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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season nine, episode one,

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Speaker 1: the season premiere of DOS Daily sit Sgeist for December four,

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Speaker 1: two seventeen. My name is Jack O'Brien ak Potatoes O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined by my co host, Mr Miles Ray. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's Experimental Artists. Your boyd Usama in the building. How

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Speaker 1: are you? I'm great, Miles, thanks for asking, and we're

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Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the

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Speaker 1: hilarious stand up comedian Josh Androwsky. Hello, that's me. Your

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Speaker 1: word's not mine. What's going on, Josh? I'm good. I

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Speaker 1: just got back from Seattle, and boy is my existentialism tired?

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Speaker 1: Hey hey, Harry seven fun Huh. I did just get

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Speaker 1: back from Seattle. I went to go somewhere else that

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Speaker 1: wasn't Los Angeles, where like I was like, so I

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Speaker 1: don't drink anymore. I wanted to go somewhere with legal

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Speaker 1: weed where I didn't know anybody, and it was perfect.

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Speaker 1: I ended up like meeting this woman on Tinder who

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Speaker 1: like worked for sub pop, and she gave me like

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Speaker 1: this whole tour of sub pop. And I sat next

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Speaker 1: to this dude on the plane and I could you know,

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Speaker 1: and you can just like vibe somebody. I just vibed

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Speaker 1: him and I was like, hey, man, forgive me, but

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Speaker 1: you look like a dude that knows where I can

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Speaker 1: find some acid. And he was like, you sat next

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Speaker 1: to the right guy. Yeah, And and he ended up

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Speaker 1: like owning this rat bar and wearing the sweat. The

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Speaker 1: sweater the bar, the screwdriver bar. If you're in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: shout out just out of the owner. Yeah, well, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's a rock and roll bar. But no, they've

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Speaker 1: got you would love it, dude. They've got this amazing

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Speaker 1: forty five jukebox that has like all these like old

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Speaker 1: like garage rock, punk, soul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that. Yeah. Wait.

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Speaker 1: So when you vibed him, was it because he was

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Speaker 1: just like wearing mad hacky sacks around. Yeah, he had

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Speaker 1: his eyes were as big as the sun. And he

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Speaker 1: just looked at me and was like, are you my dad?

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Speaker 1: And I'm I your dad? And I was like this, yes,

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Speaker 1: let's talk, Josh. What's something from your search history that's

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Speaker 1: revealing about Oh yeah, okay, So this, honestly, these two

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Speaker 1: like it's my two genders, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's like the two parts of me. So sad Billy Corrigan,

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Speaker 1: which are you familiar with the picture? No? Okay, even

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Speaker 1: if you're driving and you're listening to this, just like

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Speaker 1: pull over, don't just if there's no time, pull out

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Speaker 1: your phone while you're driving and google sad Billy Corrigan

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Speaker 1: and look at that first picture that comes out of

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Speaker 1: Billy Corrigan on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, frowning, frowning so hard.

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Speaker 1: Billy Corgan sucks. He's a piece of sh it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And he's like like, he's like weirdly all right now

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Speaker 1: he is, Yeah, yeah, he went hard. He's just trying

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Speaker 1: to make that bald head work for him, exactly when

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Speaker 1: I'm a skinhead now, exactly as a washed fucking nineties artists,

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Speaker 1: right exactly, Dude, to day is the greatest. And it's

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Speaker 1: because I saw this picture and then the other thing

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Speaker 1: that I recently looked up was I was like, oh man,

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Speaker 1: all this news reminds me of something. Oh yeah, the

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Speaker 1: failed coup against FDR. Business the business, the business plot.

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Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the business plot? Basically? Um, the

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Speaker 1: last time we had a president that was willing to

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Speaker 1: be a class trader was FDR and uh, and only

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Speaker 1: for white people and only for white men, so what

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Speaker 1: we need a new one for everybody. But he um.

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Speaker 1: This was like in the ramp up of World War two,

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Speaker 1: and a bunch of business interests, including I believe Prescott Bush,

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Speaker 1: you know, major industrialists and ship all got together in

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Speaker 1: And the ambassador was just writing these frantic letters to

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Speaker 1: FDR and like they're just talking about this ship and

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Speaker 1: they opened Dude, you gotta know, like this is fucked.

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Speaker 1: They're coming for you, They're coming for you. And they

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Speaker 1: only got his legs. But they tried, right. They got

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Speaker 1: the United States. Well that's the soft coup of corporatocracy, right.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, what's something you think is overrated? Um? Overrated? Uh?

