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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to forty two,

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Speaker 1: Episode two after Day So Many twos. It's a production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio and a podcast where we take

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Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Wednesday, June two. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I mean I am. I am overwhelmed, which of course

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Speaker 1: means June twenty two is of course the combination. These

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Speaker 1: are four national days I can get Fine, Occasional chocolate

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Speaker 1: Declare Day, National h v a C Tech Day, National

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Speaker 1: Onion Rings Day, National Kissing Day, I Love kissing. What

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Speaker 1: do you like of those four kissing chocolate declares altogether? Man,

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Speaker 1: like the cramp cramped down, some chocolate declairs that have

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Speaker 1: been pushed through a some onion rings just through an

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Speaker 1: air duct and then uh starts afterwards kiss and kiss

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Speaker 1: a h back attack. Yeah, That's always been what I

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Speaker 1: do on June, and it's surprising to me that now

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Speaker 1: the rest of the nation is just catching up and

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Speaker 1: they haven't even recognized my contributions at the forefront of

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Speaker 1: this June twenty saying like, my my a C is broken,

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Speaker 1: I need somebody to come fix it. And then you

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Speaker 1: you butter them up with eclaires and onion rooms and

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Speaker 1: you're like, look, kiss, if you want to buy butter

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Speaker 1: them up, I'm talking about these lips there. You go anyway,

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Speaker 1: shout out air air conditioning because in our increasingly hostile

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Speaker 1: natural environment, Yeah, kind of a necessity. It's all palm

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Speaker 1: spring because I think there's a thing, right, A hundred

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Speaker 1: million Americans this week will be exposed to triple digit heat.

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Speaker 1: Was that right? Yeah? Big week, big week, for big

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Speaker 1: big week for big climate change falling off of American society. Well,

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Speaker 1: my name is Jack O'Brien, a k A. And I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a long long time till Late

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Speaker 1: Years stops taking up on my mind. It's just an

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Speaker 1: actor or not the toy we know? Oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's an actor. Man should have planned to do this

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Speaker 1: with the actual well here row. That is courtesy Christie Almagucci.

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Speaker 1: Man just giving people a little glimpse into what is

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Speaker 1: happening inside my brain at any given moment over the

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Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, as I just wrestle with the

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Speaker 1: existence of the movie. Late Year not apparently really good

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Speaker 1: word to wrestle with that. You've definitely been grappling with

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Speaker 1: that const the consequences. The metaphysics of it all confusing,

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Speaker 1: but I do appreciate Christie. I'm a Gucci man also

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Speaker 1: at Wopple House. Just a great follow on Twitter for

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Speaker 1: anybody who's just catching up. He's just he's becoming a

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Speaker 1: power Twitter account. Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like dai. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Get in him,

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Speaker 1: strap on for the ride like a rocket man. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co

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Speaker 1: host Mr Miles Gras. June twenty one was the longest day,

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Speaker 1: longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day,

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Speaker 1: longest day. It was the longest day. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: the solstice that happened yesterday June one. Uh love that

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Speaker 1: point of like the summer when you're like just gonna

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Speaker 1: this is the most like we get baby, drink it in.

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Speaker 1: My favorite, my favorite feeling of the summer is just

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Speaker 1: how long the days are. And shout out to people

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Speaker 1: who are people who are like higher up on the

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Speaker 1: globe at higher what is that latitudes or longitudes whatever, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you get the real fucking wild ass days when it's

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Speaker 1: like nine thirty in the sun setting and you're like,

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Speaker 1: I love it, I love it. Love it's anyway shout

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Speaker 1: out to the long days. Well, my was weird thrilled

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Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant filmmaker, writer, actor,

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Speaker 1: comedian podcaster. He co founded what the A V Club

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Speaker 1: called one of the best podcast networks, Small Beans, where

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Speaker 1: you can find he and a bunch of the most

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Speaker 1: talented people we worked with a cracked hosting podcasts if

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Speaker 1: you've ever heard of those. He's one of the co

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Speaker 1: hosts of One Upsmanship, which is a new podcast on

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Speaker 1: our network. An old podcast from the Small Beans days,

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Speaker 1: but it's a great podcast that everybody needs to go

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Speaker 1: check out immediately epd by DJ Daniel if you need

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Speaker 1: any extra reason to check it out. He is the brilliant,

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Speaker 1: the talented, the kind Michael Swain. Oh brought the most

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Speaker 1: important epithet last, the kind Michael Swain. A k A quick,

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Speaker 1: Michael Swain, they're right outside our yards, Michael Swain, go

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Speaker 1: call the Roman God. No, wait, we need a more

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Speaker 1: permanent solution to this, Michael. I just wanted to see

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Speaker 1: if I could go low today. That's what that was about.

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Speaker 1: Definitely was beautiful. Hey, gang uh and that was by

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Speaker 1: Michael Swam at swam Underscore Corps, a decent follow on Twitter. No,

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Speaker 1: be here mainly so I can talk about one upsmanship.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna immediately launch into that. I'm just throwing

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Speaker 1: the Jack O'Brien umbrella, you know. Yeah, it's one step

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Speaker 1: umbrella is good enough. And yeah, you'd me to a

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Speaker 1: party called Operation Dicky Greenleaf. I didn't know exactly what

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Speaker 1: that was about. Um, that's actually part of his am

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Speaker 1: on my co host Adam Ganzer. It's like the old switchero.

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Speaker 1: That's a long but yeah, me and Adam just doing

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Speaker 1: taking one Upsmanship weekly, which has meant in my life.

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Speaker 1: What am I doing right now? Playing video games at

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Speaker 1: all times? Yeah? It used to be a monthly show.

