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Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production

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of I Heart Radio

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Together Everything.

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So don't ever

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bird Man. Did

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you say Birdman or did you say burp

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Man? Okay, I said Birdman Birdman

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like he says it in the show. Yes,

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welcome, You're

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cast. Never worry about that about

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Birdman. A while back, I got

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reached out. I got approached by

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the creators of the spinoff to Harvey

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Birdman and uh. They

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were interested in talking to me about casting for season

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two. And I was like, oh my god, they want me to be on

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the show. And we set up

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a meeting and I call a phone meeting,

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and we were shooting this ship for like twenty

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minutes before I realized that they didn't

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want to cast me in it. They were asking

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if I wanted to cast it, and I

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said, oh, if you wanted to be the casting director. Yeah.

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Apparently Adult Swim I used to I

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used to a long time cracked, and

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Adult Swim apparently has me on a list of

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casting directors. But it was a big disappointment.

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It was, and

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we all had an awkward laugh and I

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went about my life. Anyway, we can keep this

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story in or we can cut it. I'm

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fine with it. I mean, I'll tell my embarrassing Birdman

1:34

story. Okay, I

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have on a couple of occasions in my life

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shouted it at the moment of climax,

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because it has quite an impact on people,

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especially if they grew up watching the show. Not

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a positive impact. Don't get a lot

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of repeat business when I do that. But

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it's the thing I've done.

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Is this a real story? Robert,

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yes, that I would never lie to you, he

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says, with a twinkle in his eye. Would

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I tell every person one lie?

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Okay, a different one. It's

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a different one for each person. Yeah.

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I once convinced a dear friend

2:17

of mine that the band Hanson had all died in a bus

2:19

crash.

2:20

Oh yeah, well

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that's true. That's how that the

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beautiful thing. I just brought it up like casually

2:26

one day, and then like a year later, we were at a

2:29

party and someone brought Hanson up, and my

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friend was like, Oh, it's so sad, what happened to that

2:33

bus. That's the funniest thing that's ever

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happened. I love. Oh my god. Um,

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I mean, I'm a bad person. This is the worst

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year ever. How are you? Okay?

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Hill's the our names Welcome to the show.

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Oh right, I'm your name. Welcome to

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the show. Welcome to the show. I'm welcome. Welcome

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to the show. Today, Chris

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Pratt, we

2:55

are we are trying to offload all of our narration

2:58

duties onto Mr Pratt. Yeah,

3:01

apparently got the time.

3:06

My name is Katie. That's right. I knew

3:08

there was something I was forgetting. I was

3:10

trying to come up with some sort of Chris Pratt

3:13

joke and I had nothing, and here

3:15

we are. Um, yes,

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this is the joke, Katie.

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I know. I'm just agreeing with

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whomever today. Um,

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I'm good man, I'm Katie, I'm good.

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Yeah. Weekend

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feels like everybody did Halloween up

3:34

this year as opposed to

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last year. Yeah. I was in

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Portland, goes pretty hard on Halloween.

3:41

So they were like kids in the street and

3:44

a party, people doing stuff like it was

3:46

like it was like the first episode

3:48

of Stranger Things. All sorts of kids,

3:51

very festive. It was a good time. No

3:53

no monsters. But I

3:56

had the opposite, Um my neighborhood

3:58

because there's a there's a just school.

4:00

Uh yeah, so they

4:03

do not they do not do the Halloween

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here. We learned when we

4:07

put a bunch of grades. I don't get it, and

4:09

skeletons and got like five

4:12

kids stop by it. You would think that a

4:14

neighborhood, nearest school would be filled with kids.

4:17

Not not that kind of kids. Are not not not

4:19

this kind of it's not that kind of school. They are not allowed

4:22

to enjoy things. Oh that kind

4:24

of No, no, no, not with religion

4:26

in the mix. Speaking of nodding,

4:28

nodding, speaking, are

4:30

we doing heroin, Katie? Is this finally happening?

4:33

Let's do it? I'm on board the

4:36

Halloween? Oh

4:39

uh? Not being

4:42

able to enjoy or whatever. I

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was responding to something and now it's too late.

4:46

Speaking of should we talk about

4:48

some news? Oh? Speaking of that,

4:51

have you talked about the news? We

4:53

didn't talk about discussing this. But

4:56

apparently JFK Jr. Did

4:58

not come and deliver it's to all

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the Q and on people gathered waiting

5:02

for him today when I guess he was opposed

5:04

to a stadium

5:07

in Dallas. Am I am I remembering this correctly,

5:09

Katie? I don't know. I

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know it's on this. Before

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sitting down here,

5:16

I saw the pictures of the people with like the

5:18

Trump candy shirts, like it's

5:20

really funny to me that they think that Trump

5:23

would like like like like if

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JFK Jr. Was select, he

5:27

would be the VP. Like it's so

5:29

weird. It is very funny.

5:31

It's really like the pictures are like

5:34

funny but also like really sad. It's

5:37

a huge bummer. Yeah, it's a big time. It

5:40

is in Dallas. It's in downtown Dallas.

5:43

It does seem like I think

5:45

that it's happening and that Yeah, he was going

5:47

to show tweeted this, but I'm

5:49

going to mention it here. Um before

5:52

the pandemic somewhere you're

5:54

leading up before. I mean, we all knew

5:56

about Q and On, but a lot of people maybe perhaps

5:59

didn't understand what was happening. Um,

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I had an uber driver. Oh,

6:04

I'm sorry on Q and On and

6:07

I well, I mean I bring this up because

6:10

I did think it was silly and funny at the time,

6:12

Like I couldn't wait to tell Cody. But it's

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tragic. It's fucking heartbreaking.

