup, think about it. That's a good pivot
Speaker 1: right now. Timely, timely, But yeah, the whale. So I
Speaker 1: guess he then I guess he said he responded to
Speaker 1: the letter where he, according this NBC News report, baselessly
Speaker 1: linked the National Marine Fishery Service with deaths and calling
Speaker 1: for the agency to investigate that. So he's like, boom, maybe.
Speaker 2: You just cut its head off and then made my
Speaker 2: daughter drink its blubber and rotting carcass juice.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, he really seemed to think that that was going
Speaker 2: to go in a different way because he brought it
Speaker 2: up and everybody laughed because it reminded them about the
Speaker 2: wild ass story about him sawing off whales sead and
Speaker 2: put it on top of his van. Yeah. I feel
Speaker 2: like he's got that energy of somebody who just needs
Speaker 2: to be the center of attention at all times because
Speaker 2: of debilitating narcissism, and so just can't stop himself from
Speaker 2: dropping in an anecdote that is going to overshadow literally
Speaker 2: any other possible thing that anybody just said.
Speaker 1: Look what they're doing in the President Trump with their
Speaker 1: weaponized DJ We hear them trot out that line all
Speaker 1: the time, but he had to be like, you know, guys,
Speaker 1: I saw a whale's head off, like twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: and now they're like, that's bad, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And now you're now thinking about the fact that they're
Speaker 1: like this weird, oh anti vaxer guy who likes a
Speaker 1: sawft whalehead. That's in the front of mind. You sawt
Speaker 1: a whaleshead. I mean, he said, collected a specimen rather
Speaker 1: than the main point. But yeah, he's well done, well.
Speaker 2: Done collecting our whales specimen. All right. The Surgeon General
Speaker 2: is warning about the difficulties of parenting, calling it a
Speaker 2: public health danger. He's issuing a new advisory, the likes
Speaker 2: of which we have seen for like smoking and air
Speaker 2: pollution in the past, But this one is a public
Speaker 2: statement that calls the American people's attention to an urgent
Speaker 2: public health issue and provides recommendations for how it should
Speaker 2: be addressed. And that is parenting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and caregivers, family the whole thing. It said there
Speaker 1: is a critical link between parental mental health and children's
Speaker 1: long term well being, and the urgent need to better
Speaker 1: support parents, caregivers and families. They talk about all the
Speaker 1: stressors you know that is involved in raising kids. Financial strain, economics, instability, poverty,
Speaker 1: time demands, children's health, children's safety, parental isolation and loneliness,
Speaker 1: technology and that social media, cultural pressures, and children's futures.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot like you know, it says how
Speaker 1: as you know if you're an employer or a researcher,
Speaker 1: a community organizer, a family friend or parent and caregiver,
Speaker 1: like how to you know sort of things you can
Speaker 1: think about what to do. And there are some things
Speaker 1: where it's like maybe ask a parent to help out,
Speaker 1: you know, like one of your parents to help you
Speaker 1: parent kind of thing, like that's not an option available
Speaker 1: to a lot of people. And well, I do think
Speaker 1: this is obviously like a super serious and very real thing.
Speaker 1: Like the I do appreciate that there is one section
Speaker 1: that says for policy makers, and it's sort of basically
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, man, like create laws and programs that
Speaker 1: actually you know, are able to address the needs here,
Speaker 1: like right childcare and like all these protecting our communities, all.
