fyyd: : 4 Day Work Week 5 Eva, QAnon Makes Child Trafficking Worse 7.12.21

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Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, nine, Episode

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one of Guys production of I Heart Radio. This is

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a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's

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shared consciousness. Uh. It is Monday, July. My name is

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Jack O'Brien a k. Apple Jack, which is my actual

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nickname for a week of basketball camp when I was

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a kid due to a hand twitch I had while

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holding an apple that caused me to just launch the

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apple across the cafeteria table into my coach's bowl of

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cereal milk. And he called me apple Jack derisively for

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the rest of the best. But it would have been

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it would have been perfect, but he was, Yeah, but

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love love when it wasn't it wasn't that. Wasn't that

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the time when a coach would give you a toxic

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nickname based on something that's different about you? Yeah? Yeah,

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and that was that. Wasn't that bad? I mean for

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all the things, but I've always had trouble with my hands.

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I've never know what to do with my hands, and

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sometimes they'll just freak out and throw an apple across

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the room. Uh. And I'm thrilled to be joined as

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always by my co host, Mr Miles Gras yes, going

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straight from the eight one eight to the eight oh

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eight coming soon to Ahah. Who is your boy from

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this hand? Fernando Valley, Mr Hideo NoHo, Yes, you know that, gang.

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I'm I'm gonna be making my way to a while,

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you know, so recommendations hit me up, you know, because

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I'm trying to I'm trying to take advantage of some

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of some free times from working remote. But yes, today

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O NoHo in the building. Thank you for having me,

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and I hope to see you launched something involuntarily at

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some point. I'm jack, I really did. I've gotten better

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control of my hands, but they'll still freak out every

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once in a while. Wait, we have like alien limb syndrome. Yeah,

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a little bit, like some momentary alien limb syndrome. It

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came up because my three year olds having a lot

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of sleep trouble and he crawled into bed with my

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wife last night and was hitting her and punching her.

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And she was like, do you ever have like weird

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like twitches and stuff? And I was like, huh, how

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that you mentioned it? I don't know, I don't think

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so anything. Yeah, that's crazy. Well, Miles, we are thrilled

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to be joined in our third seat by the very

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talented actress, writer, podcaster, educator Karama don't Quo. Thank you,

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thank you, thank you for having me. Uh Mr apple

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Jack and Miles. I do have a question about that

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apple story though. Was it a red apple or a

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green apple? Because apple, Oh, that's the worst one. I

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feel like that's worse. I'd rather have a green apple

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land in my cereal milk than a red apple. Hold on,

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that's very specific. Why is that? I have no idea.

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I'm just just like no, no, my hum. And now

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I'm sort of like, damn, am I not thinking critically

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enough about some of the things he's saying. I might

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be thinking too critically about that story. It feels like

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a Tim Robinson sketch. I didn't focus on the like

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limb aspect of it. I'm like, what color was the apple? Yeah?

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Like I just had it right here, like next, right ahead,

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and then it just went like that, just fluid. So

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it wasn't I thought you wound up, you launched it.

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Oh so was he just across the table from you? Yeah,

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he was just he was like down the table a

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few people man Salt Bay situation, but like with an

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it was a. It was a spastic salt bas situation

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or like you one of those card magicians and you're

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throwing a car Yeah, exactly right, right right, okay, now

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you see me. I've ruined your cereal milk with this

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half bitten apple Karama. What is good? What's new with you?

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What's good? What's new? I'm about to move back to

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the eight one eight? What what? Yeah? Next week I'm

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moving to Van Eyes. Excited about that. And then I

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just wrapped on season one of I Carly were is

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working in the writer's room the reboot, our revival, I

04:03

think it's the technical term, but you know, people just

04:05

be thrown out, rewords all over the place. And I

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have an episode that I got to write and it

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comes out in a couple of weeks. So that's what's new. Amazing,

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so dope, intersecting with so much. I Carly talent recently,

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and eventually we'll get Lacy back on here. But I'm

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over the weekend Ramsey. Oh yeah, very lovely person. And

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I was just like, man, so it seems like the

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best show to be working on. Yeah, No, I love Lacey,

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love Francesca got I was like a huge Francesca stand

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before the show, and like, when I got the list

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of people who remember those videos, I like had a

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heart attack and I texted all my friends that was like,

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my Rancy is gonna be working in the room, and

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I like had to be normal for six months working

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How do you do as not normal came in a

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print out you wanted to sign from? Hi was my

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first day. Blessedly we were working remote right right right,

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So I did not. I would have. I would have like, Hi,

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this is the video that you did like six years ago,

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will you sign summon? No. I mean just generally, I

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didn't do a great job being normal, not just Francesca wise.

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The first day of work, we were introducing ourselves and

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like I said that I thought that Emotion by Carly

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ray Jepson was one of the best albums of all time,

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and I thought it was criminally underrated. And I was like,

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this is not a normal way to introduce yourself. Just

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say your name and stop talking. Right. You just came

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with a hot take right out of the gate. I

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will will. Somebody asked me, what has Carly ray Jepson

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been up to since? Called me maybe, which was a

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mistake on their part. Yeah, very early on in this

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show and the CRJ goons came for me. Shout out

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to y'all because you did convert me, because so many

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people were like, put that out of your mind, what

06:06

you think you may know, and just put this album

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on and listen to it. And I'm like, this ship

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is just really good. This is really good music. It's

06:14

really good. It's really really good. I have a for

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my birthday. For my thirtieth birthday, the room got me

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a Carly ray Jepson quilt and it's the most beautiful

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thing I've ever seen, and I carry it around with

06:27

me when I travel places, like I'm Linus from the Nuts.

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Don't tell anybody that, oh my god, you know, because

06:37

you're just letting them know. So many of those hooks,

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I were like, I really really really like you, like

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you can. They're easy to sing and like right away

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with me. There's so many earworms in that album. That's

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what I'm saying, you know what, And you know, maybe

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these days l A Hallucinations it is my song. I

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Oh my gosh, yes, just the whole album, That whole

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album is good. I'm so glad I found my people.

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I mean, I'm a new I'm just I'm c RJ curious,

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you know what I mean, opening my I'm expanding my horizons.

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And I realized, oh, why did I have that all?

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Why did I have the wrong ideas about this? I

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think so many fandoms are really toxic and that they

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think if you haven't been there since day one, you

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don't you don't have as much legitimacy as people who

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have been there since day one. And I don't think

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that that's true. I think that if you are gathering

07:28

enjoyment from whatever the fandom is, even if it is

07:32

your first day, when it's somebody else's ten thousand day,

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then good for you, and you don't to be like

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I know every song, I know every book. I know

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that she was third place on Canadian Idol. I know

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that she started Frenchie in Greece Live. I know that

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she played Dorothy in The Whiz in high school, which

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is I have feelings about that. Well, let's let's want

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to have the positive. And you know, high school is

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as a strange time, but yeah, for sure, gatekeeping is

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just so exhausting because like I've I myself have been

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like that, like when I was in college and stuff,

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and you know, one college in the odds like that

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was peak, Like check on my fucking DVDs, check on

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my albums that I have, and you're you're coming at

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people from like, oh you don't know Porti's heads, dummy.

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What then you took? And then I realized that's just

08:22

me because all I had for my personality or my

08:25

identity was to say I knew a lot about this

08:27

other ship, rather than being more secure and who I

08:30

just was fundamentally as a human being outside of my interest.

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And then you have to realize, oh, yeah, this, let's

08:36

just just welcome. Everybody, especially the newcomers, can experience it

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and enjoy it in a way that you can't. So

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let them. Let them have that. That's why actually you

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want to be And again shout out to all the

08:48

night young who are not not like being shitty about

08:51

my first early Carly rage Jason takes, but we're very

08:54

much like, Hey, I get it, but you should really

08:56

you really owe it yourself. You seem to like music.