6:16

And he pulled over to show

6:18

me on his phone. He like turned around and pulled up

6:20

his phone and he goes, look at this, and

6:22

it was, um, a collage of tiny

6:25

pictures of jfk Jr. Spelling

6:27

out to and then he just went

6:31

and I mean, sure,

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yep, I see what you're saying here, you

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know, and but it's it's heartbreaking

6:39

and it's very what's awesome is

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so today in Dallas, UM,

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what looked like a couple of hundred people showed up

6:46

anticipating not just JFK Jr.

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To make his announcement to come back to life

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in d Lee Plaza where his dad was murdered,

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UM and to announce

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his his candidacy for

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vice president there, which if

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you just try to get yourself in the head, assuming jfk

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Jr. Was alive, would he pick

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to start his campaign the place where his

7:07

father's head was exploded? Probably?

7:09

I would probably probably not

7:12

Maybe, I mean maybe the

7:14

place you choose is you

7:17

know, I mean, not about your future campaign

7:19

and no, knowing what I know about jfk Jr.

7:22

If he were going to announce his campaign, he would do it

7:24

by crashing a plane into the sea. What

7:27

an announcement feel

7:29

spectacle? Anyway, that's not the news we

7:32

prepared to talk about. So speaking, it's

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a little bit of news speaking of JFK Jr. Thank

7:38

God is well. Biden

7:40

has delayed the release of

7:43

the JFK files. Um

7:46

he had to the assassination

7:48

of his George H. W. Bush, did it

7:52

exactly? Well, so that's the thing,

7:54

Like it's

7:58

like it's first of all, it's wild that like is like

8:00

under the rug just like by the way,

8:02

like we're delaying these So

8:05

okay, the reasoning for this, it's

8:07

just very it's funny, I guess. Um.

8:10

According to the memo issue by Biden, the

8:12

National archivis recommended postponement because

8:14

the coronavirus pandemic. Oh sure,

8:16

yeah, that would that would make it a problem delayed.

8:22

Well, you know, there might be some diseases

8:24

you know, sealed up with them that if we opened

8:26

it now and released it. And it's

8:29

just such a party thing. You know. You

8:31

get you get access to the JFK assassination

8:33

files, you're gonna want to go to the club to read them,

8:35

you know exactly. Um,

8:38

like a key part of this quote, Uh

8:41

that's not even like the kicker so uh,

8:45

because the coronavirus pandemic, it delayed

8:48

the review of records necessary

8:50

to protect against quote and

8:52

identifiable harm to the military,

8:55

defense, intelligence operations, law

8:57

enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations.

9:00

Is of such gravity that it outweighs

9:02

the public interest in disclosure. Um,

9:06

it hurts the image of the United States

9:08

government. So

9:11

I'm very curious what's in

9:13

them. Maybe they meant something

9:15

else. Uh

9:19

So, apparently some documents will be released

9:21

on December, others

9:24

will be late two. Um,

9:28

we'll see about that. We're gonna check in, I guess

9:30

on December to see if they're

9:32

further delayed. Buts

9:35

and they just they're just trying to protect Bernie Sanders.

9:38

So respect to them,

9:40

mad respect What else I

9:43

mean? Uh So,

9:46

a very funny thing has happened, which is that Republicans

9:49

have convinced themselves

9:51

that let's go Brandon is a is

9:54

a real BADASSU standing

9:56

for we explain, let's

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go Brandon. I really just learned about

10:00

that this week. Some sports teams

10:03

fans were yelling fuck Joe Biden,

10:05

and an announcer at the game mishearded

10:07

as let's go Brandon. I think because there was a player

10:09

named Brandon. I don't know, and okay,

10:13

yeah, I didn't want to get into this a little bit.

10:15

It's because it's very silly from from

10:17

both sides it is. I was I wanted

10:19

to talk about the Democrats, but yeah, yeah, yeah, uh.

10:22

From the start of this more

10:24

or less it was I believe it's a Nascar uh

10:27

Nascar, and they were talking to someone named

10:29

Brandon Um.

10:32

And first of all, so like I don't

10:34

know if you know Jesse Kelly from the Federalist, I

10:36

think he he sums up the

10:39

perception of the right about this moment

10:42

very well. Uh.

10:44

It's the original story of an announcer

10:46

blatantly lying about it and then the Communists

10:48

freaking out over any regime criticism

10:50

catching on, which, first of all, I

10:53

don't know if you've talked to any Communists, but they

10:55

are more than welcome to criticize

10:58

Joe Biden and might

11:00

even join in on a chant of Fuck Joe Biden.

11:02

But basically the crowd at this NASCAR race

11:06

was chanting fuck Joe Biden, and

11:08

the reporter was

11:10

talking to someone named Brandon, and she

11:12

was like, oh, look they're listen, They're they're cheering

11:15

for you. There's cheering let's go Brandon Um,

11:17

which I think is an honest

11:20

mistake because Fuck

11:23

Joe Biden, Let's go Brandon.

11:25

She's literally talking to a guy Nam Brandon's a crowd

11:27

of people in a stadium with all these

11:30

like uh like not even in time

11:32

with each other, all these voices from all different

11:34

directions shouting his thing. I think it's perfectly

11:36

reasonable to mishear that

11:38

and like say that, oh, they're saying this for you.