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Speaker 1: We can go like one, two, three cops, the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Eagles and Tina Fe. Okay, Tina Fe is surprising. Okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: here's my thoughts on Tina Fe. I think Tina Fey

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Speaker 1: they get rich and become instular. And then I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling that Tina Fe hasn't spoken to anybody in

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Speaker 1: you just see it in her work now. And um,

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Speaker 1: the fact that we're okay with Tina Fe, America's like

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Speaker 1: just has some ice cream blog. We're okay with her

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Speaker 1: message a of like you don't have to engage and

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Speaker 1: so she had She had an appearance on Weekend Update

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Speaker 1: in the SNL premiere where she was like, just eat

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Speaker 1: cake instead, let me eat cake, right, she was like,

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Speaker 1: how are you dealing with the Trump presidency? I'm eating

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Speaker 1: cake to make myself feel better, right, Because she doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to engage because she's not. She's never going to

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Speaker 1: be on the front lines because you know, being rich

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Speaker 1: her observations about like having an assistant, right exactly. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was like, wait, that's and that's your observational comedy now, right.

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Speaker 1: And but that's the thing like you see it with

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Speaker 1: the other thing that really really gets me about Tina

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Speaker 1: but then doing commercials for predatory credit card companies that

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you she doesn't a care or B see

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Speaker 1: I think to be a good comedian you need to

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Speaker 1: Tina Fey for being somebody that talks so much about

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Speaker 1: there's also like once she gets to this Snel part,

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Speaker 1: there's just some elitism, like and then she's like you

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Speaker 1: need to have somebody who graduated from Harvard like that

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Speaker 1: smart school dropout right there. Um yeah, and and she's

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Speaker 1: that we will look back in history will judge Parks

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Speaker 1: even get me started on Jerry Seinfeld. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: letter stuff is pretty brutal, and he has weird opinions

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Speaker 1: took her to Next Games. What's something you think is underrated? Um, dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the song Duke of Earl by

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Speaker 1: Cypress Hill, Yes, by Jeane Chandler, the original song Duke Duke,

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Speaker 1: ideas that are out there changing the world whether we're

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Speaker 1: what a weekend. But um, yeah, we like to start

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Speaker 1: out actually, uh, Josh asking our guest if there's any

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Speaker 1: hot one, Dude, Jocks are better than nerds. The myth

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Speaker 1: is wrong. Nerds are bad. Nerd culture is destroying America

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Speaker 1: Describe I mean by nerd culture you mean what so

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Speaker 1: nerd culture? I mean specifically like the atomization and like

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Speaker 1: festering of nostalgia. Uh, that supplants the need for trying

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Speaker 1: new things or exploring or creating things. This nostalgia obsession,

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Speaker 1: you see it and everything from how every movie is

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Speaker 1: a fucking reboot now to just this idea that to me,

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Speaker 1: it keeps people inside and insulated to the world and

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Speaker 1: it and it it's part of like a greater trend

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Speaker 1: of politics right now where people are just retreating inward,

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Speaker 1: like Tina Fe talked about like I just eat cake,

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Speaker 1: how bad the world is through your fetish, like your

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Speaker 1: particular like cultural fetish, and then only talk about that thing,

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Speaker 1: and I have human relationships based on like that. I

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Speaker 1: think that's fucking horseshit, um, And it's a cop out.

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Speaker 1: And then you see on the other side, jocks who

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Speaker 1: and Van Gundhi. Um, that's keeping protest and actual descent

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Speaker 1: culturally relevant. Like jocks and the protest movement like are

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Speaker 1: as like sheriff of tinytown. Yeah, tinytown, Like are the

426
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Speaker 1: people they're small? I don't. I I just call it

427
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: tiny town because it's so funny that he has like

428
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: a like a little set up Western it's a ghost town.

429
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: It's like an old West town. And I don't know

430
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: if he like hires people to like cosplay West World

431
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: and shipped in there. But yeah, if you look up

432
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: like Koke Brothers ghost Town, uh, and it's like, Okay,

433
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: how is this helping giving this dude enough money to

434
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: create fucking Westworld? Just from he's creating ghost jobs though

435
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: that ghost town that that town didn't see jobs and

436
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: who knows how long ghost jobs they haven't been ghost

437
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 1: jobs in here. But yeah. The other thing too is

438
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: just to think, again, we're in a good time, right,

439
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: the economy is strong. We can afford to invest this

440
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 1: money in infrastructure or things that we sorely need, which

441
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 1: actually creates jobs, which actually creates some kind of wealth

442
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: for other people. That's why, like it's so crazy to

443
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: try and wrap your head around what the motivations are

444
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: of the people in the Senate. Oh, it's easy to

445
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: I mean I just want to be rich and they

446
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: want friends. So that maybe makes me just such a

447
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 1: like out there stupid idiot that like I just feel

448
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: like that's wrong that I'm like, how could you look

449
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: at other people and be like, nah, fam, we're gonna

450
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: sit on this money and like just keep it to ourselves.

451
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: It's I think it's easy because that's how the system works.

