Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio Together Everything. So don't ever bird Man. Did you
Speaker 1: say Birdman or did you say burp Man? Okay, I
Speaker 1: said Birdman Birdman like he says it in the show. Yes, welcome,
Speaker 1: You're cast. Never worry about that about Birdman. A while back,
Speaker 1: I got reached out. I got approached by the creators
Speaker 1: of the spinoff to Harvey Birdman and uh. They were
Speaker 1: interested in talking to me about casting for season two.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, they want me
Speaker 1: to be on the show. And we set up a
Speaker 1: meeting and I call a phone meeting, and we were
Speaker 1: shooting this ship for like twenty minutes before I realized
Speaker 1: that they didn't want to cast me in it. They
Speaker 1: were asking if I wanted to cast it, and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to be the casting director. Yeah. Apparently
Speaker 1: Adult Swim I used to I used to a long
Speaker 1: time cracked, and Adult Swim apparently has me on a
Speaker 1: list of casting directors. But it was a big disappointment.
Speaker 1: It was, and we all had an awkward laugh and
Speaker 1: I went about my life. Anyway, we can keep this
Speaker 1: story in or we can cut it. I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell my embarrassing Birdman story. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have on a couple of occasions in my life shouted
Speaker 1: it at the moment of climax, because it has quite
Speaker 1: an impact on people, especially if they grew up watching
Speaker 1: the show. Not a positive impact. Don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of repeat business when I do that. But it's the
Speaker 1: thing I've done. Is this a real story? Robert, yes,
Speaker 1: that I would never lie to you, he says, with
Speaker 1: a twinkle in his eye. Would I tell every person
Speaker 1: one lie? Okay, a different one. It's a different one
Speaker 1: for each person. Yeah. I once convinced a dear friend
Speaker 1: of mine that the band Hanson had all died in
Speaker 1: a bus crash. Oh yeah, well that's true. That's how
Speaker 1: that the beautiful thing. I just brought it up like
Speaker 1: casually one day, and then like a year later, we
Speaker 1: were at a party and someone brought Hanson up, and
Speaker 1: my friend was like, Oh, it's so sad, what happened
Speaker 1: to that bus. That's the funniest thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 1: I love. Oh my god. Um, I mean, I'm a
Speaker 1: bad person. This is the worst year ever. How are you? Okay?
Speaker 1: Hill's the our names Welcome to the show. Oh right,
Speaker 1: I'm your name. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm welcome. Welcome to the show. Today, Chris Pratt, we
Speaker 1: are we are trying to offload all of our narration
Speaker 1: duties onto Mr Pratt. Yeah, apparently got the time. My
Speaker 1: name is Katie. That's right. I knew there was something
Speaker 1: I was forgetting. I was trying to come up with
Speaker 1: some sort of Chris Pratt joke and I had nothing,
Speaker 1: and here we are. Um, yes, this is the joke, Katie.
Speaker 1: I know. I'm just agreeing with whomever today. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: good man, I'm Katie, I'm good. Yeah. Weekend feels like
Speaker 1: everybody did Halloween up this year as opposed to last year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was in Portland, goes pretty hard on Halloween. So
Speaker 1: they were like kids in the street and a party,
Speaker 1: people doing stuff like it was like it was like
Speaker 1: the first episode of Stranger Things. All sorts of kids,
Speaker 1: very festive. It was a good time. No no monsters.
Speaker 1: But I had the opposite, Um my neighborhood because there's
Speaker 1: a there's a just school. Uh yeah, so they do
Speaker 1: not they do not do the Halloween here. We learned
Speaker 1: when we put a bunch of grades. I don't get it,
Speaker 1: and skeletons and got like five kids stop by it.
Speaker 1: You would think that a neighborhood, nearest school would be
Speaker 1: filled with kids. Not not that kind of kids. Are
Speaker 1: not not not this kind of it's not that kind
Speaker 1: of school. They are not allowed to enjoy things. Oh
Speaker 1: that kind of No, no, no, not with religion in
Speaker 1: the mix. Speaking of nodding, nodding, speaking, are we doing heroin, Katie?
Speaker 1: Is this finally happening? Let's do it? I'm on board
Speaker 1: the Halloween? Oh uh? Not being able to enjoy or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was responding to something and now it's too late.
Speaker 1: Speaking of should we talk about some news? Oh? Speaking
Speaker 1: of that, have you talked about the news? We didn't
Speaker 1: talk about discussing this. But apparently JFK Jr. Did not
Speaker 1: come and deliver it's to all the Q and on
Speaker 1: people gathered waiting for him today when I guess he
Speaker 1: was opposed to a stadium in Dallas. Am I am
Speaker 1: I remembering this correctly, Katie? I don't know. I know
Speaker 1: it's on this. Before sitting down here, I saw the
Speaker 1: pictures of the people with like the Trump candy shirts,
Speaker 1: like it's really funny to me that they think that
Speaker 1: Trump would like like like like if JFK Jr. Was select,
Speaker 1: he would be the VP. Like it's so weird. It
Speaker 1: is very funny. It's really like the pictures are like
Speaker 1: funny but also like really sad. It's a huge bummer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big time. It is in Dallas. It's in
Speaker 1: downtown Dallas. It does seem like I think that it's
Speaker 1: happening and that Yeah, he was going to show tweeted this,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to mention it here. Um before the
Speaker 1: pandemic somewhere you're leading up before. I mean, we all
Speaker 1: knew about Q and On, but a lot of people
Speaker 1: maybe perhaps didn't understand what was happening. Um, I had
Speaker 1: an uber driver. Oh, I'm sorry on Q and On
Speaker 1: and I well, I mean I bring this up because
Speaker 1: I did think it was silly and funny at the time,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't wait to tell Cody. But it's tragic.
