Speaker 1: Hello, my people, and welcome to this wonderful afternoon edition
Speaker 1: of Red, White and trend Land formerly Greenland. Shout out
Speaker 1: Archcamcam on the Discord for that short show title, because yes,
Speaker 1: we continue to harass Denmark and say, hey, how much
Speaker 1: y'all want for that little greenland over there?
Speaker 2: Can we get some of that?
Speaker 1: And now, Buddy Carter, Republican in the House, introduced to
Speaker 1: bill to this like and we can call it red
Speaker 1: White and blue. It's fucking stupid. I'm so sorry to
Speaker 1: everyone on earth, not that I have anything to do
Speaker 1: with this, but unfortunately my passport says I'm from here
Speaker 1: unless I use my Japanese one litt key now, and
Speaker 1: you know, and that comes along with a lot of baggage.
Speaker 2: Look, because this shit is fucked and been fun.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here we are. It's me Miles along with
Speaker 1: Andrew t. Hello. Hello there. Yes, as Brian the editor,
Speaker 1: and I think Victor was pointing out there is another
Speaker 1: story too where there's a petition going around in Denmark
Speaker 1: to buy California for one trillion dollars and that has
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand seconds. I'm fine being a part of Denmark.
Speaker 1: I've been there, I mean, I like, it can't be
Speaker 1: I have plans to go. The fire kind of mess
Speaker 1: things up, but I do have plans to go to
Speaker 1: uh come now or Copenhagen as some people might know it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you you literally had specific plans to go
Speaker 1: or yeah, I've been before. It's nice. The food is good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the people's temperament is good. It's you know, it's like anything.
Speaker 1: You know when you go to places that have socialized medicine,
Speaker 1: they're just like there's a few frequencies of anger that
Speaker 1: just aren't there because those needs. You know, I think
Speaker 1: most people in travel know this anxiety is not there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least that one. It's more so they're like, what
Speaker 1: is this? What is this American doing in my fucking store? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, I'm okay, man, I'm okay, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: I'm just here to buy some Tuborg beer and drink
Speaker 1: it by the river. But anyway, here we are, Andrew
Speaker 1: T place to be along with me. Miles G. The
Speaker 1: main MC on this p O D C. A. S.
Speaker 1: T Okay known as T d Z Damn should have
Speaker 1: been a fucking rapper in the eighties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, eighties rapping, you know what I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just like basic iambic pentameter and that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you so much. But anyway, let's dive into it.
Speaker 1: This is what's trending. Trump is doing more dumb nonsense again.
Speaker 1: Now he's you know, he he went after paper straws
Speaker 1: yesterday and he's like, we'll get we're off that. It's
Speaker 1: all back to plastic I signed. You know, he did
Speaker 1: this thing where he holds up an executive order and
Speaker 1: feels like he's done something, and now he's off to
Speaker 1: undo the light bulb efficiency standards, the shower head flow
Speaker 1: of restrictions.
Speaker 2: The toilet rules.
Speaker 1: He's liberating us from the reign of terror that Biden
Speaker 1: hath unleashed on us. For whatever reason. This feels like
Speaker 1: again he's running out of stuff like his I know,
Speaker 1: a lot of these While these executive orders are meant
Speaker 1: to completely destabilize certain agencies and all the other things,
Speaker 1: it's also it's also performative. So all of America is
Speaker 1: like just you know, uh, in like a state of
Speaker 1: paralysis because of how potent that Trump seems to be.
Speaker 1: But now that he's doing executive orders on like straws
Speaker 1: and toilets, I'm like, oh, we lose the steam here,
Speaker 1: you learn the limits.
Speaker 2: It's also very much the fuck you make me of it.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Sure, dog, but you can decree this all you want,
Speaker 1: but like right, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah yeah, make it.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah again, this is I think, while like
Speaker 1: other experts like it's scarier if he had cong like
Speaker 1: if these were acts of Congress, but he's circumventing all
Speaker 1: of that, and now it's just gonna end up being
Speaker 1: something like Russia, where it's just like it's just the
Speaker 1: threat of violence that he uses to rule over everything
Speaker 1: and along with his oligarch buds. So that's happening. An
Speaker 1: eye on that, I guess, or shout out to y'all
Speaker 1: who can now throw up those unrestricted shower heads and
Speaker 1: blast your corpse with wonderful water pressure. I already feel it, man,
Speaker 1: And now I kind of want to know what an
Speaker 1: illegal shower head feels like.
