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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2: Miles.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined in our third Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: very funny stand up comedian, writer, asher, producer, creator of
Speaker 1: poast Rattle Compliment contest Never Seen It podcast where famous
Speaker 1: comedians rewrite classic movies they've never seen. He hosted the
Speaker 1: podcast Faking a Murderer, where he talked with eight comedians
Speaker 1: for eight hours about the show Making a Murderer, but
Speaker 1: didn't tell his guests that he'd never seen it. I
Speaker 1: know those are old credits, but they are very funny.
Speaker 1: Oh you're very funny. Welcome to the show. The hilarious Kyle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 4: Some of those are still around. You know, it's hard
Speaker 4: to make puns out of new true crime shows. Otherwise
Speaker 4: I would I would be out here pretending to know
Speaker 4: about those. You know, there's not the the didn't winks,
Speaker 4: it's hard. The Jinx is even my newest reference. You
Speaker 4: can tell how much television I watch?
Speaker 2: Winks.
Speaker 3: The Stinks. It's me.
Speaker 4: Did you guys hear about this? Lindberg? Baby, I'm here
Speaker 4: to tell you about this new true crime things very hot.
Speaker 5: The Stinks is a podcast where you just keep farting
Speaker 5: with your guests in the room.
Speaker 4: But I'm sad when they bring it out on our
Speaker 4: fitbit pun discussion earlier.
Speaker 3: That was a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know we were talking. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: take them back through it. You know, we're talking about
Speaker 1: Succession finale. Yeah, we were talking about how you know,
Speaker 1: I think our last sentiment before we went into the
Speaker 1: weekend was it would be awesome if they somehow pressaged
Speaker 1: the Orca attacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and had like.
Speaker 1: All the Succession children get their whole ship bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then they were like swimming around in the ocean
Speaker 1: at real and they're like, I don't want to get
Speaker 1: in there, there's too many sharks. And then they got
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 5: Did you start levitating when that happened? Because I almost
Speaker 5: like a fucking I almost like had the hydrogen atom
Speaker 5: like burned into my forehead, like fucking doctor Manhattan.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, I'm seeing it all. Now, their whole
Speaker 3: ship shall be bit.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: But the internet is so cruel.
Speaker 4: They could have got eaten by a regular shark and
Speaker 4: people would have said, you guys weren't even close because
Speaker 4: you said Orca's right, right. You didn't predict anything.
Speaker 3: You said fucking orcas dumb, dumb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but upon reiterating, we wanted to see them get
Speaker 1: their whole ship bit. Kyle, you came up with a
Speaker 1: brilliant invention.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, to track your bowel movements and the health
Speaker 4: of your poos. There's the ship bit, yeah, which lets
Speaker 4: you know how many how many times I would say,
Speaker 4: the opposite of steps, how many times you your legs
Speaker 4: fall asleep on the toilet every day?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you don't like the ship bit, you can get
Speaker 4: the crap a watch. It works with iOS, just kind
Speaker 4: of depending on what operating with ibs. That's Tim Uncooked
Speaker 4: Salmon is in charge of the grapple watch.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 5: Would that be a toilet or a peripheral device you wear.
Speaker 5: I feel like the toilet is would be the most
Speaker 5: effective tool.
Speaker 4: It's just all about getting you into their ecosystem. Yeah,
Speaker 4: their system, theircal system, the biome, the Apple biome. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it's gonna be funny. It's gonna be the
Speaker 4: orca to shark closeness in like five years. There's something
Speaker 4: that's gonna come out they're gonna make you didn't call
Speaker 4: it the right name, so you didn't predict.
Speaker 5: That, Jackie Sneil, What is something from your short's history
Speaker 5: that is revealing about who you are?
Speaker 3: What you are interested in? Right now?
Speaker 6: Let me uh, let me talk to the ladies real quick,
Speaker 6: Let me talk to the Let me off to the
Speaker 6: ladies in the house. Turn your radios down, turn bunk up.
Speaker 6: You want to all right, so let me tell you something.
Speaker 6: You know how it's always surprises me that like men
Speaker 6: don't know about the female body, like basic ship, you know,
Speaker 6: and things like that. You want to know how to
Speaker 6: get a dude to learn just like the most basic
Speaker 6: ship about things like periods and tell them like you
Speaker 6: might be pregnant, and that motherfucker is gonna get on
Speaker 6: the Google search and that nigga gonna learn everything about ovulation,
Speaker 6: he gonna learn ship about your commuter is lying falling down?
Speaker 7: He gonna learn he gonna learn about your cycle.
Speaker 6: He gonna be like, all right, so is your basal
Speaker 6: temperature up or down?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 3: Italian basil temperature.
Speaker 7: Let me what's your what's your basis temperature? Now?
Speaker 6: Now, now when you get the mucus coming out of
Speaker 6: the cervical mucus, is that thick or you're.
Speaker 7: Gonna let he learns.
Speaker 6: That's how he learns, right, Like Miles and Dan both like,
Speaker 6: now what the fuck is that?
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I just had a baby. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this is new.
Speaker 7: You just had a baby.
Speaker 6: But see it wasn't but it wasn't a pregnancy scared
Speaker 6: you were ready for the baby.
Speaker 7: You was like, oh the baby coming. Ship.
Speaker 3: I did my job the same way. When you're trying
Speaker 3: to be like, yo, is this is this? It is
Speaker 3: this it? You do start being like, okay, what's like
Speaker 3: did you do the peace stick? You know what? The
Speaker 3: hormones looking like?
Speaker 6: We gotta we gotta learn this ship, We gotta become
Speaker 6: We have to know it just as well as our partners,
Speaker 6: especially if they are women. You know, we gotta know this.
Speaker 6: So that is what's my god, that's my gloves.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm guessing you didn't have any kind of
Speaker 5: moment where you thought maybe that your your fortunes had
Speaker 5: changed in terms of the fatherhood, department.
Speaker 6: Oh you know, listen, I'm not saying all that. I'm
Speaker 6: just saying you're working on material. I'm just saying, ladies
Speaker 6: out there, you need you know. I want I want
Speaker 6: you to know that if you want, if you want
Speaker 6: your man to know a little bit more, and and
Speaker 6: you're not like trying to conceive, just be like, who
Speaker 6: my mood is feeling.
Speaker 7: A little weird. I feel a little strange right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the like super hetero hip hop man would
Speaker 5: be like, yo, you mean like Lil Wayne that lnate text.
Speaker 7: Yes, but I think that's I think that's it always
Speaker 7: baffles me.
Speaker 6: And when I like I said, it does baffle me that,
Speaker 6: like we have not been expected to just know more.
Speaker 3: I mean, baby, that's just patriarchy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like, you know, you grow up in a fucking existence
Speaker 5: where it's like yeah, and there's you and then there's
Speaker 5: the other people, and then as long as you're as
Speaker 5: long as you're ship working, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Women will handle.
Speaker 5: It like and then you realize you're like, oh, that
Speaker 5: is not equitable at all or any kind of world
Speaker 5: I want to live in.