Speaker 1: It's fucking heartbreaking. And he pulled over to show me
Speaker 1: on his phone. He like turned around and pulled up
Speaker 1: his phone and he goes, look at this, and it was, um,
Speaker 1: a collage of tiny pictures of jfk Jr. Spelling out
Speaker 1: to and then he just went and I mean, sure, yep,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying here, you know, and but
Speaker 1: it's it's heartbreaking and it's very what's awesome is so
Speaker 1: today in Dallas, UM, what looked like a couple of
Speaker 1: hundred people showed up anticipating not just JFK Jr. To
Speaker 1: make his announcement to come back to life in d
Speaker 1: Lee Plaza where his dad was murdered, UM and to
Speaker 1: announce his his candidacy for vice president there, which if
Speaker 1: you just try to get yourself in the head, assuming
Speaker 1: jfk Jr. Was alive, would he pick to start his
Speaker 1: campaign the place where his father's head was exploded? Probably?
Speaker 1: I would probably probably not Maybe, I mean maybe the
Speaker 1: place you choose is you know, I mean, not about
Speaker 1: your future campaign and no, knowing what I know about
Speaker 1: jfk Jr. If he were going to announce his campaign,
Speaker 1: he would do it by crashing a plane into the sea.
Speaker 1: What an announcement feel spectacle? Anyway, that's not the news
Speaker 1: we prepared to talk about. So speaking, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of news speaking of JFK Jr. Thank God is well.
Speaker 1: Biden has delayed the release of the JFK files. Um
Speaker 1: he had to the assassination of his George H. W. Bush,
Speaker 1: did it exactly? Well, so that's the thing, Like it's
Speaker 1: like it's first of all, it's wild that like is
Speaker 1: like under the rug just like by the way, like
Speaker 1: we're delaying these So okay, the reasoning for this, it's
Speaker 1: just very it's funny, I guess. Um. According to the
Speaker 1: memo issue by Biden, the National archivis recommended postponement because
Speaker 1: the coronavirus pandemic. Oh sure, yeah, that would that would
Speaker 1: make it a problem delayed. Well, you know, there might
Speaker 1: be some diseases you know, sealed up with them that
Speaker 1: if we opened it now and released it. And it's
Speaker 1: just such a party thing. You know. You get you
Speaker 1: get access to the JFK assassination files, you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to go to the club to read them, you know exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: like a key part of this quote, Uh that's not
Speaker 1: even like the kicker so uh, because the coronavirus pandemic,
Speaker 1: it delayed the review of records necessary to protect against
Speaker 1: quote and identifiable harm to the military, defense, intelligence operations,
Speaker 1: law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations. Is of
Speaker 1: such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure. Um,
Speaker 1: it hurts the image of the United States government. So
Speaker 1: I'm very curious what's in them. Maybe they meant something else.
Speaker 1: Uh So, apparently some documents will be released on December,
Speaker 1: others will be late two. Um, we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna check in, I guess on December to see
Speaker 1: if they're further delayed. Buts and they just they're just
Speaker 1: trying to protect Bernie Sanders. So respect to them, mad
Speaker 1: respect What else I mean? Uh So, a very funny
Speaker 1: thing has happened, which is that Republicans have convinced themselves
Speaker 1: that let's go Brandon is a is a real BADASSU
Speaker 1: standing for we explain, let's go Brandon. I really just
Speaker 1: learned about that this week. Some sports teams fans were
Speaker 1: yelling fuck Joe Biden, and an announcer at the game
Speaker 1: mishearded as let's go Brandon. I think because there was
Speaker 1: a player named Brandon. I don't know, and okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to get into this a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's because it's very silly from from both sides it is.
