There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
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episode 1: Racism COVID Spike, Zombies R Back? 3.8.21
In episode 826, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Tamara Yajia to discuss Greg Abbott's racist accusations while withholding testing funds, Joe Biden's relief bill, more info coming out about Andrew Cuomo, zombies in South Korea, the new USPS truck, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
- With the pandemic far from over, Texas leaders blame immigrants for spreading the virus
- Texas Gov...
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy five,
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episode one of day production of I Heart Radio. This
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is a podcast or we take a deep dive into
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America's shared consciousness. It is Monday, March eight. My name
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is Jack O'Brien a k I heard there was a
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tasty code. The color red. The label showed the carbonated
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caffeine goes right through you, and it goes like this.
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The fourth fifth, you drink one more and that's the sixth.
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Now palpitations, jitters and insomnia. Mountain do yah, mountain dew Yeah,
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mountain do yah, mountain dude. Yeah. That is courtesy of
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the broom or the bro or the bro. We don't know.
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Two ohs uh and I'm thrilled to be joined as
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always by my co host, Mr Miles Grab with all
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your favorite tweets are gone. Hit a ball, Hit a
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ball like I know you do. And even when you
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jokes my bomb, hit a bong, Hit a bomb like
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I know you do, and then I'm gonna hit a ball.
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Thank you to Hana Soltist, the one and only for
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that whole American Rejects inspired a beautiful um and you
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could do the hand motion for hitting a bomb. So yeah,
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just people couldn't appreciate that, you know, it's stage crack. Yeah,
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maybe we can add a sound effect. Let's not though,
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Let's just the theater of the mind. Theater of the mind.
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H Miles. We are so lucky to be joined in
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our third sea by the hilarious, the talented. Damn you here,
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stop shop. What's good? Good good, I'm I'm Great's love
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to hear it, so good to hear. It's been. I
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was when I was like, when are we gonna have Tam? Yeah,
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it's been. Yeah. Is this only your second time on?
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And what a great first time? That a lot. It
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was such a wonderful experience to hang out with you
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guys and beautiful faces. Oh you're so sweet or whatever.
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There was something about farts or something you said off
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the rip in like the moments that we met each
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other that first time, and I was like, yeah with Tam,
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she's my people. Oh yeah, it was Miles. You smell
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like farts, right, Um, she's so cool multiple farts, uh, Tam.
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So this is the first time we're talking to you,
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because the first time we recorded was in person. Remember
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those days? What what's new with you? What has your
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life been like in the last year, Um, good, really good.
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I've been super productive. I wrote on a show, I
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sold a show. Damn right, I mean I'm not I'm
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not surprised because you are a super hilarious and talented wright.
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But that's that's great, that's hell. Yeah. I I'm still
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like three years ago, I was working at a hospital,
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you know, so it's pretty wild. Yeah, it's like impostor
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syndrome sets in constantly, you know, Yeah, don't let right now,
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it's too late because you're there, so you are no impostor.
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You are no impostor. I have to like act the
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part now, and it's just like pretty I don't know
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I'm being Is it that you have to act the part?
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Or that you have to let go of those critical
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voices in your head? You know? That's it. It's not
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that you have to act differently, it's that you just
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have to change your mindset and ignore that that fucking nonsense.
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And you know that's always been like you sure it
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couldn't be funnier? Is this the funniest thing? You know
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what I mean? It's like, no, no, I'm done because
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I'm here and it's validated. So you are useless now.
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None of us are surprised him. None of us are surprised.
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Hit me up, hit me up. I'll do this, I'll
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do this ship. I'll give this ship for free on
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the daily. You know what I mean. Please, I was
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going to start therapy. I'll just say, oh, yeah, is
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great for this. I get at least an hour and
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a half of this every morning just to get out
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of bed. It's me dragging Jack out of bed. Um,
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that's amazing. Are you how do you feel about the
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world opening back up? Do you have any trepidation about
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that eventually happening in the next year? I really do.
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I wish we could stay at an in between where
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we get all the perks of being at home and
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then all the perks of not being at I think
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we should just take them. I think I don't think
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we should let people uh force us back into the
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before times when we felt pressured to go outside. And
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that's my biggest worry is like Miles doesn't go anywhere
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anymore because of the pandemic, Like he found that he
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could be a under rock dwelling podcast and he's taking
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all of his boxes need wise. But yeah, I don't
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know I like, will you will you guys go back?
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I mean you'll you'll eventually go back to being in
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a studio, but do you want to? Yeah? On level.
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But also like I think of how much I've been
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able to like get a better balance of my time
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from not having to commute that I'm like, m I
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don't know. I feel like everybody's done a good job
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learning how to just talk to each other over a
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microphone from very far right. Yeah, yeah, it'll be nice
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to like go outside. I still I still notice myself
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like it being like a big event when I like
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drive to the store for the day. So like, I
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feel like that will be nice to like break up
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just like your sensory input or like my sensory input,
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so that like I actually am not just seeing the
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same five things, like the same five rooms only, but yeah,
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I will definitely uh not enjoy the extra time that's
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devoted to, you know, being in traffic or whatever. I
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started taking walks every morning, like and it's changed everything.
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I go to the park when there's no one around,
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I take my nose out of the mask and I
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breathe in, get it in. Damn. Yeah, no walks for sure,
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and you'd like to Jack's point of like seeing the
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same four rooms every day. I'm telling you, just go
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to a different supermarket, go to a different I'm serious,
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Just switch one weird thing, or drive a different way
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to the same place you go, or walk a different
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way to your park or whatever. Like it's these like
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little things you try and do to kind of optimize
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the like different ways of stimulation you used to get from,
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like driving and being like, hey, you motherfucker like streaming
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in your car, Like we don't have that anymore. I'm
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trying to make up for that by like walking down
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another place that my street that my dog doesn't like
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because the pit bulls always try and kill him. But
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you know, I just do a silly walk in between
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the same four rooms, and that's what breaks it up
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for me. It's silly walk day rivers to the bathroom,
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right right, right, all right, Tam, We're going to get
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to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
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we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
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that we're talking about. Uh, we're gonna to talk about
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this Greg Abbott, motherfucker. Uh. Just I don't want to
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ever have to say his name again, but I guess
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we have to. We're gonna talk about the relief Bill
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and some of the things, some of the allowances that
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are being made, Uh that are pretty cool. Uh. And
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I also want to talk about how the mainstream media.
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I checked out MSN dot com today, guys, Uh, and
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it is uh, it's wild. They're they're doing the holding
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Biden to a standard of bipartisanship. Uh. That is pretty
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startling and uh seems disingenuous at best. We'll talk about Cuomo,
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We'll talk about Philly, We'll talk about the new postal trucks,
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maybe some zombies, all of that plenty more. But first
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we like to ask our guest, what is something from
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your search history that is revealing about who you are? Um?