Speaker 6: And there you learn, and then you learn shit like
Speaker 6: I shouldn't say this because this is a joke everybody.
Speaker 6: But then you learn shit like if you ain't opulating,
Speaker 6: then you can bust wrong.
Speaker 5: You mean the old fucking yeah, terrible terrible man logic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, old head logic.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: I had a family member like that, one of my
Speaker 5: younger cousins who was living like that, and I was like, bro,
Speaker 5: you like, that's not science.
Speaker 3: And he's like, well, he's like, but hey, man, if
Speaker 3: you worry about that stuff, then it'll happen.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, yeah, I'm like, are you man, my
Speaker 6: sperm guy worry in it, then it's go find it.
Speaker 5: You cannot manifest contraception. Okay, but okay, do whatever you
Speaker 5: gotta do. What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Well I was.
Speaker 8: I was racking my brains on this and and uh
Speaker 8: and actually myles you'll come in about wearing shoes really
Speaker 8: resonated with me. I actually hate wearing shoes, you know.
Speaker 8: I was reminded being in this last bowl. So it
Speaker 8: works of a are you to work for a branding
Speaker 8: and strategy agency? And I we had a meeting that
Speaker 8: I thought went quite well, and then my boss called
Speaker 8: me into a one on one huddle afterwards, which I
Speaker 8: wasn't sure what the message was going to be, but
Speaker 8: he was like, we all saw you, including the lines,
Speaker 8: carrying your shoes around outside the meeting room. Please please
Speaker 8: at work, always take your shoes on. I was like,
Speaker 8: you know what, very embarrassing but probably fair enough. Wait,
Speaker 8: so were you going like sockless, like full on socks?
Speaker 8: I had red socks, which is a terrible British habit,
Speaker 8: and just just thinking I was, you know, wandering shoes
Speaker 8: and the other which I.
Speaker 5: Feel like, like, I guess sometimes when you'll take my
Speaker 5: shoes off, I've been in that place.
Speaker 3: I'm like, we get these fucking shoes off.
Speaker 5: And then like I'll walk to like the office kitchen
Speaker 5: and like my socks and I but the only time
Speaker 5: I remember getting in because I've been in the same
Speaker 5: situation for like, you're not wearing shoes, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, you lok, like I'm in bare feet? Well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's different. It's different.
Speaker 5: I'm at least respecting, like I'm having some kind of
Speaker 5: foot covering on. I just don't like the structure of
Speaker 5: my shoe and it's more comfortable, So please leave me
Speaker 5: alone and I'll go back into my office and look
Speaker 5: at Reddit.
Speaker 8: That's one of the always that were articles every summer,
Speaker 8: which is like, what's the correct etiquette on the airplane
Speaker 8: based on the frontline experience of the cabin attendant or
Speaker 8: host or hostess, And the advice is always you are
Speaker 8: to set your shoes off, but not your socks, but
Speaker 8: you have to take your shoes back on before you
Speaker 8: go to the bathroom, which I'm I'm off to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, team to do. Yeah, you don't want to wear
Speaker 5: towels on your feet to go into a bathroom. That's
Speaker 5: what I look, that's what a sock becomes at that point.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm I'm like looking, there's a fly flying around.
Speaker 3: Here, and I thought there was a bird in the mouth.
Speaker 5: No, I'm about to Clyde Fraser, this motherfucker like I
Speaker 5: might catch.
Speaker 1: Around in your hand than release just release it.
Speaker 3: Back in the room and let it start all over again.
Speaker 1: But no, I am big shoes on energy just for
Speaker 1: everyone that I have ugly feet.
Speaker 3: That's smell bad. Okay.
Speaker 1: I've always kept my shoes on, and I've always looked
Speaker 1: upon people who just sit down on an airplane and
Speaker 1: take their shoes off with wonder.
Speaker 5: And well, my shit smell good, so I don't. That's
Speaker 5: I'm never uncasing some stinky feet. I'll keep the socks
Speaker 5: on because it's cold on the airplane, like people who
Speaker 5: go bare feet in the fucking plane.
Speaker 3: No, that's a violation. I will say that that is
Speaker 3: a violation, an FAA violation. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I cleared out an entire dorm floor in basketball camp
Speaker 1: when I was like twelve years old with like my
Speaker 1: my socks. Oh no, like that happened to it, like
Speaker 1: the other wing of the dorm. They're like so much.
Speaker 1: What is that shit?
Speaker 5: That happened to me? In fifth grade? Not me, but
Speaker 5: a kid in my school. We went to this like
Speaker 5: camp and like we were in these dorms and his
Speaker 5: shoes smelled so fucking bad. Like everyone lost their minds
Speaker 5: and it kind of turned into like a low key
Speaker 5: bullying thing. Yeah yeah, like yoaz And it was like
Speaker 5: he cried as ship and I'm like, a damn, I'm
Speaker 5: glad my feet don't smell because how they get you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was definitely formative, and that's why I wear
Speaker 1: boots to bed when I sleep, I keep my boots on.
Speaker 3: I know. That's I remember when we were on tour.
Speaker 5: Once you're like, hey, do you have a like some
Speaker 5: garbage bags and duct tape?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: I yeah, I will frequently, even if you're in a
Speaker 1: hotel with like the little the windows that only open
Speaker 1: a crack, I will hang my socks out the window.
Speaker 3: I lost get the foot spray because I.
Speaker 1: And they're actually not that bad anymore. It's just but
Speaker 1: I I'm pretty self conscious about it, right, But the
Speaker 1: pains are the trauma has already there.
Speaker 3: The pain is. What's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 9: I just watched Nanny, directed by nik Yatu Juicsu, and
Speaker 9: I don't know if you've heard of its phenomenal. I
Speaker 9: I feel like it's not getting enough love. Not I've
Speaker 9: hardly seen anybody talking about it. It's so beautifully shot.
Speaker 9: It's like a psychological horror movie about a nanny who
Speaker 9: works for this wealthy white family and she is black.
Speaker 9: And it is so good and it is chilling and
Speaker 9: beautiful and heartbreaking and just a really incredible film. So yeah,
Speaker 9: and I haven't seen hard It seemed like hardly anybody
Speaker 9: talking about it, So yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It came out in twenty twenty two, and I
Speaker 1: remember when it came out, like the reviews were so
Speaker 1: positive and I was like, I've got to see this,
Speaker 1: and then it just disappeared from yeah, like the conversation.
Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, I think people were a little like
Speaker 9: just in a horror movie, you know, because.
Speaker 1: It's sure, it's real, it's different and it's.
Speaker 9: Real and it's really interesting and they take it in
Speaker 9: like incredible directions. So I think kind of horror fans
Speaker 9: were some horror fans were a little like I had
Speaker 9: to think during that. Yeah, so they didn't like it,
Speaker 9: But I loved it. I thought it was absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1: And you can watch that.
Speaker 3: It would appear on Max the one to watch dot com.
Speaker 1: I just said, Nanny, where to watch because I speak
Speaker 1: to Google like I'm just learning the English language, and.
