Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Concrete
Speaker 1: Jungle Wet Dream Trend madeo that is courtesy of The
Speaker 1: Hawk to a girl. The Hawk to a girl who
Speaker 1: went on Bill Maher, Uh quickly, I'm Jack. I'm thrilled
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Speaker 2: Poly Never be the Hawk to a girl.
Speaker 1: Not if you talk like that, Polly, you won't be true.
Speaker 1: Do you have you seen the clip of her on
Speaker 1: Bill Maher?
Speaker 3: I don't understand how Bill Maher gets the guests he
Speaker 3: gets and then is like, people are crazy, You're insane.
Speaker 3: What do you You're the one doing it, You're you're
Speaker 3: seeking these people out right.
Speaker 1: Anyways, His interview style is kind of boring. He's just like,
Speaker 1: whoa what rep do you listen to? But I do
Speaker 1: just that this is another banger from the Hawk to
Speaker 1: a girl that I would like to share with you
Speaker 1: real quick if I'm sure everybody's heard it. But still
Speaker 1: just a lot of fun. Here we go.
Speaker 3: What's old to you?
Speaker 1: Old rope?
Speaker 3: To me, it's jay Z and Tupac.
Speaker 1: Dead Silent.
Speaker 2: Oh you've heard of jay Z Yeac.
Speaker 1: Interview He says that one song jay Z, it's like
Speaker 1: Concrete Jungle, what dream TIMEO you know about New York
Speaker 1: all right, now listen to it.
Speaker 2: Does Bill Maher recognize it? Or does he?
Speaker 3: You know, he was like, oh, that's like probably the
Speaker 3: lyrics of the song. He probably was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that jay Z is writing crazy songs.
Speaker 1: I just pretend to listen to jay Z and Tupac. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am curious. I haven't seen the clip after the fact.
Speaker 1: If he recognized as is the genius in his midst?
Speaker 1: Almost definitely not.
Speaker 3: I just had to do another podcast, and I say
Speaker 3: had because I can't believe I didn't. But it's called
Speaker 3: I Hate Bill Maher and it's by Will Weldon, and
Speaker 3: he makes us watch episodes of Bill Maher and then
Speaker 3: like break it down and talk about it, and he
Speaker 3: viscerally hates Bill Maher and I hate him for making
Speaker 3: me watch this episode of Bill Maher for two thousand
Speaker 3: and three. But I'm going through all of Bill Maher's
Speaker 3: like discography. Basically, he's he was going from like all
Speaker 3: of Bill Maher's TV shows and then he might do
Speaker 3: his podcasts and stuff like he has a passion for
Speaker 3: hating Bill Maher and it's so visceral and it's like
Speaker 3: Bill Maher has always been this awful person. I don't
Speaker 3: know how he survived this long. But anyway, that podcast
Speaker 3: is really fun too, amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, Paula, they you have offered to be our Indian
Speaker 1: course for the upcoming presidential election. We have a story
Speaker 1: that dropped into our lapse that is on your beat.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've been studying the WhatsApp polls and memes, you know,
Speaker 3: I've been locked into the auntie calls, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. And this one popped up on my on
Speaker 3: my Twitter and it is a person who is an
Speaker 3: Indian man and he goes to a Trump rally dressed
Speaker 3: as the Bake Ramaswami in that he is an Indian
Speaker 3: man in a suit, right, and he flew to Montana, Yeah,
Speaker 3: just by being brown. And then he walked in and
Speaker 3: then everybody was like, oh my god, hey the Vike.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Are you the Vike and then introduced himself. People were
Speaker 3: asking to take pictures with him, and he was just
Speaker 3: obliging everyone.
Speaker 2: They were all excited.
Speaker 3: The governor or the senator Matthew was his name, Matthew Whitaker. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like recognized him as Avake and there were just he
Speaker 3: was just like these white people's like super excited, like dreamed.
Speaker 3: Miss Montana like addressed him and took a picture him,
Speaker 3: and he tried to go on stage, which is insane
Speaker 3: given the assassination attempt, but like the Secret Service asked
Speaker 3: for his press credentials at like right when he was about.
