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Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one seventy two,

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Episode three of The Days Like Guys, the production of

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by Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take

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a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Thursday,

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to say, psych, what a wonderful day? Okay? That resting

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garbage racist Limbaugh? Wow, the read things like a pioneer. Yeah, okay,

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find your fighting talk radio racist vitriol anyway, So shout

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out to Christie am Apucci Mane coming in one more

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time with that wonderful A thank you m M. And

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we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat

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by the hilarious and talented Danny Fernande. Here you are.

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I don't have an I always sing my A K S.

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Mine was going to be Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan

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Dan No, the Dlorian. I love when everyone called him

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the dad DeLorean. No, those are his roles now because

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he's in the last of Us thing. Now, he's like

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the the begrudgingly you know, good dad last of us felt.

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I was like, I can't believe I didn't think of that,

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because like when I saw it, I was like, yes, yes,

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exactly what are we talking about, Oh, Pedro Pascal is

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going to be in the movie series or oh is

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it a series? Oh maybe it's a series or whatever

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it is. You're saying, you can't believe you didn't think

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of what that Pedro Pascal in in that role. Yeah,

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of course, of course. I mean Jackie was right in

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front of you, but in front of time, I feel

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like I'm in Usual Suspects right now. Just put all

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the pieces together. Yeah, he's kind of popping up everywhere,

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and will it feels like somebody I will never get

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tired of seeing, because I mean, for you, I like

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when I watched things like old stuff from the early

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aughts and nineties, I'm like, Pedro Pascal husband, he's been

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out here, but like you know, I'm like, oh, ship,

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he was in Buffy or these other things. He realized

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he was working. But then I'm like, in my mind,

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he really didn't get pop until he was over and Martell.

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And I'm not sure if like there were performances before

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that that had people being like, no, Pedro Pascal is

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a thing, but that I'm wondering if everyone's on the

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same page where that was truly my introduction to him

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was through Game of Thrones. I don't know, I think Narcos, yeah,

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but I mean, I definitely it might have been like

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right around the same time. I definitely should have recognized

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him from Game of Thrones, but he was kind of

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so different and like there was a he did a

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weird thing in narco Is where like at first, you

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like you didn't know what to make of his character

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and him as a performer at first for me, and

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I was like, huh, is this guy a really good

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actor or like kind of weird and not acting and

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then he just like ends up being incredible in the role. Um,

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but yeah, he's he's dope. Um, all right, Danny, we're

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gonna get to know you a little bit better in

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a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple

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of things we're talking about. We're gonna talk about student

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debt forgiveness. We're gonna talk about, uh, the Republican Civil War,

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just a quick check in with that. Uh. We're gonna

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talk about Texas the mayor who told everybody what uh

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you know, I mean detected. Yeah, yeah, told everybody the

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truth about the American ethos. We're gonna talk about. Uh. Member,

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Zeit Getg reached out to us from San Antonio just

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to tell us what it looks like on the around there.

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We also got some New York Times reporting, some Houston

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Crown reporting. Uh so lesser sources also confirmed the reporting

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from Zeitgang. Uh, we'll talk about Fox News is decade

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long war against wind power. Uh. That is the story

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that first came out. They managed to get it bubbling up.

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At first, it was like, well, all the wind turbines

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are frozen. Uh, so what are we gonna do? Uh?

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And and then it slowly comes out that's not actually

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what's happening. Uh. We'll talk about Rush Limbaugh, uh, pioneer. Uh.

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The I just want to like read some of his words, uh,

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to kind of memorialize him. Uh. We'll talk about that

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Cruella trailer. We'll talk about Parlor being back, all that

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plenty more. But first, Danny, we like to ask our guest,

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what is something from your search history that is revealing

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about who you are? My last search was the truth

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about Dolly Parton's eleven Sibley. Yeah. I love that with

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Dolly Parton. I love her. My search terms like come

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across like I have, like I've suffered some sort of

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head trauma. I'm like Dolly Parton eleven siblings has question mark.

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But your your search is like straight up like a

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clickbait headline. Like the way you read it, I thought

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you just straight up copied the text of a clickbait

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like you know, okay, I thought you were just that's

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just how you searched it. I'm like, this is the

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truth about what happened. No, it's just she has I'm

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listening to her audio book, which is amazing. She has

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one on audible which it goes through all of her

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songs she talks about and it's her talking. She talks

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about the history behind all of her songs and if

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you just love Dolly and like she just sounds like

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someone's sweet aunt. That's like offering you sweet tea and

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giving you a hug. She's amazing. Aside from all the

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things she did during this pandemic and the Black Lives

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Matter protest, she's just an amazing woman. But um yeah,

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so so she was talking about her her paw and

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her siblings, and she like kept rattling names off of

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like how many siblies does this woman happen? She's eleven?

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What and it's it's it's wild and she's just done

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so much philanthropy with all of her money. And also

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her husband. People don't know that she's been married once

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to the same man since like the sixties, but you

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never see him. She has she's figured that out. She's

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figured out that's a secret to so he's just a

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millionaire with her, living it up in their mansion. Whenever

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she comes home, he's there. That's her her stay at

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home husband. Damn, the photos of him are great. There's

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barely any I know. It's like three from the eighties,

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two from the seventies, and then like the last one

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must have been from like two thousand four. She just

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stays off, you know. But it's really funny in the book,

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you guys, she's like, everyone thinks I had an affair

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with such and such, or everyone thinks I slept with

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so and so, And I'm not saying anything, but like,

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you guys, so I'm like a girl. I think it's

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funny when people don't confirm, like it would be like,

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of course I didn't, but she didn't say that. So

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I'm like, I wonder if he's chill, like as long

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as he gets to be a multimillionaire with her, if

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he's like sure, have an affair with uh Burt Reynolds

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or whatever. People think that she had an affair with

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like multiple different men that she's worked with, but I

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mean maybe she has. She's acting. These are Carl's birthday

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wishes for me, as long as he gets to you know,

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get some pictures, yeah, smell the sheets after uh yeah,

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The pictures of him are dope, especially like from the

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seventies and eighties and the later ones too, because you're like,

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this motherfucker must be cool as ship because he looks

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got a fan taking a photo and she's loving it.

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I'm like, in a way, it makes you more curious.

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But that's that's the real power. Like people who don't

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share ship there they haven't figured out, because that's truly

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like the last thing you can keep to yourself is

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your privacy without like going full throttle into like the

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look at me, take a photo of me over here?

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Is that ship? Yeah? Like it burns out and I

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think it only just magnifies her, you know, the mystique

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around it all. Yeah, yeah, Dolly. Dolly Parton's got secrets

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and that's what makes her cool. Secret husband, secret tattoos,

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although not as many sibling. Wow, do you think people

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go out there and lie that they're one of Dolly

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Parton's like nieces or nets, Like people say they're related

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to Bob Marley because that's the one you always oh,

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you know, that's that's Bob Marley. That's like the third

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cousin of Kaimani Marley. Because there's so many Marley Kids.

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I wander like the if that's the same thing on Appalachia.

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I hear that with Disney because a lot of people

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have that last name, or like they're more than you

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would think, I guess. And so does that mean that

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they're all related to Walt Disney, because that's not that's

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a pretty unique his name. Is everyone that has the

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last named Disney related to Walt Disney? I don't know, Chiming,

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let us know Chiming, let us know Zeke Kang with

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the last named Disney. Also, let us cut three. What

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is something you think is underrated? Underrated? We're actually going

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to talk about it. But for me, is the South? Um?

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I think, especially because I live now in l A.

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I think a lot of like quote unquote coastal elites

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or whatever, which people always laughed at me, And I'm like,

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I literally grew up in Frisco, Texas. Like, I don't

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know why you're using this term. Also, I think Texas

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is the South. I want to go on record, but

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by saying that, I don't know, I don't understand how

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it's not considered the South when one of its cities

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is like the most southern place in America. But literally,

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quite literally the South. Um. But it's not considered the

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South for a lot of people. So I find that fascinating.

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I guess it's its own little We've always thought of

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ourselves as like this little I don't know, wild West,

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like not West, I guess, but wild South country. Um. Anyways,

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I think that it's I think a lot of people

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think of the South as being racist, and what they

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don't realize is that it's very, very very diverse, um,

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especially Texas if you look at the Latino and Black

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population there um. And so I think it's a little

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insane and I'm sure we'll tackle some of that when

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we talk about Texas, but the South is heavily diverse.

