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Speaker 1: that's how that works. How how how are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Terrible afternoon? Terrible? Why? Because I spent my weekend up
Speaker 1: in a desolate mountain stalking blacktail deer and now there's
Speaker 1: the internet and I'm getting emails and texts. So the
Speaker 1: good part that was incredible part that I thought you
Speaker 1: were about to set up a story as to why
Speaker 1: that was a reality email after coming back from something
Speaker 1: that you enjoyed. I don't never check your email, throw
Speaker 1: your phone in the ocean, light your laptop on fire
Speaker 1: bomb a power substation. Sorry, I just think you should
Speaker 1: just no go take out your internet, your local internet,
Speaker 1: so there's no pick it out recourse. You find Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg in his home, find and take him out al gore. Um.
Speaker 1: I guess it only works from me, though, because when
Speaker 1: my power goes out of the internet goes out, I
Speaker 1: don't have cell reception. Um. So that would be I know,
Speaker 1: unless it's an emergency in which I'm fucked coming back to.
Speaker 1: That's why I get Well, you have to give me one.
Speaker 1: Christmas is coming, Robert. Okay, all right, Katie, you said that, like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, slow down. Now you asked for it. You
Speaker 1: said machete, So you're getting an illegal rifle either one.
Speaker 1: So what it's like she asked for a kitchen knife
Speaker 1: or like a butter knife. Funny, funny. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a machete from buck mobile missile launcher for anti air application.
Speaker 1: I have a confession that's not a joke, which is
Speaker 1: I don't have any kitchen knives. Wait, how are you living? Okay,
Speaker 1: I should take that back. I've got like butter knives. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not a kitchen knife. I know that's a stick
Speaker 1: that you used to pry things. Okay, gentlemen, you are correct,
Speaker 1: of course you are correct. I went through a big
Speaker 1: breakup recently and I had to buy all new kitchen
Speaker 1: stuff to knives, and I was like, honestly, it's been
Speaker 1: at the point when I was thinking of buying knives.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's been a month and a half
Speaker 1: and I haven't needed these knives. It circles back to
Speaker 1: your breakup registry idea. I know, such a good idea.
Speaker 1: I broke up next time ago and I still only
Speaker 1: have a single pan and I stole that pan from
Speaker 1: my last room. Yeah yeah, yeah, Um, the butter knives
Speaker 1: are my exes, it's true. Um, so yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: have but I will kick them. No, it's not it's laziness. Um,
Speaker 1: it's time for me to get knives. Mom, are you
Speaker 1: listening Christmas? I don't know. It's the kind of thing,
Speaker 1: you know, behind the bases people. Sophia Alexandra asked for
Speaker 1: knives from listeners and they sent her a bunch of knives,
Speaker 1: some of them loose in a plastic or in a
Speaker 1: paper bag. Oh my god, is that going to happen?
Speaker 1: God willing, guys, I could use some knives, send Katie
Speaker 1: di loose knives, loose loose knives in sacks with insane
Speaker 1: handwritten notes my or clippings for magazines. Yes, clippings from
Speaker 1: magazines used any I used to cut those up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get on it. Folks. Do we have a job today?
Speaker 1: What is our job? We've been vamping for five solid minutes.
Speaker 1: Well about time to go to ads. Then talk about
Speaker 1: the news here? What's up in in general? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: not exclusively, is this jogging your memory at all? But
Speaker 1: what we do here? What? What do we do? Who
Speaker 1: are we talk about the news? Mostly? Okay? So the
Speaker 1: Tonk and Gulf. A lot of people are debating whether
Speaker 1: or not, you know, we should invade Vietnam, and I
Speaker 1: don't think we have any choice, uh, Cody, Okay, I
Speaker 1: would say we probably have a choice, but um that's
Speaker 1: just me. I'm uh. I would say we definitely have
Speaker 1: a choice. Well, and the choices do it? Yeah? Fast
Speaker 1: forward a bit. There's some more current events that have
Speaker 1: happened in between then and now. Cody explained to me
Speaker 1: the Superman. I understand that he's by now, and some
Speaker 1: people are very angry. People like me are going Superman Fox. No,
Speaker 1: they are rightfully angry. Can I read what Garrison wrote
Speaker 1: for us? Because I think it's really good? Okay, the
Speaker 1: new comic book Superman, Jonathan Kent, Clark and Lewis's son
Speaker 1: loves to kiss boys. That's all he does now, fly
Speaker 1: around and fight cute boys to kiss. That's the whole comic.
Speaker 1: Because this is based and cool. It's obviously triggered the
Speaker 1: little Gama snowflake cons who get grossed out by hot smooching.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was just really good in dicinct
Speaker 1: way of phrasing it. Yeah, come along, I'm so glad
Speaker 1: to see him. Um yeah, finding his own and that incredible. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Superman's by now. But also like Superman is Mark's son,
Speaker 1: my question, being an alien, is Superman even by or
Speaker 1: or do Superman might not have a sexuality that registers
Speaker 1: on traditional human scales because he's not a human. Uh well,
Speaker 1: I've got so many things to say, but I wish
Speaker 1: I didn't have so much to say about bisexual Superman
Speaker 1: um because Superman is an alien um and but he's
Speaker 1: a male alien and he likes to women, and that's
Speaker 1: important human women. Okay, he likes Um, yeah, he had
Speaker 1: a son who's sexual. Actually, there's an exceptional exceptional science
Speaker 1: fiction short story. Um, who is it by? It's it's
Speaker 1: it's the one analyzing what super how Superman's come would
Speaker 1: function and pointing out the fact that, based on the
Speaker 1: other things we know about him, his semen would penetrate
Speaker 1: low Us Lane fatally and then continue out on throughout
Speaker 1: the universe like endlistening, definitely life. It's a fact from
Speaker 1: all rats. It's called Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. No,
Speaker 1: it's by Larry Niven Google Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible tonest I might not see fiction writer. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's so like, but that's all that's also so
Speaker 1: that's like kind of beside the point. But it is
Speaker 1: like because he's an alien and she's a human woman,
Speaker 1: and do you have a problem with that? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: all these all these dorks love Star Trek, all the
Speaker 1: aliens and humans are fucking and sucking in that. Like
Speaker 1: there's it's whatever, Um, And I wish we didn't have
Speaker 1: to talk about this, but politicians are because that's just
Speaker 1: where we're at. That's what we talk about now, that's
Speaker 1: what people running for office and people in office complain about. Um.
