Speaker 1: Do you have We don't have a cold. We gotta do.
Speaker 1: What's something funny that happened too? Mm hmmmm? Oh dude,
Speaker 1: I bought turntables this weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh mids my own airs coming back.
Speaker 1: I used to be a DJ when I were young.
Speaker 2: I don't when I were young. I don't believe you.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't believe that I bought turntables?
Speaker 2: No, I actually do believe all of this.
Speaker 1: I bought CDJs. So what are you gonna do? Is this? Was?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 2: Was it something that was destroyed in elf in cinema.
Speaker 1: Because all of my musical equipment was destroyed, I needed
Speaker 1: a way to be musical again. Yeah, this felt like
Speaker 1: the lowest barrier to entry because I'm already I already
Speaker 1: know how to like DJ, like sort of basically I
Speaker 1: used to. I'm so old, I was mixing vinyl. So
Speaker 1: like with all this digital ship is so much more
Speaker 1: fun and it's a way for me to have fun.
Speaker 2: Do you ever want to just DJ your own party?
Speaker 2: But you can't because that would feel like corny? I
Speaker 2: don't know, like.
Speaker 1: When you DJ, you kind of get off on DJing
Speaker 1: anyway that like you kind of are partying except you're
Speaker 1: control freak and you're in charge of all the music.
Speaker 4: My DJ friends who still do it? I mean I
Speaker 4: had one and he's so talented, but he was like
Speaker 4: last in l A and.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, come through.
Speaker 4: I go on A three and I'm like, I'm sorry
Speaker 4: when in the morning, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Good for you to get that spot.
Speaker 1: WoT exactly what you can have is started three like
Speaker 1: whenever one. Yeah, dude, I'm ready to stay out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're like, hello the Internet, Welcome to this Monday
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Speaker 1: this is the daily Zeitgeist, and this is time for
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Speaker 1: Podcasterbituation Room. You heard it off, Francisca frent teeny, Thanks.
Speaker 4: So much, Thank you so much for having me. I'm
Speaker 4: excited to fill in for Jack for the next little bit.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to dig into everything with you.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. Starting a Monday morning with
Speaker 2: Miles Gray is.
Speaker 4: Like A really that's a rare treat. That's exciting and
Speaker 4: I'm so wow.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Oh well, and I feel the same. The
Speaker 1: feeling is mutual for Tesca because I'm like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: get to talk, we get to be Asian people on Mike.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Anyways, saw that clip you on Jenny Yang's podcast. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, I started listening to that episode.
Speaker 1: It was really good, really really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, Jenny Yang had a very real moment.
Speaker 4: Listen to her podcast just like calling in you know
Speaker 4: Asian influencers and content creators. She knows if you are
Speaker 4: an Asian doing in entertainment or online, she knows you.
Speaker 4: She will trap you into her awesome web of like solidarity.
Speaker 2: But you know, as we're.
Speaker 4: Going through this moment of real fascism and the Alien
Speaker 4: Enemies Act, which somehow is still on the books.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, funny, we just let that one cook still
Speaker 1: need it again?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is the whole thing is like
Speaker 2: can we get rid of it? Not? No, okay?
Speaker 4: And you know she's she's basically like, look, this helped
Speaker 4: intern you know, hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans. So
Speaker 4: maybe it's time to speak out about what is going on,
Speaker 4: even if you personally are not being impacted. And that's
Speaker 4: that's hard for someone who's like I think Jenny and
Speaker 4: a lot of folks like they don't want that smoke.
Speaker 4: They don't want to talk about yeah, political shit, and
Speaker 4: I get it, you know, you want, you want opportunities,
Speaker 4: you don't want to And also Zegler and you're like, yeah, queen,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I think also culturally too, like knowing
Speaker 1: a lot of Asian immigrants and what that process is
Speaker 1: like assimilating, and like just culturally too of like keeping
Speaker 1: your head low. There's a lot of shit you have
Speaker 1: to break through to kind of arrive at that point
Speaker 1: where you're like, now, this is the only way to
Speaker 1: fucking be talking about shit. Yeah, but anyway, yeah, very
Speaker 1: very good. Talk. Also found out that her one of
Speaker 1: her favorite professors is like my aunt in law. That's
Speaker 1: that checksa so wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, here we are telling you what's strended, but
Speaker 1: first we got to tell you what is happening in
Speaker 1: our hearts. What's over rated and underrated in our hearts? Francesca,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you first, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated from your personal life? What's going on with you?
Speaker 4: Uh, if you've made this mistake, you know exactly what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about. But the litter robot, which is an
Speaker 4: automatic cat litter bot.
Speaker 1: Which sounds a little robot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is completely overrated.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, what's going on with yours? Because my school
Speaker 1: is doing it?
Speaker 2: Kick in really yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Had to get I did have to send one in
Speaker 1: though before because one was fucked up.
Speaker 4: They are really expensive, number one, We're talking like seven
Speaker 4: hundred dollars. But then you think about it, right, you
Speaker 4: think about the time, you think about the smell, you think,
Speaker 4: and it's worth it. And when it works, it's good.
Speaker 4: But when it breaks down, which is frequent, it.
Speaker 2: Is like upside out. Your cat doesn't want to go
Speaker 2: inside the litter and then just shits outside of the box.
Speaker 2: And so we got to a.
Speaker 4: Point where like the cat was poison billed against the
Speaker 4: litter because it kept on like turning, like being upside
Speaker 4: out when she wanted to go inside of it.
Speaker 1: Oh what the fuck, that's way fucked up her second
Speaker 1: litter robot, and so we've bad juju.
Speaker 2: And like we got the warranty, so they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we can replace a part, but like this bitch has already.
Speaker 4: Been poisoned against it. So now she's just shitting outside
Speaker 4: the box even when it's working. So we had to
Speaker 4: go now get a regular litter, like you know, peasants
Speaker 4: and scooping.
Speaker 2: Just bending over and scooping and terrible.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be me.
Speaker 4: So I'm really glad that you've had good experiences, but
Speaker 4: telling you it's a swing because I had so much money.
Speaker 1: It's funny, like I had one that one of the
Speaker 1: sensors was working and it kept being like it's full,
Speaker 1: it's full. I'm like, it is not full, you fucking fool.
Speaker 1: Look at it. There's one turd in here. Do your damn job.
Speaker 2: No. But that's what I love about it is that
Speaker 2: it does turn it over. When it is one turd.
Speaker 2: You can't smell it, you like, keep it the it's
Speaker 2: good it m No.
Speaker 1: I get it though, because cats are so like particular,
Speaker 1: because that shit goes. Man. One time the door was
Speaker 1: too closed into like the closet area where the litter
Speaker 1: box was, and my cat was like, fuck this, I'm
Speaker 1: shipping everywhere. Fuck you, And so I get how the
Speaker 1: cat frustration works. But anyway, look, this is this, it's
Speaker 1: it's chaos out here.