Speaker 2: Pre band like a band.
Speaker 1: Shower head is like, like is that gonna blow my
Speaker 1: skin off? Because I don't need that.
Speaker 2: I yeah, they're there. At no point have I ever
Speaker 2: been like I'm being restricted by like physical throughput of
Speaker 2: what's available on the market, right right, Like yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean this goes back to like just the general shit
Speaker 2: of like, well, I mean it's also too like all
Speaker 2: of these Biden things he's undoing, we're kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, corporate technocratic half measures anyway, Yeah, work that good. Also,
Speaker 2: so there's a little bit of like that.
Speaker 1: Was also an illusion of potency in office too. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: I know you're talking about qualified immunity and getting rid
Speaker 1: of that for cops. We're not doing that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, your shower head will be a little bit
Speaker 1: more environmentally friendly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it is like arguing over like kind of
Speaker 2: the nothing of it a little bit.
Speaker 1: No, That's why I'm like, but I'm also curious, Like
Speaker 1: I wish there was someone who did a demonstration, is like,
Speaker 1: this is what your showers were like under Biden. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this is what they're like now under the Trump regime.
Speaker 1: And I'd imagine it would be imperceptible, but god, this.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, I mean, it's it.
Speaker 1: It does reveal on both sides how little the government
Speaker 1: does to actually improve people's lives, and like, while there
Speaker 1: are certain measures that did do that, not in the
Speaker 1: way that everyone is clamoring for Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: because that would upset the status quill.
Speaker 2: It is a little also like like how happy does
Speaker 2: this stuff really make maga people? Like, I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess it could make them happy, but it doesn't like
Speaker 2: do anything. Yeah, it's the bigger stuff too.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, like, you know, I think the one
Speaker 1: that is super material is like if they if they
Speaker 1: take away like equal marriage, it will literally not improve
Speaker 1: a single maga person's life. Yeah, no, in a way
Speaker 1: that I'm like, what, how happy could you really be
Speaker 1: about it? That's the problem with your Your main priority
Speaker 1: is just seeing someone else suffer. Yeah, because you actually don't.
Speaker 1: There's no room for your life to improve. If you're
Speaker 1: sort of metric for what is good policy is does
Speaker 1: it make little libs cry? Then you're like, okay, dude,
Speaker 1: this I know this ends not well for the people
Speaker 1: who are all in on that sort of Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go. Well, let's also check in on who's
Speaker 1: bending the knee this week preemptively, So step one of
Speaker 1: resisting fascism is to not preemptively roll over and become
Speaker 1: a subordinate. Just so we're all clear on that. You
Speaker 1: you say, no, no, these are norms that I believe me,
Speaker 1: need to preserve and like whatever you want. Clearly our
Speaker 1: media and tech companies have ignored that for their own enrichment.
Speaker 1: We know, we knew that ABC he previously settled with
Speaker 1: Trump before he got into office because they were being
Speaker 1: nice by donating like fifteen million dollars to his future library.
Speaker 1: And now Paramount, the parent company of CBS, is following
Speaker 1: in a similar manner where they may settle an easily
Speaker 1: winnable case that Trump brought against them because they just
Speaker 1: don't want to make Trump mad. And also they're down
Speaker 1: to just curb stomp the freedom of the press, I guess.
Speaker 1: And also they got a little bit of a merger.
Speaker 1: You know that's all right here, Skydance, Paramount. You don't
Speaker 1: want them to fucking call that whole thing off either.
Speaker 1: So guess what we will lick if the boot and
Speaker 1: Google now they've been doing all kinds of shit, fuck shit,
Speaker 1: they're getting rid of diversity. They you know, we're now
Speaker 1: seeing how what Google Maps will look like depending on
Speaker 1: what country you're in. When you zoom in on the
Speaker 1: Gulf of Mexico in the US, it will just say
Speaker 1: straight up Gulf of America. If you're in Mexico, They're
Speaker 1: not fucking with your all sovereignty. That's just saying it's
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexican. Go in the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: This is so fucking stupid. If you go to look
Speaker 1: at the Gulf of Mexico, it will say Gulf of
Speaker 1: Mexico parenthetical underneath Gulf of America. So thank you so
Speaker 1: much for that.
Speaker 2: Google.