Speaker 1: Wendy Rogers and Arizona State Republican who has uh spread
Speaker 1: election disinformation in the past. Her tweet reads Superman loves
Speaker 1: Louis Lane. By the way, did not did not correctly
Speaker 1: say Lois Um. So she's right on the money. There
Speaker 1: does love Louis Lane. Um. Period. Hollywood is trying to
Speaker 1: make Superman gay and he is not. Just renamed the
Speaker 1: new version Superman so we can all know the difference
Speaker 1: and avoid seeing it. Um, Superman because gay people have
Speaker 1: lists and she hates gay people joking. Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what she's saying. Yeah, because it's because I really wish
Speaker 1: I hadn't asked. Yeah, you didn't get it because it's
Speaker 1: not funny, and also like it doesn't reflect your worldview.
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna go oh because the list thing. Um.
Speaker 1: So she's clearly it's all it's just you know who
Speaker 1: also has lisps? God? Yeah? Oh yeah, Okay, I thought
Speaker 1: you were doing an ad pivot and I was gonna
Speaker 1: be like, Katie, that's not God does though, um, God
Speaker 1: as universals. I just accidentally started playing the talking Heads
Speaker 1: in my earbuds. Um. Uh, this must be the place
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that's a great one. But is
Speaker 1: there a single talking Head song that isn't completely perfect? Um?
Speaker 1: I I can't think of one, so um, leave it
Speaker 1: in or cut it? I don't care. I've stopped music cody.
Speaker 1: One rule for my podcasts and any podcast I'm on,
Speaker 1: and it's if someone mentions talking Heads, nobody cuts that ship. Okay,
Speaker 1: can play, um just a clip of that song? Yeah afterwards? Sorry,
Speaker 1: David burn solo stuff is also wonderful. Any continued? Um,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, okay, we hate it. Fire. It's also
Speaker 1: like bisexual, so like so like the thing is okay,
Speaker 1: So then there's like a lot of other like Josh
Speaker 1: Mandel's running for senate in Ohio, good luck Ohio. Um,
Speaker 1: bisexual comic books for kids? They are literally trying to
Speaker 1: destroy America. Not sure how, IM not sure what that means.
Speaker 1: I just know that, Uh it's homophobic. Um, Josh Barnett,
Speaker 1: A lot of Josh is up in here. Why does
Speaker 1: Hollywood have to ruin everything? Uh? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's not Hollywood's a comic book, so you don't even
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about, but also what is ruined here.
Speaker 1: I would love to actually play this clip on Laura
Speaker 1: Show with I don't know some twerp because it's fascinating
Speaker 1: and it really gets to the core of what's actually
Speaker 1: going on here, which is homophobes trying to pretend that
Speaker 1: they're not um by saying that they don't want to
Speaker 1: know at all what the sexuality of anyone is UM.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna play it real quick. It's very short,
Speaker 1: so uh apologies ahead of time. Man bisexual d C
Speaker 1: comic book toy that was announced today that that comes
Speaker 1: after a gay Aquaman, a bisexual boy Wonder Robin, and
Speaker 1: a gender fluid Loki. Call me when they have a
Speaker 1: gender stable aisle with superheroes whose sexualities we know nothing about.
Speaker 1: Why are they sexualizing superheroes? You know, I was a
Speaker 1: Batman and a Superman, Spiderman kid. I love those heroes.
Speaker 1: We just wanted them to get the bad guys, not
Speaker 1: a venarial disease. Anyway, leave our comic book heroes alone. Lord,
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear any more about what they do. Okay.
Speaker 1: I have so much to say about this. This is fascinating.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable the worldview these people pretend to have so.
Speaker 1: First of all, the idea that we have not ever
Speaker 1: known the sexuality of any superhero is laughable. The idea
Speaker 1: that we only want superheroes to fight crime is laughable.
Speaker 1: Stories require an emotional human element. That's why every single
Speaker 1: one of these fucking characters has a love interest. You know,
Speaker 1: Superman loves Lois Lane. You know, spider Man wants to
Speaker 1: marry Mary Jane, and they end up doing it, and
Speaker 1: you cheer for them because they did it. They got
Speaker 1: their romantic interest. It's the most famous scene from the
Speaker 1: first spider Man movie. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: Spider Man's powers and everything to do with him doing
Speaker 1: that upside down kiss with What's that's what we want
Speaker 1: out of these If it was just one fighting crime,
Speaker 1: boring as fuck, what would be watching sexualized superhero Well,
Speaker 1: actually we very much do. Two of the most famous
Speaker 1: superheroes are Batman, a billionaire playboy, and iron Man, a
Speaker 1: billionaire playboy. Their character description is that they fuck women constantly.