Speaker 2: It's chaos. Cats or ship a lot of shit, you know.
Speaker 2: And the kid isn't potty trained yet.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh my god, dude, the guys child
Speaker 1: did his first pee in the toilet.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: But then like it's like once a week he'll be like, yo,
Speaker 1: I want to pee in the toy I'm like okay.
Speaker 1: Before I would be like to do what. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're there, yeah, and then now you think you've grown. Oh,
Speaker 1: and part of me is like just purely in denial
Speaker 1: because I don't want him to be potty, like you're
Speaker 1: still baby, and I will I will inhibit your growth
Speaker 1: for my own personal needs. But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, there's just a lot of poo happening and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, my overrated is paying for case ida is
Speaker 1: I'm just now, like the more I think about it,
Speaker 1: because like, you know, kids like simple shit and something.
Speaker 1: I was out somewhere and I'm like, oh, mainly eat
Speaker 1: a caesadea, you know what I mean. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: why did I pay eight dollars for this? Right now?
Speaker 2: I could have what kind of case ofia you're getting?
Speaker 2: You're getting like a kid's casadia. That's it.
Speaker 1: It was like just straight up just scrape cheese. It
Speaker 1: was like it wasn't a kid's one. It was just
Speaker 1: a plain case idea like at a like a.
Speaker 2: Mass that's your mistake. What are you doing well?
Speaker 1: Because the case doesn't like it too. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: the demandibular strength to chew through proteins. It's that can't
Speaker 1: be chunky steak. Kid. He can't do all that shit,
Speaker 1: so I have to get them the regular one. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is way too much. It's like this
Speaker 1: is this feels foolish. Like we live in California, we
Speaker 1: live in La. All of these ingredients are so readily
Speaker 1: available and it just takes a second to make it
Speaker 1: feels like one of those things like you kind of
Speaker 1: feel foolish, but like.
Speaker 4: Buying total I mean, so, Matt, my husband loves buying
Speaker 4: casadias out and I get it.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 4: It's funny these This is not why he likes it,
Speaker 4: but I'm like, I get it because it's like almost
Speaker 4: a healthier burrito doesn't have tons of rice and beans
Speaker 4: and no, but you got pico and you can you
Speaker 4: know whatever.
Speaker 2: I had a horrible.
Speaker 4: Mexican food experience over the weekend that made me so sad.
Speaker 4: But the burritos in San Francisco just can't be beat.
Speaker 4: Like they are their own thing, like they've been around.
Speaker 4: I don't care if they were developed for an American palette.
Speaker 4: They were developed was developed by Mexicans. And I had
Speaker 4: the saddest burrito at a spot this weekend. It made
Speaker 4: me want to cry. And it made me think of
Speaker 4: Anthony Bourdain. Sorry to make it weird, but like Bourdaine,
Speaker 4: he was depressive. Obviously we know that. But everything he had,
Speaker 4: like a bad meal, he said it. Sometimes it would
Speaker 4: just throw him into this like depression, or he'd be
Speaker 4: just sad.
Speaker 2: That's what eating a bad burrito does to me.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, wait, what was bad? Like was it
Speaker 1: the ingredients all stale?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just no, no, no no, it was just
Speaker 2: like unflavorful and unenjoyable. Wow.
Speaker 1: That sucks. And especially San Francis, the home of the
Speaker 1: Mission burrito, like what.
Speaker 4: I used to live, like up the street from the
Speaker 4: best burrito and the love, like the love they put it.
Speaker 2: You gotta have melted on the tortilla.
Speaker 4: What you can't just throw cold cheeses, no cheese onto the.
Speaker 1: The fucking play I hate fucking I'm gonna sound the
Speaker 1: alarm on that one. Sorry, we can't do that, Okay.
Speaker 1: What's anything is underrated?
Speaker 4: Francesca underrated is getting involved locally. Over the weekend, I
Speaker 4: volunteered with Centro Cso, which is a long time immigrant
Speaker 4: rights organization in Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, and we
Speaker 4: distributed know your Rights flyers outside of like different grocery
Speaker 4: stores and like door knocking and me and like a
Speaker 4: crew rolled deep and we like it was like fifteen
Speaker 4: of us and we're just kind of like, you know,
Speaker 4: some of us spoke Spanish, some of us didn't. And
Speaker 4: it was so nice to just like get offline start actually.
Speaker 2: Doing real work.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I'm not saying we change the world,
Speaker 4: but you know, informing you that if ice is in
Speaker 4: their neighborhood, they have rights. They don't have to open
Speaker 4: the door, they have to see certain things, make sure
Speaker 4: these people are for real. I mean, we're in such
Speaker 4: scary times and there are great organizations that are already
Speaker 4: fighting back. And even if you can't personally go those
Speaker 4: organizations Central Cia so definitely can use your your dollars
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean yeah, it is like such
Speaker 1: a sort of like breaking that inertia of panic right
Speaker 1: now is like really hard, and I think of like
Speaker 1: you have to just start small, like I think a
Speaker 1: lot of like because the task seems so gargantuan in
Speaker 1: front of you. You're like, all right, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: learn how to make napalm?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Is that what I need to start. It's like no,
Speaker 1: not easy easy, Let's take steps though. Let's say you
Speaker 1: can work your way up to that if you need to,
Speaker 1: But right now it is so beneficial to either whether
Speaker 1: it's donating your time or just energy or expertise or whatever,
Speaker 1: there's always something you can offer if it's not you know, X,
Speaker 1: Y or Z.
Speaker 4: That's why I love the Tesla protests because like, on
Speaker 4: the one hand, I feel like, you know, they they're
Speaker 4: both simultaneously like lightweight and not lightweight.
Speaker 2: They're lightweight and that they're just we're just going to
Speaker 2: a dealership, super accessible, holding out some signs, people honk, but.
Speaker 4: Also like they are getting under Elon's skin. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: you know it's awful. Like a woman was what was it,
Speaker 4: charged with a felony for putting God on a cyber truck.
Speaker 4: Yeah in Florida, mind you. But like still it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: we know these actions piss them off. So if you
Speaker 4: ever think that like protesting does not have an impact,
Speaker 4: it definitely does.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. My underrated is the active pursuit of joy. Look,
Speaker 1: this is a lot's happened with the fire, Okay, and I'm.
Speaker 4: You're you're you're giving up joy. Is that we're saying
Speaker 4: the actual pursuit of.
Speaker 1: Joy joy no longer brings me joy. So I'm Marie
Speaker 1: Condo that no, I'm saying it's underrated to actively pursue it.
Speaker 1: So like a lot of the times too, I find
Speaker 1: myself just trying to be in a state of gratitude
Speaker 1: and to be like, oh wow, like that. There they
Speaker 1: are these simple pleasures that I'm surrounded with, and I
Speaker 1: think we take for gre in it all the time,
Speaker 1: which is very easy to do. But you can be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, the laughter of a child, like a scrumptious meal, whatever,
Speaker 1: These small things add up. But then there's also things
Speaker 1: I think deep within us that are specific to things
Speaker 1: that bring us joy. For me, it's very specifically is music.
