November 7, 2018 • 60 mins
In episode 269, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Adam Sandler's new Netflix special, midterm elections, the GOP's list of things they need to respond to once the Democrats take the house, aliens, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season fifty six, episode
three of Dailies Eyed Guys, the podcast where you take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness and unconscious using
the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings. You're gonna keep
this skulling the whole time. That's amazing. What's trending on
Google and social media and the polls? I guess today? Uh,
(00:22):
it's Wednesday, November seven, two thou eight teen. My name
is Jeck O'Brien. A. Hey, MIZI gang, are you with me?
Where you went from the Gray to the Jack daily
Z's on attack? Oh courtesy of Job eight oh six,
and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
co host, Mr Miles Gray. So when I'm around you,
(00:44):
grabby can't touch? Does I you make my temperature? My
you're making me pray, big baby? Anyway, thank you for that.
Tony Braxton is priored hashtag ak to see Yamaguchi Maine
(01:04):
also shout out to at mother of Ferbiees. I know
that's your Twitter identity, but yes I know your sister.
She's the home girl. And yes you don't have to
hide on Twitter anymore. Bro. That's an inside joke, okay
for that person, for that one person. My favorite kind
of joke you have on a exactly. I use it
as my you know, tin can with a string attached
(01:24):
to just talk to the private people across anyone else
you want to talk to. No, I'm just you know,
my state because of what we just had to go through.
But anyway, Jesus, we will get to it. We are
thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the
hilarious Sophia Alexandra. Hello, and thank you for having me.
Thank you for being here. Oh my god, how are
(01:45):
you feeling. I'm feeling, you know, hanging in there. There
you go, real red on feeling awesome. Yeah. We uh.
We lived through election night and I almost had a
mental breakdown when I saw the five thirty eight like
(02:08):
five pulling thing go into the you know, the house
was going to go to the Republicans, like percent. You
were sucking beating me with your phone, like looking at
that page and you kept going, all right, it says
seven and eight now one out of going on. I'm like, yo,
I know, but I guarantee most of the country was
(02:30):
having that same experience. Yeah, but I was not. I
was avoiding looking at some kind of forecasting model because
it was the same here all over the person. I'm like,
let me look at races individually. So but you were
so I could see in your eyes, like what was happening.
It was just a flashback to two thousand sixteen where
I was like, well Hillary still got this in the
bag all the way to than I did last year
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last election, where you know, I had hope right this election,
I was like, let's be real, but I think we'll
get the house, you know. And then what I did
was I kept telling myself. I was like, Sophia, this
is like basketball. It's the fourth quarter that decides everything.
You don't stress out until the fourth quarter. And then
(03:16):
when I was like, oh, somehow people are still voting
for Ted fucking Cruise, that was when it all made
me quite women in particular went big to Ted Cruise.
I guess white men also, did you know what I'm saying,
hurt using this cast? We really we just took liberties
(03:36):
with the whole format right there, because we're all we
got some anxious energy. Well we're gonna so if you
were going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. But first we're gonna take our
listeners through what we're talking about today. Uh, we're gonna
talk about the Adam Sandler concert to Fresh is very good.
(03:59):
We were going to talk about that the entire show
if the house had gone the other way, but instead
we're gonna talk about the election. It was that or fiance,
but I do not know anything about dance compromise. We'll
we're gonna talk about insane news that people intentionally released yesterday,
like Amazon dropped their big HQ will be in Queens
(04:22):
and Arlington news on election day that was just bad
decision making, and the New York Times put up a
comi op ed which was weird and imped policies honestly,
like combined by a high person. Or Yeah, we're just
gonna talk about the experience of watching the election for
anybody who watched it live as the results were coming in.