11:41

The right took that to be the fake news

11:44

is lying for Joe Biden. They're

11:46

protecting them. They don't want you to know that they were

11:48

shouting fuck Joe Biden. Um,

11:50

so right off the bat, it's a misinterpretation

11:53

of the actual moment that happened. Feeds

11:55

into their narrative, Like fake news doesn't want you to

11:57

say anything about Joe, feed

12:00

into it. They just why are they even saying that? It

12:02

doesn't I know why

12:05

Biden? Well, but they were, that's the

12:07

thing they were. And now it's like

12:09

a joke. They got it. They finally have a second

12:11

joke. Congratulations, you got a second

12:13

joke. Uh, And it's let's go Brandon.

12:16

And so they've started to say let's go Brandon when they

12:18

mean Joe Biden, not because they're afraid to say fuck,

12:20

but because it's this little in joke they

12:22

have. There was that Southwest Pilot

12:25

and then it kept going Yeah,

12:27

and now it's a thing that's sort of being framed

12:30

as like it's like the new Okay sign,

12:32

it's the new like it's a new Nazi

12:35

thing, and it's like, no, it's just

12:37

a little and

12:39

they don't like Joe Biden. It's a troll joke.

12:42

Yeah, the thing that I I can't. So there's

12:44

a company called Palmetto State Armory which

12:46

makes low end

12:48

gunned parts. It's like cheap low end

12:51

gun parts, particularly a lot in a lot of cases

12:53

for like building your own like a R S

12:55

and stuff. And they release there's

12:57

a thing called a lower receiver. It's the part of the gun

12:59

that's legal the gun. It's like the center of

13:01

an a R fifteen UM.

13:03

And they've been selling for years once

13:05

with different slogans. They there's a bunch of maga

13:08

ones out like that. You can get all sorts of ship

13:10

printed on your fucking guns, um,

13:12

like some of them have it will have it so that like the safety

13:15

says, you know, uh,

13:17

I don't know. There's like pirate ship or like a vast

13:20

in yard like all sorts of like branded silly

13:22

guns. And they put out a let's go Brandon

13:24

rifle and now a bunch of like one

13:26

former FBI agent and a

13:29

bunch of very credulous journalists are

13:31

all like spamming the A t F

13:33

and the Secret Service about this as if

13:35

it's a death threat, which no, they're doing anything

13:37

they always do where they put little memes on their

13:39

guns. It's not a death threat, they're

13:41

not. It's like, yeah, it's deeply

13:44

printing. Let's go Brandon on a rifle. It's

13:46

fine. They have the right to do that. Like shut

13:48

up. Um yeah, I saw that someone

13:51

like like I contact the FBI about

13:53

this, Like, well then you're waste

13:55

of time. So f dear FBI. Someone

13:58

used their free speech. Just write something that it's

14:00

not a threat. Um

14:03

yeah. And like I've seen I've just seen a lot of the media

14:05

like like these like a lot of former FBI agents

14:07

and like CIA and like uh

14:10

just be like media figures just being

14:12

like this is the new like this

14:14

is like maga's zeek hile, Like this

14:16

is like I can't believe you're saying this and treating

14:18

it like this thing. It's like it's totally

14:21

cool and fine and good to save

14:23

fuck whoever the president is. Whoever

14:26

the president. Uh, that's like our

14:28

thing. It's like a really good thing

14:31

to be to be able to do and

14:33

to frame this like it's like this like racist

14:35

dog whistle. Maybe we'll be I don't know. There's

14:38

just plenty of things to be genuinely

14:40

upset about other than this. And

14:42

also the comparison comparing

14:44

it to the okay symbol, it's just

14:48

flat out wrong. That was a symbol

14:50

that got appropriated to

14:52

become something else and then people were using it without

14:55

knowing what it meant, etcetera, you

14:57

know, versus a phrase that was

14:59

created and as a joke. And yes,

15:01

we get to say fuck Joe Biden. If

15:03

you want to say fun Joe Biden, you can just say fun Joe

15:06

Biden. Um,

15:08

and like say it's a silly joke, that's fine, but

15:10

like to view it as this like horrendous thing

15:12

and like then so with the pilot uh

15:17

again it's again it's silly from all sides.

15:19

So like the pilot uh

15:21

shouldn't have probably said that because most

15:23

like most jobs have like don't be political

15:26

to your kid, And there's a

15:28

reasonable case to make, like if

15:30

you're a pilot, all these people's lives are

15:32

in your hands, so completely

15:34

reasonable to be like, well he shouldn't be saying stuff like that.

15:37

Uh, they might have a policy he signed

15:39

saying he wouldn't do stuff like that, and he did, and if

15:41

he did, then there should be some

15:43

sort of consequence for that. But then like

15:46

you just know that if he gets

15:48

fired or disciplined in any

15:50

way, the right is going to take that.

15:52

It's like, see, you can't say anything these

15:54

days. The wokes have like they're

15:57

canceling everybody for let's

15:59

go Brandon. That's a will know. It's like a completely

16:01

reasonable reaction. And if you were

16:03

to flip this and a pilot said fuck Trump

16:05

three years ago, everyone

16:07

would great show well

16:10

he'd I'd be fired. But the people who are

16:12

saying fire this guy would be praising that

16:14

pilot for saying fuck Trump. Like I

16:18

mean maybe not, but like there's

16:22

definitely like and

16:24

unnecessary thing to do from the pilot

16:27

with a bunch of people on your plane as

16:29

a pilot, for sure. Um,

16:31

but I was looking at this because there was a

16:33

pilot h a year or two ago

16:36

that was like telling a bunch of like Trump

16:38

supporters on the plane that he would like drop them

16:40

off in Kansas, like over the p as,

16:42

like I could drop you off in Kansas. It was written up as this,

16:44

like, oh, he's threatening Trump supporters, Like, well,

16:47

no, they were being loud and racus

16:49

on the plane, and much like all

16:51

pilots do, if that happens, he says

16:53

he's going to drop you off somewhere that you're not

16:55

going to go. Um. Yeah, it's

16:57

just all very silly, uh and everyone.