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This one made me crack up because it was from
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last night and I don't remember it because I got
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super drunk. I googled mole cancer and I'm because I
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have this mole right here and I used to not
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have it. But it's like, what was I thinking? Was
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it going to give me like a search on my
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like a website over They're like, well, let me see,
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let me see, just not even like do moles like
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can they have answer, Yeah, that was I guess I
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black out and I, uh yeah. Or maybe you saw
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something about a mole the animal and heard about you know,
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the cancer like cancer hidden moles, and you're like, oh god,
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is there a foundation? Who what are we doing about
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mole cancer? Oh my god? Wait? And I have to
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tell you the one before that is an anaconductor old up,
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because I was this one that you're also finding out
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about this morning, or you know this one was. I
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remember it because I wanted to. I took a crap
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that looked like like an anaconda that was, you know, curly.
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I wanted to send my friend a picture of the
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crap and I wasn't gonna do that because that's gross.
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Instead I sent him a picture of an anaconda. That's
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gross picture I have. I have one friend who I
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won't name who. He's shameless with the turd picks, but
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it's always like a bit where he's like, oh, man,
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do you you got any you know anybody that's a plumber,
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And I'm like, well, what the folks going on? And
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then hit me with like the wild ship pick or
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be like oh dude, I just you know, just it's
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always some stupid set up and then the worst ship pick.
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But I always laugh and so it'll never stop. But
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I'm always like, yeah, I didn't need to see this,
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or like sometimes I get the text and them around
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people who don't know me, and they'll be like, Yo,
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this motherfucker looking a straight ship picks. But yeah, dangerous game.
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I had a long time ago when I worked at
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the hospital, I sent my boss a picture by mistake,
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like the tiniest turn. That's actually yeah, usually people send
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like big ones, but like the tiniest is pretty just
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like a little speck, like a little pebble, Yeah, like
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a little rabbit poop. Yeah, yeah, that's whimsical. You know what.
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I like, what you're saying is fucking coiled anacondo. Like
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that's like I couldn't do that, Like I couldn't get
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to that level of taking a huge, huge pick. Yeah. Well.
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The other thing is like in poop taking culture, it's
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like you gotta take the photo before you wipe, you
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know what I mean, because you don't want to sully
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the frame with the toilet paper. There's a lot of
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things you have to think of in ship pick sending culture.
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I didn't think about that nut's so true and you
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can't you can't cover it up with toilet paper or
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it's like yeah, yeah, you don't want to or you
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don't want to see used for whatever. And my I've
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done this before because I'm like, oh, he wants to
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battle with ship picks, I got some for him. Get ready?
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You thought I was John Voden anacondom but to hit
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you with this pick. But the I really have those
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moments like, oh, yeah, that's too gross to see the
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used paper versus the actual extra forgetting right, that's true,
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that that seems grosser somehow, even though that ship's excrement
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photo um, excrement on paper though, Oh no, that's that
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evokes too many things like what's wrong with us? It
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makes sit real? Yeah right, right right, versus like something
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that was potentially an illustration subconscious Uh well that's what
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that's what's happening anyway. Shift photographer's phone in, do you
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sully the frame? How do you compose your poop picks?
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Because I look, I just know, like for dudes, it's
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just a stupid thing we have. As I I've talked
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about this before as a kid, like when I was
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six on Christmas, my dad got a cam quarter. The
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first video clip that's on there is me filming myself
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taking a ship and like other anecdotally my friends who
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have young sons, like they one of one was like
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potty training out of and like their friends, their other
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little friend was over and the friends like, oh, I
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want to watch him take a poop, and he was
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just like all up in and being like, oh so
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that's how you poohing the thing, huh. And they're like three,
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but I'm like, yeah, there's something about this, you know.
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I'm we're onto something as people. Yeah, my four year
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old is like it takes six seven flushes to get
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his poops down because he's like so far up on
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the seat that it's just like in the front, it's
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just a pile on the front. It doesn't on the front. Yeah,
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pile up front, Yeah, front piler, Yeah, front loader. I've
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been doing a lot of front piling during cold yeah front.
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But the ones that just ye sit yeah, just hit
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the yeah. Um, you look like a gravel mill coming
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off the belt, piling up all right, our our listeners.
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Since the Blippy episode, we spent like a half hour
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talking about Blippy shipping on his friend's chest and his
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ass on his naked ass. That's his naked as right, uh,
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written in an article BuzzFeed. Shout out to BuzzFeed, Uh, tam,
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what is something you think is overrated? Overrated linen sheets?
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You know how they're in style now or whatever, like
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organic linen sheets that cost so much Like I got
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apparent they gave me a chappy ass. Yeah really yeah
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kind of yeah linen I mean person, I like it
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in the so I've had it in the summer. Yeah.
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Shout out to my friend who allowed me to sample
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uh some sheets and sample, I just mean gave me
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a pair that there sheets set that wasn't being used,
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but it felt the first time was cool. I think
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just because it's so different than like the really smooth
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sheets were used to So that little bit of texture
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I think in the beginning is cool, but it's not
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as it's not as cool, Like I feel like it's
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not as cool it people describe it as cool, but
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like because it's rough because there's texture there, don't get that. Like,
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but I think you and I are the shame Jack.
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We run hot, So I don't know what. I don't
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know what we could have covering up actress that wouldn't
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make me like this ship is too hot, right, yeah,
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I just need absorb it because I'm sweating through that ship.
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What well, you know now I'm thinking about it after
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the story you told mine weren't good quality. Mine were
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from targets, so I think mine were just like fake
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linen and that's why they gave me a chappy ass.
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Do you like before this? Did you ever like the
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synthetic like like those you know, straight up polyester, like
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those synthetic ones that were like ridiculously soft but like
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so plastic that if you kind of yeah, yeah, I
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do you they come out of the sides and they
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piss me off. Oh yeah, well, I mean I don't.
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I think it's just like a Actually, now that I
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think about it, I have the same set micro fiber Yes,
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thank you to Bruto Shanajosi. A microfiber or like like
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a shame that we clean the monitors with. Um No,
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but I think I had, you know what it is
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I have. I've had the same ship. I can't say
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sheet set sheets said since like my college years, and
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I remember her majesty would't allow me to buy a
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newer version because like you already got your cheap ass,
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Like what are the T shirt kind? They're like but
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like they're I mean in between like that one and
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like yeah, but like micro jersey you know what I mean. Yeah, no,
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it's like a T shirt. It's like they made my
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sheets up a T shirt. Dude, It's amazing. But it's
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also like what you'd wear anyway. I love those, you know,
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like actually that those might be my favorite, those jersey
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cotton sheets that are I mean, what's I mean at
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at the end of the day, what's good or what's bad?