Speaker 2: To, and then they kicked him out.
Speaker 3: And it's so funny because you know they would have
Speaker 3: done that to Vake anyways, if it was the real
Speaker 3: Deva would have been like, I'm sorry, no brown people
Speaker 3: allowed on stage right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, But I just love that. I feel
Speaker 1: like the Secret Service has been shown lacking like a
Speaker 1: you know, after the assassination attempt. Like obviously the assassination
Speaker 1: attempt was like wild, but like there's also like a
Speaker 1: right wing troll who just like walked up to Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris was just like really, yeah, oh my god, how
Speaker 1: the fuck did she get that close? But anyways, come on,
Speaker 1: Secret Service, let's see there. There's this story that I
Speaker 1: guess is an old story, but it just popped up
Speaker 1: on Reddit again about a guy who build Google and
Speaker 1: Facebook one hundred and twenty two million dollars and they
Speaker 1: like paid him. He's now in jail. He was, I
Speaker 1: believe Lithuanian, but he just was like got broken to
Speaker 1: somebody's email, so like got figured out what like the
Speaker 1: invoicing process was, who you emailed to get your invoices
Speaker 1: paid out, and then was able to get the company's
Speaker 1: Google and Facebook just via asking for it one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two million dollars before he got that.
Speaker 2: I don't see what's wrong with that.
Speaker 3: I have in best welled thirty million from my heart
Speaker 3: and TDZ, so like, I don't understand what the problem is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the.
Speaker 2: Same way I've just been sending guys, you're.
Speaker 1: Just asking nicely. You ask so nicely.
Speaker 3: A thousand percent should not go to jail for this,
Speaker 3: I know, or like those people who like are still
Speaker 3: on employee payroll but like don't go into work for
Speaker 3: like twelve years. There was I think it was in
Speaker 3: like some Asian countries. Officers, yeah, office exactly. That was good,
Speaker 3: that was great, But they they should just allow them.
Speaker 3: They just if you get away with that, if you
Speaker 3: get away with it, if you're like an evident Goliath situation,
Speaker 3: they should just let you keep food.
Speaker 1: They should just let you get away with it. I agree,
Speaker 1: Like that there should be a court of public opinion
Speaker 1: where they're like, do we just like kind of act
Speaker 1: in press, like be impressed by the balls that took
Speaker 1: to do this. This also like added context for me
Speaker 1: for why companies are so like constantly worried about like
Speaker 1: fishing scams and like making you change your passwords every
Speaker 1: two weeks. Is like, oh, this is what Like It's
Speaker 1: not just that they get access to the shitty like
Speaker 1: spreadsheets that are being sent around between like the boring
Speaker 1: jobs of your company. It's that people are paying so
Speaker 1: little attention that they won't pay one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two million dollars if you just like it.
Speaker 2: Happened to us, we don't want it to happen to you.
Speaker 1: We don't want it to happen all right. Uh. And
Speaker 1: also some international news that as a Russian chess champion
Speaker 1: has been arrested for smearing mercury on her opponent's chess
Speaker 1: pieces in an attempt to poison them. So this is
Speaker 1: we've had and mad, I know what that's isn't that.
Speaker 2: Letter letter queens gambit all over them?
Speaker 3: Also the most Russian ship that would be like I
Speaker 3: know that would be like if I killed someone with
Speaker 3: chicken tika masala, Like this.
Speaker 1: Is not.
Speaker 3: This is like your stereotype for poisoning people all the time,
Speaker 3: Like that's what Putin is famous for.
Speaker 1: Else, like when the US had a cheating a Russian
Speaker 1: or when the US had a chest cheating scandal, it
Speaker 1: was like a guy with a thing vibrating in his ass.
Speaker 1: And in Russia they're like, no, I'm going to poison
Speaker 1: you through the skin of your hand, where every move
Speaker 1: you make against me makes you closer to death.
Speaker 2: Hey, why do we play the villains in all your
Speaker 2: Bond movies?