Speaker 5: Mine says you have to throw your your pennies at
Speaker 5: your your tuppens at Jeff Bezos for this one.
Speaker 9: Oh really Yeah, I watched it on Amazon Prime, but
Speaker 9: I think it's up around.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey, look pick your poison. You know it can
Speaker 3: be Miles.
Speaker 1: Miles has a professional relationship with Bezos and I have
Speaker 1: one with zas Love so our listeners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're always doing the work.
Speaker 3: We gotta we gotta chat throughad bald bros.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and talk about some dystopian ship. And we're back,
Speaker 1: and let's talk about Taylor Swift. Her concerts are sweeping
Speaker 1: the nation. Everybody's excited on social media, and they're so
Speaker 1: excited they're apparently suffering from mass amnesia, because some Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift fans are reportedly attending Taylor Swift concerts and then
Speaker 1: have no memory of the event afterwards. It's called by
Speaker 1: people on social media, not by the medical community. It's
Speaker 1: they're calling a post concert amnesia.
Speaker 3: And so what are people saying that They're just like
Speaker 3: they're like, are they true? Like, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: One person claimed that if it hadn't been for a
Speaker 1: video of her at the show, she would have told
Speaker 1: everyone that it didn't happen. Another person said she had
Speaker 1: spent so long dreaming about what it would be like
Speaker 1: to see the singer in person. She later claimed she
Speaker 1: couldn't grasp what was reality. It's hard to put together
Speaker 1: what you actually witness. So I don't know she like
Speaker 1: has Taylor Swift. I've seen the like, so there was
Speaker 1: a tweet that was like one of my tweets of
Speaker 1: the day that was like comparing the like stage design
Speaker 1: to the really complicated shirts from season two.
Speaker 3: I think you should leave Dan flashes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan flashes really super complicated shirt pattern.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're more expensive, Yeah.
Speaker 1: More expensive because the patterns are so complicated, and like
Speaker 1: her stage design looks pretty complicated, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if she's like done something that has Like I've never
Speaker 1: heard someone say it's hard to put together what you
Speaker 1: actually witness right before.
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 5: Because like part of me is thinking like one version
Speaker 5: is like hyperbole from fans to talk about how amazing
Speaker 5: it was that You're like, literally, I don't even know
Speaker 5: what happened. It was so magical, but like are there
Speaker 5: actual people, Like no, I'm actually worried, like I don't
Speaker 5: know what happened to me more like on that level,
Speaker 5: or is more like it was such a dream, Like
Speaker 5: I don't know if I was just out of body
Speaker 5: or whatever, or I guess, or they're saying like it's
Speaker 5: hard for me to specifically even call back something from
Speaker 5: the concert. I know I was there, but that's about it.
Speaker 5: After that, I just went into an absolute dream state.
Speaker 1: If the CIA were to align itself with an artist,
Speaker 1: I feel like that would probably be the corrector.
Speaker 3: Like that would be the choice. Oh yeah, yeah right,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think so.
Speaker 8: But it's a little I mean, if the idea is
Speaker 8: that it's such a transporting and extremely magical experience that
Speaker 8: you're literally not able to perform memories, it makes a
Speaker 8: little disappointing that I've suddenly never I didn't have ever
Speaker 8: experience that. I've definitely been drunk enough, I don't remember
Speaker 8: what happened in college. But the idea that has such
Speaker 8: a transcendent experience that you can't remember it kind of
Speaker 8: makes you wonder, like what am I I'm missing out
Speaker 8: on the on the in life by not being a
Speaker 8: big tailor.
Speaker 5: Stand Now, I'm getting like fomo, because like I've seen
Speaker 5: artists that I've absolutely obsessed over, yeah and been like
Speaker 5: I'm there, I'm gonna be front row, and I remember
Speaker 5: that shit like, yeah, I fucking it was magical. Like
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm here, I'm experiencing it exactly how
Speaker 5: I want to. But yeah, to your point, I was,
Speaker 5: I'm like, so is there like another level.
Speaker 1: Strike these people just getting really drunk for the first time,
Speaker 1: Like it was crazy, like had seven to twelve drinks
Speaker 1: and now I get no. So, according to one psychology professor,
Speaker 1: this is something that can happen when someone is in
Speaker 1: a highly emotional state. Due to exciting or distressing factors.
Speaker 1: The neurons associated with memories start firing indiscriminately, which makes
Speaker 1: forming new memories difficult, which is the opposite of what
Speaker 1: like I had always heard, when you're in like a
Speaker 1: heightened emotional state, you are more likely to like have
Speaker 1: a like flash bold memory, you know, like that's that's
Speaker 1: when you have those memories that really stick because you're
Speaker 1: like have this heightened state of arousal.
Speaker 5: Don't tell that to Ronda Santis who's denying people from
Speaker 5: Guantanimo recognized him, right, How are they going to remember that?
Speaker 5: It's like, I don't know, man, people remember shit in
Speaker 5: those moments. That's yeah, what I know.
Speaker 1: Some people claim not to remember parts of their own
Speaker 1: wedding is the example that they're giving. So it's like,
Speaker 1: and so I've noticed this, like with being a dad,
Speaker 1: Like I will look at a video that I've taken
Speaker 1: up my kids and it's like just there. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't remember that at all. I don't remember saying
Speaker 1: those words at all. I don't remember kids looking like
Speaker 1: that because because I'm so like that has to do
Speaker 1: with just like I see them every day, so like
Speaker 1: what they look like is just what they've always looked
Speaker 1: like in my brain. But you know, I think there's
Speaker 1: something there that's like missing from my understanding of memory.
Speaker 1: Because the only thing that I had, the only interaction
Speaker 1: between memory and emotional state that I've really had room for,
Speaker 1: and like the thing that I built in when I
Speaker 1: was like a teenager based on like accepted knowledge was
Speaker 1: that like scared or excited you, your memory like works better.
Speaker 1: So but and then really drunk your memory doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Those were the two things that I knew of that
Speaker 1: could affect your memory.
Speaker 3: That's my psych degree.
Speaker 2: And then like there there's also the.
Speaker 1: Stuff about you know, repressed memories of abuse or traumatic experiences.
Speaker 1: But like I had always kind of because a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff ended up being recovered through hypnosis and
Speaker 1: like led to it involved in a lot of the
Speaker 1: satanic panic stuff. But it does seem like there's a
Speaker 1: little more here where like there are forms of heightened
Speaker 1: memories or like excitement or you know, like with my kids,
Speaker 1: it's like the love is so strong, like my brain
Speaker 1: can't look directly, Like it's like trying to look directly
Speaker 1: at the sun or something. Your brain just like isn't
Speaker 1: big enough to take it all in. Is like kind
Speaker 1: of how it feels. So maybe that's what they're experiencing
Speaker 1: with Taylor Swift concerts.
Speaker 8: Maybe there's a new merch opportunity like the spinning coin
Speaker 8: and inception that could be sold to Taylor Swift fans
Speaker 8: before the concept so they neither.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exact because she's a master of like repackaging things.