452
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: Like Lindsay Graham himself said we need to get this

453
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: pastor else our donors won't return our phone calls. Right,

454
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: he just outright admitted it. Because I don't think anybody

455
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 1: not even though you've lost your humanity. That's how the

456
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: system work. But you think about it, right, So like

457
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: maybe maybe some senators used to be poor. Maybe I'm

458
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: gonna say a small amount of them used to. So

459
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: how long though has he been been exactly? Exactly? So

460
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: you get to this place and we were talking about

461
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: with like my critique of Tina fe where it's like

462
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: these people only see other rich people and in the

463
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: Beltway is so insular that they only see rich media people. Uh,

464
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: and and that's why they all hang out and party

465
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: with each other because this is all a joke because

466
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: they don't ever see none of their kids are addicted

467
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: to opiates, and they're they're not losing their houses. And

468
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: then if they are there, Pike keeping quiet and getting

469
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: them the best treatment positive exactly because they could afford

470
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: it because of their wonderful health insurance. Yeah, and so

471
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: it's it's this idea of like, we don't have any bearing,

472
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: like like we don't see the outcome of this because

473
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: everything is such a perfectly carefully staged photo up with

474
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Speaker 1: their constituents. Which is what made the healthcare thing so great.

475
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: Is these town halls, Like the first one in my lifetime,

476
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: people showed up and like treated politicians how they're supposed

477
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: to be treated. Fox. Yeah, you're supposed to hate your boss,

478
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: you're supposed to hate your local politicians. You're not supposed

479
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: to love politicians. And like that's been a big problem

480
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: of America. And I think Trump's helping us with that.

481
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 1: That's the one good thing he's done. Right, Yeah, No,

482
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: nobody's going to be like, ah, I love the president,

483
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: but supposed to hate the president. Um, all right, enough

484
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: of the dark stuff. Let's talk about one of the

485
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: most horrifying scenarios face in the world right now, we

486
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about artificial intelligence and this sort of

487
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: looming Stanley Kubrick, what a neck beard, this sort of

488
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: looming uh, possibility that artificial intelligence is going to take

489
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: over jobs. There there are some estimates that's say, seventy

490
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: three million jobs in the United States could be replaced

491
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: by robots and the not too distant future. Jobs that

492
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think could be like accountant and

493
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: like tax prepare and stuff like that, Like stuff that

494
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: I assumed was pretty complicated, they're saying could potentially be

495
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: taken over by artificial intelligence. Um, like tax preparation is

496
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: like I think one of the most vulnerable ones, like

497
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: because we already used turbo tax are already not fucking

498
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: with walking into a H and R block, Like, Hi,

499
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: can you do something with this below? Can you help

500
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,479
Speaker 1: me please? I am done about numbers which you can

501
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: actually even tell because the way they're spending money on

502
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: their advertisements is crazy. Like the celebrities that they have

503
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: in these like tax preparation compersitions, Like what is going on?

504
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: You're like, Oh, they're in their death throws, right, so

505
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: they're doing anything they can R Blockbuster Video dude. Uh.

506
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: And the idea is basically, so you take a company

507
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: that has lots of human capital like H and R Block,

508
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: and you replace it with a company that is just

509
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: a guy that programmed a thing. And so all this

510
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: money that was going to all these tax attorneys and accountants, uh,

511
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: is now going to like to tech trillionaires. Um. So

512
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: one side of the equation is this would be the

513
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: apocalypse and you know, we're not going to have employment

514
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: in the future, and what are we gonna do. Uh,

515
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like an eighties dystopian uh sci fi future.

516
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: But then uh, another side. I read an economist article

517
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: that was like, yeah, but you can actually pull out

518
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: articles from the late nineteenth century and other times throughout

519
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: history where people thought the same thing was going to happen, like, um,

520
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: you know, instead of technology just taking over the world

521
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: and everybody losing their job, what happened was technology took

522
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: over certain jobs, but it created different jobs. So uh,

523
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: some people, like the economists in this article I've recently

524
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: read U argues that that's what will continue to happen.

525
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: We won't have a complete break from history, and I

526
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 1: will just take the jobs that exist now create new

527
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: jobs that we can't possibly conceive of. But there are

528
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: reasons to think that might not be the case this

529
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: time around. Uh, you know, Facebook and Twitter are taking

530
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: you know, news distribution jobs and they're not replacing them.