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Yeah, what's your fucking problem? That's not fair. Anyways,
Speaker 1: they're considering a potential lifetime band she faces three years
Speaker 1: in prison, and considering three years in prison seems light.
Speaker 1: But okay, it's smuggling.
Speaker 3: In phones to play chess on her on her phone
Speaker 3: on burner phones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do appreciate that. It's a potential considering a
Speaker 1: potential lifetime ban. Like they're like, we're not going to
Speaker 1: do anything. We're not going crazy here, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if anything, she's guilty of loving the game
Speaker 1: a little too much.
Speaker 2: We like, we like her creative style. You know that's
Speaker 2: a move. That's a move they hadn't seen before.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that that's an opening they had predicted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ultimate defense, the Russian defense they have like
Speaker 1: the French open, uh, you know, and this is the
Speaker 1: Russian open, which is that you have secretly poisoned the
Speaker 1: chess pieces of the find.
Speaker 2: Out because like the horse fell over, is.
Speaker 1: How they right exactly. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll talk some politics. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back and Trump is. A week ago, we
Speaker 1: were told by a Trump advisor that the campaign was
Speaker 1: planning to hit the Harris Walls campaign with quote several
Speaker 1: Willie Horton cases. Willie Horton is shorthand for an infamously
Speaker 1: racist attack ad run by George H. W. Bush in
Speaker 1: eighty eight. It's widely agreed to have been like a
Speaker 1: national disgrace and racist and you know the impact. You know,
Speaker 1: historians point to it as having done huge damage to
Speaker 1: black men and how they're prosecuted in US courts for years. Basically,
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton's entire you know, tough on crime, super predator
Speaker 1: stance was his attempt to protect against the Democrats. Ever
Speaker 1: being called, you know, soft on crime again and you know,
Speaker 1: he was a complete fucking disaster and travesty. And the
Speaker 1: Trump campaign is like, yeah, we're gonna do that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do another one of those. And I actually saw
Speaker 1: one of the ads in I am currently in a
Speaker 1: suburb of Philadelphia and even though I'm in New Jersey
Speaker 1: that they are advertising here like it is a suburb
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia and yeah, it's just a bunch of criminals,
Speaker 1: you know, horrifying crimes committed while Kamala Harris was a
Speaker 1: g And then they include mugshots of I think exclusively
Speaker 1: black men, of course, because they want to Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just want to get the white voter fear ramped all
Speaker 1: the way up. So yeah, I mean when they said
Speaker 1: Willie Horton, they they meant it. They are going full on.
Speaker 1: It's fucked up. They also make her look like they've
Speaker 1: sped up the video so she looks like she's on meth.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if it's like even legal, because they just
Speaker 1: have her like laughing and like just seeming all all
Speaker 1: out of sorts is very Strange's so weird.
Speaker 3: Like when you initially said Willie, like that reminded me
Speaker 3: of him being racist in a different way.
Speaker 2: Did you hear about the Willie Brown helicopter ride.
Speaker 1: Thing right, Yeah, where he claimed that he had been
Speaker 1: in a near helicopter crash with Willie Brown and it
Speaker 1: was actually a different black politician.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he had said that, like during the helicopter
Speaker 3: ride which had a bad landing or an emergency landing,
Speaker 3: Willie had told him all these awful stories about Kamala,
Speaker 3: But it wasn't even her ex who's like friends with
Speaker 3: her or whatever it was. It was somebody else entirely.
Speaker 3: It's just another because of the racism associated with it.
Speaker 3: It just reminded me of.
Speaker 1: That, just cause the worst lie.
Speaker 2: Black man he is throwing under the bus.
Speaker 1: Right, Jesus christ. We have more detail on his plan
Speaker 1: to rap fuck the upcoming election. There's a good article
Speaker 1: in the Guardian that is just looking at you know,
Speaker 1: in addition to a lot of the crazy shit that's
Speaker 1: happening in Georgia with their kind of election officials of
Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee's election litigation team is now being
Speaker 1: led by Christina Bob, an election denier, who is facing
Speaker 1: criminal charges for her efforts to overturn the twenty twenty race. I.
