Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one eighty, episode
Speaker 1: one of Day one eighty. We did it a production
Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into America's share consciousness. Used to
Speaker 1: be from more of a leftist perspective, but now that
Speaker 1: it's episode one, season one eighty, we're going full right wing.
Speaker 1: Baby motherfucker. It's Monday, April tenth one. My name is
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien a K. Please check this box and also
Speaker 1: this one to all capsule screaming at you and they
Speaker 1: are all yellow. Uh. That is courtesy and Christie Amapucci
Speaker 1: man in reference to the NRCCS fundraising tactics. And I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles Gray. That's right, it's Miles Gray a k
Speaker 1: g MX. You know from the hit single to Tough
Speaker 1: Rider's Anthem from his debut album It's Dark and the
Speaker 1: Valley Is Hot. Rest in peace to dark man X
Speaker 1: Earl Simmons d m X. That yeah, it's just awful. Awful.
Speaker 1: Addiction is terrible thing. And please check in on everybody
Speaker 1: you know, just everybody, no matter what. It's always good
Speaker 1: to just know where the people you love and care
Speaker 1: about her at so yeah, please check in and rest
Speaker 1: in peace, please R I P D m X and
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talented. There's a sun. I'm thrilled to be here,
Speaker 1: quite frankly. And you you're so chipper today. You were
Speaker 1: saying before Mike before we got on Mike here, like
Speaker 1: I'm so chip around about what's going on with me?
Speaker 1: Chipper Jones. Yeah, I just woke up on the right
Speaker 1: side of the bed, Miles. It was we like to
Speaker 1: hear that on this show, the right side, not the
Speaker 1: left side, thank you, sir. I'm telling you. I was
Speaker 1: like doing pleas and ship like, why what's going on
Speaker 1: with you? Feeling? You just you're coming out of like
Speaker 1: a funk. You you you just always on top of
Speaker 1: the world, Like what what's the secret? What hap pretty moody?
Speaker 1: So maybe I'm sort of coming out of h something.
Speaker 1: You know, this is the high like it's a good day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Please keep it past
Speaker 1: the chips over here, Yes, please pet chips. You get
Speaker 1: Dorritos that you get Frito's, Yeah, especially their chili cheese.
Speaker 1: What about tostitos. Are we is it? What's what's going
Speaker 1: on with this tostitos erasure? Well, you mean for dipping,
Speaker 1: like for scoops, tostito scoops. You know, I prefer like
Speaker 1: a real straight up, like hard fried, quornant tortilla type
Speaker 1: tortilla chip. Yeah, I'm a I'm a heavy uh sauca
Speaker 1: bit I I really like to go in for the sausa.
Speaker 1: So those scoops are the only thing that can satisfy me.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think you's have a bowl of sauce and
Speaker 1: just exploding in my mouth with every chip that was evocative.
Speaker 1: Apologize and because this is a right wing podcast, what's
Speaker 1: your favorite salsa? What's your hey Jack, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: authentic Mexico salsa? Rag ou bro? Even worse, it's pasta
Speaker 1: you catch up? Oh you know how we do it,
Speaker 1: little Arkansas salsa? Catch up in a reguano. Yeah, old
Speaker 1: El Paso used to be the my ship, but now
Speaker 1: now oh yeah, Pace is the one that right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: New York City is a little too left wing for me,
Speaker 1: so I I go with that Hines catch up made
Speaker 1: in the blue collar Pittsburgh Steelers, that's right. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: your Primanti's in it, which I Steelers. I used to
Speaker 1: watch before all this politics got brought into our NFL,
Speaker 1: all right, back when Terry Bradshaw was running this show.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, enough of this ship were that we
Speaker 1: were gonna on season one eighty, we were gonna do
Speaker 1: a one eighty and go right wing. Fizza, You don't
Speaker 1: you didn't deserve any of this. We a knowledge it
Speaker 1: or the confusion. Yeah, but you know what, it makes
Speaker 1: me stronger. Yeah exactly, it didn't kill me. I'm here,
Speaker 1: and you know what, you don't need. You don't need
Speaker 1: more idiot men giving forged in the fires of a
Speaker 1: bad bit from idiot. All right, Fizz, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. We're talking about the new phase of
Speaker 1: vaccine rollout that we are in. Uh, that's probably going
Speaker 1: to be extra infuriating. This one is all about convincing
Speaker 1: reluctant Republicans to get vaccinated and also I will add
Speaker 1: to that, keeping them the fuck away from the rest
Speaker 1: of us. We're gonna do our new favorite we gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta get a sting for this. The gates updates,
Speaker 1: I don't even know. Yeah, I think it's really locked
Speaker 1: the gates, locked the gates. It's lock up the gates,
Speaker 1: up the gates. Uh. We're gonna talk about a capital
Speaker 1: Police inspector general being like, wow, this this was not
Speaker 1: handled well at all. Um. We're gonna talk about Amazon
Speaker 1: defeating a push for workers rights, or, as The New
Speaker 1: York Times put it, amazon workers defeat a at an
Speaker 1: Alabama warehouse. Uh so they so it was the workers.
Speaker 1: It was really a story of the of the people
Speaker 1: rising up to defeat the evil powers of Union. Is
Speaker 1: a shout out to the New York Times. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about whether Biden is restarting construction of Trump's wall.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that new Roe v. Wade movie
Speaker 1: that nobody's talking about but that just came out, like
Speaker 1: the one with the My the my pillow guy. Uh
Speaker 1: if he's probably in it. It seems like they were,
Speaker 1: you know, using the conservation of conservative celebrity method of casting.
Speaker 1: When we when we first talked about it at first,
Speaker 1: wasn't like one of the last shots like Mike Lindel,
Speaker 1: like in a fucking bobcat or like a backhoe tearing
Speaker 1: down a planned parenthood or something. Why do I have
Speaker 1: some idea of this happening in some film I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's co directed and stars Nick Loeb, who is the dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sofia have regards X, who like sued her for having
Speaker 1: any autonomy over her own reproductive health. He suited. It
Speaker 1: was like really a new level of right wing. Uh
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that all of that plenty more,
Speaker 1: But first physical we like to ask our guest, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history that is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are or what you're up to. So my um,
Speaker 1: last interesting Google search was cyclothymic disorder versus bipolar because
Speaker 1: maybe that'll explain a little bit why I'm chipper and moody.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I was, um, I've been treated for cyclothymic
Speaker 1: cyclothymia for a while now. And you know there's like
Speaker 1: I'm on Clubhouse now. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: are familiar with that app, well, yeah, I mean familiar
Speaker 1: with all the notifications is up here on housing the
Speaker 1: club You're all over that. Mine's always about swizz Beats
Speaker 1: and just blaze talking about n f T s always like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess again a marathon. Yeah, I gotta figure out
Speaker 1: how to turn everything into an n f T. But like, um,
Speaker 1: I mean, can I turn cyclothymia into an n f T?
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I was in like a room about
Speaker 1: like bipolar. Like there's a lot of mental health rooms
Speaker 1: and a lot of the people and there were bipolar,
Speaker 1: and I know that there is sort of a relationship
Speaker 1: between these two conditions, except like luthymia is it's less intense,
Speaker 1: so it's like a it's a more functional bipolar. But
Speaker 1: like I think you there's a lot of mood swings,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, I just wanted to come in
Speaker 1: and formed right right right is? And like are those
Speaker 1: have those rooms been? Like are they somewhat orderly? Because
Speaker 1: every other I've been, the ones that start off not
Speaker 1: that they're like by design just turned into like absolute nonsense.
Speaker 1: But there's something about the way the rooms are structure
Speaker 1: and if there's like no real moderation process involved, it
Speaker 1: can very quickly turn into just like utter chaos nonsense.
Speaker 1: But I'm imagining in a space like that there it's
Speaker 1: it's run pretty efficiently, dude. A percent, like the best
Speaker 1: ones are the ones that are, like I mean, if
Speaker 1: there's not like a professional health professional on stage, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, no one's here to fix anyone. It's literally
Speaker 1: to share our own experiences. Yeah, so that those are
Speaker 1: the best run ones. I think. I feel like those
Speaker 1: are the ones I can like bear to listen to
Speaker 1: the longest, which are like groups of like shared interests
Speaker 1: coming together or communities to just like discuss stuff. Because
Speaker 1: when it turns into like celebrity turn up as like
Speaker 1: the attraction point and then like random people hopping in,
Speaker 1: I'm immediately no, no, no, no no, because yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems like that's that's probably like to me, I've seen
Speaker 1: like the biggest benefit of that as an app is
Speaker 1: like to be able to create those like spaces sort
Speaker 1: of instantly. And the best thing is is if like
Speaker 1: a space feels jankie, you just hit that leave quietly.
