Speaker 1: Here you go pretty too one perfect perfect?
Speaker 2: What's that shirt you got?
Speaker 1: Was that Michael?
Speaker 3: Yeah it's Michael, Yeah, Walker, I don't know which Michael.
Speaker 2: That's bad doesn't cover the bad? Hell yeah that was
Speaker 2: my peak Michael Jackson and also my kids peak Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I have the three. So if you were ever
Speaker 3: to come to my office and you all are welcome.
Speaker 3: Actually I only let people in my house that actually
Speaker 3: like and so I like you all.
Speaker 2: You have you ever had a guest on the show
Speaker 2: that you they got to the door and you were.
Speaker 3: Like, m m m no. But there are guests that
Speaker 3: I've gotten off with and I've been like, they'll never
Speaker 3: be on my show again.
Speaker 2: No, thank you.
Speaker 3: But I have a wall and it's one. One side's
Speaker 3: Beyonce and the other side is Michael and I have
Speaker 3: the bad, have the Thriller album, and then have the
Speaker 3: Dangerous album. I think those are the three best albums
Speaker 3: that Mike ever did.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I feel like Dangerous was very overlooked in
Speaker 3: my opinion.
Speaker 2: I felt like, first CD.
Speaker 1: Nine year old, that's almost leave me alone.
Speaker 2: On it, right, don't just leave me alone?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well that was not bad, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But leave me alone dangerous? Is it no?
Speaker 3: Dangerous? It's not bad?
Speaker 2: Leave me alone? Oh oh my god, it's bad. It
Speaker 2: was like the last single off it was.
Speaker 1: It's like a Mandela effect crazy. The visuals of it
Speaker 1: feel like dangerous.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, the visuals in the video. I remember
Speaker 2: the video was like roller coaster, roller.
Speaker 1: Coaster, like through his own face because the Dangerous cover
Speaker 1: was like sort of theme parky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what sucked me up.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's the dangerous one.
Speaker 2: Doude, you remember, remember the time and.
Speaker 1: On that on the floor Michael really what about?
Speaker 2: What about?
Speaker 1: That's my favorite Michael Jackson line that Yeah fu jam too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not too much for me too, jam Yeah. A
Speaker 2: lot of people think that that's gonna you're gonna be
Speaker 2: imposing on me. It's actually not too much.
Speaker 1: Actually not so hard for me.
Speaker 2: To not so hard for me too, jam.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in good company because.
Speaker 2: Does Michael Jackson have a lyrics book that I could purchase?
Speaker 2: Has anybody ever like dug in and been like show
Speaker 2: means and Simon, Yeah, indeed know what he was predicting,
Speaker 2: like that would be cool to just go deep on
Speaker 2: his like utterances and be like this actually was predicted,
Speaker 2: like go Nostradamus on it.
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson predicted.
Speaker 2: To say Mama Sama Matusa actually was predicting global warming,
Speaker 2: global warming. In any ways, you're.
Speaker 4: A vegetable, imagine I always say, I was just gonna say,
Speaker 4: and they hate you.
Speaker 5: When they hate you, you're a vegetable. Oh man, I
Speaker 5: hate you so fucking mud.
Speaker 1: And Michael Jackson's lyrics you're.
Speaker 3: A vegetival.
Speaker 4: Hate you.
Speaker 3: Imagine someone running up to you would just be like
Speaker 3: your vegetable.
Speaker 2: Like coming in writing those lyrics and being like yeah,
Speaker 2: actually yeah, actually rules this timeline maybe the best song.
Speaker 2: I think Pitchfork rank that the best song of that decade,
Speaker 2: and I am hard pressed to disagree. That song fucking rips.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're imageable.
Speaker 2: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three ninety five,
Speaker 2: Episode four of Ally I Guess that's right. It's a podcast.
Speaker 2: It's a production of iHeart Radio. It's a podcast where
Speaker 2: we take a deep dive into American share consciousness. And
Speaker 2: it is Thursday July third. Interesting fact, it is Thursday
Speaker 2: July third, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Debatable, debatable, anything's up for debate nowadays.
Speaker 2: Actually, I believe that.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's actually May sixty seven.
Speaker 2: H you ask me.
Speaker 1: It's also national if you got a math.
Speaker 2: Right on that. If it is actually the sixties, like
Speaker 2: if May kept going it was, that would be fucking incredible.
Speaker 1: I just do that up there. But it might be
Speaker 1: it's a national Hey, everything's up for debate, even numbers,
Speaker 1: National fried clam Day, National Chocolate Way for Day, National
Speaker 1: eat your Beans Day, and eat beans, compliment your mirror Day.
Speaker 2: Who's the person who like got a picture, got a
Speaker 2: picture taken. She's like best forty second birthday ever. It
Speaker 2: was one of the like maga ghouls and it was
Speaker 2: she's like my husband took me to barbecue and she
Speaker 2: just had this massive like bowl of beans and someone
Speaker 2: was like that's a lot of beans, ye bitch, or
Speaker 2: like something really rude, and then people have been photoshopping her.
Speaker 2: She was the one who like tried to make a
Speaker 2: thing by uh saying like with trans bathroom, Nancy Mace, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Nancy Mace, I think that did one. Nancy Mays beans,
Speaker 2: check it out, Nancy Mace beans, Nancy Mace beans.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Someways, but that's a lot of beans, you
Speaker 1: nasty ass bitch.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is a lot of beans, but I
Speaker 2: can't not.
Speaker 1: That much hold on as someone who if you if
Speaker 1: you get like.
Speaker 2: A barbecue trade, yeah, like my barbecue. That's why that's
Speaker 2: why I didn't bring it up on the show. That's
Speaker 2: why I didn't do a whole story about it on
Speaker 2: the show, is because in the end, I like beans.
Speaker 2: And this is actually a look.
Speaker 1: I'm not defending Nancy Mace. I'm just I'm defending the lago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a normal size amount.
Speaker 2: And look I'm find a new angle that's a normal
Speaker 2: sized that.
Speaker 1: Is a normal Look at that. You got the nice
Speaker 1: paper tray, paper line tray, you got the pickles and
Speaker 1: the ribs, and it's okay hotling, Okay, Yeah, anyway, I'm.
Speaker 2: Hungry Penny who July third, twenty twenty five, maybe sixty seventh,
Speaker 2: who cares? This is the day before for the July
Speaker 2: And my name is Jack O'Brien aka Princess Thyana aka
Speaker 2: Lady Thigh aka uh Dirty than aka hey John k Ached,
Speaker 2: big old Thimer Schmidt. That one courtesy of Locaroni on
Speaker 2: the discord. Reference back to my big old thighs. And
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be joined. As always, buy my co
Speaker 2: host mister Miles Rest.
Speaker 1: Miles Gray a chicken tiaka masal roll okay, house on
Speaker 1: salad with that one. As we were coming up with
Speaker 1: the most violent Americanized versions of Indian food with Paganalen,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: What's in it?
Speaker 1: Just cream of mushroom soup and some turmeric.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I thought chicken quesadilla, because this is
Speaker 2: how we made it in my household. It was a
Speaker 2: series and it's very good, I will say, but it's
Speaker 2: a like six layers of flower tortillas with cream of
Speaker 2: chicken soup and cheese like shredded cheese sprinkled in between,
Speaker 2: and it is actually really good. But it is not
Speaker 2: what I think are traditionally. It is definitely the Midwestern
Speaker 2: ass version of.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like that shout out to the
Speaker 1: Midwest for like, I get that usually the diasporas of
Speaker 1: like people don't quite get to the Midwest as quickly
Speaker 1: as it does to the coasts. But then it's like
Speaker 1: they heard tell of a thing from the city and
Speaker 1: oh yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: It's likely it's like post a fugalyptic cooking like post
Speaker 2: like it all you have is canned goods ship like anyways,
Speaker 2: shit hits Anyways. Miles were thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 2: our third seat by a brilliant writer, speaker, and social
Speaker 2: justice educator who's written for Ebony Complex, Out the Route
Speaker 2: and appeared on NBC News, BuzzFeed, or Box, among many others.
Speaker 2: They're also the host of the amazing podcast BFF Black
Speaker 2: Fat Fem. It's doctor John Paul.