Speaker 2: I that'sop anybody from anything, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Right, Like, person who is criminally being investigated for doing
Speaker 1: crimes in association with election is like their head, their
Speaker 1: head of election.
Speaker 3: How Trump appointed every member of his cabinet, he was like,
Speaker 3: who's the dumbest bitch alive secretary of education?
Speaker 2: To right, who hates the environment EPA, let's.
Speaker 1: Go legitimately, Yeah, and then they're yeah, like an oil executive.
Speaker 1: It's and then just the details are really annoying, like
Speaker 1: because they're basically the way they're going to do it
Speaker 1: is they're going to ask for evidence, like just more
Speaker 1: and more evident. They'll be like, I need to see
Speaker 1: the you know, you know, every receipt of like every
Speaker 1: person who touched these ballots, and if you can't show
Speaker 1: that to them, they're going to like they basically issue
Speaker 1: like chain of custody and investigations. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they say, in logic, it's very hard to definitively prove
Speaker 1: something doesn't exist, and they are going to just take
Speaker 1: advantage of that. They're going to drill the hell out
Speaker 1: of that in the upcoming election.
Speaker 3: It's going to well that's why this is a christianation,
Speaker 3: is it's hard to prove God doesn't exist exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where it's usually brought up or like aliens.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't prove it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: You can't prove that God and aliens didn't do voter fraud.
Speaker 1: You can't, that's right. Yeah. And also they point out
Speaker 1: that like the stop the steel shit, So when they
Speaker 1: tried to do it in twenty twenty, like I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people were like, yeah, no, I guess
Speaker 1: I could come around to that, like the people who
Speaker 1: voted for Trump. But now it's like a like sixty
Speaker 1: six percent of Republicans believe the twenty twenty election was stolen.
Speaker 1: So they have a huge group of voters already on
Speaker 1: their side and like ready to do this shit. They
Speaker 1: have like one hundred thousand people volunteering to like watch
Speaker 1: the watch the vote certification process.
Speaker 3: I genuinely worry about people's safety because remember when they
Speaker 3: refuse to allow people to like give food and water,
Speaker 3: to have food and water in line. Yeah, but I'd
Speaker 3: like it's going to be there's so much more animosity.
Speaker 3: And I also remember, weren't they like defacing or fucking
Speaker 3: up ballot boxes in California at the time, like they
Speaker 3: were trying to get people to like lose votes in
Speaker 3: those when you drop off your your ballot in the
Speaker 3: mail boxes.
Speaker 1: The big like the vote.
Speaker 2: Colection books too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, so there's this guy Mark
Speaker 1: Elliott Elios who is like the foremost expert, like he
Speaker 1: fought all the like attempts by the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: to steal the twenty two the election. He was saying
Speaker 1: that their attempts last time were pretty like ham handed,
Speaker 1: and he would know he's the one they were literally
Speaker 1: stuffing him in there. But he one thing he says
Speaker 1: is like you can actually go to democracy docket dot
Speaker 1: com and sign up to be a poll watcher as well,
Speaker 1: so that at least there's people, you know, who aren't.
Speaker 2: Watchers who will watch the watchers.
Speaker 1: Who will watch the watchers exactly. But he's also just
Speaker 1: saying like, yeah, like you said, you know, I think
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot like they're much more sophisticated.
Speaker 1: They have a lot more people kind of ready to
Speaker 1: jump in. Yeah, they've been racist, but now they're like
Speaker 1: they're ready to and and he's like, I think there's
Speaker 1: going to be both legal and extra legal methods.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just worried about like like physical altercations too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like right now, they're trying to claim that illegals
Speaker 1: quote unquote are voting and that people should have to
Speaker 1: provide proof of citizenship, which would of course be a
Speaker 1: massive tool of voter suppression because it's like really hard
Speaker 1: to you know, find your citizenship on short notice, your
Speaker 1: proof of citizenship, and just like a tremendous pain.