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Speaker 1: Now it's weekly, So I basically upped my video game

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Speaker 1: intakes so I can stay abbreast of everything. Ne yah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be five up by this time next summer. That's

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Speaker 1: what we're working towards. What how is the video game

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Speaker 1: Spoken like someone who knows very little about the video game?

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Speaker 1: Video game? That's the second video game. I think we

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Speaker 1: went two days where I hit him with are you

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Speaker 1: winning sons? I mean, Retro's triumphant? Right now, Shredder's Revenge

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Speaker 1: that and the game I just mentioned in the babble Neon.

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Speaker 1: It's super fun. It's a good time to own a switch,

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Speaker 1: which I don't usually say so, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: about your switches if you're listening to this today now,

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Speaker 1: the twenty two the Shadow Run trilogy just came to consoles,

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Speaker 1: and you can get great nuggets like that over at

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Speaker 1: one upsom and show or by playing video game release dates.

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Speaker 1: But we will don't don't keep away the whole show. Now,

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Speaker 1: It's true, that's what it is. It's basically just an

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Speaker 1: overview of release dates. Yeah, that's our thing. It's actually

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Speaker 1: very fun. And hilarious and enjoyable, entertaining to listen to,

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Speaker 1: even if you don't play the video games, which in

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Speaker 1: don't know the game you're talking about, but very rare,

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Speaker 1: very rare ver you got that switch check. How are you?

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Speaker 1: How are you living as a switch owner? Oh? Man? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Because I remember I keep that ship on me. You

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Speaker 1: video from the Chronic album. I was like, what then

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Speaker 1: though that's by design supposed to use the switch for

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Speaker 1: multiple switches. All right, Michael, we're going to get to

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Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. I want to talk about the how the

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Speaker 1: results for the democratic primaries in Los Angeles were reported.

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Speaker 1: We're not, I guess not reported there. There was a

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Speaker 1: the election. And it turns out the results were not

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Speaker 1: Times got it exactly wrong. I guess we don't know

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Speaker 1: it comes to energy for progressive solutions. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: we will talk about Murf, which is an anthropomorphic amalgam

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Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something

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Speaker 1: from your search history? Well, Jack, this time there was

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Speaker 1: Grimm's fairy tales we used to use in addition to

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Speaker 1: start learning this kind of yet this is perducial information. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a like boogeyman or a story or you know, a

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Speaker 1: I've talked on here before. I had like this imaginary

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Speaker 1: like cruelty that we've you know, not seen before. So

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Speaker 1: it looks like that's a little bit of what's happening

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Speaker 1: with this new geop platform. But yeah, it's getting getting

427
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Speaker 1: tense over there in Texas. It seems just like making

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Speaker 1: children listen to ultras sounds live ultrasounds of fetuses like

429
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Speaker 1: is I don't know, it really has like some clockwork

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Speaker 1: orange mixed with I don't know, like a terror camp,

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Speaker 1: you know, like just a extremist training like grounds. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It's very very uh like I'm just having

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Speaker 1: an art time in picturing like the people who are like, yep,

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Speaker 1: that is the country I want to live in, other

435
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Speaker 1: than like very very angry people who would get over

436
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Speaker 1: that and maybe five minutes later and be like okay,

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Speaker 1: but like that wouldn't actually be a good a good

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Speaker 1: place to live, right. Well. The whole thing is that

439
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: it's all of this stuff is said to reinforce their worldview,

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Speaker 1: which is we can do whatever we want, and we

441
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Speaker 1: can treat whoever we want however the funk we want to.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna mandate like basic levels of treatment for

443
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Speaker 1: other people. That's not we like, we have this worldview.

444
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: It's not about freedom it's really the freedom to discriminate.

445
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: So that's really what they're marching towards constantly. And I

446
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: get that most people like do I want to live

447
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: in a place where you're saying, like, execute the parents

448
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: of lgbt Q youth, right, that's you want to see

449
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: that ship go down in your neighborhood. Who knows. But

450
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: the idea is to say this kind of incendiary ship

451
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Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, because that's what we're about. We

452
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Speaker 1: make other people panic. We're not panicked about our dwindling

453
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Speaker 1: maybe uh efficacy or potency as a white people in

454
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Speaker 1: the United States, because we can now just sort of

455
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Speaker 1: maindate all this other cruelty with a smile on our

456
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: face and say, well, that's not that doesn't touch us.

457
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: We just want to suck their party up. We want

458
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Speaker 1: to make their time as difficult as possible. And they

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Speaker 1: put it under the freedom of speech umbrella. Always it

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Speaker 1: feels like freedom of speech is now such a broad

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Speaker 1: brush that it's painted as like my ability to you know,

462
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Speaker 1: I don't want to give them cake now, I want

463
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Speaker 1: them round it up. I'm just talking. That's my freedom

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Speaker 1: of speech. And it's like a completely flexible definition that's

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Speaker 1: It's just interesting that it is always a strategy play right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the heartening bit as you're like in

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Speaker 1: straight poles and if you just ask the average American,

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Speaker 1: I mean, do want parents of lgbt Q youth to

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Speaker 1: be like criminalized? They in a landslide. It's no, doesn't

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Speaker 1: largely affect me. But everything is a strategy you play.

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Speaker 1: They have so much leverage. There's this system that's allowed

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Speaker 1: for the ability of an extremist minority to hold everyone

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Speaker 1: else hostage. And we just sort of watch the train

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Speaker 1: barrel out of control and go like, I wonder if

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Speaker 1: the checks and balances will kick in at some point here. Yeah,

476
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And I

477
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: think we're all like waiting to see is this the

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Speaker 1: last gasp of these hateful dinosaur people and and we

479
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Speaker 1: just survive it and they die off or something, or

480
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Speaker 1: is this the new norm? Like is this an in transition?