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Then we'll talk a little bit about what we have
in front of us as citizens of this nation with
a split Congress. We're gonna talk about Fox News denouncing
Sean Hannity because Fox News is apparently still thinks that
some people think that their objective. And then we're gonna
talk about the story that I was consoling myself with
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during the time when tracking poll like went wildly in
the opposite direction. There may be alien life. This weird
object came into our solar system, and we're gonna talk
about it. Why why people think it might be alien
life exactly? But first, Sophia, what is something from your
search history that is revealing about who you are or
(05:27):
where are you at? Um? It was mostly anxious political things,
but also I guess I looked up that Arianta Grande
ponytail thing because I'm a piece of ship that what
is it? Yeah? She was like, I do it all
the time. I put it, put my hair in a
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ponytail all the time, even though it hurts all the time.
Oh no, it hurts. I just remember seeing that this morning.
I was like, honestly, not today, God, any other day.
I would love to hear about her poor scalp from
having it in that up. Yeah. Here's the thing about
that is a couple of years ago, a story was
I'm so sorry, listeners, the story was trending. I needed
(06:12):
something to distract me from the attention. Yeah, so uh.
A couple of years ago story was trending that she
was wearing her hair in a ponytail all the time,
because I google this, I was like, what is that,
bitches problem? Like why is that the only hairstyle specific look?
And it was a trending story that basically she was
doing it because her hair got so ruined from like
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when she was on that Disney show and I got
died all the time. And then I was like, but
that doesn't make sense, because you put your hair back
in a ponytail has like more chances of like your
hair falling out. We would want to kind of just
leave it loose. So I was like, that doesn't make sense.
But then I was like, Sophia, you've already spent more
time thinking about this than it deserves. So that I
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shoved that until the story yesterday, which was like ye yeah,
a couple of years later, and I was like, I
knew it. I've always been fascinated by her, like her
ponytail thing and the fact that because we did a
story back when I was cracked about the fact that
she basically went back on an entire photography session because
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they photographed her from the wrong side. She was like,
I only do left side, Like you cannot photographed me
from the other side, and then I was noticing, like,
she's the only famous person who like always has the
same hair do like every time she's seen in public,
and I was like, wow, she really carefully cultivates her image.
Like we studied Bruce Willis movie posters and found that
(07:38):
he like cocks his head to the same like fifteen
degree angle on every movie poster just because he's like, yeah,
my head looks good at that angle. It's like the
famous people are very it looks, but they're experts at
like very minute details of how they come off to
other people. When I worked in video will head, yes,
(07:59):
it's just a a goal circle. And also he looks
kind of like just a turtle, so what's he worried?
But very like thuggish one. Yeah, but yeah, no, Ariana
Granni will not let you show her non dimple side.
That's what it is. It's her non dimple side, which
I learned quickly to working with her. And then there's
like a lot of bands do this, Like there's one
band called the Neighborhood and they only allow you to
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shoot them in black and white, Like alright, dude, okay, thanks,
you know, but I guess ay, you gotta be real
careful about how you present your image out there. So
that's but it's like funny because knowing that about how
careful your images makes your image not really and just
makes slanning. Yet, but maybe it only hurts you two
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people who are paying attention, which, as we'll get to
there aren't that many of those. There are more people
who aren't paying attention in this country of errors. So
uh yeah, maybe it works out in the end. What
is something you think is overrated? Okay? You know I
love this part overrated? Underrated? So Larissa from Let's stop,
(09:07):
don't get me started? Okay, So I think that what's
overrated is like backlashers, you know, like people today we're
posting all of these selfies with their I voted stickers,
And then of course I was like, how many seconds
till the first backlasher posted there a little oh I'm
(09:29):
I'm an edge lord status word no where they're like, oh,
I love how we reward ourselves for doing the basic
minimum of democracy by posting a said, oh, narcissism combined
with democracy that is so American, And I was like,
Jesus fucking Christ, shut the people have to you know,
(09:53):
I think what you're calling, but it is a very
specific thing where it's like they get the very front
end of a trend before that is just a positive
thing and just have to jump in, like what's the
contrarian angle? I can take on a thing that everyone
is just appreciating and enjoying, right, and it annoys me
that it becomes a thing like for example, like you know,
(10:13):
people going, uh talking about the Doors sucking. I'm like, Okay, objectively,
they're a fucking band. They're you just don't like to
like them, That's fine, let's just be like suddenly they're trash.