08:58

You should listen to it. You'll enjoy it, and I did,

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and even the subsequent albums. But I think you know,

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as it relates to when like bringing somebody in, there's

09:06

no better feeling. Actually, when you put somebody onto something

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and you watch them light up be like this is

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so good, You're like, yes, yeah, Well that's why those

09:15

two guys, those brothers on like YouTube, who do them

09:19

like listening to songs for the first time. I think

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that that's why they're so popular, because it's like we

09:24

love these songs that we get to watch them fall

09:26

in love with these songs. Like when they heard that

09:27

drum break on in the air tonight, they were like,

09:30

what yo, what And I'm like, yeah, right exactly. But

09:35

for us, all of our like you know, dopamine receptors

09:38

have burned out in terms of the album, so it

09:41

happens you're like I just need this to live, but

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I enjoy seeing others get life. All Right, Karamo, We're

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gonna get to know you a little bit better in

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a moment. First, we are gonna tell our listeners a

09:52

few of the things we're talking about today. We're gonna

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check in with that Iceland experiment with the four day

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work week, because they just you know, as Americans, we

10:02

know a four day work week is a joke. For

10:04

anything less than a six day work week is for

10:07

lazies and so we just want to check in and

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see how that turned out. We're gonna talk about Q

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and On, what the latest manifestation of Q and On

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looks like. We'll look at streaming ratings and Barry Diller

10:20

this article where an interview with NPR where Barry Diller

10:24

was like, the film industry is dead and looks in

10:28

the picture exactly like that old man mask that people

10:32

used to rob banks. Have you seen that those old

10:36

man masks? What are the old Oh? They have they

10:39

been in movies? Yes? Ye, look at look at the

10:43

picture of Barry Diller in this story, like he looks

10:47

and that is what the old man mask looks like.

10:49

It's like a just standard archetypical old man head. Yeah,

10:55

where it's like like bulbous like nose, just like the

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salamander lips. Yeah. I'm pretty sure they just interviewed somebody

11:03

in one of those masks and thought it was very Dellers,

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but they interviewed a bank robber who just sunglass. We

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will talk about some streaming numbers, all of that plenty more,

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But first, Karama, we like to ask our guests, what

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is something from your search history. I searched our Neanderthal's

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human because I wasn't a hundred on that because I

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know that some people have Neanderthal DNA, but we talked

11:31

about Neanderthal's like they're different from people and they like

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kind of ore but also kind of aren't. So I

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was like, what's the deal there? What? Yeah? Yeah, but

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wasn't there a recent discovery that Neanderthals have were like

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creating art? I think so. I think, so that sounds right,

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but they are human but not the same way we are.

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So we kind of absorbed them and then replaced them.

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But like if we were able to reproduce with them,

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I feel like that to me feels human. I mean,

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I'm not going to be able to like reproduce with

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a snake and have like a snake person, right wife, Okay,

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like Kevin James on seven Old Prospector, you never slept

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it with a snake before? Yeah, so you Yeah, I

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feel like if you can procreate, it's something's matching up.

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But I guess that. Yeah. So some people you're saying,

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do like is that is that just to take a

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shot at somebody like you got Neanderthal DNA or yeah

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on your twenty three and me they'll be like, you

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have one percent Neanderthal DNA, or you have more Neanderthal

12:43

DNA than is average for humans. I have not done

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twenty three and me, I'm not trying to sell my

12:50

spit to anybody, not sell it pay for I'll sell

12:54

my spit, but of course I'm not addit for people

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who who are into that. Yeah, sure, hit me up

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if you are interested in paying me for spit. Don't

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actually do that, please you do that? Reddit are slash

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spit bst by selling trade. Yeah. There, So there's a

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new study out or a new discovery in a Neanderthal

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camp where there's like some kind of little sculpture looking thing.

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They seem to have a very low threshold for what

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is considered art. But it's still so this is surprising,

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scathing attacks on well that this is surprised me that

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it's like, was were Neanderthals making art? And then it

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just looks kind of like a whittled down I don't

13:47

know something or other, but Neanderthals. I think I think

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one thing that we overlook a lot when we think

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about Neanderthals is that the reason that we survived and

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they didn't is that we were the crueler version like yeah,

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we yeah, we killed them off, like we you know,

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used our big gas brands to kill them off, and

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like they were potentially more peaceful and less likely to

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like scheme and come up and like you know, have

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zero some outcomes with with regards to resources, and so

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Homo sapiens killed them off. Like that's one of the

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main theories, one of the prevailing theories these days. But

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when we think Neanderthals were thinking like big, mean, dumb,

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like violent, and it's like, you know, they were actually

14:37

more peaceful than love that legacy. We're here because we

14:45

kill the weaker ones anyway, So yeah, that's where my

14:51

brain was going last night. I was like, what aren't Andrews.

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I don't know, but yes, and they were like people

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chill version, Yeah exactly, And yeah, just like Jack, you

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just start a podcast, You're just you're you're doing just

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critiquing Neanderthal art, critique of just for this new excavated

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kings scallop shell from Cueva and Tons Spain from the Neanderthals,

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I'm look a decorative shell. This just looks like a

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broken fucking shell. Folks that like, as somebody I'm coming

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from a place of somebody who has to look at

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five year old and three year old art and come

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up with like value, be like wow, that's really great,

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and like this would be one of the ones that

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I would be like, let's move past that one and

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like move on to the next piece of art that

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you created, because this just looks like some like it

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could have happened accidentally. Wait, do you have to like

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struggle to come up with nice things to say about

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your kids art? No? I just stopped trying a long

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time ago. I was getting excited art. I'm like, look

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at you, you know I do. I'm like, you look

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at it, doting split like I I start massaging your

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temples when you see you're like Jesus, I love. I'm like, Jack,

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are you a bad dad? Are you like? Are you No? No,

16:17

I have kids with fund up art skills. Though we

16:22

just discovered my three year old as a lefty like

16:24

me and my wife's exciting. How do wait, how do

16:28

you what's the point where you figure out like what

16:30

is it what they eat with? Or well my mom

16:33

my mom was like, oh, I could have told you

16:34

that like a year and a half ago, but it's

16:36

what they draw with what they eat with. But also

16:39

like what when he's like sleeping, what thumb he sucks

16:42

and stuff like that, what he's using to do those

16:45

sorts of things. You suck the dominant thumb or the

16:49

non dominant thumb, So it's weird. I sucked my left thumb,

16:52

but my wife No, me and my wife split my

16:56

left thumb. You suck the You suck the dominant thumb.

17:00

And that's actually how they know that handedness is something

17:04

that's not socially proscribed and is actually something that like

17:10

starts in utero because left handed babies will suck their

17:13

left thumb in utero. Wow. Okay, yeah, so shout out

17:19

to learn learning lefties, either of you guys lefties? Nope,

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my mom is nice. I just drew always being like, hey,

17:26

you gotta sit on this side of the table because

17:28

my nice hand is gonna keep jab We're gonna keep

17:30

bumping elbows. That's like the one thing that's my one,

17:34

you know, prevailing spirit experience with a left handed person.

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What is something you think is overrated? Something I think

17:41

over is overrated? Its fireworks. It's been a week plus

17:45

since the fourth of July, and I'm still traumatized. Like

17:48

I just hate fireworks. It don't get it, and like

17:51

I think that there's value in ephemeral forms of entertainment,

17:56

Like it's not that I'm like, oh, fireworks disappear, what's

17:58

the point. And then you take pictures of the I mean,

18:00

nobody looks at them like very neanderthal take on our

18:03

modern fire Where does it go? I just think that

18:12

they're scary and loud and not worth the like small

18:16

ounce of like enjoyment. I think there are cooler things

18:20

that we probably have the technology, like the things that

18:22

they do with drones in the sky, and I feel

18:24

like it's probably better for the environment. Yeah, and doesn't

18:28

catch things on fire. Like if you want to look

18:30

at pretty lights in the sky, there are ways to

18:31

do it that aren't terrifying. It's called mushrooms, y'all. You

18:35

don't even have fireworks. Just wave your hand in front

18:37

of your face. It's a party. But I think I

18:40

don't like little ships setting off fucking bang bangs in

18:44

my neighborhood like the eighties and ship because I have

18:47

there's some badasses where I live, apparently because it sounded

18:51

like people were setting off dynamite and I'm like, that's

18:54

not even a firework, you know what I mean. Like

18:56

sometimes stuff go up and people do their little tiny

18:59

little sky bang rangs or whatever they're called. But when

19:03

people just set off like explosives, like it's so bad

19:06

for like my pets and stuff. Like I came home

19:08

early on the fourth of July and I just blasted

19:10

the gap band throughout my house because I'm like, Charlie

19:13

Wilson's voice can neutralize the sounds of explosions for my pets,

19:17

and that's all I had to do. But I do

19:20

love a good like professional fireworks show. I think that

19:24

could be just because in Japan they're like huge, and

19:26

I grew up every summer always seeing like massive fireworks displays.