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You know, Like it's all about what we want on
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our skin. So if you want to if you want
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the if you want the pile of gauze to absorb
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your sweat and do that. There he is making me
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feel better again. On the same page, I mean an
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imposter syndrome, Like they they have all these like microfibers
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and like you know, uh, human created like Polly blends
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and ship that it like will make it so if
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you spell water on your sheets, like the water will
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just like fall right off and ship. But like I
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feel like I feel like there's a direction they can go,
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Like the combination of you know, we need to we
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need to Steve jobs of sheets, who can like just
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come up with the coolest, most comfortable sheet, Like I
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feel like we're leaving it up to scientists and all
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they can do is be like, look, it doesn't absorb water,
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but like they're not they don't bring the human aspect.
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We and somebody who is, uh, who's gonna figure out
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the best, the coolest, the softest sheets possible. I love
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the idea of the water slipping like not being absorbed, Like,
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then come wouldn't be absorbed either, right, You just have
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pebbles of come sitting on your sheets until you wipe
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it off, beating everywhere the sheets in different places because
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it's so hydrophobic. I'm always getting mad at my husband
19:37
for for like staining our would come and that would
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really solve the marital We should just say it. Well,
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if not, then it's going to be back on top
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of garbage bags like it used to be. If you
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can't funk like an adult, we're working on those black
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construction bags, okay. Uh? And what is something you think
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is underrated? Looking like ship is underrated? Like what's up
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with like on Instagram? Like all these things to make
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you look better and stuff like I had a week
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last week of looking like ship and I was so
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fucking happy and giggly and it was like looking at
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the like today I have. I just got this haircut
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which is kind of a mullet, which is cool when
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I like, you know, it looks good punk I like,
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but if I don't put product and stuff, it justs
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straight up I look like Eileen Warns type, you know,
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like again, oh man, please she Charlie's there and played her.
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She looks a disaster. Give me the Yeah. I looked
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like that for an entire week. And that was my
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giggly week. And my husband was like, yeah, you know,
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you don't like you're not trying, but but you're happy.
21:22
You can't look at you but but it was great.
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It was my favorite week in a long time. Yeah.
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It's empowering. That's why I think. Yeah, I mean, I
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feel like I'm hoping that there's something about fashion that
21:38
changes as a result of us like taking you know,
21:42
a year plus of not having to dress to impress
21:46
that like if there's another like a movement that comes
21:48
out of it called like shit wave, Like I mean
21:54
that's what norm core is, isn't it. Like that's when
21:57
I went to Berlin. It was like people try to
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look ship. Yeah, but now I think it's gonna be
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like it's more it's like jazz baby, like there's no
22:05
rhyme or reason to it, Like you gotta come out
22:07
just feeling playing your own first. Yeah, a comforter around exactly, Yeah,
22:16
just wrapped around your head, or like if it's raining,
22:19
you wear one of those translucent like bags your sheet
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sets come in just on top of your head, like umbrella.
22:24
You're like, oh man, look at that ship wave umbrella
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you got. I love you guys. I mean, are people
22:36
Are people going to be wearing like uncomfortable clothes again?
22:39
I can't imagine like wearing a like I mean, I
22:44
guess there's still people who are wearing suits to work
22:47
and ship right now, which is yeah, who wears I
22:51
don't know. I mean is there I mean, personally, is
22:54
there anything that you've looked at your own clothing said,
22:56
you know what now that through this pandemic, I'm never
22:59
wearing that again. I don't think I have I dressed
23:03
so I dressed so comfortably. In general, it's more like
23:06
I'm only going to wear like these three hoodies now forever,
23:10
not the not the scratchy hoodie exactly. Not long ago,
23:15
it was my sister's birthday, and I don't know what
23:18
happened to me, but I bought her this like vinyl
23:22
dress and she opened it. I saw it in her
23:26
face and I said, why the fund did I buy?
23:30
We just all started. I was like, you're never gonna
23:37
wear that? And she was like never, like lateext and
23:45
the worst. I also fought her to wear with the
23:48
late text dress this like heavy gold chain. You just
23:56
have a very specific vision for your sister, that ship.
24:00
She hasn't quite realized for herself yet. But like I
24:04
feel that like when you're giving a gift, like it's
24:09
like watching a movie that you recommended with someone you
24:12
can't fully appreciate, Like like you you start feeling like
24:17
insecure about it, and like that's when you really have
24:20
an idea of it. Like I feel like a gift,
24:22
I don't fully like understand how good or bad the
24:26
gift is until the person is about to open it,
24:29
and then I'm like, ship, they're gonna hate this. Just
24:35
so nervous too, or like you're kind of putting it
24:38
together at the zero hour. Actually not that, uh oh man.
24:47
That to your gift. Yeah, yeah, actually, don't open it.
24:49
Don't open it. No, it's it's so true though. I
24:52
got my friend, we had a gift exchange for Christmas,
24:55
and I got him a set of Fraggle Rock stuff
24:58
d animals. I mean, that's how it does. But it's
25:02
like he just moved into a new, nice apartment and
25:04
they're like large, and it was all the battle. You're
25:11
gonna need a room for this. You're gonna need a
25:15
fraggle room. That's amazing. They're bringing Fraggle Rock back for
25:23
I think HBO exciting times. I'm into it, not into reboots,
25:28
but this one I think they're going to do right. Yeah.
25:31
I think when they like bring the Muppets back or
25:33
the Fraggles or like, it's usually fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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we're prog over all. Right, let's take a quick break
25:48
and then we'll come back and talk about some bullshit.
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And we're back and Greg Abbott is back in the news.
26:06
The numbers in Texas we're going down, but they were
26:10
not good. Uh and still higher than national averages. But
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he's like, not, we're taking the masks away. Uh. And
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now he's got an excuse for He's like preceding uh,
26:24
an excuse for why the numbers are about to go up. Yeah, exactly.
26:29
I mean every expert has pointed out to It's like,
26:31
you know, Governor Abbott, every time you've relaxed mandates, cases
26:36
spiked without fail. It's like it's almost like the mandates
26:40
helped keep the numbers down because of science. And when
26:44
you we're forget it, we're explaining too much to him anyway.
26:47
So you know, I think one can only imagine what
26:51
potentially hospitals could look like in a few weeks as
26:53
people start like I've seen photos people already mask off
26:56
bar hopping uh and it's an interesting site. Um. But again,
27:01
before before the blame could get to him for his decision,
27:06
the real culprit is here we go. Quote. The Biden
27:10
administration has been releasing immigrants in South Texas that have
27:15
been exposing Texans to COVID. Some of these people him,
27:20
that's a quote from him. Some of these people have
27:24
been put on busses taking that COVID to other states
27:28
in the United States. That is Neanderthal type approach to
27:32
dealing with the COVID situation. End quote. So racism is
27:38
the defense again because they just want to go full
27:41
you know, it's the literal Nazi finger pointing and that
27:45
like it's the sick outsiders who are trying to sully
27:49
our good state and nation and not because you know
27:53
he's the governor. Um. One other interesting thing about that
27:57
for all that talk about immigrants, First of all, the
28:00
auction rates are even lower for groups of migrants that
28:03
they've released and have been testing because n g os
28:05
have been testing. Because here's the other thing. There has
28:08
been uh DHS federal money that was earmarked for Texas
28:12
to conducts testing on migrants because of that's just COVID protocol.