Speaker 3: They are they have and be like what about this version?
Speaker 5: Will a buildble for twenty four hours and it has
Speaker 5: half a song on it that you haven't heard about
Speaker 5: that by that? But yeah, maybe she does still like
Speaker 5: start selling like reality totems, so you.
Speaker 3: Keep spinning you know what's going on.
Speaker 5: Which is funny because when you say that, Jack, the
Speaker 5: first thing I was like, well, this has happened at
Speaker 5: Beyonce concerts because that's the only other group of people
Speaker 5: who I feel like I get the Swifty connection. Like
Speaker 5: these people the parasocial relationships that they have with Taylor
Speaker 5: Swift is to the next level, So like I can
Speaker 5: tell that they're already like operating in like a psychological
Speaker 5: space that might be different than other fandoms. But it's
Speaker 5: interesting because the only thing I was, like, I just
Speaker 5: searched Beyonce post concert anisia and an article just came
Speaker 5: out ten hours ago that way, Oh, Beyonce fans also
Speaker 5: getting post concert amnesia at Renaissance.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, is this a marketing thing?
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck is this could just be a
Speaker 1: few people on Twitter reported not being able to remember
Speaker 1: something and everybody jumped on it. But right, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: there are psychology professors in like this Psychology Today article
Speaker 1: claiming that like we folk, this Psychology Today article totally
Speaker 1: does not vibe with like how I feel like my
Speaker 1: memory works. They're like, you focus on experiencing the world,
Speaker 1: not remembering it. So if people are truly living in
Speaker 1: the moment and enjoying the concert, they're not necessarily doing
Speaker 1: the work of trying to make new memories. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't intentionally ever make memories. I'm not like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm remembering this.
Speaker 10: So fucking hag right now, Jack, you remember in memor
Speaker 10: right now, dude, this is good remembering.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I don't know, but I'm again.
Speaker 5: All I take from this is I'm actually I have
Speaker 5: fomo that I've never blacked out at a concert like
Speaker 5: that wasn't induced.
Speaker 1: A concert for understandable reason.
Speaker 2: That was chemically induced.
Speaker 5: Yeah okay, and that wasn't me abusing xanax or something
Speaker 5: like I'm talking of aut like I'm fucking levitating because
Speaker 5: I love the artists so much.
Speaker 3: Now, what is the Swifties again?
Speaker 5: I'm part of me like the joke, the jokey side
Speaker 5: of me is like, I think they just want to
Speaker 5: forget that she's with Maddy.
Speaker 3: Healy and all that right now? R Yeah, anyway, but
Speaker 3: is the concert?
Speaker 1: Like, I guess it's hard to ask this question because
Speaker 1: you you can't really, but like it are people saying
Speaker 1: it's like a really great concert who aren't like inherently
Speaker 1: huge Taylor Swift stands?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean the people who I know who are Taylor
Speaker 5: Swift fans who have gone. I feel like everything's been
Speaker 5: so pot like no one is saying a bad word
Speaker 5: about it. Yeah, obviously because the tickets were so fucking
Speaker 5: expensive and hard to get. I think that's the other
Speaker 5: part of it, too, is like you're probably so stressed
Speaker 5: because you spend like a fucking mortgage payment and a
Speaker 5: half trying to get a ticket to the show. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I mean the other thing is too they're
Speaker 5: wearing people are wearing adult diapers to the shows.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, they because they don't want to miss
Speaker 3: a thing.
Speaker 5: Like there's a bunch of TikTok clips of like people
Speaker 5: helping their homegirls like get into some diapers. Another person
Speaker 5: was like, was like taking a selfie videos like I'm
Speaker 5: at the show and nobody knows I have diapers on.
Speaker 10: You when we moved back, and they're clearly wearings like
Speaker 10: under their skinny chicks Like yo, actually.
Speaker 5: Yo, something going on with your yoga pants. I'm seeing
Speaker 5: a thin blue line appear in the front like a
Speaker 5: baby's diaper. But yeah, like again, I I get that part.
Speaker 5: Like I think I've told this story. I peed myself
Speaker 5: at the front row of jay Z at Coachella a
Speaker 5: few like ten years ago because I did not I
Speaker 5: didn't want to miss anything, and I when I saw
Speaker 5: how far I would have to travel to go to
Speaker 5: the restroom and then fight through a fucking gigantic pit
Speaker 5: to get to where I was.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, we're doing this right here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and also you like, like we already mentioned everything
Speaker 1: about you smell your peace smells fantastic.
Speaker 3: So it didn't.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm very well hydrated, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. You're not gonna get that like that sort
Speaker 5: of terrible like ureic acid.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, all right.
Speaker 1: America is rethinking the whole parking spot thing. So there's
Speaker 1: there's a new book by a guy named Henry Graber
Speaker 1: that's pointing out like specifically New York City could repurpose
Speaker 1: some of its three million curb side parking lots, which
Speaker 1: would then provide but like the amount of space that's
Speaker 1: taken up by parking in just New York City, to
Speaker 1: put things in perspective, is the area equivalent to fifty
Speaker 1: two Central Parks. That's like how how is that physically possible?
Speaker 1: Because every street in the city is lined on both sides.
Speaker 4: With park everything is and there's no alleys in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they don't have a could.
Speaker 3: You make fifty two?
Speaker 5: Like what's like, what is the proportion of Central Park
Speaker 5: to Man, I'm sorry, I'm getting like real nerdy here,
Speaker 5: I'm like, could you've.
Speaker 4: Said about one fifty two of the amount of parking
Speaker 4: that there is if you need to visualize.
Speaker 2: It, that's it really helpful. Now I can picture it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it wouldn't like you wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to move the buildings around and create fifty two central
Speaker 1: parks obviously.
Speaker 3: Like the equivalent square footage is what they're say, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Equivalent square footage.
Speaker 4: You know how your intestines are like seven thousand miles
Speaker 4: long or whatever they are, That's what parking is like
Speaker 4: a New York City. You look at them above, You're like,
Speaker 4: there's no way that my crapp a watch could fit
Speaker 4: and do all that. And now unwinds there's and then
Speaker 4: that makes the sidewalks where the trash goes right exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, that is one of the things people are pointing
Speaker 1: out is like it would make it possible for there
Speaker 1: to be proper trash storage so that you could actually,
Speaker 1: you know, put trash in New York City in containers no,
Speaker 1: which it does not currently happen. And it's why New
Speaker 1: York is synonymous with like having a horrible swarming rat problem.
Speaker 4: Not only does it not happen, When you type that
Speaker 4: sentence out in the dock, a red squiggly line goes
Speaker 4: underneath it. That's like how little New York has for
Speaker 4: trash cleanup.
Speaker 1: But like just living in New York there are like
Speaker 1: these massive snow banks of trash on the sidewalk. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's it's truly wild.
Speaker 5: I remember as a kid we put like we pushed
Speaker 5: our friend into it when we're walking because they're like, dude,
Speaker 5: when he gets next, we just fucking launched him in
Speaker 5: and he disappeared.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen him since I just shouldered him.
