1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist Farm raised in wild leeches. So, so 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: I recently got leeches. I got leeched for the show 7 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: I do on Super Delection, I know, and everyone was 8 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: so people were asking, like, yo, why her like lip 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: is a mess, like still bleeding? It was. I think 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: it just works that way. I was, Oh, you bleed 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: for so another fun fact, when we recorded Santa University, 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: I was still losing a lot of blood. I had 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: a diaper strap to the front of me while we 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: were recording University. So you are a true warrior because 15 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: you didn't mention this blood diaper one bit and you 16 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: powered through that reading like it was any other day. 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: I was also bleeding. Well, I wrote Sandy University, which 18 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: I think really shows content. I was losing a lot 19 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: of blood bleeding because you did a leech thing for 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: super de Lux. What like what was the leech thing? 21 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: So the leech thing is that like it's like this 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,839 Speaker 1: old kind of ancient practice where leeches can in theory, 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: they suck out like toxins out of your blood and 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: like remove blood clots. It works on blood better, and 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: then they spit in leach stuff. I think it's it's 26 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a of a black mirror, 27 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 1: if you will. But the leeches so so, no one 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: told me that after you are leached, because I was 29 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: leached in my I had two leeches in my belly button, 30 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: three leeches on my face, one leech on my tongue, 31 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: and no one tells you that you bleed for eighteen 32 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: hours just freely. Afterwards, my face had clotted by the 33 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: time we recorded Santa University, thankfully, but yeah, I still 34 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: had a diaper strap to my front because my my 35 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: belly button was really I was losing a lot of 36 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: blood that day. And when you say this, I'm just 37 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: picturing you because you were sure how to address this 38 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: blood thing. So you just say, by the day when 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: like duct taped the ship to your stomach, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 40 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: I got like any like a proper gauze or anything. 41 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: You just like, fuck it, I'm gonna put a diaper 42 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: on the front. The leech lady was like, I was like, 43 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: what should I She's like, you're gonna need a diaper. Yeah, 44 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: she was like, you got to get a pack of diaper. 45 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Diapers are actually super useful and just everyday stuff. They everything. 46 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: Do you use them as like paper towels? Yeah, I've 47 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: used them as paper towels. I've I've just put them 48 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: on my back so I don't sweat through my shirt. Yeah. Yeah, 49 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: because I had, because I had my son's like a 50 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: diaper in my car, and I was just like, yeo, 51 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: I'm sweating through my shirt. And my grandfather was a 52 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: basketball coach and he was like a real sweaty dude, 53 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: and he was tired of ruining his suits, so he 54 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: would like put diapers on his arms. And one time 55 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: he was freaking out on the refs and like foam 56 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: just started coming out of his out of the sleeves 57 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: of his suit because he sweats so much that the 58 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: diaper dissolved. That is how sweaty my bloodline. Oh, there's 59 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: so many diaper secrets. Oh yeah, hit us on Twitter 60 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: with some more diaper hacks, because I'm sure aside from 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: the obvious things of absorbed being so absorbing, many other 62 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: uses for diapers. Yeah, so so uh and so the 63 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: lifespan of a domestic because okay, so the reason now 64 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: the leeches are my pets because the leech lady was 65 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: I was like, well, what are you going to do 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: with the leeches and she's like, well, they can only 67 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: survive on your blood. So if you don't take them 68 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: with you, I'm going to throw them in a vat 69 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: and they'll dissolve. Oh my god. I was like, well, 70 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: the steaks rose very quickly, and so I was like, well, 71 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: I'll take the leeches, and so now I need to go. 72 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: They can live up to ten years, but they can 73 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: only feed on my blood. They can't feed on anyone 74 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: else's blood. On you blood them, I don't know. I 75 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: think that's when she said. She was like, you have 76 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: to like it's someone else's blood, it won't work. So 77 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: leeches can live off of a single feeding for like 78 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: a year, and then usually they'll just die. But I 79 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: can keep them alive with my diaper blood if I want. 80 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: He's going to ring out that diaper and I really 81 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: and then well then I saw the shape of water 82 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: and it was you know, women falling in love with 83 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: the sea urchin. It was like it's basically me and 84 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: my leeches. Also, all adult leeches are women, and so 85 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: I just feel like, yeah that sisterhood. Yeah, I got 86 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: feed your dragons, the little you're Another development, as of 87 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: Monday yesterday, weed is now legal in California. Hell yeah, sick, 88 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: sick of Like I'm gonna have to become a weed 89 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: cop now is my black mirror. So I have not 90 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: partaken in many a year, Officer O'Brien, right, So, but 91 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: I am curious like how this will affect like will 92 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: this change how you acquire and consume marijuana? No? No, 93 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: I mean I think already, like right, like in California, 94 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: we've already been operating in this like gray area of 95 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: like really easy to obtain medical marijuana licenses that essentially, 96 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 1: if you really wanted to go to dispensary, you could 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: just get the you can skype a doctor on your 98 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: cell phone to them. You can't sleep, Yeah, and like 99 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: the guys, like, dude, some of the guys are like 100 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: in their own beds. I don't know if you've seen 101 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: everyone everyone ever skype call a weed doctor to get 102 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: their card. Like some of these guys are so fucking lazy, 103 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: it's amazing. But yeah, that you can just go and 104 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: you can still get like the top shelf medical weed 105 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: at the place would us a card, but like I 106 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: guess now, you know, some places like with all the 107 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: state and local tax to play, like you could be 108 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: paying like forty tax on like this legal weed. So 109 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, yo, just get the card. 110 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: You're not gonna pay the taxes to avoid the taxes. 