28:17
The thing is when he says, oh, they've just been
28:19
releasing people, what he doesn't tell you is that Governor
28:23
Abbott has refused to release the federal funds that he
28:26
has received to test migrants and just folded that into
28:31
his narrative like oh, yeah, see, like they're just they're
28:34
not testing them and then they're putting them on us
28:36
and blah blah, without saying I'm withholding the money. I'm
28:39
the one not doing this and I'm not going to
28:41
tell people either because I need this narrative to blame
28:44
others rather than the decisions of myself as governor. I
28:49
could smash something. I feel a rage of burning, fucking rage.
28:56
And one weird thing I read today is my Elmore's
29:00
tweet I don't know if you guys saw it about
29:02
this whole thing, saying withhold vaccines from Texans, all of
29:08
Texans because of this, Like so it's just like every
29:12
it's all infuriating. Yeah, people are are absolutely losing their
29:16
sense of humanity here, like on every side, because it's
29:20
like on one people are like not knowing how to
29:22
process their ship depending on your idea ideological bed. And
29:26
now it's like, well this guy did it, every Texan punished. Um, well, no,
29:31
that's that's not that's not actually a good policy in
29:33
general to lump people together as this monolith. And on
29:37
top of it too, there's this other A lot of
29:39
the experts are pointing out that, you know, I know,
29:42
we're talking about herd immunity and vaccines are coming out,
29:45
and that's another thing that's coming like working into the
29:47
logic of reopening. But the efficacy trials, those are based
29:51
on societies, worlds where people are wearing masks, respecting social distancing.
29:59
All of those figure into how those models play out,
30:02
not oh, if you got this, let it rip. It's
30:04
like no, no, no, Those efficacy numbers are based on
30:07
other people also doing the right thing. So if you
30:10
just do this, you're not gonna see the same effectiveness
30:14
or you'll make You'll probably just because we're seeing more
30:16
cases and that allows the virus to mutate even more
30:20
people who could be vaccinated and also getting severe cases
30:23
of COVID themselves. So it's there's nothing good about any
30:27
of it. Yeah, it's a it's and its Yeah. There
30:33
was this article on the front page of MSN where
30:36
I get all my news, uh, and they just like
30:39
aggregate shipped from like USA today and this headline is
30:44
Biden COVID stimulus bill. Why relief legislation is so partisan?
30:49
Like basically asking like why aren't Republicans supporting this, Like
30:54
it's just recovering politics, like it's nineteen eighty six, and
31:01
like that the Republican Party hasn't you know, outed itself
31:06
as a complete death cult. Um. It starts from the
31:09
assumption that the Republicans have like valid reasons for objecting
31:13
to the relief bill, and like not being able to
31:17
get a single Republican vote is like based on something,
31:21
and they they're like what happened Biden like ran as
31:23
the uniter in chief, Like just the idea that you
31:27
would you would still treat like unity as a goal
31:34
with the Republican Party when they are Yeah, they're just
31:38
straight up like there's no good faith argument anymore. Yeah,
31:41
they're just being evil out in the open. There's not
31:44
one thing that they've there's not one counter proposal that
31:48
has made anybody like, oh that's an interesting way to
31:50
help people. It's all like, oh, that's a real creative
31:53
way to fuck people over. That's all it is. And
31:56
like even the way this article starts. Republican senators have
31:59
described President Biden's COVID nineteen Simius plan as a quote
32:02
clunker quote bad politics and quote wildly expensive. Like don't
32:07
take that as being like those are a good descriptions.
32:11
That's just fucking lame. Asked cover for them to say
32:15
they don't want to help fucking anyone and like like
32:19
this wonky terminology to just be like wildly expensive. How
32:22
about I'm fine, you know, knowing people with people. Yeah,
32:27
if the bill makes it through it this is a quote.
32:29
If the bill makes it through Congress with only Democratic support.
32:32
It would stand out from the COVID relief plans Congress
32:35
passed over the last year. When it's like they're using
32:40
the Republicans are using the humanity of the other side
32:45
against them as a weapon in this article is just like,
32:48
I don't know why, I don't know what's going on
32:51
with these Democrats. They can't get the Republicans on board. Yeah,
32:55
it's it's it's it's fucked up. And this is again
32:58
when if you're someone who's not as engaged with the
33:01
news and then you, let's say, you just go, oh,
33:03
what's what's this regular website I go to telling me
33:06
they're going to if you're not thinking very critically, you're
33:09
gonna be like, ah, man, they just can't get along, man, Like,
33:12
why can't the Republicans meet with their Democrats on this
33:15
and vice versa versus being like Republicans have shown themselves
33:18
to be obstructionists of all progress for decades. Now this
33:22
is part and Parcela And that's an objective observation, but
33:27
that's where things I think, because by doing that, people
33:30
like it's so partisan. Now it's like, well, I think
33:32
you've everyone's just kind of lost their ability to try
33:34
and look at is this helping or harming? And going
33:37
from their versus left or right or red or blue.
33:40
It's wild. I was reading an article about COVID and
33:44
it was like CNN or something like that, and the
33:46
title was COVID vaccines caused symptoms of breast cancer. And
33:54
it's like, that's the fucking title. So it's click bait
33:57
clearly because when you read the article goal it says
34:00
like it can. Basically it can if you get a
34:04
mamogram like right after getting a vaccine. It kind of
34:08
like replicates, but it doesn't. It's not real. It just
34:11
like replicates what you know exactly. I can't describe it well,
34:16
but it's like it wasn't true, and so a person
34:19
will just scroll through that and be like, well, I'm
34:22
not getting the vaccine, so like just for clickbait, you know.
