Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty eight,
Speaker 1: episode two of Daily Like Guys Day production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into America share consciousness. And it is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: October twelve, twelve, two ten twelve. Big buddy, you know
Speaker 1: what that means. It is National Farmers Day, National Gumbo Day,
Speaker 1: Oh Ship, shut up Gumbo, National Savings Day, National Vermonte
Speaker 1: National bring your teddy Bear to work or school Day,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, National Curves Day, National Emergency
Speaker 1: Nurses Day, National Fossil Fossil Day, almost ad Fossil fuel
Speaker 1: is part of my habit there, National Stop Bullying Day,
Speaker 1: National take your parents to Lunch Day. I mean, what
Speaker 1: better fossils are there than the fuels that run our
Speaker 1: country or your parents that you can take lunch? That's true. True. Also,
Speaker 1: I do not have my teddy bear here today, but
Speaker 1: I am assuming my four year old will be partake.
Speaker 1: And this is the teddy Bear industrial complex trying to
Speaker 1: be like, hey man, that's all good. You can bring
Speaker 1: this ship to work too, branches for kids, Hey, hey
Speaker 1: to you work. I guess I love it well. Anyways,
Speaker 1: my name's Jack O'Brien, aka give me the gist over
Speaker 1: it and please explain. Ain't got time to spend this
Speaker 1: side for ring. Look at this all scrawl. I'm about
Speaker 1: to ball this writer though, couldn't be bad off. I
Speaker 1: had to. I had to go Adam Sandler voice for
Speaker 1: that one to make it work in my head. That
Speaker 1: is courtesy a Radio Georgio. That is the Letter by
Speaker 1: the Box Tops, which is a song I knew, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know about another. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host Mr Miles Grad said, Jack,
Speaker 1: you're eating stale candy. You need to fresh. Shea a
Speaker 1: freshet fresh she eats carmone needs to be too eat.
Speaker 1: You need to eat a fresh eat freshie fresh. It's
Speaker 1: hard for me to do the best for to call
Speaker 1: back in the fresh and so fresh and so clean
Speaker 1: chorus there when it's just one voice, But you got
Speaker 1: what I was trying to say, Like I said, with candies,
Speaker 1: you can't eating stale candy. You need a fresh sheet.
Speaker 1: Shout out the fighter the night man on this working
Speaker 1: on podcast Inspire Day. Have you had it? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: look a fresh Charleston chew. It will do something to
Speaker 1: you and fresh quicks. I'm in. I'm in the world
Speaker 1: where my twigs are so old that they have the
Speaker 1: consistency of Charleston Chew, so I need I need help.
Speaker 1: But apparently yeah, if you get a fresh Charleston Chew,
Speaker 1: it makes all the difference. Well, Miles, we are thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by a very
Speaker 1: funny comedian and podcaster who you can hear on the
Speaker 1: Rhythm and Bay podcast and her stand up albums trash
Speaker 1: Baby and one of MPR's best stand up albums of
Speaker 1: last year, Nobody's Queen. It's Jasmine l Welcome, Welcome, I'm excited. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's good to have you. Good to have you. You're
Speaker 1: in l A by way of Texas. Yep. I'm from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: Moved here from Austin, Texas in September. Oh wow, damn,
Speaker 1: So you moved in the pandemic. Okay, people, I get
Speaker 1: that reaction so hard and it always packs me up because, y'all, okay,
Speaker 1: that's very l a of you, because like for the
Speaker 1: rest of the country, we were like we shut down
Speaker 1: for four or five months and then the government was like, hey,
Speaker 1: go back to your job or you like, we're the
Speaker 1: unemployments cut off. You don't get to sit at home, right,
Speaker 1: So then my my lease goes up like like there's
Speaker 1: no rink control in Texas. So your landlord can just
Speaker 1: be like, hey, we decided to double your rent because
Speaker 1: some you know, Elon Musk is missing moving tech people
Speaker 1: here and we'd rather they live here. Okay. So I
Speaker 1: had a friend who had a place in l A
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, what if the rent
Speaker 1: is going to be the same anyway, I've always wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, try it out and see the stand up
Speaker 1: was like here and also like that, I really genuinely
Speaker 1: thought that, like we were going to get the vaccine
Speaker 1: and get a handle on it. There wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: any like there was a lot of news that made
Speaker 1: it like was going to be the end. So I
Speaker 1: thought I was just getting in on a good deal
Speaker 1: on some rent and then and then I was going
Speaker 1: to get to enjoy a pandemic free two one I
Speaker 1: thought I was No, I didn't. It didn't feel like
Speaker 1: the middle. I thought it was the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1: For me. My shock was more of like the effort
Speaker 1: that it takes to move, not even when it happens
Speaker 1: like man, because the idea of packing ship, especially like
Speaker 1: I can't even move across town. So I give it
Speaker 1: up to people who are moving across the country to places.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I'm also I think it just makes
Speaker 1: me realize I'm very lazy. So I appreciate that about
Speaker 1: you and your ability to move because you have dreams.
Speaker 1: It is, you know what, It's not as hard as
Speaker 1: it looks. You just kind of go, like what do
Speaker 1: I really care about? You loaded up in a car
Speaker 1: and you just drive, just go. I like the answer
Speaker 1: better when people are like, it's the hardest thing in
Speaker 1: the world, because that makes me feel better because moving
Speaker 1: is very hard for for me. But yeah, it can.
Speaker 1: It can be easy if you're if you're it prioritizing
Speaker 1: and doing things like that. How have you how have
Speaker 1: you found Los Angeles? Oh God, I hate when people
Speaker 1: ask me this question because I especially are you guys
Speaker 1: native l A? Yeah? Okay, okay, then I can trace
Speaker 1: I'm a local. I'm local scumback, It's okay. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things I hate, but you like so many
Speaker 1: things I hate. In my list of things I eat.
Speaker 1: It's too long, and it makes Los Angelinos just be like,
Speaker 1: fuck you, then go back home, nobody. You know what
Speaker 1: if you ain't got no money taking breadcast home, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't have any money. You're absolutely right, and my
Speaker 1: landlord is charging me a personal last and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna get my deposit back, so i can't take my
Speaker 1: brookats home. I'm just okay, I'll bet it all. I
Speaker 1: bet it all. It's just it's so expensive to breathe here,
Speaker 1: and for no reason the amount of time. Sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: I have the money for something, but it's just so
Speaker 1: I mean, granted this is also inflation. Sometimes I'll just
Speaker 1: be in the grocery store, like eight dollars for grapes.
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't even want food anymore, like
Speaker 1: mad at all the time. Yeah, and that's before the tequila,
Speaker 1: as doctor as so so brilliantly put it. You know,
Speaker 1: your crew to tape letter man who has never been
Speaker 1: to the grocery store before. Oh my god, Oh what's
Speaker 1: your other gripe? I like to hear this though. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm from La I'm I'm not offended by anybody coming
Speaker 1: to a city and being like I don't like these
Speaker 1: things because I'm not. I think it's everyone has their
Speaker 1: own experience. I'm but I am curious, especially through the
Speaker 1: eyes of a comedian, someone who makes observations and is analytical.
Speaker 1: What is something else that you're kind of like if
Speaker 1: I could change this fucking thing, change one thing and
Speaker 1: make it better? Okay, Well, as a comic, I gotta
Speaker 1: say l A audiences, and this is gonna make it
Speaker 1: sound like, well, then you're just not funny. But it
Speaker 1: took me a while to learn the language of l
Speaker 1: A audiences, Like one, y'all hyper pride yourselves on the
Speaker 1: exact street corner you live on. So if you say
Speaker 1: something about how like, oh man, people over here like this,
Speaker 1: like excuse me, I do not live on Melrose. Other
Speaker 1: street of West Hollywood were so different, right, Like you
Speaker 1: can't make even slight generalizations at all, Like you have
Speaker 1: to be super specific. And also like audiences are like
Speaker 1: because it's like the average like schmuck doesn't doesn't have
Speaker 1: the money and resources to do stuff. So like most
Speaker 1: audiences are just like twenty two year old influencers who
Speaker 1: are just there to be seen and they silent laugh
Speaker 1: the way hot girls laugh without sound is terrified, just
Speaker 1: like shoulder shoulder popping, like right, like, don't move too
Speaker 1: much of your face and like the question go you
Speaker 1: were so funny, I was diet up then with your vocalizations,
Speaker 1: tell your loans, tell your tell your body a horror movie.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you can I can see you, but I
Speaker 1: can't hear you. Well, they're all background actors, so they're
Speaker 1: used to being in the background where you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to make noise. That like you, we have the laughter later. Also,
Speaker 1: no one is a a declared relationship, which makes crowd
Speaker 1: work really fucking hard because you're just like, how you
Speaker 1: how long you guys been together? Uh? I mean well,
Speaker 1: I mean we don't really like what do you mean
Speaker 1: you like labels? I'm her acting coach, so oh okay,
Speaker 1: never mind, yes and no, it's just no one's like
Speaker 1: so I learned to just kind of transition how I
Speaker 1: talk about things and come from a placement of like
Speaker 1: they need to be patted on the back a lot.
Speaker 1: So if I'm just like you, l a, people are
Speaker 1: so cool because you do this, here's what the rest
Speaker 1: of like. It's of like, you guys are so cool,
Speaker 1: right right right, Everyone's used to like fake like everything.
Speaker 1: I don't have a fake assets, but like the compliment
Speaker 1: sandwich is how you have to present an idea or
Speaker 1: else you lose the crowd so fucking bad. And it's
Speaker 1: on this pitch deck what a stand up set lost
Speaker 1: me when she didn't compliment sandwich me action? What ad campaign? Yes?
