1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Don't 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: Vandalize the Satanic trend pull m My name's Jack, that 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: is Miles. These are some of the things that are 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: trending on this Wednesday, January thirty. First, we're almost out 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: of the fucking January. Bro, you hate January? No, I 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,479 Speaker 1: don't know. It just seemed long to me. 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like it just feels like when you 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: want it feel I guess it is like the Monday 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: of months. Yeah, you know, for sure, it's like yeah, fine, 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, some good, good, cool shit happens 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: in January. But like also it also is like the 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: it is the Monday of months, or it's. 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: Like welcome back. I feel like people like generally started 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: work right after New Year's this year, and like like 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: our kids' school in years past had like started like 16 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: six or seven days into January, and this year was 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: like the third you're back to school, So it just 18 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: felt long, yeah to me. Yeah, you know what's making 19 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: it feel a little bit shorter these new Oreo space 20 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: Dunk cookies. Miles Gray no promo. So there is this 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: article that I was highly suspicious of in something called 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: the Daily Meal Dot com and it was the headline 23 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: was we tried Oreo Space Dunk cookies and they're out 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: of this world. Yeah. I was the thing get out 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: of here with that ship. But you know, I do 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: enjoy a Oreo variant, especially one that others describe as 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:41,279 Speaker 1: too sweet. I'm like, and that is my sweet spot. Yes. 28 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: Uh so the first paragraphs of this review lead me 29 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: down the path of Okay, so we are the Internet 30 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: is now just like a corporate like they don't reprint 31 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: corporate pr statements. So this opens in the world of 32 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: chocolate sandwich cookies. In twenty twenty four, a new flavor, 33 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: Space Dunk will boldly go where no Oreo has gone before. 34 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: This limited edition Oreo flavor also has an out of 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: this world look and proceeds thusly with a neon pink 36 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: and blue cosmic cream interior. And then they say laced 37 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: with popping candies and I don't know what that means. 38 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean it's pop rocks due pop rocks. 39 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's once you get to that part of 40 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: the review. I'm in. You pulled me back in, they say, 41 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,959 Speaker 1: taking a full bite of the cookie, the exterior tastes 42 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: like any old Oreo and the inside like super sweet 43 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: cotton candy. Icing with each munch also comes a surprisingly 44 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: light pop rocks like crunch. Yeah, and I mean that 45 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: all my My question every time with an Oreo variant, 46 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: what that cream do? Yeah, Like, what are we looking at? 47 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 3: You? 48 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: I want to know what that cream do because I'm 49 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 2: looking at another the takeout our beloved, the takeout foods, 50 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 2: even theirs. 51 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: I was like, is. 52 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 4: Everybody fucking all in on this? 53 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 2: Like Oreos space dunk fucking syop, but there's space dunk. 54 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: Oreos are interstellar fun and there's is you know, Like 55 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I don't know how much Promos evolved here, 56 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 2: but like they have a very interesting thing too. They 57 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: talk about the marshmallow and they say, my first bite 58 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: confirmed the marshmallow notes, which I've always thought tasted pleasant, 59 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: even mildly artificial berry ish. It's more like a Lucky 60 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 2: Charms marshmallow flavor than a jet puff one. I'm in 61 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: mm hmmm, Lucky Charms marshmallow that is the That is 62 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: the height of marshmallow flavor of my book. Yeah, it's 63 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: just whatever it is about it, you know what I mean, 64 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: It's more the flavor it's not really the texture, but 65 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: I really like the flavor of the marshal whatever the 66 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: fuck we even want to call those lucky charms marshmallows, 67 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: so that and they're saying shout out to the fucking 68 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: pop rocks too, just a little. 69 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: Marshmallows always reminded me of like astronaut marshmallow like because 70 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: they're like so fried out. Yeah, like marshmallows from the 71 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: future when we don't have water. 72 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 4: Rehydrate them with your spit. 73 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a hole in it so you can 74 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: see the like Miami vice icing a little bit better. 75 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: Is like they it's their first Oreo with a hole 76 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: in it. I don't know this is this is the 77 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: first one that like kind of captured me attention. You 78 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: know who. 79 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 4: We got to ask producer Victor, Super producer Victor. 80 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: I know you. 81 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 2: You go out of your way to get Oreo variants, 82 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 2: and I know this one. 83 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: I think it's like limited time it goes on so 84 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: to day. Are you are you fucking with these? He says, 85 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: I will damn it. 86 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 4: Emphatically in the chat. I will, yeah, okay, but. 87 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: I hate we got Look the cotton candy is from 88 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: the bad article. 