34:26
The way this was described. And one of the ways
34:30
that like those article titles are generated is they'll like
34:34
put fifty into fifty different titles for the same article
34:39
into like an algorithm and then just see like which
34:42
one is getting the most cliques, uh, and that will
34:45
be the title that they go with. And yeah, so
34:48
that's like I see that all the time with articles
34:51
where the implication is something that's actually not in the article,
34:55
but clearly it is like the one of any article
35:01
titles that was like getting the most heat, the most
35:04
people to click on it, and so yeah, it's just
35:07
engineered to make you click. It has nothing to do
35:09
with conveying information, almost as if capitalism is a is
35:14
a bad way to organize news. Almost as I mean,
35:20
I feel like, Miles, don't you have some sort of solution? Yeah, Miles,
35:26
what I mean, Look earlier, I'm talking about whether or
35:29
not you put used toilet paper in your ship picks. Uh,
35:33
well let's start there and maybe build correct the third estate. Um,
35:41
I don't know. I mean, honestly, it's the issue is
35:44
just like we just have a real problem with the
35:49
people who are at the levers and the gates of
35:51
mainstream media are just of an elite class who are
35:54
unable to convey clearly what is happening from a perspective
35:59
that isn't just intrinsically tied with like their existence of
36:02
being elites, because it cannot it can never be too
36:05
critical or else. It's like it's like a snail, like
36:08
putting salt on themselves, you know, Like it's just it's
36:11
not gonna happen, because I think to really report the
36:14
news the way it could it could or should be
36:17
right now, because they'd have to put the magnifying glass
36:19
on themselves more. And since that isn't gonna happen, just
36:24
just keep on with business as usual and business as
36:26
usual as like, look, now we just have to cater
36:29
to two groups of consumers, consumers on the right and
36:32
consumers on the left, and then those are the two
36:35
versions of news. And yeah, it really helps no one
36:39
in the end, and it forces people to start like
36:42
searching on their own or others not to search at all,
36:44
and then just get caught into this like really lame
36:47
narrative that the mainstream media puts out where like nothing
36:49
can really change, and like you shouldn't really be that
36:51
angry too, because the tone of all these articles like
36:54
I don't know, guys, like so much partisanship rather than
36:56
like look at the violent wealth in the ality here
37:00
and ways that we could tackle this as a country,
37:03
you know, or but that's too radical. It honestly helps
37:08
to hear someone just like break it down. It helps
37:12
with my rage at least. Yeah, I feel you someone
37:16
who deals in a rage on a daily basis, like,
37:19
it's hard to keep looking at this ship and be like,
37:22
when are we going to figure it out? I wonder
37:25
people got to figure it out? But I mean the
37:28
hope that I do have is that it seems that
37:30
we're further along with the sort of class consciousness that
37:35
I didn't think was going to exist at this point.
37:37
But it's still are we at that tipping point? I mean,
37:40
I know there's good signs about like Amazon warehouses and
37:43
like the unionization efforts starting to really kind of catch
37:46
steam all over the place at our pace that even
37:48
like I was like, oh, what are we gonna do? Um?
37:51
But yeah, I don't. It's we'll see. I mean, because
37:55
if we keep having articles like this, people are gonna
37:57
go to the polls in the mid terms without any
37:59
real sense of why the why the country is the
38:04
way it is, and they're gonna be like, fucking democrats
38:07
fifted and then they're going to vote for fascists. And
38:12
I mean that's the ship that like democrats read is
38:14
the mainstream media like that. I feel like democrats in
38:17
the mainstream media are inside the same like kind of worldview.
38:20
So they are. That's like the poison that they're being
38:24
fed is like we gotta be bipartisan, we gotta like
38:27
come around and get the get the Republicans on board.
38:31
And it's just it's like watching somebody who's dad is
38:35
never going to like who's just got the most toxic
38:38
relationship with somebody and just just dying to get their approval.
38:41
It's just never never going to happen, like by design
38:45
they are withholding their approval. There is one positive little
38:49
sliver of news about the relief bill, right Stimulan Democrats
38:53
listened to something is probably yeah, and I mean like
38:59
economists just just very narrowly and I'll just because we
39:02
could go through the whole bill and cry our eyes up.
39:04
But um, the a lot of economists have been warning, hey,
39:08
if you don't add some kind of tax relief measure
39:10
to this next stimulus bill, millions of people are going
39:13
to face like a real significant tax bill for the
39:16
unemployment benefits they received in um and they're like, well,
39:20
we don't know what to do. And they're like, hold
39:22
on you, You're gonna force these people to pay taxes
39:26
on top of the like being out of the job.
39:29
Like this is ridiculous. Luckily, there's now a new provision
39:34
being added that would forgive taxes on the first ten thousand,
39:38
two hundred dollars of unemployment UM, which is better than
39:43
actually forcing people to pay taxes on it. And also
39:46
it would also keep the federal unemployment benefits at three hundred,
39:49
although most people were like, can we get four? That
39:51
doesn't seem like a lot more, and also extend the
39:55
program through October four. I think the idea with the
39:57
three hundred is again Joe Mansion's fucking dumbass, the bell
40:02
of the fucory ball is able to funk around and
40:05
be like, well, I don't don't, I'll vote for it,
40:07
and again Democrats rolling over. I guess so they can
40:10
avoid having him side with Republicans in the floor vote.
40:13
And yeah, so at least, uh, they've they've done that.
40:20
But just keep building on momentum of like, you know, Democrats,
40:23
there's a tip just keep front of mine. Help people.
40:25
That'll that's like, that'll that'll get votes. Help but no
40:29
help um never help people. Help people. Joe Manson's daughter
40:37
is the one who's like a a pharmaceutical exact right,
40:41
Oh is it him? I believe so yeah, I hate
40:49
that faced so much. Yeah, well and he's all I mean,
40:55
he himself is just an absolute scum lord as well.
40:59
Like it's he's also been he's had his own time, uh,
41:04
doing all kinds of things. But yeah, it's this is
41:07
again when we have situations where you have like like
41:11
these Dino type senators who are yeah Democrats, like when
41:15
you're filling out your application, but like what you're again,
41:19
you're voting with Republicans on this because he wants to
41:22
stay in office, and that's just what it is. So yeah,
41:26
she is the CEO of Netherlands based pharmaceutical company Mylon.
41:31
This is just something that I in reading about Michael Tubbs,
41:34
the mayor of Stockton who got the universal basic income
41:41
experiment passed through and then lost his reelection even though
41:46
he like should have wanted easily. It was just very frustrating.
41:51
Like it's it's like anybody who is in power as
41:56
a Democrat, like they have like he went Michael Tubbs
41:59
went to stand Ford and uh is like good friends
42:03
with all these tech CEOs and like Joe Manchin's daughter
42:07
is like a ceo. I just feel like there's this
42:09
way that all the people in power. For the Democrats
42:13
are insulated from the people, you know, they just have
42:17
that Joe Biden happens to become the nominee and he's
42:22
like the credit card company's favorite politician of all times.
42:26
Just like um that I think that that seems to
42:30
be just like the way that, like when we talk
42:32
about capitalism being an ai that protects itself, I feel
42:37
like that's one of the ways that a million different
42:40
paper cuts get in there and find a way to
42:44
make sure that these people are absorbing the ideology of
42:49
you know, that class of people protecting themselves and protecting
42:53
their wealth. So, yeah, corporate ocracy is an apt description,
42:57
you know on some level, like it's so intertwined with
42:59
each other. And yeah, just by going just by knowing
43:03
someone who is a CEO, they're like, all right, well,
43:05
if you know a CEO that you can't then you're
43:07
not you're not on song raw Rod COMMI share Fest bullshit. Yeah,
43:14
just having dinner with a CEO is gonna make you
43:18
you know, you're gonna hear their point of view for sure.
43:21
All right, let's take another break and we'll be right back.