Speaker 1: And they just I don't know. It's also people who
Speaker 1: think they're really smart, but like can't entertain an idea
Speaker 1: they haven't heard yet. Also like I'm just I'm loving
Speaker 1: this though, because I you know, I'm a transplant from
Speaker 1: the East Coast and there is a cultural difference to
Speaker 1: l A that I like can't quite put my words around.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I'm definitely not like their speed, so
Speaker 1: like having you kind of put I need people who
Speaker 1: are able to put this to words. Who terrifies me,
Speaker 1: y'all like the part of the country that runs on
Speaker 1: duncan I can't okay like Boston feeling y'all scared. I
Speaker 1: walk too slow. I like, I take my time ordering.
Speaker 1: I look Southerners were just built different and I love
Speaker 1: that about us. And you know what's funny is I
Speaker 1: had like zero Texas pride in Texas and now it's
Speaker 1: like the first thing on of that in my mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, in Texas, I'm not so annoying. That's
Speaker 1: so true. There on the East Coast, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a presumption of unha happiness like that, there's a
Speaker 1: layer of like I don't know, catholic guilt or just
Speaker 1: like discomfort, and that is something that I've not been
Speaker 1: able to scrub out of my personality. I'm just like, what,
Speaker 1: we're all right, this sucks? No, okay, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: everything's great. Actually, you guys are great. There are some
Speaker 1: weird things about l A. But like I said before,
Speaker 1: you guys are great. That was my attempt at a
Speaker 1: compliment sandwich. It didn't go very well. But as you
Speaker 1: can tell, I'm not good at l A. Man. I
Speaker 1: gotta it took me a while to figure out because
Speaker 1: I literally I think I was angry too. So I
Speaker 1: get on stage and be like, you guys are sociopaths
Speaker 1: man like like that starts like that where you're just
Speaker 1: like you don't put your grocery cart back and you
Speaker 1: block two parking spots, you know, like, and they're like
Speaker 1: me individually, not on this corner of the street. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: look if you have if you need a quick buck,
Speaker 1: just be a pedestrian in Beverly Hills and walk through
Speaker 1: a crosswalk. Chances are someone in a very expensive car
Speaker 1: is not looking, and we'll make a right turns straight
Speaker 1: into you and they'll do it well streaming live on Instagram,
Speaker 1: so you you know, have the evidence that, Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: I believe it. I absolutely believe it. All right, Jasmine,
Speaker 1: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
Speaker 1: a couple of things we're talking about. There was a
Speaker 1: non development in the explanation for why Trump had all
Speaker 1: those documents, but the New York Times certainly wanted to
Speaker 1: run with it. So we'll talk about that. We will
Speaker 1: talk about l a city council. Really, holy shit, it
Speaker 1: seems like, yeah, it sounds like the bad guys in
Speaker 1: a movie getting together to you know, talk about stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're just checking the boxes like racism, Jerry Manager,
Speaker 1: more racism, anti semitism, the whole, the whole thing, and
Speaker 1: anti semitism. Haven't the Democrats to see how that works?
Speaker 1: It can happen anywhere, you see. The status quo can
Speaker 1: affect anybody. It's not a left or right thing at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some people are like a guy, They're like, how could
Speaker 1: am I? Come on, y'all, you know how power works.
Speaker 1: It's on one side doing it in a very holy
Speaker 1: way while others aren't. And then we might talk about
Speaker 1: why Airbnb is the best horror movie villain these days.
Speaker 1: I hate Airbnb yet good spooky. I think we will
Speaker 1: get to that story then all of that plenty more.
Speaker 1: But first, Jasmine, we like to ask our guests, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history? Oh god, what was
Speaker 1: the last thing I searched? Collapsible tupperware. Okay, so listen already.
Speaker 1: This is the light pack we all need, Like I
Speaker 1: don't if you carry a backpack, a toe back, it's
Speaker 1: how far whatever with you? Collapsible tupperware is the way
Speaker 1: to go, because like when you get the like the
Speaker 1: boxes from the grocery store, it's not like really cold
Speaker 1: enough to actually keep anything just right. I love nig
Speaker 1: I love a good restaurant with big portions, and I
Speaker 1: am absolutely taking my leftovers home, but sometimes we always
Speaker 1: get them home. So I was looking up collapsible type
Speaker 1: of ware and then I found like a great deal
Speaker 1: and I was like, Oh, I'll just get some for
Speaker 1: me and my mom and my sister's for Christmas. Hold on, So,
Speaker 1: in this scenario, the tupper or the to go container
Speaker 1: at the restaurant you're at is not sufficient enough to
Speaker 1: transport your leftover. That's what I feel like I'm hearing
Speaker 1: rather than being like, because I'm like, is that a problem?
Speaker 1: Like you know how the restaurants take away fucking carriers
Speaker 1: or bullshit? You never thought they were bullshita, No, take me,
Speaker 1: take me with you on this journey of being of
Speaker 1: understanding how the restaurant takeaway containers are bullshit. They're okay,
Speaker 1: they're they're flimsy, they're weak most of the time. They're
Speaker 1: made out of paper. You don't even get me started
Speaker 1: on paper straws. Look, stop putting the honest on stopping
Speaker 1: climate change on regular people. Okay, Like, hey, I will listen.
Speaker 1: I need my classic straw. People drinks? What is it?
Speaker 1: People who sip drinks? They are the ones who are
Speaker 1: absolutely the cause of and somehow solution to climate change.
Speaker 1: I I despy, I just I hate it. I would
Speaker 1: rather put my mouth on a raw sidewalk than a
Speaker 1: paper straw. So like having just the thing in your
Speaker 1: mouth just dissolved into little like soft paper chunks as
Speaker 1: one right here with this coffee I bought and it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's puffing out right now. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: the clock is taking on this one. It makes me
Speaker 1: so it's not even worth it, never worth it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: disposable not just was collapsible temper where I was looking
Speaker 1: at different options and trying to find ones that are
Speaker 1: that had like the separation that what your foods don't
Speaker 1: have to touch? I feel you on that. Here's what
Speaker 1: the inspiration for this and again weird Texas stuff. My
Speaker 1: little sister was at the Texas State Fair and she
Speaker 1: was like, girl, I brought temperwear with me to the
Speaker 1: state Fair. It was the best idea. Now I have
Speaker 1: turkey leg for weeks, so just turkey that is that
Speaker 1: is a large collapse, Like that is a I feel
Speaker 1: like you need a tent layout to be getting multiple
Speaker 1: turkey legs and a piece of tupperware. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what can you hold a bass guitar in there? Actually? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a mediums how far you could fit like three
Speaker 1: turkey legs round if you if you use oil paper
Speaker 1: and a good a good long ways oblong rectangular right
Speaker 1: right right. I bet you were looking for something juice
Speaker 1: here weirder than that. But that's the last thing I
Speaker 1: got it. Well, first, I just liked the idea of
Speaker 1: meeting somebody who is dissatisfied with the fucking takeaway ship
Speaker 1: at a restaurant where they're like, yeah, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: that to go, and like, you know what actually funk
Speaker 1: that I brought my own this time because y'all are
Speaker 1: sucking around in here, uh and which But at first
Speaker 1: I thought you meant that because as somebody who has
Speaker 1: like a just chaotic collection of tupperware collapsible tupper where
Speaker 1: I seemed like actually one of the best ways to
Speaker 1: store it rather than the fucking tornado of plastic that
Speaker 1: is in like one of my cabinets that I called
Speaker 1: where I we keep the tupperware. So I thought maybe
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is a solution to the chaos,
Speaker 1: and the tupperware cap also a good solution. Yeah. No, see,
Speaker 1: that is the normal reason why people look it up.
Speaker 1: I know most people are not thinking I gotta have
Speaker 1: something that takes up as little space as possible, because
Speaker 1: they're sucking around at cheesecake factory. I am such a
Speaker 1: fucking bad lady, and like I'm not only do I
Speaker 1: always have the biggest person you've ever seen I put,
Speaker 1: I bring it on stage with me, and I don't
Speaker 1: even like because I just don't trust these hoops what
Speaker 1: I feel like. So I just the amount of times
Speaker 1: I'm just excuse me, and I just sit down this
Speaker 1: huge Mary Poppin sack and start selling my jokes and
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything. Maybe that's why I'm struggling
Speaker 1: with these weird crowds. I need to acknowledge the giant
Speaker 1: ass back legs. Yeah, they're like, I just don't trust
Speaker 1: any of y'all in here. I do. I do like
Speaker 1: Miles idea of like doing a guitar case like the
Speaker 1: movie Desperado, where Antonio carries around a guitar case, but
Speaker 1: like it's just filled with collapsible tupperware les. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: just there. Also, I liked what I believed was the
Speaker 1: reference to the movie Toys because l O Cool J
Speaker 1: in that film, he didn't like his food touching. He
Speaker 1: would say in the cafeteria scenes, he doesn't like his food.
Speaker 1: And I took that as a habit as a kid
Speaker 1: because I looked up to l O col J at
Speaker 1: that time when I was like, I don't like my
Speaker 1: food touching, so I demanded similar tupperware as a kid,
Speaker 1: and my mom said, well, you will eat the school lunch.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Jasma. I've already
Speaker 1: talked about l A, so I can't say the entire
Speaker 1: svideo weave, and I also have not explored enough of it.
Speaker 1: I can't judge all of l A on the galleria
Speaker 1: at the glending pretty much. You got it, you got it? Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're trash. That guy's about to be married anyway. Something
Speaker 1: I think is overrated? This is hard. Um, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm making this so much harder than it has to be.