Speaker 4: If you don't do it down that opportunity, you can
Speaker 4: do it nine feet later at the slightly larger Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that. I don't think this was an efficient
Speaker 4: way for cities to rebuild. But New York Is has
Speaker 4: never quite fully burned down like like San Francisco and
Speaker 4: Chicago like to do, and what happened when San Francisco
Speaker 4: and Chicago burned down those parts of the city have
Speaker 4: nice alleyways for storing trash. That's right, I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that's I think maybe this parking things a better idea
Speaker 4: than purpose fire, but not a city planner.
Speaker 1: Precision arson is your solution Kyle to every problem that
Speaker 1: we raised.
Speaker 2: It really really is recording.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, everything from like yeah, like protecting our democracy.
Speaker 4: Like ceiling, yeah, precision firing. Now it's the debt sky
Speaker 4: that's right, which.
Speaker 3: This thing out?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think, Yeah, New York just got
Speaker 5: nine to eleven and we got a police state.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Lower Manhattan has tons of places to store trash. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you have to rebuild a lot to make these alleys and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really and really cool camera rays just jetting up
Speaker 5: from everywhere to.
Speaker 2: Be like what is this, Like we're looking at you,
Speaker 2: We're looking at you mother.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's made everything safe forever.
Speaker 1: But so our writer Jam kind of looked back at
Speaker 1: some some past examples. We've talked about Paris, we've talked
Speaker 1: about some cities in the Netherlands. A Zurich back in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six flat out stated there would be no
Speaker 1: more parking in the city, Like if the developer wanted
Speaker 1: to create new parking spaces, they would be required to
Speaker 1: remove that many parking spaces from the city streets.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 4: That's like a nightclub. It's like one in, one out, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, there Marshals there with the clicker.
Speaker 5: Hey, sorry, I'm sorry, you need a few more outwel
Speaker 5: holding a clicker.
Speaker 1: Paris has been removing street parking, replacing it with underground facilities,
Speaker 1: and last year they passed a law requiring parking lots
Speaker 1: big enough to hold around fifty American sized cars.
Speaker 2: I love the we stand for something in the global community, the.
Speaker 4: American sized cars. It is the hot dog car from
Speaker 4: I think you should leave.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 1: If it can hold fifty American sized cars. They're required
Speaker 1: to build raised solar panel canopies covering at least half
Speaker 1: of the surface of the parking lot, which would be
Speaker 1: the equivalent of ten nuclear power plants.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, that's cool. It seems seems like.
Speaker 5: These are all positive ideas for Hey, just with that,
Speaker 5: you'd have nice clear streets and the power of ten
Speaker 5: nuclear power plants.
Speaker 3: Like would seem like the.
Speaker 4: Meekest superhero origin story, right, Solar Man he could be
Speaker 4: called like the Paris Accord because he was providing his
Speaker 4: his Honda and accidentally got electrocuted by the solar panel
Speaker 4: and now he's just pretty attuned to traffic flow.
Speaker 1: And then Berlin One neighborhood experiment with getting rid of
Speaker 1: parking spots altogether and are like allowing bikes and scooters
Speaker 1: to occupy spaces that used to be exclusive to cars.
Speaker 1: So this is all like these are great. When you
Speaker 1: look at pictures of these places, it's like, here's what
Speaker 1: it used to look like, and it's like an American
Speaker 1: city and now here's what it looks looks like. And
Speaker 1: there's just like all these amazing creative things that they're
Speaker 1: doing with all the sidewalk space, and you know, like
Speaker 1: they have things called bike highways in Paris that are
Speaker 1: just what used to be streets that are now you know,
Speaker 1: parks with bike lanes going through them.
Speaker 2: Essentially.
Speaker 1: In the US, so there are around two billion parking
Speaker 1: spaces in the country, which amounts to nearly seven parking
Speaker 1: spaces for every car, which seems like two Any.
Speaker 3: Guns in parking are any American problem?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's got a level out if you just like
Speaker 4: get rid of Houston, right, Yeah, maybe like a statistics.
Speaker 1: Like there was just a move at the like when
Speaker 1: cars first became a thing, Like they encoded all these laws,
Speaker 1: these like zoning codes that mandated minimum parking requirements for
Speaker 1: real estate projects that basically said that when a new
Speaker 1: building goes up, there's a minimum number of parking spaces
Speaker 1: that need to be provided or like the city will
Speaker 1: fall over else and like everyone has been like that,
Speaker 1: turns out that's not the case, Jackson, Wyoming. A study
Speaker 1: found that there were twenty seven spaces for every home.
Speaker 4: So there's just wait, you're telling me there's fifty four
Speaker 4: parking spaces and Jackson, Wyomo.
Speaker 1: That's right, But it was actually like inverted at this time,
Speaker 1: Like when these zoning restrictions went into place, the cool
Speaker 1: thing was like among young people, like was driving like
Speaker 1: that was and like public transportation was like what the
Speaker 1: old people were into and used. But like driving was
Speaker 1: seen as like individualistic and like you controlled your own
Speaker 1: destiny and like that's the book.
Speaker 2: On the road is like the bible for this shit.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, it feels like now we have
Speaker 1: an opportunity with a generation coming up that like doesn't
Speaker 1: even get their license at the same rate as ever before, right,
Speaker 1: and that think cars are shit, So it seems like
Speaker 1: there should be an opportunity here to roll some of
Speaker 1: the shit back. But it's just a matter of you know,
Speaker 1: getting out from under this massive system that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's one thing I've found, it's that Americans are
Speaker 4: generally receptive to wide sweeping change. So I think if
Speaker 4: this is presented on a local and a national level,
Speaker 4: and they hear it from anyone they don't care for,
Speaker 4: they'll be in. This is something they'll jump on board for.
Speaker 2: Just listen to reason on this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have like these dumb fucking zoning laws and
Speaker 5: like the worshiping of parking spaces, and we're I think
Speaker 5: we've talked about the past how cars are getting too
Speaker 5: big for fucking parking spaces because every car manufacturer is like,
Speaker 5: people will buy bigger cars for more money, so just
Speaker 5: make them fucking gigantic to the point you can't even
Speaker 5: park them in the old parking spaces. And a lot
Speaker 5: of that has to do with the National Automobile Dealers
Speaker 5: Association because they're just like a massive lobbying group and
Speaker 5: they you know, they got all the dealers on one page,
Speaker 5: and like they definitely helped push through a lot of
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff too that.
Speaker 4: I don't have like a massively informed knowledge on this,
Speaker 4: but I do know that tire companies like Firestone were
Speaker 4: very big on sabotaging transit in Los Angeles. Oh, Los
Speaker 4: Angeles used to have like a huge amount of ra
Speaker 4: rail systems right like above ground, like San Francisco style
Speaker 4: rail cars, and then they just pushed. They were invested
Speaker 4: in by a company that was essentially funded by Firestone
Speaker 4: and General Motors that just was like, we should get
Speaker 4: rid of all these and make it impossible to get
Speaker 4: around this because LA used to have so many more
Speaker 4: stops transit system.