19:30

But at the local like sparklers are cool, you know

19:33

what I mean, Those little snake things are cool. Yeah,

19:36

I love like Harry Kane. When I go to like Disneyland,

19:40

I'm like, yeah, be pretty. But also they're doing that

19:43

every night. I feel so bad for the people of Anaheim. Yeah,

19:48

that's a good point. I wonder if they have like

19:50

a clear zone where like within this range, like people

19:55

shouldn't like have residences because yeah, that was that would

20:00

be a lot of I guess, sounds of joy, but

20:03

it would also just be a lot of a lot

20:06

of screaming, a lot of kids crying, a lot of fireworks.

20:11

Anyone shares a wall though with like yeah, yeah, just

20:20

in the background scares when you're like trying to make

20:24

mac and cheese. How did we how did we end

20:27

up sharing a wall with it? It's a small world ride, Yeah,

20:32

Like I I feel like there's something very basic in

20:38

humans that like they needed to get out these fireworks

20:42

man this year, like we didn't. We didn't have it

20:44

last year, and there was just there's just something that yeah,

20:49

that's true. We we did have them like for locals,

20:52

but there wasn't like a massive show and I have

20:58

I was saying on the show is something like a

21:00

bowl of rice crispies for three straight hours of mine

21:02

in my neighborhood, just like that much popping and popping

21:06

and popping like multiple every second for like three hours straight.

21:13

It was wild. But I mean, yeah, you always hear

21:16

about these horrible accidents. There's always like the there's an

21:21

NHL dully who got hit with one, And yeah, I

21:24

didn't even know that was possible. I think you apparently

21:28

like he was like it was like a mortar tube

21:30

type thing, and I think it hit him in a

21:32

chest or something. Yeah. Yeah, it's that's like like, I'm look,

21:37

I was a little badass pyromaniac, but there I've seen enough.

21:41

I've had enough near terrible accidents to be like, there's

21:45

certain things like if you're not a professional pyrotechnician, leave

21:49

it alone for your own safe yeah, for sure, and

21:53

even professionals screw up. I mean, do you guys remember

21:55

the Maybe you don't because I don't think either of

21:58

you have lived in Rhode Island, but the station fire

22:01

in Rhode Island, there was this band, I can't remember

22:04

what they were called. It was like White something, Oh yeah, pyrotechnics,

22:08

and a bunch of people died because they were all

22:11

like struggling to get out the club after the pyrotechnics

22:15

went off in a wrong and unsafe way, And I'm

22:18

just like, not worth it for me. Yeah, great, White,

22:21

thank you. Yeah, yeah, I would agree, But I also

22:25

feel like it's one of those things that will just

22:27

never never get past for some reason, because oh no,

22:31

for sure, but I think they're overrated. Every now and then, sure,

22:35

do we need the multiple times a year and multiple

22:38

holidays with multiple places doing them. I don't know, not

22:42

for me, Yeah, it's not. It's not good for people

22:44

who have dogs, it's not good for war veterans, it's

22:47

not good for all sorts of people like sleep. No

22:51

one wants to suddenly hear like just a huge boom

22:55

out their window. Like it's just not especially not one again,

22:58

You're being like, I'm going to a fireworks display, therefore

23:01

I will be looking at the source of the sounds.

23:04

I'm just trying to sleep and watch the challenge on

23:07

Paramount Plus and have things going off in your head

23:09

disrupting your viewing time. Shout out to Paramount plus does

23:14

allow you to envision what it would be like if

23:16

there was a massive war in your town, because it's

23:20

just like the sound the soundtrack sounds very similar. I

23:24

think there's some visualization exercises I don't need to do.

23:29

What is something you think is underrated? Crumb, I'm gonna

23:33

say it's a two way tie between therapy and rabbits.

23:38

I mentioned to you earlier off Mike that I just

23:42

found out that I'm allergic to rabbits and that like

23:44

made me so sad, like it was an indescribable loss

23:48

that I was like, Wow, I don't know what I'm

23:50

going to hold a rabbit next, and if it will

23:52

be a joy to me, because every time I see

23:54

a rabbit, instantly I'm happier, instantly happier. I we have

23:59

wild rabbits out here in the Cachella Valley. So sometimes

24:01

I'll just be like chilling in my room and I

24:03

looked out the window and there's a rabbit and I'm

24:06

just like, best day ever, and I just go funny

24:09

and then I'm happy. I agree. There's something I don't

24:12

know if it's because like from childhood, like rabbits have

24:14

always we've never seen them as being like vicious animals

24:17

unless you watch or that The Life of Brian or

24:20

was it The Holy Grail? Yeah, Holy Grail, And that

24:23

was I think the only time I can really think

24:25

of me seeing a round and being like like when

24:28

I was younger, and every other time they're like whimsical.

24:31

And when we did a live show out in Minneapolis,

24:34

like in the beginning of I didn't know that there

24:37

was just bunnies everywhere, and so like we were in

24:40

the snow and like in the alleys, they're just hippieby

24:43

hoppiting around, and I was like, I couldn't contain my

24:47

sort of child like joy. I'm like, hey, man, I

24:50

think there's rabbits on the loose. And Something's like no, no,

24:52

this is this is what's this is part of that

24:55

we have instead of rats. And I'm like, oh, buddy,

24:58

rats cool. Yeah yeah, and shout out to therapy too.

25:03

Good things you didn't trend out you were allergic to therapy.

25:06

I guess the two things no, no, no, skip therapy

25:10

for one week and I was just a rack. I

25:12

was like, no, I need it. I need to talk

25:13

to somebody. I can't hold everything. It's yeah, it's again.

25:17

I tell I'm such a I preached the gospel of

25:20

therapy as much as I can to friends and family,

25:22

because honestly, I'm someone who has thought themselves very emotionally intelligent.

25:28

And I've spent a lot of time reading a lot

25:29

of psychology books and self help books, but those truly

25:33

only get you to a certain point, like without someone

25:36

who is trained to help you navigate sort of your

25:38

own patterns and proclivities and things like that, you won't

25:41

arrive at a place to have that true level of

25:44

self awareness where you can begin to see like, oh,

25:47

when when I'm stressed and these kinds of things happen,

25:49

I typically go down this path where now you can

25:51

start seeing things and sort of really understanding yourself rather

25:55

than being caught in a loop of being like why

25:57

am I stressed out? Or like beating yourself up for

25:59

being being angsty or depressed or whatever, and dually understanding

26:03

yourself so you can then be like how you like? Really,

26:06

I think the biggest thing for me being in therapy

26:09

has been you know, you'll have a friend who like

26:11

might be telling you something and and tell you about

26:14

what they're going through and they're kind of being they're

26:15

like beating themselves up, and you're like, oh, come on,

26:17

don't do that. And then you're able to be like

26:19

because of this, this, this and this, but you're unable

26:22

to do that for yourself, you know what I mean? Like,

26:24

you'll have the exact same monologue or inner monologue that

26:28

is almost word for word with someone who isn't you said,

26:31

and you were able to have the wherewithal to soothe them,

26:33

make them understand what's going on and it's not bad.

26:36

But with therapy, Like I'm able to actually walk myself

26:40

through that as I would for someone else. And I

26:42

think that's really that's like when you start feeling the

26:45

good vibe. So shout out to Dr Schamitra Chames, you

26:48

know my therapists. All right, let's take a quick break

26:52

and we'll be right back. And we're back, and speaking

27:07

of self care, Iceland and Japan just completed some lengthy

27:13

trials to understand what the effects of a four day

27:18

work week would be on companies, on on employees. And

27:25

I'm assuming I didn't look at the results. I'm assuming

27:27

it's just like the society fell apart. Yeah right, Yeah,

27:33

four days a week. What are you gonna do with that?

27:35

What do you do? Bankrupt your business because your drone

27:38

workers or sucking around enjoying their families. Yeah, I mean

27:43

like a lot of countries have experimented with this, and yeah,

27:46

Japan is like trying to propose it officially as of Spain,

27:49

Like they're really trying to have lengthy trials to you know,

27:52

fundamentally shift how we understand work um and also just

27:57

understanding like what its effects are. So in Iceland they

28:00

had one of the like probably at this point. The

28:02

most comprehensive trial experiment in the world ran from twenty

28:07

to across different industries to truly understand, like, what what

28:12

happens if we take people from going five days a

28:15

week to four days a week and same hours a day,

28:18

eight hour day, but just four of them now or

28:20

maybe thirty six hour work week, but give them three

28:24

days where they're not working and don't and don't reduce

28:27

their pay. Here we go. Quote workers reported experiencing better

28:32

health and less stress and burnout, and they had more

28:34

time to spend with their families or on leisure activities.