Speaker 1: You know what, sprinkles cupcakes are over They're kind of
Speaker 1: they have you really are at the mom that's where
Speaker 1: my brain. It's like the usual suspects, Kaiser Sosia Ship,
Speaker 1: like Gallery Sprinkles, the Katsa there. I just say it is.
Speaker 1: They have a chokehold on the cupcake economy and I
Speaker 1: feel like they are everybody's go to when you think
Speaker 1: of cupcakes, and they're kind of dry, they're kind of
Speaker 1: they're kind of not that great. They don't even like
Speaker 1: how formulaic the icing looks. It always looks like a
Speaker 1: human never touched it, which is supposed to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the cupies the future for Like, I don't like
Speaker 1: this robot based economy. We're leaning towards. I want to say,
Speaker 1: like think fingerprints and ship you know, I want to
Speaker 1: know somebody. Yeah, it's just a big thumb print pushed
Speaker 1: into the icing on top of your cup. Big bite
Speaker 1: out of there, you go, somebody in there. Pretty soon
Speaker 1: the robots will be like, we placed those fake hairs
Speaker 1: there digitally. That's so interesting though, because that does feel
Speaker 1: like part of their aesthetic is that no human touched this.
Speaker 1: Because you can get the you can get the um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the vending machine that they call the cupcake a t M,
Speaker 1: which also again automated, Like it seems like that is
Speaker 1: what they're going for, Like that's yeah, that's right here.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you Susie cakes so much, Susie Cake strawberry
Speaker 1: Susie Cake cupcake is at your birthday party stopper for me.
Speaker 1: I will I will get very selfish and start elbowing
Speaker 1: the kids out of the way because they do that
Speaker 1: little divid in the top so you get extra icing
Speaker 1: in there. Susie the luscious lemon places here for also
Speaker 1: Portos Portos better. I mean they don't make cupcakes with
Speaker 1: Portos is just great cakes. One thing I like here,
Speaker 1: look look around, came around to the Cuban Bakery. I
Speaker 1: can't say Beyonce's song Beyonce's album Renaissance because everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about it. But like I, I guess it is properly rated,
Speaker 1: but I don't know unless is there a dimension to it.
Speaker 1: You're we're not, we're not, We're missing. I feel like
Speaker 1: people are not giving the song all up in your
Speaker 1: mind the credit it deserves. It is when you look
Speaker 1: at anybody's list, it is number twelve out of twelve.
Speaker 1: It is albody everybody's least favorite song. And I gave
Speaker 1: it another listen to it and there's just like some
Speaker 1: really great lyrical things going on with it that I
Speaker 1: think it underappreciated because it just gets I think it's
Speaker 1: just the album is so good mentally you need a break.
Speaker 1: But I think people need to like give that track.
Speaker 1: I hope that's the song we get a visual two first,
Speaker 1: so that it makes everybody start liking it. I think
Speaker 1: that is the most underrated song on one of the
Speaker 1: best rated albums of the year. Because you you used
Speaker 1: to be DJ, right, not a DJ. I was a
Speaker 1: radio host, like a morning show host on a radio show. Yes,
Speaker 1: got it, got it, got it, got it okay, because
Speaker 1: I was like, I know, like with you, you have
Speaker 1: a you have an affinity throw with music. So I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, where, well, I know you're the fact
Speaker 1: that you even like I gotta you gotta give an
Speaker 1: album arrest. That's somebody who like listens enough to music,
Speaker 1: because I feel like any album just it will sound
Speaker 1: completely different the second like if you put a little
Speaker 1: bit of space in between the first time you heard
Speaker 1: it a week. Yeah, It's wild how different something can sound.
Speaker 1: How is so important too? Like the first time I
Speaker 1: heard Renaissance because I could not wait because it was
Speaker 1: like Christmas morning for me. I've hearned it on in
Speaker 1: my hotel room, like at a low vaulu because I
Speaker 1: didn't want to wake anybody. I was in Atlanta. On
Speaker 1: the show, I was like, oh, this is the sound
Speaker 1: of your footsteps dancing is louder than the musically just
Speaker 1: shoveling straight up though, like and I'm the b st
Speaker 1: Beyonce fan. Ever, I thought it was a little like
Speaker 1: I was like, this is kind of like Zara music.
Speaker 1: This is like like, yes, it's such a of a stating. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's very fortunate for Beyonce that you came around on
Speaker 1: the album because I feel like that's that is a hard,
Speaker 1: hard one to shake. It took me less than twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. The next day. I went to the gym
Speaker 1: headphones on, and then I was like, oh, you just
Speaker 1: can't listen to this ship sitting down when I was
Speaker 1: like on the treadmill, I'm in my bag bag, but
Speaker 1: like you just have to let yourself feel it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, is it first time I listened
Speaker 1: to it off of off my iPhone. Second time just
Speaker 1: with headphones on, just like laying down in the sun
Speaker 1: and just like just it was like it was like
Speaker 1: a heat wave, I feel like. And I was just
Speaker 1: like just being like, yes, give me all this energy. Now.
Speaker 1: You woke up and your body was dancing, dancing unconsciously.
Speaker 1: I came to I was doing a death drop out
Speaker 1: of ball no idea. What happened to me? Okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta know, I gotta know what is your like, what
Speaker 1: are your favorite parts, like one thing to pick out
Speaker 1: that you just love about it. I'm not gonna take
Speaker 1: I love, I just love. I'm a huge elect I'm
Speaker 1: I love all music. I used to be a DJ,
Speaker 1: but like part like mixing scratching DJ back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I've made music my whole life. So I really
Speaker 1: like to shift towards house music because I felt like
Speaker 1: that's just such a it's such an underrated black genre,
Speaker 1: and for her to take to step into that, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, this is fantastic and at the same
Speaker 1: time opens up of like a conversation about even house
Speaker 1: music too for a lot of people, because a lot
Speaker 1: of people, look what is Some people like had no
Speaker 1: idea about house music and it's connections to black culture,
Speaker 1: and people thought she was just making like I think
Speaker 1: the sort of vague take people give us, like your
Speaker 1: sounds like a music while there's like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: she's doing something here. Cozy I think is my favorite
Speaker 1: song on that Cozy is very underrated. Would you think
Speaker 1: people's list most of the time, it's like that's number
Speaker 1: twelve in the cos number eleven, but you gotta let
Speaker 1: yourself feel that one. I like that one, a lie.
Speaker 1: I have been on a heated loop lately. I went
Speaker 1: from being like what is Beyonce doing to be like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a boom boom, completely given it to I
Speaker 1: have a fan now. Look, Oh my god. The other
Speaker 1: day I had to I woke up and I had
Speaker 1: to put a wrist plint on and I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: if it was from sleeping, texting, or playing with my fans.
Speaker 1: Ban me off, my rist goes clean. I think I
Speaker 1: sprained it. Okay, So yeah, we're not gonna We're not
Speaker 1: going to morning with the album. Yea you have? Do
Speaker 1: you have a favorite? I have Thick on a playlist. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Thick is the one that jumped out to me.
Speaker 1: But I'm also famously six months behind on all music,
Speaker 1: so I'll be getting everything. I'm gonna come back and
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast in six months and be like, yes,
Speaker 1: this is right, this is exact, guys. This is little
Speaker 1: nas X, old Town Road. It's gonna go. This kid's
Speaker 1: going places. So much of my music is just like
Speaker 1: listening to music, and my kids are like, I like
Speaker 1: that song and then it gets added to the playlist
Speaker 1: and then we just like burn it to the ground
Speaker 1: listening to that song over and over. So yeah, well
Speaker 1: I was into Little nas X probably a year after
Speaker 1: the album came out. For sure. That album as long
Speaker 1: as you get there. But as long as you get there,
Speaker 1: I'm on the timeline of like car commercials. Like once
Speaker 1: the song start appearing in car commercials, I'm like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's about what I'm finding out about them too.
Speaker 1: My dad, Yeah, he's like the NFL likes to use
Speaker 1: stuff about like six seven months later, so he's like,
Speaker 1: whose things that I told you long ago on the
Speaker 1: road like that. He's like, he's like, guys, have you
Speaker 1: guys sucking heard this new track? It's a banger? What
Speaker 1: is this now? I saw it in the herbal Essences
Speaker 1: commercial about five years ago, so that was the first
Speaker 1: concert I went to. But he watches t TMZ. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he knows, like, like he'll be like that Kanye
Speaker 1: he can't name Akanie song. We can tell you every time.
Speaker 1: He said, it's so funny that character from the TV show.
Speaker 1: He was right. My dad's seventies, so I'm not comparing
Speaker 1: you to seventy year old man, but like you maybe
Speaker 1: a little Oh yeah, I got plenty, plenty of seve
Speaker 1: year old man. And he's heard of that Kane West guy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back, and you know, the details
Speaker 1: theory are continuing to trickle out about what Trump was
Speaker 1: doing with all those classified nuclear secrets. And we got
Speaker 1: one thesis from Trump Trump whisperer Maggie Haberman that it
Speaker 1: was just he was just trying to clear his good name. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's he has this pattern of just he knows how
Speaker 1: to throw out a headline to get everybody talking about
Speaker 1: the headline when what's actually happening is so much worse. So, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the thought of the discussion is like, this
Speaker 1: guy's fucking he's absconding with classified documents, top secret documents
Speaker 1: that nobody should have, let alone somebody who's not the
Speaker 1: literal president at the moment, and we're trying to like
Speaker 1: a lot of the speculation was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's be selling nuclear secrets. Could be human sources, like
Speaker 1: you know, human assets that are in within the that'spionage industry,
Speaker 1: or what a system whatever I'm trying to say, here,
Speaker 1: you get it, fucking spies working with the CIA, but
Speaker 1: we weren't really sure. And although a lot of these
Speaker 1: are very possible, one thing that we're learning from Maggie
Speaker 1: Haberman is that there was this one specific plan. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna read this this to you, Mr Trump, for
Speaker 1: this from the New York Times called Mr Trump, still
Speaker 1: determined to show he had been wronged by the FBI
Speaker 1: investigation into his twenty sixteen campaigns ties to Russia, was
Speaker 1: angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its
Speaker 1: unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that
Speaker 1: he thought proved his claims. It was around that same
Speaker 1: time that Mr Trump floated the idea of offering the
Speaker 1: deal to return the boxes in exchange for documents he
Speaker 1: believed or he believed would expose the Russia investigation as
Speaker 1: a hoax cooked up by the FBI. Mr Trump did
Speaker 1: not appear to know specifically what he thought the Archives had,
Speaker 1: only that there were items he wanted, and then, like
Speaker 1: the thing, goes on to say that everybody around him
Speaker 1: was like, dude, that is a terrible idea. There's no
Speaker 1: fucking way that's happening, and so that's just the reporting.