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So I think just chalking up all of those states

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to white, racist people is not cool. Right, also underrates

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how extremely racist northern states are. Yes, yeah, because everyone's oh,

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it's like the same other way you know, the US

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like thumbs or noses that like burgeoning socialist countries that

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they overthrow and they're like, you see what happens over there,

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like you need that, you sort of need that base

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of comparison to put yourself at another place Like that's

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so sloppy. Over there. Ignore the part that we're engineering

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the downfall of it. But that's why you don't want that,

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And we always we always need someone relative to It's

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just human nature, you know. Maybe do you think it's

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because a lot of people don't think of it? Is

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like I feel like a lot of people's definition of

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the South is so tied to the Civil War. But

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then like most people don't realize, like you know, Texas

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seceded from the then the Union too, and like that's

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like a I don't know, Like I feel like that's

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always the idea that I always evoked when I think

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of the South, which is why I like, for whatever reason,

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I compartmentalize or think Texas is different, mostly because Texans,

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I know, tell me it's different. Yeah, I mean it is.

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But also like a lot of that land was Mexico,

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and like a lot, like a lot of the black

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population that was forced to be there is still that

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has like you know, um Boughton Home, like have several

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generations there, and so like to just chalk it all

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up to white people is just not true, is frankly

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not true. And so I'm just really tired of like

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when anything happens to the South that you know liberal

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or or you know people in east and West coast

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or like, well you deserve that because you guys are

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Red states or whatever. And I think that that's gross.

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But I also think that that's not true. Um. Yeah,

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I saw people the voters. I saw people talking about

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that on Twitter, like responding to a comment that I

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hadn't seen the original comment, but basically being like, I

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don't think people should actually die because they live in

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a southern like red state. What was that like a

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sentiment that was going around, Like I guess it was.

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I had tweeted um yesterday about some of my because

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a lot of my high school classmates are still in Texas,

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and so I was I was tweeting some of what

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they're going through right now, and um, I said, you know,

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I was just saying that it's it is diverse as

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fun and and um, I think people were dunking on

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Ted Cruise. I think because Ted Cruz made fun of

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Californians when we were going through a crisis. It's like

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think people were dunking on using his own words. However,

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it spun out into it was literally people telling Texans

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like go f yourself and um and it was from

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liberal people, So it was really wild that us, you know,

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our our side that considers itself progressive, you know, does that.

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And yeah, yeah, I'm sure you can get into that

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more with Texas. I have some stuff to say about

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the Texas stuff because I do have friends that are

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like also on the ground there and some of their

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experiences that they're dealing with. So yeah, I think the

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in group out group sort of dynamic of you know,

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looking down on Southern people, looking down on you know,

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people who are into culture like Nascar and ship like

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that is probably one of the larger biases that uh

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doesn't get addressed as much in in mainstream culture. And

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I think also like probably on shows like this that

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like there's probably that part of the country and that

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part of culture gets painted with a single brush, and

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it's probably more diverse too in terms of how people think, Um,

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what is something you think is overrated? Okay, this is

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a double negative. But not wearing makeup even though I'm

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not wearing makeup right now and you all can see that.

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I think it's like all there was like this huge push,

15:38

which I get it to like be natural and like

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all these like you know, no filter no makeup like whatever,

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Like I'm not and I'm like, but makeup makes me

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feel good and like it's there my friend. A lot

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of my friends are makeup artists, and so I think

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it's so weird when guys are like guys like you

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know that thing, that meme that will go around and

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it'll be like make sure you take her in the

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pool on the first day or like you know what

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I'm talking about. Have you seen those yeah, so you

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can see him in a bathing suit. It's like, no,

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I know, it's yeah, just that talks to you because

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you've got a no, dude, it's like what they look

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like in the club, okay, look like I don't also

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like and I don't like the people some of the

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celebrities that will do like the no makeup challenge or whatever.

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I'm like, you're literally, but you also have like thousands

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of dollars worth of skincare, like you know what I mean,

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And so I don't know. I love makeup and I

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love like my friends that are makeup artists. It makes

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me feelly good and it's really therapeutic. It's like, you know,

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like thirty minutes you can just do nothing and kind

16:45

of like paint. It's honestly like painting, like and it's

16:48

really you know, some people do it and such. I

16:50

follow a lot of cause players that do it in

16:52

such an artistic way. But anyways, I was going to say,

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I get it, as long as you're not being like

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toxic to people where you're trying to like that's what

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I feel people try to do with me. And I

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don't even wear a lot, but people will try to

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shame you about like you know, you don't need makeup

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or whatever, Like I'm just tired of people were makeup

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or you don't realize you don't need makeup. Yeah, and

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I'm like, but I did, Like that's just tell me

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it looks good, you know or whatever. I don't know.

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So that's my thing that I think is over is

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like everyone's saying like be natural whatever, and it's like, okay,

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cool if you want to be like some of us

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like and some people like that's literally my friends professions,

17:29

that's their careers. They get hired to do that and

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so and they love it. So makeup artist is what

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it is. I'm down for me. I love makeup. So sorry, no, no,

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I think that every time. Yeah, Jack and I just

17:45

can't dial in our makeup application as much as we like,

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we're we're trying to use a beauty blender. It's not well,

17:52

I'm literally not wearing any right now because y'all have

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seen me so much and I don't care. But if

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I did put it on for you and you were like, wow,

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you that looks beautiful, that would be nice. It doesn't

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have to be, Oh Danny, you don't. You don't need

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it right right right? And what do you do with that?

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And makeup on your cute and don't need it? It's like,

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what kind of thing is that to say to anyone?

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Right now? People are wild? Yeah, well people people must

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let you know they have an opinion too. Yes, okay,

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that's fine, but I don't need it. Oh. It feels

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like it's of a piece with the you're beautiful because

18:31

you don't know how beautiful you are music. It's like

18:35

funk off, like so hot and you don't even know it.

18:40

But that that is a whole exploit that that is

18:44

a meaning you have low self esteem about about like

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taking her in the pool or whatever, like, and I'm like,

18:52

you just sound so toxic and gross, like maybe that's

18:54

why you're single, and like if a girl got all

18:58

dulled up for me, I would feel very special. Yeah,

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I'm like all that energy and I'm like, I'm sorry,

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I'm wearing a sweatsuit. I'm sorry for that. But yeah,

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those the same people that ven diagram is a circle

19:10

where it's people who post that meme and the same

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dudes who say females yes. It's also not like a

19:18

subtle like life hack. It's not like here's how you

19:21

get it's hey, girl, you want to go swimming? Like February,

19:28

what are you talking about? The deceptors bro verify Like Okay, look,

19:34

just because like what your parents marriage ended because of

19:37

a lack of communication, doesn't mean that's how all people work.

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M hm. Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll

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be right back. And we're back, and let's talk about

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student depth forgiveness one of the other. Uh Joe Biden

20:05

promises that'd be cool. Huh, yay, you've been talking about

20:09

it a lot of people, alright, moving exactly pretty much

20:14

with Joe Biden. Did you know a lot of people

20:16

progressives been saying dollars in student debt relief would go

20:21

a hell of a long way for people especially right

20:24

now when incomes are limited. Uh, it allows for you know,

20:29

tangible upward mobility when you relieve these these burdens up

20:33

from people. Um, and you know, Joe Biden was like, yeah,

20:36

we can talk about that. But then at a town

20:38

hall someone made the mistake of asking Uncle Joe for

20:43

some money, and you know how that goes. So let's

20:45

play this. This is from a town hall where dude

20:49

just taking Oh that thing that Elizabeth Warren and Chuck

20:52

Schumer we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna dead that

20:55

loans are crushing my family, friends and fellow all Americans

20:58

to the American dream is to succeed. But how he said,

21:04

oh yeah, we're gonna have to pause that. And then

21:06

he see you think I'm kidding? Okay, who they're crushing?

21:12

Joe Biden student debts the homies from your gaming discord,

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like who are you talking about? Who are you talking about?

21:20

And he really also his body language, his arms are

21:25

crossed across when he gets mad. Yeah, when he knows

21:28

he's wrong, and his response is to get cranky and

21:32

mean and angry. Yeah, exactly because he knows he's going

21:35

to have to look fucking well. I mean he's just

21:37

he's can of a curmudgeon anyway. Can I guess that

21:39

a come on man is coming or something along those lines?