Speaker 1: But I love hitting that, like I can't. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how people like do big goodbyes and then hit
Speaker 1: leave quietly, like what are you doing this? I'm off
Speaker 1: this just announce it. Yeah, but I'm digging clubhouse, like
Speaker 1: I'm in all kinds of rooms. I was in a
Speaker 1: d MX memorial room right before this and just someone
Speaker 1: playing tunes. Yeah, like some people were talking about like
Speaker 1: you know, memories of when you know, back in the
Speaker 1: day when he came out and they were playing some songs.
Speaker 1: People were crying. I'll pin you guys, so you can
Speaker 1: get more notifications. When you're in a room on clubhouse,
Speaker 1: are you usually participating? Do you like sometimes just sit
Speaker 1: back and like passively just listen, like how how how often?
Speaker 1: Like what what would the club? Yeah, what's your ratio?
Speaker 1: Like there? Well, I'm pretty good at reading the room.
Speaker 1: And it also depends on like if I have a
Speaker 1: role as a moderator or not, or if I'm like
Speaker 1: the person who started the room. So if I started
Speaker 1: the room, I'd have more more control of the room,
Speaker 1: responsibility for setting the culture of the room um or
Speaker 1: sort of a right to help people that you know,
Speaker 1: not interrupt each other, like I can run it. But
Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes on in other people's rooms, and
Speaker 1: you know, like if they bring me up to stage,
Speaker 1: like I'll usually accept unless it's like some some ridiculous
Speaker 1: title and I'm sure you've seen some like real click
Speaker 1: baity rooms, So then I'll just read the room, read
Speaker 1: the stage, and if they want me to like contribute
Speaker 1: or if I feel like I can, I will. Um,
Speaker 1: I do comedy shows on there a lot, which is
Speaker 1: more of like my lane. The mental health and all
Speaker 1: that stuff is just interests and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: have a lot of curiosity about a lot of things.
Speaker 1: I wish I got into STEM. You know, why did
Speaker 1: I major in English and film? Like what's why? What
Speaker 1: for what? The patriarchy? You know, like I wish so
Speaker 1: I go into those rooms. Fine, I mean I want
Speaker 1: to be more financially literate. So there's so much there. Um,
Speaker 1: there's drama rooms, like there's some ratchet like drama room
Speaker 1: their storylines because it's a community, and it's a relatively
Speaker 1: small community since the absent beta, so there are and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of personalities and not regulation, no regulation,
Speaker 1: it's all self regulation. So and then also people get
Speaker 1: an audience by playing out um drama on stage and
Speaker 1: creating rooms about you know, things that are going on.
Speaker 1: So there's some cloud chasing. There's there's also some multi
Speaker 1: level marketers. So just be careful, don't don't fall into
Speaker 1: a pyramid sky. Yeah yeah, don't let just blaze convince
Speaker 1: you that you can grow your hair back with PlayStation.
Speaker 1: It's a lot facts. What what are the So the
Speaker 1: drama rooms are they like talking about other people who
Speaker 1: are on Clubhouse, Like basically, is that what a drama room? Yeah?
Speaker 1: A lot of times. So there's different pockets and different
Speaker 1: communities in the larger community. So there's some people who
Speaker 1: you know there. They have a tendency to be a
Speaker 1: little more emotional more regularly on stage, and and emotions
Speaker 1: run high, so if someone feels, you know, offended or disrespected,
Speaker 1: they'll sometimes create a spinoff room. And sometimes they will
Speaker 1: use people's first names. They used to use first and last,
Speaker 1: but they changed. I think they said you can't do
Speaker 1: that anymore. And there's the room and then the funk
Speaker 1: what's happening in that room room that's off to the side,
Speaker 1: And then sometimes there's a response to that, and there's
Speaker 1: different spinoffs, like different rooms talking about what happened, and
Speaker 1: everyone will have like a different take and and it's
Speaker 1: just it's pretty wild. And I think I've been so
Speaker 1: active on the app that I know a lot of people,
Speaker 1: so I get pulled up on stage fairly regularly, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, sometimes I'm just like I don't
Speaker 1: I don't need to be on this stage because it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's I've had my first twenty four hours
Speaker 1: on the app. Someone kind of attacked me, and I
Speaker 1: did not know what was going on. Like I was
Speaker 1: very confused because I was like, I don't know you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was sort of my introduction into clubhouse.
Speaker 1: Like someone literally came for me. Like I'd been on
Speaker 1: the app for four hours and I think I was
Speaker 1: in another room and there's already a room. They're like
Speaker 1: the room Like what I'm saying. I was like, how
Speaker 1: first and last name really really? No, No, that didn't happen,
Speaker 1: but you know, like that's what Like, that's that's like intense.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine going on the app and seeing like
Speaker 1: four hundred people in a room that's like, fuck, Phy
Speaker 1: design they don't even know you. They're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: designy really should have left the carbonated water alone, man
Speaker 1: bottom shelf ship. Yeah, Like, what what is something you
Speaker 1: think is overrated? Overrated? I was gonna say, or I
Speaker 1: am going to say pre pandemic society, Like I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see where we go after this, but like the
Speaker 1: way things were UM prior to the pandemic. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of issues with UM, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of those, you know, over the last few years,
Speaker 1: those cracks in the system are not no longer cracks,
Speaker 1: you know, they're big fucking gaping holes. Um. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of the rat race. Yeah, I'm tired of sort of
Speaker 1: like feeling like, you know, self care is not a
Speaker 1: priority because you know, we gotta hustle, hustle, hull house.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to do both. And I hate traffic.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be stuck in l A traffic anymore.
Speaker 1: Like I like this live stream stuff. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels better, feels I mean, it's easy for for the
Speaker 1: people who don't like to drive. It's been a blessing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some level. How are they going to get people that? Like,
Speaker 1: what is the point going to be when employers are
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, we we wanna have you guys back
Speaker 1: at the office, but like there's no real reason to
Speaker 1: be back at the office, Like how you just proved
Speaker 1: we don't need offices, right, Yeah. I was just talking
Speaker 1: to a friend of mine who's like, God, I would
Speaker 1: love it if they just made this permanent. But he
Speaker 1: doesn't think they're going to and it's just like, why
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you other than just like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's Salesforce just abandoned their building in San Francisco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, actually we build that big gast thing
Speaker 1: on like the near the Embarcadero. But uh, we're not
Speaker 1: really gonna you said anymore, right, yeah, so what do
Speaker 1: you do with these big phallic symbols of your collective capital? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you know what's so nuts about here in l
Speaker 1: A Is that we already have so many empty buildings
Speaker 1: from scientology, right, but they're not supposed to admit that
Speaker 1: they're empty. They're like, no, there's they're all millions of
Speaker 1: our followers are in there right now. Just you saw
Speaker 1: through the blinds through a telescope from across the street.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, what you spot that level is where
Speaker 1: we have spider webs doing a lot of the work
Speaker 1: on behalf of the organization. That's why those spider webs
Speaker 1: are all in there. They're they're actually I interviewed a
Speaker 1: woman who uh just kind of did a book on
Speaker 1: a bunch of different American cults, and at one point
Speaker 1: she basically showed up and was like I would like
Speaker 1: to go to church today in like to a scientology thing,
Speaker 1: and they were like, what the funk, Like there's like
Speaker 1: a big scramble behind the scenes. They were like, she
Speaker 1: wants to go to church where we do. So they
Speaker 1: like brought out somebody and they did a individual church
Speaker 1: service for her and there was nobody else in the
Speaker 1: building who wasn't like working there. It was just completely empty.
Speaker 1: But like the whole thing is like putting up this
Speaker 1: facade like it's a place that people actually voluntarily one
Speaker 1: of the and a ton of people are involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at look at him. Go what is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? I have two things. The first one
Speaker 1: I think I'll just quickly say, I think DMX prior
Speaker 1: to his passing, I think a lot of artists do
Speaker 1: get you know, they're they're more celebrated posthumously. And I
Speaker 1: just you know, it's I mean, he's an o G.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a pioneer in the game. He's he's
Speaker 1: so talented. How many hits did he have? Like and
Speaker 1: it's unique, yeah, so unique. Put other rappers on as well,
Speaker 1: Like he has a legacy, and I just you know,
Speaker 1: I know, because he had his issues, And I do
Speaker 1: say health issues because that's how addiction should be treated.