28:37

Productivity and service provision either remained at similar levels or

28:42

improved in the majority of workplaces. Huh. So that's like, yeah,

28:48

it's wonderful to hear. The thing I want to say

28:50

to all of our American listeners is the big difference

28:54

is that in Scandinavia, the trade unions are stronger than

28:58

fucking Bruce and Er when he's piste off. They are

29:02

they don't funk around, and they are able to actually,

29:05

you know, use their collective might to work for better

29:09

outcomes for labors. And this is the other thing is

29:12

we also have a very you know, very capitalistically worshiping society.

29:18

And on top of that, we have you know, big

29:20

business always at war with organized labor, and Supreme Court

29:24

that doesn't care about anything. So we have a few

29:28

things that we'd have to possibly overcome. Plus, the government

29:31

invested massively in this program because, as they see it,

29:34

this is about fundamentally improving the lives of all of

29:38

their citizens. What a concept. That's not the that's not

29:40

the government's job. Come on out here, yea. In America,

29:45

instead of instead of having you know, protecting the rights

29:49

of the laborers, we create somebody who is the richest

29:53

man on earth and becomes a famous celebrity by taking

29:58

advantage of the fact that America doesn't have good representation

30:01

for their workers and that he can make them not

30:04

be able to go to the bathroom when they want to.

30:07

Are you talking about CEO Entrepreneur Report in nineteen sixty four,

30:11

Jeffrey Bezos. Yeah, we so. Our way. Our way is

30:15

that we just create celebrities and that and we root

30:18

for them for some reason. Instead of you know, rooting

30:22

for working for better lives for ourselves, we create people

30:26

who can go to space because they're so rich. Yeah,

30:30

when it should be like Game of Thrones, like Cercy

30:32

with the haircut, ringing the shame bell, like marching billionaires

30:36

through the street, be like, let's go Jeff shame people

30:38

like boll Yeah, you know that would be very cathartic.

30:42

And then we distribute all of this, we distribute all

30:44

his wealth. But it's kind of like what we were

30:46

talking about with the with the economists on last week's

30:51

kind of format breaking episode. There's a rapit outside my window.

30:54

I just needed I'm so wided it just it hopped

30:58

away as soon as I pointed out here for a

31:01

brief not a long time. Sorry, continue, But it's it

31:04

feels like it's such a cellular thing, like the just

31:07

it's so down to the American psyche and the fact

31:11

that America loves an individual and hates a collective that

31:16

like they they will do something as stupid as like

31:20

let somebody become the richest person in the history of

31:23

the planet and start thinking about how they're going to

31:26

get them and their family off the planet Earth once

31:29

they ruin it, and we'll root for that and read

31:32

headlines about that and read news about that, and just

31:35

won't won't even let people unionize, like who worked for

31:39

that person. Yeah, it's it's I don't know what else

31:44

what the battle is gonna look like in the United States,

31:46

But I mean, I think this is what this does.

31:50

And like the sort of the foothold that a lot

31:53

of countries are finding themselves gaining or at least people

31:56

who are interested in these four our work weeks, is

31:59

that it's really helping too just change the narrative around

32:02

what it means to like work and rather than it

32:06

feeling like a natural part of life, because truly we're not.

32:10

You know this, We're not the way society set up.

32:13

It's everything feels completely unnatural, like it's purely to survive

32:17

is why people are working. And I think by having

32:20

like these experiments to sort of change around what it

32:23

means like depending on certain types of industries and things

32:25

like that, it's clear that if we work less without

32:29

having wages cut, we're happier. But I think in this

32:32

country too, you see, employers clearly don't want that to

32:35

gain too much traction because we have so much back

32:38

to normal messaging that we're being bombarded with constantly, and

32:43

it completely ignores the fact that all of these people

32:46

passed away, that most of us know someone who has

32:49

passed away, that most of us, we're dealing with our

32:53

own ship from everything that's happened in the pandemic. So

32:55

to start like shoveling this like back to normal stuff

32:59

is part parcel to also be like, we can't let

33:01

these people get in any ideas on how to shift things,

33:04

because the longer they're not than the slog or the

33:07

grind of like this forty or fifty hour eighty hour

33:10

work week, you know, then they're gonna then ideas begin

33:14

to sprout, and you know, movements can tend to gain momentum.

33:17

So it's it's it's a tough role. Well, and the

33:20

thing about the back to normal messaging is that a

33:23

lot of companies prior to COVID did not offer work

33:28

from home options for people with disabilities. They just didn't.

33:32

They were like, Oh, it's too hard, we can't do it,

33:34

and then in a week switch to it when it

33:37

was like, oh, we don't want to die, we don't

33:39

want to have bad things happen to us. And this

33:41

back to normal thing is making it so that people

33:45

who were finally able to work from home and do

33:48

remote work because of their disabilities, when they hadn't been

33:51

able to do that before, are kind of shipped out

33:54

of luck. And it's just really concerning to see that

34:00

we're not thinking of things holistically. We're not looking at

34:03

the big picture, how has this been better for people?

34:06

And there are obviously some industries where it is much

34:09

harder to work from home. Like I was just working

34:12

on a TV show. It's not easy to do a

34:14

TV show when everybody's working from home. Is it possible? Absolutely,

34:18

except with the actors. That's the part where it gets

34:20

kind of tricky. But I mean they made that show

34:22

on NBC Connecting where all the actors were in their houses,

34:26

So I mean there's a lot that can be done.

34:28

And that was specifically about COVID and about like connecting

34:31

with people through computer screens and all of that. So

34:33

that was a special situation. But I think that back

34:37

to normal is really shortsighted, and I think looking more

34:43

it is violent. Yeah, absolutely, looking more at these four

34:46

day work week options, Shoot, I'm down for a three

34:49

day work week. I just feel like we define ourselves

34:52

too much by work. So like a couple of years ago,

34:54

I stopped asking people what they do, like, oh, what

34:58

is your job? When I meet them because it's like, hmm,

35:00

that doesn't matter. And like half of my friends, I

35:02

don't understand or know what their jobs are, but I

35:04

know who they are. It's more like, what are you into?

35:08

That's what I like. Guys like what you into? My question?

35:12

They're like, Oh, I like to play, you know, banjo

35:15

or whatever and do and serve and stuff. I'm like, Okay,

35:18

that's see. I I learned I can get more of

35:20

an idea than that. And being like I work for

35:22

HR at best Buy. Yeah, just the idea that this

35:28

is like almost like it's not it's not a thing

35:31

where you subtract hours from people's work week and you

35:35

subtract the hours of productivity. It's it's more of a

35:40

thing where you subtract hours but then productivity either stays

35:43

the same or goes up because they are just happier

35:49

and like better versions of themselves and more rested, and

35:53

there's just overall like a higher morale. Like that is

35:59

not it's a counterintuitive. It's it's almost like you're adding

36:03

by subtracting. And I'm just hoping that the business world

36:08

can kind of get their mind around that, because it

36:10

does it seems like just overall better for health, better

36:15

for probably everything. If you're you have more well arrested,

36:23

happier employees. I mean, do you go to any country

36:25

where there's some semblance of real you know, robust social

36:29

safety nets or people's knees are provided, the vibe is

36:32

so different, Like when you go to like that. I

36:35

remember you go to like the first time went to

36:37

Scame the Navy. I was like, the happy are frolicking

36:42

in a parkership then is this and almost like at

36:47

first I had to realize, I'm like, oh man, I'm

36:49

like this fucked up, burnt out city rat from the US,

36:52

and I'm looking at like a culture where people at

36:56

the very least note well, if I want to get

36:57

an education, that's that's an option for me. If I

37:00

need medical care, that's an option for me. If I

37:02

need to take care of my children or an ailing

37:05

loved one, that's an option for me. And when you

37:08

see those things people like when they're unburdened with those

37:11

things or there's not even part of their like concept

37:14

of what life is, it makes for very just jovial people,

37:19

very kind people, and like even when you go to

37:22

you know, places where seemingly in the U S you're like, well,

37:25

fast food or retail or whatever, like it's it's just

37:28

a it's a hard job to do when it's underpaid,

37:30

and you go to places where people are paid like

37:32

an actual living wage. It's like they were smiling a ship.