Speaker 3: She is black, she is back. It is exciting to
Speaker 3: be here.
Speaker 1: It's been too long.
Speaker 2: Joined us is the building.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, more of a doctor than doctor Phil.
Speaker 3: I was tb you know what tv H You are
Speaker 3: so so correct to be quite honest. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: I'm welcome.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: So it was I was sitting here, you know, as
Speaker 3: you were talking about beans, and I don't know, I
Speaker 3: may have to get this bleeped, but it reminds me
Speaker 3: of that me when someone's like this.
Speaker 1: No, I think it was a twist you're talking about. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: somebody was.
Speaker 3: Like to a movie theater and dropped them and somebody screamed.
Speaker 3: They said, the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to
Speaker 3: them was they snug beans into a movie theater was
Speaker 3: eating them and the beans fell and somebody screamed, this nigga.
Speaker 2: Eat be exactly.
Speaker 1: It's famous. That one is probably one of the most
Speaker 1: famous bean based While watching cars too, Yes, picture came through.
Speaker 2: Max will make you drop your beans.
Speaker 1: It was said, I spilled baked beans all over myself
Speaker 1: watching cars to in theaters and a black teenager shouted.
Speaker 2: Bean and everyone laughed. Who was it?
Speaker 1: Just someone named at Maxi Domius Maxi Domius. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: now I'm like, tickles me, yeah, tickles me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that became canonical. That was always something they'd
Speaker 1: say on Bodego boys. I remember that was just like
Speaker 1: one of the favorite refrains that you would hear Jesus
Speaker 1: say all the time. Yeah yeah beans. I mean, come
Speaker 1: on now, as someone who loves eating beans, that's just
Speaker 1: you don't want to bring a spoon.
Speaker 2: Don't eat beans. The more you eat, the more you
Speaker 2: enjoy cars too. Yeah, as the old saying, yes, all right, well,
Speaker 2: doctor John Paul, we are going to get to know
Speaker 2: you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're
Speaker 2: going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 2: talking about. They had a ribbon cutting at America's first
Speaker 2: or eleventh or seventeenth concentration camp, but first in modern times,
Speaker 2: this concentration camp on American soil, I should specify sucks
Speaker 2: that we have to specify that. So we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about that, because there's just a lot of very surreal,
Speaker 2: weird shit happening down there. On the other hand, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, we got them, Chuck Schumer got their ass
Speaker 2: by changing the name of the Big Beautiful Bill at
Speaker 2: the last second. So we just want to, you know,
Speaker 2: talk about that.
Speaker 1: And so by changing it, it's now nullified.
Speaker 2: It can no no changing the name, Miles changing the
Speaker 2: name to it's no longer called Big Beautiful Bill at all.
Speaker 2: And now it's called just called like the Act or
Speaker 2: like some shit. So like the thing that everybody was.
Speaker 2: I think he thought we were all taking it at
Speaker 2: face value, and like that history would take it at
Speaker 2: face value, that it was a big beautiful But he
Speaker 2: changed his name. And thus sometimes I just wonder, did
Speaker 2: this man travel back in time from the future to
Speaker 2: save us from our fate, you know, because he just
Speaker 2: makes these should moves that all through the course of
Speaker 2: history clearly sees the main stream anyways, will make fun
Speaker 2: of him. Jurassic Park slash World is coming out this weekend,
Speaker 2: expected to make two hundred and sixty million dollars globally.
Speaker 2: The reviews are not great. I'm just wondering. I had hoped.
Speaker 2: I had some hopes for this way because there was
Speaker 2: like a real meme.
Speaker 1: We were rooting for you, we were all rooting for you.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Some of the reviews are very mean. I'm just wondering, like,
Speaker 2: is this have we just been giving the Jurassic Park
Speaker 2: franchise too much credit? And it really was alls all along,
Speaker 2: it was just like yet one good movie, and then
Speaker 2: all the sequels were just like, yeah, it's not as
Speaker 2: good as the first one that was directed by Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 1: Exactly. I'll give the second one some credit because my homegrow.
Speaker 1: Vanessa's in that one, so I don't want to I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk shit on that one.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been diminishing doctor Ian Malcolm's daughter.
Speaker 1: Yes, Vanessa Chester, are you serious?
Speaker 2: That's my girl? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You don't remember when she was in the studio, uh
Speaker 1: on the one time.
Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, yeah, I did lose consciousness
Speaker 2: and that's why I don't remember.
Speaker 1: She was like she was in a Little Princess.
Speaker 2: We'll check back in with little Boo Boo dolls because
Speaker 2: the zeitgeist is catching up. I talked to him a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago about how I thought that this was
Speaker 2: all about like creepy, like ara obsession with creepy dolls,
Speaker 2: and that this was going to be a big, a
Speaker 2: big deal because Americans are actually secretly obsessed with creepy dolls.
Speaker 2: And now there's like a full on satanic panic happening.
Speaker 2: Goo dolls good, So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: Wants to be saved. Don't don't player, don't mess those
Speaker 1: Satan's play things.
Speaker 2: Please, our Christian listeners better not be buying those, and
Speaker 2: we'll explain why at eleven. But first, doctor John Paul Higgins,
Speaker 2: we do like to ask our guest, what is something
Speaker 2: from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 3: Funny enough, the Boo boo all of my search history
Speaker 3: for the last maybe two days. I am looking, well,
Speaker 3: I got it. I there was a specific laboo woo,
Speaker 3: I want it. There is a purple one with wings,
Speaker 3: it has it's a it's a little it's giving prince.
Speaker 1: What's the name Is there a name? Do they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just has there's a name for it. I
Speaker 3: don't know the name of it, but it's a purple
Speaker 3: one with wings and it gives me Prince vibes. And
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I want it, and I found it,
Speaker 3: so I'm going to pick it up tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So this you're not in the blind box.
Speaker 3: I have something so if you you know, for for listeners,
Speaker 3: you can't see it. But for those of you who
Speaker 3: can see me.
Speaker 2: Behind me, Okay, yeah, what is that? You were a
Speaker 2: blind box? But if but you will also go.
Speaker 3: Oh, well they're not I already opened them. Oh oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but they were blind boxes.
Speaker 1: Oh got you the Okay. I thought we could do
Speaker 1: something special on the show for our listeners and do.
Speaker 3: Some very visual like and I would yeah, I would
Speaker 3: do that for you.
Speaker 2: Well you know what show this nobody's going to waste
Speaker 2: of fucking the boo boo unboxing on this show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That it is too hype. Wait, so
Speaker 1: the way you talked about it, JP, it sounded like
Speaker 1: you're adopting a pet. You're like, I gotta go pick
Speaker 1: it up tomorrow. I think I'm go to get gained
Speaker 1: custody tomorrow. Is it, because this is a like a
Speaker 1: third party off market deal.
Speaker 3: It's pop Mark. It's pop Mark. I don't know pop
Speaker 3: Mark because of so there's this So there's this thing
Speaker 3: in this world that we also need to be we
Speaker 3: need to talk a lot about. There's La Boo Boo
Speaker 3: and then there's lafu Fou. You have to be cautious
Speaker 3: of the lafu foos because of the fu foos will
Speaker 3: get you caught up in the sense that many of
Speaker 3: them will will They'll charge you the fifty sixty seventy
Speaker 3: dollars for one find out it's not real. And so
Speaker 3: I only these days, I only buy mine from PopMart
Speaker 3: because I've had one or two lafufus come through as
Speaker 3: I tried to purchase.
Speaker 2: And they're deadly, can be deadly choking hazards. Which diamonds, Yeah,
Speaker 2: those demon ones. Yeah, we'll get we'll get to that
Speaker 2: also could be made of lead, we don't know. Yeah, So,
Speaker 2: but I'm I'm just doing the job of La Boo Boo.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've heard that those ones are bad
Speaker 2: luck and they'll get you killed.
Speaker 1: By the real thing. Yeah, sounds like sounds like a
Speaker 1: diamond industry was the Diamonds came out, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you want those. I mean they're cheaper and stuff.
Speaker 2: But you know, turn your ears green?
Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, what is uh?
Speaker 2: What's something you think is underrated? Something that's underrated?