21:42

If I mean, we'll take prop bets now, if you

21:43

want to lay it down all right? Can dream is

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to succeed? But how can we fulfill that dream when

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debt is many people's only option for a degree. We

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need student loan forgiveness beyond the potential ten thousand dollars.

21:56

Your administration has a proposed we need at least a minimum.

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What will you do to make that happen? Or will

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not make that happen? It depends on whether or not

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you go to a private university or public university. Oh boy,

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guys already jackal and hide himself. Hey, mom, let me

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get some money so I could put in on a

22:22

limousine for prom I will not make that happen. Okay,

22:27

I'll sell drugs. But like I mean, I know we

22:31

none of us trust politicians. But it's like so he

22:33

could have kept it up like a little bit longer

22:36

where he like, yes, yes, he does try to pivot. Okay,

22:40

he tries to explain why he's being cruel and maybe

22:43

just for a second, listen to lar this cruelty is necessary.

22:46

We can get on the same page. This is his logic.

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University or public university. It depends on the idea that

22:54

I say to a community, I'm going to forgive the debt,

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the billions of dollars the debt for people who have

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gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn and school with

23:03

my children. I went to a great school. I went

23:05

to a state school. Um, but is that going to

23:08

be forgiven rather than use that money to provide for

23:11

early education for young children who Okay, he's lost the plot.

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So he's pitting Ivy League people against just everyday people

23:23

who are working to try and get an education, to

23:25

try and enter the workplace, because that's the way the

23:28

game is set up here. That's the most important thing

23:30

is making sure that the wrong people don't get the benefit,

23:35

as opposed to just making sure everybody gets the fucking benefit. Well,

23:39

here's the thing. If we start helping people, people who

23:42

don't need help get helped, and that's fucked up. Also,

23:45

that's not true, like the aside from the fact that

23:47

there's like a you know, a low amount of black

23:50

and brown uh students at these places, but like they

23:55

have gotten a shot to get into Ivy League, Like,

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I don't think that they should have to which are

24:00

as expensive, if not more. Um, I don't think that

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they should be saddled with with debt just because they

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went to an Ivy League school. But even when you

24:09

started look breaking it down right, guess who's disproportionately impacted

24:13

by student loan debt? Black and brown students? That's who.

24:18

Black student No, no, almost black students borrow federal student loans,

24:27

you know what I mean? And it's it's much higher

24:30

than the national average. The other things too, is like

24:33

having this student loan debt above you directly relates to

24:37

having a lower income. It it's a burden, It limits

24:42

you because you're so spread thin trying to fucking pay

24:45

off these loans for an education. That who is it?

24:49

Is it even? Like most people like, is it even

24:51

worth it anymore? Um? And yeah, so Joe, you gotta

24:55

fucking take a second, Joe, because you're you. You keep

24:59

throwing it people's faces that you forgot who fucking voted

25:02

for you, and what the funk you said to even

25:04

get people to even believe in this ship. I mean,

25:07

that's why I think many people who had seen his record,

25:09

We're like, well, let's not get too excited here about

25:12

Joe Biden Um, but this is what's happening. But I

25:15

think it's just a smack in the face, given given

25:17

what's happening in the country to then just be like

25:20

this thing is also could really help black and brown

25:22

Americans out for like, like I said, tangible upward mobility,

25:27

But I'd rather get like bogged down and like, well,

25:30

maybe this kid who went to pen is going to

25:32

get some money off and then he'll use it on

25:34

a fucking white claw beer pong table. I don't know

25:39

what the funk. It's like, it's it's it reminds me

25:43

of like the uh there was a point during the primary,

25:47

like Kamala Harris was talking about like there it's just like, well,

25:52

we will be forgiving student debt if this and then

25:55

you fulfill that and you haven't made a payment, and

25:58

the is like twenty different levels that you had to

26:01

like like boxes that you needed to check off. And

26:05

it's so ineffective as politics and as actual policy that

26:11

affects people's lives to just have twenty different things and

26:16

like hoops that you have to run through, like we

26:19

just need simple policies that but then people then that's

26:23

like way too much money being spent, That's what's so

26:26

we just can't get over that, and we avoid like

26:28

even logically gaming it out, like well what happens, right,

26:31

Because if your point, Joe Biden, is that, well, what

26:34

about like disadvantaged kids and getting into early childhood development.

26:39

Who do you think do you think the parents of

26:41

these disadvantaged kids might have student debt too? Yeah? So

26:45

I also want to say, aside from black and brown

26:48

students having to more likely having to borrow um when

26:53

they graduate, they also make less than their white counterparts

26:58

doing the same job for the same amount of time,

27:01

so it takes them twice as long to even pay

27:04

it off. So it's even more difficult once they do graduate, uh,

27:10

because they're not paid the same for the same amount

27:12

of work, right, I mean, you know, like black students

27:17

and thirty six percent of like Latino students default on

27:20

their student amounts, you know what I mean? Like these

27:23

that's who needs help, like people, all people to anyone

27:27

with this student that fucking fuck it. Get I don't

27:29

give a funk. I don't care if I had to

27:31

pay for smart college or whatever. But fuck, I'd rather

27:34

look at a world that's treating people humanly than be

27:37

like why I had to go through that ship And

27:40

if they went to a state school, we should feel

27:43

sorry for that, Miles, but not otherwise. I don't like

27:47

what is happening? What is that? What are you talking about?

27:51

And then his then he moves on to be like,

27:52

you know, the thing that I've been saying is community

27:54

college should be free. It's like Joe, that's not she

27:57

said her friends and family are and crushed by student debt.

28:01

And you're saying, uh, well, okay, how about this, Uh

28:05

hop in a time machine and go to a future

28:08

where the community colleges are free, and then you can

28:11

just have your associates degree and the like, I don't know,

28:15

and I get that you can you can get your

28:16

associates and then go to a four year and then

28:18

get your bachelors and things like that, but like what

28:20

these aren't real solutions. They're they're really not. They're just

28:23

these really disingenuous like pivots and lame talking points that

28:28

completely ignore like the real thing that we're asking for

28:30

is like, how are you going to help people? Like

28:34

right now, I'm not all right, and let me take

28:38

a step back and explain to you, uh that I

28:41

went to Uh, I used to ride the train, so uh,

28:45

come on, man, don't don't don't bring that bullshit in here.

28:49

Um get that weeksh it out of here. Anyway, help

28:51

me open this pdf. I also want to say to like,

28:54

I had a ton of I just paid off ten

28:57

thousands and medical debt, medical debt, so some of us

29:01

also have medical debt on top of student loan. Like

29:04

whenever I see people on Twitter like, well I saved

29:06

up and I paid off my student loan debt, and

29:09

I'm like, okay, but did you also have thousands of

29:11

medical debt too, because like some of us also have

29:14

other debt. Never had to go to a doctor in

29:16

fifteen years, but like you know what I mean, It's

29:19

like it's such a privileged thing. And I'm like, I

29:21

so here's the thing. Yes, I paid off my ten thousand.

29:24

If another person had a ten thousand dollar bill, I

29:27

wouldn't wish that on them just because I paid mine off.

29:30

I paid mine off because I sold a show. And

29:32

I was like, okay, I'm gonna take a chunk of

29:34

this money. But you shouldn't. That's that's never happens. That

29:38

that's like such a one person like that doesn't happen

29:41

to people that they just get it into you're out here,

29:43

you're out here selling a show to try and tackle

29:46

your medal. That's like that goes to my Bugatti fund well.

29:51

And and then the gross thing was I had debt

29:53

collectors calling me the last like two years about my

29:56

medical debt and it was like, sir, I didn't go

29:58

to Vegas for the weekend. I was hospitalized, you know,

30:01

And it was like I had I had autoimmune issues

30:04

and I had heart issues, and I was like, like

30:07

an ambulance cost however much it costs, and it's just

30:10

like insane, but it was it was sick, and I

30:12

think they felt bad. Like, to be honest, I think

30:14

I don't think anyone actually wants to take a debt

30:16

collector like job. They are also there are also people

30:20

that are struggling. But it was just like how you're

30:23

calling me and acting like I'm a piece of ship

30:25

when I didn't go to like the suit, I didn't

30:28

pay for like super Bowl tickets, like I was in

30:30

the hospital. What's going on, Mrs Fernandez? Sorry, I just

30:34

have to stick to the script. Yeah, listen to me

30:36

a piece of shit. It's like, I think, at the

30:40

end of the day, we just have to keep reminding

30:42

ourselves that there are certain things that just need to

30:44

be rights and not things you have you have to

30:46

afford to get into the club of can you get

30:49

into the health club, can you get into the education club?