111 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: I think also if you just knows, like most people know, 112 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: somebody to get weed, I don't know how. I don't 113 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,559 Speaker 1: know how much it's gonna change, but I think it'll 114 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: as they figure out all the regulations and make it 115 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,679 Speaker 1: easier for people to just pop in. I think then yeah, 116 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: I think people will probably make to go to the 117 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: store to get their legal weed. But you're saying that 118 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: my experience with weed in college, where it was just 119 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: like whoever could get you a bag of like really 120 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: shitty like seeds and stems, was not indicative of what 121 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 1: it's like to buy weed now and know because I mean, 122 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: like even like weeds is so cheap right now too 123 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: in California, because like it's because of like the medical 124 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: marijuana industry and things like that. It's not as crazy 125 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: as it used to be in terms of like what 126 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,559 Speaker 1: the most expensive weed is now, and I think, yeah, 127 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: for this, I think it's this is good for people 128 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: who are like have a lot of money and not 129 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: any cool friends that that now they can just go 130 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: to the weed store and pay like a markup on weed. 131 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing too, is like the 132 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: amount of tax revenue that it will bring in. I 133 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: think that's the most exciting thing, because you know, we 134 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: are that we are now the largest legal weed market 135 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: in the country. I'm excited to see the stupid, cheesy 136 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: like weed advertising I've already been enjoying, like the very 137 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: like pouty model weed billboards of like there's like one 138 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: outside of seven eleven I frequent obviously where it's like 139 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: these pouty hot kids, not like kids, but like you know, 140 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: cool teens and it says like it's legal now, relax, 141 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: and it's like why are these teenagers? Um? Yeah, is 142 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: it going to be like is it going to replace 143 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: alcohol in terms of like advertising and like, uh, lame 144 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: old people like the way they treat wine. Is it 145 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,239 Speaker 1: going to be? God, I'd love to see those print ads. 146 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: It's like everyone's like on their face on a couch. 147 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: Check out the new o G cush. I'm not good 148 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: at weed. You're not good at weed. Not good at weed. 149 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: I try. I I can smoke, but with like every 150 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: time I do edibles, I fully, I'm just like I'm 151 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: going to run into traffic. This is it. I had weed. 152 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: Nacho's not too long ago, and I'm I peed myself. 153 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: That name that was like, this is actually I'm I 154 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: needed a diaper. We'll just shifted, just shift your stomach. 155 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: I had enough diapers. You're strapped from my back. Um. Alright, So, 156 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: as we mentioned, uh, I had a very cool New 157 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: Year's where I watched a lot of New Year's Eve coverage. 158 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: Was frustrated, Like on the West Coast, you can't see 159 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: the ball drop live except for like a feed on wine. 160 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: It was the only place I found it because they 161 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: really want to keep you really Yeah, so they have 162 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: like a feed that it says live on it and 163 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 1: it's actually like three hours earlier. East Coast. It's really 164 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: there's nothing that can we get. Let's get our own, yeah, exactly. 165 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: Uh So this was my frustration. But apparently so CNN 166 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: apparently had the like hottest New Year's party going down. Uh, 167 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen were chilling and it was 168 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: apparently like really edgy and offended a lot of conservatives 169 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: and like parents who are watching with their kids because 170 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: of the two of them are just other ship. Well 171 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: so the two of them, there was a lot of 172 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: drug ship going on. So uh. There was a segment 173 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: that is getting the bulk of the attention where they 174 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: like through to a report her who was live in 175 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: Colorado celebrating New Year's Eve at a puff and paint 176 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: party where people like smoke weed and paint. God, there's 177 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: nothing worse than a paint night. As I don't even 178 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: know what a paint night is, but I'll scream about 179 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 1: it later. Um. But uh, and she like had marijuana 180 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: earrings on and like lit somebody's gas mask bomb and 181 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:34,599 Speaker 1: was seen holding a marijuana cigarette. Jazzy sick because of 182 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: my child. My child has now turned into a marijuana pray, um, 183 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: which I think people are overreacting to. There was a 184 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: weird moment though, where Andy Cohen here, let's let's listen 185 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: to to it. I think we have a clip. Well 186 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: it's about eleven degrees. You're in time square, but it 187 00:10:54,200 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: feels like ten or nine. Yeah, what's this is? I mean, 188 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: this part of me feels very hot, the rest of 189 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: me feels very cold, So I feel it very unbalanced, 190 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: not like you're on heroin or something. What does it? 191 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: How does that even sound like? Isn't it like waves 192 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: of heat or something like? That's what? I don't know 193 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: what anything about it? Um what I'm saying, I don't 194 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,559 Speaker 1: know anything about I don't know. I just speak knowledgeably 195 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: about what it's like to be on heroin and then 196 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: putting you on the spot like right, and you're like, dude, what, 197 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about that? And Andy Cohen who's 198 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: the E former E executive who uh then became like 199 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: an on air personality and yeah he was. He was 200 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: apparently super rough like the whole time. He just like 201 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: and I noticed that actually in a couple of the 202 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: broadcasts that I watched that people were it was so cold, 203 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 1: people like couldn't think straight, Like we're just like having trouble. 204 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: Like the Fox production was a disaster, Like obviously Steve 205 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: Rvy is always the best, but but everything else it 206 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: was just a mess. Uh yeah, But but I don't 207 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: I don't know that I can kind of see where 208 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 1: some conservatives are coming from. UF if they focused on 209 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: the Heroin comment the weird things, I don't know. I mean, 210 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: sure you don't, I guess because we've never they've been 211 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: really like strict about showing people straight up smoking weed 212 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: on TV. So like doing like a hard cut to 213 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: someone doing gas mask ball a CNN thing I think 214 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: would be jarring for some people. I can see how 215 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,719 Speaker 1: if you were like a very like strict parent who 216 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: wanted to yeah, and then you're like suddenly they're like, 217 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: what's that and you're like, I actually, I think that 218 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: if you were like watching with your kids like that 219 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: would be what would stand out more than Antique Cohen's 220 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: weird Heroin co Yeah, that was just like a random 221 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: thing that someone like pointed out on Reddit and wow, 222 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: what funny. So funny because it's like, yeah, of course 223 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: Anti Kohn's tried hair. But also it's like you can 224 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: feel like I'm sure the two of them like have 225 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: party together and they're probably just sort of like, look, bro, 226 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: when we do this, like you can't just be saying 227 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: crazy ship like you do when we're not being broadcast 228 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: on team talking about me being like people on Heroin 229 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: really super producer Anna Josnier has just entered the recording 230 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 1: booth after spending the morning recording a batch pod Bachelor podcast. 231 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: You are a bachelor expert, and that is correct. That 232 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: is not what we're going to talk to you about mentioning. 