Speaker 1: We aggressively know what their sexuality is. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that, like Catwoman isn't some sort of
Speaker 1: fetish old Batman movie, cat Woman, absolutely Fox. They all
Speaker 1: fuck and we all know who they fuck. So they're
Speaker 1: not actually saying we don't want to know their sexuality.
Speaker 1: They're saying we want them to be straight. We don't
Speaker 1: want them to be gay. We don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: We want them to be ignored. We want to put
Speaker 1: them all away, associating um, you know, diseases. That's a
Speaker 1: whole other Yeah, that's straight. People don't have straight sex
Speaker 1: doesn't won't get me v D. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Talk to talk to Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend about that
Speaker 1: is remarkable because when you were first pitching this as
Speaker 1: a topic, I was like, I don't think there's that
Speaker 1: much meat there, but here we are. There's lots to
Speaker 1: chew on. It's this one clip. This one clip like
Speaker 1: says it all. It's what they're doing. One of the
Speaker 1: things that pisses me off most about this, as someone
Speaker 1: who doesn't even like comics as a general rule, Superman
Speaker 1: has been a cobby, and he has been I'm fairly
Speaker 1: certain a zombie. He has been a fascist. He has
Speaker 1: been every single possible thing other than bisexual at this
Speaker 1: point in the factions of Superman comics there and it's
Speaker 1: a sons whatever, man, I don't give a ship. Comics
Speaker 1: are ridiculous. And one of the things about comics is
Speaker 1: that because the potential audience for them is so wide,
Speaker 1: eventually every character will be almost every conceivable kind of thing,
Speaker 1: because that's just what comics do, because you can only
Speaker 1: tell so many stories about them punching people. So you
Speaker 1: make Batman and I don't know a fucking hipster brewing
Speaker 1: I p a is in Portland, Like everything gets done
Speaker 1: in comics. It's fine there, comics they're called there's like,
Speaker 1: what if is an entire genre comic book for these people. Well,
Speaker 1: so everything that you guys are saying is, of course true.
Speaker 1: I think that to me, what really the meat of
Speaker 1: it that pisces me off so much about it is
Speaker 1: this um, fake outrage and repeated framing of this is
Speaker 1: the destruction of America, this old, hackneyed line of thinking
Speaker 1: that people abandoned a long time ago. You know, in general,
Speaker 1: you know, this this sexuality thing. But when literally things
Speaker 1: are happening all around us that they these politicians have
Speaker 1: the power to do something about and instead they're talking
Speaker 1: about this and adding distraction after distraction so that people
Speaker 1: aren't talking about what they aren't doing. Yeah, it's exactly,
Speaker 1: it's a way, it's complete, it's a complete ways of time,
Speaker 1: culture war bullshit. But also like it is this them
Speaker 1: being openly homophobic while telling themselves that they're not. It's
Speaker 1: that sort of thing like I don't care what happens
Speaker 1: in your bedroom. I just don't want to know about it.
Speaker 1: You do care, because when you do know about it,
Speaker 1: you get mad. And if you knew if you see
Speaker 1: Superman fuck a woman, if you see any the superheroes
Speaker 1: fuck like in a straight way, they will not say
Speaker 1: a single word because to them, that's not that's not
Speaker 1: shoving it down their throat. That's just the way things are.
Speaker 1: That's like the normal way. But they don't want to
Speaker 1: see the other thing because if you if you say,
Speaker 1: like Superman is bisexual, then like it I guess it,
Speaker 1: Like the image pops into their head and like they're
Speaker 1: just like you, um, and it's just it's like a
Speaker 1: gross dishonest way of framing like I'm not I'm cool
Speaker 1: with gay people. I just don't want to see it.
Speaker 1: If you don't then you're then you are are You're
Speaker 1: not actually cool with it because you don't want them
Speaker 1: to exist. You don't want society to acknowledge the existence
Speaker 1: of anybody other than Batman. Uh he sucks thousands of
Speaker 1: women every year. Um, but that's not shoving sexuality down
Speaker 1: your throat. That's just the way things are. And just
Speaker 1: like again the idea that like we don't want we
Speaker 1: want superheroes to just fight crime. We don't want them
Speaker 1: to like talk to other people. Always full interesting part
Speaker 1: of any super or a story is the fighting crime part, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, okay, all the emotional stuff it leads
Speaker 1: up to some punchy fight. Okay, great, but like if
Speaker 1: you get rid of that, Yeah, that's the reason why
Speaker 1: I don't know the Batman versus Alien thing was only
Speaker 1: ever as short because that got everything, Like nobody wants
Speaker 1: to see more of that ship. It's like why we don't,
Speaker 1: like we don't do the Nolan type Batman movies anymore
Speaker 1: because okay, we did it, we saw him fight the
Speaker 1: fight crime. Let's do some weird ship. That's apparently what
Speaker 1: people want. I don't want it because I don't watch
Speaker 1: superhero movies. But like I know what people want because
Speaker 1: I watch What's Successful now and that nobody wants Batman
Speaker 1: stopping muggers. They want Batman shooting lasers at Superman. I
Speaker 1: feel like there's lasers in the New One, the New
Speaker 1: Extended Zach whatever his name is, Snyder, that make people happy.