Speaker 1: You know, I think this society is very cruel and
Speaker 1: oftentimes when people are in vulnerable situations like that, they
Speaker 1: become the butt of jokes. So you know, now I
Speaker 1: think people are you know, after the guy is so
Speaker 1: sick and then past it's like he's being celebrated. But
Speaker 1: I think he should have been celebrated, you know, is yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a. He has a very unique place too,
Speaker 1: because I think alongside just his like very clear charisma
Speaker 1: and things like that, there was something about how he
Speaker 1: projected his personality through Wrapped that transcended a lot of
Speaker 1: the weird I mean, granted, yes, like he he's an
Speaker 1: o g of also the most some of the most
Speaker 1: toxic should I've ever heard a rapper say, like without
Speaker 1: a doubt, like things I'm like laughing now, like oh
Speaker 1: you wrote that down. And but after a while, like
Speaker 1: as you really kind of look at his life and
Speaker 1: its totality, you realize like from childhood he had been
Speaker 1: in and out of like correctional facilities and juvenile detention
Speaker 1: and things like that because he was he was trying
Speaker 1: to survive on his own. If you listen to the
Speaker 1: to lib quality interview he did last year, there are
Speaker 1: moments where he is so open about things he has
Speaker 1: been through that when you really look at it, you're like,
Speaker 1: oh right, everyone just thought, oh he's the dog, like
Speaker 1: oh wow, but truly, like it was a very broken
Speaker 1: human being who had to adopt a much more aggressive
Speaker 1: persona I think, to sort of hide his own pain.
Speaker 1: But within that, like he was able to also express
Speaker 1: which is oddly enough, he needed sort of the language
Speaker 1: of this like hyper masculinity to be emotional, and he
Speaker 1: was able to do that in a way that didn't
Speaker 1: get him. You know, people would oh, he's soft because
Speaker 1: he's crying on stage and ship, but he cried on
Speaker 1: stage and people felt that ship like in the early
Speaker 1: two thousand's um And I think there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be said about, you know, sort of like those elements
Speaker 1: of his work and like, yeah, of course you can.
Speaker 1: There's nobody has a legacy that's completely pristine. But I
Speaker 1: think with with this one, for sure, I think we
Speaker 1: just took him as like an energy vibe rapper. But
Speaker 1: as I kind of reflect more, I'm thinking of like
Speaker 1: the things that actually pulled me in. And I think
Speaker 1: it was how because he was so emotionally transparent on
Speaker 1: top of like just being a great performer. But I
Speaker 1: think it was he was able to be vulnerable in
Speaker 1: a way that like a lot of like rappers really
Speaker 1: weren't at the time. So yeah, he communicated more like
Speaker 1: in the intros, like before he started rapping, just like
Speaker 1: with like so much just energy and pathos and yeah,
Speaker 1: like just that dude spirit, that dude that energy is
Speaker 1: like because I mean there was like the flex culture
Speaker 1: of like yeah, look at me what I got or whatever,
Speaker 1: and like you know, I'm with this, this, that and
Speaker 1: the other woman whatever, But it was a lot more
Speaker 1: about like just dark ship that he was going through.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as much of like the it wasn't as material.
Speaker 1: I mean, later on, I think he started making more
Speaker 1: like party albums and things like are you know track
Speaker 1: slightly different, But at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: think that's really what I think was for me interesting
Speaker 1: because he's coming up in the time where like hard
Speaker 1: Knock Life or bad like bad Boy is sort of
Speaker 1: dominating the sound, which is all materialism, and then to
Speaker 1: have this guy like screaming in a tank top wearing
Speaker 1: a like chain, like a literally like chain link as
Speaker 1: like a fucking jewelry and you're like, oh, just remember
Speaker 1: an X gonna give it to you. When he was
Speaker 1: when he said fight these tears, I was like, huh
Speaker 1: that's yeah, you want to fight me? Fight these tears?
Speaker 1: Are like wow, Yeah, that's like that's dark, that's that's emotional. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's an artist. He really is an artist. And like
Speaker 1: in terms of having a pristine legacy, I mean, we're human.
Speaker 1: Humans are no humans perfect, right, But he's he's an artist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's artists thrown through and you can just tell from
Speaker 1: the amount of people that showed up when he was
Speaker 1: on his deathbed, Like it's it's weird. You know, we've
Speaker 1: lost a lot of artists before. But it's interesting when
Speaker 1: you can actually like you can begin to measure truly
Speaker 1: like from the output of like people sharing memories or
Speaker 1: like moving into physical space to be near it is
Speaker 1: a huge thing. So, yeah, sad to see him. It's
Speaker 1: only only fifty young, fifty years young. Rest in peace. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough time for you know, I
Speaker 1: just anecdotally I know people who are passing because of
Speaker 1: suicide and drug drug addiction, like more more than I
Speaker 1: feel like I've ever like kind of just anecdotally, like
Speaker 1: not not like close friends of mine, but close friends
Speaker 1: of close friends, And it just seems like the pandemic
Speaker 1: has taken a toll. And just in general, the fact
Speaker 1: that like physy you said, maybe these are illnesses that
Speaker 1: people aren't willing to treat his illnesses. Um that like
Speaker 1: those things are taking a toll, especially in America, You'll see,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you hope that these are the kinds
Speaker 1: of moments that can hopefully shift move a prod the
Speaker 1: culture to move forward a little bit, to be like
Speaker 1: if if you're gonna, if you're willing to say the
Speaker 1: addiction was a tragedy when they're dead, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to have that same empathy and energy for
Speaker 1: someone from the onset. It can't just be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're crackhead and then it's over there, because I think
Speaker 1: that I think that was a lot of the discourse,
Speaker 1: especially in the last sort of ten years or so,
Speaker 1: when he really had kind of fallen off, where people
Speaker 1: just like, oh, he's an afterthought, like you know, he
Speaker 1: did that to himself, when when it's so funny because
Speaker 1: most of us know we have examples of addiction in
Speaker 1: that struggle in our lives that we are very much
Speaker 1: invested in the wellness of that person. But with celebrities,
Speaker 1: it's like this thing. It's like, well, fuck you till
Speaker 1: you die, and then when you die, oh what a shame? Right, yeah, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and uh, let's talk about this new
Speaker 1: phase of the vaccine so or no AXI. It's one
Speaker 1: of those u X names. Na. Yeah, yeah, give it
Speaker 1: to you. Knock knock it, knock knock. Open up the
Speaker 1: news for real. Uh. One of those exes had a
Speaker 1: report about how it seems like America is about to
Speaker 1: hit a wall on the vaccine front and they're gonna
Speaker 1: hit that wall. We're going to hit that wall before
Speaker 1: we have uh enough for her community, enough people vaccination supply.
Speaker 1: So like we've been up to this point, we've been
Speaker 1: blowing through these vaccines because we're hitting all the people
Speaker 1: who believe in science and want them, and we're about
Speaker 1: to We're starting to see, especially in southern states, uh,
Speaker 1: signs that things are slowing down and the vaccines aren't
Speaker 1: getting into people's arms, and there's what is it the
Speaker 1: people of color acine? Funny that that's the narrative because
Speaker 1: it seems like it's actually the people who are in
Speaker 1: favor of white supremacy. Openly, it seems like it's Republicans,
Speaker 1: Republican leaning, Evangelical Christians, and south It seems like it's
Speaker 1: those specific groups. Republicans are not wanting to get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: not trusting of the vaccine, and that's not shocking. But
Speaker 1: where I guess this is the first time I've heard
Speaker 1: it formulated as like this is the next like this
Speaker 1: is what we're gonna be dealing with for the next
Speaker 1: handful of months. Is a much slower process of trying
Speaker 1: to win people over to get vaccinated or alternately keep
Speaker 1: them the funk out of like places where the rest
Speaker 1: of society is who actually got the vacction. Create a
Speaker 1: country for people who don't believe in science, and then
Speaker 1: let their outcomes play out how they need to know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Just like we say, like, oh, you
Speaker 1: don't believe in climate change, so let's take to people
Speaker 1: who are about to be displaced by climate change. You
Speaker 1: y'all can live there now. And you can do whatever
Speaker 1: the fuck you want. The rest of the world's gonna
Speaker 1: try and be on the same page. And then when
Speaker 1: you and don't ask us for ship, when you realize
Speaker 1: you fucked up and picked the wrong fucking you know
Speaker 1: ideology there and this ship, I was just reading an
Speaker 1: article from I think it's an MPR or some ship
Speaker 1: where they were talking to a Southern Baptist preacher, white
Speaker 1: evangelic like he's you know, like in the white evangelical
Speaker 1: seen in the South, and how a lot of them
Speaker 1: are like a lot of preachers are kind of like,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, some of us are not working with it,
Speaker 1: and then there are definitely us who get it, like
Speaker 1: we understand science is real, like because you know, we're
Speaker 1: the ones doing the funerals for people that die. We
Speaker 1: get that there is a cost to this and this
Speaker 1: isn't not this isn't something to be flippant about or
Speaker 1: you know, getting all cocky about. And they said they've
Speaker 1: been really trying to connect the teachings of Christ as
Speaker 1: a way to get people to get vaccines in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, Christ taught us or some of them
Speaker 1: maybe taught ten percent of us that listened that we
Speaker 1: want to look after our neighbors, and that we want
Speaker 1: to do one to others as we want others to
Speaker 1: do one to us. And it's kind of like that
Speaker 1: one's kind of hitting but not really and then you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because this is just sort of like ego cover for
Speaker 1: their own wrongdoing. That's also a part a version of
Speaker 1: the church that has managed to take a person who's
Speaker 1: made teaching was like, you don't want to be rich.