Speaker 1: I was I wanted to talk about the Democrats, but yeah, yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: From the start of this more or less it was
Speaker 1: I believe it's a Nascar uh Nascar, and they were
Speaker 1: talking to someone named Brandon Um. And first of all,
Speaker 1: so like I don't know if you know Jesse Kelly
Speaker 1: from the Federalist, I think he he sums up the
Speaker 1: perception of the right about this moment very well. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's the original story of an announcer blatantly lying about
Speaker 1: it and then the Communists freaking out over any regime
Speaker 1: criticism catching on, which, first of all, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've talked to any Communists, but they are more
Speaker 1: than welcome to criticize Joe Biden and might even join
Speaker 1: in on a chant of Fuck Joe Biden. But basically
Speaker 1: the crowd at this NASCAR race was chanting fuck Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: and the reporter was talking to someone named Brandon, and
Speaker 1: she was like, oh, look they're listen, They're they're cheering
Speaker 1: for you. There's cheering let's go Brandon Um, which I
Speaker 1: think is an honest mistake because Fuck Joe Biden, Let's
Speaker 1: go Brandon. She's literally talking to a guy Nam Brandon's
Speaker 1: a crowd of people in a stadium with all these
Speaker 1: like uh like not even in time with each other,
Speaker 1: all these voices from all different directions shouting his thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's perfectly reasonable to mishear that and like
Speaker 1: say that, oh, they're saying this for you. The right
Speaker 1: took that to be the fake news is lying for
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. They're protecting them. They don't want you to
Speaker 1: know that they were shouting fuck Joe Biden. Um, so
Speaker 1: right off the bat, it's a misinterpretation of the actual
Speaker 1: moment that happened. Feeds into their narrative, Like fake news
Speaker 1: doesn't want you to say anything about Joe, feed into it.
Speaker 1: They just why are they even saying that? It doesn't
Speaker 1: I know why Biden? Well, but they were, that's the
Speaker 1: thing they were. And now it's like a joke. They
Speaker 1: got it. They finally have a second joke. Congratulations, you
Speaker 1: got a second joke. Uh, And it's let's go Brandon.
Speaker 1: And so they've started to say let's go Brandon when
Speaker 1: they mean Joe Biden, not because they're afraid to say fuck,
Speaker 1: but because it's this little in joke they have. There
Speaker 1: was that Southwest Pilot and then it kept going Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now it's a thing that's sort of being framed
Speaker 1: as like it's like the new Okay sign, it's the
Speaker 1: new like it's a new Nazi thing, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's just a little and they don't like Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: It's a troll joke. Yeah, the thing that I I can't.
Speaker 1: So there's a company called Palmetto State Armory which makes
Speaker 1: low end gunned parts. It's like cheap low end gun parts,
Speaker 1: particularly a lot in a lot of cases for like
Speaker 1: building your own like a R S and stuff. And
Speaker 1: they release there's a thing called a lower receiver. It's
Speaker 1: the part of the gun that's legal the gun. It's
Speaker 1: like the center of an a R fifteen UM. And
Speaker 1: they've been selling for years once with different slogans. They
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of maga ones out like that. You
Speaker 1: can get all sorts of ship printed on your fucking guns, um,
Speaker 1: like some of them have it will have it so
Speaker 1: that like the safety says, you know, uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's like pirate ship or like a vast in yard
Speaker 1: like all sorts of like branded silly guns. And they
Speaker 1: put out a let's go Brandon rifle and now a
Speaker 1: bunch of like one former FBI agent and a bunch
Speaker 1: of very credulous journalists are all like spamming the A
Speaker 1: t F and the Secret Service about this as if
Speaker 1: it's a death threat, which no, they're doing anything they
Speaker 1: always do where they put little memes on their guns.
Speaker 1: It's not a death threat, they're not. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's deeply printing. Let's go Brandon on a rifle. It's fine.
Speaker 1: They have the right to do that. Like shut up.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I saw that someone like like I contact
Speaker 1: the FBI about this, Like, well then you're waste of time.
Speaker 1: So f dear FBI. Someone used their free speech. Just
Speaker 1: write something that it's not a threat. Um yeah. And
Speaker 1: like I've seen I've just seen a lot of the
Speaker 1: media like like these like a lot of former FBI
Speaker 1: agents and like CIA and like uh just be like
Speaker 1: media figures just being like this is the new like
Speaker 1: this is like maga's zeek hile, Like this is like
Speaker 1: I can't believe you're saying this and treating it like
Speaker 1: this thing. It's like it's totally cool and fine and
Speaker 1: good to save fuck whoever the president is. Whoever the president. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's like our thing. It's like a really good thing
Speaker 1: to be to be able to do and to frame
Speaker 1: this like it's like this like racist dog whistle. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll be I don't know. There's just plenty of things
Speaker 1: to be genuinely upset about other than this. And also
Speaker 1: the comparison comparing it to the okay symbol, it's just
Speaker 1: flat out wrong. That was a symbol that got appropriated
Speaker 1: to become something else and then people were using it
Speaker 1: without knowing what it meant, etcetera, you know, versus a
Speaker 1: phrase that was created and as a joke. And yes,
Speaker 1: we get to say fuck Joe Biden. If you want
Speaker 1: to say fun Joe Biden, you can just say fun
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Um, and like say it's a silly joke,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but like to view it as this like
Speaker 1: horrendous thing and like then so with the pilot uh
Speaker 1: again it's again it's silly from all sides. So like
Speaker 1: the pilot uh shouldn't have probably said that because most
Speaker 1: like most jobs have like don't be political to your kid,
Speaker 1: And there's a reasonable case to make, like if you're
Speaker 1: a pilot, all these people's lives are in your hands,
Speaker 1: so completely reasonable to be like, well he shouldn't be
Speaker 1: saying stuff like that. Uh, they might have a policy
Speaker 1: he signed saying he wouldn't do stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: he did, and if he did, then there should be
Speaker 1: some sort of consequence for that. But then like you
Speaker 1: just know that if he gets fired or disciplined in
Speaker 1: any way, the right is going to take that. It's like, see,
Speaker 1: you can't say anything these days. The wokes have like
Speaker 1: they're canceling everybody for let's go Brandon. That's a will know.