Speaker 1: He had this idea and it didn't happen, and now
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh my god, the dude was trying to
Speaker 1: fucking do a tip for tat deal like switch swapping documents,
Speaker 1: and Marcy Wheeler, who's you know, writes a lot about
Speaker 1: it this stuff like kind of points out how, you know,
Speaker 1: Maggie help Haberman a lot of the time will wittingly
Speaker 1: or unwittingly fall into these things where Trump will give
Speaker 1: her a quote scoop, and then that headline completely distracts
Speaker 1: everyone from what is actually happening. And now the discussion
Speaker 1: is like, what wait, so there's documents that could prove
Speaker 1: the Russia investigation is a hoax. No, that's not true,
Speaker 1: but that's what everyone But now the discussion is what
Speaker 1: did these documents have when really there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of chatter about, like there was additional reporting over the
Speaker 1: weekend that Trump was trying to declassify a ton of
Speaker 1: documents that related to Russia right before he left office
Speaker 1: and possibly has some of those that they're still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out whether or not he has. So it's
Speaker 1: not really that he almost did this thing it's that
Speaker 1: he's continued to do this, and also we found out
Speaker 1: he was trying to declassified, like weaponize more declassified documents
Speaker 1: at the end of his administration. So it's just a
Speaker 1: weird thing of just sort of chumming the waters with
Speaker 1: this like really good headline when other people are pointing
Speaker 1: out like some other just actual factual problems that would
Speaker 1: you know, I guess potentially make its way to Trump
Speaker 1: or not. We don't know how the justice system will
Speaker 1: work in this instance, but that's what it seems. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this feels like a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: ideas and explanations have been put out, and this is
Speaker 1: the one that seems like it could be sir, could
Speaker 1: serve him well because at least we've found out that,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever the motivations for the Russia investigation was,
Speaker 1: that it doesn't seem like that is ever going to
Speaker 1: come out as like he was working with Putin to
Speaker 1: get elected, or at least you know they would they
Speaker 1: would have proved it by now. Or also you're not
Speaker 1: going to find out that it was a hoax or
Speaker 1: unfounded that was that's been disproven from Jump Street. So
Speaker 1: it's more of like this rhetorical when he's trying to
Speaker 1: get or he's just so fixated on it, that's what's
Speaker 1: going on. But at the end of the day this
Speaker 1: I think what what Mark Wheelers also pointing out is
Speaker 1: like in seventeen, when there's this discussion about what did
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Jr. Talk about with like these like Russian
Speaker 1: emissaries about potential child adoptions or whatever, which at the
Speaker 1: time we knew men was actually sanctions and ship that
Speaker 1: there was this whole meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin where there was no like translator that we found
Speaker 1: out about like after the fact. But Maggie Habrman, after
Speaker 1: interviewing him, like kind of buried the lead there and
Speaker 1: just talked about how like the story that Trump wanted out,
Speaker 1: which was he wished Jeff Sessions didn't refuse himself from
Speaker 1: the Russian investigation and all this other side chatter ship.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just it's just a wild fucking
Speaker 1: ride throughout all this watching everybody carry water. Maggie Haberman
Speaker 1: is in the very bad position that everybody who has
Speaker 1: ever found themselves in business or in some relationship with
Speaker 1: Trump is, which is like he always those people always
Speaker 1: end up in jail or having their career rear destroyed,
Speaker 1: or I mean, you know, like Michael Cohen was was
Speaker 1: the guy like coming into the election, he was like
Speaker 1: the most vociferously pro Trump person, but he by like
Speaker 1: publicly tying himself to Trump, like any relationship that someone
Speaker 1: can have with him is eventually going to turn into
Speaker 1: him destroying them in some way or another by you know,
Speaker 1: using them in some self serving way that has no
Speaker 1: relationship to the truth and is only kind of serving
Speaker 1: this black hole that he has in the middle of
Speaker 1: him of of like toxic narcissism. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I think she got there by just wanting to
Speaker 1: be the person with the access in the Trump world,
Speaker 1: but now she is. She's the same as everybody who
Speaker 1: finds himselves needing Trump for something and it never ends
Speaker 1: well for them. Yeah, but we'll see, we shall see.
Speaker 1: I just think it's yeah, with everything, like of all
Speaker 1: the speculation that's going on, that yet to to sort
Speaker 1: of ignore the facts and just go for whatever they
Speaker 1: think is going to make like the biggest splash of
Speaker 1: the stories and of the two thousand lies that he
Speaker 1: has told about why he had those documents like that
Speaker 1: one seems like it might be. It's at least novel
Speaker 1: for actually like making a certain sense to some people.
Speaker 1: You know, we weren't already brainwashed in the in the
Speaker 1: mega world, And so that becomes the headline because that
Speaker 1: that is novel, Like oh okay, so what what if
Speaker 1: there was a version? No no, no, no, no no
Speaker 1: not what if you have documents you shouldn't have? That's
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward, that's it. Nor what if yeah, keep it more? Anyways,
Speaker 1: should we talk l a city council? Yeah? We fucking better?
Speaker 1: My god, yeah man, this is so fun. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this is big, this is this is the city. Baby.
Speaker 1: I feel like whenever we see scenes like in films
Speaker 1: of like that sort of represent the cynicism and the
Speaker 1: crony ism that runs rampant through like city governments. If
Speaker 1: there's always like this constant trope where like in public
Speaker 1: the people are very like soft spoken diplomatic, They're like,
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm here to champion, I'm here with the people,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, and then they like cut to
Speaker 1: the back room where it's like smoking, like yeah, he's
Speaker 1: fucking s O B S. They don't know anything and
Speaker 1: a bunch of jerked offs like that kind of weird
Speaker 1: sort of switch goes on. Well, my god, this new
Speaker 1: leaked audio from a few l A City Council members
Speaker 1: is as cliched as it gets, except without the weird
Speaker 1: New York accent. That would be great if they just
Speaker 1: affected a New York accent somehow, right. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: can you believe that guy bonding? Yeah, screw that guy,
Speaker 1: he's with the blacks. Although that is something they did
Speaker 1: say about. We'll get to that now. This was this
Speaker 1: was a leaked recording between City Council president Uri Martinez
Speaker 1: and council members Kevin da Leon Gil Stadio and then
Speaker 1: the Labor Federation president Ron Herrera, and they are just
Speaker 1: yucking it up like a couple of fucked up cartoon
Speaker 1: characters who are just there right now. They're basically talking
Speaker 1: the whole, discuss the whole. Everything they talk about ranges
Speaker 1: from how you know a gay city council members adopted
Speaker 1: black son looks like a monkey, as she said, there's
Speaker 1: another one, to how they wanted to car I think
Speaker 1: it's it's important actually play some of these clips you
Speaker 1: can hear for yourself. And I'm telling you this ship
Speaker 1: is fucking offensive to racist, although the l A Times
Speaker 1: will call it racially charged. But here is this one.
Speaker 1: This is when where she's talking about this guy's adopted
Speaker 1: black son about how first of all, the kid needs
Speaker 1: a beat down because he was acting like a child, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a kid, which I was like this, let me, let
Speaker 1: me take them along the corner and then I'll bring
Speaker 1: them back or a pinch or something. Anyway, So the again,
Speaker 1: the point of this meeting was to dilute the power
Speaker 1: of you know, other black and brown communities in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and concentrated in these in the city council members
Speaker 1: hands to figure out who they could align with to
Speaker 1: sort of lock up their power in this is the
Speaker 1: name of this meeting, like in the Outlook calendar, was
Speaker 1: it like white supremacy meeting? Like a well, yeah, anti black,
Speaker 1: anti indigenous people, I mean they it was. It was wild.
Speaker 1: They had something to say about like well, how can
Speaker 1: people who lived in Korea Town. They're talking about Mike
Speaker 1: bonden Uh and his and his adopted child and then
Speaker 1: they're saying like, oh, he brings a kid around like
Speaker 1: a high end purse or some stuff. Then they talked
Speaker 1: about the d a Paul Gascon who isn't a fucked
Speaker 1: up cool like Jackie Lacey was, who you know we
Speaker 1: ousted through a vote. And this one they're they're describing
Speaker 1: Paul Gascon as being with the blacks, and I think
Speaker 1: that's meanings like the Black City Council members. But it's
Speaker 1: really I'll play this again for you. This is this
Speaker 1: is one of like the acts like this is a
Speaker 1: a progressive district attorney that we have in the city. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then this is what how they are describing them
Speaker 1: or you know how cynically. Uh, they discussed him all
Speaker 1: the you know folks like when that's going he did
Speaker 1: call me once I have breakfast with me. We're I
Speaker 1: haven't I just said, hey, I we need to talk.