Speaker 1: Rich is bad, and been like, Jesus wants you to
Speaker 1: be rich. Jesus give me your god damn money. I
Speaker 1: said it, Uh yeah, So, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's very it's very elastic, I will say, the evangelical
Speaker 1: interpretation of the of the New Testament, So who knows
Speaker 1: if that's gonna work. But like that, you know, we
Speaker 1: we talked a couple of weeks ago about Israel having
Speaker 1: the passports and having the things where you can like
Speaker 1: check people, and there's you know, very thorny human rights
Speaker 1: questions around that. But at the same time, like, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do when that there's just a big
Speaker 1: chunk of the population enough to keep the coronavirus killing
Speaker 1: people out there who aren't willing to get the vaccine
Speaker 1: and want to just and have never been willing to
Speaker 1: wear masks and just want to re enter into society.
Speaker 1: It's it's a kind of an authorny philosophical question. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's I don't I guess it gets thorny
Speaker 1: because you're like, it's more that you're considering the reaction
Speaker 1: of the child, right, yeah, like fuck, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: fucking like this. Fuck. But it's like, objectively, I don't
Speaker 1: how the funk else can you really get your like,
Speaker 1: how can we can we can we how can we
Speaker 1: get a grip on that on some level? And I
Speaker 1: would love to find the way to figure that out.
Speaker 1: But I think, like most things like where we're trying
Speaker 1: to do with something that feels like the right thing,
Speaker 1: it's always like, well, but then there's that group of
Speaker 1: fucking losers that's gonna scream about it, and now we're
Speaker 1: doing like some other half asked thing. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, And it's it's it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: figure out what the best way forward is with something
Speaker 1: like that. I was just going to ask what the
Speaker 1: percentages to um that we need to achieve her to
Speaker 1: immuney it's inexact, but it's between seventy says we're hitting
Speaker 1: that wall around what percentage are we at right now?
Speaker 1: Uh So there is a study, a survey that finds
Speaker 1: fifty percent of US adults say they're either already vaccinated
Speaker 1: or planned to be as soon as the shot is
Speaker 1: made available to them. And then there's a significant percentage
Speaker 1: is like I're gonna wait and see. Uh, and you
Speaker 1: know the things they're waiting to see about are those
Speaker 1: things where it's too late. It's too late once once
Speaker 1: the thing you're waiting to see, if it happens, happens,
Speaker 1: it's too late. And so like, uh, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be yeah, just a little we're coming up just a
Speaker 1: little bit shy of avoiding uh the deaths, the avoidable
Speaker 1: deaths of a bunch of Americans. Maybe there's a way
Speaker 1: to incentive incentivize the people who don't want to take
Speaker 1: the shots. I don't know if the solution lies there.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, yes, that's yeah, you're not gonna kill people.
Speaker 1: I don't know, he's four rat do I think that's what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the whole thing with the passport. But too many
Speaker 1: governors already. You know, if you live in or a
Speaker 1: red state, the governors are like, hell, no, we're not
Speaker 1: forcing anybody to prove fucking anything to anybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: even Fauci the other day was like, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: I don't take a passports and the cards. But it's
Speaker 1: I don't know how else you disincentivize people from just
Speaker 1: not getting the vaccine and you know, taking cover in
Speaker 1: the post pandemic world where it's like, well, we just
Speaker 1: kind of assume everybody's gotten it because six of us
Speaker 1: have gotten it, and they're just out there, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: putting the rest of the country in danger with their
Speaker 1: shitty politics, just fucking make the just look, this is
Speaker 1: where Disney is going to have to take the l
Speaker 1: and say, nobody's getting fucking in here unless you're vaccinated,
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna boycott. Here's the thing. They're they're
Speaker 1: they're they they're incapable of boycotting anything because they don't
Speaker 1: have values that they actually stand by, which there it's
Speaker 1: all empty threats to just keep the fucking adults, and
Speaker 1: we'll be like, oh funk, they're gonna hate this, aren't they. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you know, when you look because you were talking
Speaker 1: about that one art or maybe this is when you
Speaker 1: were gone this article about how like there were people
Speaker 1: trying to convince their conservative family members to get vaccinated,
Speaker 1: and the one of the few things that seemed to
Speaker 1: work was like, well we can take that trip like well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to do that. Vacations. Yeah, Like honestly, that's
Speaker 1: like the one thing Americans like to be comfortable. So
Speaker 1: if you take away these other just like slightly rearrange
Speaker 1: things that maybe like if a companies, if three companies
Speaker 1: do it, then that might end up getting you to
Speaker 1: that an extra But I don't know what around at
Speaker 1: a bush of like just trying to like raising the
Speaker 1: possibility of doing like making sure that you're vaccinated before
Speaker 1: you fly. That seems like a very obvious place that
Speaker 1: if you can't fly, you can't travel on train, you
Speaker 1: can't travel on bus without like having your vaccine papers,
Speaker 1: then uh that that would seem to be a pretty
Speaker 1: good incentive. But but then the other I guess, the
Speaker 1: other balancing act is like how do you then make
Speaker 1: the way to prove it as equitable as possible? So
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you don't have a smartphone, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because that's when that's when you
Speaker 1: instantly cut off millions of people. So it's like there
Speaker 1: has it's look I'm I'm That's why I'm not jealous
Speaker 1: of whoever is in charge of this. Have the mint
Speaker 1: print it like, use whatever technology they use for you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're pretty worried about like people printing false bills
Speaker 1: have like a an equivalent of a hundred dollar bill
Speaker 1: that has that little like blue face COVID vaccine call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's seems like the sort of thing that
Speaker 1: we should be able to because because they had to
Speaker 1: recently shut down uh sellers of fake vaccine proof paperwork
Speaker 1: on like Etsy. And that's what I'm saying, Like we
Speaker 1: can funck like we can create a thing where you
Speaker 1: could get a audio clip of a fart authenticated to
Speaker 1: only being yours the f t s and we can't
Speaker 1: get come on, now, come on, now, what's the what's
Speaker 1: the technology that puts a blockchain on a fart? That
Speaker 1: is what I need to know. I feel like I
Speaker 1: should have as long as you can you can make
Speaker 1: it at a puter file. You can blockchain anyway, black chain,
Speaker 1: and we can black chain this this podcast, Um, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it does seem like there should be a way
Speaker 1: to first of all, like police that because I mean,
Speaker 1: you couldn't sell uh counterfeit hundred dollar bills on Etsy.
Speaker 1: I've tried, it does not go up. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: let's just do the same thing with vaccine papers, Like
Speaker 1: let's make it so that we at least have these
Speaker 1: things that are authentically say whether or not you have
Speaker 1: been vaccinated. And then you know, companies can decide how
Speaker 1: they want to because again, it's the corporations that are
Speaker 1: gonna end up bringing the change, right, because I get it,
Speaker 1: it's a slip rees. You don't want the government ever
Speaker 1: being like papers please, although they kind of are in
Speaker 1: terms of like immigration and things like that, but and
Speaker 1: this level slippery slope. But then you're like, hey, it's
Speaker 1: the free market, baby. You know. If you like buffalo
Speaker 1: wild wings, I hope you like Fizo Moderno or fucking
Speaker 1: jumpson right. Yeah, And then like the culture wars of
Speaker 1: like will there be a like will Ruby Tuesdays or
Speaker 1: like some small like change we welcome exactly. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: that's quite That's That's what I'm saying like it'll take
Speaker 1: a couple of companies to do it outrage enough Republicans
Speaker 1: and some other conservative owned company will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: we would never trample on the rights of your right
Speaker 1: to infect our wage workers. But I think I always
Speaker 1: think back to that Nike protest when Nike signed up
Speaker 1: Conn Kaepernick and the right was furious, and there was
Speaker 1: that dude who was wearing his Nike socks while cutting
Speaker 1: the like just the logo off the ankle. It's like,
Speaker 1: so you're still rocking them though you're still you're still
Speaker 1: wearing them, You're just like cutting them. So they so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have without that thing holding the sock up.