531
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: You know, they become multi billion dollar companies that you know,

532
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: six shareholders get really rich, and you know that could

533
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: be run by a handful of people. But the difference

534
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: that I see is that the Ludites didn't know shit

535
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: about printing presses. They just came in. They were like

536
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: a sex Yeah. Whereas the people who are saying that

537
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: we need to, you know, start thinking about this possibility

538
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: are the people who know the most. Tell Elon Musk,

539
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberry. It's like the people who are like, oh,

540
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: you guys don't know what we can do, Like this

541
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: is coming um because I'm looking at it and I'm scared, right, Yeah,

542
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: I just made it and I'm fucking really bad. There's

543
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: a great New York article from a couple of months

544
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: ago about how Silicon val millionaires and billionaires have all

545
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: taken to survivalism. They're all like, you know, building these

546
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: island fortresses. Because I think there is a nascent understanding

547
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: that this is coming. They take so many of the

548
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: jobs that there's just an entire hungry under class that

549
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: needs to be fed, and it will look like World

550
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: War Z, except those zombies are fucking hungry, right, just

551
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: coming through your city. Right. So some of the solutions

552
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: to this that have been suggested are nukes, nukes just

553
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: just end it all, or a universal basic income, which

554
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: is that it's something that's been tested out. But Josh,

555
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: as a leftist, as our resident leftist, can you explain

556
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: the idea of you be sure? And granted I'm not

557
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: an expert, but I've read a lot of articles. Um

558
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: that is that makes you an expert on this? Hell? Yeah, dude,

559
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: so you be I it was. It was in a

560
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: series of books by James S. A Quarries the first

561
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: time I saw, um. But the idea that we are

562
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: rich enough to give everybody essentially negative tax. Instead of

563
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: you paying money in taxes, everybody gets like a median

564
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: standard like of living income thirty grand. Let's say let's

565
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: put it at thirty grand. Um. The idea being that, Um,

566
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: the reason why we created these robots is so that

567
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: we as a society could be benefited and wouldn't have

568
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: to toil all day and as society dominated by work

569
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: for work's sake, and that's what you're seeing now in

570
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: La capitalism. Is I mean, I know everybody that's listening

571
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: to this has or currently is doing a job that

572
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: is mostly redundant, where you know, you're just like, I

573
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: don't need to be doing this technically, or I could

574
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: be doing this from home remotely. Uh and and we're

575
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: all just kinda just going through the motions. And so

576
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: the idea would be like, there is enough food for everybody,

577
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: there's enough fucking money for everybody, and U b I

578
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: is um sort of an attack ampt to level the

579
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: playing field to be like, okay, well, uh, if you

580
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: just are an existing person, part of your life liberty

581
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: and pursuit of happiness is a fucking house and heating

582
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: and air conditioning and a fucking food and yeah, just

583
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: enough money for basic survival. So wait, how does the

584
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: math work? Like where does the money come from that

585
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: gets distributed? So first and foremost the pockets of these

586
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: super wealthy um that there would be a progressive tax,

587
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: there would reinstitute things like the fucking estate tax and

588
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: ship that just makes sense. And then there's so much money.

589
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: In our military budget, we spend two times as much

590
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: I believe as China, which is our next U competitor UM.

591
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: And so if we have our security budget UM, we

592
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: would still be spending significantly more than any other country,

593
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: and all of that money could go where it belongs,

594
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: which is into making people's lives better. So between UM

595
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: progressive taxes on the wealthy wealthy wealthiest, closing corporate loopholes

596
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: like the fucking Panama paper shit, UM actually enforcing that stuff,

597
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 1: and then UM like lowering the military budget by like

598
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: even you know, a fraction you can easily gets for

599
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: each American uh, and it works when it happens, you

600
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: know that. You see in in Alaska, for example, everybody

601
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: has a universal basic income because of UM oil money

602
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 1: that comes through there, so that all gets split among everybody.

603
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: And the Alaska is super fucking republican. But you try

604
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: to take that away from them and they'll lose their

605
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: goddamn minds. It's literally the most socialist thing that's ever

606
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: happened in Alaska, and the people of Alaska loving think

607
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: of it like social security but for your life. Wait,

608
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: they get distributions on the oil. Everybody gets a check

609
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: and you see it happen in um like right now,

610
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of UH tech people that are experimenting

611
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: with this because they see the writing on the wall

612
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: that we deserve this, like the fruits of our labor

613
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: have produced this excess time, this surplus of time. So

614
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: what do people do when they have time? And so

615
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: their studies right now in like Norway, UH and Scandinavian

616
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: like more progressive countries where based on what I've read,

617
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: the outcomes of these studies are people are better parents

618
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: and more integrated in their community and start gardening and

619
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: like doing all these things that make their communities better

620
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: when they're not you know, news flash, chained to a

621
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: fucking desk all day. And most people spend their money

622
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: because they hate their jobs so much in just whatever

623
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: ways they can just like offs themselves. Yeah, from like

624
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: the toil as you say exactly, and I think, yeah,

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00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 1: another thing about the U b I is like it's

626
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: too sort of disentangle this connection between work and quality

627
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: of life, because that's what we're all. Whatever your job

628
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: is that's going to determine your quality of life. And

629
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Speaker 1: this is to say, you know, let's set a base

630
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: standard of quality of life and then around that, you know,

631
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: and and here's the thing you you mentioned, like what

632
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: your job is your quality of life, and that presupposes

633
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: all of the privilege inherent and why people get certain jobs,

634
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And the I of like, oh, yeah,

635
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: well I work at a bank, so I have a

636
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: lot of money. Well how did you get to that bank?