Speaker 1: Gil supported him from the I don't worry. I got um. Uh.
Speaker 1: So first she's saying, this guy Gil, who's guilt Cideo,
Speaker 1: who's in this Meeting's like that guy had his back
Speaker 1: or whatever. And he's like, yeah, I know, but you
Speaker 1: know things are changing. So in the end she says, yeah,
Speaker 1: funk that guy he's with the blacks. Wow. You know
Speaker 1: what the biggest red flag to me is how you
Speaker 1: talk about human beings and other ethnic groups. If you
Speaker 1: use the word the before before you're described like the blacks,
Speaker 1: the like you're already you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: you're never gonna say anything positive. But this this Martinez lady, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she just she sounds so so hateful, like the I
Speaker 1: need to beat it like that that rage. I've noticed
Speaker 1: people who have like really really deep seated problematic racism
Speaker 1: anti blackness in particular, it starts with how you how
Speaker 1: you perceive black children. I think now you don't see
Speaker 1: them as children and give them the space to be kids,
Speaker 1: like that little that little black kid was a nuisance,
Speaker 1: a disturbance, anything but a child to her because he
Speaker 1: was black in public. And also that could get straightened
Speaker 1: out by getting to beat down or something too, like
Speaker 1: I'll have to break him m hmm. Because and that
Speaker 1: And it's really really scary because yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 1: city councilmember, but there are teachers, there are there are
Speaker 1: principles their school, Like there's people who work in schools
Speaker 1: and look at black children every day like they're just
Speaker 1: small criminals, Like they're just way for them to get
Speaker 1: big enough to end up in the prison system. That
Speaker 1: that makes me really really angry. That's they talked about.
Speaker 1: Even past guests Hugo Soto Martinez who came on when
Speaker 1: I wasn't here, they talked about him, and like, you
Speaker 1: know Ron Herrera, who's has to do with like labor
Speaker 1: in the city, was like, you know, this guy is
Speaker 1: coming in and they're talking about how they got to
Speaker 1: protect uh Mitch, like the guy he's running against from
Speaker 1: this guy Hugo, who's like actually running on a progressive
Speaker 1: platform to like to actually solve the unhoused problem, the
Speaker 1: problem that we have in the in the city, rather
Speaker 1: than just being like a bin area of like well
Speaker 1: you can go to some facility, you can go to jail,
Speaker 1: which was like Rick Caruso's current ethos like as a leader,
Speaker 1: and people are like you see people making weird content
Speaker 1: where they're like shaming the unhoused and being like this
Speaker 1: is why you gotta vote for Rick Caruso. Get these
Speaker 1: people out of here and makes Santa Monica look cool.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, it's not. That's not the fucking solution.
Speaker 1: But when you want to reduce it to something where
Speaker 1: you can just immediately be like, well you know what,
Speaker 1: those aren't people. I'm sure that's a tidier way of
Speaker 1: looking at issue rather than like doing the work to say, now,
Speaker 1: these are human beings that need help. With a little
Speaker 1: bit of support, we can actually turn their lives around,
Speaker 1: or at least attempt to. And if they need more help,
Speaker 1: then we can provide that to them. Not everyone is
Speaker 1: gonna be there. Not everyone's problems are gonna be solved
Speaker 1: the same way. But what we have to do is
Speaker 1: extend the grace and our ability to look at people
Speaker 1: with humanity to these people, because that's how you solve it.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't treat If you treat people like trash,
Speaker 1: then that mentality continues to like what you're saying, Jasmine,
Speaker 1: looking at black communities or other brown communities, other communities
Speaker 1: of color, because in l a, black Angelino's make up
Speaker 1: for about eight percent of the population and over thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the unhoused population. So we see how there
Speaker 1: are many ways in which we can address these problems
Speaker 1: if we can look at people with humanity. But it's
Speaker 1: clear that the status quo is just about saying, well,
Speaker 1: some people we need to cast off to the side,
Speaker 1: or this person like Niffia Rahman, like we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta carve herd district up because you know, we need
Speaker 1: to dilute her power or the power of the residents
Speaker 1: that live in this area who want to see some
Speaker 1: kind of positive change. And they successfully did that, right,
Speaker 1: Like her district was carved up, and she yeah, like
Speaker 1: I voted for her in the district that I live in,
Speaker 1: and you know, a year later, she was no longer
Speaker 1: in my district, Like, she no longer represented my district.
Speaker 1: I was now represented by the guy that they were
Speaker 1: talking about protecting, Mitchell Ferrell. Yeah, Michell Farrell, who is
Speaker 1: running against And I think it's like it's important to see,
Speaker 1: you know, just how the status quo it has to
Speaker 1: it like you're you're hearing it in real time, how
Speaker 1: people are saying, well, we can't funk with these people.
Speaker 1: They're trying to they're trying to, you know, carve up
Speaker 1: the power pie in equal slices, and we can't do that. Oh,
Speaker 1: this person wants to actually help like stabilize rent prices.
Speaker 1: Fuck that. My biggest donors are like commercial property owners.
Speaker 1: So I'm not about to I'm not about to fucking
Speaker 1: let this person in the city council get more power.
Speaker 1: That's that's a threat to my donor. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stand out here and say what the funk needs to happen,
Speaker 1: And they're saying it. It's that's what's so wild. It's
Speaker 1: like it's clear as day what they're what they want,
Speaker 1: how they look at people, And unfortunately, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a pretty normal way, I think, not necessarily with
Speaker 1: the racism, but how cynically people in power will look
Speaker 1: at relationships within a community or who deserves representation or
Speaker 1: who does not. Yeah, and what I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like maybe maybe the racism is as open as as
Speaker 1: it sounds like it is in these meetings and we're
Speaker 1: just hearing the recording, but it sounds like they, you
Speaker 1: know what, when we're talking about these situations where people
Speaker 1: aren't treated as human beings and aren't treated with humanity,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the time we assume that
Speaker 1: it's like this, it's just inertia from past institutions, and
Speaker 1: that people would like aren't behind the scenes actually just
Speaker 1: saying the thing out loud that is represented by their decisions.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I feel like this is pretty
Speaker 1: I think, and it's important for people. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people we talked about this to really look
Speaker 1: at your local politics, really look at your local politics,
Speaker 1: because you can see, like you go outside and look
Speaker 1: in the street, what you're seeing out there is a
Speaker 1: reflection of the leadership that you're picking, or in a
Speaker 1: lot of instances not picking, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: in l A don't fucking they say they stay at
Speaker 1: home for city council votes, which allows the group of insincere,
Speaker 1: fucking clowns to just have their meetings and like, what
Speaker 1: we're donna do about the blacks. Oh, the Jews already
Speaker 1: made a deal with South l A, like using this
Speaker 1: kind of language, and like that's what their aim is,
Speaker 1: is to cut people out of being able to, you know,
Speaker 1: dictate what their lives can be. Yeah. Yeah, So as
Speaker 1: of now, the only one person who's actually resigned is
Speaker 1: Ron Herrera, but he wasn't on the city council. Norri
Speaker 1: Martinez said she is taking a leave of absence, So,
Speaker 1: uh no, all these fucking people need to resign, which
Speaker 1: is wild because I was like, damn, you know, like
Speaker 1: there's so many good progressive candidates coming up for city
Speaker 1: council and I'm like, wow, it's self cleaning. Maybe it might,
Speaker 1: it might do the job for itself, but as of now,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are being like sitting on their hands.
Speaker 1: Some people have called for resignations while others haven't, and
Speaker 1: it's been a very spec straight fucking chaos in terms
Speaker 1: of local politics. And I think, you know, I think
Speaker 1: the point that Jasmine made is a really good one
Speaker 1: that the treatment of black children is something that is
Speaker 1: going to be clear to everyone except people who are
Speaker 1: like thoroughly you know, committed to anti black racism. And
Speaker 1: it is it happens every day in classrooms like you
Speaker 1: see it with like people call it the you know,
Speaker 1: classroom to l pipeline, and you know that that ship
Speaker 1: is real, and it should be the easiest story to
Speaker 1: tell people to let everybody understand that there is a
Speaker 1: huge fucking problem that is, you know, instinctively is you know,
Speaker 1: devastating that we we need to be paying attention to him,
Speaker 1: like the fact that that is the basis for or
Speaker 1: at least like the kind of number one thing that
Speaker 1: is for first being called attention to and the in
Speaker 1: this in these leaked recordings, I think is at least
Speaker 1: good for calling attention to that you know that it's
Speaker 1: there and it's constant. I think being able to, you know,
Speaker 1: take that next step right of understanding what racism is
Speaker 1: or what discriminatory behavior is, is to say, okay, are
Speaker 1: you is your ability to analyze it at level one
Speaker 1: where you hear a tape like this that's so on
Speaker 1: its face races and go, oh my, that's that's bad.