43:34
And we're back. And Andrew Cuomo back in the News
43:41
back at it again. Damn Andrew. So he one of
43:45
his aids Daniel. I know, but it's Andrew Cuomo. Yeah,
43:59
I was a damn Daniel bag. Oh Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo
44:10
got it. Andrew Cuomo got it. Wait what is his name? Now?
44:16
I feel crazy? Cuomo. Also, Damn Daniel is not a
44:22
cool reference, like not not not cool at all. Anyways,
44:29
one of his former is Charlotte Bennett is accusing him
44:32
of sexual harassment, and and we're getting like a lot
44:36
of detail and it's basically textbook grooming predator ship. He
44:42
first of all is like a rage of monster around
44:44
the office. But then we'll be like very kind and
44:46
sensitive to her. And then when they were alone, after
44:50
like a year of him being like, you know, playing
44:52
favorites and being really polite and nice to her, he
44:55
started asking her about her sex life, asked if she
44:58
was monogamous, asked if she'd ever had sex with an
45:01
older man. Um uh. And then he told her in
45:07
a followed meeting that he's lonely. And then when she
45:10
was like, well, your daughters are around like trying to
45:14
you know, he doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't take that message
45:17
is like, yeah, his response, Yeah, but I want a girlfriend.
45:21
And then he had a follow up meeting with her
45:22
was where he was like, yeah, how are you doing
45:25
on the girlfriend front? You find me a girlfriend? Um.
45:31
And then another way that his aids are in the
45:34
news and New York Times report at the end of
45:36
last week found that his aids literally rewrote a report
45:40
to cover up nine thousand, two hundred and fifty nursing
45:43
home deaths at the beginning of the pandemic UH and
45:47
the way he and his UH team have tried to
45:51
explain away the you know, mischaracterization of the number of
45:56
deaths and like height covering up deaths would never good
46:01
when when you're covering up a single death, that's usually
46:05
the behavior of someone who's uh, not nailing it in
46:09
the hole, not killing people. Hey, Jack's how many how
46:12
many deaths have you have to cover up? Definitely under
46:16
nine thousand, cam would be my guess one, okay, which
46:22
is always like if you just look at it as
46:24
just when covering up just one down, it's like, oh,
46:26
you're a murderer. It's weird because the numbers are so
46:32
mind blowing, right right, Okay, I'm sorry, but go on,
46:36
but um, so they had always been like, yeah, but
46:39
we're doing it because Trump wouldn't give us funding if
46:42
he like found out the full numbers. Well, this was
46:45
happening well before the federal government was even talking about
46:49
being involved or asking for state level data. It was
46:54
omitted from reports being circulated within the state. Uh so
46:59
that goes out the window. And again, these are people.
47:03
This is not could not there's no possible like explanation
47:07
for this that like, oh, we didn't want people to panic.
47:09
These are people who are like hidden away from view,
47:14
who are dying while being hitten away from you, and
47:17
you're trying to hide their deaths from people, Like it's yeah,
47:22
just I mean, like I think, just a thought experiment.
47:24
Imagine if Andrew Cuomo tried to cover up the fact
47:28
that one of your loved ones died like that, you
47:31
know what I mean, And you'd like, the fuck is this?
47:35
And on top of just a quick number crunch, you
47:37
talk about even one covering up one murder one death
47:42
is some wildly problematic, yeah, fucked up murderer type ship.
47:46
Imagine if Andrew Cuomo had to cover up one death
47:49
a day from this nine nine thousand, two hundred fifty,
47:52
he would be he would be covering up with death
47:54
every day for twenty five years to get to that number. Yeah,
47:58
that's exhausting, but you do it in one go because
48:01
it's all about being the fucking you know, COVID goat.
48:06
Oh you know in the early part of the pandemic. Um.
48:09
I watched his press conference this week and when he
48:12
announced it, I was like, oh, ship, is he going
48:14
to resign? And then obviously didn't resign, and I was like,
48:18
I'm so stupid. He didn't even talk about you didn't
48:25
want to talk about it because there's an investigation going on,
48:28
and he was just like, oh, you know, Yeah, lawyers
48:32
told me I shouldn't even be saying this to you
48:34
right now, but uh, what do they know, I'm a
48:37
lawyer to baby. Charlotte Bennett also said that she felt
48:42
like he became more emboldened once he became like started
48:47
getting national attention for how well he was handling the
48:49
COVID thing. And also he wrote a book about how
48:54
well he was covering the COVID thing, uh doing the
48:57
covid uh thing, like while the pandemic was still happening,
49:01
which is one of the all time, all time dickhead moves. Well,
49:07
if you ask my mom, she would say, I know
49:11
of him. Oh really, yeah, well, you know she's just
49:15
like sixties obvious, like democrat, and she's just like finds
49:20
him to be super handsome and like doesn't do you know,
49:23
doesn't read more than you know, and just love it. Yeah. Yeah,
49:29
I think when you just look at like because I
49:30
think most people look at politicians as like movie characters
49:34
that only exist in the reality of what they're saying
49:36
in that moment on TV, rather than like, who is
49:40
this Andrew Cuomo person? Right? You know, because I think
49:44
and that's why people have these really interesting pair of
49:47
social relationships with politicians too, because like on some level,
49:50
it's like it's that thing that I like that I'm
49:52
sure that on some level the politics maybe resonate with
49:55
you that give you a connection. But then on another
49:57
it's like, yo, hold on, these are let's not let's
50:00
be real. Most of these people should not be in
50:02
office if we're talking about running a country or state
50:06
or municipality humanely. Um. But yeah, I think there was
50:10
one person I felt like on Twitter that was sort
50:12
of like, I'm sorry, I was so regret just like standing,
50:16
you know, Cuomo at the beginning of the pandemic, Like
50:19
in hindsight, I realized just fucking Stockholm syndrome. Um, But yeah,
50:24
there was that whole wave of people like, oh my god,
50:27
the governor bay right, I mean our whole our whole
50:32
culture right now is designed to like you know, build up,
50:37
like make people choose sides and then have like a
50:39
figurehead who's like our guy there guys trump, our guys
50:43
Cuomo or Foucier you know whoever. Like that's just I
50:48
don't know. I don't blame the people as much as
50:51
you know, it's a just a fun no, not at all.
50:53
But I think most people I've credit to someone who
50:55
can like sort of look back and be like, oh,
50:57
that's what that's going on with me, and then yeah,
50:59
they're other people like I'm sure my mom if I
51:02
asked like, hey, what do you think, like he's bad,
51:04
and I'm like, are you watching CNN? Yes, he does
51:09
look like a actual movie villain, Like he would be
51:13
a perfect He looks like the if they photoshopped when
51:16
Dorian puts the mask on, in the mask to like
51:19
less green and like a what do we think of
51:23
his brother Fred? Like what is his name? I'm Chris Link,
51:34
Chris Christof. Yeah, Christopher, he's a fucking hack too. Yeah,
51:40
he's he's a fred Freddy jackass. I'm sorry the second
51:44
you say calling me Fredo is a racial slur, I'm like, okay,
51:47
I'm gonna put you to the side, Sir. Don't ever
51:50
need to hear anything out of your mouth again. If
51:52
that's your critical thought in that moment is like, Yo,
51:55
referencing a Godfather character is like a racial slur. Fam.