Speaker 3: Look at the old layout of that old system. Your
Speaker 3: your eyes would water.
Speaker 5: And I mentioned this on a past episode like growing up,
Speaker 5: like you'd you'd you'd like trip over the old infrastructure
Speaker 5: like in the street and you're like, what the fuck
Speaker 5: is this?
Speaker 4: It's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like the like the asphalt is like
Speaker 3: revealing a little bit of the track. And then some
Speaker 3: older person's like.
Speaker 5: That's when the trolley used to come through here, and
Speaker 5: you're like, no fucking way, get away.
Speaker 3: Get in my mind.
Speaker 4: Uh, it was like it would be from like Long Beach,
Speaker 4: Santa Monica. This is just super specific to LA, but
Speaker 4: like massive and sprawling all the way out through the
Speaker 4: valley and everything. Yeah, just completely replaced because for some reason,
Speaker 4: a tire company wanted more cars yeah, and even buses
Speaker 4: instead of the transit, which are a lot less efficient
Speaker 4: and harder to track and things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was that, and also just that
Speaker 1: it was like seen as cool, like it really seen
Speaker 1: as cool. I mean they still are early freedom.
Speaker 4: You know, you're sixteen, you can get out of your
Speaker 4: house and go somewhere on your own, and yeah, go small.
Speaker 3: That work out of the.
Speaker 2: Right sausage actually made him seem really cool.
Speaker 4: I just saw a statue of him up at the observatory.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 1: There are some US cities getting rid of the minimum
Speaker 1: parking requirements, at least there's been fifteen and twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two alone, which it also has an impact on the
Speaker 1: housing crisis, because when you like are building something that
Speaker 1: requires you to build a bunch of like find a
Speaker 1: bunch of parking spots for it, it just like changes
Speaker 1: how you approach the thing. It makes it way more expensive,
Speaker 1: and then those costs get folded into the costs to
Speaker 1: the builder. Oh wait no, sorry, folded into the rent
Speaker 1: or the price always regardless of whether or not.
Speaker 4: You love to pass those savings onto you. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 4: just get you.
Speaker 5: You guys want in on this too, we're thinking about
Speaker 5: going in on some parking you guys wanted, all right,
Speaker 5: why not.
Speaker 4: We havent that's right.
Speaker 1: Also, apparently we have a big problem with people murdering
Speaker 1: each other over parking spaces, which I wasn't aware of.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's an annual, multi dozen occurrence. Apparently it
Speaker 3: was weird.
Speaker 4: I mean I took a guy's parking spot that he
Speaker 4: really wanted. He was really angry, and then I tried
Speaker 4: saying no, no, there's seven of these for every car
Speaker 4: in America.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wasn't listening to reasons.
Speaker 4: That didn't calm him down.
Speaker 7: And you should have.
Speaker 5: You should have an abundance mentality, sir, not a scarcity mentality.
Speaker 4: I went to a car. I drove up to Griffith
Speaker 4: Observatory with my dog and we're hanging out up there,
Speaker 4: and there was so little parking that people are like
Speaker 4: almost fighting each other to pay ten dollars an hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I had that same experience and just turned around.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, this has been a nice.
Speaker 4: Ride off at the edge of the cliff.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, it just drove into the ocean.
Speaker 4: That's the o'doyle family. No parking, It just went right
Speaker 4: off the you.
Speaker 3: Know what, it's how about we go to the ocean
Speaker 3: and get our whole shit bit instead.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: I'd rather do that than this crap.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's like it really does bring the weirdest
Speaker 5: shit out of people, because I feel like on the
Speaker 5: internet you always see videos of like people who like
Speaker 5: stand in a fucking parking space, like with their hands
Speaker 5: on their hips and they're like.
Speaker 10: No, go around, go around's coming with the car coming
Speaker 10: minutes away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my husband's almost born, and.
Speaker 5: It kind of and I get so like fucking incensed
Speaker 5: by seeing those videos, and I'm like, I like, for
Speaker 5: what and I you can tell when you know how
Speaker 5: shit can go left in those situations because people are
Speaker 5: so fucking protective or exercises bizarre, fucked up sense of ownership.
Speaker 4: I think Chicago has like wild unwritten rules about chairing
Speaker 4: off snow spaces that you've dug out, like if your
Speaker 4: car was if it snows around your car, you're allowed
Speaker 4: to put a folding chair and keep that spot for
Speaker 4: the day if you've done the work, if you've done
Speaker 4: the work or something like that. And you know, you
Speaker 4: know the thing about those unwritten rules is everyone loves them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: someone just throws that chair forty feet and parked there.
Speaker 4: You are allowed to key their car and take a shit.
Speaker 5: On the.
Speaker 3: Yeah that gang. Let us know, what are the weird
Speaker 3: parking laws?
Speaker 2: There has to be.
Speaker 4: I feel like there's a lot of this weird unwritten
Speaker 4: stuff that exists. Can you cover the sidewalk? Does a
Speaker 4: chair take a spot where?
Speaker 10: You know?
Speaker 4: I mean, there's got to it feels like city to
Speaker 4: city and town to town is a different.
Speaker 5: I was always blown away, like when I was in
Speaker 5: Seattle recently, how people just park on the wrong side
Speaker 5: of the road too, Like just they're like, yep, I
Speaker 5: don't know, fuck it, park on whatever side I want
Speaker 5: to to park this car. And like as in like
Speaker 5: La Person where we have just such fucking draconian like
Speaker 5: parking enforcement rules.
Speaker 10: I'm like, is that is that's allowed here in this
Speaker 10: moonsical town? All right, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 10: talk some shit about Seattle off mic and then no,
Speaker 10: I'll come back. No, I'm just kidding, what the fuck
Speaker 10: they park the opposite way?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with them?
Speaker 4: And how'd that work out for Kirk?
Speaker 3: Thank you and Jimi Hendrix.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, we'll be right back, and we're back,
Speaker 1: we're back, and that a Republican read some medical research
Speaker 1: and not the do your own research no medical research,
Speaker 1: but like actual medical papers, and that news.
Speaker 5: Listen to like every you know, professional medical association and
Speaker 5: pediatric care group. So my mind is still bon Louisiana
Speaker 5: State Senator Fred Mills is a Republican, okay, And just
Speaker 5: to just so you know what kind of Republican he has,
Speaker 5: like a flawless record as an anti abortion sikoh, like
Speaker 5: he's got one of those perfect ratings from those anti
Speaker 5: abortion groups. But he just used his position to make
Speaker 5: his state the first in the South that has voted
Speaker 5: down a ban on gender affirming care for minors.
Speaker 3: And you're like, huh what.