Speaker 1: And it seemed ridiculous, so whatever. Like I wonder if
Speaker 1: Batman's behind Havana syndrome anyway, why not make Batman be
Speaker 1: Havanna syndrome. Have Batman declare a one man more on
Speaker 1: the entire international security apparatus. Let's do it. Also, I
Speaker 1: love this, uh this this onion headline gets to another
Speaker 1: point that I think it's really funny. Is a bisexual
Speaker 1: Superman ruins comic for fan who preferred smoldering, homoerotic undertones.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, for years, like it's just it's just
Speaker 1: it's just nonsense. I like, I like Spider Man uh
Speaker 1: at best when he's just swinging through the city and
Speaker 1: then uh swipping criminals and then going to the next
Speaker 1: criminal to twip and then going to the next criminal
Speaker 1: of twip. I don't know, uh high school or like,
Speaker 1: it's just unbelievable. I just want a Spider Man, who
Speaker 1: before he does every power thing, you know, he shoots
Speaker 1: his webs, he swings, he uses a super strength. I
Speaker 1: want him to say I don't fuck. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: they need to not feel challenged. Also, if like, if
Speaker 1: there was a fucking superhero who is a sexual, they'd
Speaker 1: be like, what, I don't But this is like, that's
Speaker 1: that's what we want, right, isn't that what you want?
Speaker 1: You want when we have like the fucking Vision is
Speaker 1: what like a robot alien thing and we make him fun.
Speaker 1: We had to sexualize. We want them all to fuck.
Speaker 1: We need our superheroes to fux, So why don't they
Speaker 1: fuck a bunch of different things? It's fine, I believe
Speaker 1: that was in the comics code. Right, they have to fund.
Speaker 1: We do have to also take a break. Absolutely, we
Speaker 1: should probably say something less ridiculous. Yeah, I'm sorry we
Speaker 1: even had to talk about this. It's just like politicians
Speaker 1: are talking about everyone's talking about it. It's just embarrassing
Speaker 1: in a way to be Let's let's talk about that
Speaker 1: when we get back, how embarrassed we are for how
Speaker 1: much we just talked about it. But you know who
Speaker 1: Fox everything of all genders and and no genders who
Speaker 1: just fucks the products and services that support this podcast indiscriminately. Ever,
Speaker 1: oh we're back. So before we actually move on to
Speaker 1: the actual news, I want to talk about what we
Speaker 1: just did, which is talk about fucking moral panic over
Speaker 1: bisexual Superman son, which is stupid and not news, and
Speaker 1: we talked about it instead of talking about I don't know,
Speaker 1: the Mexican government trying to declare war on the Zapatistas,
Speaker 1: or a million other bishar al assad being brought back
Speaker 1: into inter poll a billion different like things that are
Speaker 1: life or death for huge numbers of people around the world.
Speaker 1: And in part of it, it's because I didn't prepare
Speaker 1: things on either of those because I was reading people
Speaker 1: yell about Superman on Twitter, and that's that's an indictment
Speaker 1: of me, for sure. But it's also like, it's why
Speaker 1: these this stupid ship happens. It's the tactical reason behind
Speaker 1: like pushing these kind of bullshit moral panic. I don't
Speaker 1: even know exactly how these like bullshit culture war like nonsense,
Speaker 1: and like I get that, I get why there's there's
Speaker 1: feel for people to be like fetching about identity politics
Speaker 1: stuff and they're wrong when they're saying, like, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: be arguing about you know, trans rights or whatever because
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's I pol and we should be
Speaker 1: talking about class like that's incorrect. But the reason that
Speaker 1: that those arguments have a little bit of weight is
Speaker 1: that we are we are wasting our brains on this
Speaker 1: fucking more on on on on culture war bullshit. And
Speaker 1: this is culture war bullshit. Right, trans rights is not
Speaker 1: culture war bullshit. That's life and death and incredibly important
Speaker 1: arguments about like whether or not bisexual Superman is something
Speaker 1: we're talking about at all at all. But you also,
Speaker 1: it floods the zone and both the mix of people
Speaker 1: laughing and like you now you have to deal with
Speaker 1: the fact that like, okay, the whole right is using
Speaker 1: this as an excuse to like attack this group of
Speaker 1: people that or they're trying to get these people fired,
Speaker 1: and like some sort of defense seems like it's necessary
Speaker 1: and it's I hate it, um, but I don't entirely
Speaker 1: know how to out maneuver it, especially since we just
Speaker 1: talked about it for twenty four ula. Well, I think
Speaker 1: that it's it's just being aware of that happening, and
Speaker 1: like like even as and like, yes, we're having this conversation. Um,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of things to be said about what's happening,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't, but we are
Speaker 1: buying into it. But it's happening. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we know that this is kind of like cover they're active.
Speaker 1: They're using this to not talk about all the things
Speaker 1: that are happening around us right now, or to cloud
Speaker 1: the discourse so that there isn't enough room or oxygen
Speaker 1: for the other stories that are vitally important to breathe.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so good point that I am reiterating, and
Speaker 1: like it's it's just frustrating because like yeah, like if
Speaker 1: like they're they're doing it, they're doing it no matter what, Um,
Speaker 1: even if we didn't do this segment, And like part
Speaker 1: of me is like we can just ignore it and
Speaker 1: then make it. But well, right, because like it is
Speaker 1: literally just like them like normalizing this this fun way
Speaker 1: to be homophobic, and it's like, well, you've got to
Speaker 1: at least mentioned that that's what they're doing. Um, so
Speaker 1: that I don't know, maybe if you know, if your
Speaker 1: uncle is complaining about bisexual Superman, you can have a
Speaker 1: reasonable chat with him and point out how these people
Speaker 1: were fucking wasting his time. I think that you also
Speaker 1: include yeah, yes, exactly, like there's no point in having
Speaker 1: this conversation when these other things are happening. And why
Speaker 1: why did Josh Mandel talk about how bisexual comic books
Speaker 1: are is destroying? Well, I know what does that mean
Speaker 1: while also endorsing conspiracy theories about January six then and
Speaker 1: conspiracies about George Sorrows and the deep State. Now, what's
Speaker 1: actually destroying America? Superman son or Robert Anyway, we should
Speaker 1: talk about other things now, sexual half alien, half human,
Speaker 1: fucking god, talk about whatever you say, Thank God? All right?