233 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: Just to set this segment up, I wanted to sort 234 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 1: of get a primer from you on the Iranian protests 235 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: and just like, how do you feel about them? Uh, 236 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: what what's going on over there? Okay, So currently what's 237 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: happening in Iran? There's um protests that are coming up, 238 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: mostly from poorer communities within Iran, and a lot of 239 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: it it's based off domestic issues. So right now, there's 240 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: a very high unemployment, right the cost of living has 241 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: like skyrocketed, Like the cost of eggs has risen like 242 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: in the last year. So people are just like what 243 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: is going on um? And people truly believe that the 244 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: government is way too focus on what's going on in 245 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: Syria and Palestine and not what's actually going on in 246 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: the country and the people are dealing with like every 247 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: day there at this point, taking away money from welfare 248 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: programs and then giving this money to like religious groups 249 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: where like the mood laws and the religious clerics, who 250 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: you know, are kind of the people that run the 251 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: country on the back end. You know, a lot of 252 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: you know, Ruhani is the president, but the Supreme Leader 253 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: is the person who makes the ultimate decisions. So there's 254 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: a lot of snow Supreme leader snow that anti serkus. Yeah. 255 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: So the current Supreme Leader is Ali Homani, not to 256 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: be confused with the original Supreme Leader Joam, but so 257 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: he's he's currently the person who if Ruhani wants to 258 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: pass a lot, it technically has to go through the 259 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: Supreme leaders. The Supreme Leader is going to be like, hey, 260 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: is it up to my religious standards, and they're calling 261 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: for they're calling for both of them, right, Yeah. But 262 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: that's the thing is the weird thing is like Iranians 263 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: when they start to overreact, they automatically jumped to death. 264 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: It's like peach death to our president. Like slowdown, slow down, 265 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: because the same thing like when it happened, they'd be 266 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: like death to America whenever we Yeah, basically when Trump 267 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: came into power, there was a lot of death to America, 268 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: which is like that's that's a lot of work. You know, 269 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: you don't have time. You gotta really good to worry 270 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: about how much the price of the exit. Yeah, and 271 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: so and you know, when the sanctions were lifted because 272 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: of this nuclear deal, the Iranian public we're like, oh, perfect, 273 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: this is gonna make it easier. Sanctions are lifted, more 274 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: things can come into our country. We can things will 275 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: get can interact more with the outside world, right, you know, 276 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: like textbooks are coming into the universities, and the students 277 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: are actually like able to like do the re search 278 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: they want and and and learn things and discover things 279 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: and like basically brain drain into the US in the end. 280 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: But that's that's mostly young Iranians. They're just trying to 281 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: like to turn all the stuff and then come to America. 282 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: And so that didn't really do anything. And and Rohani's like, oh, well, 283 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: you know, the problem is that like everyone's corrupt, so 284 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: there is a chance for this to go down. But 285 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: all the money is basically being taken by like just 286 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: people that work in the government, and there's all this 287 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: mismanagement and there's there's blatant corruption. But I have to 288 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: say alleged corruption because my family does live in Iran, 289 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: and if I ever go to Iran, I'm not trying 290 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: to get arrested and used as like a political bargaining tool, 291 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: which this is not a great idea for me to 292 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: be talking on this podcast, but anyway, Um, yeah, So 293 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: that is the basis of what a lot of it 294 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: is and a lot of women rights issues, Like these 295 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: women are out here fighting like it's kind of it's 296 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: actually really amazing because these women can be put in 297 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: solitary confinance and the rest of their life and never 298 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: see their family. They could get public lashings, like literally 299 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: hung up on the streets and lash for the public 300 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: to come see. That's the level of intensity of trouble 301 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: you can get into. So I think it's very important 302 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: like what they're doing and how they're like putting themselves 303 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: out there and fighting for what they believe in because 304 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: technically they live under a regime. So I mean, because 305 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: it was REINDI like seen a sort of like a 306 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: reformer to like to kind of like bring in like 307 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: the usher in a slightly new era. He is like 308 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: the liberal as liberal as you're in Islamic Republic president. 309 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: Like they were like he's on Twitter, Like it's like 310 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: they were like this dude can tweet, and a lot 311 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: of the top officials were educated in America and then 312 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: went back to Iran. So like, um, Java zad if 313 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: the foreign minister educated America, that's why he's always out 314 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: here on Twitter, like yes, yes, if you say, if 315 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: anyone like Nicky Haley or anyone says anything about Iran, 316 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: this guy is literally sitting there like characters waiting. He's 317 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: got traps on traps on traps and like all right, 318 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: that's that. So yeah, that's a bit of an you know, 319 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: that's what's going on. Well, yeah, it's interesting because he's, 320 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: like you said, it started with all these sort of 321 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: grievances about the economy and like that, like what the 322 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: day to day life was, and then slowly, like it 323 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: started in like these very conservative parts of Iran, which 324 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: are like I think I think it was the Atolla 325 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: who was trying to say that these were like fake 326 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: protests or people trying to divide the people. But then 327 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: it's spread so quickly and then like the messages really 328 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: started changing to be about so much more, and you're 329 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: starting to see like the people there are really they're 330 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: not really waiting for this like very small, slow incremental change. 331 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: It seems like the people really want to like be 332 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: to participate in the world more freely and just have 333 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: like a more modern country. It's interesting because they don't 334 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: want the shot to come back because they don't want 335 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: that world of like we're basically run by America. But 336 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: at the same time they don't want this aggressive like 337 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: religious cleric looking over them and being like, no, you 338 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: can't have that, and no, I won't answer your question 339 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: because I'm literally a supreme leader, which is okay. Like 340 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if this will actually lead 341 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 1: to change because it is a regime and they can 342 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: silence people. And in my experience when I've been in 343 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: Iran and watch the news there, oh, it is just delusion. 