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Speaker 1: In transition like intracticable things. I think like we always

482
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Speaker 1: say like extremism is always going to exist where inequality

483
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: just remains ramps because it offers a very tidy perspective

484
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Speaker 1: or worldview as to like why you may be experiencing

485
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Speaker 1: a lack that you might not be able to articulate,

486
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Speaker 1: but you know is there, and based on everybody else

487
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Speaker 1: who looks like you and your community is like kind

488
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Speaker 1: of like sort of marching to this other beat. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

489
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Speaker 1: it's that, it's that, it's that. It's uh, it's drag

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Speaker 1: queens and the libraries. And because we're trained to value

491
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Speaker 1: like or to measure our achievement by like financial status

492
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Speaker 1: and compare ourselves to others, you always have that deep

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Speaker 1: down feeling where it's like, what's got to be some

494
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Speaker 1: other category of people are sucking me up, Like my

495
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Speaker 1: my privileges are diminishing. That has to mean something someone else's,

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Speaker 1: you know, they should just yeah, look at the billionaire class.

497
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, they're wages because they stole all your money.

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Speaker 1: They have they have your bag bag over there. They

499
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Speaker 1: made everybody a bag holder. I don't know, maybe Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're into crypto, you get crypt remember bag holders. Yeah,

501
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: so that's what they're doing to every body. And we're

502
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: over here pointing picked pointing fingers at the wrong fucking

503
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Speaker 1: people because that's the biggest fear is that they realize

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Speaker 1: people who control all the capital or like they're gonna

505
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Speaker 1: realize where the architects of their suffering and not immigrants

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Speaker 1: or the rights of gay people, right, And the billionaires

507
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Speaker 1: have massive amounts of money to spend on branding, right,

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Speaker 1: So like that's I think why like in in the

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Speaker 1: mainstream like that is like it's become clearer and clear

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00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: to me and like this kind of ties into the

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Speaker 1: next story. But that that the mainstream media is like

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Speaker 1: complicit in this, right, Like they're yeah, you know you

513
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: think of like the companies that move mountains of money,

514
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: like even like black Rock, and they have their hands

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Speaker 1: and media twos like they're gonna start turning up on

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Speaker 1: like like what the real issues are. No, that's just

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Speaker 1: for it, like not on the real TV. Like Crystal

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Speaker 1: Ball was on Bill Maher this weekend and she was

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Speaker 1: trying to be like, man, you guys are talking a

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Speaker 1: bunch of weird in fact like fallacy type ship and

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Speaker 1: like he got so piste. Yeah of course, because she's like, man,

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Speaker 1: you're really gonna blame inflation on like supporting poor people.

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Speaker 1: It's like yeah, because Biden decided to make all his

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Speaker 1: money and it's like him and this other tired as

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Speaker 1: like a conservative and it you could just tell that

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Speaker 1: it was like it was wearing him down, and like

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of tweets about it, where like past

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Speaker 1: guests I've felt, I've been said, like when you go

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Speaker 1: on that show, do not push back against Bill Maher

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't like when people are, you know, thinking

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Speaker 1: for themselves out loud on that show. But just to

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Speaker 1: give you a little bit of insight into like the

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Speaker 1: tone of this GOP little get together in Texas, just

534
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Speaker 1: saying Okay, it's we fully come to the clowns have

535
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Speaker 1: taken over the circus tent like point obviously because the

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Speaker 1: moment they, you know, the GOP embraced Donald Trump, it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: there's no turning back from this now because you have

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Speaker 1: fully opened the gates. Um John Cornyn, who gave like

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Speaker 1: some closing remarks at this thing, who normally says some

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Speaker 1: of the dumbest ship you've ever heard that would delight

541
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Speaker 1: MAGA people, he got fucking booed when he was giving

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Speaker 1: his closing remarks. You want to know why because he

543
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Speaker 1: kind of half said, yeah, I might support that very

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Speaker 1: tepid gun control bill because of the terrific mass shooting

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Speaker 1: that happened in my state. I just want you to

546
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Speaker 1: hear him try and speak and him getting shouted at.

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Speaker 1: So let's take our country back starting with converence. Thank

548
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Speaker 1: you God, bless God, our great sight. That's cordinate, okay,

549
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: your Senator. And then you know they weren't even feeling

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Speaker 1: fucking when poor Ted cruises just behind when up there

551
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: they were also he was getting smoked. Dan Crenshaw was

552
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: getting fucking harassed by proud boys, I guess. So now

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00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: you know it's completely they're there. You're starting to see

554
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: them lose control and they go get become further and

555
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: further extreme. And the funked up part and all of

556
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: this now is that like, as this is happening, Democrats

557
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: are pouring money into races to elevate the extremist MAGA

558
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: candidates because they think it's gonna be easier for them

559
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: to win. But what they're doing is just there's just

560
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: further entrenching this ship into the GOP by by even

561
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Speaker 1: like by spending money to even mention these people on

562
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Speaker 1: TV because their whole things like, well, we're not going

563
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Speaker 1: to challenge our own beliefs on governance so just be like, yo,

564
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Speaker 1: platform the fucking undesirables and then we don't have to

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Speaker 1: do nothing. Uh. And it's a very, like you said,

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Speaker 1: very messy road to this this midterm and when you

567
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: look at everything combined, Yeah, I mean the two threads

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Speaker 1: pulling on me obviously are like politically, you know, just

569
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Speaker 1: understanding the frustration with like the mainstream like the mainstream Democrats,

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration, like recognizing that there is no energy

571
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: for that, there's no future for that solution, but also