Speaker 1: It's like a completely reasonable reaction. And if you were
Speaker 1: to flip this and a pilot said fuck Trump three
Speaker 1: years ago, everyone would great show well he'd I'd be fired.
Speaker 1: But the people who are saying fire this guy would
Speaker 1: be praising that pilot for saying fuck Trump. Like I
Speaker 1: mean maybe not, but like there's definitely like and unnecessary
Speaker 1: thing to do from the pilot with a bunch of
Speaker 1: people on your plane as a pilot, for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: but I was looking at this because there was a
Speaker 1: pilot h a year or two ago that was like
Speaker 1: telling a bunch of like Trump supporters on the plane
Speaker 1: that he would like drop them off in Kansas, like
Speaker 1: over the p as, like I could drop you off
Speaker 1: in Kansas. It was written up as this, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's threatening Trump supporters, Like, well, no, they were being
Speaker 1: loud and racus on the plane, and much like all
Speaker 1: pilots do, if that happens, he says he's going to
Speaker 1: drop you off somewhere that you're not going to go. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just all very silly, uh and everyone. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's if the fucking liberals yelling at at this point
Speaker 1: about banning shit, all they're doing is making it like
Speaker 1: easier to suppress left wing speech, because that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that would ever actually get suppressed. Like no one's
Speaker 1: ever going to get arrested for whole owning a fucking
Speaker 1: let's go brandon a R fifteen, But someone might go
Speaker 1: to prison for having a red flag on their plate carrier,
Speaker 1: like that dude who went to prison for three and
Speaker 1: a half years because he posted about organizing in the
Speaker 1: wake of the January sixth attack. Like, anytime you make
Speaker 1: calls like this to suppress speech because it makes you
Speaker 1: kind of uncomfortable, all it does is blowback on you
Speaker 1: and wind up getting people in prison who are not
Speaker 1: not your enemies. Because that's the way our government and
Speaker 1: our law enforcement system works and you should be smarter
Speaker 1: than that, you fucking dummies. Yeah, um, I don't know
Speaker 1: or not, but like it's also silly. Let them say,
Speaker 1: there's let them say, let them say their second joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's supid joke. And it's like, just from a practical standpoint,
Speaker 1: did you go to a fucking public school. If so,
Speaker 1: you know that the fastest way to kill something like
Speaker 1: this is not to talk, is just to ignore it,
Speaker 1: don't give it air. Yeah, yeah, there's a reason if
Speaker 1: we weren't reacting to it in some capacity, it would
Speaker 1: blow over. Um speaking of blow over m time for
Speaker 1: some ads. I hated it. You're gonna blow us them
Speaker 1: at your way together everything, don't don't back the red
Speaker 1: leave India there. Um, let's talk about Elon Musk, right,
Speaker 1: are we tweets? Um? Yeah, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: him trolling the director of View and Food Scarcity Organization
Speaker 1: on Twitter, because that's what it was. He's trolling him.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, basically saying he would give him six billion
Speaker 1: dollars if he could prove how that would solve world hunger.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of things about this stupid conversation
Speaker 1: that people it seemed to be getting wrong. One on
Speaker 1: the surface is like, how many of the Elon musk
Speaker 1: it's Elon Muskets, what's the term for them. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: actually thought that this was like some generous offer, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: like the time he fixed the water in Flint, Michigan,
Speaker 1: which he totally he did, or the time that he
Speaker 1: saved those kids in that cave, which he totally did.
Speaker 1: You know the other times he's done this and it
Speaker 1: wasn't scam. It's been a superhero. Um. This has been
Speaker 1: framed like as a response to to um, you know,
Speaker 1: the claim that six million dollars from billionaires would fix
Speaker 1: world hunger. But that's not what happened exactly, UM. But
Speaker 1: rather it was suggested that it would go a long
Speaker 1: way in helping. I don't know, the whole thing really
Speaker 1: frustrated me. This is from CNN. This is what was
Speaker 1: actually said. Billionaires need to step up now on a
Speaker 1: one time basis, said David Beasley in an interview on
Speaker 1: CNN's Connect the World with Becky Anderson Tuesday, setting specifically
Speaker 1: the world's two richest men, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: six billion dollars to help two million people that are
Speaker 1: literally going to die if we don't reach them. It's
Speaker 1: not complicated. He added, a perfect storm of several crisis
Speaker 1: is such as climate change in the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1: Mean many nations are knocking on Famine's door. Just true.
Speaker 1: That's the thing we've been talking about for a long time.
Speaker 1: I mean, first off, don't knock on that door. Stay
Speaker 1: away from Famine's house. But stay then away from you
Speaker 1: just don't. It's not it's not going to be cool.
Speaker 1: You don't need to be there. Don't funk with famine. Um.
Speaker 1: This is a side note. I'm not sure if you
Speaker 1: guys saw this. There's probably been a variety of articles.
Speaker 1: I read an article on Daily Beast this week about
Speaker 1: how the military is actually is already preparing for climate
Speaker 1: change wars. Um and they've spawned from fit by famine. Um.