344 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 1: All the ship they're putting out like you are literally 345 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: watching like just propaganda and just fake news like you are. 346 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: They are the kings of fake news over there, because 347 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: they are just putting They all say there's a protest 348 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: going on, and then they'll play the same clip over 349 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: and over again, and then they'll tell you the protest 350 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: is like it's a march for like happiness, and you're 351 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: just like these people are screaming good yeah, and then 352 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: you're like okay, because I've had actually like I've watched them. 353 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: I've been like what what what? This is confusing. Then 354 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: my cousins literally go, oh no, this is all fake. 355 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 1: This is Iranian news station. You're not going to see 356 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: the truth. And then I was like where am I? 357 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: So Trump is open the advocating for the protesters, which 358 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: seems like a surprisingly cool thing for Trump to do. Yeah, 359 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,719 Speaker 1: but I also think he's just trying to rile up 360 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: the situation because it goes against the Iranyan gun. I 361 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think he's on anyone's side. I 362 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: think he's just trying to fuel a fine him before 363 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: it's like yeah, yeah, I love it. But I mean, 364 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: like last week they were like death to Drump, you know, 365 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: because I think what two people were killed already right 366 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: like we're shot. It's because yeah, they're saying that they 367 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: are attacking. The thing is they won't explain how they die. 368 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: They just say they're dead. That's the weird thing whever 369 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: the deaths. A minute ago, somebody tweeted twelve News tweeted 370 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: six days of Iran protests. De wow. Yeah. Well, and 371 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: also it can't be very helpful for someone that the 372 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: country openly hates to be like love what you're doing 373 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: over there, Like that's just not deflating at all. Right, 374 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna go to a quick break and we'll be 375 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: right back, and we're back. There's this article in uh 376 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: a outlet called The Outline associating this with a overall 377 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: trend that they're seeing like Miley Cyrus had her big, 378 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: uh you know, run of appropriation and then last year 379 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: apparently she released a country pop album where she was 380 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: wearing her like cowboy hat all over the place. Um 381 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: and Lady Gaga released a more like stripped down authentic 382 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: album that was less like poppy and more like piano music, 383 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: and she was wearing a cowboy hat. So there's like 384 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: something with this cowboy culture like being seen as more 385 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: authentic for white artists. And I had actually just read 386 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: a really interesting run on Twitter from Robin Pinaccia, Uh, 387 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 1: probably pronouncing that wrong. She's a writer for wan Cat 388 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: and uh she talks about how there's this like big conspiracy. 389 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,959 Speaker 1: We had actually written about it, crack, but I totally 390 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: forgot about it. Um about how in the early twentieth century, 391 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: UM Henry Ford, one of the wealthiest, uh crazy anti 392 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: semi racists to ever have just all the money in 393 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: the world, decided he wanted to launch a campaign to 394 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: give white people a type of music and dancing because 395 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: he was worried about the influence of jazz and R 396 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: and B, which he had an interesting name for that, right, Yeah, 397 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 1: he called it like jungle music with like monkey house 398 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: or something. Yeah. Uh, and so he actually like started 399 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: a campaign where he tried to make square dancing popular, 400 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: like he basically invented square dancing. It's only like forty 401 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: fifty years old, and uh like started paying schools to 402 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: put it in their PE curriculum. Did you guys ever, 403 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: did you take square dancing and PE? And I didn't. 404 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: I didn't take I remember it was one day and 405 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: like they brought out a fucking record player. That's why 406 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: one of my memories because I was like seven years old, 407 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: I'm like fucking record and then it was like playing 408 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: some like weird thing and we were all confused, like 409 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: this is not that was part of my education. Yeah, 410 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: but for like two days in uh gym class, you 411 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: had to like square dance, and like nobody nobody enjoyed it. 412 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: Like it didn't really accomplish anything. But so the reason 413 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: for that was all part of this conspiracy by a 414 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 1: racist Henry for the car manufacturer, because he thought that, 415 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: like uh, jazz was a Jewish conspiracy to make black 416 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 1: music popular. Um, and so I don't know, it's just 417 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: interesting that we're associating uh, you know, cowboy hats and 418 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 1: you know country music, which also was not originally white music. 419 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: That was a campaign by him to sort of make it. 420 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: He basically backed the type of country music that was 421 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: more associated with white people and back like white country artist. 422 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: But it was an actual conspiracy, uh, to make white 423 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: people like country music, and it worked apparently. Um, we 424 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: didn't have the square dance in the elementary school. He 425 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: did the electric slide MPE one day. That was fun 426 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: Coach Pat Shop Coach Pat Central Elementary School, past Gule Misissippi. 427 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: We we did the Uh you also, miss Boke, you 428 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: said that Squarenesstan is only forty years old. You gotta 429 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: remember this twenty forty years ago. Was nineteen seventy eight, 430 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: sixty something years. I think jungle music had taken over 431 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: by that time, when then they could do at that 432 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: point too late. Yeah, that's that's that's that's not a 433 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: new thing though. Man. You know, like popular culture, hip 434 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: hop culture, is popular culture. It has been since I 435 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: would say probably the mid to late nineties. Yeah, like yeah, 436 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: it's crazy how I would wanted to say, like the 437 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: early two thousands when they really when it really like 438 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: because to me, like when get Richard I try and 439 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: came out. Yeah, that's when I was surprised at how 440 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: many people were like yo, man with and I was like, what, 441 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: you know, what song is like the ultimate like white 442 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: dude song that I don't even know the lyrics to. Uh, 443 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: I forgot about Dre. I don't know the lyrics of 444 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: that song. I don't know how it goes. I just 445 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: know the hook. But all of my white male friends 446 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: know all the lyrics to Forget Jack, do you know? Yeah, 447 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: that's my favorite song, Carl. That's okay, So maybe we can't. 448 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: We can. I believe you that that can. That can 449 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: be the year right there. Two thousand one, we forgot 450 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: about Dre came out that that's it When I was 451 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: in the hip hop colature. That was all came because 452 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: I guess Eminem Yeah he really, I think he really 453 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: mainstream hip hop for a lot of white people. Yeah, 454 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: I was gonna, I mean, this kind of brings back 455 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: to our overrated because it does seem like there are 456 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: some average ass rappers who get very successful because they're 457 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: white people. I don't know. I mean, I think there's 458 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: just just as many mediocre black rappers too. Yeah, yeah, 459 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: I guess, But but it's ours. We can be mediocre, 460 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: that's the rappers. The one thing that Black people can 461 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 1: be mediocre at. Everything else we gotta be great at. 462 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: You gotta be lebron in the NBA, you gotta be 463 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: Cam Newton in the NFL. But you can be Kodak 464 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: Black hip hop you can be you can be take 465 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: Off Tight. Is he your favor I think he's like 466 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: this one. He's not. He's not a promise. You listen 467 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: to his catalog, listen to Takeoff Essentials on Apple Music 468 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your music, and he I get 469 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: there's no Takeoff Essentials. But there is a list of 470 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: of of like songs that he is the feature rapper on. 471 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: He's Tight. It's just a different like he wraps like Offset, 472 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: excepts like recas I Got It. Yeah, that's a different 473 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different tone different. I liked them. 474 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: There's a article from The New Yorker that's talking about 475 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: how China is viewing Trump and our country by extension, 476 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: and it's not very reassuring. He wasn't the article just 477 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: all the laughing cry face emojis. Yes, it was just 478 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: three pages of that in a line. Uh no. But 479 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: so it talks about how at first they were and 480 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: I think this is actually a good sort of description 481 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: of how everybody viewed him. At first. They were like, wow, 482 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: he really pulled it off. He must be secretly like 483 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: a genie brilliant. And they were like really, you know, worried. 