89 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 5: We don't know, oh, he said, So I'm not excited 90 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 5: because I hate cotton candy. 91 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: Okay. In other more serious news, psych we're just gonna 92 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: keep doing dumb bullshit Elmo vers Big Bird. The debate 93 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: rages on. A few people hit us up on team 94 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: big Bird would claw almost thrown out. This continues to 95 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: make sense to me. I feel like when we when 96 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: we compare the two creatures, Big bird was designed in 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: the shop of natural selection, like his being a bird 98 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: implies millions of years of murderous like survival of the 99 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: fittest guess and check that propelled him to still exist 100 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: at this poet. I'm just saying, like anything that is 101 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: an animal like there is the implication that it survived 102 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: the food chain somehow, so like, don't fuck with it 103 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: like it's and it's especially at that size, like there, 104 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: it's got some hidden powers that uh, you know, we're 105 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: we're not seeing when it's like, you know, doing a 106 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: fun roll bounce roller skating routine. But right, I don't know, 107 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: So where are you at with them? 108 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I still feel in my heart of 109 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 2: hearts that it's a big bird world, you know what 110 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: I mean? 111 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, And Elmo will get stomped the fuck out without question. 112 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 2: I mean even the stomping power, I believe, like fuck 113 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 2: the claws, you know, a ripping the throat. I feel 114 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 2: like Elmo will get mushed under those feet. But I 115 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: dug a little deeper, and there are things that I'm 116 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 2: I'm now that I'm wobbling a bit. 117 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: Well, guess what that is. Victors are argument, by the way, 118 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: so too top heavy. Bit. Flip that motherfucker over? 119 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, how's you gonna get up with them weird ass arms? 120 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 2: He can't he looking like Josh Brolin with feathers. 121 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: What if you knocked him over and he just like 122 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: jumped like you know how karate people could like jump 123 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: from their back like that. Oh, the people fuck out 124 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: of me. Karate people. 125 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: Jack, We're called Japanese Americans. Okay, I really appreciate you. 126 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 4: Stop doing that shit called a sushi gang earlier. 127 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: But the thing I found out about Elmo, He's categorized 128 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 2: as a fucking monster. 129 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good point. 130 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 2: That's something I have to put a couple of stones 131 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: on that side of the scale. Knowing that Elmo is 132 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: not something cuddled. They're like this motherfucker a monster. Yeah, 133 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: so I'm like, okay, I'm willing to give that. Another 134 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 2: thing I saw was a conspiracy theory that big Bird 135 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 2: is actually what. 136 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 4: An extinct bird called the moa. 137 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: And they point to this because he interacts a lot 138 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: with like in one of the movies, he was adopted 139 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 2: by a family of dodos famously. 140 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: Oh so he's just on the precipice. He's just in 141 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: some kind of mammoth. That motherfucker. 142 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 2: Extremely he's extinct too, and what is he like surviving 143 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: out here all that time? The other part is, let's 144 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 2: be real, this motherfucker is eight foot five. Yeah, that's 145 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: also fucking freaky. So I feel like eight foot five, 146 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 2: the eight foot five with those thighs because I looked 147 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: at the skeletal structure. 148 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 4: Of a moa. 149 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 2: Dude, these femurs are fucking They're grotesque. They're like oil drums, 150 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 2: that's how thick these femur bones are, so like, imagine 151 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 2: the musculature around that. You're getting fucking stumped to bits Almo, 152 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 2: even though you're a monster. I'm still I think I'm 153 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 2: coming around to that. The fact that this guy survived, 154 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 2: he's the last of his kind. 155 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't that's yeah, that's right, even though he 156 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: also eyes facing forward implies predation, you know, in the 157 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: design shop of natural selection. Your eyes are facing forward 158 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: because you're a killer. You're not worried about what's coming 159 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: from behind. You're you're just out there on the proud. 160 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 2: But doesn't that also put some stock into Elmo? This 161 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: fucking this motherfucker's eyes couldn't be more in front. 162 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, his eyes are touching. 163 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have like I think he has no 164 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 2: peripheral vision because he's like, yeah, Elmo. 165 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: They don't, man, yeh fucking if you touch me on 166 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: you did. I don't know why he turned to Mike 167 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: Tyson suddenly, but anyway, that's. 168 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 4: There's something I don't know. So the debate rages on. 169 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 1: The debate rages on. Yeah, and that is all right. 