Speaker 3: My book? So I had a book, yeah, March hell,
Speaker 3: the Black Fat Femme Book if you if you just
Speaker 3: search it, it's you know, it's right behind me. But ultimately, yes,
Speaker 3: Black Fat fem Revealing the Power of Queer Voices in
Speaker 3: Media and How to Love Yourself came out in March
Speaker 3: of twenty It was March twenty fifth, And I say
Speaker 3: it's underrated because yes, it has sold, but it needs
Speaker 3: to sell more. If you want to go over to Amazon,
Speaker 3: you want to go over to Barnes and Noble. I
Speaker 3: know that I probably should be waiting to do this
Speaker 3: at the end, but I'm going to do it upfront.
Speaker 2: My book need We Need To? And New York Times
Speaker 2: best selling author in the intro that's what I got.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: So tell everybody and your more from a local bookstore.
Speaker 3: You know to that too, Please get that, especially a
Speaker 3: black or queer one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you got it. Octavia's Books Octavius bookshelf.
Speaker 3: Octavia's Bookstore is a great place to go and also
Speaker 3: a reparations club in LA I've worked with them in
Speaker 3: the past.
Speaker 1: I mean in talking because I know you are speaker
Speaker 1: on things like inclusivity and things like that. How looking
Speaker 1: at the corporate retreat and diversity, especially this past Pride month,
Speaker 1: how do you see that? As somebody who's seen the
Speaker 1: undulations of that over the many, many years, you know.
Speaker 2: What a lot of it is.
Speaker 3: You know, So this is the thing, and I've said this,
Speaker 3: and I will continue to keep saying this. You know,
Speaker 3: doing the right thing is expensive, and I think a
Speaker 3: lot of the bottom lines for a lot of these
Speaker 3: companies have been I want to continue to keep doing
Speaker 3: terrible things because I don't. I can keep doing what
Speaker 3: I'm doing the way that I'm doing. It's been easy
Speaker 3: for folks to roll back on it because now they
Speaker 3: don't have to give it their attention, they don't have
Speaker 3: to put money towards it, they don't have to bring
Speaker 3: people like me, and they don't have to watch what
Speaker 3: they're saying. And so I think a lot of it
Speaker 3: has a lot to do with this idea of folks
Speaker 3: never really wanted to do it in the first place,
Speaker 3: a lot of it was performative, and now we're just
Speaker 3: really truly seeing folks true colors, like especially like Target.
Speaker 3: Target is a great example of seeing a company, you know.
Speaker 3: And again, I don't know if we're supposed to be
Speaker 3: saying that on the air, but I will say, you know,
Speaker 3: this is, you know, watching a lot of these companies
Speaker 3: move and operate the way they've been operating is definitely
Speaker 3: reminding me, as someone who's doing this work, of like,
Speaker 3: you've never been interested in doing the right thing in
Speaker 3: the first place. And that's what capitalism is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: idea of you know, folks getting over on a specific
Speaker 3: marginalized group and.
Speaker 2: So and then being able to just be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but we've got we have an obligation to our shareholders,
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah. I was just reading an article about
Speaker 2: private equity and that came up again that they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, so we want to keep doing what's
Speaker 2: right for the teachers funds that are invested in our
Speaker 2: private equity companies, what about them? And it's just yeah,
Speaker 2: that argument that well, you have you your only obligation
Speaker 2: is to make more money for your shareholders, and that's
Speaker 2: fucking bullshit. That's a cop out. When you like go
Speaker 2: back to the original theorists on like free market capitalism,
Speaker 2: even they were like, well, except for like you know,
Speaker 2: schools and hospitals and uh, you know, things that require
Speaker 2: that like need to be there so that people aren't
Speaker 2: fucking victimized and the world doesn't turn into post apocalyptic landscape.
Speaker 2: And that stuff just got quick, just snipped out, edited out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, And so that's where we're at. I think
Speaker 3: we're at a place right now where we're you know,
Speaker 3: and we've always known this, I think, especially if you're
Speaker 3: black or brown, you know, or queer or any type
Speaker 3: of marginalized individual, and you've always kind of known that
Speaker 3: there's been no corporate interest in folks being on your
Speaker 3: side or helping you. I've even said, like I saw
Speaker 3: a video the other day where someone stopped a target
Speaker 3: worker and was like, how much do you get paid
Speaker 3: to work here? And she was like seventeen twenty five
Speaker 3: and they were like how much money do you make
Speaker 3: a day? And she was like one hundred dollars And
Speaker 3: I'm thinking to myself, like that's insane, Like the fact
Speaker 3: that there's somebody who's living on one hundred dollars a
Speaker 3: day and there's people at the top that have no
Speaker 3: interest in making that person's life better in any capacity.
Speaker 3: It just it blows my mind. But I still if
Speaker 3: that's to say, that's literally where we're at, and I
Speaker 3: just I'm happy folks are starting to wake up to it.
Speaker 3: I'm seeing people both online and off wake up to
Speaker 3: this idea that there's no interest in them making your
Speaker 3: life better.
Speaker 1: No, there's no interest in the humanity of that's the
Speaker 1: word brain.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's no interest in your humanity. And I'm
Speaker 3: happy that I'm seeing so many people wake up to that.
Speaker 2: So I think if it was equal, if they could
Speaker 2: just be like, we'll make just as much money, they
Speaker 2: might they might be interested in do it doing the thing.
Speaker 2: But the thing ultimately, when we're like, how do you
Speaker 2: sleep at night, they're like, very well, as long as
Speaker 2: I'm making money, as long as you know, like that,
Speaker 2: as long as I'm making shrewd decisions that like are
Speaker 2: going to ensure that I have money for you know,
Speaker 2: that I continue to be wealthy and having an advantageous
Speaker 2: position in the civilization. But it's uh, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: I think when it comes to whether whether you're going
Speaker 2: to do the right thing or make money. They need
Speaker 2: so little of a push to be like, yeah, fuck that,
Speaker 2: fuck everybody, we're going line go up right. Okay, we're
Speaker 2: going line go up right. All right, Well, everybody go
Speaker 2: go get the book. What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Overrated? So I had to self fund and push my
Speaker 3: book tour. And one of the things about doing the
Speaker 3: book tour was traveling. And I don't know how much
Speaker 3: I saw that you all you all were just in
Speaker 3: a city. I was just in I literally missed you.
Speaker 3: I forget where you were.
Speaker 1: I was in Devoyne over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we literally we were like
Speaker 3: two ships in the night.
Speaker 1: Oh you were just in Des Moines.
Speaker 3: I was, yeah, And so I think it was therefore
Speaker 3: a layover and all that to be said traveling, I
Speaker 3: think flying, I think packing, I think just all of
Speaker 3: it is. It's awful, like living out of a like
Speaker 3: living out of a like a suitcase. Like I literally
Speaker 3: there there have been two legs of my my book
Speaker 3: tour where I literally went from like one city to
Speaker 3: another and I was literally like from one hotel to another,
Speaker 3: and by the time I got home and had to
Speaker 3: turn around and repack to leave again, I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to do this ever again. And so
Speaker 3: like I just think traveling is trash, and then now
Speaker 3: you add COVID and then you have babies crying, and
Speaker 3: then you have the people who it's.
Speaker 2: Just it's it's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's like traveling is a lot.
Speaker 1: That plane's falling out of the sky and almost crashing,
Speaker 1: it's everything fu sucks.
Speaker 2: It's plain is actually like that actually happened to me.
Speaker 3: I was in San Luis, Obispo, and we literally were
Speaker 3: on the tarmac and we literally you could you know
Speaker 3: that that that energy of when you feel the plane
Speaker 3: getting ready to like start to like go off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's getting itself psyched up, gets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it started and we like halfway down the
Speaker 3: tarmac and then I just heard you and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, what is happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the plane basically something electrical went wrong with
Speaker 3: the plane. They had to turn the plane back around
Speaker 3: and take us back to the actual life spot and
Speaker 3: we were there waiting for like three or four hours,
Speaker 3: and I eventually ended up having to rent a car
Speaker 3: and drive to San Francisco because I could not get
Speaker 3: another flight. It was it's that bad to travel these days.