484 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: They thought he was gonna, you know, take it to them. 485 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: And then they met with him. He that that Mara 486 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: Lago visit where Trump came out and was like, I 487 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: think I think she me. I think the chocolate cake time. Yeah. 488 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: Uh And his response aps with me was I think 489 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: he likes me. I think so maybe he hates me, 490 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: but I think he likes me. It was like funk 491 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 1: man up to like a sit down with that energy 492 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: and the s jimping left the meeting being like, wow, 493 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: he like takes everything literally he doesn't really. Yeah, They 494 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: were like like he had He's like, I got these 495 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: fortune cookies for everyone, and they were just like taken 496 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: aback By, how like simple minded and like how simple 497 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: his view of Asia was, Like how little he knew? Uh, 498 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: and like the fact that he came out of the 499 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: meeting was like, Wow, this North Korea thing is really complicated. 500 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: They were like, what you didn't know that? I feel 501 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,479 Speaker 1: like there's been an article like that for everything, right, 502 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: Like there was he was like, Wow, health insurance is 503 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: actually pretty complicated, immigration things pretty complicated, did he think? 504 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: I think that's what appealed to so many people because 505 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: he's as simple, he's as simple to at least, Yeah, 506 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: this ship is this is complicated. Yeah, but we've been 507 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: trying to tell you that for a year and then 508 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: I want to listen to you, right, Yeah, And I 509 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: mean it's very easy to identify with. I certainly didn't 510 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: know how complicated all that ship was. Um backs away 511 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: from Jack again. I I totally identify with Trump and 512 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: his views. But so they're they're now viewing the Trump 513 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: presidency has like a huge opportunity to become the leader 514 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: on the world stage because yeah, essentially, and uh, it's 515 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: sort of a national mood that's like sweeping through this 516 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: past summer. They had their most successful movie in the 517 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: history of Chinese cinema and it's just like an action movie. 518 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: It was actually part two of the franchise. Uh. It's 519 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: similar to have you guys seen Rambo to Okay? So 520 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: Rambo one was like a decent sized hit. Rambo two 521 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: was this monster hit and it was like because uh 522 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: it like in it, Rambo went back and won the 523 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: Vietnam War. It goes back to Vietnam and like just 524 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: defeats the entire Vietnamese army, like North Vietnamese army, by himself. 525 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: And so it was like clearly like dealing with a 526 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: wound that America had and they're unconscious and like, so 527 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: uh it became like five times as successful as the 528 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: first one, and this seems like a similar thing. This 529 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: is a sequel to a just a standard action movie 530 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,719 Speaker 1: that became their most successful movie ever. And it's climax 531 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: is this Chinese action star beating an American to death. 532 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: It's about China taking a bigger role on the national stage. 533 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: They're like, uh, he goes into I think it's an 534 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: African nation where there's like an uprising where they're trying 535 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: to kill you know, diploma acts on the ground there 536 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: and they make a point of like they one of 537 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: the people they're saving, uh is counting on the Americans 538 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: to come through and save them. And like they call 539 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: the American Consulate and it's closed, like that's like a 540 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: big platform. So like everyone in China was like fuck yeah, 541 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: they're like super excited about this. Um I hophen they 542 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: get to the American Consulate in its clube, like they're 543 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: ringing the phone and you cut inside of and all. 544 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: This is just like a black dude headphones on the 545 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: I need to get it. He's just like whistling. Um. Well, 546 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: that's interesting because like also China has been like they've 547 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: been way more active in Africa than the U S too, 548 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: like investing building infrastructure, like you know, China is definitely 549 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: they know that America is asleep at the wheel and 550 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: now is a better time than ever to uh kind 551 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: of re established or not reestabled, but fully establish themselves 552 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: as like a leader, because that's already kind of happening, 553 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: especially with like they're they're being like somehow the leaders 554 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: on climate change and other ship too, Like oh yeah, 555 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: we've we've sort of I don't know, abandon the throne 556 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: right and there. Because they're smart and diplomatic about things. 557 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: They're not like openly coming out and being like ha ha, 558 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: fuck you America, like you're you're sucking up. They're just 559 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: quietly like taking over power and then behind closed doors. 560 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: This article says they're like acknowledging like China is now 561 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: the new monolithic power. Um. But this was also being 562 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: predicted by like economists since like the eighties, right, Like 563 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: you know like that by this time that like China 564 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: would be the world's biggest power. It's still pretty lopsided 565 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: when you look at like the size of the economy, 566 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: America is still way bigger. And this is speeding up 567 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: a shift that people were seeing happening, right. Um. I 568 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: Like I had always read that that China was eventually 569 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: going to take over and it was inevitable. But when 570 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: you actually look at the demographics, the reason China is 571 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: having this like huge juggernaut economy is because of the 572 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: one child policy and like basically the way their demographics 573 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: stack out is that they have like a great what's 574 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: called dependency ratio where uh they have way more working 575 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: age people than they have retired and like babies, and 576 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,719 Speaker 1: that's usually helps uh an economy. Like that's almost a 577 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: single indicator that you can see how successful a nation's economy. 