51:59
I'm like, oh, how delicate your ego is, sir? Please
52:02
tell us, Please tell us critically, report critically about what's
52:05
happening in your brother's state. Yeah, but but definitely a hottie, right, Yeah,
52:13
my mom wants to suck and fucking for sure. Oh mo,
52:21
Chris Cuomo. I think she wouldn't both both bros. Are
52:28
there only two brothers? Actually, those videos them fighting is
52:35
my favorite thing ever though, of them fighting about who
52:41
loves their mother more like on Oh yeah, Jesus christ,
52:48
you shut your mouth. I love mother more. Oh my god,
52:54
let's change gears and talk about There's an article in
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the Herald Media last week about how zombie movies are
53:04
taking over in Korea. Right now or have been I
53:08
guess for the past couple of decades, and they're basically
53:10
predicting that it's coming back in America. There's a remake
53:15
of Trained to Bousong coming to Hollywood that's going to
53:19
they're predicting might kick off the next wave of zombie movies. Um,
53:25
which that we've talked before about how like when a
53:28
Republican is in office, there's an uptick in zombie movies
53:32
because zombies, like just the mindless, groaning hordes is how
53:37
Democrats view the Republicans. And then when there's a Democrat
53:42
in office, there's an uptick in vampire movies because like
53:47
euro like sexual accented deviance is how Republicans view democrats.
53:55
Um but I feel like I don't know. I feel
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now that we are now that Trump happened, like all
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bets are off. It's like we don't need a Republican
54:06
to be in office to be afraid of of the
54:11
people around us. I mean, fucking the January six look
54:15
like fucking World War Z in a way, you know
54:17
what I mean. We just saw this fucking flow of bodies,
54:20
just like what the fun is going on here? It's
54:24
actual zombies like all of like those viral videos of
54:28
people like banging on doors like let me in without
54:30
a mask or whatever like zombies. Yeah, I'm actually kind
54:36
of suppressed. Like this article made me surprised that zombie
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movies haven't like started blowing up even more, like more
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haven't been coming out in the past. Like first of all,
54:47
it's just ahead of the game and always Yeah, has
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I've seen Kingdom on Netflix? That series? No, Yo, this
54:54
ship is dope. It's like a it's like a period
54:58
like thriller piece, uh like where it's like old school Korea.
55:03
But then there's zombies on top of that ship. It's
55:06
that ship is wild. Um. But yeah, check out on Netflix.
55:10
I'm like only through the first couple episodes. But yeah,
55:13
there's like something I think, yeah, that they're sensing something
55:17
clearly that because I feel like, yeah, the more we
55:20
look at like our news, I'm also finding myself like
55:23
interested in zombie content again. Like I was like trying
55:27
to like find this game I just play Left for
55:29
Dead where you're it's like four people fighting a bunch
55:31
of zombies. I'm like, that's just tight um, And yeah,
55:34
I think because I feel, yeah, there's on some level
55:36
there's like this feeling of like is it me and
55:39
a few other people, and then a lot of nonsense around,
55:43
right right, But also like they're starting to be so
55:47
realistic like zombies in movies, Like they seem so much
55:51
like people that I feel like they're gonna have to
55:53
give them something, like they're gonna have to like start
55:56
flying or something, you know, right right, yeah, yeah, some
56:00
other power that to differentiate them from real people. The
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ability to cancel anyone. Oh my god, don't go there, Miles,
56:14
Oh my god. On top of fearing that they're the
56:17
four people fearing that they're going to get eaten by zombies,
56:19
they also fear that the zombies will cancel. Yeah, Like
56:24
what's worse. They're like, no, they might eat like they
56:26
can cancel you though, well hold on, that's that's the
56:30
less of a threat to you. Maybe, yeah, to you,
56:33
but there's only four of us left. Still still, well,
56:39
I'm not going to wear this Blue Lives Matter shirt
56:41
around them because I don't know what's going to happen,
56:43
what they might tell their others, I don't know, you
56:46
don't know. Oh my god. Well let's get worked. Let's
56:49
start working on this. Yeah, I think it's funnier. I
56:52
think it's funnier to just sort of lambast liberal politics
56:58
with this, then it would be the other way. I
57:00
think it's just way in my mind, there's just way more.
57:03
There's there's way more to mind through like liberal thinking
57:06
than just being like, we get it, it's ignorance or whatever.
57:11
This like high like a high minded idiot zombie who's
57:14
going to cancel you? Like yeah, yeah, and just the
57:21
we're all ground into mindless automatons by by capitalism. So
57:27
that's how we'll bring the country together. There are are
57:29
zombie show that makes fun of liberals that liberals like,
57:32
oh yeah, there's something there. And then for people like
57:34
on the Red yeah, fuck, it's just great. I like
57:39
that you even added a little bit of chaw into
57:42
the person's mouth who you were just impersonating fucking horseshoe
57:47
down here. Uh alright, let's let's talk about the new
57:52
postal trucks before we go. Uh. I didn't know we were.
57:56
I didn't know they were being redesigned, let alone being
57:59
read designed by Pixar. But these things look adorable there.
58:05
They've got like they don't look like normal cars. They
58:08
I don't know it looks like a cartoon or like, yeah,
58:12
something out of a Pixar movie. Yeah, they look like ducks.
58:15
They look like yeah yeah yeah, like big old windshield
58:21
and then like just a little front part. I think
58:25
there being some of the ones that were proposed. So
58:29
they did the open competition open pitch sessh where like
58:33
people could pitch different models, and there was one company
58:40
that pitched like basically making the whole fleet electric, and
58:45
of course the USPS did not go with that one.
58:48
We will be ten electric starting in the year edge.
58:53
Let's just edge. You know, combating combating climate change isn't like, well,
59:00
we have to get rid of these like a couple
59:02
of years after they're put into circulation, because aren't there
59:07
like laws being put into place. There will be like
59:09
some kind of federal mandate about like what the makeup
59:12
is of the fleet or whatever. But you know that's
59:13
all that takes is some other fucking just losers to
59:17
come in and be like, funk that all gas everything
59:21
funk the last guy like I just I mean, i'd
59:24
hope we can maintain that course, but she can change
59:27
so easily. Yeah, I would be embarrassed to be seen
59:31
in one of those cute little trucks. Yeah, or maybe
59:35
I would embrace what is there, like what's the idea?