They suck. Yeah, it's just like the Backlashers when they
have a big there's a lot of you know, there's
a lot of doors hid in this building. People don't know.
(10:35):
It's very close band to my family, you know. I
love them. Yeah, I think they're a great band when
you're a certain age. And then dude, I'll straight up
stand for Sublime. I was just at a three eleven concert, Okay,
I can't stop. I feel like the Backlasher is a
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social media thing that has take in the place of
what used to be like newspaper columnists like newspaper columnists
used to be like what's the like the andy the world, Like, now,
why do we have to have these stickers? Like that
is a take you would normally get like back in
the day, and like the on the Life and Style
section of the fucking USA. Today, I feel like it's
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almost like the nineties turned up to an eleven where
we were all like into Chandler and we were like Daria,
We're like, oh, starcasm, that's the way. And now it's
come back like as like a horrible deformed monster, where
it's just just just like horrible and cynic source prints.
(11:42):
Uh so yeah, so that that kind of love that
I love that overrated what is your underrated? Underrated as
um liking things a medium amount, okay, because I think
that's what's been like lost in this like going black
and white about out anything all the time, and these
(12:02):
headlines and like the you know, people going for clicks
by being like this is the greatest thing, this is
the worst. Yeah, I hate that. Sorry, I don't mean
it's fine. Oh god, most things are fine. No, here's
the thing. No, I think we can feel strongly about things,
(12:24):
but I think like the that Haunted Hill Show, right
now that everybody's talking about I watched it. I feel
a medium amount about it. I feel like it was good,
it was fine, But I can't post that because like
people are gonna be like, are you kidding me? That
was the best thing I've ever seen? I killed my
mother right after seeing it, and guess what, didn't care
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at all. I feel great. That didn't even compare to
the ship I saw on the net. And now it's
just like I just want to be able to like
things a medium amount and then when we talk about
things for me to be like, yeah, that was okay,
and people are like, you know what, you are right,
that was okay. You know, just let allow people to
have their opinions, you know, if they don't like it
full bore like you whatever, Like that doesn't make that
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doesn't make your point less valid or there's you know,
I think people just look at it like in this
comparative way. I think it um dumbs down the level
of our cultural discourse. That's really why I don't like it,
because I would like to be able to talk about
a movie or a person or an opinion and say,
you know, hey, I think so and so's politics on
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this are great, but I think that is pretty problematic
instead of every headline being like this person is a
pile of garbage, or this person is a saint who immediately,
you know inevitably is going to become um a piece
of garbage next week when you find out something from
their browser history that you are disappointed in. And I
(13:50):
just really want to be able for us to just
be realistic, and video game fans who are notoriously even
measured basically threatened to kill someone for giving red dead
redemption to like an okay score. They were like it's good,
and that was bullshit. People got real mad. This is
(14:12):
the asshole who's bringing down the meta score. Yeah, I
told him. I was like, yo, if when I see
it was ugly, you could bet that, Like that's stupid.
Y'all reviewer where you go and you're like, oh, this
restaurant has all five star reviews, but there's this one
star and you read it, it's like it started on
four to my daughter was born. And then you're like
(14:37):
keep scrolling and they're like, we came there for her graduation.
They were not able to accommodate her alloverra allergy one
and you're like, what foy just people having bad days. Yeah,
like dude, get a hug. Or someone's like, oh, you
(14:59):
tried to set up a date for your girlfriend and
you funked up earlier in the night and y'all were
still mad. So your Yelp review is about how they
fucked up your anniversary when the problem was you panic
booked this restaurant because you've forgotten money. Your use of
the word accommodate in your fake Yelp review is so
on point. They use accommodate like five times in review
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that the chronic Yelp reviewers they would care about their customers.