Speaker 1: But hey, I mean, whatever you gotta do to cape
Speaker 1: for Jefferson Davis. All right, let's talk about Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: Just check in real quick with him. I think the
Speaker 1: women who worked for him have put this whole story
Speaker 1: to bed by using the always effective uh sexual predator
Speaker 1: evidence of well, there are women who he hasn't assaulted
Speaker 1: and been a cree to, so therefore it must mean
Speaker 1: that he's not a creep because I mean, yeah, this,
Speaker 1: I will just read this because that's always like, if
Speaker 1: you're racist, then you need someone to be like as
Speaker 1: a friend to other non whites. Um, and I have
Speaker 1: a few of them who will perform for me for
Speaker 1: my defense. But in this case, this is the press
Speaker 1: that or the statement that came out of his office today.
Speaker 1: The women of US Congressman Matt Gates's official office released
Speaker 1: the following statement after the shocking allegations last week in
Speaker 1: the press, we the women of Congressman Matt Gates's office,
Speaker 1: feel morally obligated to speak out. Also, just so you know,
Speaker 1: no names are specifically signed hip statement just because it's
Speaker 1: written by Matt Gates. Actually, I just read it like
Speaker 1: this toxic fuck. During Congressman gates Is time in office,
Speaker 1: we have been behind the scenes every step of the way.
Speaker 1: We staffed his meetings, we planned his events, we travel
Speaker 1: with him. We have even tracked his schedule. Congressman Gates
Speaker 1: has always been a principle and morally grounded leader. At
Speaker 1: no time has any one of us experienced or witnessed
Speaker 1: anything less than the utmost professionalism and respect. No hint
Speaker 1: of impropriety, no ounce of truthfulness. Okay, maybe twenty seven
Speaker 1: grams of it, but that's a gram short of announce. Now,
Speaker 1: in our office and under Congressman Gates leadership, women are
Speaker 1: not only respected, but have been encouraged time and time
Speaker 1: again to grow, achieve more, and ultimately no our value. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me continue on every occasion he has treated each
Speaker 1: and every one of us would respect. Thus, we uniformly
Speaker 1: reject these allegations as balls. That is such a fucking stretch,
Speaker 1: and get a single one of them to sign their
Speaker 1: name to this wild again and the final one just
Speaker 1: so you know it's really written by a conservative male.
Speaker 1: Congressman Gates will continue to lead by example and stand
Speaker 1: for the people of America who have been maligned by
Speaker 1: the liberal elite, and we will stand with him. While
Speaker 1: we recognize the scrutiny we will face for making this decision,
Speaker 1: we take comfort in the hope that more Americans and
Speaker 1: elected officials will stand up and refuse to remain silent
Speaker 1: about what sex trafficking. Yeah about the pictures he was
Speaker 1: showing people. Sorry, I had to sit back down after
Speaker 1: standing to salute after that statement, though, I mean there
Speaker 1: and then, and unfortunately the details are just getting worse
Speaker 1: and more clear that he absolutely has everything to do
Speaker 1: with this. Joel Greenberg, guy who's under investigation. Uh. The
Speaker 1: last thing that came out was like over the before
Speaker 1: the weekend where these VENMO receipts to that popped up
Speaker 1: to old Greenberg, the guy who's trafficking these young women
Speaker 1: and girls in certain instances where Gates sent Greenberg nine
Speaker 1: dollars and then the next day Greenberg is sending out
Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars in different denominations to three different women.
Speaker 1: So it says the membo field for the first of
Speaker 1: Gates's transactions to Greenberg was titled quote test. In the second,
Speaker 1: the Florida GOP congressman wrote hit up blank, but instead
Speaker 1: of a blank, Gates wrote a nickname for one of
Speaker 1: the recipients um. When Greenberg and this, the Daily Beast
Speaker 1: said they're not sharing that nickname because the teenager had
Speaker 1: only turned eighteen eighteen years old less than six months
Speaker 1: before this transaction. When Greenberg then made his Venmo payments
Speaker 1: to these three young women, he described the money as
Speaker 1: being for one payment quote tuition, one quote school, and
Speaker 1: the other one quote school Q. And on are you there,
Speaker 1: can you help? Huh? Are you where is your energy? Q?
Speaker 1: Where is that energy? For the for the child? The
Speaker 1: child sex trafficking because or is it is it just
Speaker 1: cover for your your ignorance of white spremes. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but if it help um. So now two to two
Speaker 1: of US affers have already resigned, probably more at this point,
Speaker 1: and he's truly now going for the defense that we
Speaker 1: saw a certain Alabama Secretary of State deploy last week,
Speaker 1: where he says this is from his office. Matt Gates
Speaker 1: has never paid for sex. Matt Gates refutes all the
Speaker 1: disgusting allegations completely. Matt Gates has never ever been on it,
Speaker 1: he said, never ever, come on now, has never ever
Speaker 1: been on any such websites whatsoever. Matt Gates cherishes the
Speaker 1: relationships in his past and looks forward to marrying the
Speaker 1: love of his life. Says like never always. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're already lying never ever never ever, ever ever ever.
Speaker 1: He just got E did right, dude? I swear my mom. Dude,
Speaker 1: I swear my mom. I sweared my mom. I had
Speaker 1: ever paid for sex? Bro. I next, dude, make swearing
Speaker 1: anything named something right now? My grandma do you know
Speaker 1: how much I love her? Bro? I'll strow on that ship, okay, Grandma?
Speaker 1: And the cross there is of of the universe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of letting karma across your poor grandma because you are
Speaker 1: a fucking sex criminal allegedly. Um. And also it got
Speaker 1: even worse because news then broke that Greenberg Joel Greenberg,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make He's gonna I think he's gonna take
Speaker 1: a plea Yeah. Yeah, so he's going to be cooper rating,
Speaker 1: meaning Gates may now become the prize show horse he
Speaker 1: always wanted to be. And I just want to play
Speaker 1: this clip because Joel Greenberg's lawyer, dude, credit to this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna play this exchange or right after they
Speaker 1: talk about like the plea deal happening, immediately the press
Speaker 1: is like to Joel Greenberg's lawyers like, hey, like, so
Speaker 1: what do you think this means for Gates? And he's
Speaker 1: trying his best, y'all. But this is a beautiful bit
Speaker 1: of back and forth between Joel Greenberg's lawyer on the
Speaker 1: heels of announcing that they're probably gonna take a plea deal.
Speaker 1: Does Matt Gates have anything to worry about? Does Matt
Speaker 1: Gates that is such a um? Does he uh have
Speaker 1: anything to worry about? And you're asking me to get
Speaker 1: into the mind of Matt Gates, and uh, well, from
Speaker 1: your mind, from my mind's see, I thought if I
Speaker 1: kept on talking and talking, I would avoid these questions
Speaker 1: and not to say, um, I'm sure Matt Gates is
Speaker 1: not feeling very comfortable today. Damn he this is and
Speaker 1: it's while he also did the dumb man thing where
Speaker 1: you you know you fucked up. So you're just gonna
Speaker 1: laboriously repeat the question back what did I do last
Speaker 1: night at the club? So you're asking should you be
Speaker 1: worried about what I did? Okay, so you want me
Speaker 1: to enter the mind of you, my partner. Okay, just
Speaker 1: playing this out here because I do need let me
Speaker 1: let me just write this down real quick. Let me okay,
Speaker 1: let me just write down. UM, so you're the subject.