Speaker 1: Not um Southwest Airlines, not the region, the airline, not
Speaker 1: the region, not the second best region of the United States,
Speaker 1: for sure. So Southwest Airlines canceled more than three or
Speaker 1: fifty flights on Monday following uh oh yep, this is
Speaker 1: cancer culture. It's finest uh a weekend of major disruptions
Speaker 1: that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic issues.
Speaker 1: But it turns out it's it's much bigger than that.
Speaker 1: The disruptions became because there's like a strike. People are
Speaker 1: refusing to show up to work in protest of the
Speaker 1: vaccination mandate. But it that's not quite the accurate story. Um.
Speaker 1: Apparently that it's more about the union, the the what
Speaker 1: do we call them, the gentleman that fly, the pilots, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can the gentle people, the gentle people that fly
Speaker 1: the fly I call them sky pimps, the sky pimps. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What is the word skypimps? Gender neutral? Anyone can be
Speaker 1: a pimp. Yeah. The union I'm quoting here. The union
Speaker 1: argued Southwest must negotiate over the issue because it could
Speaker 1: involve sick leave or disability if pilots have a reaction
Speaker 1: to the vaccine. You're not anti vaccine at all, but
Speaker 1: but our pilots are extremely worried about how their medicals
Speaker 1: are going to be handled if they are unable to
Speaker 1: fly yep. Union president Casey Murray told the Associated Press.
Speaker 1: Murray said pilots had not staged a stick out because
Speaker 1: of the vaccine mandate. He instead blamed the chaos of
Speaker 1: the past few days on Southwest's operation, which he said
Speaker 1: has become brittle and cracks under the slightest pressure. Now
Speaker 1: extremely reasonable as it sure does was based on what's
Speaker 1: happening with like toilet paper yeah, and um, it's interesting
Speaker 1: because I think that on the surface this story until
Speaker 1: you actually read it. Well, go ahead, Well he's told
Speaker 1: I heard that. It's they think the vaccine mandate is
Speaker 1: Nazi stuff, and that's why they're they're they're gonna quit
Speaker 1: their quitting because of the mandate, is what I heard from.
Speaker 1: Pretty easy to um to believe that if you choose
Speaker 1: to listen to Donald Trump Jr. Instead of freeing the
Speaker 1: article or listening to what the pilots union, Well, why
Speaker 1: would you listen to the people you're talking about when
Speaker 1: that might make you unable to say all of the
Speaker 1: things that you want to say about them? Um. There's
Speaker 1: also unions at both Southwest and American have also argued
Speaker 1: that management has been too slow to bring pilots back
Speaker 1: from leaves of absence that the airlines persuaded them to
Speaker 1: take during the pandemic, leaving them shorthanded. So it sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot of chaos, um uh with the airlines themselves,
Speaker 1: which is frankly not surprising. It sounds like the pandemic
Speaker 1: caused a lot of chaos and a lot of industries
Speaker 1: and uh, we really shouldn't have handed Yeah, why do
Speaker 1: we decide to do that. Why did we We shouldn't have.
Speaker 1: We really shouldn't have. Um. I tweeted kind of a
Speaker 1: half baked thought that there's more reason, plenty of room
Speaker 1: to expound upon. But like reading this, there were so
Speaker 1: many I see lots of people have been posting about
Speaker 1: frustration at flights being canceled and flights being delayed, and um,
Speaker 1: with that is like we just mentioned a lot of
Speaker 1: misunderstanding as to what it is that's actually happening. Um.
Speaker 1: And it just struck me like, yes, traveling, taking a
Speaker 1: day of travel and having my flight canceled, and maybe
Speaker 1: I really need to get home, maybe I've had a
Speaker 1: really long day. All of that stuff is true. But
Speaker 1: what's also true is that I support unions, and I
Speaker 1: support support the right to make reasonable demands to protect themselves,
Speaker 1: and protests are one of the only ways that we
Speaker 1: can do it. U reason. Yeah, complaints are entirely reasonable.