17:01

Yeah,

17:03

And it's if

17:05

the fucking liberals yelling at at this

17:07

point about banning shit, all

17:10

they're doing is making it like easier

17:12

to suppress left wing speech, because

17:15

that's the only thing that would ever actually get suppressed.

17:17

Like no one's ever going to get arrested for whole

17:19

owning a fucking let's go brandon

17:21

a R fifteen, But someone might go to

17:23

prison for having a red flag on their plate

17:25

carrier, like that dude who went

17:28

to prison for three and a half years because he posted

17:30

about organizing in the wake of the January

17:33

sixth attack. Like, anytime you make

17:35

calls like this to suppress speech

17:38

because it makes you kind of uncomfortable,

17:40

all it does is blowback on you and wind up

17:43

getting people in prison who are not

17:46

not your enemies. Because

17:48

that's the way our government and our law enforcement

17:50

system works and you should be smarter than

17:52

that, you fucking dummies. Yeah,

17:55

um, I don't know or not, but like

18:00

it's also silly. Let them say, there's let them

18:02

say, let them say their second joke. Yeah,

18:04

it's supid joke. And it's like, just from

18:06

a practical standpoint, did you go to a

18:09

fucking public school. If so, you

18:11

know that the fastest way to kill

18:13

something like this is not to talk, is just

18:15

to ignore it, don't give it air.

18:17

Yeah, yeah, there's a reason if

18:22

we weren't reacting to it in some capacity,

18:26

it would blow over. Um

18:28

speaking of blow over m time

18:31

for some ads. I

18:35

hated it. You're gonna blow us them at your way together

18:44

everything, don't don't back

18:52

the red leave

18:54

India there. Um,

18:58

let's talk about Elon

19:00

Musk, right,

19:04

are we tweets?

19:14

Um? Yeah,

19:18

we're going to talk about him trolling

19:20

the director of View and Food Scarcity Organization

19:23

on Twitter, because that's what

19:25

it was. He's trolling him. Um

19:29

yeah, basically saying he would give him

19:31

six billion dollars if he could prove how

19:34

that would solve world hunger. And

19:36

there's a lot of things about this stupid

19:38

conversation that people it seemed to

19:40

be getting wrong. One

19:44

on the surface is like, how many of the

19:46

Elon musk it's Elon

19:48

Muskets, what's the term for them.

19:52

Yeah. I actually thought that this was like some generous

19:54

offer, Like yeah, like

19:56

the time he fixed the water in Flint, Michigan,

19:59

which he totally he did, or the

20:01

time that he saved those kids in that cave,

20:03

which he totally did. You know the

20:06

other times he's done this and it wasn't scam.

20:09

It's been a superhero. Um. This

20:12

has been framed like as a response

20:14

to to um,

20:16

you know, the claim that six million

20:19

dollars from billionaires would

20:21

fix world hunger. But that's not what

20:23

happened exactly,

20:26

UM. But rather it was suggested

20:29

that it would go a long way in helping.

20:32

I don't know, the whole thing really frustrated

20:35

me. This is from CNN. This is what was actually

20:37

said. Billionaires need to step up now on a

20:39

one time basis, said David Beasley

20:41

in an interview on CNN's Connect the World with

20:43

Becky Anderson Tuesday, setting specifically

20:46

the world's two richest men, Jeff Bezos

20:48

and Elon Musk, six billion dollars

20:50

to help two million people that

20:52

are literally going to die if we don't reach them.

20:54

It's not complicated. He added,

20:57

a perfect storm of several crisis

20:59

is such as climate change in the COVID nineteen pandemic.

21:01

Mean many nations are knocking on Famine's door.

21:05

Just true. That's the thing we've been talking

21:07

about for a long time. I mean, first off,

21:09

don't knock on that door. Stay away from

21:11

Famine's house. But stay then

21:14

away from you just don't. It's

21:16

not it's not going to be cool. You don't need to be there.

21:19

Don't funk with famine. Um.

21:23

This is a side note. I'm not sure if

21:25

you guys saw this. There's probably been a variety of articles.

21:27

I read an article on Daily Beast this week

21:29

about how the military is actually is already

21:32

preparing for climate

21:34

change wars. Um

21:37

and they've spawned from fit by famine.

21:40

Um. And and many people believe that it's already

21:42

started. Yeah, and they've started. The

21:44

kind of transfer of military equipment to police has

21:46

been accelerated for police departments who can

21:48

make a climate change use case for their

21:50

equipment because the way in which

21:53

the ruling class is going to deal with

21:55

the consequences of the world that they've

21:57

refused to let us change in any meaningful

22:00

way. Is they're going to arm

22:02

the cops more, Uh, in

22:04

order to stop people from

22:07

taking any kind of justice, and in order to

22:09

protect the increasingly small enclaves

22:11

that they have to protect themselves from,

22:13

you know, the consequences of yeah,

22:16

climate change. Uh, it's cool stuff.