Speaker 1: But I do love I have to respect that he
Speaker 1: came clean. I was like I thought, if I kept
Speaker 1: repeating what you're saying that I would run out the clock.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem to have worked. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: he's fucked. Yeah that was beautiful. Please you know, just
Speaker 1: resign and fucking whatever. I mean, it's so weird too,
Speaker 1: like when these staffers leave now, it's like, oh, it
Speaker 1: wasn't the racist insurrection is ship or the other stuff
Speaker 1: before just weird when people draw these lines, but it
Speaker 1: also shows you the nature of working in politics is
Speaker 1: like you're truly like hitching your wagon to a star
Speaker 1: and when you realize it's about to explode, like you
Speaker 1: got to try and take that momentum and like hopefully
Speaker 1: jettisons you into like another orbit. But I don't know
Speaker 1: how the funk you're gonna leave have this on your resume.
Speaker 1: You might be like, oh, I actually didn't work from
Speaker 1: I was just smoking mad weed. That's the best you
Speaker 1: can do. Uh. It's just like Matt Gates is such
Speaker 1: an idiot. Yeah, it's really steel. Like I would almost
Speaker 1: say I feel bad for white men because like damn,
Speaker 1: like the world reflected some dumb ship back to y'all,
Speaker 1: like you could, like you could get away with this
Speaker 1: kind of ship, and it's made you the worst criminals
Speaker 1: on earth. It was wild because it's like for so
Speaker 1: long they get away with it that why wouldn't the
Speaker 1: fact that what they do because they can get away
Speaker 1: with it, It's like, oh, you're fucked up, Like it
Speaker 1: takes pleasure in ruining people. Mm hmm, Like there, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm thinking about like Scott Uden also just
Speaker 1: because like yeah, yeah, like unnecessarily cruel, and it's it's
Speaker 1: purely for your own personal gratification, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's not even about the other person. It's like you're
Speaker 1: you're completely out of control and you're like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: how I just respond to ship. And I do that
Speaker 1: because I'm not willing to for a second create some
Speaker 1: self awareness or figure out like if this is the
Speaker 1: right thing. It's just me indulging my fucking worst impulses constantly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so important for them to make those worst impulses
Speaker 1: a part of what like drove them to success. Yeah,
Speaker 1: rather than it just being you got lucky and you
Speaker 1: happen to be of a certain level of intelligence that
Speaker 1: you were able to do this thing and you could
Speaker 1: have been nice the whole fucking or Matt Gates like, bro,
Speaker 1: you had everything You're from from a so much wealth,
Speaker 1: familial wealth. Like he grew up in the Truman show House.
Speaker 1: Do you know that? Yeah? Literally the Truman show House
Speaker 1: literally the house that they made the Truman Show in,
Speaker 1: that they shot the Truman Show in. Oh no, So
Speaker 1: he has main character syndrome oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. They've been just feeding him privileged like he's
Speaker 1: like they're trying to make fog raw like just NonStop
Speaker 1: advantages and he doesn't. That's that's just it's he's curdled. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back, and let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Capitol Police. Uh, we have a Inspector General report or
Speaker 1: like you know, the beginnings of what the Inspector General
Speaker 1: preliminary reports. Yeah, and it's just I mean it's not
Speaker 1: the really new aside from like verifying like yeah, these
Speaker 1: assholes were truly a ship show over there. Um, like
Speaker 1: at every level, right, so um, the watch clothe this
Speaker 1: is from this it up in talking points, says the
Speaker 1: Watchdog suggests that there were a number of several long
Speaker 1: standing issues that the department quote either knew and did
Speaker 1: not address in time, or did not address in a
Speaker 1: routine manner to prevent uh significant issues within the apartment's
Speaker 1: handling of equipment, maintenance policies for the Civil Disturbance Unit,
Speaker 1: and intelligence ahead of the breaching of the Capital The
Speaker 1: Watchdog acknowledged the failure of intelligence assessment by the Department
Speaker 1: in light of a warning by the Department of Homeland
Speaker 1: Security on December twenty one that the Capitol Police received
Speaker 1: and then failed to act on, Like there was even
Speaker 1: a thing they said. There was like equipment, like some
Speaker 1: kind of like self defense whip weaponry or whatever that
Speaker 1: the manufacturer had told them they needed to get like
Speaker 1: training on specifically for this piece of equipment that they
Speaker 1: just didn't do for three years, like on top of
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. So you're like, oh, these people,
Speaker 1: just what the like this is? In short, I think
Speaker 1: it was like if you watch Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon
Speaker 1: Ramsey shows up to prove that your restaurants bullshit. What
Speaker 1: he does he sets you up on that first night
Speaker 1: and just slams the kitchen with the most customers this
Speaker 1: dying restaurant has ever seen, and then he just watches
Speaker 1: as the kitchen just collapses under the web of its
Speaker 1: own ineptitude. In this case, Trump was Gordon Ramsey, and
Speaker 1: he said, all the customers to the Capitol and basically
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, y'all found us out, like we're bullshit.
Speaker 1: Actually on top of having people who are sympathetic to
Speaker 1: all this ship within and I'm sure, that's another phase
Speaker 1: of the investigation, which just crazy because it's like your
Speaker 1: one job as a unit is security and you failed.
Speaker 1: Like so like the negligence is are they going well,
Speaker 1: I guess they're still digging stuff up, researching, like investigating,
Speaker 1: but is someone going to jail for this? Is someone
Speaker 1: being you know, tried for people died that was that
Speaker 1: was not? I mean I think at some point, yeah,
Speaker 1: there could be civil suits on behalf of the people
Speaker 1: who lost their lives against like whatever the leadership was.
Speaker 1: But I know, you know, many of them have all
Speaker 1: resigned or been fired. Um, so they're kind of in
Speaker 1: this like I don't know, you know what point they're
Speaker 1: in in their evolution, but like it seems like they're
Speaker 1: definitely people who knew that it was such a ship
Speaker 1: show to begin with, and then there are people who
Speaker 1: probably just didn't give a fucking you know, it leads
Speaker 1: to this doing doing this Inspector General's report independent of
Speaker 1: like the ideological content and the the fact that you
Speaker 1: had people who are sympathetic to this attack. Like it's
Speaker 1: just it's like a lot of what they're talking about
Speaker 1: feels like it it assumes that this would have been
Speaker 1: the same response if there weren't people who who liked
Speaker 1: what they were hearing, or if this has been a
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter protests. I'm assuming if this were a
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter protest, the response would have been, you know,
Speaker 1: not not insufficient. It would have the question would have been,
Speaker 1: should that many of people have died? Should that many
Speaker 1: people have been killed by the capital police? Not? What
Speaker 1: was the capital police on this one? It would have
Speaker 1: been like a Kent State type ship where like and
Speaker 1: and so that, like any investigation where it's just like
Speaker 1: they weren't oiling down their guns as much as they
Speaker 1: should have been, and like that's where it really I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's true. I'm sure it's probably at least partially
Speaker 1: because they didn't view the people who were coming as
Speaker 1: an actual threat, because those people were them, they were
Speaker 1: their friends, and I think, you know, these are This
Speaker 1: is obviously a preliminary report, and I believe this week
Speaker 1: the Inspector General is probably gonna be testifying in front
Speaker 1: of Congress or like those other questions will be asked.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling things like those real accusations
Speaker 1: to start being like these people though, I think really
Speaker 1: we need to ask questions to as during about their
Speaker 1: conduct in like the day of days leading up to
Speaker 1: because I'm that's what I feel like that's going to
Speaker 1: be the most significant part if it gets there. I
Speaker 1: don't know where to to really begin pinpointing, like how
Speaker 1: from like a personnel level, what the failings were, because
Speaker 1: it can't just be like, oh, you know that one
Speaker 1: officer had to fight off all those people, those q
Speaker 1: and on people in the steps on the way to
Speaker 1: the Senate because you know he didn't know how to
Speaker 1: use his other taser or something. No. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we've seen it from the very first episode of this
Speaker 1: show that happened. I think the first like test recording
Speaker 1: we did was right after Charlottesville, and there was you
Speaker 1: just saw these like big white cops sitting in the
Speaker 1: background while a white supremacist fired shots into a crowd
Speaker 1: like and did nothing, didn't nothing, didn't respond to it.
Speaker 1: Like there is a deep probably like the American law
Speaker 1: enforcement community is rotten to its core, is white supremacist
Speaker 1: to its core, and like not not having that be
Speaker 1: the very first thing that we acknowledge anytime we're asking
Speaker 1: these questions is especially in an insurrection fucking staged by
Speaker 1: right wing white supremacists. Like that's that's it just seems
Speaker 1: like it's completely putting logic on its head. That's that's
Speaker 1: how this country tries to solve the problem, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's it's so entrenched in it, it's unable to
Speaker 1: figure out how to properly unburden itself from white supremacy.