170 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: Those are the two important stories of the day. We're 171 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: going to take a quick break. We'll be back to 172 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: talk about things that are news elsewhere, not just on 173 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: this podcast. We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back, 174 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: and Miles, the word Satanism is trending right now. Social 175 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: media show spawned thanks to a new development and a 176 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: story involving Christmas decorations in Iowa State House. So last December, 177 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: the government building was home to the Satanic Temple's festive 178 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: statue of the goat headed Baffomet after the group, the 179 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: Satanic Temple simply filled out the same application as anybody 180 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: who wanted to put up a Nativity scene and put 181 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: up a so it featured a rams head covered with 182 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: mirrors on a mannequin cloaked and red clothing. Lucian Greeves, 183 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: co founder of the Satanic Temple, says his Satanic display 184 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: as the symbol of their right to religious freedom. I 185 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: got to give a shout out to Lucian Greeves being 186 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: you know that is the Slytherin ass name. Like well 187 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: well done all around by the Parentscian A Lucian or 188 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: Lucian either way, it's like that motherfucker. Like at five 189 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: years old, they were like, and he's going to be 190 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: part of the Satanic Temple like that. Do you know 191 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: any kid's named Lucian. 192 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 4: I don't I feel like I heard that name reason. 193 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, that's just fucking all right kind 194 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: of goes. I like Lucian, especially if you're going to 195 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: like do some ill shit like put a Baphomet up 196 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: in like next to the activity scene. 197 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: I like to I like to class up Baha Met 198 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: and pronounce it like Timothy Baffo. May you know the 199 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 2: tea is an invitation to class it up a bit. 200 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 2: So he shut out Baame Baffo. 201 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: Man. So the Satanic Temple puts up their own monuments 202 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: and government buildings all the time, has a counterpoint to 203 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: Christian ones. And it's kind of like a lot of 204 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: the time when I hear people from the Church of 205 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: Satan or the Satanic Temples talk, they're they're kind of 206 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: making sense more than the knee jerk reaction might lead 207 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: you to believe. Uh So they're calling attention to the 208 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: loophole in the First Amendment that allows for religious displays 209 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: despite the no Establishment of Religion clause. So basically, the 210 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: Supreme Court created a loophole in the First Amendment to 211 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: allow religious displays by arguing that as long as every 212 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: group gets to have one, it doesn't violate the no 213 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: Establishment of religion. Cause yeah, yeah, got their ass. They're 214 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: like truly just being like, yeah, it's no problem, right. 215 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 2: I love how they put up their baphome and this 216 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 2: fucking their fuck this fucking state represented some weird dude 217 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: who had a failed congressional campaign just fucking ripped it down. 218 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 4: And now what are we looking at here? 219 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: What kind of charges? Uh So at first it was 220 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: fourth degree criminal mischief, which makes them sound like a 221 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: real scamp. But now they got bumped up to hate 222 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: crime charges, which that's uh, I mean kind of is 223 00:12:59,520 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: what it. 224 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 2: Is, right, Wait to keep it consistent, I mean, yeah, 225 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 2: if we're we're talking about these are these are like 226 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 2: the freedom of religious expression, then yeah, to tear down 227 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 2: someone else's religious expression should be considered a hate crime. 228 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, So prosecutors Mattu ramped him up to third degree 229 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 1: criminal mischief with a note that the crime actions were 230 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: committed in violation of individual rights under Iowa's hate crime statute. 231 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: So somebody's like behind the scenes doing doing the good 232 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: work of being like, we gotta gotta defend these Yeah, 233 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: these satanic temple people doing the doing the lord's work. 234 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: Obviously this has caused a lot of conservatives to flip 235 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: their ship just all the way they're they're just like, 236 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 1: how could you be charged with a hate crime when 237 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 1: he was fighting hate by beating up a mannequin? It 238 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: was clearly a manifestation of pure evil. 239 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 2: Right, pure evil that, as Brian the Editor points out 240 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 2: that abortion is a sacred religious right. 241 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, that's what the Courch of Satan per evil, 242 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: per evil, pure evil. 243 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's really just a foil to the Christo 244 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: fascism that we're seeing just just ramp up by by 245 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 2: every decade, just a little bit more. 246 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the Satanic Temple has been designated as 247 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: a church by the IRS. In twenty twenty two, a 248 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: guy tried to burn down a Satanic Temple building in Salem, Massachusetts. 