Speaker 1: You've you've really done it. I mean, here's the thing
Speaker 1: I will just say though, it's like, would you say,
Speaker 1: like resisting fascism or like not like not like compliant advance.
Speaker 1: The thing is, it's like all of these tech companies
Speaker 1: have always been white supremacist. Yes, yes, yes, sometime for people,
Speaker 1: just just so we understand how quickly, just how different
Speaker 1: the the ideologies are for a profit seeking corporation and
Speaker 1: a human being that respects, you know, wants just agency
Speaker 1: over their life.
Speaker 2: But these people ben Nazis. They stay Nazis. It is
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, So now they're just full on disappearing
Speaker 1: other holidays and events in the calendar in the Google calendars.
Speaker 1: So if this ship celebrates people that aren't white, cis
Speaker 1: hit men. Oh we don't need that, so they literally,
Speaker 1: we're in the what is is February eleventh? I said, January. Bro, sorry,
Speaker 1: it's February eleventh. They already it's not Black History Month anymore.
Speaker 1: I know you thought it was, but guess what, that
Speaker 1: shit ain't in there anymore. They've also got rid of
Speaker 1: Women's History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Indigenous People's Month, Jewish
Speaker 1: Heritage Month, Pride Month, all of that just absent from
Speaker 1: their calendars. And when they were asked like, hey, like
Speaker 1: what the fuck are you doing? Why are you just
Speaker 1: getting rid of all these calendars and acknowledging, you know,
Speaker 1: the diversity that exists within the country, they basically just
Speaker 1: said it's like not really sustainable or scalable to have
Speaker 1: like hundreds of like events that we have to like, look, dude.
Speaker 2: Just we don't care.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like sort of like it was such
Speaker 1: a half assed answer where it would have just been
Speaker 1: easier if they're like, look, dude, we don't give a shit,
Speaker 1: But they try to couch it in scaleable.
Speaker 2: I mean, they have to do work to remove those things.
Speaker 2: So like like yeah, they're actively you know, being who
Speaker 2: they've always wanted to be public and it kind of
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, don't use Google if you can
Speaker 2: obviously duck duck go.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, try that shit. Try fucking don't use Chrome.
Speaker 1: Just just generally from a usability standpoint, ship this sucks. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I am not sorry. Oh well there goes there goes
Speaker 1: our chrome deal. Anyway, let's also check in with God.
Speaker 1: So the Democrats, I pointed out the previous episode that
Speaker 1: you know when Chuck Schumer and like Al Green like
Speaker 1: lifts his cane in the air and they're like, we're
Speaker 1: basically eighty, we're so old. We know what the steaks
Speaker 1: are for me in the next five issues. I don't
Speaker 1: know anyway, Well we haven't.
Speaker 2: They do know what the stakes are and they're very low.
Speaker 2: Yeah for them.
Speaker 1: For them, they are insulated, unfortunately, So we have to
Speaker 1: deal with it. So seventy six year old Congressman John Larson,
Speaker 1: a Democrat, I said, Domdicut, a Democrat from Connecticut, a
Speaker 1: Dometicut if you will, was giving you know, a speech
Speaker 1: on the House floor talking about you know, social Security
Speaker 1: and why we can't just like fucking throw it into
Speaker 1: the fucking dumpster so we can save some billionaires more money,
Speaker 1: and has like a medical episode mid speech. I'll play
Speaker 1: the audio because it's I'm like, it's like, so, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm like so sad for just the state
Speaker 1: of everything when this is what we're kind of up
Speaker 1: or this is the state of the House right now,
Speaker 1: here's John Larson speaking on the ways and means subcommittee.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, no one on the Republican side in the
Speaker 1: House and Senate, who control both the House and Senate,
Speaker 1: is going to speak up. M m. Yeah. He's like
Speaker 1: he's like mid Burp and Jon and jeffs oh, and
Speaker 1: he's not He's he's just not saying anything right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not really moving. It's like something like.
Speaker 1: I'll give ahead twenty seconds. He's still not talking for
Speaker 1: no one is helping him, no one is doing anything.
Speaker 1: The people are just social watching him is the basis
Speaker 1: for their retirement. Okay, let me jump ahead as well.
Speaker 1: An aid put a glass of water next to him.
Speaker 1: That's I don't think it's because he has cotton mouth,
Speaker 1: just so you know. And then he's about to get
Speaker 1: hit with just a fucking terrible blow right here.