37:36

Yeah they said they apologize because they didn't put the

37:39

extra onions on that. I don't know what to say,

37:43

but yeah, this is again. It's just it's really something

37:45

to just see how different vibrational the people are when

37:49

so many of these things are off of their plate.

37:52

There's something different about the energy when your government, when

37:56

when the ruling order of the land is not we're

38:00

willing to starve you to death in order to keep

38:03

things moving around here. Like you know, I saw this

38:07

TikTok that shook me to my core. There was this

38:10

Australian woman and she was showing how her kids daycare

38:15

sends the kids home with dinner for the adults, and

38:20

I was like, I don't understand what this is. I

38:23

don't understand what's happening. And they don't pay extra. It's

38:25

part of like the sixty Australian dollars that they pay

38:28

a day for daycare. And I'm like that's first of all,

38:32

that daycare there seems affordable and reasonable. And then you

38:36

get food, like they feed your kids, they send the

38:40

kids home with a plate for you. Yes, what good?

38:44

Like it looked like good food. It did not look

38:47

like gross cafeteria food like Square was. I love Square pizza,

38:51

but it's gross context. But yeah, that's Yeah. Every time

38:59

I see the things like that, I mean it it's

39:02

energizing because I'm like, well fuck, I mean some some

39:05

places are doing it humanely. Or you see like what

39:08

paternity to leave or parental leave is for people and

39:11

you're like, I'm sorry, how many months is it to

39:15

start your family? It's like they want you to they

39:19

want you to win. Okay, okay, yeah almost, yeah almost.

39:25

That makes so much sense to me as just the

39:28

the act of like feeding your kid is is so

39:33

many hours, you know, like just planning. Even if you

39:36

order out, it's like a lot of planning and going

39:38

to pick it up and versus like hey, I'm fed,

39:41

Hi dad, here's your dinner. Yeah yeah, what is that right?

39:48

It's like, Hi, I've come back with a plate full

39:51

of food for you and and marijuana. It's tough out here.

39:56

I'm like, what the funk day care is this? Thank you?

39:59

The woman said that there were families that did not

40:02

take that option, and I'm like, what's wrong with them?

40:05

Like you think they're like scoffing at it where they're like,

40:10

thank you so much, we will be fine without that.

40:14

I'm like, well, if the first one is good, I'm like,

40:16

this is easy. Take Sometimes about like two working parents,

40:20

so one parents stays home and they're like, we'll just

40:22

cook up for our food for ourselves or something, right,

40:24

But Ozzie's like getting if you know about these daycare meals,

40:30

send us a review. You know, what's what what, what's

40:33

what's usually coming with that? Not to say that it's

40:35

the fine dining, but I like food and other any

40:40

anyone from another country. If if there's something that you're

40:46

a government, like a nice perk that like your government

40:49

or like workplace or whatever it is, provides for you

40:53

that Americans couldn't couldn't possibly imagine, hit us up with

40:56

that too. Don't talk about healthcare though, like we know

41:00

we get it. Yeah, alright, let's take a quick break

41:04

and we'll come back and talk about Q and on

41:17

and we're back and al right, So Q and On

41:22

seems like they are. It would seem like it's almost

41:26

good news that Q and On is like sort of

41:29

getting a level of awareness about themselves that like, oh,

41:34

this is a bad look, but they they're also using

41:39

that to like become strategically more dangerous. I feel like, yeah, yeah,

41:46

so like one thing they're doing is going on school boards,

41:50

which is really worrying. Yeah, we talked about that at

41:52

a recent like Q convention or whatever. That's what the

41:56

big thing was, like, that's what we have to do.

41:57

And ever since that Q account when dark, all of

42:01

the these followers have been in limbo. Some people have

42:04

just been like, dude, this is this was so fucking stupid,

42:07

Like the storm is never coming and it's another people

42:11

are really trying to keep their hope alive. And those

42:14

that are still you know, invested in this conspiracy theory,

42:17

you know, against satanic democrats who you know, they've adopted

42:20

a new tactic, like you're saying, they're running for school

42:22

board and Mike Flynn told them, he said, quote local

42:25

action equals national impact. Take responsibility for your school committees

42:28

or boards, get involved in the education of our children.

42:31

Run for local state and the federal office, no more excuses.

42:35

So now they what they're doing is because they can

42:37

no longer wait for whatever Q was promising. They're just

42:41

marching forward with this idea of like, well, then we

42:43

need to save this country. We will begin to go

42:45

into the places where children are being educated. We can

42:48

begin to define what books need to be read, what

42:50

isn't going to be taught, or what will be taught,

42:53

and really start throwing their weight around ideologically. And they

42:57

also have realized they like you're saying, they gotta they

42:59

have to stop even Q and On. So this this

43:02

expert who writes about him said, quote, if you identify

43:04

as Q and on, people look at you like you're crazy.

43:06

But if you passionately talk about how we need to

43:08

be saving children and protecting them from trafficking, then you

43:12

come off as a compassionate person who really cares about

43:15

the welfare of children. You're no longer one of those

43:17

crazy cult people who thinks Hillary Clinton is trafficking kids

43:21

in a tunnel under Central Park. And in Michigan, there

43:24

were students who are demanding that a school member resigned

43:27

because she was so up in Q world and her

43:30

like Twitter was just just straight que stuff and she

43:33

would and she refused to resign. And then when the

43:36

press asked her about, you know, like what's going on

43:38

and like, you know, are you do you follow Q

43:39

and on? She said, quote, there's no such thing as

43:41

Q and on. Wow. So they're doing this like winky shit,

43:46

you know, and trying to get in and these sort

43:49

of off year low turnout local elections because no one's watching,

43:54

and those are easy ways to get in and get

43:56

a foothold. But it's it's it's really wild because I mean,

44:00

even though these people are very easy to spot, because

44:02

eventually they'll start saying some ship that is not about education.

44:07

Then you can be like, okay, I think I know

44:09

who you are. But they're being very strategic in acting

44:12

than maybe in playing dumb if you start talking about

44:15

you and on and so the thing that they're putting

44:18

forward is their opposition to child trafficking, which seems like, yes, okay,

44:23

that's something that we all can get behind, except the

44:27

way they picture child trafficking and describe it when they're

44:30

talking about like saving our children, is they're picturing these

44:35

like groups sneaking into homes usually probably they think Democrat groups,

44:41

but sneaking into homes and kidnapping their children from their

44:45

suburban beds and selling them to be distributed in furniture

44:50

ordered online or whatever. But so it's like built on

44:54

the satanic panic of the eighties, the stranger danger panic

44:59

in like already in the seventies and going into the eighties,

45:02

and that's still around today, which is, even though crime

45:05

has dropped precipitously since like the fifties, sixties, seventies, we

45:11

still think that children are constantly in danger in our

45:15

communities because of like how the local news has turned

45:19

into just a litany of you know, stories about kidnappings

45:23

and children being missing. And the truth is that child

45:27

trafficking is most often caused by poverty, underrepresented communities, the

45:34

child welfare system being underfunded and broken, drug abuse, poor

45:38

mental health support, and most importantly, a labyrinthine immigration system

45:43

that and I can't stress us enough separates children from

45:47

their fucking parents at the border and doesn't reconnect them

45:51

like and so it's just like all these systemic problems

45:56

that they're chosen party loves to underfund or you know,

46:00

just deconstruct is what is fueling the problem that they're

46:05

quote unquote like trying to fight, but it like doesn't

46:08

their actual like politics, them having positions on school boards

46:13

or any decision making body will actually lead to increased

46:19

child trafficking just because they are sucking up those systems

46:23

that cause child trafficking. Yeah, it's it's it's mind blowing.