Speaker 1: And and many people believe that it's already started. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they've started. The kind of transfer of military equipment
Speaker 1: to police has been accelerated for police departments who can
Speaker 1: make a climate change use case for their equipment because
Speaker 1: the way in which the ruling class is going to
Speaker 1: deal with the consequences of the world that they've refused
Speaker 1: to let us change in any meaningful way. Is they're
Speaker 1: going to arm the cops more, Uh, in order to
Speaker 1: stop people from taking any kind of justice, and in
Speaker 1: order to protect the increasingly small enclaves that they have
Speaker 1: to protect themselves from, you know, the consequences of yeah,
Speaker 1: climate change. Uh, it's cool stuff. And police are way
Speaker 1: better to do that within the military, because, for one thing,
Speaker 1: soldiers are not as indoctrinated in fucking cult bullshit as
Speaker 1: cops are. Uh, And it's harder to get them to
Speaker 1: murder their families for you. But cops will murder all
Speaker 1: anybody's fans. Don't give a ship as long as you
Speaker 1: let them live in a slightly nicer neighborhood than everybody else.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll they'll fire into a crowd with live ranmo.
Speaker 1: They don't give a fuck anyway. I mean no, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: right on the money. Um. This is this is a
Speaker 1: quote from the Daily Beast. Um just along these lines.
Speaker 1: I'm just using this to point out what's happening around
Speaker 1: the world. According to a recent article published by the
Speaker 1: political risk analysis firm Global Risk Insights, there may already
Speaker 1: be reasons to think violence in Somalia is linked to
Speaker 1: climate change. Millions of Somali people have begun to face
Speaker 1: food and security after almost continuous dry spells since the
Speaker 1: East Africa drought. Um. Anyway it goes on, that is
Speaker 1: just to point out what it is that we're looking
Speaker 1: at and how this it's already happening and will continue
Speaker 1: to accelerate. Um. And here he is trolling the guy
Speaker 1: in creating all of this conversation. Yeah, he doesn't actually care. Um.
Speaker 1: It's well, it's it's frustrating because like he's responding in
Speaker 1: a way that like he doesn't mean any of it.
Speaker 1: Even if there was, there's there's nothing you could present
Speaker 1: him with, not even the clearest action study, like laying
Speaker 1: out dollar by dollar how you would actually eliminate hunger
Speaker 1: using his money would get him to give you a dime. Also,
Speaker 1: just some points here, because there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: chatter back and forth of like actually dot mount of
Speaker 1: money wouldn't begin to you know, tip of the iceberg
Speaker 1: in this whole conversation about how there was eight billion
Speaker 1: just last year, um, and that didn't solve it. Again,
Speaker 1: this isn't about solving. This is about helping. And the
Speaker 1: point of the six billion was yes too, include what's
Speaker 1: happening now recently, the the the effects of the pandemic
Speaker 1: and climate change, and all the different insecurities and instabilities
Speaker 1: around the world, etcetera. The whole thing has been discussed.
Speaker 1: There's also the fact, like, yes, like you can't just
Speaker 1: pour money and to solve hunger because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of different political and military realities, a ton of different
Speaker 1: things that kind of feed into the fact that people
Speaker 1: are starving in the world. But one thing that would
Speaker 1: help to eliminate starvation is if a tiny, tiny fraction
Speaker 1: of the world's population did not hoard all of the
Speaker 1: wealth and fight egregiously against any kind of reform to
Speaker 1: make climate change less devast dating and against any kind
Speaker 1: of reform to reduce inequality not just within the United
Speaker 1: States but globally and thus increase the ability of people
Speaker 1: to take care of themselves. Um and Elon Musk's money
Speaker 1: is a symptom of that problem. Um And know him
Speaker 1: giving away six billion dollars doesn't solve anything but us
Speaker 1: building the world in which he doesn't get to accumulate
Speaker 1: that kind of money. Exactly, exactly, Although yeah, give away
Speaker 1: billions of dollars if people can eat for a year
Speaker 1: because you did that, even if it's not solving the
Speaker 1: world's climate crisis. But I'm not even asking that. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about changing the structure, the systemic structure, and how
Speaker 1: we let them get away with this ship, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna solve the world's problems and it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I find elon must to be so distasteful and frustrating
Speaker 1: and uh. I also Mr Jeff Bezos has discussed his
Speaker 1: planned to give a couple of billion dollars to plant trees.
Speaker 1: I believe, yeah, which doesn't I mean, it's it's a
Speaker 1: miniscule piece of of of an effective but like, actually
Speaker 1: just adding trees doesn't do much. Number one, re foresting,
Speaker 1: like damaged forests, does a lot more than just kind
Speaker 1: of planting new ones that you've already destroyed and without
Speaker 1: kind of the secondary species that grow up around it.
Speaker 1: The forests aren't much of a climate a carbon sink actually,
Speaker 1: and also have very little resilience to fire. Anyway, there's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of reasons why planting trees is part
Speaker 1: of of of a successful real wilding project, but it's
Speaker 1: like the twenty percentage of it, Like I mean, like
Speaker 1: most things, the climate, Uh, there's so many different factors
Speaker 1: that go into it and so many variables that you
Speaker 1: need a multi pronged approach to actual suppress it. Um.