Speaker 1: My going I saw. I went to a wedding in
Speaker 1: Des Moines. So many people had horrible travel stories who
Speaker 1: got there, Like people got in like the next day
Speaker 1: or a day late. One friend of ours who has
Speaker 1: like a kid, they were leaving the airport, they got
Speaker 1: stuck on the tarmac for nine hours because they said
Speaker 1: they've overfilled the plane with fuel, so they needed to
Speaker 1: burn some fuel. And in that process they went over
Speaker 1: like the Union time limit for the crew, so the
Speaker 1: crew had to get switched out before they could take off.
Speaker 1: That added another thing. When they were gonna take off,
Speaker 1: then they said, whoops, we now burned too much fuel
Speaker 1: and we have to return to the gate to refuel.
Speaker 1: And that flight ended up getting canceled and they had
Speaker 1: like they had to go sleep in at airport and
Speaker 1: then take off on a flight the next morning. It
Speaker 1: was like, this sounds like the worst dumb.
Speaker 2: It sounds like if you put me in charge of
Speaker 2: a plane like in my twenties, you know, I'm just like,
Speaker 2: ah fuck fueling, right, Yeah, all right, well, I guess
Speaker 2: we'll just like chill here and let it burn off.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Fuck, we just went over the time, like, oh shit,
Speaker 2: all right, let's drive over the fuck we're on almost
Speaker 2: empty now what wait, you gotta go? Wait, where are
Speaker 2: you going?
Speaker 1: You gotta go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, giving that just like overmatched waiter, just like knowing.
Speaker 3: The opportunity to oversee everything in the air exactly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: everything that just it's just utter trash. And then the
Speaker 3: food is terrible. And then they got the audacity to
Speaker 3: turn around and be like, we'll give you a fifteen
Speaker 3: dollars vouture for the inconvenience that we have with you,
Speaker 3: and it's like a food voucher.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the least you could do.
Speaker 1: Okay, girl, I bought a bag of beef jerky at
Speaker 1: Burbank Airport. You know how much a.
Speaker 2: Bag of beef jerkey was? Twenty three dollars?
Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2: I believe it the way burd Bank knows they have
Speaker 2: you trapped, like Burbank is so for people not in
Speaker 2: La Like there's Lax, the big ass airport that's like
Speaker 2: like on the South Bay. It's like, you know, all
Speaker 2: the way over on the coast, which is very far
Speaker 2: from most things in Los Angeles. And then there's Burbank,
Speaker 2: which is actually like surprisingly close to a lot of places,
Speaker 2: much closer to where I live, where Miles lives. The
Speaker 2: fares are much cheaper. You get there, you better have eaten,
Speaker 2: You better have had all the water that you need,
Speaker 2: because they will sell you a bottle of water for
Speaker 2: twenty dollars, like I swear they will.
Speaker 1: There because your a buffet you it's more like a
Speaker 1: bus stop. That's why I love Burbank, because it's like
Speaker 1: as you just like roll in fifteen minutes if you
Speaker 1: have that pre check, I will walk in there. I'm
Speaker 1: not joking. Ten minutes before the boarding you can get
Speaker 1: through if you got it's I'm not complaining.
Speaker 2: I'll eat.
Speaker 1: It's like three thousand calorie before I get there, so
Speaker 1: I'm not there's no chance on buying a seventeen dollars.
Speaker 2: You can actually be like, hey, hold the door while
Speaker 2: you're going through. Tsay, hold the door, hold get the train,
Speaker 2: the subway.
Speaker 3: It's the same way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. A shout out to the smaller little
Speaker 2: airports around the Biggins. Yes, they're always nice, nice little
Speaker 2: change of pace. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back, and Superducer Bay is joining us from an
Speaker 2: airport and they can report that the drinks are twenty
Speaker 2: seven dollars at the airport.
Speaker 1: That's for a pint of beer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's we're probably having a pint.
Speaker 1: Then it's wild that they get.
Speaker 2: You to then, like, but for two bucks it could
Speaker 2: be a double and you're like, what the math is
Speaker 2: not math thing?
Speaker 3: What what the fuck is that?
Speaker 1: Then? Anyway, sorry, Alligator Alcatraz Americator.
Speaker 2: Alcatraz, Like, let's just combine concentration camps with the energy
Speaker 2: of a Saturday morning car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Like like it's a Hannah Barbara character, Alligator Alcatraz. No,
Speaker 1: this is there was an ribbon cutting basically opening for
Speaker 1: the first concentration camp on American soil.
Speaker 2: Actually, maybe at.
Speaker 1: The eleventh if you count the ten that were used
Speaker 1: on Japanese people. Oh wait, maybe it's like wait, actually,
Speaker 1: do we count the emigration depots or around the time
Speaker 1: of the trailer tears.
Speaker 2: Because emigration depots and concentration camp.
Speaker 1: Okay, but then there's gonna okay, that's that's in Cuba,
Speaker 1: so maybe that's in Cuba. All right, Well, regardless of me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: regardless of your grasp of history. This is another just
Speaker 1: dark day. Trump walked around in a Gulf of America
Speaker 1: hat along with OBERSTROMFJA Barbie aka Christy Nome and Florida
Speaker 1: Governor Rob DeSantis, and they slap this together in a
Speaker 1: little over a week, uh, and again will be the
Speaker 1: site of countless human rights violations against for all from Statistically,
Speaker 1: we can tell law abiding people who were following the
Speaker 1: laws to have to properly go through the immigration process
Speaker 1: in the United States. But again, Trump has now deemed
Speaker 1: pretty much anyone who right now it's what he calls illegal,
Speaker 1: but pretty soon is probably gonna be brown.
Speaker 2: People who don't cut brown's.
Speaker 1: At a certain point, that's just what it feels like.
Speaker 1: The arc is of shit like this. Sadly, but they
Speaker 1: are now violent criminals. Chillingly, Trump said that like this
Speaker 1: would just be the start quote. I'd like to see
Speaker 1: them in many states, Trump said at the press conference,
Speaker 1: and at some point they might morph into a system
Speaker 1: where you're gonna keep it for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: So, despite protests from local groups, residents, activists, and just
Speaker 1: the general horror of from American people like seeing this
Speaker 1: immigration policy. Trump got his own Alcatraz, and he seemed
Speaker 1: quite happy about it, although some of the reporters that
Speaker 1: were there say this ship doesn't it's not it's barely
Speaker 1: light rain worthy, let alone, as they say, you could
Speaker 1: survive well carry to Hurricane Florida.
Speaker 2: Porter these in Florida. As far as I checked with
Speaker 2: the new FEMA director and he's not aware of there
Speaker 2: ever being hurricanes in Florida.
Speaker 1: You can't be aware if you don't have the satellite
Speaker 1: imagery to back up that there's a tornado.
Speaker 2: Thank you their galaxy brain. As you said about yesterday,
Speaker 2: they turned off. They stopped giving the Pentagon satellite information
Speaker 2: to the Weather Service. Yeah, so so hurricanes, Oh you
Speaker 2: do you have pictures of those hurricanes? I doesn't think so.
Speaker 1: This reporter Jason Delgado, posted some videos on on Twitter
Speaker 1: and it was stuff like just rain water on the
Speaker 1: floors of the cells because it was raining during this
Speaker 1: little walk and talk. They said, quote while the soft
Speaker 1: roof of one tent rippled in the wind water pool
Speaker 1: at the base of the American in Florida state flags
Speaker 1: and around extension cords for lights. The state says the
Speaker 1: sites are rated to a stand a Category two hurricane.
Speaker 1: And again I'm sure that's all part of the point.
Speaker 1: They're not going to care if these people are harmed
Speaker 1: in a hurricane, as we know in Florida, they don't
Speaker 1: even they don't even do anything. They don't evacuate prisoners
Speaker 1: as it is. And Rohnda Santis is like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if you need air conditioning for people in
Speaker 1: prisons in this sweltering fucking place of hell.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and in the you know, concentration prisons where
Speaker 2: people are being held like people are dying with fucking
Speaker 2: you know, air conditioning, like right, you know, just just
Speaker 2: by not giving them medical care like a human being needs.