Speaker 1: And over the last few years I've completely like lost
Speaker 1: touch with like making music, and that was something huge
Speaker 1: part of like what I did all the time. And
Speaker 1: with the fire too, lost all my musical equipment, I
Speaker 1: lost all the music I ever recorded, I lost all
Speaker 1: these creative projects, like nothing to make music with. So
Speaker 1: over the weekend I picked up some digital turntables and
Speaker 1: I'm like getting back into djaying, which is something I
Speaker 1: did in high school and college on vinyl because I
Speaker 1: am washed and I realized too, like it was something
Speaker 1: I always knew I wanted to do, but shot out
Speaker 1: my therapist, who was like, then go like, move towards it,
Speaker 1: even if it's small, even if it's incremental. And the
Speaker 1: fucking joy that washed over me, just like firing up
Speaker 1: music and like playing with it again was so fucking
Speaker 1: life affirming again. And I remember when alec Herritotsanas was
Speaker 1: on recently, he was talking about, like it's so central
Speaker 1: to like a resistant like having a good energetic fuel
Speaker 1: tank for resistance, and part of that is filling yourself
Speaker 1: with joy and reminding yourself what is worth fighting for, what,
Speaker 1: like what makes you happy? Yeah, and that was that
Speaker 1: played a huge part of me being like music, I
Speaker 1: gotta figure out how to keep doing it. I don't
Speaker 1: need to necessarily get into a band or start making beats,
Speaker 1: but I need to like engage with it again and
Speaker 1: that actively not passively. Yeah, actively and whatever you need.
Speaker 4: Look, I think the rebuild needs to include a little
Speaker 4: music den for yourself. My brother is like a public
Speaker 4: school teacher in Oakland, but he like is also a
Speaker 4: musician He's been a musician since high school and has
Speaker 4: always like tried to carve out time and it's kind
Speaker 4: of his happy place. Granted he doesn't have kids, but
Speaker 4: the point is is, like, yeah, I have a lot
Speaker 4: of like music. We're taught to kind of give up
Speaker 4: stuff that doesn't make money in this especially in this country.
Speaker 4: If you live abroad, there's more of a balance on
Speaker 4: like oh yeah, you can just be a hobbyist.
Speaker 2: On some shit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but especially if you have the ability to either
Speaker 4: play or make music. As someone who doesn't have those abilities,
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's like a fucking magic trick, Like you
Speaker 4: need to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, just get ready for these Madonna remixes.
Speaker 2: And first of all, I'd be very excited.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite oh No, that's not Madonna's a
Speaker 4: Janet but keitro Nada's Janet Jackson remix of oh Yeah,
Speaker 4: like one.
Speaker 2: Of my favorite. So wait, there's no Miles Gray SoundCloud
Speaker 2: like from years ago.
Speaker 1: There is. There is a Miles Gray SoundCloud. Now a
Speaker 1: lot of people know about it. I'll let you know
Speaker 1: about it. There's like some tracks I made when I
Speaker 1: was This was like I was like twenty six or something.
Speaker 1: That's on there. There's like three songs on them. But
Speaker 1: that was like such a drop in the bucket, Like
Speaker 1: I just had a hard because I used to make
Speaker 1: music purely for myself, like I had I when I
Speaker 1: was working at politics. That was like my job and
Speaker 1: I sort of was able to soothe my wounds of
Speaker 1: being like being part of like the machine that like
Speaker 1: a democratic politics. And I was like, ah, like I
Speaker 1: was drinking and making music to like be able to
Speaker 1: do my job every day. And that was just purely
Speaker 1: for that, and I miss I just miss making things
Speaker 1: for the pure joy of it. Anyway, I encourage everyone,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's drawing, it's cooking, it's whatever, just
Speaker 1: fucking like just actively do it. You'll be surprised, because
Speaker 1: I certainly was. With this simple trick. I'm overcoming depressive bouts. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back to talk about the news. Ay, way back.
Speaker 1: What a fucking weekend man. Donald Trump is saying, oh
Speaker 1: kinds of wild shit we have? Did you see that
Speaker 1: clip of him when they're talking about the tariffs and
Speaker 1: he's like, what about the fifteen He's like, who said
Speaker 1: fifteen countries.
Speaker 2: Did you hear from your own countries?
Speaker 1: It's all countries? What what are you? Okay? Like a
Speaker 1: pure like angry grandpa who feels like they're out of control?
Speaker 1: Did you hear me say it? Well? Guess what for
Speaker 1: me to be in control again? Now I'm saying this
Speaker 1: brand new different thing, like.
Speaker 2: Who is this Trump guy?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: This Trump guy think he knows everything? I'll show him.
Speaker 2: Sure you are Donald Trump? Who? Yeah, says who you
Speaker 2: the line press? You're like, oh my god, we are
Speaker 2: so for gone right now?
Speaker 1: Did I say I was Donald Trump? What a fuck?
Speaker 1: I guess not. Never heard of it exactly. I am,
Speaker 1: I'm iron man. Okay, great, well here's your McDonald's, sir,
Speaker 1: go into your room. But another thing that he's talking
Speaker 1: about over on the weekend was on NBC News. He
Speaker 1: called into NBC News on Sunday and basically was like,
Speaker 1: I am he was quote not joking about seeking a
Speaker 1: third term in twenty twenty eight. He said, it's it's
Speaker 1: far too early to think about, but there are methods
Speaker 1: for doing so. Yeah, yeah, I mean like there's like
Speaker 1: very putent type methods to keep doing this. I mean, god,
Speaker 1: I hate I hate how much. Now we're like according
Speaker 1: to the constitution, like as if like this is our
Speaker 1: only defense or like, but the twenty second Amendment prevents this.
Speaker 4: How we I mean this is we walk ourselves into
Speaker 4: these corners and we're like, well, as long as you
Speaker 4: don't touch social Security been touched, you know, you don't
Speaker 4: touch medicare like and.
Speaker 2: The same thing with this third term.
Speaker 4: It's like you got people already like and even just
Speaker 4: having the discussion is a sign of weakness, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, where it's like, no, there will be
Speaker 4: no third term. We have checks and balances. We don't
Speaker 4: worry about it, like we got this, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. In the media, it's so do you think.
Speaker 2: There will be? And he, of course is what he wants.
Speaker 4: I think I do think because the question is like
Speaker 4: my mom's like, you know, well, so do you think
Speaker 4: there won't be elections? And it's like, no, there will
Speaker 4: definitely be election. Whether to the extent that they are
Speaker 4: free and fair is the question. I mean, Putin has elections,
Speaker 4: you have to maintain some sort of Vernier right orbon
Speaker 4: has elections. Yeah, they want the illiberal democracy. They want
Speaker 4: people to still suspend belief that they're living in democracy.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, I went into the booth and I
Speaker 1: marked up a piece of paper and I had handed
Speaker 1: it in. Ah, I guess I was on the losing
Speaker 1: team again for the last twenty five fucking whatever the fuck.