637
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: Where were you set up? Where were you given a headstart?

638
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Speaker 1: That gets you And this exactly like you said, levels

639
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: of playing field and makes it so that literally everybody,

640
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: I mean, this attacks poverty at the core and not

641
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: just symptoms of poverty, like something like an earned income

642
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: tax credit would go after That's something that the Democrats

643
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: have means tested to be like, oh, if you're making

644
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: under fifteen thousand dollars, then you get this, but if

645
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: you make over fifteen thousand dollars, you get and and

646
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: and it's all this convoluted you know, Obamacare fucking ship. Um.

647
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: This is just like Social Security and that everybody fucking

648
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: gets it and everybody starts at the same place so

649
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: that you can go be a doctor and cure cancer,

650
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 1: or go right the most beautiful fucking concerto, or raise

651
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: a happy family. You know, not worry about how you're

652
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: going to do that right. And the one thing that

653
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: you never see in these stories is uh, somebody going like, yeah,

654
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: I started heroin nobody just like sit back and just

655
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 1: does nothing. Because it's human beings. We are social creatures

656
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: and we crave you know, cooperation, and so this is

657
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: like a huge blow in the idea of cooperation versus competition.

658
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: And the myth is out there that you know of

659
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: the welfare queen, these people who you know are on

660
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: the doll and just sit back and they become you know,

661
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: drug addicts. And you know that there's a famous story

662
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: where old dirty bastard like as he was like cashing

663
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: his checks for like his you know, number one selling

664
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: album like went and cash his welfare check. And I

665
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: think those stories are famous because like for a reason,

666
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: because powerful people don't want us to think that you know,

667
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: sitting back and you know, having money handed to us

668
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 1: is a valid way for a society to function. But actually,

669
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 1: when you look at how charities work in other countries

670
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: when you just give people money, this is like the

671
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: one thing that charities never do because charities it's more

672
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: fun to be like, oh, I gave this farmer a cow,

673
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: And like, isn't that clever that I was able to

674
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: do that? If you instead give that farmer thirty dollars

675
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: or however much a cow costs, I'm way out of

676
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: the how Africa, But you know that is actually way

677
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: more beneficial to him because he can, you know, he

678
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: knows what he needs, what the job need a fucking cow,

679
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: I need. I need a to dig for water, need

680
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: a cell phone to call. Yeah, right, And so, I

681
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: mean that's just been shown time and again that if

682
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: you give people cash that they know what to do

683
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: with it, and they are rarely going to just sit

684
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: back and you know, be shitty citizens. I'm sure there

685
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: are people who are just there are, but that's not

686
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: the majority or necessarily and of it. And that also

687
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with class, right, that's a that's

688
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: an internal like borderline personality disorder whatever, you know that

689
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: that's there's just as many fucking rich people that would

690
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: just sit around, right. So, yeah, you know, there's this

691
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: idea that maybe we will be existing in a post

692
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: work world fairly soon. Uh should? And I mean we're

693
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: kind of like Facebook is a good example of this

694
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: because you know, it's taken over how we get our

695
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: information completely and you know, there are very few people

696
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: getting rich off of that um And also you're you're

697
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: talking about like where you get your head start. Uh,

698
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: all of these internet you know monopolies were built on

699
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: the back of tax funded you know, government. The government

700
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 1: created the Internet and laid the foundation for the Internet.

701
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: So like this is all stuff that you know, the

702
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: public invested in and then a handful of people are

703
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: becoming billionaires off of it. So, uh, you know, the

704
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: idea that the public should get money back is not

705
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: insane or because we foot the bill for the bailouts,

706
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: we foot the bill for you know, like you said,

707
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: starting the fucking Internet, that all came from our tax

708
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: dollars and then we don't reap any of the benefits.

709
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: And another interesting point that you made was the idea

710
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: that like, you know, this post work world, like I

711
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, and really it's only been a

712
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: couple of lifetimes that capitalism as we know it, where

713
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: like your job is tied to your standard of living,

714
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: like is the case, Like you know, you you only

715
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: have to go back a couple of generations to the

716
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: idea of feudalism of you know, like like, can you

717
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: imagine a feudalist like looking at like the liberalism that

718
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: swept Napoleonic Europe and and just being like, I don't know,

719
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: if we give these reforms to the people, there's gonna

720
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: be some fucking crazy ship that happens. And and it's

721
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: just you're in the way of progress, like like and

722
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: and now that we have more information and more power

723
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: and more resources than ever before, these switches are gonna

724
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: happen faster, and these things are going to evolve faster,

725
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: and we need to let them evolve. The thing that

726
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: scares me though, and and this is not to be

727
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: negative about U b I necessarily because it's so much

728
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: better than anything else we have on the table right now. Um,

729
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: the thing that scares me is a Huey Long situation.