Speaker 1: You know, exactly. And there's a ton of nine to
Speaker 1: one one calls that come from even inside the facilities
Speaker 1: of people asking for help because just again, these things
Speaker 1: are just fucking venues for countless kinds of abuse in
Speaker 1: his treatment. Then, so there was a little bit of
Speaker 1: like maga ego beef that went on to apparently so
Speaker 1: last week meatballs. Rob DeSantis actually gave the first tour
Speaker 1: of the concentration camp to Fox News despite being told
Speaker 1: by DHS that Christy Nome wanted that terrible pleasure and
Speaker 1: honor to be the face of the person walking people
Speaker 1: through these cages where people will be held and detained.
Speaker 1: And he did it anyway, and apparently they were fucking
Speaker 1: pissed that he got the jump on being the you know,
Speaker 1: the first tour guide of this fucked up place. And
Speaker 1: now when you look at Trump, like this man has
Speaker 1: just been out of his mind for a while now.
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering, like, like how we got to Alligator
Speaker 1: Alcatraz because we knew he wanted Alcatraz right because he
Speaker 1: saw he saw a movie on TV and then posted,
Speaker 1: we need to open Alcatraz. And then I imagine people
Speaker 1: are like, ah, sorry, like it's gonna cost a lot
Speaker 1: of fucking money and it's just gonna be an absolute
Speaker 1: waste to try and get Alcatraz running, on top of
Speaker 1: the fact that it's like not built for anything people
Speaker 1: can escape. It's not good. I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: you're just into the movie and maybe just convinced him that,
Speaker 1: like maybe they did like, well, we've got Alligator Alcatraz
Speaker 1: at home in Florida, do you want that? And maybe
Speaker 1: he was like, yes, that's fine, because he's a sick,
Speaker 1: fucking Nazi obsessed senile old man. But again he's still
Speaker 1: talking about Alcatraz in San Francisco, like he's not letting
Speaker 1: up on that. He posted quote because of the violence
Speaker 1: and criminality I've seen due to the open border policy
Speaker 1: of Sleepy Joe in particularly allowing millions of people into
Speaker 1: our country who shouldn't be here. I wanted something representative
Speaker 1: to show how we fight back. And then it happened.
Speaker 1: I saw a picture of Alcatraz looking so foreboding, and
Speaker 1: I said, we're gonna look into renovating and rebuilding the
Speaker 1: famous Alcatraz prison sitting high on the bay, surrounded by sharks.
Speaker 1: What a symbol it is and will be concept stual
Speaker 1: work started six months ago and various prison developed. Okay,
Speaker 1: he in this he's trying to act like he didn't
Speaker 1: see the fucking movie like a couple weeks ago and
Speaker 1: that gave him the idea. And he's like, actually, this
Speaker 1: has been in the works for six months. It's not
Speaker 1: because I saw a movie and people have me dead
Speaker 1: to rights on knowing that that's exactly how I got
Speaker 1: to this idea.
Speaker 2: And again, the picture of Alcatraz that he saw in
Speaker 2: this scenario is a fucking coloring book picture of Alcatraz.
Speaker 2: It is the island with shark fins, like four sharks
Speaker 2: fins circling around it. It's like what I saw a
Speaker 2: picture of Alcatraz looking so foreboding, sitting in the bay
Speaker 2: surrounded by sharks. Like that's like in the picture it
Speaker 2: was surrounded by sharks.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was, and we were I was handed a
Speaker 1: child's menu, which also acts as a place matt at Caro's.
Speaker 1: We were eating at Carrows. Sound all the words and
Speaker 1: I found them all and it was great. And then
Speaker 1: I had my grilled cheese with ketchup. But yeah, Also,
Speaker 1: he didn't do much to impress the public with his
Speaker 1: mental acuity at this press conference either, because again he
Speaker 1: was asked a softball question from Fox. I just want
Speaker 1: to play the answer, because when you understand what the
Speaker 1: question was, you're like, oh him, brain not good.
Speaker 2: This is my home state. I love it.
Speaker 6: I love your government, I love all the people around.
Speaker 6: These are all friends of mine. They know them very well.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not.
Speaker 6: Surprised that they do so well. They're great people. Ron
Speaker 6: has been a friend of mine for a long time.
Speaker 2: I feel very.
Speaker 6: Comfortable in the state I'll spend a lot of time here.
Speaker 6: I want to, you know, for four years, I've got
Speaker 6: to be in Washington. And I'm okay with it because.
Speaker 2: I love the White House.
Speaker 6: I even fix up the little Ovo office.
Speaker 1: I make it.
Speaker 2: It's like a diamond disputy.
Speaker 1: It's okay, Rihanna Shane Bright like a diamond my Oval office. Okay.
Speaker 2: This was the question though, However, hold on and I guess,
Speaker 2: can we guess?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: What does Florida mean to you, mister President? Eric Adams?
Speaker 1: Some of Florida? One word?
Speaker 2: Well, what is Florida? All right, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: say one. We're trying some with the state of Florida.
Speaker 2: What it means to you?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what you then that's what it felt like.
Speaker 1: That's okay, Okay, what about Okay, So we think because
Speaker 1: the President there was talking about a lot of how
Speaker 1: much time he's gonna spend there, this is the question
Speaker 1: that was clarified twice to him. Jana Marie McNicol, Fox
Speaker 1: News Channel. Mister president, is there an expected time frame
Speaker 1: that detainees will spend.
Speaker 3: Here days week and does that have anything to do
Speaker 3: with the.
Speaker 1: Immigration judges you just spoke about being trained and staffed here.
Speaker 2: When you say, what was the first party read? Is
Speaker 2: there a.
Speaker 1: Specific time frame you expect the detainees to spend here, days, weeks, months,
Speaker 1: in Florida.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is my home state.
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't even like have them straight, like just a
Speaker 2: A to B conversation with those motherfucks.
Speaker 1: You're here for the opening of a fucking concentration camp.
Speaker 1: That where people are going to be who are mostly
Speaker 1: following the laws here to become American citizens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be here.
Speaker 1: I like it here, I'd be here days. I like it.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 1: I live in a diamond in Washington.
Speaker 4: Hit.
Speaker 2: What the fuck is this shit? That's a wild Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean again, that's the state of it.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's really what really makes me
Speaker 1: nervous about this presidency is like this dude is just
Speaker 1: a senile old man with racist fantasies, and he's just like,
Speaker 1: I want to alligator alchectize, I want to blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and they're like, yes, sir, yes sir, yes sir. Maybe
Speaker 1: well and like now people like Nancy Mason, like I
Speaker 1: think South Carolina should have their own And again, this
Speaker 1: shit with the alligator Alcatraz stuff. It's so fucked up
Speaker 1: because it's so euphemistic in the sense that it's meant
Speaker 1: to soften how absolutely vile this place is, to make
Speaker 1: it feel like, oh, yeah, just a bunch of alligators
Speaker 1: wearing maga hat.
Speaker 2: No yeah, no, just like a talking alligator comes in
Speaker 2: after that, like in the middle of that. Answer comes
Speaker 2: in over thee And after these messages, we'll be rag back,
Speaker 2: that's go switch out the president's adderall drip. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they very very very grim things on the horizon here,
Speaker 1: and I mean this this is just the beginning because
Speaker 1: now we as we know, this big beautiful bill that's
Speaker 1: working its way through the.
Speaker 2: House right now or sorry, the Act the Act, Thank
Speaker 2: you Miles.
Speaker 1: They are asking for like anywhere from one hundred fifty
Speaker 1: to two hundred billion dollars for the ice budget. Imagine
Speaker 1: how bad it is now what they're gonna do when
Speaker 1: they're just absolutely wasting money on brutalizing people. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: Of one just fire hose of money. Yeah. I do
Speaker 2: just want to like come in and give a little
Speaker 2: bit of good news because Chuck Schumer did get their
Speaker 2: ass while they were down there celebrating. He was up
Speaker 2: in Washington putting it down, making changes, changing the course
Speaker 2: of history. By changing the name of the big beautiful bill.
Speaker 2: He said, this is not a big beautiful bill at all.
Speaker 2: That's why I moved down the floor to strike the title.
Speaker 2: It is now called the Act, That's what it's called.