46:28

And especially when like a lot of people who are

46:30

truly like you know, active in the space for advocating

46:33

for victims of child trafficking, they're like, please, you're doing

46:36

this all wrong. If you really give a funk, come

46:39

talk to us, Like yeah, exactly, And that's where you

46:43

realize it's like everything right where a lot of these

46:46

kind of conservative conspiracies and things probably it's never about

46:49

what the funk they're talking about. There's always a battle

46:51

against progress, that's all it is. That then this one

46:54

is just this has been taken up by more people

46:56

who have that hook is a little more attractive to

46:58

them than like whatever, if it's you know, the government's

47:02

gonna take your guns. There's that group of people who

47:04

really just don't like that they're seeing this the face

47:07

of America change and look more diverse and in the

47:10

same way, and grant you're in it, there's all kinds

47:13

of diverse Q followers, but at the end of the day,

47:16

if you when you really start reading into it, it'll

47:19

always end up in some kind of George Soros anti

47:22

Semitic thrope, some kind of like BLM is like making

47:26

up everything to distract us from you know, and it's

47:29

all all roads are pointing back to just maintaining the

47:32

status quo. Because one of the most vocal people in

47:35

like this new sort of you know, second wave of

47:37

Q and on or third wave Q and I don't know,

47:39

I don't know what wave there on yet, but you know,

47:42

he's been out here saying the ship that you just

47:44

hear about, like how most conservatives really wanna, you know,

47:49

sort of paint what's happening in culture. What they'll say

47:52

is that their kids are being carried away. This is

47:54

from this guy. His name's Drake Works is his name.

47:58

He says, they're being carried away through our education system,

48:01

through the woke ideology that's infiltrated professional sports, through sexual

48:04

grooming and pedophilia that's impairing in the entertainment industry. We

48:07

need to we need to run for precinct committees, we

48:10

need to run for city council, run for school board,

48:12

and primary the rhinos in this room, and all that

48:17

to say is right, we get it. You're looking at

48:20

America changing very quickly, and you're and you're accusing Republicans

48:25

who aren't going like full force being like put brown

48:27

people into camps, uh, that they are now Republicans in

48:31

name only. So it's a very you know, this is this,

48:35

this is the fucking foolish box that has been opened,

48:38

and you know, this is now looking like something that

48:40

could affect every single person now if this campaign to

48:43

infiltrate local government is successful. So that's why I also

48:46

suggest people, you know, look for holding office locally, you know,

48:51

see if you can get involved in the community, because

48:53

they're damn sure are people who have the worst ideas

48:55

trying to run your life at some point. So it's

48:58

so frustrating because a lot of those people who have

49:01

these very broken ideas of what the systems are and

49:05

what the system should be, and who are like, oh yeah,

49:08

run for office, they have a lot of inherited wealth

49:11

that enables them to do that effectively, whereas the people

49:14

who are trying to shift the system are still trapped

49:17

by it and are less able to do things like

49:19

run for office. So it's just like really infuriating. Grassroots

49:23

organizing is so important. Make sure you know who's running

49:26

down ballot in your elections, and make sure you support

49:29

people whose ideologies are the same as yours. And really,

49:32

don't just look at parties, look at actual platforms, because

49:36

just because someone says they're in your party doesn't mean

49:38

that they have the same platform as you. No, not

49:41

at all. And I think it's it's also important to

49:43

realize like, unfortunately, like the middle class, upper middle class,

49:48

college educated people, especially white people, are not going to

49:52

be the same kinds of agents of change and a

49:55

representative level that working class people would be if they

49:59

had acts us to these levers because people are looking

50:02

at it from completely different experiences. Not to say there's

50:04

no empathy, but just if you look at what motivates people,

50:09

the people who are going to be able to bring

50:10

as like the real kind of to articulate a lot

50:13

of the things that really need to change are the

50:15

people that are living day to day under the same stressors.

50:19

And yeah, that's why again it's really important. Again, I

50:22

know it's hard because ship you could get blown out

50:25

by some golf course, country club owning, person's kid who

50:29

wants to run for city council or local with the

50:31

neighbor precinct leader or whatever. But at the same time,

50:34

you do see these small pockets where you know, people

50:38

who are really dedicated are able to find the subgrassroots

50:41

support to actually make a you know, a formidable bid

50:44

for office. But yeah, it's it's just a lot to

50:47

to to think about. At every level where you need

50:50

motion and some radical change, you have people there who

50:55

don't have the imagination to do it. So if it's

50:57

brought to them, they're like, I don't know, this is

50:59

this That's not how we do anything here. And they

51:03

also got a lot of traction because they're operating through fear.

51:07

Like I am a woman and I exist on the

51:10

internet and I see a lot of like female spaces

51:13

and a lot of fear mong bring about getting trafficked

51:16

in those female spaces, and it's always like this is

51:18

the new tactic that people are using and target parking lots,

51:22

and it's always a target parking lot. Apparently it never

51:25

happens like a Coals parking lot. Soals, if you're trying

51:28

not to get traffics it's a psi op from coals

51:32

to be like, what we're gonna do is see this

51:35

idea that should happens in a target parking lot, and

51:38

then they're gonna come. They're gonna get their coals cash. No,

51:40

but seriously, it's always like, at least once a week,

51:43

I see a post in Facebook groups that I'm in

51:45

for women, and I know I'm old, I'm so on Facebook,

51:49

but I like it to me. But it's always like

51:51

if you see a person who asks you this question

51:55

about if you've seen where they have the oreos, then

51:57

they're gonna kidnap you, And I'm like, or they're just

51:59

some be looking for oreos and you are paranoid, or

52:03

like like there are all these different signs and signals

52:07

and this is the new way and this is the

52:08

new way. And at first when I started seeing him,

52:11

I was like scared. I was genuinely scared. And then

52:13

I started doing more research and it's like, no, it

52:16

is still that satanic panic, stranger danger like Q and

52:19

on pipeline. It's all the same stuff, and they're just

52:23

trying to erase the fact that most trafficking happens from

52:26

people that you already know, and then you've built relationships

52:29

with and it's not about this stranger in like a

52:34

cloak who's usually brown, coming and get you and steal

52:38

you away from your loving suburban family. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

52:44

And there are victims of trafficking who have been lifelong

52:49

you know, advocates working with various administrations to try and

52:54

you know, actually attack the you know, societal rot that

52:58

makes trafficking possible and as frequent as it is. And

53:03

they when they try to correct que people online I

53:07

get accused of, you know, being part of the problem

53:11

or uh, you know, yeah, being part of the cover

53:14

up to so that I mean, I can't imagine how

53:17

frustrating that is. All right, Well, get involved in your

53:21

local politics, even if it's not you find a person

53:25

who you or be aware at the very least. Don't

53:28

let don't don't get blindsided by not knowing who you

53:32

know who's trying to make decisions in your community. Man,

53:37

it's so easy to you know, because we have so

53:40

much focus on our media on the federal level and

53:43

things like that. But ship when you when you really

53:46

look at how your own cities run, you'll either be

53:48

like really impressed and you're like oh wow, like I'm wow,

53:51

this is great, or you might be horrified and then

53:54

you might realize Okay. So rather, when the next election

53:57

comes up, I just don't go D or whatever party

54:00

on voting for, and we realize this person is actually

54:03

against addressing homelessness aggressively. So no, I don't care how

54:07

long you've been there. It's because we need people. Now

54:10

we're looking at it differently. Not here to take up

54:12

for the you know, Carusoe real estate group and follow

54:16

the money, because like I found it very suspicious when

54:19

Uber and Lift Indoor Dash and all those people were like,

54:22

we don't have money that parent employees, but then funneled

54:26

all of their money into that campaign about what, we

54:29

don't have money to pay our employees, so make it

54:31

so their independent contractors please, And it's garbage, and costs

54:37

have gone up, and they don't have protections, like there

54:40

are not protections against reporting sexual assaults the same way

54:43

that there would be were they employees there. They just

54:46

aren't there. Yeah, and now I find myself even less.