578 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: That it was great for a number of years because 579 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: the baby boom was moving from eighteen to sixty five, 580 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: so the baby boom was moving through working age. And 581 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 1: when you have a huge, like glut of people who 582 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: are working through that age, you're going to have a 583 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: lot of economic success. The Chinese are just coming to 584 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: the end of having the people who were the parents 585 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: of the one child generation going through that stage, so 586 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: they had like an artificially really strong dependency ratio. But 587 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: now they're coming into the part where the working age 588 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: people are the one child generation, so they're going to 589 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: have an artificially low like an artificially bad So it 590 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,720 Speaker 1: could go either way, but this is certainly not helping. 591 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: And I don't know what with the North Korea stuff, 592 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: it just seems like America's standing in the world like 593 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: a there there's been a war of tweets that we 594 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: were referring to earlier with the button thing, but um, 595 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: you know, it just seems so clear now that uh, 596 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: you know, people were always like Trump's plant chess and 597 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: everyone else's planning checkers. Not even that. Man, if you're 598 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: on some certain subredits. But so Kim jongoon is driving 599 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: a wedge between South Korea and the US by like 600 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: opening up relations and like opening up communication with between 601 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,239 Speaker 1: North Korea and South Korea, and Trump is responding to 602 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 1: that by like bragging about the size of his button, 603 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: like how much is button works? Because I know, like 604 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: with like North Korea, they're looking at it like, yo, 605 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: if we get America out of the picture, then we 606 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: can just figure out our own reunification thing. I know 607 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 1: Kim Jong una his mind thinks if America's out of 608 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 1: the picture that he can somehow unite both Koreas and 609 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 1: somehow Pyong Yang can rule over both, which is a 610 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,439 Speaker 1: bit of a long shot, but at the very least, 611 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: I think South Koreans also see a way of like 612 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: having like a federation while keeping their like total unification 613 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,839 Speaker 1: agenda at bay. A lot of our stick with like 614 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: our carrot and stick with North Korea is like sanction based, 615 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,959 Speaker 1: and sanctions only work if you can get everybody else 616 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 1: in the world to agree to like withhold. And so 617 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: if he's you know, striking up a relationship with South 618 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: Korea and you know having a strong relationship with China, 619 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 1: the then America is not going to have any ability 620 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 1: to negotiate. Yeah, and we've I think as a country, 621 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: we have a track record of showing like we really 622 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: don't do ship when North Korea acts up, like they 623 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,359 Speaker 1: took the USS playblow when didn't do shit, and all 624 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,320 Speaker 1: we did, all we do now just like sanctions that 625 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: China undermines. Who knows. I think maybe that's why they 626 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: may look at Trump a bit differently because he's just 627 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: so erratic. But if you look at sort of like 628 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 1: the the history of like you know, what the U. 629 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: S responses to like North Korean provocations, it's it's typically 630 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: just sort of sanctions that can be worked around or undermined. Yeah, 631 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,320 Speaker 1: and this is kind of part of an overall trend 632 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,719 Speaker 1: where I don't know. I've been struggling with this thing 633 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,959 Speaker 1: where I worry I'm underestimating Trump because I did during 634 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 1: the election, But I don't know. And you still see that, 635 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: like in the comments sections of an article where Trump 636 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,920 Speaker 1: does something stupid, if it's not like on the New 637 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,359 Speaker 1: York Times, if it's a place where you know there 638 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: are right wing people, or Trump's like made his career 639 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: off of like people underestimating him and you know, uh, 640 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 1: just assuming that he has like a long game that 641 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 1: he's playing. Uh, And I don't know. There's an article 642 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:56,320 Speaker 1: about the sixty eight election and how you know, America 643 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,840 Speaker 1: has a long history of overreading election results and you know, 644 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 1: we just like really focus in on elections as being 645 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,399 Speaker 1: these hugely significant things. And I don't know, I think 646 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,399 Speaker 1: I think that might be what I'm doing. And when 647 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 1: you look at uh, there's a political article called Donald 648 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: Trump's Year of Living Dangerously where they just talk about 649 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 1: how basically everybody on his staff is just like China 650 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 1: sort of gave him the benefit of the doubt at first, 651 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: and now are just sort of taken aback and are 652 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 1: like finding ways to you know, work around him and 653 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,640 Speaker 1: keep him isolated from any really consequential decisions. So uh, 654 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 1: it seems like the only people who are still left 655 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: in the camp of just let's see where he's gone 656 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,279 Speaker 1: with this. He probably has a plan, are you know. 657 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: His supporters and even the people who like work with 658 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 1: him and for him are just like, all right, let's 659 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: find a way to babyproof this house. All Right, We're 660 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back. 661 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 1: And we're back. Um, So we wanted to talk about 662 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:14,120 Speaker 1: this trend that is generally emanating from northern California, where 663 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,640 Speaker 1: I guess I'm just assuming it's coming from north I mean, 664 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: it's all over. I mean there are people doing it 665 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: in Maine in the Pacific Northwest, but a lot of 666 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: vocal people in the Bay Area, right and it is 667 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 1: a health craze sweeping the hair brand idiots of America 668 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: UH into raw water. Miles, can you explain what so 669 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: raw water UH is for people who feel like drinking 670 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: tap water is full of you know, like poisonous fluoride 671 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,280 Speaker 1: and ship like that. So they want to just drink 672 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:46,399 Speaker 1: like unfiltered, untreated water that comes from springs and rivers, UH, 673 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 1: to just really get back to Earth because they feel 674 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: like there's probiotics, which I think the you know, FDA 675 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,360 Speaker 1: would kill those, you know, pathogens, but yeah, they just 676 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,040 Speaker 1: feel like there's like health benefits of drinking this raw water. 677 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,359 Speaker 1: I'm like one of the most vocal people about it's 678 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,840 Speaker 1: been that guy who started that juice ero company that 679 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: was just like those bags you scan and like there 680 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,800 Speaker 1: was like a total sham, like you just squeeze the 681 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: juice out of the bags. It wasn't really like it 682 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,759 Speaker 1: was just a bag of juice that you had to 683 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,760 Speaker 1: buy a juicer toe. That was the thing. I'm forty, 684 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,839 Speaker 1: so I remember being in college and when Oddwala hit 685 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,480 Speaker 1: and that was a big thing to see a person 686 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,879 Speaker 1: walk around with a twelve hours big Old Greens drink. 