Speaker 2: But it is really the Big Ugly Betrayal. And the
Speaker 2: American people know it now, they remember it that way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we're going to be remembering this bill a
Speaker 2: little bit differently now that it's been stripped of its
Speaker 2: previously awesome nickname that we were all taking at the
Speaker 2: titles word. Yeah, I think I was just assuming it
Speaker 2: was a big beautiful bill. So thank you Chuck Schumer
Speaker 2: for your hard work. What a great metaphor for the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party. I mean, look that faction of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: So we've been clamoring for them to fight back, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad they chose that venue to do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I will say though, a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 1: got stripped out of it was because enough Democratic senators
Speaker 1: were like raising the issues in that sense, Yes, some
Speaker 1: some something was done in terms of this specific piece,
Speaker 1: and it's still probably going to get a lot altered
Speaker 1: in the House version. But my God, like to really
Speaker 1: pat yourself on the back for being like and I
Speaker 1: got him to change the name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, man, it just feels like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: just spend whatever time you spent doing this and spend
Speaker 2: it on actually like fighting the bill or like changing Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually had yes, yeah, instead of just uh, you know,
Speaker 2: broadcasting you like the that you're there's like work of
Speaker 2: futility done from the cup chair on the floor of Congress,
Speaker 2: you know, just being like, yeah, we got them, Yeah,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, we got that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was thinking to myself when I saw this, so
Speaker 3: I want to jump in and say, like, I know,
Speaker 3: for those of you who do or don't know, I
Speaker 3: work for a GBTQ nonprofit and when the news came through,
Speaker 3: you know, folks were saying, oh, the medicaid of it
Speaker 3: all is not going to impact those who are looking
Speaker 3: for gender gender confirmation surgery or anything of that nature.
Speaker 3: But I'm still to in my mind, I'm going this
Speaker 3: is still terrible, like like, yes, yay, I guess you
Speaker 3: could say yay for that, but it's still awful and
Speaker 3: it just it blows my mind that we're in a
Speaker 3: place where people are looking at this very bottom line
Speaker 3: thing and being like, Yay, we did it, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: it's still terrible.
Speaker 1: It's really bad because I think a lot people usually
Speaker 1: don't understand the wealth redistribution when that like when a
Speaker 1: tax cut hits like that from wealthy people, because it
Speaker 1: sort of it becomes obscure and not sort of directly tangible.
Speaker 2: Why I shouldn't they have access to their money, makes
Speaker 2: you get the money they earned it.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing a good job for our country,
Speaker 1: but the stuff around the healthcare and like snap benefits,
Speaker 1: all of that absolutely gonna be felt by people. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the part where you're like, if they
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck, they're really acting like they don't
Speaker 1: fear elections, which you're like.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, well, this is the other thing I've been
Speaker 3: thinking about too, And this is something I've been like
Speaker 3: thinking all week with all of this, I'm going, so
Speaker 3: many poor people voted in mind with this notion of
Speaker 3: like this man's gonna come in here and take care,
Speaker 3: and I'm going, he these wealthy people don't care about you.
Speaker 3: They don't care, they don't care about your livelihood. They
Speaker 3: don't care if you eat, they don't care if you're well.
Speaker 3: And it just it blows my mind that there are
Speaker 3: still so many people who are waking up every day
Speaker 3: being like, yay, we're taking out the dims and I'm
Speaker 3: going babe the babes. They're literally coming for you too.
Speaker 2: Do you not get it?
Speaker 3: I just it blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's that's the American way is. We
Speaker 1: don't learn until we've put our hand on the stove,
Speaker 1: had a seventh degree burn. Yeah, look at our hard
Speaker 1: hand down to the bone and go was that hot?
Speaker 2: Hot? Yeah? Real?
Speaker 1: Let me try one more time?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, and another hand. All right, now, let's get
Speaker 2: your foot up.
Speaker 1: There now, cut open my head and put my brain
Speaker 1: on it. I just can't feel it.
Speaker 2: And I hear its delicious, little little brain. According to Hannibal.
Speaker 1: Lecter, yea with a nice kyanti.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take you a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the boo boo, and we're back. We're back.
Speaker 2: And two quick pop culture things. One, the new Jurassic
Speaker 2: Park movie is coming out. We had talked about this
Speaker 2: and how we had I'll just say, I had some
Speaker 2: hopes for it because the director directed, you know, some
Speaker 2: first came on the scene for directing like a low
Speaker 2: budget monster movie somehow just using like effects and like
Speaker 2: creative you know, camera replacement to make a low budget
Speaker 2: movie about giant monsters and had since made some good films,
Speaker 2: and I was always like, this director seems destined to
Speaker 2: make a Jurassic Park movie. The movies out, the reviews
Speaker 2: are tepid, and it's starting to make me wonder if
Speaker 2: just this franchise is is just Jaws. But because at
Speaker 2: a time when studios were smarter and so like back then,
Speaker 2: they were like, okay, Jaws, two same shark, come to
Speaker 2: same island and like just eat people. They run it back,
Speaker 2: but at least they went to SeaWorld. You know, yeah,
Speaker 2: they did go to SeaWorld, and that was a good idea.
Speaker 2: And I would compare that to the only Jurassic Park
Speaker 2: sequel that I think really needed to exist, which was
Speaker 2: Jurassic World, where like they were like, okay, but what
Speaker 2: if the park was open? And I was like, that's
Speaker 2: actually a fucking fun idea, and every was the movie
Speaker 2: itself was like e but like that's a good premise,
Speaker 2: and that made sense why people would go see that
Speaker 2: this one. They're like, what if we just like went
Speaker 2: to the island with like some different people and there
Speaker 2: is like some stuff there. Like the other thing they're
Speaker 2: getting away from the whole point of these movies is
Speaker 2: like these iconic characters from childhood when everybody like went
Speaker 2: through a phase with dinosaurs, you were getting to see them.
Speaker 2: So it's like the t Rex, the raptor, the fucking
Speaker 2: like all all the ones that, like people were obsessed
Speaker 2: with those kids, and these movies keep just like inventing
Speaker 2: new fake dinosaurs, and at that point, it's like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck are we even doing? Like that's not the point.
Speaker 2: The point is still fine seeing the t Rex over,
Speaker 2: just give me the t rex, Like why do we
Speaker 2: need to yeah, or tell me about some obscure one.
Speaker 1: But well, the raptors are in a gang with Chris
Speaker 1: Pratt and you're right, these are all modified raptors and
Speaker 1: it's like, no, I just want like real deal raptors,
Speaker 1: Like I want to know more about Blue.
Speaker 2: Is growing up, Like, no, these have been made hyper
Speaker 2: intelligent and they aren't. They don't actually look like real
Speaker 2: raptors would because we've like hyper charged and it's like, well,
Speaker 2: then you're just like making a fucking monster movie, which
Speaker 2: is less fun.
Speaker 1: That's where they miss out. Yeah, that's I think that's
Speaker 1: where everyone gets further and further from like what the
Speaker 1: Michael Crichton kind of version of it is. Like also
Speaker 1: a critique on like, I don't know, it sounds bad
Speaker 1: trying to play god too or yeah, maybe maybe it's hey,
Speaker 1: don't invite your nephews to a theme park on opening
Speaker 1: weekend because it can go left really quickly. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know, But so the metacritics, so this is
Speaker 1: all that, this is all based on critics who have
Speaker 1: seen the film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's critics who have seen it so far on
Speaker 2: Meta critic are giving it a fifty two and also
Speaker 2: Rotten Tomatoes is it a fifty two? So big fail
Speaker 2: by the studio not paying Rotten Tomatoes because usually Rotten
Speaker 2: Tomatoes will be a lot high the Metacritic because they've
Speaker 2: paid the Rotten Tomatoes meter to be like, uh, that
Speaker 2: feels freshish for like a two star review.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's like trying to wear like underwear
Speaker 1: for the third day and around like might you might fresh,
Speaker 1: freshish Fresh adjacent, fresh adjacent. Do they say anything about
Speaker 1: beloved Asian American actress Scarlett Johansson's performance.
Speaker 2: That is one thing that I know. It's one of
Speaker 2: the reasons I'm excited about it is because, you know,
Speaker 2: getting some diversity in there and getting you know, an
Speaker 2: Asian American.
Speaker 1: I mean, look when she when she was in Ghost
Speaker 1: in the Shell, I was like, there she is finally
Speaker 1: some representation for my Japanese people on the same man.