Speaker 1: It's wild. On NBC News, they're like, like, what the
Speaker 1: fuck is this guy talking about? And they brought up
Speaker 1: there like are you talking about Like we've heard a theory,
Speaker 1: like a plan be floated where JD. Vance would run
Speaker 1: for office and then if he won, then passing the
Speaker 1: role to Trump. And then Trump said yeah, that's one way,
Speaker 1: and he's like, but there are others too, And then
Speaker 1: when they ask yeah, thank you, yeah, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well what are those other ones? Do you mind sharing?
Speaker 1: He's like no, So whatever you take from that what
Speaker 1: you will. It's bone chilling and hilarious at the same time.
Speaker 1: It's really it's really disorienting.
Speaker 4: I mean it's again, it's like, stop giving him I
Speaker 4: mean number one, stop giving him ideas and stop pretending
Speaker 4: like this is at all like normal.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same.
Speaker 4: We're in the same shit, We're in the same spiral.
Speaker 4: We've never gotten out of this.
Speaker 2: Spiral of like, well, I want to build a wall. Well,
Speaker 2: you know that's actually illegal. You can't do that.
Speaker 4: You know, it would require you know, seizing a bunch
Speaker 4: of private property.
Speaker 2: Bulb b blah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, next, next, next discussion, it's like, oh, how do
Speaker 4: you want to make the wall?
Speaker 2: Like how high do you want to build the skulls?
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, right exactly. It's just will there be
Speaker 1: decapitated heads every twenty feet or every mile? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Heads on pikes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, thinking about real crocodiles Like this is the kind
Speaker 4: of way we see these discussions.
Speaker 2: But again, I mean it's it's.
Speaker 4: Like the media is so fucking hard up for like
Speaker 4: real fascism, and it's I think that's the one thing.
Speaker 4: You know, we've talked about it since the re election,
Speaker 4: but like the one thing I had not truly seen
Speaker 4: coming was how much news organizations to say nothing of
Speaker 4: like universities and law firms are kind of like you know,
Speaker 4: folding over and.
Speaker 1: Well, that class of people are just they're they're far
Speaker 1: too wealthy, they're far too comfortable, they're insulated from any
Speaker 1: of the real horrors that like people experience at the
Speaker 1: margins of society. So to them, it's like abstract enough
Speaker 1: where they can like pearl clutch, but also complete be
Speaker 1: completely reckless with how they discuss these things and be like,
Speaker 1: this isn't us. There was a piece Daniel Besner wrote
Speaker 1: in Jacobin last week which was I think a good
Speaker 1: exercise in reminding ourselves that this is us. Actually, these
Speaker 1: are We're using our own laws to do everything we
Speaker 1: are doing now. We are using agencies that have been
Speaker 1: created by the United States government to do all these
Speaker 1: terrible things. And we have a track record for many
Speaker 1: years of disappearing people, of displacing people, of throwing people
Speaker 1: out of the country for being quote political radicals. So
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting.
Speaker 4: University going after students for protesting Nazis, Yeah, which is
Speaker 4: amazing to learn that history.
Speaker 1: Right, It's it's just truly, I think, and I think
Speaker 1: it's important, I think for people to really understand. It's
Speaker 1: like that's we have to really address this as being
Speaker 1: like an actual American issue rather than like, what is
Speaker 1: this fucking like Nazi Germany. It's like, no, this is America, actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that we have to reckon with our own laws
Speaker 1: in a way that you know, doesn't give cover to
Speaker 1: people like like Marco Rubio, who's using this.
Speaker 4: You know again these ancient not ancient, but like you know,
Speaker 4: these whatever law from the fifties. That's like, yeah, you
Speaker 4: can just unilaterally revoke someone's student visa.
Speaker 2: It's like these should not be on the books.
Speaker 4: And that's what we mean by like trump proofing or
Speaker 4: fascism proofing the White House and the Executive It's like
Speaker 4: Biden didn't do any of this stuff. If you truly
Speaker 4: were afraid of fascism, you would, you know, make sure that.
Speaker 2: We are, and the entire Democratic Party.
Speaker 4: It's like, let's make sure you cannot operationalize some of
Speaker 4: the worst, you know, pieces of legislation that have done
Speaker 4: the worst crimes against Americans and none whomever in our history.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's the same shit where you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: California didn't vote to abolish slavery and prisons.
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 2: Cool? Cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah. I mean well also too, like it gives
Speaker 1: people like Liz Cheney the ability to like act like
Speaker 1: they're on the side of good, like this is not
Speaker 1: us and like full are you for real? List? Come
Speaker 1: on now, you don't just because the Overton window has
Speaker 1: been blown open, doesn't mean you're suddenly like a force
Speaker 1: for ethical treatment of people. So anyway, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. If they try to do it constitutionally
Speaker 1: to give Trump a third term, let's let's all remind
Speaker 1: ourselves as a basic civic lesson, the constitutional amendments require
Speaker 1: two thirds of fucking Congress or two two thirds of
Speaker 1: the states agreeing to a constitutional convention, and then needs
Speaker 1: to be fucking ratified by three fourths of the states
Speaker 1: if they wanted to do it legit on paper, and
Speaker 1: that shit ain't happening. So we will see uh elon
Speaker 1: fucking handing out million dollar checks over the weekend in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin to try and tip that state Supreme Court race,
Speaker 1: because right now there's a liberal majority of four three
Speaker 1: liberal majority and fucking everyone liberals conservative, they're putting there's,
Speaker 1: like I think they said, the most money that's ever
Speaker 1: been spent on a race of this kind in like
Speaker 1: by margins of like by huge numbers. Musk has already
Speaker 1: put in around twenty million of his own twenty million.
Speaker 2: Insane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought he was initially he and and now
Speaker 4: the court's the current court ruled that he could still
Speaker 4: buy voters off right.
Speaker 1: They were like, I think the court just didn't decline
Speaker 1: to hear the case that was brought by the state
Speaker 1: attorney general against Musk. They're like, eh, you know, we don't.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah, it's I mean like
Speaker 1: he's got obviously cases in front of Wisconsin because they're like, nah,
Speaker 1: no more dealer no more Tesla dealerships for you. So
Speaker 1: and labor, I mean you think about everything too, like
Speaker 1: what Wisconsin is as a very purple state and how
Speaker 1: thin the margins are every presidential race. This is like
Speaker 1: a very consequential state Supreme Court to have, you know,
Speaker 1: in control of the right wing because all this stuff
Speaker 1: like abortion, like those decisions are made at that level too.
Speaker 1: So you want in labor. Like, there's just so much
Speaker 1: that both parties see that it's like we have to
Speaker 1: maintain the majority or we need to regain this majority
Speaker 1: for X, Y or Z.