30:53

And I mean we talked about Democrats wanting to like

30:57

keep the status quo because that they are kind of

31:00

the party of the status quo at this point where

31:04

they're like trying to you know, they are the party

31:06

that is there to protect capitalism, not to solve people's problems.

31:11

And I think with college, like we we've talked before

31:14

about how college is basically a social factory for like

31:21

giving people the proper socialization to like enter the sort

31:26

of upper like middle class basically and like have the

31:30

proper like social connections essentially. Like that's uh when when

31:36

people look at it, that's the thing that people find

31:39

to be like the most important part of of college

31:43

is like the social connections that you make. And so

31:47

it makes sense to me that the Democrats would be

31:50

protective of just letting anybody into college because that is

31:56

like a barrier that's built in to kind of protect

32:00

the capitalism and the capitalists. Well that's how they like,

32:03

you know, that's how they pretend there it's progressive because

32:07

it's like on a continuum. If you compare them at

32:10

two different points in time, you're like, well, that was

32:12

forward movement, but it's like it's so glacial and incremental

32:17

that it doesn't. It's like they have found ways to

32:19

basically reinforce other money making industries. So when they go,

32:23

all right, funcket, we're pulling the plug on like making

32:25

buckoo bucks on community college. I hope you got I

32:28

hope you set your traps for other places. Then they

32:31

can allow for that to happen, because that's just how

32:33

it never It's never gonna be like your ass out

32:36

uh under a Democrat plan, because then they're going to

32:39

consult with your industry to make sure it's so like,

32:42

are you comfortable with this? Mhm? The Republican Civil War

32:46

is almost not even worth mentioning. That was a story

32:48

heading into the year in the mainstream media um post

32:53

the second impeachment. The only thing that is getting Republicans

32:58

in trouble is any buddy who voted to convict that's

33:02

like pete, they're getting censured by their uh home state parties. Uh.

33:08

And it's over, Like, I mean, we knew that it

33:11

was going to go back to the president and uh,

33:14

but it's still Trump's party. He's in a better and

33:17

better position. Uh. And you know, I feel like he

33:22

didn't really make sense as a president because he can't

33:24

actually do like he's not competent enough to do the

33:28

things he promises. But I feel like he's going to

33:31

be like as the dissident leader, like the critic of

33:36

the person in power who has like this huge ground

33:41

swell of support. I think he's going to be very dangerous.

33:44

And anybody who's counting that out or thinks that like

33:48

he's his career is over, is I think sorely mistaken. Um.

33:55

So that is where that is that he is interesting

33:58

when you look at it, though, too, right because within it,

34:01

sixty of Republicans think that they need a third party.

34:06

But then when you break that down, I think it

34:11

needs to be more conservative, right, A third thinks it

34:15

should be the same, and a quarter is like, I'm

34:18

I'm out of here, like y'all are, I'm not this racist?

34:21

So that's interesting that or like, right now there's only

34:26

twenty five. Only a fourth of the Republicans are like, well,

34:31

the other three fourths are like what's the problem. Yeah,

34:35

and others are like turn it up even more harder. Yeah,

34:39

And I I just don't think, like when when the

34:42

choices between saying we were wrong to ever support and

34:46

vote for him or getting behind the ground swell of populist,

34:51

racist energy that their party has that their back, Uh,

34:57

They're they're gonna do the thing they've done before, which

35:01

is go go with Trump. If it's like part of me,

35:03

it's just so like it's weird. Part of me is like,

35:06

where's that like old school dark arts Bush Cheney version

35:10

of the party that would just like like feel like

35:12

they would disappear people for fucking going against Like it's

35:16

like it's like like I'm like rooting for that old

35:19

bad guy to come fight this bad guy. Like are

35:22

they gonna fight now because you went after Liz Cheney?

35:25

But nothing? So yeah, Like you're saying, like the dust

35:28

is settled and that's where it's at now. It's going

35:32

to be about who's gonna put their money where and

35:34

how that ultimately bears out like polling and things like that,

35:37

because I mean when we say all these things that

35:39

like yes, the Republican Party, the energy and there's wild

35:43

toxic and going all over the place. But in terms

35:46

of like the sentiment of Americans at least a majority

35:50

are now trending more towards like that bad not again

35:55

no more. But how how those are gonna be reconciled?

35:58

I think it's gonna be really interesting. And we got

36:02

eighteen months basically, mm hmm let's figure that out. Um,

36:06

let's talk about this. Uh. Texas mayor, the mayor of Colorado, Texas,

36:11

population four thousand. Uh. He went on social media and

36:17

told people to stop complaining people whose power was out,

36:20

who are freezing to death, and who couldn't get clean water.

36:24

Uh he I mean it's almost worth just like reading

36:27

word for word. Yeah. Look his iron rant for you

36:33

from Tim Boyd quote, let me hurt some feelings while

36:37

I have a minute. Yeah, my god, you have a

36:41

minute during a put the fucking mike on. Uh, and

36:47

you're about to be like, what's humanity? So he says,

36:50

no one owes you or your family anything, nor is

36:54

it the local government's responsibility to support you. During trying time.

36:58

It literally is quite literally, um sink or swim. It's

37:04

your choice. The city and county, along with power providers

37:07

or any other service, owes you nothing. I'm sick and

37:10

tired of people looking for a damn hand out. If

37:12

you don't have electricity, you step up and come up

37:15

with a game plan to keep your family more and safe.

37:17

If you have no water, you deal without and think

37:20

outside of the box to survive and supply water to

37:23

your family. If you were sitting at home in the

37:25

cold because you have no power in your sitting there

37:27

waiting for somebody to come rescue you because you're lazy,

37:31

that's a direct result of your raising. Only the strong

37:36

will survive and the week will perish us. But folks,

37:41

everything is spelled wrong horribly. Yeah, it's a nightmare, folks.

37:46

God has given us the tools to support ourselves in

37:48

times like this. This is sadly a product of a

37:51

socialist government where they feed people to believe that the

37:54

few will work and others will become dependent for handouts.

37:56

Am I sorry that you've been dealing without electricity and water? Yes,

38:00

but I'll be damned if I'm going to provide for

38:02

anyone that is capable of doing it themselves. We have

38:05

a lost sight of those in need and those I

38:07

don't know. We have lost sight of those in need. Yeah,

38:09

that's right, um, and those that take advantage of the

38:12

system and mess them in one group. Bottom line, quit

38:15

crying and looking for a hand out, Get off your

38:17

ass and take care of your own family. Bottom he says,

38:20

bottom line again, bottom line. Don't be part of a problem,

38:22

be a part of the solution. H The way they

38:27

are so obsessed with that term hand out. They are

38:31

so obsessed. This is always in my comments to whenever

38:35

I talk about either student loan forgiveness or whatever. It's

38:38

just like so rained in them. And I want to say,

38:40

we literally pay taxes, so it is not it's literally

38:45

your money, like quite literally our money that we have

38:48

to every single yes, every I would love to not

38:52

pay taxes. And then you could be like Danny, you

38:55

never paid for anything, but no, we we literally do. Yeah,

39:00

And I'm sorry. I think part of the thing when

39:01

you're paying like these utility taxes too, and you're paying

39:04

for utility services, part of the gag the game the

39:08

relationship there is to be like I'm paying for the

39:11

fucking service. Where's my electricity? You have the right to

39:15

ask for that. Now. I understand that certain things out

39:17

of their control happens, but to say that it's not

39:20

the responsibility is such an absurd notion. But it's not

39:24

the responsibility of your power provider to provide you with power.

39:30

I think was like almost a direct quote and yeah

39:33

I sent yeah, right. So then people are like, what

39:37

the fund did this guy say? And he resigned. But

39:41

then he fucking came back to Facebook just to clear

39:44

ship up one time for your mind, real quick. Okay,

39:48

this is him, and he and he deleted both posts

39:50

like within minutes because he was like, I'm taking too

39:53

many l's being taken at the moment, he says, quote all,

39:56

I have set back and watched all this escalating and

39:58

have tried to keep my mouth shut. I won't deny

40:00

for one minute what I said in my post this morning.