249 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: I'm literally telling police it's a hate crime. He was 250 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: churched with a civil rights violation, destroying a place of 251 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: worship and arson. 252 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 4: So I'm great, I'm doing a hate crime poth. 253 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: Hey, buddy, I'm doing a hate crime over here, because 254 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: you get those blinking lights off me. 255 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, get your blink is off me. I'm trying 256 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 4: to do a hate crime here. 257 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: Brian the Editor points out the Church of Satan and 258 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: the Satanic Temple different churches with similar ideals. So in 259 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: case I fucked that up, I don't get them apology. 260 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: Don't get them fucked up. Yeah, you don't want to 261 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: get big birded out here. Big Bird definitely an icon 262 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: of the of the church. No, I'm saying they'll stomp 263 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: you out. Yeah. Yeah. Twenty seventeen, the Satanic Temple's decorative 264 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: tree topper was stolen from a holiday celebration, and the 265 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: police asked them if they wanted to file the incident 266 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: as a hate crime, but they declined. So the cops 267 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: are like, you know here. 268 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 4: To Satan is a kind god. 269 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: Satan is a kind god. I will say that. I 270 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: will say that, all right. So, there was a drone 271 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: attack in that we talked about on our I think 272 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: it was the Monday Morning Trend's episode. Yeah, just to 273 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: update that story, there's new reporting about how the drone 274 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: was able to attack American soldiers on the Syrian border. 275 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: It turns out that the drone was mistaken for an 276 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: American drone that was heading back to base. 277 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 4: Not not great, not great. 278 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 2: There sounds avoidable, but unfortunately that has led you know, 279 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 2: just thought leader Maria Bartiromo over on Fox to just 280 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 2: to really identify the true and I'm sure it's predictable, 281 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 2: but you kind of have to hear how quickly she 282 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: like in light of this report just pivots to some 283 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 2: culture worship. 284 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: Maria take it away. 285 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 3: It's the weakness that invites that aggression. Well, maybe they're 286 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 3: focused too much on DEI. There's a concern at the 287 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: FBI because they're dropping the FBI special agent requirements in 288 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 3: the name of DEI. I'm just wondering if that has 289 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 3: anything to do with missing an important drone that just 290 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: killed three of our heroes. Congressmen, And by the way, 291 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 3: the national security issues go way beyond just this, look 292 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 3: at your backyard at. 293 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: The Southern Yeah, that's wild. I don't know, man, I mean, 294 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: I guess not. She's a character for TV, but yeah, 295 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: that's wild. 296 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 4: But they love that. 297 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 2: I mean like, I just love the logic they is 298 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 2: like something bad happened, they got DEI. 299 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it was. 300 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 2: That's what it was, man, Not gross negligence, not oversight, 301 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: not being overworked, not corporate greed. It's that it's that 302 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 2: they're trying to give marginalized people a fair shake. 303 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, the as we talked about before that they blamed 304 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: DEI initiatives at American Airlines for Boeing planes falling apart, and. 305 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 2: Boeing too I feel like too probably I don't know, 306 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: I feel like anything that's I wonder do any police 307 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 2: departments have DEI initiatives? Because would they would they keep 308 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: it a you know, a buck if they're like seeing 309 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 2: these cops they're doing such a terrible job. 310 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 4: They're hurting innocent people because the DEI stuff. 311 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: Whoa really the police too? 312 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 3: Whoa? 313 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: Whoa? That's just logic is so wild to me. 314 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 2: Like it's especially with like that un you know, the 315 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 2: welfare organization that got their funding pulled after like Israeli 316 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 2: intelligence was like twelve people of this like thirteen thousand 317 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: member organization may have been evolved in the October seventh attacks, 318 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 2: and they're like defund it all. And it's like I 319 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 2: thought the American government was such a fan of don't 320 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: let a couple bad apples on the bunch, right, you know, 321 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 2: because even if you do game that out and like 322 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 2: it was in fact some people did infiltrate, then does 323 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: is that reason to defund the entire thing? 324 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 5: But yea, it shows you, it turns out in this 325 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 5: consistency and thought there Yeah, finally, Mark Zuckerberg back on 326 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 5: Capitol Hill, testifying at a contentious Senate hearing. 