Speaker 1: Which is well, if we're made to do this, some
Speaker 1: of us are going to miss work because some people
Speaker 1: have bad reaction to the vaccine. We need to know
Speaker 1: how you plan to handle this. Are you going to
Speaker 1: like penalize us for this, because if so, we're not
Speaker 1: okay with that, And that's not an unreasonable thing for
Speaker 1: union to say, especially when working with an industry that
Speaker 1: clearly has not done the best job responding to the
Speaker 1: pandemic and probably really a lot of things. You know,
Speaker 1: the airline industries, trash pilots generally are fine, uh fuck
Speaker 1: all of this, except for the pilots having perfectly reasonable
Speaker 1: concerns about you know stuff I like pilots. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's stewardess. Is points to a lot
Speaker 1: of just like every you know, um, if you were
Speaker 1: going to uh try to get everyone your company vaccinated
Speaker 1: or like employees vaccinated, make sure that they do have
Speaker 1: the time to recover from that, and all the things
Speaker 1: that you know, everyone should have. Um, it's like the
Speaker 1: kind of thing that we don't. We haven't every everything,
Speaker 1: every like problem with this pandemic has like come like
Speaker 1: happened before, like anybody really like thought about it or
Speaker 1: planned about like thought ahead. Yeah, and it's again we
Speaker 1: just shouldn't have had it. Actually, yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was a mistake. You know, we had a lot of
Speaker 1: debates before this, should we have a pandemic? Should we not? Like,
Speaker 1: because it's really a good idea, and you know, we
Speaker 1: tried it, and I think maybe we should not not
Speaker 1: do it again. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Here here, what's
Speaker 1: a bold stance. It's going to be controversial, but I
Speaker 1: don't think the pandemic was a good idea. Can we
Speaker 1: like email somebody about that? Or yea I talked to
Speaker 1: Can I write a complaint? Can I Karen my us
Speaker 1: out of this situation? Let me take care of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sending a series of threats to the CEO
Speaker 1: of Southwest that that seems like the person to blame
Speaker 1: an army of Karen's What would the would the term
Speaker 1: the collective term be for that? Umatre mo? I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. UM. Do we want to breaking news
Speaker 1: of a quick update on what Dean Kane has to
Speaker 1: say about bisexual Superman? Oh? Good, thank god, Cody, thank god,
Speaker 1: get us right in there. Who is Dean KANEA can
Speaker 1: we do a breaking news alert? UM played Superman UM
Speaker 1: in the Adventures of Lewis and Clark or Lewis and
Speaker 1: Clark the eventual Superman whatever the ship show is called Clark,
Speaker 1: Louis and saman Yeah. He has a lot of opinions
Speaker 1: about this he doesn't think. So they say it's a
Speaker 1: bold new direction, and I say their bandwagoning. All right,
Speaker 1: Robin just came out as by who's really shocked about
Speaker 1: that one? Alright? Fair point. Uh, the new Captain America
Speaker 1: is gay. My daughter in the c W CERI Supergirl
Speaker 1: where I played the father was gay. So I don't
Speaker 1: think it's bold or brave or some crazy new direction.
Speaker 1: If they had done this twenty years ago, perhaps that
Speaker 1: would be bold or brave. Um. That's so, like, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. That's a fine point, I guess, because like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not like it should just be a thing that happens.
Speaker 1: It's just another weird thing. He said this on Fox
Speaker 1: and Friends and their fury it's about it. So actually
Speaker 1: maybe there is some sort of like boldness to it
Speaker 1: if it's making half of the country furious. Um. Brave
Speaker 1: would be having him fighting for the rights of gay
Speaker 1: people in Iran, where they'll throw you off a building
Speaker 1: for the offense of being Kay. They're talking about having
Speaker 1: him fight climate change in the deportation of refugees, and
Speaker 1: he's dating an activist, whatever activist is. Why don't they
Speaker 1: have him fight the injustices that created the refugees whose
Speaker 1: deportation he's protesting. That would be brave, I'd read that.
Speaker 1: Or fighting for the rights of women to attend school
Speaker 1: and have the ability to work and live, and boys
Speaker 1: not to be raped by men under the new warm
Speaker 1: and fuzzy Taliban, that would be brave. There's real evil
Speaker 1: in this world today, real corruption, government overreach, plenty of
Speaker 1: things to fight against, human trafficking, real nactual slavery going on.
Speaker 1: It would be great to tackle those issues. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on there. I would argue that if
Speaker 1: Superman was fighting against um the causes of refugee crisis
Speaker 1: is crises, he would be he would be furious, would
Speaker 1: say it's anti American. Yeah, it would be. He would
Speaker 1: be saying it's anti American, anti uh, you know, capitalism,
Speaker 1: anti private businesses. Yeah, he was like, yeah, where you
Speaker 1: Why do you think the refugees? I mean, I I agree.
Speaker 1: I think it would be incredibly based. If we had
Speaker 1: a Superman movie that opened with a montage of him
Speaker 1: hunting down the family members of the the executives at
Speaker 1: United Fruit and Union Carbide and brutally murdering them while
Speaker 1: footage of the disasters they were responsible for plays in
Speaker 1: the background. Um, and then the movie were to climax
Speaker 1: with him tearing off Henry Kissinger's head and Henry Kissinger's
Speaker 1: got a max suit for some reason. I think that
Speaker 1: would be rad as hell. I would watch the ship
Speaker 1: out of that Superman movie. Yeah, we reveal these brainiac
Speaker 1: or something like that exactly. But but again, like it's
Speaker 1: just weird, like obfuscation and dismissal where it's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'd rather them do this. You would be so mad
Speaker 1: if they did that, you'd be furious. If we are
Speaker 1: sure back to Superman for I'm sorry, but uh, you
Speaker 1: know Superman spoke up and I think it's a gonna yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't a breaking news. Uh, the we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a break for some ads popping for more
Speaker 1: together everything, So don't don't Cody. Did you want to
Speaker 1: talk about Christen Cinema? Is she good? Now? What you're
Speaker 1: pitching you're I mean, I know that she's teaching a
Speaker 1: fundraising class and she's also like running the Boston Marathon
Speaker 1: and doing all this stuff that is not her job.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean she is teaching a class on fundraising. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, maybe that's an issue that maybe maybe like
Speaker 1: maybe a sitting senator and like this is the thing
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, if she was a senator years ago
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I'm gonna teach you how fucking
Speaker 1: how the fucking do it? Um, that would be not
Speaker 1: still like perpetuating the system that we don't want, but
Speaker 1: like that wouldn't be that would be like a little
Speaker 1: more acceptable because she's not literally in office. What is she?