40:02

Believe me when I say that many of the things

40:04

I said were taken out of context, and some of

40:06

which were said without putting much thought into it. I

40:08

would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone this

40:12

or or anyone that is in true need of help

40:14

to be left to fend for themselves. I was only

40:16

making the statement that those folks that are too lazy

40:19

to get up and fend for themselves but are capable,

40:21

should not be dealt a hand out. He goes on,

40:24

basically saying, like, you misunderstand. It's the same point. You're

40:28

just using more words to say the same thing, which is,

40:32

if you can't look, if you can't deal with it,

40:35

then die, motherfucker. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's weird

40:39

because I kind of feel bad for him in the

40:40

sense that he's merely reflecting back everything that we have

40:44

we see, Yeah, which is he's been, whether it's not

40:50

said out loud or whatever. This is what the experience

40:53

is for American people, which is work or die, be

40:56

useful or die. If you can't afford to live, then

40:58

fucking die. You want help, motherfucker, then move somewhere else. Oh,

41:02

you were brought here against your willed centuries ago. Sorry, Uh,

41:07

that's really the tone of this. And yeah, like it's

41:09

funny that a lot of times were like how can

41:12

people think like this? But we really need to have

41:14

like a more concerted effort to be like why what

41:17

is why do we have? What? Is what's with our

41:19

asshole problem here? You know what I mean? The fucking

41:23

that that it's just turned into this like scab of

41:26

like it's just hardened to the point where this guy

41:29

would I basically say, like I don't give a funk

41:31

if your grandma freezes to death. But that's not who

41:35

he's picturing, right, Like, he's not picturing your grandma. He's

41:39

picturing like some non white people every day Americans or whatever. Yeah. Um,

41:47

And but the idea that you are so like to

41:50

to tell what I was going to say, some of

41:51

my high school friends that are dealing with this right now.

41:54

One of my friends who's still in Frisco had to

41:56

go and stand in line for four hours trying to

41:59

get firewood. And he has a baby. He has a

42:02

wife and a baby. They have had no power. It

42:05

is below freezing, as you've seen some of the pictures

42:08

on Twitter. Uh, people will have and they're like people

42:11

are like, don't forget to like have your pipes leak,

42:13

like have them drip or whatever. And they're like, we've

42:15

been doing that for days and they like still busted

42:18

and so um they're pipes burst. They have no electricity

42:22

and and to keep warm. Like literally they had to

42:25

go and stand in line to get firewood and it

42:27

was it just was a line of cars for hours.

42:30

And he said he spent four hours trying to get

42:33

firewood so that his baby wouldn't freeze, and he they

42:37

turned him away. And so that's what people are dealing with,

42:42

and the idea that it's like, well, you you need

42:44

to go out and you know, slaughter a cow to

42:47

feed your like it's just so insane. We're also like

42:49

not you know, the way that our society and system

42:54

has been set up now, it's like you can't just

42:56

go out and like chop down someone else's tree or

42:59

just like takes someone else's sheep and like to you

43:02

know what I mean, when you're living in like a

43:04

suburban neighborhood. Um, So those when he says that like

43:08

those are he's probably thinking of people like my friend

43:11

who who did go out, you know who is whatever?

43:14

Like it's also super ablest, I would say, um, And

43:18

I hate the term lazy because I actually don't think

43:21

that any like most Americans are lazy. I think that

43:25

we live in such a scary society where you're bombarded

43:28

with you have student loan debt, and you're a lot

43:31

of people deal with massive amounts of depression living in

43:34

this country. So I think it's actually just the the

43:37

effects of depression from being in this this this hellhole

43:43

that is also just earth, just living on Earth. So

43:46

I don't actually think yeah, I actually think that you

43:51

you can't be lazy and live in this country, because

43:55

you would you would just die. Yeah. Yeah, So everybody

43:58

is fighting at all times to survive. I mean, you

44:01

you it's so expensive to even just exist. Do you

44:04

have to be extremely privileged to be lazy. Yes, that's

44:07

the thing. You have to have a ton of money

44:09

actually to be lazy. Um and the students probably sees

44:17

lazy people around him because he's a privileged politician, and

44:22

so he assumes that that's I mean, he assumes that

44:25

every everybody's problems are their own fault, because that's what

44:28

Fox News has been telling him. And the bottom line is,

44:32

you can never present a problem to a Republican and

44:35

they say it's a problem. You're right. They go, oh, wow,

44:37

that was right, that's a problem we need to fix that.

44:40

Never it's it's you can you can take that ship

44:43

to the bank, unless it's like, yeah, immigrants are a problem.

44:46

But like if you're saying, what the funk just happened

44:49

with that grid? Do we want to talk about this

44:51

deregulated independent grid that we have and all this other

44:54

ship and the fact that the markets with electricity are

44:58

set up that doesn't even in sentivized maintenance or the

45:02

updating of the grid because all about like cheap power

45:05

as quickly as possible, all this No, it's not gonna

45:07

be that. It's gonna be like we actually need to

45:09

look at the body that was in charge of the utilities.

45:11

Oh man, these we need to look into snow terrorism.

45:14

I think it's like what it's a it's uh, it's

45:19

the same here. We've brought up the deregulated Texas energy

45:22

market before because the story of Enron is like so

45:26

cartoonishly just like what an amazing example of broken American

45:31

uh economy and just everything ethics. But uh yeah, just

45:37

one kind of acute way that this uh problem illustrates

45:44

the way American operate America operates. We had a a

45:48

TDZ fan from San Antonio reach out and say their

45:52

power has been out. The power company at first said

45:55

it was gonna be fifteen minutes on for five minutes

45:58

off just to conserve power. Said it's been offered days

46:01

uh and pointed out my friends and wealthy neighborhoods have

46:04

not lost power. Uh, this is true, and at least

46:07

three separate neighborhoods across the city. I've seen the Downtown

46:10

Skyline just blazing its lights into the sky for the

46:13

entire time. Um. And that's actually that supports what the

46:18

New York Times is reporting, which is that the in

46:21

any disaster, but including this one, when ship hits the fan,

46:27

the poorer communities and communities that are more populated with

46:32

people of color are the ones that lose power first

46:36

and get it last. So the people who are probably

46:40

have the least camping supplies, uh like, have the least

46:45

access to things that can save their lives are the

46:48

ones who are treated the worst by the system, by

46:52

this deregulated energy industry. Yeah, that's that's where we'reheaded, baby.

46:57

You know, like when ship all this ship gets privatized.

47:00

This is the future you have to look forward to

47:02

because there are no regulations on what you need to

47:05

be with. The bare minimum is they're gonna look at

47:08

you and be like, okay, Uh, some people are saying, like,

47:10

because trying to generate the electricity was gonna become so costly.

47:14

They're like, you may want to cancel your service with

47:16

us because your electrical bill could be wild because we're

47:18

gonna dump the cost onto the consumer. Cool cool, cool, cool.

47:22

Like people are getting notices to be like, you may

47:25

want to you may want to rethink that just as

47:26

a courtesy. Yeah, that's our courtesy is you may get

47:29

body slammed on your next bill if you say. Fox

47:33

News has been saying that it's because uh windmills are frozen,

47:38

but you know, according to UH, an energy fellow in

47:42

the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, the

47:45

failure is the result of the state's deregulated power system. UM.

47:52

Most of the UH, it's actually like when you look

47:56

at on balance the wind power for the day that

48:01

everybody was saying the wind turbines were frozen, the wind

48:07

power on balance overshot the what the expectations were for

48:12

that day. There were a couple examples of windmills freezing,

48:16

but for the most part, UH, they provided more energy

48:20

than UH the energy companies were expecting. And the thing

48:24

that ship the bed was natural gas. But this is

48:28

part of a long term campaigned by Fox and Friends.

48:32

You know, they were in the past couple of days.