Speaker 5: As the chair of the Health and Welfare Committee, he
Speaker 5: blocked ad a gender affirming care band bill from reaching
Speaker 5: a floor vote. And you're probably thinking, is this one
Speaker 5: of those moves where they vote down like the super vile,
Speaker 5: extreme fucked up version to make it seem like, Okay,
Speaker 5: we're not that bad, and then just replace it with
Speaker 5: one that's just like a couple degrees less like fucked up. No,
Speaker 5: it's that he read medical reports and analysis. He read
Speaker 5: the report from his own state, the State of Louisiana's
Speaker 5: Department of Health, that said what basically all medical professionals
Speaker 5: have been saying about gender affirming care. No, it's not mutilation.
Speaker 5: It absolutely saves kids' lives. It's not something people come
Speaker 5: to regret, like at some kind of ridiculous thirty percent
Speaker 5: rate or whatever, like those weird talking points that Republicans have.
Speaker 5: Most kids getting this kind of care are around fifteen
Speaker 5: and seventeen, not four years old. Also, no minor child
Speaker 5: has ever received any kind of fucking surgery, despite all
Speaker 5: the lies you hear about like these doctors who will
Speaker 5: like mutilate your child, this, that, and the other. So
Speaker 5: when he voted to kill the bill, he basically said,
Speaker 5: I read the reports and the stats, and I was
Speaker 5: convinced that this is something that should be left between
Speaker 5: a patient and a doctor, because ultimately I trust doctors
Speaker 5: and that they're not like groomer pedo demons like my
Speaker 5: colleagues have been saying.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know. I just read the thing.
Speaker 5: And again, it's it's important to note that while there's
Speaker 5: this report from the Department of Health and of Department
Speaker 5: of Health in Louisiana. There was a similar report from
Speaker 5: Florida last year that a lot of Republicans have been
Speaker 5: waving around to be like, look at this report on
Speaker 5: gender affirming care from Florida. Okay, this is this is why,
Speaker 5: this is what we're fighting for. This is the report,
Speaker 5: as you can imagine, coming from Ronda Santis, Florida, was
Speaker 5: devoid of any kind of real medical research or anything.
Speaker 5: This is what This is how a Yale professor categorized
Speaker 5: this quote unquote medical report from Florida quote. The report
Speaker 5: makes false statements and contains glaring errors regarding science, statistical methods,
Speaker 5: and medicine, ignoring established science and longstanding authoritative clinical guidance.
Speaker 5: The report instead relies on biased and discredited sources, including
Speaker 5: purported quote expert reports that carry no scientific weight due
Speaker 5: to lack of expertise and bias. So repeated and fundamental.
Speaker 5: So repeated and fundamental are the errors in the June
Speaker 5: second report that it seems clear that the report is
Speaker 5: not a serious scientific analysis, but rather a document crafted
Speaker 5: to serve.
Speaker 3: A political agenda. And you're like, wow, how did this happen?
Speaker 5: Anyway, the whack jobs and his party already calling for
Speaker 5: the bill to be bypassed and sent to the floor
Speaker 5: for a full vote. The governor in Louisiana is a Democrat,
Speaker 5: and you would most likely veto it. But again, it's
Speaker 5: a fully read state house, so they could override the veto,
Speaker 5: so it could be an interesting merry go around. But
Speaker 5: for now, this is a great moment for anybody who
Speaker 5: is who gives a shit about gender affirming care and
Speaker 5: rights for trans people and just a reef. It's just
Speaker 5: like this weird moment where a guy that looks like
Speaker 5: a cartoon version of Republican like actually read the facts
Speaker 5: and I'm still I'm still shaken to my core, and yeah,
Speaker 5: now he's being harassed, like the national right wing apparatus
Speaker 5: is like this guy's a groomer and already coming after him.
Speaker 5: And when he was asked by the local paper if
Speaker 5: he cared about all the people focused on him, he said, quote,
Speaker 5: why should I didn't run to serve them? They don't
Speaker 5: live in District twenty two. They don't even have a
Speaker 5: three three seven area code. So I'm like, wow, interesting,
Speaker 5: think for yourself sometimes, yeah, it pays off. It's just yeah,
Speaker 5: the similar thing happened. I feel like in Utah where
Speaker 5: they had like a super hardline bill and there was
Speaker 5: like well when pasted.
Speaker 9: In Idaho. Up here, the Session HB seventy one passed
Speaker 9: the House. It bans all gender firming care for minors.
Speaker 9: The governor signed it becomes law January first up here,
Speaker 9: and we're all ready between that and our extremely draconian
Speaker 9: anti abortion laws. We're actually a ton of medical professionals
Speaker 9: leave the state. We're losing a ton of doctors. Because
Speaker 9: I talked to a doctor on my podcast or our podcast,
Speaker 9: I guess, but he said that, like you know, you
Speaker 9: go to school for ten to fifteen years, you can't
Speaker 9: risk a felony charge. You can lose your medical license
Speaker 9: for a felony charge. And all it takes is somebody
Speaker 9: to say that you provided gender affirming care to a minor.
Speaker 9: You don't even have to be fully indicted and everything
Speaker 9: like that and be found guilty, because what will happen
Speaker 9: is just the charge itself will make it so that
Speaker 9: you lose your malpractice insurance and you can never get
Speaker 9: it back once you've lost it. It's very difficult. So
Speaker 9: he's they were like losing tons and tons of doctors
Speaker 9: from the state right now, because they're like, I'm not
Speaker 9: going to fuck with that. I'm not going to risk
Speaker 9: losing my malpractice insurance. And I kind of feel like
Speaker 9: in a way that Idaho, you know, Idaho, Utah, Florida,
Speaker 9: these places were like test cases for these really horrible,
Speaker 9: horrible laws, and what you're seeing is places like Louisiana say, oh, actually,
Speaker 9: maybe this is a terrible fucking idea. Also, sadly, I
Speaker 9: watched all the hearings for HB seventy one, and it
Speaker 9: was very, very heartbreaking to see how many of the
Speaker 9: Republican senators and House members said, I read the research,
Speaker 9: this every all the research goes against this bill. I
Speaker 9: have trans family members that this will affect you know, minors,
Speaker 9: I think this bill is terrible. Still voted for it.
Speaker 9: They all still voted for it. And it was like
Speaker 9: a ton of people who were like, I'm morally opposed
Speaker 9: to this, and then still voted for it because they
Speaker 9: didn't want to deal with the fallout. They didn't want
Speaker 9: to deal with the national right wing you know, fascist
Speaker 9: machine coming after them, so they just voted for it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's like it's so the way this
Speaker 5: guy looks. I gotta show you this guy, doctor Fred Mills.
Speaker 5: He like if I just showed you based off just
Speaker 5: a vibe check like this Republican. Now you think he's
Speaker 5: a where do you think he lies there like a
Speaker 5: like an all a white Sears sucker suit, Like he
Speaker 5: looks like fog Horn Leghorn as a doctor or some shit.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it is like again, and I I think
Speaker 5: this is only to do with the fact that his
Speaker 5: background as a pharmacist probably led him to have half
Speaker 5: a fucking brain when it comes to like medical research
Speaker 5: to know, Yeah, there's shit I don't know. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: if all of these professionals who like I know are
Speaker 5: not like like you know, gooney whack jobs, are saying
Speaker 5: this is actually beneficial for these like young people who
Speaker 5: the fuck a m I have like pushed back against that.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and a lot of people suspect, you know,
Speaker 3: his terms coming up and this.