572
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: being like scared of this ship. And yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know it. I would say it like feels like a

574
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: false dichotomy. But like we we saw in the last

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Speaker 1: election that like the things are so stacked in the

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Speaker 1: favor of like the mainstream Democratic answer that like it.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like there's a short term fix where

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Speaker 1: suddenly like people are like it. It feels like it's

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Speaker 1: the mainstream Democratic party or this like super far right

580
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Speaker 1: extremist option which is more well developed than the left,

581
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: more realistic option that I think would have more energy

582
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Speaker 1: if the mainstream media was willing to acknowledge it. But

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Speaker 1: that kind of ties into the next story, which like

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Speaker 1: based on the mainstream media news coverage after er the

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Speaker 1: l A Democratic primary a couple of weeks back, you

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Speaker 1: would have thought the population of l A had just

587
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Speaker 1: like gone all the way into the right. From the

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Speaker 1: New York Times, the quote paper of record, Progressive Democrats

589
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: were knocked on the defensive in their own party over

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Speaker 1: crime and homelessness on Wednesday, after voters into high profile

591
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Speaker 1: California races delivered a stark warning about the potency of

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Speaker 1: law and order as a political message. In two and

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Speaker 1: they were talking about the Caruso like that. You know,

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Speaker 1: they had basically basically called that election for Caruso, Like

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Speaker 1: they I think acknowledged it was going to be a runoff,

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Speaker 1: but they were like he he won out. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just generally like a movement to the right of

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Speaker 1: voters in Los Angeles. And then like and there, I've

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00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: been trying to figure out, like what actually happened, just

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Speaker 1: like actual results from some of the progressive candidates that

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Speaker 1: I voted for that I know people were supporting. We're

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Speaker 1: just people who I saw on billboards like around Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles who like put up things like here's what the

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Speaker 1: budgets actually like that this is an actual billboard on

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Speaker 1: Crenshaw in l A. It's like, here's what budgets actually

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Speaker 1: look like. And you know, it's just a bar graph

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Speaker 1: with like police spending, and it shows like how massive

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Speaker 1: police spending is compared to like all these other priorities

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Speaker 1: that you know, just like one piece of truth that

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Speaker 1: like could could reach people directly. And so finally we're

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Speaker 1: getting results in like not not the what what the

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Speaker 1: New York Times assumed was going to happen, but actual results,

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Speaker 1: and it is wildly successful for progressive candidates, like the

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Speaker 1: people who were putting out that information and being like,

615
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Speaker 1: just doubling down on funding the police is not is

616
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Speaker 1: not the answer. Those people had surprisingly a lot of success.

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Speaker 1: It's basically the exact opposite of what the New York

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Speaker 1: Times article has said. And that's not coming out in

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Speaker 1: the New York Times. That came out in a column

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Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Times that was like, is l

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Speaker 1: a more progressive than San Francisco? Now, Like they that

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Speaker 1: was the angle they had to give it to make

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Speaker 1: it like an opinion piece. But it's the only place

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Speaker 1: in the mainstream where I was seeing coverage of these facts,

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Speaker 1: like I'll just read directly from it. In an election

626
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Speaker 1: year supposedly defined by the public's anxiety over rising crime

627
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Speaker 1: and diminishing law enforcement, Los Angeles is on the verge

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Speaker 1: of electing its first abolitionist city council member. Um. It's

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Speaker 1: it's all part of what the thirty two year old

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Speaker 1: community activists calls a tidal wave of progressiveness that's washing

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Speaker 1: over l a Um. Elsewhere on the East Side, labor

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Speaker 1: organizer Hugo Soto Martinez, who campaigned on having fewer cops

633
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Speaker 1: and repealing the law that allows the city to remove

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Speaker 1: homeless encampments, has pulled ahead of incumbent City County sleman

635
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Speaker 1: Mitchell Ferrell in District thirteen, and Karen Bass just pulled

636
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Speaker 1: ahead of Carusa, the person that everybody was like fawning

637
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Speaker 1: over and was like, this is proof that the Democrats

638
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Speaker 1: are fucked in the election and two mid terms. So

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Speaker 1: it's basically the exact opposite of the story that the

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Speaker 1: mainstream media was telling in the run up to the

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Speaker 1: election and the immediate aftermath. But no, now they have

642
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Speaker 1: just stopped talking about it. It's like, you know, this

643
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Speaker 1: is I think us running into again the most insidious

644
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Speaker 1: but also like effective way that progressive energy and politics

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Speaker 1: are opposed, which is depriving them of any oxygen in

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Speaker 1: any of the mainstream sources, uh, that we're taught are

647
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Speaker 1: like both um, the only option for fact checked information.

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Speaker 1: And also we're taught that they are like left leaning

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Speaker 1: um and like liberal and like not neither of those

650
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Speaker 1: in case, but like that that really puts us in

651
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: a precarious position where we have this one option that

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Speaker 1: is kind of well founded that we heard from in

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Speaker 1: Texas that are like well formed, I guess where they

654
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Speaker 1: have all the talking points, they have ways of getting

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Speaker 1: the information out. They have like these national figures who

656
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Speaker 1: have all you know, have ways of reaching people, um,

657
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Speaker 1: who are saying funk the mainstream and like the way

658
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Speaker 1: that this country has been run. And then we have

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Speaker 1: these candidates who are to the left of what the

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00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: mainstream has been and like the you know, complicity and

661
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: all the Wall Street thievery and bullshit that has gone on,

662
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Speaker 1: and they are not allowed to like they they will

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Speaker 1: not be acknowledged in the mainstream conversation. Yeah, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: h it's it's a tidy way of keeping people from

665
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Speaker 1: having multiple forms of analyzing what's happening. There's an I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's like a New Republic or the Atlantic today.