48:34

And and and what would America look Is this what America

48:37

would look like under the Green New Deal? Uh? Tucker

48:40

Carlson claimed that it was all due to Texas is

48:43

reckless reliance on windmills. Um the energy mixes eighty or

48:48

nine fossil fuels in Texas. Yes, that part out loud,

48:52

Tucker Carlson say, And that and I think the point

48:55

you're talking about is the coastal windmills in Texas, we're

48:59

the ones bring more energy into the state because they

49:01

weren't as affected and we're and created a lot more

49:04

than when the gas plants went down. So in the

49:06

end it actually did help the state. The wind, the wind,

49:10

the wind turbines. It's like, I mean, this is not

49:13

going to be news to anybody, but just like reading

49:16

this story just for some reason, was just every once

49:20

in a while, I get just like smacked over the

49:23

head and I'm just like, holy sh it, Like we

49:25

are in a dystopian society, where like when you think

49:31

about the fact that most people in Texas is like

49:34

primary news source is going to be Fox News, Uh,

49:38

like and like just thinking about how transparently illegal it

49:42

should be for them to report the things that we

49:46

just described. I don't mean Greg Abbott, the governor's out

49:49

here blaming other people. It's like people are dying in

49:51

the state because of the inaction and like the callous

49:55

attitudes towards how to solve anything. Of being like because

49:59

again you you present a Republican with a problem and

50:02

it's not, Oh my god, I'm the governor. Texans are

50:06

dying under my watch. This is unacceptable. It goes, oh,

50:09

we actually need to talk to a COT, which is

50:12

like the Commission on on on Energy and stuff in

50:15

the state. It's like, we need to we need to

50:17

talk about that. I think that's the issue here. It's

50:19

never again he could have been we have to do something,

50:22

something needs to be done. I'm the governor and this

50:25

is a problem. And that was you know, can't admit

50:28

any kind of failure mistakes, So it just ends up

50:30

perpetuating itself. They're a big piece of content that was

50:35

being circulated by conservatives was a photograph of a helicopter

50:40

d I sing a wind turbine look at this ship,

50:44

Except that photo was from a test in Sweden. Uh Sweden,

50:51

uh and fuel to even clean the windmill. So come on,

50:58

y'all need to scare curious thing aside from the fact

51:01

that we need an upgraded grid system and this has

51:04

been a necessary thing for so long, especially in Texas,

51:07

is that this will continue to happen. And that's I

51:09

think what scares me the most is that we will

51:11

continue to have weather crisis from here on out period.

51:16

It's something that we have been having. Um that Texas

51:19

is aware aside from like uh, Galveston seeing like you know,

51:24

devastation and think like it's going to our extreme weather

51:27

is going to continue and whether whether they want to

51:30

deny it or not, it will hit them and happen

51:33

to them. And so that's that I find. Yeah, but

51:37

I mean, how much longer can you deny it for?

51:39

And it's just like instead they spent the past four

51:42

years focusing on like who's allowed to go into what

51:44

bathroom and who's allowed to marry who, as opposed to like, hey,

51:48

the next the next decade is going to be a

51:51

complete change for us, and we're not prepared for it.

51:54

And you're going to continue to see this stuff happening. Um,

51:58

I was. I was in Texas when Hurricane Katrina hit

52:01

and we had all new students coming to us from

52:05

New Orleans, like a ton of my coming from UM

52:09

New Orleans to Texas. So a ton of my uh

52:12

students they when I was in high school had to

52:16

come because they were not being or having help there.

52:19

And that's gonna that's also gonna happen in Texas, like

52:21

we're going to continue to have and here in California,

52:24

all of us are going to get hit with with

52:27

weather crisises and it's it's frustrating that after seeing this, uh,

52:33

they will probably still not do enough for the next

52:37

time when it happens. And they probably also think like,

52:39

oh God did this, God is God is giving us

52:43

some snow, you know or whatever. It's just like they

52:47

just don't believe they can deny it, you know, but

52:49

it's going to continue to happen. And that's what I

52:51

think is frustrating that they need to get a lot

52:54

of those UM officials out of there and someone who's

52:57

going to accept that this is the new way of

52:59

life ife, this is our just like we're gonna have

53:01

to accept wildfires here being a regular, you know, massive

53:05

thing that keeps happening to us and embracing the fact

53:08

that the US is a failed state. Okay, you want

53:13

to spike the football in these other countries talking about

53:17

the best you have people in the state that it

53:22

generates the most energy, not being able to access energy,

53:27

and people like accidentally burning their houses down because they're

53:31

trying to figure out other ways to generate heat and

53:34

things like that, and we're still gonna feel good about

53:36

ourselves as a country. Every the leadership in the state

53:40

should be ashamed that that happened. And then the fact.

53:43

But and I think that's where you hope at a

53:45

certain point. I don't know what, because the explanations out

53:49

of the right only get more absurd, and I don't

53:51

think they're ever going to go the other way. I mean,

53:53

we watched a full on mob take to rush the

53:58

capital and people who were almost got hurt, Like no,

54:00

that's all good, it's all good, it's all good. So

54:02

I can't imagine even if a fucking avalanche blew down,

54:06

you know, Greg Abbott's home, he'd still be like, oh,

54:08

it's Antifa or so just like it'll never because that's

54:12

just sort of like it's it's like a mentality that's

54:15

become a party more than anything. It's like this way

54:18

of just maneuvering through the world. It's not really about

54:21

any There's there's no feeling. There's like nothing philosophical or

54:24

ideological about it. Just like a way of preserving your ego. Yeah. Um,

54:30

the Rick Perry uh came out and said Texans should

54:34

be willing to go without power for a couple of

54:36

days to honor the deregulation gods. Uh. Basically, Uh, deregulation

54:42

is just basically like every man for himself and but

54:45

applied to a market economy, which uh, as Enron illustrates,

54:50

does not work in good times, and as this and

54:54

every disaster and the pandemic illustrates, is really fucked when

54:59

it comes to uh, you know, not good times. And

55:03

just to put the Fox News thing in some context,

55:06

they've been pushing anti wind power conspiracies for years now.

55:10

In twenty nineteen, Tucker Carlson claimed that wind power wouldn't

55:13

be able to heat homes in the winter, which ignored

55:17

the fact that Alaska has incredibly successful wind farm energy. Eighteen,

55:24

he cited the widespread noise pollution from wind turbines, which

55:28

is false, alleged they provide precious little energy false, and

55:32

added that turbines kill a lot of birds, and this

55:35

has been a thing that they really focus on a lot.

55:38

And as our writer Jam points out, Tugger Carlson is

55:42

the heir to the Swanson Frozen Food company. Uh So

55:46

he who make all the money off of, like, you know,

55:49

murdering chickens and turkeys. So the fact that that's something

55:52

he acts like he's worried about. In eleven, all the

55:55

way back then, Greg Gutfeld called wind power the Ted

55:58

Bundy of bird ollers, which gross also misleading because wind

56:06

turbines do kill birds, but less than building glass and vehicles,

56:11

and way less than cats. Cats kill two point four

56:17

billion birds each year. Wow, And we're not talking about that.

56:21

We're not talking about Randy Johnson the bank. I saw him.

56:24

I saw him straight mark a bird with a ball

56:26

once and and I just don't want to acknowledge it.

56:31

Don't want to. Two thousand nine study found that fossil

56:34

field power stations are responsible for nearly fifteen times more

56:37

bird deaths than wind farms. And that is their best.

56:40

The best they can do is point to birds being

56:43

killed by fox someone said, also, Texas was quote totally

56:47

reliant on windmills. Also, now again that energy mix is

56:52

generated from fossil fields. Just you can and you can

56:56

look that up. But you know what, we're not interested

56:58

in that, because I just said that, because I'm not

57:00

interested in fact. I'm just interested in going full steam

57:03

ahead and my you know, protecting my my sense of self.

57:07

All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be

57:09

right back to wrap things up, and we're back. Uh.