22:18

And police are way better to do that within the

22:20

military, because, for one

22:22

thing, soldiers are not

22:24

as indoctrinated in fucking

22:27

cult bullshit as cops are. Uh,

22:29

And it's harder to get them to murder

22:32

their families for you. But cops will murder

22:34

all anybody's fans. Don't give a ship as

22:36

long as you let them live in a slightly nicer

22:38

neighborhood than everybody else. They'll they'll

22:40

they'll fire into a crowd with live ranmo. They don't give

22:43

a fuck anyway. I

22:45

mean no, that's yeah,

22:48

right on the money. Um. This

22:50

is this is a quote from the Daily Beast.

22:52

Um just along these lines. I'm just using

22:54

this to point out what's happening

22:57

around the world. According to a recent article

22:59

published by the political risk analysis

23:01

firm Global Risk Insights, there may already

23:03

be reasons to think violence in Somalia is

23:05

linked to climate change. Millions of

23:07

Somali people have begun to face food and

23:10

security after almost continuous dry spells

23:12

since the East Africa

23:14

drought. Um. Anyway

23:16

it goes on, that is just to point out what

23:18

it is that we're looking at and how this it's

23:21

already happening and will continue to accelerate. Um.

23:24

And here he is trolling

23:27

the guy in creating all of this conversation.

23:30

Yeah, he doesn't actually care. Um. It's

23:32

well, it's it's frustrating because like he's

23:34

responding in a way that like he

23:36

doesn't mean any of it. Even if

23:39

there was, there's

23:42

there's nothing you could

23:45

present him with, not even the clearest action

23:47

study, like laying out dollar

23:50

by dollar how you would actually eliminate

23:53

hunger using his money would get him to give you a

23:55

dime. Also, just

23:58

some points here, because there's been a lot of chatter

24:00

back and forth of like actually dot mount

24:02

of money wouldn't begin to you know, tip

24:04

of the iceberg in this whole conversation about

24:07

how there was eight billion just last

24:09

year, um, and that didn't solve

24:11

it. Again, this isn't about solving. This is about helping.

24:13

And the point of the six billion was yes too,

24:16

include what's happening now recently, the

24:18

the the effects of the pandemic

24:21

and climate change, and all the different insecurities

24:23

and instabilities around the world, etcetera. The

24:26

whole thing has been discussed.

24:31

There's also the fact, like, yes, like

24:33

you can't just pour money and to solve hunger

24:35

because there's a lot of different political and military

24:38

realities, a ton of different things

24:41

that kind of feed

24:43

into the fact that people are starving in

24:45

the world. But one thing that would

24:47

help to eliminate starvation is

24:50

if a tiny, tiny fraction

24:52

of the world's population did not hoard all

24:54

of the wealth and fight egregiously

24:57

against any kind of reform to make climate

24:59

change less devast dating and against

25:01

any kind of reform to reduce inequality

25:03

not just within the United States but globally

25:06

and thus increase the ability of people to take

25:08

care of themselves. Um and

25:10

Elon Musk's money is

25:12

a symptom of that problem.

25:15

Um And know him giving away six

25:17

billion dollars doesn't solve

25:19

anything but us building the world in which he doesn't

25:21

get to accumulate that kind of money. Exactly,

25:24

exactly, Although yeah, give away

25:26

billions of dollars if people

25:29

can eat for a year because you did that, even

25:31

if it's not solving the world's

25:33

climate crisis. But I'm not even asking that. I'm talking

25:35

about changing the structure, the systemic structure,

25:38

and how we let

25:40

them get away with this ship, and yeah,

25:43

we're gonna solve the world's problems

25:45

and it's gonna be great. I

25:47

find elon must to be so distasteful

25:50

and frustrating and uh. I

25:53

also Mr Jeff Bezos

25:56

has discussed his planned

25:59

to give a couple of billion

26:01

dollars to plant trees. I believe, yeah,

26:04

which doesn't I mean, it's

26:06

it's a miniscule piece

26:09

of of of an effective but like, actually

26:11

just adding trees doesn't do much.

26:14

Number one, re foresting,

26:17

like damaged forests, does a lot

26:19

more than just kind of planting new ones that you've already

26:21

destroyed and without kind of the secondary

26:23

species that grow up around it. The

26:26

forests aren't much of a

26:28

climate a carbon sink actually, and

26:30

also have very little resilience to fire.

26:32

Anyway, there's a whole bunch of reasons why planting

26:34

trees is part of of

26:36

of a successful real wilding

26:39

project, but it's like the twenty

26:42

percentage of it, Like I mean,

26:44

like most things, the climate, Uh, there's

26:46

so many different factors that go into it and so

26:48

many variables that you need a multi

26:50

pronged approach to actual suppress it. Um.

26:53

And I just find it's

26:56

frustrating when so he spoke to

26:58

this climate summit Glasco and

27:02

you gotta say it right, Glasgow

27:06

glars gums, that's

27:09

a glars gum conference. That that's

27:11

what they call it. He was at, Uh,

27:13

here's this just like a little choice quote from

27:15

his speech. Um,

27:18

we've discussed this before, but I was told

27:20

that seeing the Earth from space changes the lens

27:22

from which you view the world, But I was not

27:24

prepared for just how much. And

27:27

I just find it very funny that

27:29

he keeps coming back to this idea that his

27:32

space flight changed his perspective to

27:35

the point where like what he's doing is just like,

27:37

yeah, there's like some money for

27:39

this, Like he the things he's doing

27:41

are things any like reasonable

27:44

adult with that kind of money would know needs to

27:46

be done. Like there's

27:48

no like profound change

27:52

in his behavior, Like he shouldn't

27:54

have required to go to space to

27:57

realize this. No, it's a talking point that

27:59

he gets to say, yeah,

28:01

it would be It would be rad if he was

28:03

like, you know what, space changed me, and so

28:05

I am completely rejiggering and revamping

28:08

Amazon into an armed militia to murder

28:10

fossil fuel executives. That would

28:12

be kind. I would.