730
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: Do you know Huey Long, the Kingfish. So the idea

731
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: that for those of you who don't know, basically, here

732
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: was this guy who is the governor of Louisiana who

733
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: saw that um, rural white folks in Louisiana weren't learning

734
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: how to read because um the school's charged for books.

735
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: So he nationalized basically whatever he put the bell for

736
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: all the books taught an entire generation of people how

737
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: to read uh, and then like put in electricity in

738
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: the rural areas, and everybody fucking loved him because here's

739
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: this guy and you look at the same thing with

740
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: like FDR and Social Security, And what happens then is

741
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: that the people vote for you for fucking ever because

742
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: you gave them the stuff. And so when you gave

743
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: Hughie Long a fucking blank check of voting, he went

744
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: nuts and became the governor and the Senator at the

745
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: same time and just like went on this crazy power

746
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: trip that ultimately ended in him getting assassinated. FDR obviously

747
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 1: was a better president, but the Democrats were in power

748
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: in Congress because of Social Security for thirty years. So

749
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: the thing that scares me is who's going to implement

750
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: U b I because that person will be worshiped and

751
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: and and And that's why I was so afraid of

752
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: fucking Steve Bannon, because he seemed like the only dude

753
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: creative enough to realize that you get the jump on

754
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: then right, there is a way to run this whole thing. Right,

755
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: if you have a right leaning autocrat with like fascist

756
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: tendencies and you give them something like this, then we

757
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: could be in a situation like Saudi Arabia, where you know,

758
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: you have this kingdom that rules with an iron fist

759
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: on everything, but people generally don't do too much revolting

760
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: because they're on the doll because they would not have

761
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: money otherwise, because there is like a weird you know,

762
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: sort of like um petro state U b I that

763
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: goes on inside Arabia. So like you b I in

764
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: general in a vacuum is a great idea. We just

765
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: need to make sure that it's being implemented for the

766
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: right reasons by the right people, and and and making

767
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: it so that it's still not impossible to jump into power,

768
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, because this could be seen as a way

769
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: to allow your Peter Teals, your Elon Musks and and

770
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: and you know, young zucks to fucking still maintain power

771
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: by pacifying all of us. All Right, we gotta take

772
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back.

773
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: Uh so we're running low on time, but we just

774
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 1: wanted to go through a couple of sports stories. Uh. Sports.

775
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: It's kind of how both of us spend our weekends,

776
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: is we tend to watch a lot of sports and

777
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: then talk about and then we don't talk about it,

778
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: so might as well. I'm not a huge college football guy.

779
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm more NFL fans. At least they're getting paid to

780
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: destroy their brains exactly. And uh, you know, I just

781
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: really respect the politics of the ownership. Jerry Jones, yeah,

782
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: big and big Jerry Jones, big Goodell. I like both

783
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: sides in that fight, but I wish they just hug. Yeah.

784
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: I'm actually I've been kneeling this whole time and Jack

785
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: hasn't said anything. So uh, they announced the college football

786
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: Final four. It's going to be the three teams everybody

787
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: thought it would be, uh, Clemson, Georgia and Oklahoma. And

788
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: then the fourth was up for grabs and they went

789
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 1: with Alabama, which is like going with I don't know,

790
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: I don't even know a fucking metaphor, but um, there's

791
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: a I don't even know what metaphors are, man, Uh,

792
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: this is a sports section. Uh. But so they make

793
00:44:55,640 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: more money than any program in the country, and they Alabama. Yeah,

794
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: and then they spend more money than any program in

795
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: the country by like two x. Oklahoma spending works because

796
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: I don't care about college but I don't really care

797
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: about football. They have thirty eight assistant coaches. They it's

798
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: but they don't pay the kids. I don't pay the kids,

799
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: but they have thirty eight assistant The head coach, who is,

800
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, a psychopath, but like the right kind of

801
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: psychopath to win football games, is the highest page person

802
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: in the state of Alabama. Uh. And so they're making

803
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: all this money, spending all this money, and people really

804
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: give a shit about the top four teams. They love

805
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: this playoff where you get to see the top four

806
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: teams in college football play against each other, but all

807
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: the other teams are also having to try and keep

808
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: up with Alabama and Ohio State, who spends half as

809
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: much as Alabama but as the second most um. And

810
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: it's like driving these schools to like spend money on

811
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: fucking college football stuff that they're not going to make back.

812
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: So they're like taking money from elsewhere in their collegiate

813
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: budget and you know, spending it on college football. Uh.

814
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: And that nobody's gonna watch or care about. And like

815
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: when they're outspending, you're saying that put you in advantages

816
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: because of like the like resources you can put into

817
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: your team coaching and that and that's what inherently just

818
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: and also just like scouting trips and like you know, um,

819
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: all the money that they do illegally give the players

820
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: whenever they do. You know, they have like the you

821
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: know how they're those Olympic training facilities in the mountains

822
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: where athletes like trained together and it's like the peak

823
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: of scientific sports medicine. That's what Alabama's facilities look like.