57:23

And Rush Limbaugh died yesterday. Um, I think he's best

57:30

remembered in his own words, with his own content. Let's

57:34

just list off a couple of the things. Uh from

57:37

the New York Times, oh bit not like from you know,

57:41

it's just a person on Twitter, And from the New

57:43

York Times. O bit uh. In the limbo lexicon, advocates

57:47

for the homeless were compassion fascists, women who favored abortion

57:52

were femin Nazis. Environmentalists were tree hugging wackos. He had

57:57

delivered AIDS updates with a Dion Warwick song I'll Never

58:00

Love This Way Again, ridiculed Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease symptoms,

58:05

and called global warming a hoax. On the AIDS update thing. Uh,

58:11

there's a somebody pointed out, like that's that doesn't give

58:15

you the full Uh. He used to read the names

58:19

of people who died and have celebratory moments whenever another

58:24

AIDS victim died, which he called the AIDS updates. Yeah,

58:27

and then he lied about a bunch of shit constantly. Yeah. Yeah,

58:33

because Dion Warwick was like one of the first celebrities

58:36

to really come out in support of like the fighting

58:39

against the AIDS epidemic. So that's why. So he was

58:44

and for the people, there's there's also this like even

58:48

from like the New York Times, there's like this big

58:50

grudging but you gotta hand it to the guy. And like,

58:56

I think we're learning from all the hacks who like

59:00

got canceled and immediately gone to become like right wing

59:04

celebrities after years of being like middling mainstream media personalities

59:08

or you know, failed screenwriters and terrible novelists. And Ben

59:13

Shapiro's case that it's not as hard to get an

59:16

audience when you're telling white supremacists and misogynists the lies

59:21

they already want to believe, Like that's just because you

59:25

have a huge audience doesn't mean you are talented. That

59:29

just means that you tapped into a vein in the

59:33

country that is fucking evil and disgusting. All they're all

59:37

they're doing is all they're just saying is saying problematic

59:41

ship but real witty. And with theism, that's the difference.

59:45

It's different than when someone's yelling hate speech at someone.

59:48

It's that like you've now turned it into a segment

59:51

where you're playing music and you're it's not just it's

59:54

you're going like there's a spectacle to this sort of content.

59:58

And I think that's why a lot of failed can

1:00:00

medians end up doing so well. It's because it's like, yeah,

1:00:02

I'm just gonna do like mean jokes basically, but as

1:00:05

an ideology and just talk like that all the time

1:00:08

and say everyone's disgusted, staying freaks or what the fuck,

1:00:12

and people are gonna just be like, hey man, he

1:00:15

said it better than I could have. That's funny. He

1:00:17

made up his own racial slur. I'm going to use

1:00:19

that now. I also think it's hilarious that same with

1:00:22

the people that did the um the attack on Congress

1:00:27

is that they consider themselves outcasts when they are like

1:00:30

the actual most privileged people in the world. Like that

1:00:35

to me is just so, I don't know, someone should

1:00:38

do a documentary. I'm I'm I'm fascinated and horrified by

1:00:42

the psychology behind like you said, like failed comedians who

1:00:45

then they have nowhere to go, so they become they

1:00:47

joined the alt right, which is like several people that

1:00:50

have been in our industry that I've known who have

1:00:53

like gotten canceled that we've watched get canceled and go

1:00:57

over there, But like so many of them carry this

1:01:00

like out like I'm I'm the one that's harmed and

1:01:04

I and it's like they're literally some of the most

1:01:06

privileged people in this country, you know. And it's just

1:01:10

so I also wonder if they actually believe what they're saying,

1:01:15

Like if they were on our side, they got rejected

1:01:18

or canceled, and now they go over there, Like do

1:01:20

they actually believe the stuff that they're saying or are

1:01:23

they aware that they're just cashing in? Like I don't know,

1:01:28

I mean, I think a lot of it is like

1:01:29

this weird thing that whiteness specifically can do to American people,

1:01:35

which is, on one hand, tell you you're the best,

1:01:38

your number one, and you should have everything. But then

1:01:41

if you're a working class white person, your lived experience

1:01:44

is not is nothing like that. So in a way,

1:01:47

that begins a feeling of like I should have what

1:01:51

the fuck like even though you are benefiting massively. Look,

1:01:55

you got to beat a police officer with a hockey stick, yes,

1:01:59

but there's still this feeling. It's like they also know

1:02:03

that though the the treatment of people could be better,

1:02:07

whether they wanted or not. I think there is this

1:02:10

feeling like it could be better, but I don't know

1:02:12

how to articulate that. So I'm really just gonna stay

1:02:15

angry and be on this other, you know, regressive programming,

1:02:19

which is point of finger and yell at everybody except

1:02:21

myself or the country that is responsible for this. I

1:02:25

watched Judas on the Black Mass Sigh over the weekend,

1:02:28

and one of the things that jumped out to me

1:02:30

is that Fred Hampton, before he was assassinated by the FBI,

1:02:35

was uniting like poor white people and uh, you know,

1:02:41

with gangs and just all like uniting across underprivileged classes. Uh.

1:02:50

And that's the thing that I feel like is underrepresented about.

1:02:53

When Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated. Is he was

1:02:56

in Memphis on a anti poverty UH movement, and he

1:03:02

was in the midst of an anti poverty like supporting unions,

1:03:06

supporting people trying to make it uh a class movement

1:03:12

as opposed to specifically racial and that seems to be

1:03:16

the thing that the uniting of those factions really seems

1:03:21

to scare the ship out of the ruling class. Mm hmm.

1:03:27

And finally the Cruella trailer dropped. We we talked about

1:03:32

how the poster looked like ship yesterday on trending, But um,

1:03:39

the trailer looks kind of fun, very very dark, yeah,

1:03:45

very jokery. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but it looks fun.

1:03:49

I mean the like the visual aesthetic of it. I'm like, oh,

1:03:52

this looks this looks pretty cool. Yeah, but I don't know,

1:03:56

I didn't realize it's funny when I'm like, it's a

1:04:00

character who I didn't never really thought about what a

1:04:02

backstory could look like, and so my the trailer was

1:04:05

like showing me what that wasn't like, oh, ships into

1:04:08

some ship huh okay, I see her. I feel like

1:04:12

that's probably also from Maleficent because they had a couple

1:04:15

of you know that was like one of their first

1:04:17

ones where they were like, let's look at the origin

1:04:20

story of some of these, uh, some of these villains.

1:04:26

Chase Mitchell, who's a comedy writer, tweeted this morning. He said,

1:04:29

I've always wanted to see a sympathetic origin story for

1:04:31

a character whose main ambition in life is to kill

1:04:34

a very large, specific number of small dogs. I do

1:04:38

think that it's funny that we're supposed to, like, you know,

1:04:41

we're supposed to be sympathetic for her. Same with Maleficent.

1:04:44

When you watch it's like why she became, why she

1:04:47

broke bad, like what happened to her that made her

1:04:49

a villain? And so I do think it's funny that

1:04:52

we're gonna be like, oh, she's just misunderstood and also

1:04:56

skins alive animals like for a chance. I don't know,

1:05:01

this is kind of hard. Yeah, that's I mean, that's

1:05:04

been one of the main rules of movies is that

1:05:08

you can't kill dogs generally, and if you do, it

1:05:11

has to be like a super big like building up

1:05:14

to that point, like that is an emotionally crushing thing

1:05:17

from movie audience, and it's like I am legend. Shit, yeah,

1:05:21

I am legend. Thing, like it has to be the

1:05:23

main thing where you're just like this trailer like does

1:05:27

show us dalmatians, but they're mean. They're the meanest Dalmatians

1:05:31

I've ever seen. Like they just make them like vicious.

1:05:35

Like when she walks into a room that so mad

1:05:38

at her, it's like so dogs read energy, right, do

1:05:42

they go edgy with it? And they actually show here

1:05:44

just like doing a wild animal abuse you right, this

1:05:48

was in a kids film Dollars for this on Disney

1:05:51

clos It would make more sense if she was like

1:05:55

um Selena Cutt like a catwoman, Like that would make

1:05:59

more sense, like Michel Fifers like cat, Like if she

1:06:01

were surrect, which I don't think she is or that

1:06:03

I could tell, but like that would make more sense

1:06:06

to me if she were like, oh my precious, or

1:06:08

if a dog killed her cat when she was growing

1:06:11

up and so now she has like a vendetta against dogs.

1:06:14

Like a lot of sense to me if she's kid.

1:06:17

In the end, we're still being like, that'll make sense

1:06:19

for her to one dalmatian right to the point where

1:06:24

like I mean, oh, look at it, silo, this as

1:06:30

its own thing and just be like you don't go

1:06:31

off Cruella. Mm hmm um. I also don't like how

1:06:36

much can it be a kids movie because like kids

1:06:40

don't kids aren't into anti heroes. Like when I when

1:06:43

I show my kids kids breaking Bad, They're like, what

1:06:46

why is that? Guys? Such a jerk? Deb Um. I

1:06:50

can't think of anything so my kids breaking Bad? They

1:06:53

didn't like that scene, that rat patrol scene where they

1:06:55

got all the snitches. Yeah. Yeah, Actually can't think of

1:07:00

any villain movies that I've enjoyed as a kid. That's

1:07:06

like when you become I felt like that was me

1:07:08

thinking I was becoming an adult, was watched like that.