Speaker 2: You know, they give her like straight two dark black hair.
Speaker 3: She represents black people too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what those people who ever made that decision
Speaker 1: to cast her there, they need to be banished from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: She's the world, She's the children.
Speaker 2: I believe the scargo is the few future, the.
Speaker 1: New black and white videos. Just Scarlet Johansson's like she's
Speaker 1: doing new hairstyles.
Speaker 2: Ship she's white, she got dress. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: we do. We have an esteemed expert on to talk
Speaker 2: the boo boo.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's the biggest fat in the world right now. It
Speaker 2: has all the hallmarks of you know, the two big
Speaker 2: hallmarks would be uh, fights in stores, or at least
Speaker 2: alleged fights and stores and just a whole lot of
Speaker 2: mistrust from the Christian community. But this, uh, maybe the
Speaker 2: Boo Boo dolls kind of look like I writer Jam
Speaker 2: described them as looking like if Maurice Sendak got drunk
Speaker 2: and tried to draw Willem Dafoe. Like they they really
Speaker 2: are like accommodation will Dafoe and like the wild things,
Speaker 2: but you know, the blind box of it all. A
Speaker 2: lot of TikTok endorsements from Lisa Rihanna share all the
Speaker 2: one named people and La Boo boos. There's a giant
Speaker 2: le boo boo protesting ice in La.
Speaker 1: Oh please don't make that the Pikachu of these protests.
Speaker 2: They're like, is boo boo at the event?
Speaker 3: How do we know?
Speaker 2: Let's rally around the boo boo. The black market is booming,
Speaker 2: another sign that we have a general cultural phenomenon on
Speaker 2: our hands. La fufus as previously mentioned, and yeah they
Speaker 2: uh I don't, Like I said, some reports of public
Speaker 2: fights in stores, which is you know, you know the
Speaker 2: local news gets excited about that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: The biggest controversy involves accusations that they're pure evil, which,
Speaker 2: as I said when I first found out about them
Speaker 2: like a couple weeks ago. I think they I think
Speaker 2: that is their appeal. I think they are like the
Speaker 2: first genuine like cabbage Patch kid style craze that is
Speaker 2: openly courting the creepy doll side of things. Like creepy
Speaker 2: dolls are an underrated phenomenon. They are secretly like the
Speaker 2: engine behind the Annabelle or the Conjuring franchise, Like that
Speaker 2: is a creepy doll franchise. A lot of people don't
Speaker 2: realize that, but I don't know. When my seven year
Speaker 2: old first told me about it, by the way, he
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I saw it, like one of the
Speaker 2: kids has one. And when I looked at it, it
Speaker 2: turned to me, turned its head to me, and it
Speaker 2: looked up at me, and he gave me a creepy smile.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, is that other kids are trying
Speaker 1: to like that's the thing is, like, did you see
Speaker 1: the doll acting up?
Speaker 2: I just think he is sensing the evil that the
Speaker 2: Christians are saying. He's a very Christian child, and you
Speaker 2: know he he recognizes evil when he sees it. No,
Speaker 2: I think it's probably I think he's probably reacting to
Speaker 2: the fact that I am crying every time I see
Speaker 2: one and say saying that they're evil. He might be
Speaker 2: teasing me. He might be teasing me and being like, yeah, dad,
Speaker 2: I saw one. It looked at me and gave me
Speaker 2: a creepy smile. But ah, there's an exorcist who came
Speaker 2: out and told people that like, these are demonic toys
Speaker 2: that should not be purchased by Christians.
Speaker 3: Well I'm not a Christian, so.
Speaker 2: Say, yeah, there you go. Hey, we will take and
Speaker 2: de sa tantify your labou boos.
Speaker 3: You know what, surviving in this world everything is satanic.
Speaker 3: So I'm okay. I feel like I will be fine
Speaker 3: with the labooboos in my house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I will also say this. So what a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't know is that they come from.
Speaker 2: There's a world.
Speaker 3: They're called the monsters. So they're little monsters and they're
Speaker 3: meant to do good stuff. They just sometimes don't always
Speaker 3: do the right thing right. They're just they're cute and
Speaker 3: like the Sower Patch kids. Huh they're Sower Patch kids.
Speaker 3: They basically yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2: They are. That's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't see the problem is where is this evidence
Speaker 1: that it's evil? Is it just made of where is
Speaker 1: it in the scripture about La Boo boo and how
Speaker 1: Christ fought La Boo Boo?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, did you not see The Exorcist? I'm just
Speaker 2: checking if you've not seen the film The Exorcist. So
Speaker 2: that is Pazuzu. You switch a couple of letters around though, Okay,
Speaker 2: there is no There is no P in the Boo
Speaker 2: Boo's ridiculous, very close to be, not really close to Z,
Speaker 2: but like unless the alphabet is on a circle. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so pazuzu la boo boo. I don't I don't need
Speaker 2: to connect the dots for you. You can do that yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, do your own research. The demon that
Speaker 2: possessed Linda Blair in The Exorcist was named Pazuzu, also
Speaker 2: a ridiculous name. How did they get away with that?
Speaker 2: How did they get away with being like Kazuzu?
Speaker 1: What if I was that character, I'd be like, damn,
Speaker 1: that's like the weakest name for a demon.
Speaker 2: Because that's truly Pazzuzu. I guess there is Like in.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it sounds like you're a regular at Bjay's
Speaker 1: Brewery and you know how we're ending this one chocolate
Speaker 1: chip pazzuzu for us? You mean the pazuki.
Speaker 2: Well around here, all right, in this household sucks cocking. Hell,
Speaker 2: we call them around here stupid. But yeah. So one
Speaker 2: one thing that's been going viral is a laboobu side
Speaker 2: by side with an illustration of pazuzu that is implying like,
Speaker 2: this is what pazuzu has always looked like, this is
Speaker 2: the this is actually the illustration that's in the Bible,
Speaker 2: and it's just picture. Oh, pazuzu in the Bible is
Speaker 2: in the Bible for sure, Uh, it's not not. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So the drawing that they've made to like look like
Speaker 2: an ancient etching is actually just AI generated and the
Speaker 2: smiling pazuzu was clearly specifically designed to look like one
Speaker 2: of the dolls. So yeah, and when you look at
Speaker 2: what the pazzuzu like ancient art that depicts pazuzu, it
Speaker 2: looks like the face from the Exorcist, which is scary,
Speaker 2: but does not look like a labuobo. People are saying
Speaker 2: that the artist who originally created the labuobo was drawing
Speaker 2: on Norse mythology. So if you're a Christian who believes
Speaker 2: that anything that's not Christianity is evil and like you know,
Speaker 2: pagan who calls everything that's Christian pagan. Then there you
Speaker 2: might have an argument. But in that case, literally everything,
Speaker 2: including most of the traditions around Christmas are our pagan.
Speaker 1: And the Santa is also the devil. Two yes, but
Speaker 1: I mean those kinds of Christians typically do keep it
Speaker 1: a buck in that way.
Speaker 2: We're oh, yeah, I'm just say but then that's who
Speaker 2: you're that's who you're getting in with them and my
Speaker 2: seven year old.
Speaker 1: Whether what is what's the what's the resale market like
Speaker 1: for a little boo boo JP.
Speaker 3: So okay, so let's talk about it. It's it depends
Speaker 3: on what what what you're going for? Right now, what
Speaker 3: I know is that the I D there's one called
Speaker 3: Big into Energy. It is the I D version. It
Speaker 3: is a black one. What the big what Big into Energy?
Speaker 3: It's a black one. That is a it's only one
Speaker 3: in seventy two people get it when you do a
Speaker 3: blind box. That one's going for at least at least
Speaker 3: four hundred to five hundred dollars on the resale market.
Speaker 2: You can who would possibly pay that much for just
Speaker 2: some fabric and oh, yeah, I've done that for shoes before. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've done it for I have a brand new you
Speaker 2: get a pair of the boos you can wear?
Speaker 1: Are they red bottoms? Like real la Boo boos?
Speaker 3: Right reals? But yeah, so that one. There's also another
Speaker 3: brown one from the Macaroon series that's also a blind
Speaker 3: box item, and that one can probably run you somewhere
Speaker 3: between one hundred to two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you go outside with your little boo boos?