824
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,720
Speaker 1: You go there and then you go to some school

825
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: that spends you know, a quarter of that that is

826
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: still like one of the biggest programs in the country.

827
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: And it's no it's no question where you get. So

828
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: Alabama maintains its huge advantage with the white people. Mad

829
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: do they feel like Ohio State objectively should have had

830
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: that fourth spot? Uh? You know five thirty eight had

831
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: Ohio State as the favorite and Alabama would have was

832
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: second in line. So that's been a great year things, right,

833
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: the fucking nailing it. But they were off only by one,

834
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: Like they had Hillary winning, but Trump was coming in second,

835
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: and so they only had off by one. Gary Johnson

836
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: was number one, And well, it's funny that you mentioned

837
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: the Olympics, right, um, And I've just been you know,

838
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: going through a lot of stuff like the d S

839
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 1: A l A has a great like no Olympics group. Um.

840
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: And and it's to explain what d s A. Sure,

841
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: it's the Democratic Socialists of America. Essentially, we want you

842
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: to have what you deserve. Uh, and we work locally.

843
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: We're we're a big fan of grassroots, ground up. The

844
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: basic idea is stop paying attention to national politics. At

845
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: least for me. This I'm not talking about behalf of

846
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: the d s A. I'm talking about why I'm in it. Um,

847
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: stop paying attention to national politics. You can't affect everything.

848
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: You can't affect anything. But if you uh work to

849
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: make your community better, and then you teach other people

850
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: in other communities how to make their community better, and

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Speaker 1: then you learn from other communities how to make your

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Speaker 1: community better, then everybody gets rid of the little Trump's

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00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: at the local level. Um, and then that creates the

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Speaker 1: ground swell. It's kind of the opposite of like the

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Speaker 1: top down like Green Party. Let's trot out Jill Stein

856
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Speaker 1: and be like, hey, we're here. Um, it's got back

857
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Speaker 1: from my party with putin right. We just we want

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Speaker 1: um you know, school board and uh, city council and

859
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Speaker 1: ship like that. And that's we believe real change starts

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Speaker 1: from that. But the reason I brought them up is

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Speaker 1: because inherently the d s A, especially l A, is

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Speaker 1: against the Olympics um and and it's like this, it

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Speaker 1: seems like Alabama is doing a mini Olympics every fucking

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Speaker 1: year where they're just building the weird things with public

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Speaker 1: money at great cost to like, because it's not just

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Speaker 1: that they're building the ship with public money, right, it's

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Speaker 1: that this ship is going to be useless and the

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Speaker 1: opfter the Olympics. And when you talk about like the

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Speaker 1: sports medicine stuff, like that's not going to fix cancer,

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Speaker 1: that's not going to fix you know, like actual fucking

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Speaker 1: problems that people have that just increases someone's forty time,

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Speaker 1: right exact. Yeah, And so you know, it's it is

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Speaker 1: pretty funny when you look at like how shitty the

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Speaker 1: Olympics is, UH, at the io C as a group

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Speaker 1: of just unelected completely like you can't hold them accountable,

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Speaker 1: rich people, and then you look at the people selecting

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Speaker 1: who's in the college football playoff, it's the same sort

878
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: of just like party boy rich guys who you know,

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Speaker 1: party with Dominique Strauss Khan and are like guilty of

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Speaker 1: multiple assaults like you just know anybody that's a college

881
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: football booster is guilty of a multiple assaults. Um. All right,

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00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: now for a one last story that we can't turn

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00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: into how fucked we all are. But as a society,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Miles, this one's yours. Oh my god.

885
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Speaker 1: So look, I'm a fan of Japanese baseball players, fan

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Speaker 1: a little baseball, uh, you know, and specifically this player,

887
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Speaker 1: Shohio Tani, who is playing in Japan, is going to

888
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Speaker 1: come to the major leagues, and he is a fucking freak.

889
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: This dude can throw in insane fastball. He can crush

890
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Speaker 1: the ship out of the ball when he's that bad.

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00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,720
Speaker 1: He's like looking like a real true two way player,

892
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Speaker 1: which is like hasn't happened since Babe Ruth, Like, and

893
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: this guy, it's crazy, Like he's the truth. We'll see.

894
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Speaker 1: So the reason I wanted to talk about this today

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Speaker 1: is because the like, over the weekend, all third MLB teams, Uh,

896
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Speaker 1: they prepared presentations, you know, to try and get him,

897
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Speaker 1: be like, hey baby, why don't you sign for us?