Speaker 2: The gentleman's time as expired.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, he apparently had they said it was an
Speaker 1: adverse reaction to a new medication. I take no joy
Speaker 1: in seeing that, not even for any reason.
Speaker 2: I mean it's also clearly a lie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean either way, I can we have we there.
Speaker 1: We really need term limits because not just for the
Speaker 1: fact that like people who are like in their older age,
Speaker 1: we'd like for them to just enjoy their life and
Speaker 1: not have to, you know, pretend that.
Speaker 2: The old God is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We see this constantly in politics, like where people just
Speaker 1: cannot let go, and many people are willing to just
Speaker 1: look the other way because the moment they're there, they're
Speaker 1: they're their boss or the most powerful person in the room.
Speaker 1: So they're just like, oh, yeah, no, you're good. That
Speaker 1: was no, that was solid. You told them, you told them,
Speaker 1: yeah this. And then also just the stakes involved with
Speaker 1: our our futures, Like I can't like people who are
Speaker 1: at the latter stages of their lives are not looking
Speaker 1: at the future the same way that people who have
Speaker 1: fifty years out of them, forty years ago them.
Speaker 2: They clearly don't have the capacity to pivot on like
Speaker 2: things that like i mean literally ossified into their worldview
Speaker 2: in their fucking twenties, which was half a century ago
Speaker 2: or more. Yeah, yeah, like yeah, it's just like watching
Speaker 2: these people try to navigate this world. It's it's one
Speaker 2: of the biggest problems with what we're living through is like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we can't do anything about that.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're asking people in their eighties, in their
Speaker 1: late seventies to cross swords with basically like sophisticated AI scammers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these people, they are.
Speaker 1: These are the same people who are like wow, this
Speaker 1: is such a beautiful image that this African child put
Speaker 1: together Jesus using only tires and husks of coconut, Like
Speaker 1: that's AI slop. And they are also the same people anyway.
Speaker 2: So this is very what you should ask yourself this question,
Speaker 2: would I trust my senator with access to my bank account?
Speaker 2: And if the answer is patently no, like this one.
Speaker 1: Is, would you trust them with your bank account? When
Speaker 1: they get a text message on their phone that says, hey, Linda,
Speaker 1: when are we going to play golf next?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then they get suck I'm not sure you're looking
Speaker 1: for the Please, I'm in terrible help. I need your help.
Speaker 1: Please give me something like oh no, anyway, that's what's
Speaker 1: going on there. Let's take a quick break. We'll come
Speaker 1: back to check in on dual lingos fucking wild ass
Speaker 1: marketing right after this and we're back. So dual Lingo
Speaker 1: just posted an announcement and we talk about this a
Speaker 1: lot because if you like, if if you have dual
Speaker 1: Lingo on your phone, like the icon changes over time,
Speaker 1: like the less you like, it's like kind of dynamic,
Speaker 1: like the ship that they do a Lingo icon looks
Speaker 1: like on your on your phone. Anyway, they put an
Speaker 1: announcement up on their Twitter said Duo formally known as
Speaker 1: a dual Lingo owl is dead. And apparently they go
Speaker 1: on to say authorities are currently investigating his cause of
Speaker 1: death and we are cooperating fully.
Speaker 2: Tbh.
Speaker 1: He probably died waiting for you to do your lesson,
Speaker 1: but what do we know, And then it just says,
Speaker 1: please also include your credit card numbers so we can
Speaker 1: automatically sign you up for dual Lingo Max. In his memory.
Speaker 1: People are like, did they get fucking hacked? No, No,
Speaker 1: this is just their unhinged marketing strategy that like they
Speaker 1: do all kinds of stuff, like he had a beef
Speaker 1: with Google Translate like most of us do. It was
Speaker 1: really duo Lingo was into Dua lipa. God, that's fucking depressing,
Speaker 1: I mean, wacky marketing lift.
Speaker 2: Hopefully at least it doesn't work because it is very
Speaker 2: like tech pro humor is just like that level. Look,
Speaker 2: I haven't followed up by a story, but I do
Speaker 2: think probably this is still true. Fuck Duel Longo. They
Speaker 2: use so much AI in setting up their lessons, so
Speaker 2: there are tons of errors and they are not using
Speaker 2: like human speaks makes languages to do these. Uh that
Speaker 2: makes plans.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that makes sense because I tried to order
Speaker 1: some food in Spanish and some dudes put a knife
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: That's right, and if.