54:49

I'm like fuck it, I'll drive because I'm a part

54:52

of me is like I used to just you know,

54:54

I would like tip to offset you know, like what

54:57

it because I know, for a lot of the time,

54:58

like you can barely cover your if people aren't tipping

55:01

you correctly. But now like when you see like what,

55:03

they're caught because a lot of people have just stopped

55:05

doing it because on like the math just doesn't work

55:08

for them, Like you know, these are not I'm I'm

55:10

in the in the red when I when I drive

55:12

for Uber, So how does that work for me? And

55:15

I think, yeah, like I'm like, well, you know, I'll

55:17

start driving to take a cab if I have to,

55:19

but you'd hope that, you know, stuff would be great

55:23

if that were a better option. And yeah, I mean,

55:28

you know, eventually, eventually, eventually, I mean my friend came

55:33

over on four the July and was like when he

55:37

was leaving, he was like, oh, I need to like

55:40

I'm gonna have to take the bus because the fucking

55:43

Uber rates were they knew how many people needed Uber

55:47

that day and so they were just crazy. But you know,

55:49

and he takes the bus. People take the bus in

55:51

l A. Oh no, I'm not I'm not getting that

55:52

at all, But I'm saying it's tough though, Like the

55:54

way it's set up though, like it's inefficient and it

55:58

ends up take away hours in the day for people

56:02

who if they had a car, like you know, they

56:05

wouldn't be spending like a third of their life on

56:07

public transit because of the way things set up in

56:10

people in certain neighborhoods and absolutely rejecting the concept of

56:13

public transit going through where they live. Yeah, alright, let's

56:17

talk streaming ratings real quick. So you know, the this

56:21

weekly report that Nielsen is dropping is from a month ago,

56:26

but it recently came out with a report that said

56:30

sweet Tooth. I don't know, I don't know if you

56:32

guys remember that Netflix series where like the Child, Half Child,

56:36

Half Deer is what one D comics based on DC

56:45

comic that you know has been around for a little while,

56:47

I guess, but it was the number one thing. But

56:50

it also has like eight episodes, and this whole thing

56:56

is based on numbers of minute, number of minutes watched,

57:00

so when you like take that into account, the top

57:03

things that were watched this week where Ryan the Last

57:06

Dragon on Disney Plus, which I think just went from

57:10

like costing money to not costing money a month ago,

57:14

and Loki and Loki comes out like one episode at

57:18

a time, so with one episode available, it was watched.

57:23

You know, like what if you divide the number of

57:27

minutes by number of episodes, like those one off movies

57:32

were watched like four and five times as much as

57:35

like some of these streaming shows, which you can't you

57:39

can't like necessarily make it do that math. I'm sure

57:42

people were only like watching one episode of Sweet Tooth

57:46

or whatever some of the times. But can we can

57:48

we go back to that really quick that it's that

57:51

half boy deer or have human have deer? I just

57:55

googled it, which it looks like a child who has

57:58

like fun dear ears and antlers, but the rest is

58:03

just like a human body. Oh like sugar, we're going

58:06

down exactly, Oh my god, I'm there. Yeah, um, but

58:15

like what what are the ratios? You know? But I

58:19

guess I'm sure we're going down. He didn't have the

58:21

human ears, right, the sugar we're going down? Guy going

58:25

down swinging the boyfriend Like the whole conceited the video

58:29

was that the dad hated the boyfriend because he had

58:31

the antlers and the antlers to get stuff on stuff,

58:33

And then it turned out that the dad had like

58:35

dear hind legs or something, and that's why it was

58:39

like he was self hating. I don't know why I

58:41

still have that in my spirit, but yeah, so he

58:44

had ears and antlers. I think loaded god complex, cock

58:48

it and pullet. Let's get down. But the whole thing

58:50

with this, I'm curious, like, if you're gonna be a hybrid,

58:53

this is where I get. This is when I went

58:55

because the second you said half dear, half human, I

58:58

pictured a centaur. Right. How much of the body do we, collectively,

59:02

the three of us, do we believe if you are

59:04

a dual species hybrid? What's the ratio of uh features, appendages,

59:11

bodied style that you need to have that it doesn't

59:14

because this just seems like like a kid with antlers.

59:16

You know, I'm not I'm not really feeling the whole

59:18

like I don't know if his feet or hooves or what.

59:20

But I'm curious if you feel if you're as neurotic

59:23

as I am and being like there are not enough

59:26

dear features. This is merely a childhood ash. And I

59:29

don't know why I'm thinking that. I think if you

59:31

look at a Punnett square, like it depends on a

59:36

lot of chance in terms of genetics, and there's like, Okay,

59:40

I feel like, I don't know, it's kind of I

59:42

don't I'm not comparing mixed race people to animals. I

59:46

just want to be very clear on that. But with

59:49

mixed race people, there are people who are siblings who

59:52

look completely different, but they have the same quote unquote

59:55

percentage of their parents d n A. So I'm wondering

1:00:00

in this if you can have somebody who is part

1:00:04

dear and like the same level of parts. Although Anna

1:00:07

has said that it's about a disease where people start

1:00:10

having half animal kids and then they want to exterminate

1:00:13

them all because they don't get it. So I don't

1:00:16

think it's genetics now that I'm looking at that. So

1:00:20

some kind of global ailment. Okay, if that makes sense,

1:00:22

that makes sense, But that would be close that this

1:00:24

is my sister, Like that's a dear and you're like,

1:00:26

fuck you man, are you serious? Right? Jack Horseman kind

1:00:31

of delves into that where they have human animal relationships

1:00:34

and then there will be like a dear child and

1:00:36

a human child and their siblings. Yeah, sorry, what we're

1:00:39

saying about streaming so well. Barry Barry Diller came out

1:00:43

and was like the movie industry as we know it

1:00:46

is dead because like people aren't like they're not doing

1:00:49

the same like huge marketing campaigns. And again that it

1:00:53

was an interview with MPR where he I have to

1:00:56

believe was using a body double who was in an

1:00:59

old man mass just based on the picture, people can

1:01:01

go look at it themselves. But like, I mean that's

1:01:03

true in so far as like all industries and all

1:01:07

things are constantly evolving and the version of them that

1:01:10

existed yesterday is dead today. But like I still think

1:01:14

movies have more cultural like juice in terms of like

1:01:21

how much of a mind share and like how much

1:01:23

of the images that we have in our unconscious minds,

1:01:27

like they are contributing to over over streaming content over

1:01:31

really anything else. Like when you look at like even

1:01:35

those streaming movies that you know dominated this week Ryan

1:01:40

and Loki isn't a movie, but it was. It was

1:01:43

one episode at a time, like they are. We're looking

1:01:47

at like nine million people watching them this week, and

1:01:50

like f nine has been watched by fifty million people.

1:01:53

So it's it's like the movies that are that a

1:01:58

lot of people go see are still like being like

1:02:01

injected into the global shared consciousness, like I think more

1:02:06

than really anything else. Yeah, I mean, I think until

1:02:11

like the act of going to a theater is fully done,

1:02:15

that's when I think the industry has a problem, because

1:02:18

there's just going to a movie is just still a

1:02:20

very enjoyable experience for the most part. And because of that, Yeah,

1:02:25

I think until that shifts in some fundamental way where

1:02:28

people like to I don't need movie theaters anymore because

1:02:31

I don't know, we were able to wear oculist headsets

1:02:34

that it makes everything imax or projection technology changes such

1:02:39

where the you know, the screens are watching. But I

1:02:41

think there's just something too about it's like a real

1:02:43

low energy concert going to a movie. You know, like

1:02:46

you're there other people like, yeah, they must sunk with

1:02:48

the two if they're here, So whatever, let's watch this

1:02:50

will laugh and then or cry or whatever, and then

1:02:53

we leave and you kind of have that sense of

1:02:54

being around people. But yeah, I don't know, Barry Diller,

1:02:58

just stick to being the old guy. I feel like movies,

1:03:03

we're still gonna want to have that experience, and probably

1:03:06

more now that we've been deprived of like collective human experiences.

1:03:11

But I think that the movie industry as it exists

1:03:14

should change. I don't think it should die, but I

1:03:16

think it should change a lot. And like, I think

1:03:19

that more movies should be accessible, Like there are a

1:03:22

lot of movie theaters that don't give great caption options.

1:03:25

I wish there's least two showings every day. Yeah, I

1:03:29

wish at least two showings every day captions on the screen.