667
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: I forget one of the two. There's like this article

668
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: that was like liberals are actually ignoring these crime waves

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Speaker 1: and it was like another thing trying to pop up

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Speaker 1: those fucked up New York Times articles where they're like

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Speaker 1: these are like the sourcing although there is some like

672
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: editorial like editorializing happening are like pretty good. They're well sourced,

673
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: like because it's you're not even questioning the fact that

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Speaker 1: they're like according to my cop friend who hates the poor,

675
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: and we're it's it's just a very interesting thing to

676
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Speaker 1: even come watched. Even see now the media come out

677
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Speaker 1: to sort of push back against like a thing that

678
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Speaker 1: they've been hearing. It's like I hear people are taking

679
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: shots that like the the the idea that maybe the

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Speaker 1: police and look local news are really amplifying this crime thing,

681
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: and they're like, but that's where they're after they created

682
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: some term for like like it's not anecdotal but antich resort,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, some nonsense thing um all to say

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Speaker 1: that it's like but yeah, here's the deal. It's really

685
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Speaker 1: bad and uh, you know the d A Larry Krasner

686
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Speaker 1: in Philly. I mean he's he's cantankerous. M hm. Oh,

687
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: you can't use a strong word like that without backup,

688
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, backing it up with lots of stats. So yeah,

689
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: well but and I but I guess it. It does

690
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Speaker 1: reveal this whole thing where it's like it sounds like

691
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: the thrust of the pieces, like yeah, and those das

692
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: were bad. So it is. It is. It is an

693
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: odd place we find ourselves in, constantly sweet grapple, with

694
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: many kinds of messaging around what is or is not

695
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: actually happening around us, and what is or is not

696
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: even claimed by each team, Like it's wild to that

697
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Speaker 1: that the mask mandate is even in the plant. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I understand why it is, because I'm in the pot

699
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Speaker 1: like a frog being boiled, and I get it, like

700
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: I've been around. But I'm just imagining someone dropping to

701
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Speaker 1: the sky from like the eighteen hundreds and trying to explain,

702
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: why are you wearing a mask? Oh, there's a disease

703
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: like the plague if you're familiar with from your time. Oh, okay,

704
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: we'll all wear a mask. Two. Oh, so you're like

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00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: a liberal type of peasant from the medieval times, you know, like,

706
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: it's wild to me that that even indicates that and

707
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: then the same token, I think a medieval person would

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Speaker 1: honestly be flabber gases to come to the year two

709
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: and see all this miraculous technology and see that when

710
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: someone like goes against social moras, we still break out

711
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: chains and cages and weapons, and that's we haven't thought

712
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: of anything better. That's just wild to me. Yeah, well

713
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Speaker 1: it's good, good pr for the chains, cages and weapons.

714
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: Proud Yeah, big chain, weapons, big big chain is Yeah,

715
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: they're crushing in the messaging department. And I think that's why,

716
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: because we're we consumed just NonStop propaganda all day throughout

717
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: most of our lives in the United States. And then

718
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: you're like, how come like we can't come up with

719
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: the actual good solution to problems. Well, and it's the

720
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: physical instant creation of the internet, uh interaction that everyone

721
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: hates most, which is when someone says some something truly

722
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: hateful or despicable and you actually reveal that you've been upset,

723
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: and they go, oh are you mad? You've lost the argument? Like,

724
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: we as a society are doing that to our people.

725
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: We send in like this person who's trained to and

726
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: equipped to escalate a situation. Situations get out of control,

727
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: and then we cite those stats as why we need

728
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Speaker 1: those people. It makes It's never made sense, and it

729
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: still doesn't. Yeah, it's just a cycle that has to

730
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Speaker 1: be broken. We've talked about there. There's this thing idea

731
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Speaker 1: in uh, this essay. I can tolerate anything except the

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Speaker 1: out group that talks about how like each class is

733
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Speaker 1: only aware of the class directly above them and the

734
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Speaker 1: class directly below them, and they're taught to like hate

735
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: both of them for like different reasons. Of the class

736
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Speaker 1: the group directly above them is like, you know, holding

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00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: them down. In the group directly below them, like you're

738
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: allowed to look down on and therefore, by by extension,

739
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: nobody really hates or like picks up any animus towards

740
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: the people who are actually billionaires and are actually like

741
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: you know, controlling things like we They are essentially mythical figures,

742
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: are insulated by the very fact that you can't even

743
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: comprehend how much money they have exactly. But I think

744
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: like this, the way that the media is covering the

745
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: this guy spending how much did Cruso spend on his

746
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: election yeah, so like so many millions of dollars to

747
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Speaker 1: run and come in like a distant second for for

748
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Speaker 1: mayor UM in Los Angeles, and the media is covering

749
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 1: it as like a wake up call and not covering

750
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: any of the actual like populist energy on the ground

751
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: for um. You know, things that are outside of like

752
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: the moneyed interests in the way the way that money,

753
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: money and interests prefer politics were on like that, it

754
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: feels like a fixable problem. It doesn't feel like it's

755
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: a limit of human imagination. It does feel like it's

756
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: a limit of our media and how our media has

757
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: always been viable, you know, like you can like Jeff Bezos,

758
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: like the richest human maybe in the history of the world,

759
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: owns the Washington Post. Um. You know, Elon Musk is

760
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: on the verge of acquiring Twitter like that, and that

761
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: I think one of when we had like some kind

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00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: of centrist progressives on, they were like that's always been

763
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Speaker 1: the case, like that, there's always been really wealthy people,

764
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, but that's a bad thing because

765
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: they are controlling how things are messaged, and like it's

766
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: it's net We're never going to like get past this

767
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: inability to like see how things at actually run and

768
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: like not be crabs in a bucket? Who are you know,

769
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: always just pulling, like fighting amongst ourselves If we don't

770
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: have like an actual honest media, that isn't that isn't

771
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: you know owned by wealthy interests, are funded exclusively by

772
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: wealthy interests. Make your family listen to the Daily Sigeist.