Speaker 1: Who is she teaching it too, students? And uh Arizona
Speaker 1: I believes Arizona State, Arizona State. Hold on, Oh the
Speaker 1: college in which she hid in the bathrooms? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Um yeah, it was like right, I mean like she
Speaker 1: she left the class on fundraising to go hide in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. Um. And it's not even like you know,
Speaker 1: go ahead do it, but it's just a very um
Speaker 1: it just shows you exactly who she is. And um,
Speaker 1: it's it's almost believable, like if you wrote this into
Speaker 1: a movie, be like, well that's that's too far. That's
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not she's not literally going to be right,
Speaker 1: teaching a class on fundraising, um, and like how to
Speaker 1: get donations. Um. The outline identifies key course concepts as
Speaker 1: corporate giving, political strategy, influence and power. Oh Man teaching
Speaker 1: this class for cinema, did not respond. Um, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a it's just a it's not great, it's not correct,
Speaker 1: but she's gonna get her way. Probably. Yeah, we're terrible
Speaker 1: people nearly always do. Except she doesn't care about being reelected.
Speaker 1: Did we talk about that on this show. Probably? I
Speaker 1: mean what she wants is just more money, So I
Speaker 1: guess she's doing it by teaching. Well, I mean it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like she's interested in being reelected. Well, no,
Speaker 1: she wants a book deal. She wants like whatever is next.
Speaker 1: She's done with politics. It's time for her to get
Speaker 1: rich and to speak the things that she is making
Speaker 1: more inevitable for the rest of us. And like she
Speaker 1: can't even help her get into office. Yeah, you can't. Look,
Speaker 1: the problem is the electoral system is fundamentally flawed, and
Speaker 1: the only people who run for public office are not
Speaker 1: good people of them, even the ones you like, they're
Speaker 1: all bad. If they are when they get started, they
Speaker 1: become it. And yes, exactly, it eats you up. Money
Speaker 1: eats you up. It changes the way your brain works. Um,
Speaker 1: And like there's just an aspect of like because the
Speaker 1: only way really out of this kind of thing, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: she's now she's teaching his class and fundraising, which means
Speaker 1: she is not only perpetuating the system, but she's basically
Speaker 1: saying that it's good. Uh, and here's how to do it.
Speaker 1: Like here, it's good, and here's how to do it.
Speaker 1: Because the way to get out of it is to
Speaker 1: have people who are elected sacrifice their positions of power.
Speaker 1: But like, for example, like this is a small example,
Speaker 1: but like Ted Cruz uh has written an amendment from
Speaker 1: years ago. He doesn't talk about it because doesn't want
Speaker 1: to actually do it. Where it has term limits. It's
Speaker 1: term limits on Congress. But in the bill, in the amendment,
Speaker 1: he points out that if you are in Congress at
Speaker 1: the time that this passes, you don't count. So it
Speaker 1: limits terms to two terms. But if you're if you've
Speaker 1: been senator for five five terms, you still get two more. Uh.
Speaker 1: Because they're not willing to sacrifice their position at the time.
Speaker 1: It's all ahead of time, you can't. Like we've so
Speaker 1: we've joked about like yeah, uh, it would be amazing
Speaker 1: a president becomes the president. No more presidents. I'm the
Speaker 1: last one. No more. Um, you have to have people
Speaker 1: in power go We're not like making laws to restrict
Speaker 1: their own power and their own um access to funds
Speaker 1: and influence. And there's there's nobody really uh fighting for
Speaker 1: like publicly funded elections or or you know, third party
Speaker 1: because you if you're in the system, you can't because
Speaker 1: it means you have to give something up. Um M.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe Yank's third party will help,
Speaker 1: maybe that you you always bring the yucks. Very nervous
Speaker 1: for mid term and I mean, yeah, I just was looking.
Speaker 1: Biden's poll numbers are good trash and uh, it's comparable.
Speaker 1: It is it should but I mean, I I do
Speaker 1: think that both Obama and Clinton UM had similar We
Speaker 1: just don't like politicians. We just don't like them. Well.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like Democrats for a long time haven't really
Speaker 1: delivered the goods and I've been disappointing. Yeah. I can't
Speaker 1: think of a single good they've ever delivered. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: Obamacare is a step in the right direction here, but
Speaker 1: all the things you can be that can be said
Speaker 1: about that, um, And it does feel I mean, I
Speaker 1: know we talked about this. Yeah, what's gonna happen? I
Speaker 1: don't want to make predictions about Donald Trump, but if
Speaker 1: he's alive, I bet he's running um, you know, and
Speaker 1: who knows, who knows, who knows. I'm just saying that, Gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how. I'm just saying that all
Speaker 1: this ship is happening around us, and our election integrity
Speaker 1: is under threat, and we're just in this weird limbo period.
Speaker 1: It feels like watching the people we elected not do shit,
Speaker 1: you know, and all these other oppressed chess pieces lining
Speaker 1: up to be just year after year of worst year ever.