Speaker 3: It is going to have like the worst phone call
Speaker 3: with their parents where they're like, Okay, I need my
Speaker 3: birth certificate or my passport, can you give it right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And the laws that they're trying to pass,
Speaker 1: like the legal experts think they won't stick, but they're
Speaker 1: creating the pretense to cast doubt on the election. So
Speaker 1: it's just like you can't can't play defense against this
Speaker 1: because they're just going to make up like whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck they want to.
Speaker 4: It's also just awful because you're constantly like this is
Speaker 4: American politics in general, but you're constantly on your heels
Speaker 4: about things, so you can't even like whatever is the
Speaker 4: conflict of the day takes over everything. It feels like
Speaker 4: and you can't make progress on like any other any
Speaker 4: other subject like healthcare or education because you're putting out
Speaker 4: the fire of like people are going to like fight
Speaker 4: each other at the ballot boxes.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I had like there's so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the Steve Bannon strategy of flood the zone with
Speaker 1: shit where you just like there's so much bad shit
Speaker 1: going on, Like I'd even forgotten like the stuff they
Speaker 1: did to overturn the twenty twenty election, Like yeah, where
Speaker 1: like you, I mean they were there were confrontations at
Speaker 1: polling sites that led to misleading evidence that Trump and
Speaker 1: his allies used to try and overturn the election. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trump personally called two Republican canvassers on the Wayne County
Speaker 1: Board like in Detroit, trying to like get them to
Speaker 1: not certify the vote there, and they like briefly refused
Speaker 1: to certify and then like reverse themselves and did certify.
Speaker 1: But like, you know, we know what they're going to
Speaker 1: try to do. They're just going to be better prepared
Speaker 1: them on the fly. Yeah, Like I was listening to
Speaker 1: that five for Rhiann and Mum's podcast from the week
Speaker 1: where they were talking about Gore v. Bush or Bush v. Gore,
Speaker 1: the like Supreme Court case where the conservative justices decided
Speaker 1: the election because they thought that could happen again. We
Speaker 1: still think it could happen again in this upcoming election.
Speaker 1: But they were talking about like stuff that was happening
Speaker 1: where the Supreme Court was trying to get it so
Speaker 1: like you had to stop taking mail in ballots and
Speaker 1: Texas they were just like all these ways the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court was trying to intervene. And now they have this
Speaker 1: like three majority and like a real head of steam
Speaker 1: of just like doing whatever Donald Trump wants them to do,
Speaker 1: so like that is going to come come into play.
Speaker 1: And then Trump just straight up calling people and being like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's can you rap fuck this thing for me? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Republicans nearly got the state Supreme Court to block
Speaker 1: certification of the state's election in twenty twenty in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Trump called the governor, Doug Doocey and he was certified
Speaker 1: as he was certifying the vote, trying to get him
Speaker 1: to stop the certification of votes.
Speaker 3: So it's just hey, I'm just going to say it now,
Speaker 3: Trump lose my fucking number. Okay, don't call me on
Speaker 3: election day. Don't ask me to do anything for you
Speaker 3: too little.
Speaker 1: I need eighty thousand votes. That's that's all I need
Speaker 1: from you.
Speaker 3: First of all, you know I can't count that high.
Speaker 1: Paula Viganalain, what a pleasure having you here this week.
Speaker 2: It's not the fun yeah, you having me, it's.
Speaker 1: Been a pleasure. Where can people find you? Follow you
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Speaker 3: next show it's August twentieth. Show after that will be
Speaker 3: September twentieth. It is at the Comedy Store. It's all
Speaker 3: brown comedians, except once in a while we have to
Speaker 3: put somebody else on there from the Comedy Store. But
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Speaker 1: It's awesome, amazing, all right, that's going to do it
Speaker 1: for us. This Thursday afternoon, we are back tomorrow with
Speaker 1: the whole last episode of the show until them, Be
Speaker 1: kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,
Speaker 1: and we will at your tomorrow fight.
Speaker 2: Fight,