Speaker 1: That's I don't like that. Can you then go a
Speaker 1: couple of layers further down and look at how policies,
Speaker 1: whether they just even though they're maybe completely deracialized language
Speaker 1: in a language sense, because you're just looking at legislation,
Speaker 1: but then can you look at who that affects and
Speaker 1: who it protects, and then from there begin to extrapolate
Speaker 1: whether or not this is something a bill that would
Speaker 1: favor a group of people over another and then be
Speaker 1: able to apply the same level of outrage to that
Speaker 1: or does it always have to have the N word
Speaker 1: or some ship like that in it for people to
Speaker 1: be like that's what drives me crazy. That's what drives
Speaker 1: me crazy about a lot of people. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to single out people on the right, but I
Speaker 1: kind of am here because I've noticed this thing of
Speaker 1: like well, you know, you're the ones making it all
Speaker 1: about race, you know what I mean. I didn't bring
Speaker 1: up race at all. It doesn't say anything. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that this is that and the other. And
Speaker 1: it's like if you if you can see what's clearly
Speaker 1: in front of you, then you're making things about race
Speaker 1: and making things more divided. I just I've just dealt
Speaker 1: with this a lot with a lot of people where
Speaker 1: to derail an issue, they'll pretend that race has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it, and it's just this completely odd
Speaker 1: thing and like unless across is burning in your front yard,
Speaker 1: nothing's actually racist and you can't actually ever see something.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is instinctively causing harm to this group,
Speaker 1: and if you point out unfairness then you're like, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, God, this is the discussion
Speaker 1: about CRT is a big one. Um. I have family
Speaker 1: and friends and our teachers in the South, and just
Speaker 1: like this, just I keep bring up education here because
Speaker 1: I think I'm just I am so personally we we
Speaker 1: overuse this word, but personally triggered by her knee jerk
Speaker 1: just joking around about physically harm and a black child
Speaker 1: that it's like it's something in my gut, the auntie
Speaker 1: and me is bothered and and but like that's a
Speaker 1: big thing, is like, well, you know, if we talk
Speaker 1: about race, then we're being racist and so then it's
Speaker 1: this like backwards thing where you can do things that
Speaker 1: actually harm people and create situations that are unfair as
Speaker 1: long as you don't discuss race because the problems in
Speaker 1: the words and it's it's it's just this weird outpouring
Speaker 1: of like it's this backlash to this I don't know,
Speaker 1: this this kind of like nineties gen X thing. I
Speaker 1: just just don't just don't call anything anything. Just don't
Speaker 1: say black, don't say white. And it's like you can
Speaker 1: acknowledge a like it's the dehumanization. It's it's the the
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And and that so frustrating
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, yeah, try to to the point
Speaker 1: of like trying to go levels deeper, like try to
Speaker 1: view your society with fresh eyes. If you're coming to
Speaker 1: it with fresh eyes, you see that black Americans are
Speaker 1: caged in prisons and jails at rates beyond what what's
Speaker 1: happening in South Africa like in the eighties during during apartheid,
Speaker 1: Like beyond what and it's like something then that everyone
Speaker 1: recognized as a humanitarian disaster and issue and it is
Speaker 1: happening around you right now. And then you know two
Speaker 1: miles your point the you know, outside representation of Black
Speaker 1: Angelinos on in the unhoused community, Like just try to
Speaker 1: take a step back, and why is that what Persidon
Speaker 1: who says it's not racism? What's your answer, right, because
Speaker 1: I bet it's probably gonna be some racist ship. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know those people which people right well and
Speaker 1: also Okay, as a black I guess I'm a black
Speaker 1: angel I don't know a black resident of Los Angeles County. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, Los Angeles one of the most
Speaker 1: diverse places I've ever been, that is the most yes segregated,
Speaker 1: Like okay, and I it's interesting to see to me,
Speaker 1: like there's more ethnicities that are more divided and more
Speaker 1: like this part of town is this and which I
Speaker 1: think is super cool. I think it's great in some ways.
Speaker 1: It's very great to have spaces that are historically this
Speaker 1: culture is represented. You know, I've never had Ethiopian food
Speaker 1: till I moved here, know, I know, like you get
Speaker 1: to experience all these things in these pockets. But I
Speaker 1: feel like for a lot of Black Americans in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: like the areas for Black Americans four with the areas
Speaker 1: where they are shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, and and
Speaker 1: they're getting christ out and we're not really doing anything
Speaker 1: about that. And it's sometimes it's it's hard too because
Speaker 1: we want to be like, well, you know, like the
Speaker 1: bipod representations great, there's so many Asian and Hispanic people
Speaker 1: in Middle Eastern and blah blah blah, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: but black, but black, let's just say black. Let's part
Speaker 1: of it. That's like about the anti blackness that's happening.
Speaker 1: And then and then you're being divisive. But it's just
Speaker 1: like it's it's interesting to see I don't I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't have enough. It is. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, my my dad's black, grew up in
Speaker 1: l A. And they and my family are Before that,
Speaker 1: my grandparents came from Chicago and then they settled here
Speaker 1: like in the fifties or you know, they they started
Speaker 1: a family here in the fifties, and it's always been
Speaker 1: like that. I remember, you know, growing up just South
Speaker 1: l A was just we're black people lift and then
Speaker 1: there were pockets of of black people over people or
Speaker 1: you know, then people end up going to like Lancaster
Speaker 1: or Palm Dale and things like that. But as you
Speaker 1: look at it right now, the places that are you know,
Speaker 1: like you look at Baldwin Hills, which used to be
Speaker 1: called like the black Beverly Hills, is now becoming people
Speaker 1: are getting priced out. It's gentrifying because it's close to
Speaker 1: Culver City or a lot of tech companies have rooted
Speaker 1: themselves now and it's and you are seeing, just like
Speaker 1: the the communities just don't look the same. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people, especially progressive like politicians or people running
Speaker 1: for leadership in the city, understand how essential it is
Speaker 1: like that we have these vibrant communities that like communities
Speaker 1: of color, because that's actually what makes l a l
Speaker 1: a over time. If we just let the market play out,
Speaker 1: it is just going to be completely just bulldozed and
Speaker 1: this the neighborhoods aren't gonna sound the same, look the same,
Speaker 1: smell the same. Just we're gonna lose all of these characteristics.
Speaker 1: And that's really a huge part of what's at stake,
Speaker 1: just with affordable housing is to be able to keep
Speaker 1: people where they fucking been for generations and and understand
Speaker 1: that that's their right to be there, rather than siding
Speaker 1: with fucking commercial real estate developers or landlords and be like, actually,
Speaker 1: you have a right to make massive profits and crank
Speaker 1: up your rent fucking tent x every year if you
Speaker 1: want to. I don't give a ship those people. That's
Speaker 1: what we stand to loose. That's that's the main issue
Speaker 1: that Hugo and Nitia are fighting for. And of course
Speaker 1: that is the that is who they are talking about
Speaker 1: tactically taking out of positions of power in this meeting
Speaker 1: that we're talking about, Like that was the function of
Speaker 1: the meeting, and I mean and and then you ask
Speaker 1: the question of where will those people go who get
Speaker 1: priced out of the neighborhoods and get moved out, and
Speaker 1: like just going back to the prison, Like we we
Speaker 1: came across the detail where someone was talking about they
Speaker 1: were working on a prison documentary and the filmmakers were
Speaker 1: moving around non black prisoners to be in more shots
Speaker 1: to cover up the truth that this is a system
Speaker 1: for caging black Americans, Like that is one of the
Speaker 1: primary functions of this system, and that is so visually
Speaker 1: evident that they had to cover that up just to
Speaker 1: make to make a different point. Because when you look
Speaker 1: at just what the reality is it, that's the only
Speaker 1: point that you come away with. So like that's how
Speaker 1: thorough and kind of intricate the lying is. But it's
Speaker 1: so many people love to believe the lie that like, well,
Speaker 1: black people just commit more crimes. They're just they just
Speaker 1: love crime. They's just they just wake up and they're
Speaker 1: like crime for breakfast, Like that's just it. They'd rather
Speaker 1: just believe there's some intrinsic, like some intrinsic, like I
Speaker 1: don't know, just some deformity with us, like instead of
Speaker 1: seeing like maybe these areas are over policed, maybe the
Speaker 1: judges are biased, maybe they give strong They do. They
Speaker 1: absolutely do give bigger, longer sentences to Black Americans. And
Speaker 1: I mean it's they just if you ever looked at
Speaker 1: the maybe you guys, you guys are on the pulse
Speaker 1: of everything. Did you look up on Twitter when there
Speaker 1: was that thing criming? While white and white people would
Speaker 1: just admit to like petty ship they did as teenagers
Speaker 1: in their twenties where they could have gotten like long
Speaker 1: sentences that they didn't, and when I just think about
Speaker 1: like now, even like you know, I'm in my thirties,
Speaker 1: but just like like I didn't even touch marijuana until
Speaker 1: I moved here because I don't do anything illegal. I
Speaker 1: don't do anything illegal because I know there's no grace
Speaker 1: for me. I know there's no grace for people who
Speaker 1: look like me. And I know so many people who
Speaker 1: are just not even white but just not black who
Speaker 1: kind of have this understanding that they will be given
Speaker 1: great so they can make mistakes and they won't forfeit
Speaker 1: their entire lives. Right, Yeah, I mean it's the same
Speaker 1: thing of like it's funny like when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: people like, oh, let's go on this, let's let's go
Speaker 1: to like grab some ship off this person's on. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: I can't go on with some of the personal fuck
Speaker 1: that we're like what. I'm like, you are white, bro,
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm raised different. My dad told me, fuck,
Speaker 1: all bets are off when you cross somebody's property line
Speaker 1: because some motherfucker literally is waiting for that to do
Speaker 1: harm to you. Yes, like that Martinez been because she
Speaker 1: would she's a tight if a black kid wearing across
Speaker 1: her lawn to just be like, you're on my property.