Speaker 1: And I just find it's frustrating when so he spoke
Speaker 1: to this climate summit Glasco and you gotta say it right,
Speaker 1: Glasgow glars gums, that's a glars gum conference. That that's
Speaker 1: what they call it. He was at, Uh, here's this
Speaker 1: just like a little choice quote from his speech. Um,
Speaker 1: we've discussed this before, but I was told that seeing
Speaker 1: the Earth from space changes the lens from which you
Speaker 1: view the world, But I was not prepared for just
Speaker 1: how much. And I just find it very funny that
Speaker 1: he keeps coming back to this idea that his space
Speaker 1: flight changed his perspective to the point where like what
Speaker 1: he's doing is just like, yeah, there's like some money
Speaker 1: for this, Like he the things he's doing are things
Speaker 1: any like reasonable adult with that kind of money would
Speaker 1: know needs to be done. Like there's no like profound
Speaker 1: change in his behavior, Like he shouldn't have required to
Speaker 1: go to space to realize this. No, it's a talking
Speaker 1: point that he gets to say, yeah, it would be
Speaker 1: It would be rad if he was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: space changed me, and so I am completely rejiggering and
Speaker 1: revamping Amazon into an armed militia to murder fossil fuel executives.
Speaker 1: That would be kind. I would. I would alter my
Speaker 1: opinions on Jeff Jesus. I would. I would be like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a man who's changed. But like this
Speaker 1: is like just like it amounts to like, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: like a grown adult. You know that the climate is
Speaker 1: important and the climate change is real. So like, what
Speaker 1: did you actually learn? Um? Speaking of change? M this
Speaker 1: is a good one. How about that coin toss for
Speaker 1: good luck fighting the climate emergency? I don't know. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: they solved it. They threw all the money in the pond.
Speaker 1: They solved it. Very It's like it's obscene a little bit.
Speaker 1: Did you see Joe Biden fall asleep during the same Joe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean honestly though, yes, you know, but it's the
Speaker 1: most important meeting ever because it's gonna fix the climate.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hate the idea that I have
Speaker 1: a meeting like this, there's any chance that it could
Speaker 1: it could help things because even show up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pointless, there's no no value in them doing this.
Speaker 1: Apparently Russia once. I mean now the new you know,
Speaker 1: trade wars will be who gets to control the new
Speaker 1: waterways as the Arctic melts. Um, that's big on Russia's
Speaker 1: list here. Um. Yeah, it's all depressing. I don't know
Speaker 1: that there's much to talk about in because it's still ongoing.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, coody. So then the all the people there,
Speaker 1: the nations there have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by
Speaker 1: four around mid century, so getting there right on it
Speaker 1: or around yeah, um, good, it's hard. It's like it's
Speaker 1: as bad. It's a bad situation, guys. I mean people
Speaker 1: around the world look to the U. S U. S
Speaker 1: is the you know, I think, the worst pollutic, worst
Speaker 1: polluter per person, yeah, in the world, and people look
Speaker 1: to the United States to lead the way. And of
Speaker 1: course we we we removed ourselves from the Paris Climate
Speaker 1: Agreement under Trump, which you know Biden apologized for this week. Um,
Speaker 1: But in general, the world looks to us, and we
Speaker 1: can't get anything done. Joe Biden can't pass his own
Speaker 1: climate initiatives here in the United States, so they're supposed
Speaker 1: to to follow our lead. How you know what I mean. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're America, We're leaders, will do it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I oh, I just get an email from Sepack. Cool.
Speaker 1: Are we going this year? Start your week by saving America?
Speaker 1: How it's about the election in Virginia. Well that's a
Speaker 1: nice pivot. There's an election in Virginia. Should we take
Speaker 1: a break and then do that after the ads? Yeah,
Speaker 1: break together everything, welcome back the show. You are listening to.
Speaker 1: It's election day, everybody, do you want to talk? It's
Speaker 1: been a fucking year since the election. That's a rip
Speaker 1: the election. Um, that's weird. It's weird to think that
Speaker 1: it was just a year ago, and that it was
Speaker 1: only a year ago for me personally, Um, and how
Speaker 1: stressed out I was this time last year, just losing
Speaker 1: my mind. It was me, it's a lot of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we did it and then fixed everything after that, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why this series just flown by all the progress
Speaker 1: that's been made. You know, I can't even keep track
Speaker 1: of it. I couldn't even get to list all the
Speaker 1: progress that's been made. We got the oh I mean
Speaker 1: he uh, you know, the he did he did repeal
Speaker 1: some of the bands on people serving in the military.
Speaker 1: So now all that additional money going into the military
Speaker 1: can go more people in state. The remain in Mexico. Paul, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why there's nobody in concentration camp. Success to m hmm.