Speaker 2: And if you're in Wisconsin, you can do same day
Speaker 2: voter registration. Voting is tomorrow, I mean yeah tomorrow, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow or officially the poll.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was looking into it because I'm
Speaker 4: like there's always a reason that Elon puts a bunch
Speaker 4: of money into something. It's really self serving. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't even really think it's about kind of the broader
Speaker 4: like MAGA project. I think it's just about himself. And
Speaker 4: then you look into it, and Wisconsin barred Tesla from
Speaker 4: owning both a manufacturing plant, so having a manufacturing plant
Speaker 4: and having dealerships because they saw that as consolidation in
Speaker 4: the car industry. Right, And I don't believe every state
Speaker 4: has this law, but Wisconsin does. So he currently has
Speaker 4: an active case before the Supreme Court, and he wants
Speaker 4: that role in his favor. I mean, and it's wild
Speaker 4: to think, but this is what we have to be
Speaker 4: fighting for. It's like breaking up these big companies and
Speaker 4: whether it's in media, whether it's in tech, whether it's
Speaker 4: in the car industry. Of like, look, you can't just
Speaker 4: run both the manufacturing and the dealership and you know
Speaker 4: the distribution and the creation. Now obviously media is completely
Speaker 4: destroyed that look at the streaming services, look at tech,
Speaker 4: look at everything. But like this is if we did
Speaker 4: get into clawback corporations control over our lives. That's where
Speaker 4: it happens.
Speaker 2: If you really believe in like capitalism, like competition, you know,
Speaker 2: like all the medium you know, small businesses, Well, dealerships
Speaker 2: can be small businesses, dealerships can be medium sized businesses.
Speaker 2: You have to be supportive of those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: So there's always an angle for Musk, and it's never
Speaker 2: believe in the broader project.
Speaker 1: No, he's like, I got cases.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 4: It's I got cases I need ruled in my favor,
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna buy a fucking judge.
Speaker 1: It's funny. Do you see Jim Kramer over the weekend.
Speaker 1: He's like, I hate the free market. I hate free trade.
Speaker 1: I'm pro teriff. It's like, you just shut up full
Speaker 1: like you are. My god, you fucking humiliated yourself fucking
Speaker 1: seventeen years ago. Let's not forget.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and every day since he's still on air, I
Speaker 4: mean he's yeah, he has such a fetish for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know, Elon go fuck you, uh
Speaker 1: a fuck off, I guess, but yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 1: He just started off this fucking thing, handing out two
Speaker 1: one million dollar checks to people and like the new
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like Tammany Hall or some shit
Speaker 1: all over again. Yeah, exactly. Um, so we shall see
Speaker 1: their signal Gate got a little bit dumber. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw Michael Waltz's latest defense of what
Speaker 1: happened like this, everything's been like it got stupid when
Speaker 1: he's like, we got elon looking into this and I
Speaker 1: said this last we like looking into your fucking thumbs
Speaker 1: to what end is there? Does there need to be
Speaker 1: any kind of like forensic digital analysis on how you
Speaker 1: added someone to a group chat?
Speaker 4: He might be a good person to look into it, though,
Speaker 4: only because he wasn't included in the signal chats, so
Speaker 4: he's probably pissed.
Speaker 1: What did you guys talk about? Were guys talking about?
Speaker 1: Were guys talking about me?
Speaker 2: At one point?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Am I not part of they are? It's amazing how
Speaker 4: they are defending the use.
Speaker 2: Of signal and all of this stuff. Yeah, and anyway,
Speaker 2: but what did walt say, Well, it's.
Speaker 1: Also kind of funny too to see like Republicans like
Speaker 1: kind of having a really hard time where they're like
Speaker 1: this kind of was like a thing we ran on.
Speaker 1: It was like getting mad at people for not doing
Speaker 1: security right. But anyway, here he is on Laura Ingram's
Speaker 1: can show. I'll just I'll just play this. It's like
Speaker 1: mind blowing what he's now. He's like, he's like, I
Speaker 1: just don't know what the heck happened. You you added
Speaker 1: him and you know him, so even stop saying this
Speaker 1: shit about I never met the guy, because you guys
Speaker 1: are in four K together in Paris, amongst other things.
Speaker 1: So anyway, here's Michael Wallas defending the indefensible.
Speaker 5: I'm sure everybody out there has had a contact where
Speaker 5: you it was said one person and then a different
Speaker 5: phone number.
Speaker 1: But you've never talked to him before. So how's the
Speaker 1: number on your phone?
Speaker 2: I'm not an expert in any of this, but it's.
Speaker 5: Just how's the number on your phone? Well, if you
Speaker 5: have somebody else's contact and then and then somehow someone
Speaker 5: that it gets sucked in.
Speaker 2: Sucked in?
Speaker 1: Why is it?
Speaker 2: This is like classic, Like, first of all, I'm not
Speaker 2: so like I'm not saying Laura Ingram's a victim here,
Speaker 2: but it is very classic, like man's plain wrong, you know,
Speaker 2: man explain lie, Like, well, you know when things get
Speaker 2: suck sucked in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sucked off, So that's what happens.
Speaker 2: And he's like sort of looking at her like this
Speaker 2: is the line. You know what happens, and you yeah,
Speaker 2: go along.
Speaker 1: Was sucked in? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all the time.
Speaker 2: And it's like, the question still stands, how was it
Speaker 2: even sucked in? This person's number was on your phone,
Speaker 2: which is fine. You people have journalists numbers on their
Speaker 2: phones all the time. And then you can't simultaneously say
Speaker 2: that he is a liar and he's a piece of
Speaker 2: shit and he's no good. So they're caught between this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you can't be he's trying to do the
Speaker 1: Mariah Carey. Oh I don't know her. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, you know him? Okay, So he denies knowing
Speaker 1: the guy ever talking to him, even knowing who he is.
Speaker 1: His number got sucked in through the fucking matrix or
Speaker 1: some shit. Kristen Welker had Jeffrey Goldberg on her show
Speaker 1: to be like, what what what dost thou say to that?
Speaker 1: What do you make of those explanations? Well, this isn't
Speaker 1: the matrix.
Speaker 3: Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones. I
Speaker 3: don't know what he's talking about there. You know, very
Speaker 3: frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation
Speaker 3: my phone number was in his phone because my phone
Speaker 3: number is in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's
Speaker 3: never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true.
Speaker 3: I understand why he's doing it, but you know, this
Speaker 3: has become a somewhat farcical situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, to put it lightly, but especially like when
Speaker 1: now we're like Jeffrey Goldberg, the biggest cheer one of
Speaker 1: the biggest cheerleaders of the Iraq War. We're like, yeah, Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: tell him, and then like, what the fuck's going on?
Speaker 1: Where are we?
Speaker 2: But I mean, this is the thing.
Speaker 4: It's like, it's like everyone has their limits. Jeffrey Goldberg
Speaker 4: is a square neo conservative, you know, probably very pro Israel,
Speaker 4: probably completely.