Speaker 2: This stuff function social safety.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that will actually inspire any change,
Speaker 1: but this is truly like a and I think these
Speaker 1: tips are good like it's important to think about, like
Speaker 1: you do need to give yourself time off, like you
Speaker 1: it is possible to burn out or find ways to
Speaker 1: relieve your stress. But this is truly like a top
Speaker 1: down thing. This isn't a bottom up situation. Like the
Speaker 1: policies are the real things that are going to change
Speaker 1: all those things. When you're pointing out stressors like their
Speaker 1: financial strain, economic instability, you look at how much childcare
Speaker 1: costs and things like that, how much healthcare costs. Guess what, policymakers,
Speaker 1: you could completely wipe those stressors off the board with
Speaker 1: the right policies. So I mean, it's like a very
Speaker 1: real issue, and I just like it's like how I
Speaker 1: was just sort of like looking at the Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: sort of campaign website, I'm like, Okay, what are you
Speaker 1: doing here for affordable childcare? And it's so vague. Just
Speaker 1: as Vice President Harris has cast the deciding vote on
Speaker 1: the American Rescue Plan, which made historic investments in the
Speaker 1: care economy, she will fight to lower care costs for
Speaker 1: American families, like propose something. Yeah, for the love of God,
Speaker 1: like you're and there was people were showing how some
Speaker 1: polls began to tighten in other areas because it felt
Speaker 1: like the honeymoon phase brat summer is over and now
Speaker 1: we're in freaky fall are about to be and we're
Speaker 1: still kind of like she's done a good job of
Speaker 1: really not trying to get into, like waging into these
Speaker 1: like policy issues and just kind of being like, hey man,
Speaker 1: it's not Biden, I'm against Trump. That's great, but these
Speaker 1: are still very much things that people are experiencing and
Speaker 1: would love to hear real tangible kind of solutions to
Speaker 1: Now whether or not there's follow through its a completely other,
Speaker 1: you know, completely separate question, But as the Surgeon General
Speaker 1: points out, this is very real and this needs urgent action,
Speaker 1: and most of that action really should be coming from policymakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the links I mentioned parents are experiencing new stressors
Speaker 2: on top of the already daunting tasks of protecting their
Speaker 2: children from harm, managing finances, and navigating the uncertainties teenagers
Speaker 2: face through adolescence. The new stressors seems to be linking
Speaker 2: off to like studies into phones and social media use.
Speaker 2: But it's probably worth mentioning that it's become increasingly difficult
Speaker 2: to raise a child and you know, the costs have
Speaker 2: gone way up and people's income has been frozen for yeah, decades.
Speaker 1: And you have people having to take on multiple jobs
Speaker 1: just to do the thing which is to provide for
Speaker 1: their children.
Speaker 2: There's your problem and there's your problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah this h I mean again, people, look everybody who's
Speaker 1: grown up in America. You just ask your grandparent, what
Speaker 1: are the oldest family member in your family that's living,
Speaker 1: what they did for money, and how many kids, what
Speaker 1: kind of family they were able to raise on that,
Speaker 1: and how what the cost of living was then? And
Speaker 1: do you realize that at one point it was possible
Speaker 1: to do these things but we just live in such
Speaker 1: a you know updocracy now that yeah, yeah, there's really
Speaker 1: all the pressures have fallen on people. And like the
Speaker 1: thing that sucks is like when it says like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: how can we take action, When it says like for
Speaker 1: family and friends of like people who might be in
Speaker 1: the situation, says reach out and offer practical support with
Speaker 1: householder everyday test, that is huge. That is huge. That
Speaker 1: is helpful. But like for policymakers, you see the things
Speaker 1: that they're talking about, well, invest in social infrastructure at
Speaker 1: the local level to bring parents and caregivers together, address
Speaker 1: economic and social barriers that contribute to the disproportionate impact
Speaker 1: of mental health conditions for certain parents and caregivers. Those
Speaker 1: are the real Like, yeah, obviously the community one to
Speaker 1: one help is huge, but again we still play in
Speaker 1: the sandbox with these rules that policymakers create. So unless
Speaker 1: we can actually change that, that's also where it's an
Speaker 1: uphill battle. So you know, somebody take this seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, those are some of the stories that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Monday morning, September sixteenth.
Speaker 2: We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of
Speaker 2: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 2: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shots,
Speaker 2: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 2: to you all tomorrow