773
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, Michael, thank you for why

774
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: I see you've read ahead to our final point on

775
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: you're all responsible for indoctrinating five people. But first, this

776
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 1: message from big chain, big chain. I find my truest

777
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: freedom of speech on parlor. Come to parlor. I uh,

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00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: you know I only buy my big chains at a

779
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: big chain store. That is big chain, big chain. That's

780
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: where you buy your big chains at a chain store,

781
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: national chain. You got to make sure you're supporting big

782
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: chains in the big chain business. All right, let's take

783
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back

784
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: and let's talk about what's the mirth murf. It's time

785
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: time to talk to so we except clowns, sentient domen

786
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: you know, fake military officers who were racists and you know,

787
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: as brand mascots. I'm talking about, like the animals happily

788
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: eating themselves like a pig cook and bacon. Well, we're

789
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: fine with that, I mean we we practically demand it

790
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: make us feel okay about eating bacon. But people seem

791
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: to be pretty unnerved by a new They're unnerved by Murf,

792
00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: the new nerve spokes being. Yeah, so it's an anthropomorphic

793
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: amalgam of ten thousand NERF darts with the ability to

794
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: run and shoot a NERF gun despite a lack of

795
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: anything resembling a face or eyes or any sensory inputs. Um. Yeah,

796
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: he looks like a like a like those videos you

797
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: see like neglected poodles that like came in off the

798
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: street and they're like in their hair matted they couldn't

799
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: even see. That's what Mirf looks like. A matted dog

800
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 1: who can't even see, like or one of those sheep

801
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: that needed shave. Merf down bad FORRF sound good? Oh God,

802
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: reveal the truittious nature of Mirf. Underneath is pritty underneath.

803
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: That's the worst part shave if you just get gritty. Yeah,

804
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: gritty is is who it made me think of. I'd

805
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: like to see a combination like one big gritty I

806
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: patches of fur in between coming out the darts, right, yeah,

807
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,760
Speaker 1: point of order. Those are not darts, right, they're just Nerf?

808
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: Are they darts? Do they have tips? Oh? They have

809
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: suction cup tips. That's even how they're stuck, right because

810
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: I'm imain no the tips face out. It looks like

811
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: so like if he touches you, you're getting that. It's

812
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: not Nerfy. It's like octopus. Yeah, he could get stuck

813
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, you're getting section cups. Bro, I'm not

814
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: a fan. You just find NERF stuck to like some

815
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: piece of glass somewhere in a city, like, kill me,

816
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: murph uses your bathroom. That's just like thirty darts stuck. Yeah.

817
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: But since nineteen sixty nine, NERF has never had a mascot,

818
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: and they're like, we're doing it. That tradition ends now

819
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: they unveiled Murf. People like some of the headlines, Sorry, Nerf,

820
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: but your new mascot is terrifying. NERF fund veils and

821
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: mascot made of ten thousand NERF darts and people are terrified.

822
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: And then quote a social media posts that says kill it,

823
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: nurse new mascot Murf will talk your nightmares. So they've

824
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: also announced that murph uses they them pronouns, which I

825
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: do think this is frankly cheapens the whole thing, Like,

826
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 1: this is another way that progressive values, like what's that, Yeah,

827
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Speaker 1: right now it makes sense unveiled during Pride, You're like,

828
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Speaker 1: you're you're like, fuck uh that could look selfish as

829
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: a company them. Yeah, the whole way that like progressive

830
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: ideas get adopted by like marketers, like probably almost definitely

831
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: like white guys in their forties and fifties who are

832
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: just like parenting back, mostly overpaid to come up with MURF. Also,

833
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: you know see for many fiscal cours, hundreds of millions

834
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 1: of dollars were spent on MURF and it's just some

835
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: outsider persons, like you know, loose bad misunderstanding of the

836
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: intention of of those values. But like when when they're

837
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: made into like and murph uses they then pronouns, it

838
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: becomes a meme and it becomes like a thing, an

839
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: easy thing for um kids and then conservatives to like

840
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: just dismiss, which is and also an easy thing for

841
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: to make Joe Biden feel good about the job he's doing,

842
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: as we saw on one of the Jimmy's Kimmel I

843
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: think it was. He was like, what, why are you

844
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: so fucking optimistic? Joe Biden Man, you see Murphy? Did

845
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: you see them in that commercial? Right? Like Jesus Joe.

846
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Speaker 1: And this also comes at a time where many people

847
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Speaker 1: in the ZBTQ community are wondering what the funk are

848
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Speaker 1: Democrats even doing right now? This has been a full

849
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Speaker 1: on assault from the right and well, we got MRF,

850
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: that's it. Where's the fucking where's the Department of Education

851
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: having some kind of like real, like forceful opinion on

852
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 1: what's happening or anything like that. A lot of the

853
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: times people like all we get is just like empty platitudes,

854
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: and you know, these new fucking sports or these toy

855
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: mascots being like and here's a little crumb for this community,

856
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: because imagine if if Murph came out in twenty the

857
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: summer or fall of could you imagine could you imagine

858
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: like his his his nerf darts make like dreadlocks or

859
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: some ship. Yeah, because that was like, it's the same

860
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: same lack of awareness of just people just thinking progress

861
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: means I just put a sticker on something or a