Speaker 1: On board with the you know he was he was
Speaker 1: He was a prison.
Speaker 2: Guard, the idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, wild. He wrote a book okay that
Speaker 1: was about like his time as a prison guard, where
Speaker 1: he I have to pull it up because it's the
Speaker 1: quote he uses is very very freaky to describe this
Speaker 1: book this like memoir.
Speaker 2: We might have to read this horrible thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So he was Okay, so he was there, he
Speaker 1: said during the time he met this devout Muslim in
Speaker 1: a refugee camp. And he described this because like this
Speaker 1: whole book is about him talking to this guy and
Speaker 1: like them exchanging ideas, and it was meant to be
Speaker 1: like a feel good thing about the prisoner and the
Speaker 1: prison and the and the and the jailer sort of
Speaker 1: having this relationship. He described this guy as quote the
Speaker 1: only Palestinian I could find in ked Ziacht who understood
Speaker 1: the moral justification for Zionism. That's the person that he
Speaker 1: like parrated around in his book. Anyway, it is so
Speaker 1: many layers.
Speaker 2: That is so fucking evil. I don't even have words
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, no, it's terrifying. It's terrifying. Like and this book,
Speaker 1: like when it came out, everyone was like, this is fantastic,
Speaker 1: obviously because no one had the no one was really
Speaker 1: openly being critical of.
Speaker 4: But like that's like the kind of that honestly just
Speaker 4: points to like the sort of sickness that is a
Speaker 4: Zionist colonial mentality of believing that no matter what, even
Speaker 4: when you are the literal prison guard overseeing perhaps atrocious,
Speaker 4: you know, illegal behavior in that prison, you are actually
Speaker 4: still the victim and it justifies anything and that you
Speaker 4: I mean, you're trying to have this like co equal
Speaker 4: discussion with the one prisoner who you think maybe maybe
Speaker 4: this guy gets it, you know the rest of the
Speaker 4: animals don't. I just like the thing is like, this
Speaker 4: is someone sorry, what's the book called.
Speaker 1: It's called prisoners a Muslim and a Jew across the
Speaker 1: Middle East. Dice the fuck up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the stop it because already that Muslim in
Speaker 2: a Jew blank. It's that is like again, this is
Speaker 2: whitewashing language when it comes the occupation. It's always like,
Speaker 2: so long as this one Muslim and this one Jewish
Speaker 2: person get along, that's all you need to understand about
Speaker 2: about this issue. And once they can like break brad
Speaker 2: and be brother.
Speaker 4: It was like, ugh, but but yeah, in terms of
Speaker 4: the like you know, signal Gate stuff, it's just it
Speaker 4: shows you the lengths of like this person would be
Speaker 4: completely on board if you did your war planning then
Speaker 4: had a separate text and told him about it, and
Speaker 4: he could write a little fluff piece about like how.
Speaker 2: Incredible you were and how much better you were than Biden.
Speaker 4: Even though Biden also struck the Houties five times, even
Speaker 4: though they don't give him any credit if any is
Speaker 4: due for that. So it's like, but you know they
Speaker 4: didn't they did it the dumb ass way, and now
Speaker 4: they're losing the people who would otherwise whitewash their crimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. It's like you need people like him,
Speaker 1: and you need the Atlantic to be able to raw
Speaker 1: raw the militarism like it's it's anyway, it's odd odd
Speaker 1: enemies when they should be strange guys should be friends. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take another quick break and come back to check
Speaker 1: in with the Democrats who are also too chicken shit
Speaker 1: to face their constituents. And we're back. So we've heard
Speaker 1: a lot about town halls with the Republicans and people
Speaker 1: getting real upset with the GOP members of Congress, but
Speaker 1: also Democrats have also faced crowds that were raucous and
Speaker 1: they try to do their best to be like, no,
Speaker 1: we're fighting, and they're like, no, you're fucking not. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about. They're like, okay, well gotta go.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's been real. But the latest
Speaker 1: sort of sort of opt out of facing your own
Speaker 1: constituents comes to us from the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: where both Senators David Dave McCormick and John Fetterman like
Speaker 1: teamed up together. Okay, this is the Republican senator from
Speaker 1: from from Pennsylvania along with They were doing a paid
Speaker 1: group appearance to talk about the power of mentoring. And
Speaker 1: it was during a promotional event for the book that
Speaker 1: McCormick and his wife wrote together. They were supposed to
Speaker 1: appear in Pittsburgh and they caught wind of the fact
Speaker 1: that people obviously have issues with them, both of them,
Speaker 1: actually McCormick obviously for just being like a rubber stamp
Speaker 1: for anything Trump does, and then Fetterman for also being
Speaker 1: a rubber stamp, I guess for whatever Trump does now
Speaker 1: because because they wanted to see both of their Republican
Speaker 1: senators and get mad at them. So this whole event
Speaker 1: there was a thirty two dollars entry fee and you
Speaker 1: got a free copy of the book. But then the
Speaker 1: senators moved it to another location when they saw that
Speaker 1: there were plans for protesters to show up, and then
Speaker 1: they said, oh, actually we need to postpone it. They
Speaker 1: said it less than twenty four hours before the event started.
Speaker 1: They said, quote dude to an unforeseen logistical issue.
Speaker 4: But I love that he even thought this would be
Speaker 4: somewhat within like the realm of a good idem was
Speaker 4: gonna get protested no matter what because he's a Republican.
Speaker 4: But Fetterman also because he is a Republican. So imagine
Speaker 4: you're in Pennsylvania, you're anywhere within a stone's throw of
Speaker 4: this event.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, this is a this is a two
Speaker 2: four one. I'll be two dollars. I'll go to heckle
Speaker 2: both of these fools in one place.
Speaker 1: Yes, mm hmm, yeah, it was funny. One of like
Speaker 1: in pen Live like News, they spoke to someone who's like,
Speaker 1: I can't even pay thirty two dollars to see my
Speaker 1: fucking legislators, and you're like, wow, that's true story, true story.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think when you have all this going on,
Speaker 1: like just the attacks on like academic institutions or like
Speaker 1: professors there who are also like, what are you gonna hello,
Speaker 1: what do you do when they start disappearing us?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: Are you going to fight? Or are you guys acting
Speaker 1: like none of this is fucking happening? Uh? Just crickets.
Speaker 1: They both offices for the senators declined to comment.
Speaker 4: They were just like, I'm sorry, I saw some video
Speaker 4: of Fetterman screaming at some people outside of an event.
Speaker 2: Is that was that him effacing his people.
Speaker 1: Really, he's always outside an event, chastising people for you know,
Speaker 1: the crime of being committed to human rights or something.
Speaker 4: Usually that betterment is like the one of the biggest disappointments.
Speaker 4: Like I guess you know, I was thinking this over
Speaker 4: the weekend, just sort of like cause I saw some
Speaker 4: footage of him, Yeah, like chastising a.
Speaker 2: Crowd, and you know, just of all the people.