28:14

I would alter my opinions on Jeff Jesus.

28:16

I would. I would be like, you know, that's a man who's changed.

28:20

But like this is like just like it amounts

28:22

to like, yeah, you're like a grown

28:25

adult. You know

28:27

that the climate is important and

28:29

the climate change is real. So

28:31

like, what did you actually learn? Um?

28:34

Speaking of change? M this

28:37

is a good one. How about

28:39

that coin toss for good luck fighting

28:42

the climate emergency?

28:46

I don't know. Yeah, no, they solved

28:49

it. They threw all the money

28:51

in the pond. They solved it.

28:54

Very It's like it's obscene a little bit.

28:57

Did you see Joe Biden fall asleep during

28:59

the same Joe,

29:01

Yeah, I mean honestly

29:04

though, yes, you know, but it's the

29:06

most important meeting ever because

29:08

it's gonna fix the

29:11

climate. I don't know. I

29:13

hate the idea that

29:16

I have a meeting like this, there's

29:18

any chance that it could it could help

29:20

things because even

29:23

show up. Yeah, yeah,

29:26

it's pointless, there's no no value

29:28

in them doing this. Apparently Russia

29:31

once. I mean now the new you

29:34

know, trade wars will be who

29:36

gets to control the new

29:38

waterways as the Arctic melts. Um,

29:42

that's big on Russia's list here. Um.

29:46

Yeah, it's all depressing. I

29:49

don't know that there's much to talk about in

29:52

because it's still ongoing. Go ahead, coody. So then

29:54

the all the people there, the nations

29:57

there have committed to achieving carbon

29:59

neutrality by

30:01

four around mid century,

30:04

so getting

30:07

there right on it or around yeah,

30:11

um,

30:13

good, it's

30:15

hard. It's like it's as bad. It's

30:18

a bad situation, guys. I mean people

30:20

around the world look to the U. S

30:22

U. S is the you know, I

30:24

think, the worst pollutic, worst

30:26

polluter per person, yeah,

30:30

in the world, and people look to the United

30:33

States to lead the way.

30:35

And of course we we we removed ourselves

30:38

from the Paris Climate

30:41

Agreement under Trump, which

30:44

you know Biden apologized for this week.

30:48

Um, But in general, the

30:50

world looks to us, and we can't get anything done.

30:53

Joe Biden can't pass his own climate

30:55

initiatives here in the United States,

30:57

so they're supposed to

31:00

to follow our lead. How

31:03

you know what I mean. Anyway, we're America,

31:05

We're leaders, will do it. Yeah,

31:09

I don't know. I oh,

31:11

I just get an email from Sepack. Cool.

31:14

Are we going this year? Start your week

31:16

by saving America? How

31:19

it's about the election in Virginia. Well that's a nice

31:22

pivot. There's an election in Virginia.

31:24

Should we take a break and then do that after the ads?

31:27

Yeah, break

31:34

together everything,

31:45

welcome back

31:48

the show. You

31:51

are listening to. It's election

31:53

day, everybody, do you

31:55

want to talk? It's been a fucking

31:57

year since the election.

31:59

That's a rip the election. Um,

32:03

that's weird. It's weird to think

32:06

that it was just a year ago, and that it was only

32:08

a year ago for me personally, Um,

32:11

and how stressed

32:14

out I was this time last year,

32:17

just losing my mind. It

32:20

was me, it's a lot

32:22

of people. Yeah,

32:24

but we did it and then

32:26

fixed everything after that, right.

32:30

Yeah, that's why this series just flown by

32:33

all the progress that's been made. You know, I can't

32:35

even keep track of it. I

32:38

couldn't even get to list all the progress that's

32:40

been made. We got

32:43

the oh I mean

32:45

he uh,

32:47

you know, the he

32:50

did he did repeal some of the

32:52

bands on people serving in the military.

32:55

So now all that additional money

32:57

going into the military can go more

33:00

people in

33:03

state. The remain in Mexico.

33:07

Paul, Yeah, that's why there's nobody

33:09

in concentration camp. Success

33:12

to m hmm. I

33:15

just love that we got out of Afghanistan.

33:18

And then uh

33:22

oh, I mean the murdering kids thing we've just been doing

33:24

for forever, that's not new. Um,

33:27

old hat they called old hat

33:30

a b MC. We got everybody

33:33

faxed up

33:36

with open everything

33:39

back up, and uh,

33:43

the bills are happening, you

33:45

know. Uh, we started much

33:49

like golf, you want it to be lower,

33:51

so we're getting it down to like one point

33:53

two trillion, which is a good score

33:56

for golf politics. Yep,

33:59

that how bills work. Yes, yes,

34:04

okay, m hm

34:07

yeah. Uh what

34:11

did you guys want to talk about now? It seem like

34:13

there's enthusiasm to talk about this election

34:15

day stuff. I mean, you know, Virginia

34:18

Republicans are trying to take the

34:20

state Congress back from a Democratic

34:23

majority that's that's thin, but

34:25

but has been in place for a little while now.