Speaker 5: Is maybe like his last act to do something like
Speaker 5: normal before like you know, exiting politics. But my god, yeah,
Speaker 5: he clearly wasn't fazed by like people like Matt Walsh
Speaker 5: coming after him, because we're seeing constantly, like you know,
Speaker 5: like we talked about last week the target stuff. How
Speaker 5: many how easily you're seeing people cave to this kind
Speaker 5: of outrage in a time that like, you know, this
Speaker 5: the attacks on like gay and transgender people in America's
Speaker 5: just it's like there there have been a hundred bills
Speaker 5: I think that have been anti LGBTQ bills that have
Speaker 5: signed the last five years, and fifty of them have
Speaker 5: come this year. Jesus Christ, Like, that's the that's like
Speaker 5: the rate at which the shit is ramping up. And yeah,
Speaker 5: we're in a time more than ever where we need
Speaker 5: to be able to like demonstrate like that we stand
Speaker 5: with these communities. But again, if you have enough people
Speaker 5: who want to go live on Instagram and tear down
Speaker 5: your fucking store displays in a target and then yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's causing a real back and forth, but it's
Speaker 5: unfortunately just leading to more discord and violence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, I like it really is not the
Speaker 1: majority of people. Like this is an extremist group that
Speaker 1: is taking control of like politics, and it's like carefully
Speaker 1: coordinated and they're using insurgency tactics to like and dark
Speaker 1: money and the fact that they have a lot of
Speaker 1: money behind them to do these things. But I mean, like,
Speaker 1: there there's this recent report that like eleven people are
Speaker 1: primarily responsible for the majority of book ban requests, like
Speaker 1: the right, like that we're seeing that happen in so
Speaker 1: many places across the country, and it's just like a
Speaker 1: handful of extremist people. Again, it reminds me of like
Speaker 1: the Westboro Baptist Church where for a decade they were
Speaker 1: like at all these events and you were like, man,
Speaker 1: people in America are so dumb, and then that you
Speaker 1: find out it's like a single family that is doing
Speaker 1: this shit, and like, I just think there is sometimes
Speaker 1: a level of like hopelessness that might take hold because
Speaker 1: the way the media covers it is that it's like, well,
Speaker 1: that's half the country and the there are reasonable people
Speaker 1: in the other half, and it's like not, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to actually be the case.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I've seen it a lot with like you know,
Speaker 5: like in states like Montana other places that have had
Speaker 5: like drag bands where people come out and they counter
Speaker 5: protest the fucking ignorant people who want to go and
Speaker 5: be hateful and they're fucking outnumbered every fucking time. I've
Speaker 5: not seen one time where there are more like hateful bigots,
Speaker 5: you know out there in mass than a group of
Speaker 5: people who are there for acceptance or equality. And they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 5: there's just more people here. And yet I think it
Speaker 5: is it is a little it is dangerous to like
Speaker 5: kind of keep focusing on a way because it does
Speaker 5: give this impression. But just like we talked about with
Speaker 5: like Moms for Liberty, there were enough parents who saw
Speaker 5: Moms for Liberty groups pop up in their areas and
Speaker 5: they were just like talking to other parents like this
Speaker 5: is bullshit, right, and they're like yeah, and like do
Speaker 5: you even know these people? Are like no, I never
Speaker 5: fucking heard of these people. They don't even have kids
Speaker 5: in our school district.
Speaker 9: Yeah, let's they're well funded, and they're yeah, exactly what
Speaker 9: really well organized. Like when HP seventy one, like when
Speaker 9: it was the anti trans bill went to the governor's
Speaker 9: desk here, you know, everybody, all of us were like, call, call,
Speaker 9: call the governor's email and in the end he got
Speaker 9: thousands and thousands of calls and emails in support of
Speaker 9: trans people and against the horrible bill. But the group
Speaker 9: funding it, the Idaho Family Policy Center, which is funded
Speaker 9: by outside money, people not even from Idaho. They robocalled,
Speaker 9: They set up robo calls to the governor, and they
Speaker 9: were able to make it look like they had more
Speaker 9: more calls like on paper. But then it turned out
Speaker 9: that they had spent like five thousand dollars to get
Speaker 9: these these calls. They were just robo calls. They were
Speaker 9: fucking fake. So like, yeah, I think it's easy to think, oh, oh,
Speaker 9: we're outnumbered by these bigots, but even here in Idaho,
Speaker 9: which is probably one of the hardest places to be
Speaker 9: trans like Florida and Idaho maybe are the hardest places,
Speaker 9: but even here, I really think that the average person
Speaker 9: does not give a shit. And it's really these outside
Speaker 9: actors who are the same people who are burning masks,
Speaker 9: are the same, like you know, they just they were
Speaker 9: able to take this group of people, get them very
Speaker 9: fired up, these QAnon people, get them fired up about masks,
Speaker 9: get them fired up about tyranny, and then now they
Speaker 9: can just laser beam them to anything they want essentially,
Speaker 9: And it's it's not that many people, like you said,
Speaker 9: it's like eleven people with a lot of time on
Speaker 9: their hands, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I like the I think this is distinct
Speaker 1: from Trump supporters. I think Trump does have a lot
Speaker 1: of supporters who show up at the ballotbot like Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: like that doesn't seem to carry over it like the
Speaker 1: stuff that focuses on like trans people and you know,
Speaker 1: gender affirming care and you know, a lot of the
Speaker 1: school book bands. Like I think most people, even if
Speaker 1: even if they're Trump supporters, are like, I don't want
Speaker 1: my children to like not be able to read books.
Speaker 1: But like the Trump the Trump supporter and the QAnon
Speaker 1: thing is like it maybe not QAnon, but the Trump
Speaker 1: supporter base is always like surprises me in the other direction,
Speaker 1: like how big it actually turns out to be.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, Yeah, well, I mean there's there's a white grievance
Speaker 5: politics and then they're yeah, totally off the walls, like
Speaker 5: we basically want neuromber claws, yes, you know, for gay people.
Speaker 5: And that's I think, you know, that's like the one
Speaker 5: historical parallel that we have to be able to be
Speaker 5: Like there's like we're seeing this momentum building against a
Speaker 5: group that is on the margins of our society, and
Speaker 5: this is I.
Speaker 3: Don't know my history, my history lessons. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: what we got an election? Coming up.
Speaker 5: And I've read all these stories about how Trump's next
Speaker 5: by to the Apple is like going to be if
Speaker 5: he gets into office. It's all about radically expanding the
Speaker 5: powers of the president's office. Yeah, and it all, I
Speaker 5: don't know, seems seems really bad just as a historical pattern,
Speaker 5: which is why like.
Speaker 9: Yes, let's get you a Winnie the Pooh book, and
Speaker 9: I think that would be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that would be really nice and soothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's what we need. That's what it sicks.
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