Speaker 1: That's that mentality one of the most powerful people in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and that's how she views a child. And
Speaker 1: it is it is a completely different thing. And to
Speaker 1: your point, like it's really about people, Americans have to
Speaker 1: evolve their thinking. Say this every fucking almost day. I
Speaker 1: feel like how they define crime, because crime isn't to
Speaker 1: your the version that you know you're pointing out jasmine
Speaker 1: that some people like to believe, which is some people
Speaker 1: are just fucked up bad guys from a comic book character,
Speaker 1: and it's a whole community of them, or a whole
Speaker 1: group of people have been disenfranchised systematically for centuries, are
Speaker 1: left to to to fend for themselves with very little resources,
Speaker 1: are excluded from the traditional economy, so other ways of
Speaker 1: surviving emerge that might be extra legal. Now are these
Speaker 1: people doing it for the fucking fell of it? People
Speaker 1: don't commit crime for fun. If people are committing crimes,
Speaker 1: sometimes a lot of ship is survival crime, and that's
Speaker 1: and it's wrong to look at that and say, well,
Speaker 1: this person stole this ship from a store with I'm
Speaker 1: are people stealing the same ship in the supported communities
Speaker 1: I don't think so, because they have they have access
Speaker 1: to resources. So when you see that ship locked up,
Speaker 1: which you should be saying is oh, we're failing these people.
Speaker 1: We're failing these people. Not these people are fucking criminals. No,
Speaker 1: that the crime is a fucking expression of your failure
Speaker 1: of leadership, not of these people's entrenched you know, genetic
Speaker 1: just predisposition to commit crime. And I think as long
Speaker 1: as we let that narrative cook or be unchallenged with
Speaker 1: like news stories that just take police data of uncritically,
Speaker 1: then we're going to continue that. We'll never be able
Speaker 1: to really get to that point where we have to
Speaker 1: extend that humanity of people. Understand well, the solution is
Speaker 1: actually giving people support. Like every single fucking study shows
Speaker 1: I had never heard the expression extra legal before, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to start running with it, Like I didn't
Speaker 1: know that was an expression and a real thing to say,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to use it to do anything I want,
Speaker 1: Like it was extra legal coming with three coupons, absolutely
Speaker 1: all right? But yeah, yeah, I mean so it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funked up story. We're going to continue to be
Speaker 1: paying attention to the l A City Council and hopefully
Speaker 1: having some people on who can speak to it a
Speaker 1: little bit, because, as we mentioned before, the l A
Speaker 1: City Council is uh, you know, they are some of
Speaker 1: the most powerful people in Los Angeles. But yeah, as
Speaker 1: you guys have mentioned, this is a larger story that
Speaker 1: you know. It's just it's inculcated in every everything. The
Speaker 1: messaging that Black Americans get about their value from culture
Speaker 1: created by people who don't see their value is like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's it's everywhere, and it's enraging,
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, I mean, you know it's and
Speaker 1: I think that's why we're such at such a critical
Speaker 1: moment in the city. Right we have Rick Caruso, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest fucking commercial real estate developers, running to
Speaker 1: be mayor. Yeah, like and and then you have a
Speaker 1: whole group of people in the city council who want
Speaker 1: to be locked step with him to be like, you
Speaker 1: know how we get rid of unhoused people, right, Just
Speaker 1: ship them the funk out of here. Don't stay in
Speaker 1: his lane and just put a Susie Cakes in the mall.
Speaker 1: You just do what this variety in our you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, sticks got he's got your vote if
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I'll replace this the fucking sprinkles of
Speaker 1: Susie Cakes. No, I vote for him as the mayor
Speaker 1: of malls. But God be that, go go be mayor
Speaker 1: mc galeria. Just do that and nothing else. Stay away
Speaker 1: from everything else. All right, let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll talk about AIRBNBA horror movies. And
Speaker 1: we're back. And it's been a real horror movie like
Speaker 1: Bonanza at the box office bosso Bio for horror movies.
Speaker 1: Smile was number one for the second weekend in a
Speaker 1: row this past weekend and a month ago. This movie Barbarian,
Speaker 1: which you're not allowed to talk about, like it's a
Speaker 1: movie where the marketing cavide is like, yo, don't just
Speaker 1: just go see it. Don't say a single damned thing
Speaker 1: about what what it is. So we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about one just one very small part of the
Speaker 1: premise that I think you learned within like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So if if you are really still trying to not
Speaker 1: know a single damn thing about Barbarian, maybe skip. Maybe
Speaker 1: discourse abounds. So part of the reason for Barbarians success
Speaker 1: might be that it features the best horror movie villain
Speaker 1: of recent years, which is Airbnb, so that the premise
Speaker 1: is a woman arrives at a rental, you know, like
Speaker 1: a Airbnb type rental, only to find that some other
Speaker 1: dude is using it and things get worse from there,
Speaker 1: and the things that people are telling you, like not
Speaker 1: to spoil, are more the things that happened after that.
Speaker 1: So I think we're I think we're okay. I've still
Speaker 1: not seen it. I still feel like I can go
Speaker 1: in with eyes closed as to you know, okay, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, but you know what's hilarious. There is
Speaker 1: a Netflix wrong coom with the exact premise, like it
Speaker 1: goes well. So it's called in the Villa because like
Speaker 1: it's called in the Village and it is about this
Speaker 1: girl who has a vacation rental and she shows up
Speaker 1: and a guy is there and she's like, get out
Speaker 1: of my house and he's like you get out of
Speaker 1: my house, and then they start pranking each other and
Speaker 1: fall in love. So I feel like this is like
Speaker 1: the dark coin of that. It's like Frank's must be
Speaker 1: Murders is what you're It's so funny, writer jam is
Speaker 1: pointing out the you know, in in the eighties, the
Speaker 1: big sort of new new idea that they had was
Speaker 1: making horror movies in the suburbs because a lot of
Speaker 1: people were moving to the suburbs and we're like part
Speaker 1: part of the idea was you buy a home, you
Speaker 1: like sink most of your money into owning a home,
Speaker 1: and then the home is Poultergeist, did you know, Like
Speaker 1: the home turns out to be haunted, and so it's
Speaker 1: like a financial horror story as well. But you know today,
Speaker 1: you know, millennials and gen z who can't afford homes
Speaker 1: in the suburbs, that the horror today makes it makes
Speaker 1: sense and just all stories, I guess makes sense being
Speaker 1: about home ownership, but the fact that we're always stuck
Speaker 1: living inside some weirdos property and you know, Airbnb is
Speaker 1: a really clear distillation of that anxiety and all the
Speaker 1: like home rental things that yeah, I mean there's been
Speaker 1: a there's been a bunch of these movies that like,
Speaker 1: there's a movie called The Rental which, even before the
Speaker 1: horror stuff starts, one of the characters is subjected to
Speaker 1: racism from the host, which is a documented huge problem
Speaker 1: in real life airbnbs and Airbnb is like we're trying
Speaker 1: to address it, like they have a They tried in
Speaker 1: one city to just give people the initials of their renters.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if the if the person is going
Speaker 1: to be racist, then it's not going to be a
Speaker 1: good situation. Change that profile pig right. See. But I
Speaker 1: almost I feel like I want the opposite, Like I
Speaker 1: want them to know I'm black so they can just
Speaker 1: deny me before I'm black on their property getting treated poorly.
Speaker 1: Because I thought, I why, it's funny the first time,
Speaker 1: the first time I got rejected from Airbnb, like using
Speaker 1: my own picture, I was just like, oh okay, and
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, Nick, why don't you try getting
Speaker 1: booking this thing real quick? And it's like yeah, instant book.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you know what, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to say no to this fucking place real quick. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it, it happens for sure. And it's funny
Speaker 1: how they try, like you're saying, they try to just
Speaker 1: keep it like like a fucking like a confessional booth
Speaker 1: where it's like I know not of any detail of
Speaker 1: you God's child, right, he's rented my income property. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean this there there was also a long
Speaker 1: trend of people in yeah horror movies that were set
Speaker 1: in hotels, like The Shining Psycho is probably the best
Speaker 1: example of like what if you checked into like really
Speaker 1: the worst possible the hotel situation that you could come
Speaker 1: up with. There's also one that I haven't seen, but
Speaker 1: just the n a creepiness of sleeping in an unfamiliar
Speaker 1: room owned by strangers. But even in that case, like
Speaker 1: the hotel industry, tree wasn't the thing that was itself
Speaker 1: evil And now it feels like airbb just like fits
Speaker 1: much better to the to the extent that the rental
Speaker 1: was also has a plot where the villain is a
Speaker 1: former renter who made copies of the keys and then
Speaker 1: can get into the house and that was sorry, and
Speaker 1: that as a spoiler for the rental, but that was
Speaker 1: actually something that happened in in a real Airbnb that
Speaker 1: resulted in sexual assault, but Airbnb wrote the survivor a
Speaker 1: check for seven million dollars in exchange for a signed
Speaker 1: agreement not to talk about it. So it but so
Speaker 1: the movie came out before anyone knew that that had
Speaker 1: already happened in so it's yeah, it is really like
Speaker 1: scary scary times when the Airbnb is like the in
Speaker 1: your net was like in nine or some ship. We
Speaker 1: were like, we're like just the concept of it like
Speaker 1: embodies so much already, like Airbnb where like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I heard about the races. I'm heard about hiding cameras.
Speaker 1: I hear about people making copies of keys, spying on people.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, okay, there's a lot to play with
Speaker 1: their all of that is see, this is why, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't do horror Like I am a scared, scared bitch.
Speaker 1: I I every other genre movie. I love it. Fun
Speaker 1: facts about myself. I am married to a man that
Speaker 1: is a horror writer. Like, he's an aspiring horror writer.
Speaker 1: He's been published, look reads it, watches it, writes articles
Speaker 1: about it. He was published, Like part of his novel
Speaker 1: was published on the No Sleep podcast. Lives and breathes
Speaker 1: the scary stuff. He's not aspiring, he's a he's an
Speaker 1: actual horror writer. What's funny if he makes me say aspiring, Hey,
Speaker 1: get him in here, let's do some therapy. Because he
Speaker 1: doesn't like to take too much credit, which is like
Speaker 1: so the opposite of l a everything. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: modeled once. So I'm a model, you know, Mike, and
Speaker 1: wasn't a conversial. He's earned money at this I won't
Speaker 1: let me call him an actual whatever that's that's pro okay.