Speaker 1: So it happens through all this incremental nonsense or you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and be like, I don't know, here deal
Speaker 1: d o, j here's like a bunch of money to
Speaker 1: figure out what to do. Now, well your guns, better
Speaker 1: have your give them training, you know, try and create
Speaker 1: Like listen to the activists, the people who are constantly
Speaker 1: butting their heads against this fucked up system as to
Speaker 1: what is how to really remedy it. But of course
Speaker 1: that is this This just shows you what side or
Speaker 1: how you know, our leaders look at these sort of
Speaker 1: issues to be like, oh, well, I can't just make
Speaker 1: it hot for the police. It's like, well, do you
Speaker 1: care about the innocent people that die because of their
Speaker 1: actions rather than upsetting the people who were like I
Speaker 1: should be allowed to fucking murder undisturbed. Yeah, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Amazon uh defeat the Amazon workers
Speaker 1: defeat of the union at the Alabama warehouse courting in
Speaker 1: New York Times. They have since changed that changed that
Speaker 1: headline since I screen kept it this morning on Friday morning.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's you know, it's pretty wild, like people
Speaker 1: weren't surprised by this, right, Like, so we've been talking
Speaker 1: just the background on this is there was a fulfillment
Speaker 1: center in Alabama where people, like, despite it being a
Speaker 1: very anti union area, like not nobody would have thought
Speaker 1: of this as the first place to unionize, but the
Speaker 1: conditions of of the workers there were so bad that
Speaker 1: like they started to like get some momentum. So this
Speaker 1: was a big test of whether the workers were going
Speaker 1: to be able to unionize. But it's like nobody was
Speaker 1: surprised that they weren't successful because you're fighting against like
Speaker 1: the most well funded entity in a system that favors
Speaker 1: the well funded like the most well funded entity um
Speaker 1: and and the rules favor the corporations um and not
Speaker 1: the unions and have for the past forty years. But yeah, so,
Speaker 1: so some of the ways that Amazon dealt with these
Speaker 1: employees attempts to unionize other than you know, just being
Speaker 1: allowed to hold multiple meetings throughout a work day where
Speaker 1: employees were encouraged to go and take in anti union
Speaker 1: propaganda just posters. They said it was mandated. Was it mandatory?
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've I've read versions where I've seen
Speaker 1: the word mandated and required. Yeah, so yeah, you had
Speaker 1: to go watch that. The just workplace was wallpapered with propaganda,
Speaker 1: anti union propaganda, and they took pictures of employee badges
Speaker 1: when they spoke out at the union busting meetings, like
Speaker 1: in favor of the unions. If if you spoke out
Speaker 1: and be like this is horseshit there, like what and
Speaker 1: then someone one person in management just would casually come
Speaker 1: up and take it, like not say anything, but clearly
Speaker 1: as a way to intimidate those geople. Yeah, took down
Speaker 1: the employee directory that helped organized workers, asked the postal
Speaker 1: service to install a mailbox at the warehouse as a
Speaker 1: way to intimidate employees from sending in a ballot at
Speaker 1: work since it wasn't clear who actually controlled it or
Speaker 1: just harvesting ballots for your pro like anti union votes
Speaker 1: or whatever. Just like very messy. And then the other thing, um,
Speaker 1: what was the fucking other one. Oh yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: they were changing they had the city changed the speed
Speaker 1: of the traffic lights so organizers couldn't have aproach employees
Speaker 1: cars at a stoplight. Wow. They did everything they fucking
Speaker 1: could to stop this ship. And then want to be like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we're paying people fifteen thirty an hour, which
Speaker 1: higher the most places, and they get all these other things.
Speaker 1: So you know, beggars can't be choosers. We all know that, right,
Speaker 1: Beggars can't be choosers. It's it's wild, not surprising at all.
Speaker 1: And I know they're they're gonna they're gonna dispute that
Speaker 1: because of all, like especially the mailbox thing that there,
Speaker 1: there's this, it's going to be disputed. But it just
Speaker 1: shows you how long these kinds of things take. The
Speaker 1: whole thing, the whole system, including the New York Times
Speaker 1: and the mainstream media that gets out to the rest
Speaker 1: of the country, is all tilted in their favor. That's
Speaker 1: all tilted in their favor. I mean, I hopefully we
Speaker 1: just see more and more attempts at it like this,
Speaker 1: because you know, people need I think granted they got
Speaker 1: blown out in the votes, um, but people need again
Speaker 1: it's like everything more. We need to have the imagination
Speaker 1: in this country that it's possible to work collectively for
Speaker 1: better outcomes for each other. Like that. That's just like
Speaker 1: this weird, nebulous thing that not we're We're just not
Speaker 1: a tipping point where enough American people understand that that's
Speaker 1: a way to get ship done. Yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: think people see competition as the way versus community, whereas
Speaker 1: community what I know, there's an old proverb I believe
Speaker 1: it's an African proverb. We can you know, get you
Speaker 1: get further together something you go. If you do it yourself,
Speaker 1: you can go faster. Oh, if you run together, you
Speaker 1: can go further. But I think but you run alone,
Speaker 1: you'll go faster, but not as far as something I believe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that, I mean, that's sort of figurative for what's
Speaker 1: going on here in terms of like priorities, like okay,
Speaker 1: we want to look out for ourselves, but long term,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, look what's happening. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like the buildings crumbling, and yeah, maybe yours is okay
Speaker 1: right now, but if the infrastructure around you is falling,
Speaker 1: like your your unit in your building is not gonna
Speaker 1: stand m hm right, My analogies are not as good
Speaker 1: as Miles. I had to give it a shot. That
Speaker 1: was good. Yeah, I mean, just the the fact that
Speaker 1: it's not understood by most people that like, so the
Speaker 1: a lot of the most probably anti union people in
Speaker 1: the country, like the Trump voters, the people on the right,
Speaker 1: all kind of uh romanticized this time of like the fifties,
Speaker 1: when the like early twentieth century, when there was like
Speaker 1: a more robust middle class, and they don't recognize that
Speaker 1: that was a time before like unions had been completely obliterated,
Speaker 1: when like workers actually had had rights like but that
Speaker 1: it's just such a it's so completely like antithetical to
Speaker 1: what what the central American like messaging is that like you,
Speaker 1: you just can't get that message out or any purchase,
Speaker 1: like it won't stick to people or hasn't. I feel
Speaker 1: like we're starting to turn a corner a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: And I mean you can tell just how I mean.
Speaker 1: It's the relationship between income inequality and union participation is
Speaker 1: right there for everyone to see. It's a fucking X
Speaker 1: as a line graph. The second it started going down,
Speaker 1: all the incoming and equalities began to creep up. That's
Speaker 1: why a lot of times there's these a lot of
Speaker 1: people they talk about if minimum wage had kept up
Speaker 1: with CEO pay since whatever the seventies or eighties, minimum
Speaker 1: wage would be something like forty five an hour right
Speaker 1: now at minimum. But you know, that's that's just too
Speaker 1: much for a person to make to just move boxes around.
Speaker 1: That's not how it works. That's not and I think
Speaker 1: that's the relationship that not enough employers look as them
Speaker 1: having that duty to employees because that's how capitalism works,
Speaker 1: Like you don't give a funk about their lives because
Speaker 1: you're just trying to get the most out of them
Speaker 1: by paying them at least as little as possible. But funck,
Speaker 1: if more people could be like, yeah, actually, like I
Speaker 1: pay these people to to be alive, and they give
Speaker 1: me their life hours to sustain the business, and so
Speaker 1: maybe I have some responsibility to make sure that these
Speaker 1: people who are helping me, but whatever, Like, look at me,
Speaker 1: I sound like some kind of common fucking communist. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, we just were not able to cross
Speaker 1: that bridge, or not enough people see that, like the
Speaker 1: actual the positivity, the good outcomes, the abundance that will
Speaker 1: come with that very short term goals here. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like the junk food of just the Central American Like
Speaker 1: all of our messaging is like focus on the billionaires.
Speaker 1: Can the Kardashians are celebrities, they're billionaires, the Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1: What's he have to say, He's going to space, that
Speaker 1: fucking rules. Elon Musk, there are other richest guy in
Speaker 1: the country. What's he have to say? Oh, he's so cool,
Speaker 1: he's a celebrity. He's like you just hear like I
Speaker 1: hear people quote Elon Musk like he's fucking confucious, and
Speaker 1: it's just the whole system is just so thoroughly shot through.