Speaker 1: Not, I think about it, probably has something to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I called him a madi posa,
Speaker 1: but that they told me it was a butterfly. So anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: those language apps. It's funny too because it's almost like
Speaker 1: we've turned our backs on all the ones that like
Speaker 1: we had known worked for the longest time. Remember, like
Speaker 1: there were ones that they were like, I'm not that
Speaker 1: it's a good advertisement to like the CIA uses this
Speaker 1: to get their agents like fucking ready to subvert any
Speaker 1: fucking government anywhere.
Speaker 2: But I'm like.
Speaker 1: You can't be pulling up with bad, bad language skills
Speaker 1: in the CIA, So hey, it's.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's just they're just they're showing
Speaker 2: that they're a tech company not an educational company, which
Speaker 2: right on utterly unsurprising. But yeah, they're tech company shit.
Speaker 1: Tech companies do tech company shit, which eventually leads to
Speaker 1: Nazi shit and then Luigi Mangioni checking in with him.
Speaker 1: So if you remember, there were people like donating to
Speaker 1: his like legal defense, uh, and people were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, wow, okay, I can help Luigi Mangioni fight
Speaker 1: off this this case for allegedly assassinating a healthcare CEO. Now,
Speaker 1: go fundme doesn't actually allow fundraisers for quote the legal
Speaker 1: defense of financial and violent crimes or whatever, and a
Speaker 1: lot of fundraisers that have popped up were definitely scams.
Speaker 1: But there was a campaign on give Send Go that
Speaker 1: people were able to donate to, and his lawyer at
Speaker 1: the time was just like, yeah, he's we're probably not
Speaker 1: going to be accepting those donations. But things have changed
Speaker 1: now and Luigi Mangioni is officially accepting the funds right now.
Speaker 1: The total sits like around three hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: so you know, this is this this will I'm sure,
Speaker 1: just go to his lawyer. But hey, the Luigim MANGIONI said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take a dollar so I can fight this case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's amazing how it's like, on some level, just the
Speaker 1: chaos of the Trump administration has completely like shot the
Speaker 1: momentum and the pun was intended there of like just
Speaker 1: sort of like the little bit of class consciousness that
Speaker 1: was coming out of the Luigimanngoni thing. It's almost like
Speaker 1: by design or something. I don't know. But anyway, that's
Speaker 1: that's where we're at with that. And but I still
Speaker 1: do see a lot of Luigi memes, a lot of memes.
Speaker 2: Still I think it's you know, I think the cord
Speaker 2: he has struck.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a minor.
Speaker 2: Hopefully continues ringing, and you know, I try to.
Speaker 1: I mean, more people are gonna get fucked over by
Speaker 1: all of these cuts to funding and stuff than people realize,
Speaker 1: like how vital some of these programs are. I like,
Speaker 1: you aren't depending on them. Sure you can act like
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but some of these people,
Speaker 1: it is very much a vital part of their lives.
Speaker 1: In some instances it's their entire employment and how they have.
Speaker 2: They or their community's employment. Yeah, you know, I'm just
Speaker 2: saying sleep on it. But when your life is utterly fucked,
Speaker 2: when your family savings, when your family's you know, just
Speaker 2: like livelihood is utterly fucked by Elon Musk, Remember that
Speaker 2: Elon Musk did this. Yeah, and you know that unrelated
Speaker 2: to anything Luigi MANGIONI may have done. But just remember
Speaker 2: that Elon Musk did this.
Speaker 1: Right now, he is he is taking our money, that's
Speaker 1: actueling it. Yeah, and he's just going to turn it
Speaker 1: into I don't know, fucking bitcoin or something based rockets
Speaker 1: that blow up.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. The point is and this is unrelated
Speaker 2: to Luigi Manjoni. But Elon Musk did this to you
Speaker 2: and is going to do you know, if if bad
Speaker 2: things happened to you, Elon Musk did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know Elon must started to eating fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I mean allegedly.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Andrew, thanks so much for joining me on.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me on this trending episode.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back with a brand new episode tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Some described it as a how'd I say, is banger banger?
Speaker 1: Banger banger, it's a bang. So join us there tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you know, the same place, same time, and all of that.
Speaker 1: Until then, take care yourselves, take care of each other,
Speaker 1: get your vaccines, and you know, just don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy because.
Speaker 2: It it's everywhere. Okay, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,