Speaker 1: Are using them as I see them as bag charms.
Speaker 1: I see some people who just have them stacked on
Speaker 1: a rack and they're like, look at my children.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I mean yes and no. So I have
Speaker 3: four behind me that just kind of sit there at
Speaker 3: five actually that sit behind me, and then I have
Speaker 3: another six or seven that are upstairs on my different
Speaker 3: bags that I have. I have a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: different Louis bags that I and.
Speaker 2: I knew we came to the right place. I knew
Speaker 2: we came to the right place.
Speaker 3: I have some they're all color coordinated. So whatever color
Speaker 3: my bag is is the color of the that I have.
Speaker 1: Do they match your nails? Because your nail game do
Speaker 1: not match?
Speaker 3: Well, Yes, I have two that match my nails. Those
Speaker 3: are from the Big One. Those are from the Big
Speaker 3: Into Energy.
Speaker 1: Next next question, JP, how long have you been possessed
Speaker 1: by satan as a result of surrounding yourself by so
Speaker 1: many demonic codes of it?
Speaker 2: It was when I came out right.
Speaker 1: The child.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The connection is.
Speaker 2: Can Cameron on On to just like pull this clip
Speaker 2: and put it on her podcast? That would actually be
Speaker 2: tremendous for us.
Speaker 3: The reason, yeah, that that gainess is the reason why
Speaker 3: the boo boo is when.
Speaker 2: You've seen these la boo boos that they're trying to
Speaker 2: sell our kids, our children. Obviously, the accusations of satanism,
Speaker 2: much like heavy metal in the late eighties, accusations of
Speaker 2: satanism are making the sales absolutely fucking skyrocket. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: America in this case, you know, has always been obsessed
Speaker 2: with like things that are uh, you know a little
Speaker 2: bit evil and demonic, but also we love a fucking
Speaker 2: cursed stall. I don't know how many times I have
Speaker 2: to say it. Huge booming eBay market for haunted dolls.
Speaker 2: People have like bid over one thousand dollars for haunted
Speaker 2: dolls right now, Annabelle, the real life doll that inspired
Speaker 2: the Conjuring movies, which is a raggedy anti doll. I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 2: raggedy ann is touring America, and rumors that she went
Speaker 2: missing and possibly burned down a mansion turned out to
Speaker 2: be false. But look, I need I need leaders in
Speaker 2: this time who are about class consciousness.
Speaker 3: So herb is that she also is the reason why
Speaker 3: those men in Louisiana escaped from New Orleans, those ten in.
Speaker 2: I absolutely believe that one hundred was there.
Speaker 3: I don't know why she was there, but the day
Speaker 3: that she got there is the same day that those men.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like she's a She's an anti capitalists.
Speaker 2: Is an abolitionist.
Speaker 1: Thank you, we stand, We stand, Annabel.
Speaker 2: I'm getting it tatted the real Annabelle.
Speaker 3: Stant a queen who knows her rights.
Speaker 1: I was gonna get a Marcus Garvey tattoo, but now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get annabel test annabel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, an queen freeing the people.
Speaker 3: Sounds like Harriet Tubman.
Speaker 2: If you asked me, I'm sure I could rearrange some
Speaker 2: letters here to get it to work.
Speaker 3: And Harriet Tubman and the boobu. Yes, somebody that script.
Speaker 1: I better watch out. Someone will probably make that shameless.
Speaker 2: Well, Doctor John Paul Higgins as always such a pleasure
Speaker 2: having you. Where can people find you? Follow you all
Speaker 2: that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Well, these days you can find me ducking and dodging
Speaker 3: donut places because I got to keep my sugar under watch.
Speaker 3: But other than that, you can find me at Doctor
Speaker 3: John Paul. I'm on all socials except X. I'm there.
Speaker 3: So I will say this because people are like you say,
Speaker 3: you're not on there, but you're on there. I am
Speaker 3: on X because I don't want anyone taking my app,
Speaker 3: but I don't use it, so I just want to
Speaker 3: make sure that I make that very clear that I
Speaker 3: only have it so that way folks won't take it
Speaker 3: from me. But other than that, I'm active on Blue Sky,
Speaker 3: I'm active on threads, and I'm very active on spill,
Speaker 3: which is my preferred social media place these days.
Speaker 2: There you go, and is there a work of media
Speaker 2: that you've been enjoy.
Speaker 3: Yes, So there's a thread that someone posted a couple
Speaker 3: of days ago. Their name is Danny Krau Tura.
Speaker 2: I think that's they said. It's k r I A
Speaker 2: Tura t U r A.
Speaker 3: And she basically says she probably went and got the
Speaker 3: bears supported afterwards too. And it is a picture of
Speaker 3: Goldilocks drinking all the porridge, the first example of white
Speaker 3: privilege you learn about, and it's Goldilocks drinking.
Speaker 2: All gets away with that ship gets away with it.
Speaker 3: You know what I wish you were. You're right, I
Speaker 3: didn't even think about this ship, right, this idea that.
Speaker 2: This girl breaking in entering ate all.
Speaker 3: They fucking pour it, slepping the bed, went to sleep
Speaker 3: in their bed, in their fucking beds, and then turned
Speaker 3: around and said, ah, just right, the the personification of gentrification.
Speaker 3: This bitch ran up in these bears home and gering
Speaker 3: their homes.
Speaker 1: M it's the bear way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that that sent me to the moon. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at, Miles.
Speaker 2: Where can people find you as their workimedia you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: So those bears would have mauled the fuck out of her.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 1: She's protected, okay, because she's pretty little gold Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and same ship with snow White. Snow White went in,
Speaker 2: broke into their house, cleaned up a little bit instead
Speaker 2: of stealing their food, but then just passed out in their.
Speaker 3: Bed literally, and the dwarves came in like bitch.
Speaker 2: They were about to murder. They have like rich yeah,
Speaker 2: like an inch from her head, and then she happened
Speaker 2: to roll over in her sleep and be cute and
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 1: Like well she could say, all right, okay, we like her.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you can find me everywhere at Miles of
Speaker 1: Gray you can find uh, I mean, look Miles and
Speaker 1: Jackot Mad Boosties the last episode was last week. You
Speaker 1: can check that out, uh, and then there will be
Speaker 1: no more Mad Boosties.
Speaker 2: In fact, there is no more Mad Booties, and then
Speaker 2: there was.
Speaker 1: If you like ninety fiance, catch me talking about that
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Speaker 1: post I like a friend of the show alex Steed
Speaker 1: at alex Steed dot beskuy dot social post and Instagram
Speaker 1: is like, I see you're liking some emotional content. Can
Speaker 1: I interest you? In a succession of deeply unqualified influencers
Speaker 1: speaking authoritatively about attachment styles with performed expertise, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah you can.
Speaker 2: You can I do like I will? I will?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Could I just could I have just that? I don't
Speaker 2: want the emotionally resonant content anymore. I just love that.
Speaker 1: And then another one from the at Love a marinerdt
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Speaker 1: among other things, I'm just so pissed that a country
Speaker 1: that once made winning World War Two its whole personality
Speaker 1: is now building concentration camps. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's giving them fun names. Yeah, it's like it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm actually right, Yeah we did, but we certainly did
Speaker 2: make it our personality. Yeah. You can find me on
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Speaker 2: find the footnote, which is where we link off to
Speaker 2: the information that we talked about in today's episode. There
Speaker 2: in the footnotes, we also link off to a song
Speaker 2: that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, is there
Speaker 2: a song that you think the people might enjoy?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: This an algorithm suggested this track to me is from
Speaker 1: a DJ producer named Zulan z u l A and
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is interesting. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want to look up this artist. And then all
Speaker 1: I found on the internet that like, Zulan is an
Speaker 1: industry plant.
Speaker 2: Her mom was like that president of the Recording into Academy. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, Jesus Christ, what's the deal. This track
Speaker 1: is called Campeon. She's Argentinian, and this is like kind
Speaker 1: of got a bit of like sampling some Argentinian music
Speaker 1: but then kind of housifying it in a way that
Speaker 1: I thought it was danceable, Nepo baby industry plant or not.
Speaker 1: So this is Campeone by Zulan.
Speaker 2: Amazing. We will link off to that in the footnote.
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