Speaker 1: In the d n A uh well, there's like levels
Speaker 1: of willing to to look at yourself positively depending on
Speaker 1: like your ideology and how you consume media in this country.
Speaker 1: One version is I want to be a celebrity because
Speaker 1: where I'm at now is a non person And that's
Speaker 1: why I like celebrities so much, because when I get there,
Speaker 1: then I can start living this life that I feel like,
Speaker 1: is what is the cool thing that I've just been
Speaker 1: being fed through my TV or phone screen? Um, And
Speaker 1: I think that because of that obsession, there's an utter
Speaker 1: net negligence of looking at who we are as we are,
Speaker 1: in the state we're in now, and how to make
Speaker 1: that better, rather than being like, oh, well, I'm just
Speaker 1: in a broke person phase where I have a job
Speaker 1: that poor people have and then I'll get my rich
Speaker 1: person job, rather than like actually looking at there. Everyone
Speaker 1: has the right to live comfortably and to succeed and
Speaker 1: to be supported no matter what your occupation is. And
Speaker 1: I think we already like the way we rank what
Speaker 1: an occupation is is another part and parcel to how
Speaker 1: we begin to you know, wag fingers and be like,
Speaker 1: oh I can't do that, I'm above that, or I'm
Speaker 1: beneath that, you know what I mean. It's just there's
Speaker 1: just a like, there's so many things to have to
Speaker 1: dismantle in terms of how you look at yourself and
Speaker 1: what it means to fucking work. Um, but you know,
Speaker 1: but Kylie and Kendall are already back at Mr Nice Guy,
Speaker 1: and Drake is there too. And then Chris Brown wrecked
Speaker 1: his Porsche and he didn't even punch somebody, right, Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: well on that, alright, U fuck it, I have a
Speaker 1: great week. I'm probably not back tomorrow. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: sleep for a few days. No, but it'll be okay.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all we gotta do is that we
Speaker 1: encourage everybody to look at ship differently and that we
Speaker 1: can you know what I mean. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the thing is, like it's easy to get discouraged because
Speaker 1: you look at ship like this, and Amazon and The
Speaker 1: New York Times are fucking sixty nine ng with each
Speaker 1: other and they're like, oh my god, they you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, we can do this ship. It's just
Speaker 1: we just fucking think of it. Just envision that ship first,
Speaker 1: because too many people just think the ship ends with dude,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get that from my boss. Fuck that
Speaker 1: kind of thinking. Fuck all of that kind of thinking.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. No. But I mean it does
Speaker 1: seem like with with the event of like more, you know,
Speaker 1: like that it's the one good thing about social media
Speaker 1: and the like forms of media like podcasts that I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, the New York Times used to
Speaker 1: be considered like well, that's as left wing as you're
Speaker 1: gonna get, like other than like you know, zines that
Speaker 1: are like given away in cities like and now they're
Speaker 1: at least like more ways for you to actually like
Speaker 1: learn from people who aren't being funded by uh Amazon necessarily. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh physic It's been such a pleasure having you as always,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? And folly thanks for having me. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm at physicists any and all the platforms at UM.
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and spell it for you. F I
Speaker 1: Z A A D O S A N I. I
Speaker 1: know it sounds like a carbonated beverage. I don't have
Speaker 1: one yet, So if anyone's interested one of these days,
Speaker 1: anyone in the water business, hit me up. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you guys want to see me perform live. I'm
Speaker 1: doing a live stream, interactive virtual show on the last
Speaker 1: Friday of every month. This is our first show with
Speaker 1: rush Ticks, which is a new streaming platform which I
Speaker 1: think will be like sort of like live Nation has
Speaker 1: kind of I don't want to say Monopoly, but like
Speaker 1: they're on top of the live performance. Yeah, let's just
Speaker 1: say Monopoly. Well, rush Takes I think way be like
Speaker 1: a major player in the live stream world. UM. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see you know how that show goes. Um.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be April eight pm Pacific time, eleven pm
Speaker 1: Eastern time, Come through, come hang out. We like to
Speaker 1: keep it interactive and like you know, the audience is
Speaker 1: part of the show as well. So definitely come through
Speaker 1: if you can. And if you guys want to come
Speaker 1: come on, well we can talk offline. Ye uh. And
Speaker 1: is there a Twitter some of the work of social
Speaker 1: media you've been enjoying. Yeah, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys are familiar with Do you guys know God from
Speaker 1: the God Pod on Twitter? Um? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So he became a Palamne through clubhouse. Um, it's it's
Speaker 1: funny because it's like being friendshouse. Yeah, because a clubhouse.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because it's like being friends with Borat but
Speaker 1: like not Sasha Baron Cohen. So the man behind God,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, but his he recently posted something. Um,
Speaker 1: Religion isn't dangerous or bad, except for when it leads
Speaker 1: to huge wars, or when people are so anti science
Speaker 1: they refuse to take vaccines, or when they use it
Speaker 1: to justify their bigotry, probably forgetting a few things. But
Speaker 1: other than that, it's just great, nail it. He sounds
Speaker 1: like Seth Rogan, So I wish I could do it.
Speaker 1: In his voice, the guy, the guy who is God
Speaker 1: sounds like Seth Rogan. Yeah, man, you gotta um, I'll
Speaker 1: pin you into his next room. I help him with
Speaker 1: the room called ask Got anything. It's like a comedy room. Um.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Satan comes in there. Sometimes we have a Jesus UM.
Speaker 1: It's pretty nuts. This is actually when God retweeted um.
Speaker 1: It's by al Snow and his is I just kicked
Speaker 1: out of flat Earth Facebook group because I asked if
Speaker 1: the six foot social distancing had pushed anyone over the edge.
Speaker 1: Miles Where can people find you and follow you? You
Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of
Speaker 1: Gray and also the other podcast four twenty Day Fiance. Okay, yes.
Speaker 1: A tweet that I like is from Louis Vertell. It
Speaker 1: says kids today have not watched their mom breakdown at
Speaker 1: a Blockbuster counter over an eleven dollar late fee for
Speaker 1: little giants, and it shows um, and I've I've not
Speaker 1: not that my parents broke down, but I remember like
Speaker 1: the ship where you return some ship late and then
Speaker 1: you go to rent a new one and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you have a late fee. And then I
Speaker 1: would get the look from like one of my parents
Speaker 1: because I lived by a Blockbuster and I would have
Speaker 1: to go ride my bike to return. And I was like, oh, really,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to watch Mantis today. Uh Mantis? Wait?
Speaker 1: What is man Man? This was on Fox. It was
Speaker 1: that like black superhero who had like a fucking suit
Speaker 1: of armor and ship on the ship was not on
Speaker 1: for very long. And if those I remember you fucking remember, yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched this is this probably explains a lot about me.
Speaker 1: I watched Real American Hero, which was about like a
Speaker 1: clumsy dork who was a superhero and like had a
Speaker 1: blonde afro, and uh, it was on during the day
Speaker 1: when I was like four for some reason. There you go.
Speaker 1: Made you the manure today? Yes? Yes, Brody Gupta tweeted,
Speaker 1: do you think the first judge was getting his hair
Speaker 1: cut during a case? And that's why they wear Barbara capes?
Speaker 1: And the haircut was bad, which explains the wig ship
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me. You can find
Speaker 1: me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find
Speaker 1: us on Twitter at Lee Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: On Instagram, we have a Facebook fan page on a website,
Speaker 1: Daily Zeitgeist dot com, where we post our episodes in
Speaker 1: our footnotes, where we link off to the information that
Speaker 1: we talked about in today's episode, as well as a
Speaker 1: song that we recommend you go check out and vibe to.
Speaker 1: Uh miles. What song should the listeners go? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: So this is uh m C that a friend introduced
Speaker 1: me to a while back called Billy Woods uh with
Speaker 1: producer Kenny Siegel. Um and you probably you might know,
Speaker 1: you might be already up on them already, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a track called SpongeBob because this
Speaker 1: whole operation underwater, fam, he says, in the fucking this
Speaker 1: is a really at the production is really dope. It's
Speaker 1: got like it's very backpack hip hop vibe, and you
Speaker 1: know the room we're feeling, we're feeling we're in our
Speaker 1: hip hop bag at the moment. So this is Billy
Speaker 1: Woods with SpongeBob. Al right, go check that out. The
Speaker 1: link will be in the foot notes. The Daily Zeitgeist
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Speaker 1: to do it for this morning. We are back this
Speaker 1: afternoon to tell you what's trending, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you all. Bye. Bye,