Speaker 1: I just love that we got out of Afghanistan. And
Speaker 1: then uh oh, I mean the murdering kids thing we've
Speaker 1: just been doing for forever, that's not new. Um, old
Speaker 1: hat they called old hat a b MC. We got
Speaker 1: everybody faxed up with open everything back up, and uh,
Speaker 1: the bills are happening, you know. Uh, we started much
Speaker 1: like golf, you want it to be lower, so we're
Speaker 1: getting it down to like one point two trillion, which
Speaker 1: is a good score for golf politics. Yep, that how
Speaker 1: bills work. Yes, yes, okay, m hm yeah. Uh what
Speaker 1: did you guys want to talk about now? It seem
Speaker 1: like there's enthusiasm to talk about this election day stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Virginia Republicans are trying to take
Speaker 1: the state Congress back from a Democratic majority that's that's thin,
Speaker 1: but but has been in place for a little while now. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's an eight seed advantage in the House. Um.
Speaker 1: In a pretty split Senate Uh, everything is going to
Speaker 1: be up for election in two but like there's some
Speaker 1: stuff I don't know up now, and then there's uh,
Speaker 1: what's his name this? Uh Terry mcaulliff, Terry who sucks? Also, yeah,
Speaker 1: those is an old friend of Hillary's. Yeah, and Terry
Speaker 1: mccaulliff set a bunch of great ship about what happened
Speaker 1: in Charlottesville and then did absolutely nothing to hard. I
Speaker 1: know we haven't talked about this election very much, um
Speaker 1: or at all, but it part of it is that
Speaker 1: is that I'm not enthusiastic about either candidate. Obviously we
Speaker 1: would prefer to have a Democrat win, but um, this
Speaker 1: is a really really tight race. You Kin was slightly
Speaker 1: ahead in the polls, but it's unclear. Um Biden wants
Speaker 1: it to be known that that this race does not
Speaker 1: reflect his White House performance. Donald chump Um comes into
Speaker 1: the last minute and endorses Glenn Yunkin so that he
Speaker 1: doesn't get responsibility if he loses, but he also gets
Speaker 1: to say that he helped him win. Ah, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: This absolutely should be something that we're looking to as
Speaker 1: a signal as to what's going on and what we
Speaker 1: might expect in Um, it's maybe not the be all,
Speaker 1: end all indicator, but it's worth paying attention to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the mid terms were I had
Speaker 1: some stuff to tell us about, uh where the nation
Speaker 1: was headed. The mid terms certainly will, but then also
Speaker 1: the Democrats didn't do anything with it. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I just what do? What do? I is all
Speaker 1: the Democrats can promise me that they're not gonna like
Speaker 1: be as nakedly fascistic as the Republicans, because that's, um,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. That's how I feel. I'm okay.
Speaker 1: So there's a pole that of the country thinks that
Speaker 1: we're heading in the wrong direction. I roll my eyes
Speaker 1: at that pole a little bit in that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we'll give me specifics. Yeah, I think that we all
Speaker 1: can agree that we're not doing something right, but I
Speaker 1: think that there's a disagreement as to what we're doing wrong.
Speaker 1: Like some of those people, uh you know, are mad
Speaker 1: about it things for different reasons, but in general, I
Speaker 1: think everybody's mad that nothing's happening and nothing's changing, and
Speaker 1: that the problems are blatant um and there's absolutely no progress,
Speaker 1: no action, and no backbone yeah, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: the the attitude is is just like what we have
Speaker 1: to compromise. We have to compromise, you can't get everything.
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, but we're not getting anything. Mansion
Speaker 1: isn't moving his number at all. We're just going down
Speaker 1: to him. He's dictating your entire agenda, and nobody else's
Speaker 1: opinion matters on anything. I another thing I tweeted, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I was thinking about, like if if
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was president and you know, Joe Mansion was
Speaker 1: holding up his entire agenda, he would be pubally shaming
Speaker 1: him talking about it on Fox News. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that I want Joe Biden to do that, but
Speaker 1: in general, there there's a difference in messaging that happens
Speaker 1: that we are so bad at We're so bad at
Speaker 1: playing this game of public opinion of of you know anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and there's a bunch of ships. Like part
Speaker 1: of the problem is that there's a bunch of ship
Speaker 1: Biden could have done even without Mansion in cinema that
Speaker 1: Trump would have done the right wing equivalent of like
Speaker 1: he could get rid of student loan debt um, he
Speaker 1: could do an emergency Authoration authorization UM to expand medicare,
Speaker 1: he could fucking push to legalized pot, Like what the
Speaker 1: fuck we haven't we haven't done that ship yet, Like
Speaker 1: it's the that's that's the kind of thing that actually
Speaker 1: does have like bipartisan support, and yes, it's the one
Speaker 1: thing everybody wants and we like just why no, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take this easy dunk this, Like nobody
Speaker 1: would be against it's it's political suicide to be against
Speaker 1: legalizing pot. But but apparently not because he was pretty
Speaker 1: clearly against it and became the president. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't that was not what the The election was
Speaker 1: a referendum on and pot polled better than anyone. Like
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't. He also didn't make it a
Speaker 1: thing at all. Yeah, he didn't. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: And he and he he specifically like didn't really talk
Speaker 1: about it. Where where Uh what's his fucking name is it? Grasp? No? Um, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting which Democrat? But one of one of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Congress people was constantly talking, uh Schumer. Where Schumer
Speaker 1: was constantly talking about like yeah, we're gonna we're it's
Speaker 1: gonna come up for a vote. We're gonna decriminalize it,
Speaker 1: like we're going to do it. Uh nothing, fucking crickets um.