1:03:32

Like I would go to those showings. And I am

1:03:35

a hearing person, but people don't think the good acting

1:03:38

is whispering. I don't know when that happened, but people

1:03:41

are like, can tell you right, Like, no, I can't

1:03:47

hear you. I'm sorry. It was when Lost in Translation

1:03:50

got away with like the big ending line being whispered

1:03:54

and we couldn't hear it, And people are like, oh,

1:03:57

ship that how that movie ends? Never seen Lost in Translation? Yeah,

1:04:02

there's like a big whispered moment where we don't know what. Yeah,

1:04:05

I'm not watching that, but no, it's like, if you

1:04:11

make things accessible to more people, more people will do

1:04:14

the thing. And I don't know where that's getting Lost

1:04:17

in Translation for the people who are in charge. Um,

1:04:22

but yeah, I think that there was something really powerful

1:04:25

about seeing like Trolls World Tour do really well, both

1:04:30

do well, do really well with streaming, because like taking

1:04:32

kids to the movies is I'm sure you know, Jack,

1:04:36

a true hassle. It's like, it's it's an adventure. And

1:04:41

if you can watch a movie with your kids at

1:04:43

home and you can watch it again and again and

1:04:45

again because the kids are gonna watch it again and

1:04:47

again and again and it's more financially accessible, then that's

1:04:49

gonna be great. And they're just there needs to be

1:04:52

a hybrid model where people aren't thinking about the way

1:04:54

that we've been doing it and thinking about how we

1:04:56

can push things forward and innovate make movies better for

1:04:59

more people. Yeah, I think, Yeah, it's things things that

1:05:05

I was just gonna say. If if you like watching

1:05:07

movies over and over again with the kids, you guys,

1:05:10

check out Davids. Oh man, it's a DVD technology. Rather

1:05:14

than renting the most expensive DVDs from your home, you

1:05:17

can buy never Mind you all remembers that's stupid as

1:05:20

pay per view DVD thing. You have to pick your

1:05:22

DVD there to a phone line. Never mind for the

1:05:26

real tech laims out there. I was I was just

1:05:29

about to google it and be like, oh shoot, I

1:05:31

gotta get You know, it was a thing because the

1:05:34

DVD would be like thirty bucks or whatever. In the

1:05:36

early days, they're like by a divis and then like

1:05:40

every time you want to watch it, it's only like

1:05:42

two bucks. And then over time you can just watch

1:05:45

it and not have to pay for buying the Matrix

1:05:47

on DVD. You just rent it. But people are like,

1:05:50

watch the Matrix fifteen times. It's not worth it for me.

1:05:54

They're like, how does this working? Like it has to

1:05:55

be in a phone. I was like, yeah, just dial

1:05:57

in and then we'll charge you, and they're like, this

1:05:59

is it. It didn't last for more than two seconds.

1:06:01

But but to uh, Barry Diller's point, though, like something

1:06:05

that felt very different to me and knew was so

1:06:08

this movie that Tomorrow War came out on Amazon last

1:06:12

weekend with Chris Prett pretty America's least favorite Chris Well

1:06:17

apparently not because so I was just based on the marketing,

1:06:22

Like there there was some marketing, but it didn't seem

1:06:25

like anybody was really like talking about it that it

1:06:27

was trending that many places Mike Mitchell from Dough Boys

1:06:31

in it, so I had heard him talk about it

1:06:33

a lot, and and Sam Richardson's in it, like it's

1:06:36

the sort of thing that I should have like kind

1:06:38

of been into, but I was just like, it really didn't.

1:06:40

The marketing didn't do it for me. It just seemed

1:06:42

like a vague action movie. And but it was only

1:06:45

released on Amazon Prime, and it apparently was like very

1:06:50

successful on Amazon Prime, which I was I did not

1:06:54

see coming just based on like it seemed like the

1:06:57

sort of thing that was going to flop if it

1:06:59

had been in theaters. But for whatever reason, Amazon Prime

1:07:03

is saying that it's like broke all their records, and

1:07:05

everybody watched mhm broke their records. Though who's watching other

1:07:11

things on Amazon Prime? Like who's watching a ton of

1:07:14

movies on Amazon Prime? Not to share down, which, um,

1:07:19

I don't know anybody who's seen this movie, which doesn't

1:07:22

mean anything because I'm in my own little liberal bubble,

1:07:24

but like very interesting to hear that. Yeah, it was

1:07:30

very popular internationally, which I think a lot of action

1:07:33

movies tend to be, and and to your point, the

1:07:37

number one movie in the history of Amazon Prime to

1:07:40

that point. So the records it was breaking were from

1:07:43

coming to America too, so that that's not like that's

1:07:47

a movie that probably would have been successful where we

1:07:50

not in the middicipal global pandemic, but it wouldn't have

1:07:52

been like a holds the record for the box office

1:07:56

in a giving year type thing, right. I heard that

1:08:00

it's full coppaganda from our producer Anna that that Tomorrow

1:08:05

what's the movie? I can't even remember the name of

1:08:07

the movie, Tomorrow War? Is that the Tomorrow War? Yeah,

1:08:10

it's a bad name. It used to be called the

1:08:11

Ghost Draft and then it was turned called the Tomorrow

1:08:14

War and they're all bad. Apparently it's full coppaganda according

1:08:17

to Ana Hosnia. But yeah, it's got a really good

1:08:19

cast of comedians like Sam Richardson, Marylyn Rice Cop and

1:08:24

Mike Mitchell. So he shout out to cops. Well, Karama,

1:08:30

it has been such a pleasure having you on the daily.

1:08:34

Where can people find you? And Folly, people can follow

1:08:38

me at Karama Drama on Twitter and Instagram and people

1:08:43

can find me um. I was in a web series

1:08:46

called Tricycles that just came out this summer. Check it

1:08:49

out on I think It's tricycles show dot Com and

1:08:53

check out my episode of My carle that's gonna air

1:08:55

on July. Ratulations again, is there a tweet or some

1:09:03

of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Is there? Yes?

1:09:07

America's favorite Auntie Dion Warwick tweeted yesterday about how she's

1:09:12

been learning about memes, but she's spelled it capital m E,

1:09:16

capital m E, So I think she's calling the memes,

1:09:19

which just drills me. Yeah, so she said, I'm trying

1:09:23

to learn about mimi's. I want to make one on

1:09:26

my own with this photo. What would you create? And

1:09:29

then it's a picture of this dog holding a ball

1:09:32

that looks like it's from a ball pit, just like

1:09:34

a yellow dog. And it just makes me so happy.

1:09:37

And the way that like people are responding is very

1:09:40

sweet and wholesome, and everybody's like, yeah, Auntie Dion, I'll

1:09:43

help you. This is a meme I would make. This

1:09:45

is a meme I would make. And I just think

1:09:47

we should all treat each other on the internet the

1:09:49

same way we'd treat Dion Warwick on the internet. Yeah,

1:09:53

for sure. Unfortunately it's easier said than done. Oh yeah

1:09:56

for sure, Miles. Where can people find you? What's a

1:09:59

tweet you've been enjoying find me Twitter, Instagram at Miles

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of Gray and also the other show for twenty day Fiance.

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Check that one out twitch dot tv Slash four twenty

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D Fiance. If you like ninety D Fiance and wheat

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or either it works, it works either way. A tweet

1:10:16

that I like from Dana Donnelly at Dana donn Lee

1:10:19

deal n l Y tweeting my ex would always reply

1:10:22

to random girls Instagram stories, and when I called him on,

1:10:25

he was like, well, if it makes you feel better,

1:10:27

they usually don't even respond, like, oh yeah, death makes

1:10:30

me feel better to learn my boyfriend is not only shady,

1:10:33

he's also undesirable. He keeps coming with the fucking heat

1:10:37

rocks on Twitter. So yeah. A couple of tweets I've

1:10:42

been enjoying. Earl Sweatshirt tweeted, I thank God every day

1:10:47

that my son has a pleasure to be around. He

1:10:49

saves his greatest challenges for his strongest soldiers, and he

1:10:52

knows I'm not strong enough to be locked in with

1:10:54

a bad vibes baby. Very true of me as well.

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And then Katie Sex have her Saint Ange at Skati

1:11:04

fo twenty tweeted description too nervous to ask for emotional support. Man,

1:11:09

it smells like wrong dog in here? Oh man, I

1:11:17

think that might be my favorite tweet. What's wrong dog?

1:11:28

Oh my god, that's so good mastered the form, wowweet,

1:11:34

well done man, wrong dogging and then into tears when

1:11:41

they ask you, yeah, it smells like wrong. You're gonna

1:11:50

that on my therapist, like, yeah, it smells like wrong dogs?

1:11:55

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information that we talked about in today's episode, as well

1:12:21

as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,

1:12:24

what song do we think people might enjoy? This is

1:12:27

gonna be a track from Salt. You know, if you

1:12:30

remember Will from the Public Trouble podcasts on each time

1:12:33

about Salt and you know it is a great band.

1:12:35

And let's just let's take out look, we've we've gone

1:12:38

out on why Why Why? Why? Why before, But this

1:12:42

time we'll do wildfires. And yeah, it's just this is

1:12:46

good music, man, it's good music. It's nice to hear

1:12:48

people play instruments and be joyful and it sounds good.

1:12:52

So this is Salt s a u l T with wildfires.

1:12:56

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