1:07:11

I'm like, yo, that fucked up person. Actually I like

1:07:14

that character right because I have my parents just got

1:07:18

divorced and now I can see the spectrum of pain

1:07:21

in life. Like I don't know, yeah, um be interesting.

1:07:27

But anyways, Danny as always such a pleasure having you

1:07:31

on the daily's like, where can people find you and

1:07:35

follow you? I'm at Miss Danny Fernandez M S D

1:07:38

A n I F E r n A N D

1:07:40

easy on Twitter, on Twitter and Instagram, and also I'm

1:07:44

on Clubhouse, which some people are using. But that's just

1:07:48

at Danny Fernandez, what do you do on there? It's

1:07:51

like I did a panel for Gloria Calder and Kellett,

1:07:55

who's a show winner for One Day at a Time,

1:07:57

asked me to be on a panel about breaking into Hollywood,

1:08:00

and so it's kind of it's an audio forum. So

1:08:04

it's uh like a big room that a hundreds of

1:08:07

people can be in, but like there's selected speakers and

1:08:10

you can raise your hand kind of like in zoom

1:08:13

or blue jeans if you guys have had to use

1:08:15

that during this time. But I personally it gives me

1:08:19

a little bit of anxiety, uh doing it because I

1:08:21

can't see anyone. So so it's like doing like a

1:08:25

big conference call it. Yes, that's literally actually that's exactly it.

1:08:29

And sometimes people talk over each other and but there

1:08:33

are some really good people were talking about the stock market,

1:08:37

like they had people on there that were breaking it down.

1:08:39

There's also casting directors that talk about like how to

1:08:43

do a good audition, like so you can learn things

1:08:46

and a lot of these or if you're like Keith Standfield,

1:08:50

there's a moaning room. It was just men moaning um

1:08:55

and he popped in there and was moaning and you

1:08:58

can't see anyone, right, So he Keith like popped into

1:09:02

the moaning room and was just like moaning in there,

1:09:05

so you will not find me in the moaning rooms. Um. Also,

1:09:09

when I was going to say, when we were talking

1:09:11

about um like reboots and casting and stuff up top,

1:09:16

I had wanted him for Willy Wonka. I still want

1:09:19

if they're going to reboot it, because they're thinking of

1:09:23

Tom Holland or Timothy shallow May, and I'm like, there

1:09:26

are more people in this industry, I swear to God,

1:09:30

but I think Lakeith would be fun and wild. Janelle

1:09:33

Money is another one obviously, and she also dressed up

1:09:37

like him. So um, either of those I think are

1:09:41

more interesting and I could do a lot more with

1:09:46

the discovering different aspects of Also, he's fictional, like, this

1:09:50

is what I say about all these characters whenever people

1:09:52

are like, but he's white. He's also not real. He's literally,

1:09:55

quite literally not real. Um. That's how I feel about

1:09:59

all of the d C and Marvel characters as well.

1:10:02

They were made up, and they were also made up

1:10:04

typically in the fifties and sixties when black and brown

1:10:06

people weren't allowed to be on a lot of these comics,

1:10:09

so we only had a very small select few, um

1:10:13

which were great. But also it's really okay, uh yeah,

1:10:18

look we'll let you wrap and stuff, you know what,

1:10:23

continue to appropriate the culture left and right. But yeah

1:10:26

we can. I think we can switch out a couple

1:10:28

of the physical bodies for these made up characters, like

1:10:32

it'll be, it'll literally be. It's one thing if you're

1:10:35

doing a hologram of your father or a memorial service

1:10:39

and it's like, well, that's not my dad was it

1:10:42

was not Taiwanese. But yeah, that's yeah, maybe there's not

1:10:47

creative license for a hologram memorial. But if we're talking

1:10:51

about fictitious people. People said this about Game of Thrones,

1:10:54

like not to go on my tangent, but really people

1:10:56

would say like, well, it's just there's not a lot

1:10:58

of black and brown people be because it's you know,

1:11:01

historically they weren't uh they historically, I'm sorry, weren't around

1:11:05

during the dragon time. When was the dragon time? I

1:11:08

missed the dragon time. They're like, yeah, but during that time,

1:11:11

And I'm like, when when was that time? Tell me

1:11:13

in history? Okay, I will once may I answer your

1:11:16

question with another and with a question which is Danny,

1:11:19

do you speak Western Rosie? Okay, that's I'm just I

1:11:22

want to start there so I know where we're starting

1:11:25

this debate from. Anyway, That is my anytime someone says that,

1:11:28

I'm like, it's a television show. It is Listen to yourself.

1:11:33

It's a fake. This person this woman had dragons coming

1:11:36

out of her, Like, this is not real. Anyways, you

1:11:39

can have black and brown people. A black woman s

1:11:46

um speaking of the Keith Stanfield he needs to be

1:11:49

uh nominated for Judice in the blacks side? Did y'all

1:11:52

know that? Uh? And Daniel Cluea too, But did you

1:11:54

guys know that the Academy Award cut off is like

1:11:59

like late February this year, Like, yeah, it does make sense,

1:12:04

but I didn't, like nobody's really talking about you could

1:12:07

like you could game the awards this year because a

1:12:10

few things, like a few things came out that suddenly

1:12:13

you're like, yeah, I don't know, I guess that's the best,

1:12:15

but like, I feel like I don't have an opinion

1:12:17

on anything this year. Yeah, um, Miles, where can people

1:12:20

find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh shit,

1:12:23

you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles

1:12:26

of Gray and also the other podcast for twenty Day Fiance.

1:12:31

Let's see a tweet that I like. This is from

1:12:35

Brodie Reid and a sentiment A lot of comedians in

1:12:39

the l A Area have have talked about and this

1:12:42

kind of inside baseball. But I will just say this

1:12:44

tweet he says, quote, spent all morning trying to think

1:12:47

of creative things to say about Rush and couldn't think

1:12:50

of anything mean enough. Probably not going to get the

1:12:52

Jon Stewart thing. Not gonna lie. Shout out to everybody

1:12:57

submitting for that Stewart yea churn and um, sorry people

1:13:04

submitting though that that show might be dope. There's uh

1:13:08

And just one more because it's sort of piggybacks on

1:13:10

that from Robert Evans at I right, okay, why speak

1:13:13

ill of the dead when you can sing it's hilarious. Yeah,

1:13:18

there are so many good, good Rush tweets. Um tweet

1:13:23

I was enjoying. D C. Pearson tweeted his Twitter the

1:13:26

only hobby whose practitioners regularly lament everything about it. I'm

1:13:31

just imagining a bunch of bullers sitting around the alley

1:13:33

going funk this place, this is hell. Um can find

1:13:37

me on Twitter at Jack underscore O Brian. You can

1:13:39

find us on Twitter at daily zeitgeis for at d

1:13:41

Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page

1:13:44

and website Daily zite Guys dot com, where we post

1:13:47

our episodes on our foot notes where we link off

1:13:51

to the information as well as a song that Miles

1:13:54

is recommending that we are no longer playing at the

1:13:57

end of the show. I think a lot of people

1:13:59

are like, wait, you guys forgot to put the song

1:14:01

and we're not doing that anymore now we didn't do

1:14:03

that's just go out there listen to the whole thing.

1:14:06

Yeah you know what, Yeah, it'll take the tracking. You

1:14:11

go do the work herself. But this track is oh

1:14:16

an edit of a Massego track called Navajo, which is

1:14:19

a dope. If you haven't seen the Color Show version

1:14:21

of it on YouTube, check that out. But it's a

1:14:23

remix by e Kanie e k A n y uh.

1:14:28

It's Navajo but the Missego flip. So check this out

1:14:31

on SoundCloud and it's oh man, it's great, it's wonderful.

1:14:35

It's just got like because if you don't know Misseego

1:14:38

amazing and plays Sacks does a dope looping, great singer,

1:14:43

and then just when you add a little bit of

1:14:44

a remix on, it just takes things to a whole

1:14:47

other place. So yeah, yeah, you can go listen to

1:14:50

that right now, right playlist figure. The Daily Zeitgeist is

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episode 3: Tex Mess, Means-Test Dummy Biden 2.18.21 [transcript]

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