327 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: There's plenty of research evidence that social media is very 328 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: bad for young people, that they are just focused on 329 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: making money and just drastically underfunded when it comes to 330 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: making sure that their platforms are like safe places for 331 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: humans to communicate and exist with one another. So, Noah Hawley, 332 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: I think it was Hally. I think isn't that his 333 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: first name? No Josh, Josh Josh. Yeah, so Josh Holly 334 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: made him get up and apologize to the families, and 335 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: he did it and it was very uncomfortable. And then 336 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: the Snapchat ceo like apologized to families because somebody bought 337 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: a fentanyl pill on snap and uh so you can 338 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: buy a whole lot more than them on the fucking Snapchat, right, 339 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: And then, yeah, they're wildly irresponsible companies that make these 340 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: people a shitload of money. But I don't know that 341 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: a public shaming is is quite enough. It seems like 342 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: maybe instead of having them get up there and like 343 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: stand in the stockades of you know, on scene man 344 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: and be like pelted with disapproving looks from families who've 345 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: like lost people, maybe we should actually like pass some 346 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: legislation that requires these things to be fucking monitored and 347 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: like staffed appropriately. 348 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just, uh, it was just a it was 349 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: just a chance for people to win mill on Mark 350 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 2: Zuckerberg and like I'm not defending him at all, but 351 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 2: it's it's wild when you see all of these people 352 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: just come at him from For a moment, I was like, 353 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 2: Oh that sucks, and then you're like, wait, this fucking 354 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 2: guy's the destroyer. 355 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 4: Yeah that's how hard they were going on him. 356 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 2: But yeah, the real question is, Okay, what kind of 357 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 2: substantive legislation are you going to introduce, what a kind 358 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 2: of like, what a kind of laws are you going 359 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 2: to draft any or is this just gonna be again? 360 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 2: So Ted Cruz can go on, He's like, did you 361 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 2: hear when I said, what. 362 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: Were you thinking? 363 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 4: What the hell were you thinking? 364 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: Like it's just a. 365 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 2: Bunch of people grandstanding like that, And I'm like it 366 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 2: again to your point, it's it. 367 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: God, don't make it for nothing. 368 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 2: Like I love seeing this guy with he did change 369 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 2: his hair like he's getting wavy. Yeah, he's got a 370 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: little because he's the Roman emperor that he like idolizes 371 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 2: that he was doing his hair like you know with 372 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 2: the with bringing it all to the front. 373 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 4: I mean call the Caesar. 374 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, in the black fir style Justinian. Maybe I don't know. 375 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: I just made that up. But I don't know who 376 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg likes from the Roman Empire. Uh god, no, 377 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: there was someone. 378 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 4: It's it's so specific. Augustus's. 379 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so into fucking Augustus, Like everything is about 380 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 2: that anyway. 381 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 4: So and now he's like it's growing out. I guess. Look, dude, 382 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 4: just being in Hawaii man. 383 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: Chill, laid back Zuckerberg man, exactly. Hey that that guy, 384 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: that guy was sucker nerd all right, this this is 385 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: Mark Man, This is your buddy. Mark. I grow my 386 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: own beard to like eat my get my cattle drunk. 387 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 4: Grow grow my own cow to feed my beer or something, 388 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,719 Speaker 4: my bunko. I don't know. 389 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: Man. 390 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 4: Look, I'm surfing the surfing the waves. 391 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: Buddy. You're out there surfing the web, and it is 392 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: my web that is killing you. I'm out here surfing waves. Brother. 393 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, God, it's just it's fucking This is like the 394 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 2: worst part of like, you know, Hill politics is just 395 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 2: like the bringing out your poster boards and being like 396 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 2: what do you have to say? 397 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 4: And it's like except for will you keep donating to 398 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 4: my campaign? 399 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 2: And then that's right, Maybe we will do something about this, because, yeah, 400 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 2: when you look at the face of it, and we 401 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 2: talk about this all the time, the harm that's been 402 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: done not just to younger people, but to like marginalized people, 403 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 2: Like if the actual violence that has played out because 404 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 2: of the lack of moderation on these platforms, like what. 405 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: That's the fucking tragedy. 406 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 4: Now do something other than just being like, do you 407 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 4: see what I fucking said to him? 408 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: Dude, fucking snailed the sweat. Dude. All right, well, those 409 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: are some of the things that are trending on this 410 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 1: January thirty. First, we are back tomorrow with a whole 411 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to 412 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't 413 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to 414 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. Bye bye,