687 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,879 Speaker 1: It wasn't pasteurized, so everyone was just thinking, like, you're 688 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,840 Speaker 1: just getting the best. You know, you're taking two poops 689 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: a day, you know what, you got stuff. You're feeling good. 690 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,440 Speaker 1: But then you got somebody and your friends sick and 691 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 1: you're like, how do you do miss Chemis because yeah, 692 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,439 Speaker 1: he's in a hospital. You know that it's a tape worm. 693 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: You know. There's always this interesting thing about um about 694 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,600 Speaker 1: water where I feel like the like we're all getting duped, 695 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 1: and most people won't challenge it because it's natural. They'll 696 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: say water, it's fruit, there's something from the earth. It's 697 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,239 Speaker 1: like drinking from Mother Nature's teeth. Yeah, exactly, it doesn't 698 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: get more pure than that, which is not true, by 699 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: the way, and having filtered water is a fine thing, 700 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: and actually in some places considered a luxury would not 701 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,440 Speaker 1: be drinking from streams where exactly, let's reevaluate. I think 702 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 1: that's where all that water is gonna go after it 703 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 1: doesn't sell, We're just gonna go there, just dump it 704 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 1: out in the partner there with a palate floater. The 705 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,880 Speaker 1: floride things like an ancient, uh not ancient, but a 706 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: really old American conspiracy theory that you know, the fluoride 707 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,319 Speaker 1: is a mind control chemical. When did that come about? 708 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,359 Speaker 1: Because I heard that it's it's gone as far back 709 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 1: as when the government first started putting fluoride in our water, 710 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: and which I think was early twentieth century. Uh. The 711 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: only difference now that like most of the water people 712 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,360 Speaker 1: drink is you know, bottled water or a lot of 713 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,160 Speaker 1: the water people drink, is that Americans have way worse 714 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,680 Speaker 1: teeth than they used to. Is basically like that. That's 715 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 1: why the fluoride was put in there in the first place, 716 00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:00,360 Speaker 1: is because, uh, like people were suffering from horrible dental health, 717 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,839 Speaker 1: and so we started putting fluoride in the public drinking water, 718 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: and we had some of the best teeth on the planet. Yeah, 719 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 1: and now and now we have gone all the way 720 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 1: back to drinking and streams. But you have to look 721 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 1: at the pictures of the people who are like spearheading this. 722 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: They're pretty just like almost two on the nose, like 723 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,960 Speaker 1: the they've got like beards and weird uh you know, 724 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,279 Speaker 1: robes and ship So we want to move on to 725 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,439 Speaker 1: uh the Trump administration has announced that they're going after 726 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 1: legal weed and uh so that that was fun well 727 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 1: lasted weed was legal for two days. Um so uhi man? Right? Yeah. 728 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,400 Speaker 1: So basically Obama put out a memo saying the federal 729 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,960 Speaker 1: law and the state law are in conflict. And that's 730 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 1: you know, sort of the way the US government works 731 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,919 Speaker 1: is you have, you know, one law that's one thing 732 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 1: and local law that's another, and they just like clash 733 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,880 Speaker 1: and you never get anything accomplished. And that's sort of 734 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,040 Speaker 1: by design. Um. But so Obama came out and was like, 735 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: let's just let the states do what they want to 736 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: do in this case. And Trump is expected to dissolve 737 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,880 Speaker 1: that statute or whatever in the next twenty four hours, 738 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 1: which isn't totally surprising because Sessions, his attorney general, is 739 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,320 Speaker 1: has always been like come out and said the only 740 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,240 Speaker 1: bad thing about the KKK is that they smoke weed. 741 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,360 Speaker 1: At one point, that's like a quote on the record 742 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 1: from him. Um So he he thinks marijuana is like 743 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 1: heroin basically. Um. Yeah. So this has got like a 744 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,000 Speaker 1: lot of people, especially like in the legal cannabis industry, like, 745 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,239 Speaker 1: oh my god, what's going on. A lot of the 746 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,399 Speaker 1: reportings like, oh my god, they're gonna take away our weed. 747 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,080 Speaker 1: So a friend of mine, Ben Rexious, he's like California attorney. 748 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,319 Speaker 1: He practices law at Precious Law here in l A. 749 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,680 Speaker 1: But he's like a criminal defense and cannabis business lawyer. 750 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: Uh So we want to bring him on really quick 751 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,759 Speaker 1: to get his take on exactly like how lawyers are 752 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,560 Speaker 1: actually looking at this memo. Uh So we're gonna call 753 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,759 Speaker 1: him right now. All right, Ben, are you there? I 754 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 1: am there, Thank you so much. So Ben as a 755 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 1: lawyer working in the field of cannabis, Uh you know, 756 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,719 Speaker 1: what can you tell us? I mean, like, I feel 757 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: like a lot of people are, you know, kind of 758 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: freaking out about this. But I feel like from a 759 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,799 Speaker 1: legal standpoint, it's not going to be as easy to 760 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,560 Speaker 1: just sort of eliminate all the recreational weed that is 761 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,880 Speaker 1: occurring in this country right absolutely, you know, and it's 762 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,040 Speaker 1: especially on the scale that it's grown to in the 763 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,920 Speaker 1: past couple of years. You know, we have more and 764 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 1: more states legalizing. The states like Colorado and Washington that 765 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,319 Speaker 1: have been doing this since two thousand and fourteen and 766 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:46,719 Speaker 1: have well established programs. So yeah, to dismantle this would 767 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,640 Speaker 1: take a feat that I'm not sure that the Department 768 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,040 Speaker 1: of Justice is up to it. But again, I'm not 769 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: ruling out anything, because if there's anything that the last 770 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,359 Speaker 1: year has taught us is that anything is possible. So 771 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,600 Speaker 1: what to you, like, what are sort of the big 772 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 1: impediments or obstacles that the Department of Justice would have 773 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,759 Speaker 1: to overcome to really sort of cause problems in these 774 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 1: states with recreational weed laws on their books. Well, you know, 775 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:16,040 Speaker 1: the first issue is one of the funding. And you 776 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,200 Speaker 1: know there's the Roar Boker Far which is now the 777 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:24,000 Speaker 1: Roar Boker Blueman Our Amendment, which prevents Congress from appropriating 778 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,160 Speaker 1: funds the Department of Justice to go after states with 779 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,960 Speaker 1: state medical marijuana programs. It's not anything certain. It's part 780 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,880 Speaker 1: of a budget that's supposed to be approved later this month, 781 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,360 Speaker 1: so we're not so sure that that's going to be 782 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,839 Speaker 1: you know approved again. And that's kept the government from 783 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:46,279 Speaker 1: going after medical marijuana. But it doesn't cover recreational marijuana. 784 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,800 Speaker 1: And the other issue with recreational although we call it 785 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,600 Speaker 1: adult use in these states is that, you know, what 786 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 1: allows these states to uh, you know, have medical marijuana 787 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,719 Speaker 1: is that it's not not to get too much in 788 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:05,600 Speaker 1: the constitutional law, but preemption because the Controlled Substances Act, 789 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,439 Speaker 1: which is a federal law, deals with recreational drug use. 790 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,680 Speaker 1: So if the state has medical marijuana, it deals with 791 00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,919 Speaker 1: a separate issue and it's not preempted by state law. 792 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,880 Speaker 1: So we need to see what's gonna happen with the 793 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 1: roar bocker bluem in our amendment. So there's the issue 794 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,960 Speaker 1: of funding UM. We also need to look at the 795 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,560 Speaker 1: memo of the new Sessions Memo, a little one pager 796 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,880 Speaker 1: that was released today and the language is very interesting 797 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,960 Speaker 1: and without getting into the details, basically what it appears 798 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,200 Speaker 1: to do is it gives UM basically U S attorneys 799 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:52,520 Speaker 1: the discretion to go after UM medical you know, and 800 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:57,759 Speaker 1: recreational cannabis businesses. But it's not an absolute green light. 