Speaker 4: It's one thing to be a turncoat, like for to
Speaker 4: be you know, oh, I'm a progressive, I'm for labor rights,
Speaker 4: but then JK, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Don't. I don't care about what you think.
Speaker 4: I don't care about the progressive cause you know, ya
Speaker 4: yay genocide. But I just feel like the fact that
Speaker 4: he went through a stroke during the campaign and one
Speaker 4: of the most difficult periods I'm assuming of his life,
Speaker 4: and like the base that he builds and people around
Speaker 4: the country pouring out support for him, you know, just
Speaker 4: taking a social media standing up for him.
Speaker 2: Even though he literally quite literally could not speak and
Speaker 2: being like, no, he's still our guy. And then to
Speaker 2: turn around and say, yeah, it's okay to defund Medicaid.
Speaker 2: That's going to take you know, a healthcare away from
Speaker 2: disabled children or stroke victims like myself, right, or you
Speaker 2: know it's okay to bomb children in refugee centers or
Speaker 2: in hospitals or wherever. Like, to then have such little
Speaker 2: empathy for other vulnerable people is is so sick, Like
Speaker 2: I can't And it doesn't make me regret standing by
Speaker 2: someone who like obviously was going through a massive, you know,
Speaker 2: health crisis. It just makes me realize, like, yeah, does
Speaker 2: that shit not change you? I guess. I guess it
Speaker 2: can make you more evil if the price is.
Speaker 1: Right, absolutely absolutely, yeah, I don't know. I mean, like
Speaker 1: you look at some of the the votes. He was
Speaker 1: like for some of these confirmation votes, and like, what
Speaker 1: did you fucking think was gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, and that's on so many senators, you know,
Speaker 4: I guess she was just betterman. But like every senator
Speaker 4: vote for Marco fucking Rubio, who's like, no, I relish
Speaker 4: in disappearing students off the street.
Speaker 1: It's that's like the biggest l for all of them,
Speaker 1: when unanimously they're like, yeah, man, we know Marco cut
Speaker 1: to what the fuck did you guys think? What you?
Speaker 1: I mean? It also makes sense Chuck Schumer is out
Speaker 1: here saying that he thought they were gonna fucking figure
Speaker 1: it Like the Republicans are just going to figure it
Speaker 1: out all of a sudden and rectify the situation on
Speaker 1: their own. Like, dude, you're so old, please go away.
Speaker 1: Make way for people who are actually going to be
Speaker 1: alive when all the decisions you make affect us.
Speaker 4: Bernie should be honestly the most conservative edge of the
Speaker 4: Senate right now. I'm serious, Yeah, should be the most
Speaker 4: conservative edge because Bernie's not going hard on Schumer. Bernie's
Speaker 4: doing his fight oligarchy tour. But notice how he gets
Speaker 4: real mad when somebody mentions, do you think AOT should
Speaker 4: primary Schumer?
Speaker 2: He's he's sticking loyal with his boy. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: talk about that.
Speaker 4: Bernie should be the conservative voice and everyone else should
Speaker 4: actually be, you know, to the left of him, it
Speaker 4: might been.
Speaker 1: God, everyone's hey, you know, Senators Fiorentini and Gray have
Speaker 1: a nice ring game, and I'll get primary. I don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck, bro, waste your money. I'm not here
Speaker 1: to I'm not here to stay in office. I'm here
Speaker 1: to fuck it up.
Speaker 4: Okay, Now, once you become a senator, you're just like
Speaker 4: you're just stuck.
Speaker 2: It's like what a fish file at does to your dig.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, actually, be what they thought Fetterman was
Speaker 1: gonna be. Like this dude's in a hoodie and reeks
Speaker 1: like blunts, Like what is he doing? And then he
Speaker 1: casted the tie breaking vote to protect Medicaid, Like yeah, sorry, bro,
Speaker 1: is what I fucking do? Anyway, there's another just for
Speaker 1: some fun story and I don't know, fun fucked up? Hey,
Speaker 1: aren't police really fucked up? People? There's did you hear
Speaker 1: the new Jersey police chief, this guy Robert Farley, who
Speaker 1: he was sworn in as chief about a year ago,
Speaker 1: and now he has all of these terrible accusations coming
Speaker 1: out about his leadership as police chief, like pooping by
Speaker 1: people's desks and spiking people's fucking coffee with like adderall
Speaker 1: and viagra. Yes, yes, the fucking chief. Okay, it really?
Speaker 2: I mean police departments are honestly just like they're like
Speaker 2: deputized frat houses.
Speaker 1: With guns, with guns, and like truly it'd be like
Speaker 1: I will threaten you with violence if you try and
Speaker 1: fucking blow the whistle on this party.
Speaker 4: It is a it is a crossover between I mean
Speaker 4: the venn diagrams. Kamalo would say between yes, a frat
Speaker 4: house and a gang.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're all here, they're all here. So five
Speaker 1: officers filed the complaint. They're planning on suing the north
Speaker 1: Bergen township because they're like, what the fuck, like, what
Speaker 1: do you like? What is this guy fucking doing? So
Speaker 1: he also did things like put firecrackers under people's chairs.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, very bart Simpson whatever, like stupid, But
Speaker 1: then jabbing a needle into an officer's penis, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So Michael Darren, who's an administrative duty officer, said Farley
Speaker 1: chased him around and used the hypodermic needle to draw blood.
Speaker 1: He also said he saw Farley do things like shave
Speaker 1: his body hair and put it on people's food. Then
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Alex Guzman said Farley exposed himself, harassed them verbally,
Speaker 1: pooped on the floor and in garbage cans as a joke.
Speaker 1: And then there's another officer, Rashid Siam, who said he
Speaker 1: was punished by Farley for exposing the hostile work environment
Speaker 1: when another officer was calling him racial slurs.
Speaker 4: Mmm, this is this is just like a day in
Speaker 4: the life of working with Steven Crowder, I feel like
Speaker 4: this is like this guy in Crowder need to get together.
Speaker 1: Is he pooping on stuff too? Does he poop?
Speaker 2: I mean Stephen Crowder is like, Oh, I'm gonna t
Speaker 2: bag my employees, like that's what he would. Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of dick displaying.
Speaker 4: But like I this goes deeper than just obviously not
Speaker 4: all cops, but like, what the what's going on?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like, what's what issue is this?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 1: I think about a guy who I know who became
Speaker 1: a cop on my school and he was the littlest
Speaker 1: guy on the football team, okay, and he didn't play
Speaker 1: much okay, and he, like what his social media looks
Speaker 1: like now was like the power that he wished he could.
Speaker 1: He was projecting as like an adolescent or something. That's
Speaker 1: my very armchair sighte Was he bullied?
Speaker 4: I mean, because this is just like someone who is
Speaker 4: because who was bullied and now he is he.