Speaker 1: That's fun. I'm glad I said all that. You got
Speaker 1: it off my chest. I wish I had anything like
Speaker 1: positive of at the moment, like there is. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It varies with me from day to day,
Speaker 1: like whether or not. Because the upshot of this is that, well,
Speaker 1: most Americans hate Trump and most Americans hate Biden. Maybe
Speaker 1: most Americans will eventually come to realize this is all trashed,
Speaker 1: funck this system, and mobilize in order to replace it
Speaker 1: with something at least marginally better. Downside is no some
Speaker 1: guy who just hasn't ruined his reputation yet will come
Speaker 1: in and turn out to be a fascist and give
Speaker 1: and learn from this and learn better. Um, but I
Speaker 1: mean even yeah, I mean to see the way that Republicans,
Speaker 1: even if there aren't there's plenty of people that are
Speaker 1: anti Trump within the party, but still a party in general,
Speaker 1: leans in his direction. You know, Chuck Grassley or whatever
Speaker 1: his name is. Oh yeah, you just did you guys
Speaker 1: see his acceptance of Trump's endorsement. It was basically like
Speaker 1: he basically said, I was born at night, but I
Speaker 1: wasn't born last night. I'd be a fool not to
Speaker 1: accept this nomination. And it's like he just stood up
Speaker 1: there and said, like, yep, I'm selling my soul. No exactly,
Speaker 1: they can only acknowledge. Sorry. Yeah, And like Steve Bannon's
Speaker 1: back doing his bullshit tinkering around, and it feels very
Speaker 1: much like they're going to focus on the anyway. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter we've all said any things. They know that, uh,
Speaker 1: Trump is the only way forward for them. Yeah, right
Speaker 1: to a fascist and the only answer now is more fascism,
Speaker 1: like you have you know, like even Trump is like
Speaker 1: like realizes like it's all it's all just sort of
Speaker 1: like this monster that was created and now you can't
Speaker 1: contain it. They're all those clips. Whenever Trump says get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, he gets booed because, uh everything. We didn't
Speaker 1: even talk about the Ashley Babbitt video. Oh god, I
Speaker 1: mean we are, of course referring to the video the
Speaker 1: President put out basically, you know, calling her a martyr,
Speaker 1: you know, and saying we're still looking just as thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, well, their horse vesseling her like as hard
Speaker 1: as they possibly can. They're they're turning her into a
Speaker 1: martyr so that they can justify the mass murder of
Speaker 1: their enemies. Uh it's going to be great. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, they they It's not the same situation, but
Speaker 1: the same with Rittenhouse, where it's like, no, he's our
Speaker 1: paper saint of how to deal with these protects. Mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a very similar situation. Anyway. Cool, cool, we got there.
Speaker 1: Well you should probably to a close. But before we
Speaker 1: go out, because this has been a little bit of
Speaker 1: a bummer, I want to read an exerpt from the
Speaker 1: Larry Niven short story Man of Steel, Woman of kleenex
Speaker 1: Can I do that? Of course? May breaking is um, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: consider the driving urge between a man and a woman.
Speaker 1: The monomaniacal urge to achieve greater and greater penetration. Remember
Speaker 1: also that we are dealing with Kryptonian muscles. Superman would
Speaker 1: literally crush Lois Lane's body in his arms, while simultaneously
Speaker 1: ripping her open to crop from crotch to sternham gutting
Speaker 1: her like a trout. Lastly, he'd blow off the top
Speaker 1: of her head. Ejaculation of semen is entirely involuntary in
Speaker 1: the human male and in all other forms of terrestrial life.
Speaker 1: It would be unreasonable to assume otherwise for a Kryptonian,
Speaker 1: but with Kryptonian muscles behind it, Kelel Seman would emerge
Speaker 1: with the muscle velocity of a machine gun bullet. In
Speaker 1: the view of the foregoing normal sex is impossible between
Speaker 1: Lois Lane and Superman. Artificial insemination may give us better results. First,
Speaker 1: we must collect the semen. The globules will emerge at
Speaker 1: transonic speeds. Superman must first ejaculate, then fly frantically after
Speaker 1: the stuff to catch it in a test tube. We
Speaker 1: assume that he is on the moon, both for privacy
Speaker 1: and to prevent the semen from exploding into vapor on
Speaker 1: hitting the air. At such speeds, he can catch the semen,
Speaker 1: of course before it evaporates in a vacuum. He's faster
Speaker 1: than a speeding bullet. But can he keep it? All
Speaker 1: known forms of Kryptonian life have superpowers. The same must
Speaker 1: hold true true of living Kryptonian sperm. We may reasonably
Speaker 1: assume that Kryptonian sperm are vulnerable only to starvation into
Speaker 1: green kryptonide, that they can travel with equal ease through water, air, vacuum, glass, brick,
Speaker 1: boiling steel, solid steel, liquid, helium, or the core of
Speaker 1: a star, and that they are capable of translate velocity
Speaker 1: sexual fascinate kind of a test tube will hold such
Speaker 1: beast east. It goes on like this, it's incredible short story?
Speaker 1: Is that even like a short story? Or is just
Speaker 1: like it's just pages of Larry Niven speculating about Superman's come.
Speaker 1: What a little science nerd he is? Any you well,
Speaker 1: and thank you for ending on that um on that note,
Speaker 1: and you know what, that's a that's a sincere thank
Speaker 1: you appreciate it. Yeah, check it out. It's for free online.
Speaker 1: You can find it. Man of Steal a Woman of Kleenex.
Speaker 1: All right, that's good, all right, we did it, We
Speaker 1: fucking did it. So dull. Everything so dull it's get
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