801 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:03,440 Speaker 1: But in combination with rescinding the Coal Memo, the Ogden Memo, 802 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,840 Speaker 1: and a bunch of other memos which basically told the government, 803 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,719 Speaker 1: the federal government to keep out absent um any you know, 804 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: concern you know there are being any issues with miners 805 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,680 Speaker 1: getting cannabis um. You know, it's it's it's it's all 806 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,359 Speaker 1: up in the air. So and also you know, do 807 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,920 Speaker 1: you foresee like for example, d A agents coming through 808 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,400 Speaker 1: a medical marijuana dispensary and like arresting people. Obviously the 809 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,799 Speaker 1: optics look bad, but it seems sounds like to there 810 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,320 Speaker 1: are a lot of states, like A G. S Attorneys 811 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,880 Speaker 1: general that are also like talking real crazy. They're like, yo, 812 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,560 Speaker 1: don't come in here with that, because we will, we will, 813 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,840 Speaker 1: we will fight for this absolutely, you know. And the 814 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,400 Speaker 1: d A has not been raiding dispensaries for a while. Um. 815 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,240 Speaker 1: And there's a big difference now. Back when these raids 816 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,359 Speaker 1: were going on in two thousand seven, two thousand and eight, 817 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,319 Speaker 1: these weren't licensed businesses. We now have in states like 818 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:06,240 Speaker 1: Colorado in Washington licensed businesses. So you know, the optics 819 00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,520 Speaker 1: are never good when you have the d A coming 820 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,120 Speaker 1: in and crushing little businesses. But you know, it's especially 821 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 1: bad when you know it's state sanctioned business and these 822 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 1: are businesses that are paying taxes, and so you not 823 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,680 Speaker 1: only have the business owners being aggrieved, but you now 824 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,240 Speaker 1: have the state itself being agreed because they're going after 825 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,399 Speaker 1: businesses that are providing them with tax revenue and our 826 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:37,759 Speaker 1: our license these uh through a state program. So yeah, 827 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,080 Speaker 1: it's it's a big, big difference here. Yes, it seems 828 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 1: like it's an uphill battle. How many states is marijuana 829 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:49,839 Speaker 1: like legal recreationally by the way, so I haven't done 830 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,960 Speaker 1: the exact count I forget, but you know it's Colorado, Washington, 831 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,880 Speaker 1: now California. UM, I think it's about twelve, but we 832 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,240 Speaker 1: have more and more all the way. You know, for instance, 833 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,799 Speaker 1: in Vermont, it's going to be the first instance of 834 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,520 Speaker 1: a state marijuana pro legal marijuana program being instituted by 835 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:15,400 Speaker 1: the legislature. Most of these have been through uh you know, 836 00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:20,600 Speaker 1: um the voter of initiatives exactly valid initiatives. So now 837 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:24,240 Speaker 1: we have states taking this issue by the reins and 838 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,840 Speaker 1: um um and and and and adopting it themselves. So 839 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,200 Speaker 1: the momentum is picking up. That's the big point for 840 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:38,680 Speaker 1: legalized marijuana, both um adult use and medical. So you know, 841 00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:43,000 Speaker 1: this is just something that goes completely against the will 842 00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,239 Speaker 1: of the people of the United States. And you know, 843 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,560 Speaker 1: the real big issue is that this is a state's 844 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:54,720 Speaker 1: rights tissue, and which states rights is a huge conservative issue. 845 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,160 Speaker 1: Don't tread on me. Yeah, uh, And I mean I 846 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,440 Speaker 1: have I know somebody for whom this was the line, 847 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,440 Speaker 1: like that they were down with Trump up to this 848 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: point and then they were like, no, fuck this, they 849 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,759 Speaker 1: cannot do this. Yes, So don't tread on me. Don't 850 00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:19,359 Speaker 1: tread on weed. Absolutely. And I've been saying, you know, 851 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,480 Speaker 1: all along, that this is gonna be the straw that 852 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,640 Speaker 1: breaks the camels back. And you know, I've said that 853 00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:31,400 Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions doesn't have the political capital to do this. Um, 854 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,200 Speaker 1: you know, he's all tied up in the Russia investigation. 855 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,080 Speaker 1: So what's very interesting is that, you know, not too 856 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,960 Speaker 1: long ago, about a couple of weeks ago, the Department 857 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,040 Speaker 1: of Justice rescinded a number of guidance memos, but the 858 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,399 Speaker 1: Coal memo and the Ogden memo, we're not one of them. 859 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:53,360 Speaker 1: So it's very curious that he's just now resending them. 860 00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:57,920 Speaker 1: And it really speaks to the possibility of this being 861 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,200 Speaker 1: some type of political rout us to detract attention away 862 00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,040 Speaker 1: from the really really bad news that's coming down on 863 00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,640 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. You know, regarding Steve Bannon and you know, 864 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,279 Speaker 1: my goodness, basically everything that's happening, where do you even be? 865 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,120 Speaker 1: It looks like, you know, the punnies intended a smoke screen. 866 00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really I really feel like a big 867 00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,800 Speaker 1: reason for this is that CNA did that story. CNN 868 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,040 Speaker 1: was like the person who couldn't hang and like, you know, 869 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,200 Speaker 1: went to a party and like the woman had like 870 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,560 Speaker 1: marijuana earrings on and we're like it was like holding 871 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,360 Speaker 1: a bong. And then uh, Fox News was like outraged 872 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,920 Speaker 1: about it. And that's where the president takes all of 873 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:45,160 Speaker 1: his guidance from on policy. So absolutely, sure, y, yeah, no, 874 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,359 Speaker 1: they're they're brilliant. Well, thank you so much, man. This 875 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,480 Speaker 1: was absolutely and you know it's my pleasure to be 876 00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 1: of any assistance in these complicated and tumultuous times. But 877 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,080 Speaker 1: you know, the will of the people will pers this, 878 00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,200 Speaker 1: but we have to keep fighting and fight for what's right. Thanks, Ben, 879 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,920 Speaker 1: you gotta take care all right. All right. So it 880 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,680 Speaker 1: seems like just basically after that conversation and and sort 881 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,000 Speaker 1: of what we've been reading like, yes, this is a 882 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,759 Speaker 1: change of policy or a shift in sort of what 883 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,759 Speaker 1: the directives are, but this isn't gonna be an overnight thing, 884 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,000 Speaker 1: like they already opened up Handora's Box, great strain, by 885 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,440 Speaker 1: the way, and they're not going to be able to 886 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,920 Speaker 1: close it. So yes, there's more to come. And obviously 887 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,520 Speaker 1: it would be so unpopular like this. The sentiment for 888 00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,040 Speaker 1: legalizing weed is like at an all time high, so 889 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,440 Speaker 1: I just can't it's hard to imagine this being a 890 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,560 Speaker 1: very popular battle. All Right, that's gonna do it for 891 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,720 Speaker 1: this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like and review the show. 892 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,640 Speaker 1: If you like the show, UH means the world to 893 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:50,080 Speaker 1: mild He He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're 894 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,640 Speaker 1: having a great weekend and I will talk to him Monday. 895 00:51:53,640 --> 00:52:12,719 Speaker 1: By Sa