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Speaker 1: But he quickly whittled it down to seven teams. It's

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Speaker 1: the Angels, the Dodgers, the Cubs, the Giants, the Mariners,

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Speaker 1: the Padres, and the Rangers. Now some people say he

901
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Speaker 1: maybe he wants to a l maybe he wants because

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Speaker 1: of the d H. Maybe he wants the National League

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Speaker 1: so he can play in the outfield or whatever. But

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Speaker 1: it looks like at the very least, there seems to

905
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Speaker 1: be a little bit of a west coast by California.

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Speaker 1: But because yeah, I think a he really wants to

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00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: be able to fly to Japan and that's an easier

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Speaker 1: flight when you're leaving from the West coast and it

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Speaker 1: is from the East coast. And also, like the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: I think you should come to the Dodgers. We've got

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Speaker 1: some Japanese players. Baby, to fit right in. We take

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Speaker 1: care of you in l A. We love the Japanese pitchers.

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Speaker 1: The day normal shout out to you. It's I just

914
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Speaker 1: want to bring this up because we're getting closer and

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Speaker 1: this guy is gonna be a very exciting player in baseball,

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Speaker 1: and like for the first time, I'm very excited about

917
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: you know, even more than obviously when the Dodger in

918
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 1: the world's here is very excited. But like to know

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Speaker 1: that there's a Japanese player who is like a freak.

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00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: But again, we don't know how it will be in

921
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,439
Speaker 1: the MLB, but he shows great potential. Great things could

922
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Speaker 1: be happening. Uh, and guys, just keep your eyes on this.

923
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Speaker 1: Can I read a quote from an interview with him,

924
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: but my friends sent me it's so funny. Um so Uh.

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Speaker 1: MLB dot com asks what cities are you curious about

926
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Speaker 1: and would like to see? And Otani goes the Rocky

927
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: Balboa statue. I want a picture of that. And MLB

928
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: dot com goes, Philadelphia has a baseball team, you know,

929
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: and he responds, no, I just want to visit. Fuck

930
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Speaker 1: you Phillies. That's for the Matt Stairs game. Are you?

931
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Speaker 1: Are you from Philly? No? From l A and the Phillies. Uh.

932
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Speaker 1: The one playoff win I ever saw the Dodgers do

933
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: was in the NLCS, in the one game that they

934
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Speaker 1: fucking beat the Phillies in that year that like Ryan

935
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Speaker 1: Howard and his huge roid's head just beat the ship

936
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Speaker 1: out of the Dodgers. I think it's those subway sandwiches

937
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: that got him so big. Yeah, right, right, that's that's

938
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Speaker 1: what he'll say. That's what yeahver are allegedly allegedly everything. Alright, guys,

939
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Speaker 1: we're gonna end it there. Uh Josh, this was so

940
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: much fun. Thank you for having me. This is great.

941
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Speaker 1: Thanks for doing it. Where can people find you on

942
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: on the internet? Um, you can check out my podcast

943
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Speaker 1: Left Coast at Left Coast Pod UM and we do.

944
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Speaker 1: It's myself and Sara June, who also was a guest.

945
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Speaker 1: A lot of people love that episode. She's great and

946
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Speaker 1: the two of us are newly radicalized comedians and we

947
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Speaker 1: have on people that are way smarter than us to

948
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Speaker 1: tell us about, you know, specific parts of leftism. UM.

949
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: I think the episode that's going to be coming out

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Speaker 1: soon we have um a history of the Doomed Electric

951
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Speaker 1: Car in Los Angeles as told by James Adomian um

952
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: or we do a multi hour deep dive on Saudi

953
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: Arabia with Felix Piederman from Chapo Tapouts. That's going to

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Speaker 1: be coming very soon. To check us out Left Coast

955
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Speaker 1: Pod on Twitter. LA used to have the largest public

956
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Speaker 1: yep rail system in the country, and I think in

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Speaker 1: the world it was. It was up there in the

958
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: world and and they just tore it all up because

959
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: the corporations, the Goodyear tires of the world came through them.

960
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: We're like, no, it would actually make us more money

961
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: if you didn't have that, And so they bought it.

962
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Speaker 1: They and this is a little teas of what you'll hurt.

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Speaker 1: They came together to create a corporation good Year and

964
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Speaker 1: like like other UM like automotive and and companies, UM

965
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: came together bought the light rail and then dug up

966
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Speaker 1: the tracks and just remove not only dismantled the trains,

967
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: but removed the tracks so no trains would go there

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Speaker 1: ever again. Miles, where can people find you? You can

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00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of You

970
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You

971
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: can find us at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We

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00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: have a fifth book fan page that is but Daily Zeitgeist,

973
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Speaker 1: and we are on Twitter at just daily Zo at

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Speaker 1: daily Zakis and you can go to Daily Zeitgeist dot

975
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Speaker 1: com where we post our articles and our footnote where

976
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Speaker 1: you can find all the sources to all the stuff

977
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Speaker 1: we're talking about today. We weren't just making all that up. Unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for today. We will be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Thanks for listening.