862
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: logo on something, or I change the appearance of my logo,

863
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: rather than there is there's there are. There are groups

864
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Speaker 1: of people experiencing untold levels of oppression, and I'm here

865
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: to stand directly beside them saying I am an ally

866
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: in this fight, rather being like, hey, man, if you

867
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Speaker 1: buy this, we get it enough that we will just

868
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: outwardly say we're on the right side of the conversation

869
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Speaker 1: and that we really don't give a funk, because basically

870
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Speaker 1: the message yeah, Merph looks like if you frightened him,

871
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Speaker 1: he'd shoot darts in all directions, right, or if he

872
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Speaker 1: climaxed orxed. Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, don't get into the

873
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Speaker 1: mirf born Now. It's problem on Mini Dolly already that

874
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Speaker 1: a I think also that effect is a complete rip off,

875
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: incidentally of a fabulous major laser music video lighted up.

876
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: So it's a failure on every level. But we've talked

877
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: before about how militarized NERF guns have become. They're essentially

878
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: candy colored like replica firearms, which gun manufacturers in the

879
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Speaker 1: n r A are like off the record, but have

880
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Speaker 1: been quoted as being like, we are eager to see

881
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Speaker 1: these in the hands of kids, to wean them into

882
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: gun ownership. Really, Oh, I didn't know it was that conscious. Yeah,

883
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: nerf guns are actually used in school shooting drills for teachers,

884
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: not by any like mandate, but because yeah, they're the

885
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: closest safe alternative. And it's so you're basically saying it's

886
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: a practice gun, right. The whole idea now of like

887
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: you know, when I was a kid, I played Cops

888
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: and robbers with guns and fake guns and like cap

889
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: guns and ship. The whole idea now of giving kids

890
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: toy guns is becoming weirder and weirder and more and

891
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: morbid and perverse, Like, yeah, it's wild. Man. I had

892
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: one of my classmates their mom was an epidemiologist and

893
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: like this is an elementary school. Her whole work was

894
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:49,760
Speaker 1: devoted to getting toy guns out of kids hands because

895
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: of like even in like the eighties, and there are

896
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Speaker 1: people like people mistaking kids are having guns being real

897
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: guns and getting shot and things like that, and just

898
00:53:57,719 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: generally like what it does to like sort of for

899
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: or this thing. And I remember at the time, we're like, man,

900
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Speaker 1: you know his mom doesn't let him play with any

901
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: of the cool ship and you're like, your mom is

902
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: from the future. Well, and I'm not even say because

903
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: I'm a big like violent video games are fine by

904
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: me guy, and I can like get into the details

905
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: of that. But I'm just saying not even from the

906
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 1: kid's perspectives. Believe me, I love nerve for. Like every

907
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: birthday party when I was seven eight nine was nerve

908
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: for and I get the thrill and the fun of

909
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: like paintball and all these things. It's just I'm just

910
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: saying as an adult now, like if I had a

911
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: birthday party and saw all my kids and their friends

912
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: shooting nerf guns at each other, there's no way I'm

913
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: not excusing myself to the bathroom like cry, Like there's

914
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Speaker 1: only one thing that makes me think of now and

915
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 1: I didn't disturbed are like equivalent, Like the most lit

916
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: thing you can have is what maybe a super soaker

917
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Speaker 1: like two fifty Yeah, Like the like wasn't the o

918
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Speaker 1: g like Neon green one that we all had where

919
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: you drink the water out of it tastes terrible or

920
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: the bad fact that shoots a thousand balls and then

921
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: gotta pack it up. For like there was ball Zuka.

922
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,240
Speaker 1: I remember we had ball Zuka and that ship wasn't

923
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Speaker 1: like launching it like it was basically as strong as

924
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Speaker 1: you were. You can get the ball Zuka to shoot

925
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: it out, but the ultimator can cuss you. Yeah. Well

926
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Speaker 1: yeah see I missed Ultimator by about three years. And

927
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: now I see videos of like dads who are like

928
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: dressed up who are like military guys who are dressed

929
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: up in tact gear like playing with their like NERF guns.

930
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: Like there's this one video on Reddit of this dad

931
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 1: who's clearly some kind of like you know, military operator

932
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: comes in and clears, like clears the room like tactically

933
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: with a NERF gun, like throws in like a NERF

934
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: grint flash bang, and then he's you know, he's like

935
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: cutting the pie like by coming in at an angle

936
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: like like his entry point. He's like double tapping his

937
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: kid in the chest and like his other kid, and

938
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: you're like, what God, that's actually the origin story of

939
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: MRF is Murph was one of the children that was

940
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: taken down in that raid and has come back as

941
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:11,240
Speaker 1: an uber being vengeance. They rolled out in the coming years.

942
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean, but it does feel like that that queasiness

943
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:21,399
Speaker 1: is there constantly for all parents in America, and it's

944
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 1: i'd be surprised if it is a complete coincidence and

945
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: we'll never see this because like the the documents around

946
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Speaker 1: a marketing campaign are typically protected, like the you know,

947
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: jfk assassination documents. But like, there's no way it's a

948
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: complete coincidence that as things become weirder and weirder, and

949
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: as the idea of giving children like candy colored a

950
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Speaker 1: rs to like run around and play with becomes more

951
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: just overtly strange, they are making a change to like

952
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: a cuddly spokes being that he's made of bullets, is

953
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: made of like soft fun bullets instead of you know,

954
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: anyway you put it that way. Yeah, that's imagine that

955
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 1: a character made of like fucking you know, seven six

956
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: two rounds and you're just like hey, right, and you're like,

957
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: what the fund is this? And they're all pointed outward? Okay? Yeah,

958
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: as as as if to say, fire wildly in all directions,

959
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: that's our that's our method. Right. It looks from a distance,

960
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: MRF looks like they're made of like cush material. I

961
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: thought it was like a cush mascot, not a NERF Matt.