59:38
Like they had to do it because because they used
59:39
to be in those nasty box jeep type on those
59:43
things don't have air conditioning, don't have like any really
59:48
like are just a death trap and like incredibly dangerous
59:52
for anybody around them because you can't see behind the
59:57
mail truck at all. Uh so, oh ship the idea
1:00:01
behind that. And I think like one of them caught
1:00:03
on fire or just spontaneously, um, which I don't think
1:00:08
they're supposed to do. Um no. Yeah, so that's that's
1:00:13
why they were getting rid of them. Those things already
1:00:16
look like they should be like from the nineteen sixties,
1:00:19
like right, they're all like straight lines and corners and ship. Yeah,
1:00:24
they look like if you just touch it it would
1:00:26
cut you, right, yeah, exactly had a lot of sharp corners.
1:00:32
And it's true like now that you say that, because
1:00:33
I feel like every time my mail carrier, like in
1:00:36
my neighborhood growing up, because in the value ship is
1:00:38
hot as fuck, like in the summer, My my idea,
1:00:41
my memories of uh, the mail carrier is coming out
1:00:46
that truck, and she looked she was just dripped. She's like,
1:00:48
my god fucking truck. And then you see like the
1:00:52
the seat looked like he's had a bunch of spring
1:00:55
shooting out of it and some Yeah, I don't know
1:00:58
what they're doing with those all things, but they're gonna
1:01:00
give somebody tetanus the like once they're out of circulation.
1:01:04
Like whatever yard did they put them in? Are these
1:01:07
new trucks like objectively better though, like yeah, I mean
1:01:11
they're definitely better, but they're of the ones that could
1:01:14
have gone with. There was a kind of young upstart
1:01:18
called Workhorse, those specifically pitching electric trucks for the entire
1:01:23
USPS field. Uh. And then this company osh Kosh uh
1:01:28
and their trucks are equipped with either fuel efficient gasoline
1:01:30
engines or electric batteries, and they went with They went
1:01:33
with ashkosh baby because uh yeah, why not? Yeah, the
1:01:41
cost would have been they claimed the cost of the
1:01:44
electric would have been three or four extra billion dollars.
1:01:47
But we know, uh right, yeah, and also yeah, and
1:01:55
and we also, I mean, we need every billion we
1:01:57
can get for our killing machine pentagon on as much.
1:02:00
We have to keep feeding it billions because I don't
1:02:02
know where that goes, but cool, um, just a couple
1:02:07
billion and you could do this other thing. Well, you know,
1:02:11
good luck to that truck. It's only a matter time
1:02:13
to uh the kids start doing graffiti on it like
1:02:16
we did the old ones. I mean, any country that
1:02:19
wanted to attack us, if they just looked at what
1:02:23
we do with our infrastructure, like the ship that happened
1:02:26
in Texas, the ship that happened in the capital, it
1:02:29
doesn't matter how much we say we have billions in
1:02:31
like defense, Yeah exactly, we look and we look like shit.
1:02:37
You know, I would be like, attack will be great,
1:02:40
We'll win. I don't know why we're almost like please
1:02:43
attack to like sort of validate that this country is
1:02:45
worth attacking again. Other guys like, no, man, have you
1:02:49
seen what then happened over there? Like that somebody that
1:02:52
place over like the uh Tim, It has been such
1:02:57
a pleasure having you back on the Alisa geist. Where
1:03:01
can people find you and follow you? I'm on Twitter,
1:03:06
uh dances with Tammy's the worst talking name. I think
1:03:11
we had this conversation before name and thank you and
1:03:16
I am tam Yahia on Instagram. Awesome And is there
1:03:22
a tweet or some of the work of social media
1:03:24
you've been enjoying. Oh man, I saw the funniest thing. Uh,
1:03:29
space Jam. This is my pixelated boat. Space Jam director
1:03:33
reworks Elmer Fudd to be less sexual in reboot, says
1:03:39
and of Fudd's enormous penis no longer will no longer
1:03:46
hang out of his basketball short. Yeah, because they're making
1:03:58
Lola Bunny less hot. Yeah. Yeah. If anybody hasn't seen that,
1:04:05
is it? Little Donnie the UCB a special Oh yeah
1:04:09
for Matt Besser has like the just criminally long penis.
1:04:14
It hangs out of its shorts. It's like the Little
1:04:17
Donning Foundation. Yeah, Miles, where can people find you? What's
1:04:20
the tweet you've been in? He's painting penis? Wait? What
1:04:27
is my This is my friend tuvak. It's a it's
1:04:35
a half hour long one joke sketch that I think.
1:04:39
It's the last episode of season one of the Comedy
1:04:42
Central Upright Citizens Brigade series. Yeah, it's fucking it's absurre um.
1:04:51
It's just so fun the whole anyway, who is that?
1:04:55
What is that mean? Did you ask me? You? Oh shit? Um? Yeah?
1:05:00
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Um some tweets that I like. This one is from
1:05:20
Camilla Blackett at Camillard uh tweeting. Okay, so we gasolate
1:05:25
men into baking bread by making it a competitive arts
1:05:28
and craft nice very successful. Now onto phase two. I'm
1:05:33
thinking our teasonal ironing and small batch. Tell me how
1:05:37
much you earn? Um? And then another one is from
1:05:43
Olivia Messer at Olivia Messer. Uh just says tell me
1:05:47
a man wrote this article without telling me. A man
1:05:49
wrote this article and it's a little excerpt, and I
1:05:51
will read this excerpt for you here. Deep Fried Oreos
1:05:55
are the Megan Fox of deep fried products at the
1:05:59
Rodeo one, decadent and comely they are in the end
1:06:03
filthy and shameful. Oh hell yeah? What is that in maxim?
1:06:13
What the fun that skin crawl? U? Holy sh it
1:06:22
a tweet I've been enjoying. Uh. Trash Jones tweeted me
1:06:26
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On our foot notes, we link off to the information
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that we talked about today, as well as a song
1:06:48
that Miles recommends. Miles, what is two days recommendation? Oh man,
1:06:54
we are going to do this cover of some Nirvana,
1:06:58
but like but with the Umbia, you know what I mean,
1:07:01
just some vive, some vibrations. So this is there's a
1:07:04
band from East l a uh called Tropamaica, and they
1:07:09
do like they're they're sick as banched out to East
1:07:11
East lows um and yet they have a song baby
1:07:17
Come as you Are, but the Cumbia version and this
1:07:20
ship fucking go. So get that ship wherever you can
1:07:22
find it. Uh. And if you like Nirvana, you're gonna
1:07:25
love it. If you don't even know what Cumbia is,
1:07:27
fucking start bumping it because it's gonna this is what
1:07:30
you want to start your week, yest playing at my wedding. Yeah, yeah,
1:07:36
it was the best Argentinian Cumbia, which is like the
1:07:40
kind of different styles okay, oh yeah, so yeah, so
1:07:45
for all the fans of all types of music, this
1:07:48
is just a great Van diagram where the overlap is
1:07:51
just solid music. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgey is
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