Speaker 1: But he's a pro okay, a pro so young. I
Speaker 1: am so scared of everything, and like I try to
Speaker 1: support this man from a distance, but like he's seen
Speaker 1: every all the scary stuff you' talking about, He seeing
Speaker 1: all of it. And the thing is is I I
Speaker 1: can't do any horror movie made after like two thousand
Speaker 1: two one because everything stopped being supernatural and now like
Speaker 1: the killers are just crazy people, and I can't you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I can't someone in a mask.
Speaker 1: It's like, Hi, I'm your gardener. I needed to be ghost, spirits, demons, goblins, vampires,
Speaker 1: you know some ship that like, you know, my my
Speaker 1: Christian guilt makes me think isn't really you know, if
Speaker 1: it's a guy, a guy who I live with for tonight,
Speaker 1: that is too. It's too scary for me. And also
Speaker 1: I'm on the road a lot. I stayed a lot
Speaker 1: of I only do hotels. Only do chan hotels, I
Speaker 1: like very very specifically for that reason. Also, I just
Speaker 1: hate paying to clean a place you have to clean
Speaker 1: it then pay to have it cleaned one or the other.
Speaker 1: Like why both like thing cleaning feet and cleaning that's stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry three. How about I don't pay that, I'll
Speaker 1: clean the ship myself. Just don't charge me three dollars
Speaker 1: and then asked me to clean too. That stupid. The
Speaker 1: holiday and has got me, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Now do I come in there with my my lifsol
Speaker 1: wipes and like like wipe everything just everywhere, Like but
Speaker 1: I just I just Airbnbs gave me the X One
Speaker 1: time I had to stay in one and the washer
Speaker 1: dryer broke and they like tried to claim I broke it,
Speaker 1: and it was this whole back from that was like
Speaker 1: a legal nightmare, like like they didn't they really couldn't
Speaker 1: prove that I broke it. But just all I did
Speaker 1: was wash my clothes. But it's just it's too much,
Speaker 1: rigam row. It's too it's too much, and they're There's
Speaker 1: also the fact that like you know, I know that
Speaker 1: there were stories about somebody swinging on a swing at
Speaker 1: an Airbnb. It was like an older, older gentleman and
Speaker 1: it was like a rope swing hanging from a tree,
Speaker 1: but because it's not you know, a hotel that has
Speaker 1: a legal team that goes through on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: And I was like, this is a liability. They hadn't
Speaker 1: checked the swing. The branch broke when he sat on
Speaker 1: it and it killed the guy, and like yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's the ship that you just have to when
Speaker 1: you're going into an airbnb or like any situation like that,
Speaker 1: Like these are not vetted, you know, they don't have
Speaker 1: a vetting team that's you know what watching their ass.
Speaker 1: So the doll furniture like just like the cheapest I
Speaker 1: kea furniture with like prison mattresses, Like it's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's because sometimes it truly is a mirage. And
Speaker 1: like you're saying, like how all these films kind of
Speaker 1: like embody some sort of dimension of our current dystopia,
Speaker 1: like an air the promise of an Airbnb and all
Speaker 1: of our dreams and ship thinking the dreams that haven't
Speaker 1: been fulfilled, whether it's regards to being able to trust
Speaker 1: each other, affordable housing, it's all there. It's a great
Speaker 1: premise for a horror movie. Though there's a there's a
Speaker 1: new one coming out called All My Friends are dead
Speaker 1: about a group of there's a quote a group of
Speaker 1: close college friends who get a steal on a killer
Speaker 1: airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year, and
Speaker 1: that worrying. Hey, that language is foreshadowing. That sounds like
Speaker 1: some ship that someone my age had come up with
Speaker 1: an idea one coach and like, you know, fucking crazy, dude. Okay, dude,
Speaker 1: this whole fucking house right, Like we get a fucking
Speaker 1: steal on this place, dude, but it's looking like there's
Speaker 1: a killer that lives in here, dude, and like that's
Speaker 1: the ultimate cost, dude, And we juxtapose that with like
Speaker 1: all the fucking joy that we're feeling. Dude. Yeah, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: chump another one up. Oh that's so, you know what
Speaker 1: you bring a great point about like how millennials we
Speaker 1: can't afford houses, so the dream is just to take
Speaker 1: a nice vacation. And I feel like that's happening with
Speaker 1: every established piece of media, is like we have to
Speaker 1: be more realistic. Like you know how they have the
Speaker 1: housewife franchises. There's a new one called Real Girlfriends of Paris,
Speaker 1: Like we like, no, nobody's a housewife. No one can
Speaker 1: afford to just be married and live in the house.
Speaker 1: All right, now you're just a girlfriend in Paris that work.
Speaker 1: It's like like eat that up, like relatable. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: like the movie that you Know took over the Academy
Speaker 1: Awards a few years back, and as you know, maybe
Speaker 1: I think it'll probably be one of the movies from
Speaker 1: the past ten years that everybody kind of goes back
Speaker 1: to as as like a classic. Is also about people,
Speaker 1: you know, not not being able to afford a house
Speaker 1: and like basically living in a house that doesn't belong
Speaker 1: to them and like, you know, the hell that our
Speaker 1: world of real estate like but so I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Rick Cruso, give up, I'm running for mayor and
Speaker 1: just start generating all the movies based on all the
Speaker 1: horrors you've seen behind the scene of being a real
Speaker 1: estate magnate. I feel like, hey, tune into the new
Speaker 1: Netflix show from the people from Selling Sunset comes Renting Sunset.
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Speaker 1: you've been enjoying, oh so much so to me, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: I love TikTok. TikTok is a big hole for me.
Speaker 1: My current favorite thing is Lineman drama. So apparently and
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Speaker 1: have to travel a lot and they are these women
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Speaker 1: are trying to break up their marriage, and I love
Speaker 1: drama that has nothing to do with me. I don't
Speaker 1: know nothing about electrical wires or this burn the South,
Speaker 1: but I love it. So if you know any more
Speaker 1: Niche specific drama, please drop it in my ni. I
Speaker 1: love it. I live. I was so confused. I was like,
Speaker 1: what is going on? Because the drum like people were
Speaker 1: talking as if like the way we were talking about
Speaker 1: fucking racism, like these fucking basket bunnies and you're like
Speaker 1: basket Utah moms with all of that, the Utah women,
Speaker 1: the soft swinging which is like swinging but you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to do penetration. That is very funny to me.
Speaker 1: The fights between brat stall owners. I I keep up
Speaker 1: with that kind of drama on my TikTok. So if
Speaker 1: you ever just see some video that on my TikTok
Speaker 1: that looks like it has nothing to do with me,
Speaker 1: wait two seconds and then you'll just see a close
Speaker 1: up in my face, Like, I love niche drama, and
Speaker 1: I put I post about one of those a week
Speaker 1: of just stuff I found on TikTok that has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with me. Miles, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: What's the tweet you've been enjoying Twitter and Instagram at
Speaker 1: Miles of Gray. Also check Jack and I out on
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack Got Mad boostis that is our basketball podcast?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this season is so close, so close. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then also if you like trash TV, well come
Speaker 1: watch me and Sophia Alexandra get loud, smoking loud talking
Speaker 1: about ninety day fiance on our show for twenty day Fiance. Uh.
Speaker 1: If that's so pleases you. Okay, some tweets that I like.
Speaker 1: Let's see where is the first one? Oh? Okay, first
Speaker 1: one is from South Streets at Gonna and Jay Boy tweeted,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad the music in the club be loud
Speaker 1: because I'd be farting and ship so just so true.
Speaker 1: Look and great you know that's your time to do it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then another one from at alex Shane Moore tweeted
Speaker 1: living in France will be so cool. You get to
Speaker 1: be rude all day, the hospital is free, your wife
Speaker 1: has six boyfriends, and all you thought about since you
Speaker 1: could remember is dying. You can find me on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Jack Underscore O'Brien. A couple of tweets are like
Speaker 1: Lenz tweeted today will stout shopping. I tried on a
Speaker 1: beautiful jacket. It was the jacket of a customer trying
Speaker 1: on another jacket, and now I can never go shopping again.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would do that ship And also,
Speaker 1: like a tweet from Mike Levenson tweeted, my friends and
Speaker 1: I only talk about people who deserve it. We aren't gossips,
Speaker 1: we are vigilantes. I think that's just a nice way
Speaker 1: to think about you, when you're talking about people who
Speaker 1: deserve it, you know. I like that though, Like, but
Speaker 1: how do you measure that? That heat? Like? All right?
Speaker 1: I like that? Yeah, with it too. I'm like he deserved,
Speaker 1: they deserved. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.
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Speaker 1: today's episode, as well as the song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people
Speaker 1: might I'm I'm still wishing like the temperatures are finally
Speaker 1: starting to drop in l A, and I'm kind of
Speaker 1: caught in between wishing it was warm, but also ready
Speaker 1: to pus leaves on my body. But while I still
Speaker 1: think of the sunlight I think of. This track is
Speaker 1: called and it's by Assume a hair. We did assume
Speaker 1: a hair track maybe a month or two ago, but
Speaker 1: this assume a hair. You drink Bobby DNA and it's
Speaker 1: just again makes you feel like the sun is still
Speaker 1: out a little bit. So if it's gray where you're at,
Speaker 1: maybe put this on just to give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of a you know, a vitamin D like as
Speaker 1: if the sun is shining on you experience. So this
Speaker 1: is uh no, make it a by somewhere well, we
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