34:27

Um, I think it's an eight seed advantage in

34:29

the House. Um. In a pretty

34:31

split Senate Uh,

34:34

everything is going to be up for election

34:36

in two but like there's some stuff

34:39

I don't know up now, and then there's uh,

34:42

what's his name this? Uh

34:45

Terry mcaulliff, Terry who

34:50

sucks? Also, yeah,

34:55

those is an old friend of Hillary's. Yeah,

34:58

and Terry mccaulliff set a bunch

35:00

of great ship about what

35:02

happened in Charlottesville and then did absolutely

35:04

nothing to hard.

35:07

I know we haven't talked about this election very much,

35:10

um or at all, but

35:13

it part of it is that is that I'm

35:16

not enthusiastic about

35:19

either candidate. Obviously we would prefer to

35:21

have a Democrat win, but um,

35:23

this is a really really tight race.

35:26

You Kin was slightly ahead

35:28

in the polls, but it's unclear. Um

35:32

Biden wants it to be known

35:35

that that this

35:37

race does not reflect his White House performance.

35:40

Donald chump Um

35:42

comes into the last minute and endorses

35:44

Glenn Yunkin so that he doesn't

35:46

get responsibility if he loses, but he also

35:49

gets to say that he helped him win. Ah,

35:51

YadA, YadA, YadA. This absolutely

35:54

should be something that we're looking to as

35:56

a signal as to what's going on and

35:58

what we might expect in Um,

36:02

it's maybe not the be all,

36:04

end all indicator, but it's worth

36:07

paying attention to. Yeah,

36:10

I mean, I

36:13

guess the mid

36:15

terms were I

36:18

had some stuff to tell us about, uh

36:21

where the nation was headed. The mid

36:23

terms certainly will, but then also

36:26

the Democrats didn't do anything with it. So

36:28

I don't know, Like I just what

36:31

do? What do? I is

36:33

all the Democrats can promise me that they're

36:35

not gonna like be as nakedly fascistic

36:38

as the Republicans, because that's, um,

36:41

I'm not gonna do it. That's how

36:43

I feel. I'm okay. So there's a pole

36:45

that of the

36:47

country thinks that

36:50

we're heading in the wrong direction. I

36:54

roll my eyes at that pole a little bit in

36:56

that. I'm like, we'll give me specifics. Yeah,

36:58

I think that we all can agree that we're not doing something

37:01

right, but I think that there's a disagreement as to what

37:03

we're doing wrong. Like some of those

37:05

people, uh you know,

37:08

are mad about it things for different reasons, but in general,

37:10

I think everybody's mad that nothing's happening and

37:12

nothing's changing, and that the problems

37:16

are blatant um

37:19

and there's absolutely no progress, no action,

37:22

and no backbone yeah,

37:25

and it's you know, the the attitude is

37:27

is just like what we have to compromise. We have to

37:29

compromise, you can't get everything. And it's like, well, but we're

37:31

not getting anything. Mansion isn't moving

37:33

his number at all. We're just going

37:36

down to him. He's dictating your entire

37:38

agenda, and

37:40

nobody else's opinion matters on anything.

37:43

I another thing I tweeted, but I was

37:46

like, I was thinking about, like if if Donald

37:48

Trump was

37:50

president and you know, Joe

37:53

Mansion was holding up his

37:55

entire agenda, he

37:58

would be pubally shaming

38:00

him talking about it on Fox News.

38:02

And I'm not saying that I want Joe Biden to do that, but

38:05

in general, there there's

38:08

a difference in messaging that happens that

38:10

we are so bad at We're so bad at

38:12

playing this game of public opinion

38:15

of of you know anyway,

38:18

Yeah, I

38:20

mean, and there's a bunch of ships. Like part of

38:22

the problem is that there's a bunch of ship Biden could have done even

38:24

without Mansion in cinema that Trump

38:27

would have done the right wing equivalent

38:29

of like he could get rid of student loan debt

38:31

um, he could do an emergency Authoration

38:34

authorization UM to expand

38:36

medicare, he could fucking push to legalized

38:39

pot, Like what the fuck we haven't

38:41

we haven't done that ship yet, Like it's

38:43

the that's that's the kind of thing that actually does have

38:46

like bipartisan support, and yes,

38:48

it's the one thing everybody wants and we

38:50

like just why no, I'm not going to take

38:53

this easy dunk this, Like

38:57

nobody would be against it's it's political

39:00

suicide to be against legalizing pot.

39:03

But but apparently not because he

39:05

was pretty clearly against it and became

39:07

the president. So yeah,

39:10

but it wasn't that was not what the The election

39:12

was a referendum on and pot polled better

39:14

than anyone. Like he didn't. He didn't. He also didn't

39:17

make it a thing at all. Yeah, he didn't. I'm not

39:19

gonna do it. He was like, yeah, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah.

39:22

Um. And he and he he specifically

39:24

like didn't really talk about it. Where where

39:27

Uh what's his fucking name is

39:29

it? Grasp? No? Um, oh, I'm

39:31

forgetting which Democrat? But one of one of the Democratic

39:35

Congress people was constantly talking, uh

39:39

Schumer. Where Schumer was constantly talking about

39:41

like yeah, we're gonna we're it's gonna come up for a vote.