Speaker 1: Was like I think he felt inadequate because he knew
Speaker 1: he was the tiny one on the football team and
Speaker 1: everyone was like like you know, kind of like not
Speaker 1: like fucking his life up, but like when you're juxtaposed
Speaker 1: like these other massive fucking freak kids who are playing
Speaker 1: football and you're like the little guy. It's just everyone
Speaker 1: be like, oh, like it was kind of like that
Speaker 1: kind of shit, you know, like, oh he got in
Speaker 1: the game. Oh oh he got fucked up? Oh shit,
Speaker 1: oh fuck? Yeah no I'm a cop. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's I'm like.
Speaker 4: That's not anecdotal like you think. It's like, oh, that's
Speaker 4: just Miles telling his story about the guy he knows
Speaker 4: who became a cop.
Speaker 2: It's like we all have those stories.
Speaker 4: It's always the kid that like was a little bit
Speaker 4: weird or a little or like kind of a bully,
Speaker 4: or in my case, it was just someone who was
Speaker 4: like very sweet but very dumb, a kid I grew
Speaker 4: up with and I knew he then became a cop,
Speaker 4: and it was just like that's it's nice. I don't
Speaker 4: imagine him like hurting people, but I definitely imagine him
Speaker 4: not handling evidence well and like not knowing how I'm
Speaker 4: too basic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh well, look it's hard out here. It's hard
Speaker 1: out here. It really is. Bless his heart, bless his.
Speaker 4: Hard but you know, yeah, I know, I mean, uh,
Speaker 4: it seems like they might get rid of him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh well we'll see, we'll see what happens. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. Okay. And then finally, just want to
Speaker 1: touch on Idaho because they fucking passed another very stupid
Speaker 1: transphobic bill. So Governor Brad little there signed House Built
Speaker 1: two seventy into law, which updates these states indecent exposure laws.
Speaker 1: So the law already banned public exposure of genitals, but
Speaker 1: now adds quote female breasts, male breasts altered to look
Speaker 1: like female breasts, oh my god, official breasts, and toys
Speaker 1: or products that resemble genitals. But it leaves exception for breastfeeding.
Speaker 1: But again, very clear what this is about.
Speaker 2: Shit bullshit first of all, and breastfeeding.
Speaker 4: They don't give they hate that shit too public public breastfeeding.
Speaker 1: Oh, they couldn't put it in there legally, so I
Speaker 1: think that's how they're like, look, you know what this is.
Speaker 1: This is clearly this is us going after the around
Speaker 1: one percent of the entire population to try and make
Speaker 1: their lives absolutely unbearable.
Speaker 4: There is such a policing like of womanhood in this,
Speaker 4: you know, like there's something beyond like the anti trans
Speaker 4: legislation is also like at some point they're going to
Speaker 4: be like, you know, also, if you're a woman, you
Speaker 4: wish like I mean, it's it's basically like you know,
Speaker 4: going back to like you shouldn't be wearing pants who work.
Speaker 4: It's all a policing of gender, not just identity presentation.
Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, because trans women aren't like built
Speaker 4: necessarily for the pleasure of a straight.
Speaker 2: Cis man, Like they don't like them. They're like, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, it's like it's so fucked up.
Speaker 2: They're like, that's not I get to say who and
Speaker 2: what is a woman based on how my dingling feels,
Speaker 2: you know, I know.
Speaker 1: Or it makes me more Maybe it's making me a
Speaker 1: few things I didn't think about it, and I don't
Speaker 1: like there.
Speaker 4: I mean, then there's the Chappelle line who definitely got
Speaker 4: duped by, you know, a trans woman and probably fell
Speaker 4: deeply in love and then made five Nightflix specials about it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, basically yeah, right. So there's a guy, Sebastian
Speaker 1: Griffin who is a Nampa City council member, so he
Speaker 1: put the help put the bill together because he was
Speaker 1: at a Lakeview Park Pride celebration and saw a topless
Speaker 1: woman and he went up to the officer and was like,
Speaker 1: versus de brests are out and the officer was like,
Speaker 1: they aren't doing anything illegal because the officer said, quote,
Speaker 1: that's because it's not illegal for a man with breast
Speaker 1: enhancements to walk around topless. And then he said, oh,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna figure out a way to do legislation
Speaker 1: against this specific thing. But it's all the other side
Speaker 1: of this bullshit.
Speaker 2: That's that's I totally don't buy that.
Speaker 1: But again that's his version of like figure like trying
Speaker 1: to make it seem as if this story yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're and that was so off putting, like what
Speaker 1: do you and you were there because you were celebrating
Speaker 1: this community.
Speaker 2: Now I can't do anything because uh, those technically aren't
Speaker 2: real tips, so doesn't count.
Speaker 1: I was there. I was there to thumbs down everyone.
Speaker 1: I was at the pride celebration of thumbs down everyone. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's what was happening.
Speaker 4: Bryan's Brian makes a good point. Who the fuck calls
Speaker 4: the cops on.
Speaker 1: Boobs like a deeply fucked up set of human being.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Anyway, so the Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintro.
Speaker 1: She she was like, well, hold on, not on this bill,
Speaker 1: fucking vite it late. It's the first Amendment first off,
Speaker 1: But then also saying that, like what about truck nuts then,
Speaker 1: because you're saying it would also ban toys or products
Speaker 1: that resemble genitals. She said, truck nuts are quote, they're gross,
Speaker 1: they're offensive, and kids on the road see them. So
Speaker 1: why wouldn't the police get a call say that offends me,
Speaker 1: pull it off the truck because now this bill will
Speaker 1: allow it. And she goes and I talked to police
Speaker 1: and they said, quote, indeed, it would.
Speaker 4: I love First of all, I actually maybe this is
Speaker 4: the first anti trans legislation I agree with, because anything
Speaker 4: to get truck nuts off.
Speaker 2: The road, fucking true trucks shouldn't really be illegal.
Speaker 1: They're disgusting, and I don't know what like the kind
Speaker 1: of people who have them, Like I remember my a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine's like cousin had him and he was
Speaker 1: like why do you have them? He's like cause they're
Speaker 1: fucking funny, man, Like that was sort of like the
Speaker 1: thing is like they're fucking hilarious to me. It's like
Speaker 1: and I'm like that. You see a fucking nutsack on
Speaker 1: the back of your.
Speaker 4: Car, Dude, I want preas laby. You know what I'm saying, Like, uh,
Speaker 4: go on flapping off the back?
Speaker 2: Great? Yeah, what would you have to build it out of?
Speaker 2: I don't know, it would be very fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My headlights now have a literal hood and that's
Speaker 1: how when it's time to turn out, just pull them
Speaker 1: up and there you go. I hope y'all like this,
Speaker 1: but most men probably won't even know what the fuck
Speaker 1: they're looking at. So there we are. Those are new
Speaker 1: ideas for you if you want offensive things for your
Speaker 1: car that you know just also gets people upset about
Speaker 1: truck nuts. Francesca, thanks for joining mem I guess listen
Speaker 1: where do people find you? Uh?
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