962
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: Yeah I did too. Also, why is NERF Murph got

963
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: to have that. Why they got to have that, like

964
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: big chain on like they're a rapper. Yeah, there is

965
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: the gold chain. It's like a big Nerf place, big

966
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: Nerf piece, chest piece. Okay, let's not keep mine on

967
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: you nerf mm hmm. All right, well you know, keep

968
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: your eyes appealed for our new future overlord. Yeah, I

969
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: mean the murf memes that are going to be baby

970
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: Peanut and all that. Yeah right, Baby Peanut was one

971
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: that I should have mentioned up top of like the

972
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: things spokesmascots were willing to get on board with because

973
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, in an overtly like Christian America,

974
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: like you know where the mainstream is like very protective

975
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: and being like one nation under God. They were like, okay,

976
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: but this is a mascot where like that dies and

977
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: immediately reproduces as a baby that it looks like the

978
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: previous one. So like very very strange metaphysical ideas being presented,

979
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: and we're like, yeah, okay, that's Super Bowl commercial. It's fun,

980
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: all good, all good, but not but fun. This murf stuff.

981
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: Michael Swain truly a pleasure as always having you, Where

982
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Speaker 1: can people find you? Follow you? All that stuff Oh well,

983
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Speaker 1: I made sure to be extra plug heavy this time.

984
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Speaker 1: But in case you missed it, I'm at Swain Underscore Corp.

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Speaker 1: On Twitter and my new show If you Like video

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Speaker 1: Games at All? With At the Real Gains as my

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Speaker 1: co host. We do a little show called One Upsmanship

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Speaker 1: check it out. Yeah, that's great. Is there a tweet

990
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Speaker 1: or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh? Yeah, yeah,

991
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Speaker 1: I got two tweets another post mascot. I got one

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Speaker 1: from Daddy at Gritzy Ross, who says I barely play

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Speaker 1: And that's my last plug, I swear. A tweet that's

997
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Speaker 1: funny that I like is from at the Nate Wolf,

998
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Speaker 1: who wrote, do you think I referenced dinosaurs too much?

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Speaker 1: When I write? I asked, she was silent like the

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Speaker 1: p and terot actyl, But it's said everything. I enjoyed

1001
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Speaker 1: that quite a bit. That's so good. Uh, people find you?

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Speaker 1: What is the tweet you've been enjoying. Find me on

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Speaker 1: the World Cup right now is because FIFA just sells

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Speaker 1: the tournament to the highest bidder. Uh. And so it's

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Speaker 1: on that and for to day Fiance. Uh. The other podcast,

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Speaker 1: see Let's see a tweet that I like. First one

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Speaker 1: I I said, first two drinks don't count if you

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Speaker 1: And that tweet was blown up over the weekend. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I used to take a few real big stress gulps

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Speaker 1: paced environment. And I think that's a very good way

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Speaker 1: to class instant classics. And you can find me on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and on Matt boost These,

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Speaker 1: endorsed that even taking into account all the great basketball

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Speaker 1: players that they employ, they can officially endorse the Miles

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Speaker 1: and I have mad boosts. We can jump very high.

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Speaker 1: I used to be able to get net. I think

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Speaker 1: that's all you need to know. Oh man, I try

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Speaker 1: grabbing ram. I think I blew my my index? Did you?

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Speaker 1: I haven't been on a basketball court like five years,

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Speaker 1: and I grossly overestimated work that has been calculated, decision

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Speaker 1: by by the way, I just don't want to go

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Speaker 1: We gotta do it. We gotta go live on I

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Speaker 1: g and just do a quick gym shoot around for

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Speaker 1: people to see. People see what that trying to be like,

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Speaker 1: You guys need to settle it on the court. It'll

1041
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Speaker 1: be like when Corey Booker went on Jesus and Marrow.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that one. Never watch people play basketball.

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Speaker 1: You're not used to see play basketball tweet. I've been

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Speaker 1: enjoying Lynn Yard again tweeted, love the deli papers on

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Speaker 1: the doctor's table, I'm a sick little sandwich. And then

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Speaker 1: this one. I don't I didn't wanna like start beef,

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Speaker 1: but pizza bit tweeted. My boyfriend's always talking about how

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Speaker 1: the world needs a larger being that can be sliced

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Speaker 1: like a steak. I don't know, Michael, I think any

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Speaker 1: number of looney twans would beg to disagree. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can already slice beans transparent if you bad enough,

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Speaker 1: off to the information that we talked about today's episode,

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Speaker 1: as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,

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Speaker 1: what song do we think people might enjoy? Okay, so

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Speaker 1: this is a new band again. I love hearing music

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Speaker 1: where I'm like, is this from now or from back then? Uh.

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Speaker 1: They're called dina Ogan and there's a boom lot over

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Speaker 1: N And this track is called Tombola ninety four t

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Speaker 1: O M B O l A And they're like this

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Speaker 1: Swedish group that is like getting very into retro style.

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Speaker 1: So I think they were kind of describing themselves like

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Speaker 1: if you like Eric being I Rock, Kim and krum

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Speaker 1: Band and like a few other bands. I'm like, these

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Speaker 1: are all great things to say you're influenced by. It's

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Speaker 1: just really kind of like this, you know, like look

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Speaker 1: into the past with modern eyes, which is one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite genres. I'd love to see people kind of

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Speaker 1: playing with all the different textures. So check this that

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Speaker 1: song out, Tombola by Dina Olga or Ergon, We'll go

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