39:44

We're gonna decriminalize it, like we're going to do

39:46

it. Uh nothing, fucking

39:48

crickets um. And at some next

39:51

election, some fucking Republican or

39:53

Trump is gonna just jam that in

39:55

with murdering trans people

39:57

on the ballot in the win an election.

40:00

Yeah, sprinkling those things with the

40:03

bad things. And but

40:06

that's you know, the how the Democrats

40:08

are smart, they know how to deal with

40:12

politics. Yeah,

40:17

they just find uh,

40:20

Marjorie Taylor greenyod dollars

40:22

for not wearing a mask on the House floor.

40:24

Oh, that's gonna make her a lot of money.

40:27

That is going to make her a lot of money. Yeah, that's gonna

40:29

be nothing. That's gonna make her more than

40:32

absolutely probably going to pay

40:34

your salary to yeph. Probably

40:36

gonna help her get reelected when she needs

40:39

to do that too. Yep. She's

40:41

been fine twenty times for not wearing a

40:43

mask. After receiving initial warning in May,

40:46

she was find five dollars for her first spense

40:50

for each subsequent offense. Well

40:53

functioning nations, so great,

40:57

we're all clearly doing well. We

41:00

end on something nice. Everybody say something recommends

41:02

something that they've been watching. I'll start the

41:05

next thing. You should eat David

41:07

Chang's new show. It's really good. I've only watched

41:09

a couple episodes. It's fascinating. You

41:12

know. Each one talks about different elements

41:14

of the food industry, you know, the future

41:16

of meat, how it's going to be grown, how

41:18

restaurants are having to evolve during the

41:20

pandemic. That one's actually kind of hopeful. Um,

41:23

it's interesting. I like it. Hm.

41:28

I recommend going

41:30

outside taking a deep breath of that

41:33

one. Yeah, that's a good one.

41:36

Succession is good this season. Succession,

41:40

you pick one. I've been

41:42

pickling. We we just I pickled the last

41:44

of my harvest last night. Got a lot of pickled

41:47

onions and green tomatoes. And

41:49

when the pickles are fully pickled,

41:51

I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna fry

41:54

out some of those pickled green tomatoes. It's gonna be good

41:56

as hell. How long does that take? No?

41:58

No, probably a week or so. I'll leave them

42:02

pickling before I cook the first of it.

42:05

Um, yeah, not not much.

42:07

Other than that, I watched Detroitter's Finally

42:10

you'll see Detroitter's tim

42:13

Robinson from I think you should leave? Yeah,

42:15

you well and Sam Richardson right, Yeah,

42:17

and Sam Richard. I haven't seen

42:20

all of it, but Sam. We love Sam. He used to work at

42:22

Cracked while he would be in stuff um

42:25

a Cracked. He's goddamn

42:28

delight. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a

42:30

good record, great show. Best

42:33

Halloween costumes this year by far

42:36

Oh Yeah, I think you should leave costumes.

42:38

I am. I am absolutely

42:41

in love with how thoroughly

42:43

that show understands what the internet

42:45

wants. It's like every skit is

42:47

just crafted to be a thing that people

42:50

lose their goddamn mind home Runs watched

42:53

it, yet you

42:55

don't watched. I think you should leave. You really, I've

42:57

seen I've seen an episode that was very

42:59

fun. Me. I'll send you

43:01

some. I'll send you gotta you gotta watch

43:05

the best so much of I think you

43:07

should leave skits like one

43:09

way or another, explain things happening

43:11

in the world, like n f T S or just the

43:14

Dan Flashes skit like they

43:16

all function on Dan Flashes logic, and

43:18

it's it's it's beautiful that

43:20

I don't even think that was intentional. There's

43:22

just there's just so much wonderful human

43:24

nature in that show. But a great show playing

43:28

the prank in the mall. Yeah,

43:31

yeah, it's it's all. It's all great, it's

43:34

all great. So this is this

43:37

is what we're reduced to because

43:39

we're so tired of the

43:41

fucking I know. I just wanted

43:43

a moment of talking to some friends about before

43:46

we signed off, because so bleak.

43:49

Are you guys watching the last season of Insecure?

43:52

No? I don't. Yeah, it's really

43:54

good so far. Recommend

43:57

Insecure if you haven't watched it, it's

44:00

on their fifth and last season, highly recommend.

44:02

And then music can't

44:05

go wrong with music, Yeah, you can't. I'm

44:07

also reading based

44:09

on last week

44:12

I was gonna say. I was also reading Coltish by

44:14

Amanda Montell, which Robert and Garrison recommended

44:16

to me. And it's really good so far. I

44:19

was hoping you're going to say, and it's bad.

44:21

Why did you guys recommend this? This is No,

44:24

it's really good so far. It's really it's I

44:26

mean, it's intense, but it's good. Yeah.

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I had a terrible

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experience with music recently where

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I was listening, so I got sent a

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song that was like made up of a bunch of cut up

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star Trek the Next Generation clips and I was like,

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oh, this is fun. And then I

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looked into the artist and it turns out he's

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fucking fascist. I

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was like, oh no, why

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why did I Why did I look up this person?

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Why why would I do that? I should know, but I never

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looked You never look up people.

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All right, Well again

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we were having never look up anything, never

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enjoy anything. Wait wait, no, no no, you're

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right, you're right. Go outside, take a breath of fresh while

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you can. That's right, enjoy

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it while you can. Motherfucker's

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us. You can check us out online.

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At worst, your pod, that's right, Robert

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Jesus one an episode. You've got to get her act together?

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Yeah, every so

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everything. I

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