Speaker 1: And at some next election, some fucking Republican or Trump
Speaker 1: is gonna just jam that in with murdering trans people
Speaker 1: on the ballot in the win an election. Yeah, sprinkling
Speaker 1: those things with the bad things. And but that's you know,
Speaker 1: the how the Democrats are smart, they know how to
Speaker 1: deal with politics. Yeah, they just find uh, Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 1: greenyod dollars for not wearing a mask on the House floor. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's gonna make her a lot of money. That is
Speaker 1: going to make her a lot of money. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be nothing. That's gonna make her more than absolutely
Speaker 1: probably going to pay your salary to yeph. Probably gonna
Speaker 1: help her get reelected when she needs to do that too. Yep.
Speaker 1: She's been fine twenty times for not wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: After receiving initial warning in May, she was find five
Speaker 1: dollars for her first spense for each subsequent offense. Well
Speaker 1: functioning nations, so great, we're all clearly doing well. We
Speaker 1: end on something nice. Everybody say something recommends something that
Speaker 1: they've been watching. I'll start the next thing. You should
Speaker 1: eat David Chang's new show. It's really good. I've only
Speaker 1: watched a couple episodes. It's fascinating. You know. Each one
Speaker 1: talks about different elements of the food industry, you know,
Speaker 1: the future of meat, how it's going to be grown,
Speaker 1: how restaurants are having to evolve during the pandemic. That
Speaker 1: one's actually kind of hopeful. Um, it's interesting. I like it. Hm.
Speaker 1: I recommend going outside taking a deep breath of that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. Succession is good this season. Succession,
Speaker 1: you pick one. I've been pickling. We we just I
Speaker 1: pickled the last of my harvest last night. Got a
Speaker 1: lot of pickled onions and green tomatoes. And when the
Speaker 1: pickles are fully pickled, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: fry out some of those pickled green tomatoes. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be good as hell. How long does that take? No? No,
Speaker 1: probably a week or so. I'll leave them pickling before
Speaker 1: I cook the first of it. Um, yeah, not not much.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I watched Detroitter's Finally you'll see Detroitter's
Speaker 1: tim Robinson from I think you should leave? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: well and Sam Richardson right, Yeah, and Sam Richard. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen all of it, but Sam. We love Sam.
Speaker 1: He used to work at Cracked while he would be
Speaker 1: in stuff um a Cracked. He's goddamn delight. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good one. That's a good record, great show. Best
Speaker 1: Halloween costumes this year by far Oh Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you should leave costumes. I am. I am absolutely in
Speaker 1: love with how thoroughly that show understands what the internet wants.
Speaker 1: It's like every skit is just crafted to be a
Speaker 1: thing that people lose their goddamn mind home Runs watched it,
Speaker 1: yet you don't watched. I think you should leave. You really,
Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen an episode that was very fun. Me.
Speaker 1: I'll send you some. I'll send you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: watch the best so much of I think you should
Speaker 1: leave skits like one way or another, explain things happening
Speaker 1: in the world, like n f T S or just
Speaker 1: the Dan Flashes skit like they all function on Dan
Speaker 1: Flashes logic, and it's it's it's beautiful that I don't
Speaker 1: even think that was intentional. There's just there's just so
Speaker 1: much wonderful human nature in that show. But a great
Speaker 1: show playing the prank in the mall. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's all. It's all great, it's all great. So this
Speaker 1: is this is what we're reduced to because we're so
Speaker 1: tired of the fucking I know. I just wanted a
Speaker 1: moment of talking to some friends about before we signed off,
Speaker 1: because so bleak. Are you guys watching the last season
Speaker 1: of Insecure? No? I don't. Yeah, it's really good so far.
Speaker 1: Recommend Insecure if you haven't watched it, it's on their
Speaker 1: fifth and last season, highly recommend. And then music can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with music, Yeah, you can't. I'm also reading
Speaker 1: based on last week I was gonna say. I was
Speaker 1: also reading Coltish by Amanda Montell, which Robert and Garrison
Speaker 1: recommended to me. And it's really good so far. I
Speaker 1: was hoping you're going to say, and it's bad. Why
Speaker 1: did you guys recommend this? This is No, it's really
Speaker 1: good so far. It's really it's I mean, it's intense,
Speaker 1: but it's good. Yeah. I had a terrible experience with
Speaker 1: music recently where I was listening, so I got sent
Speaker 1: a song that was like made up of a bunch
Speaker 1: of cut up star Trek the Next Generation clips and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is fun. And then I
Speaker 1: looked into the artist and it turns out he's fucking fascist.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, why why did I Why
Speaker 1: did I look up this person? Why why would I
Speaker 1: do that? I should know, but I never looked You
Speaker 1: never look up people. All right, Well again we were
Speaker 1: having never look up anything, never enjoy anything. Wait wait,
Speaker 1: no, no no, you're right, you're right. Go outside, take a
Speaker 1: breath of fresh while you can. That's right, enjoy it
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