I guess the customer is wrong in this sense. Or
it'll be like something you could never expect from where
they're at. You know, they'll like go to a concert
and like their supporter potties and I'll be like, what
do you mean the porter party smelled like someone pooped
(15:43):
in a hole. Yeah, bitch, someone just pooped in a hole.
What were you thinking is going to happen? Uh? And finally,
what is a myth? What's something people think is true?
You know tobe holes? All right, So I guess I
want to debunk um. There's like I just feel a
lot of stuff that goes around that's like Americans pass
(16:05):
along for a long period of time, is like a truism,
and then you have to keep referring to it as
not true, even though it's been a long time, and
it's like not not ever been true, Like for example,
that um, black people are who's unwelfare and it's like, okay,
well there's been statistics for a long time that have
(16:26):
shown that that is not the case. They're not the
only people on welfare, and proportionally they are not people
in welfare. Yeah, that's what I mean, the myth of
the welfare queen and um my mom and I were
on welfare when we moved here. And I love telling
people that because a lot of white people's faces will
change like they've never heard that, and they're like, well
(16:47):
when did you start bleaching your skin? Which is so crazy,
And so I just feel like I need to go
around telling people that we used to be unwelfare because
people divide minorities into like good minorities and bad minorities,
and like, uh, you know Jews Asians. I'm Russian, so
like Russian Jews were like model minorities and we're like, oh, Yeah,
(17:10):
you're gonna move here, You're gonna go after you know, schooling,
You're gonna get a great career. We love you. What
would like to vilify being poor and right? Exactly and
it's not. You know, my mom was a software engineer
where we were from, and then we moved here, or
she was a computer programmer. We moved here and she
(17:30):
had to start over. She had to learn English, and
we used to clean houses together and like, uh, be
on welfare. And that is how it works when you
move to a new place and you're trying to get
your life together. We were immigrant refugees, and so many
white people and so many Russian people I know were
on welfare when they moved here. So the next time
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you think of the welfare queen, picture my face, bitch,
because that's who that is. You're talking about me and
my mom. Well, now you're about to take down all
the Fox News talking point invite me to talk about
welfare on New York Conservative network. All right, let's talk
about the Adam Sandler concert in the next couple of minutes,
(18:12):
because there's not a whole lot to say other than
that it's really good. Yeah, I don't want to start
re enacting ship because that's what we've been doing the
whole week. But so great. I saw him tape it.
I saw her. Yeah, so me Courtney, my co host
from reality but my podcast. Sorry to plug it real quick. Yeah, um,
two great guests. Yes, Jack and Miles guested and guess
(18:37):
what Jack got vulnerable. I know you didn't expect that.
We went and we saw him do his little residency
at the Dynasty Typewriter. We saw one of the shows
and five or six of us went together and all
of us walked out of there with red eyes because
(18:57):
we cry. Laugh. Yeah, I cry left. I loved if
throughout if you like Adam Sandler, and you loved especially
if you bought his albums, if you were that level
Sandler person. I had his albums as a kid. I
was fucking scream crying her majesty. My girlfriend thought I
was losing my mind during certain parts and it was
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so man, there's just something like it really transports me
to another time. I think that style of humor because
I haven't been able to laugh at something like that.
That's not just you know, overtly vulgar or whatever. It's
just his delivery and just the ship that he choose
to talk about. It's so funny, so silly and joyful
in a way that we haven't seen in a long
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ass time. And it reminds me of like when you
saw Billy Madison for the first time, and just like
the little lines that are the throwaways and all the
you know, the shampoo, see the condition I make that
we all really, we all love that so much because
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it was so simple and joyful and goofy. Yeah, and
I still remember where I was when I first heard
his first album, like just because of how hard I
was laughing. It was like my friend's basement, basically like, yeah,
this felt similar. So I also don't want to like
(20:22):
overdo it. Yeah, I'm just sufficed to say we're I'm
a Sandler fan, so of course I'm gonna love it.
But if you're a Saidler fan, I can tell you.
If you were a Saidler fan and you don't like it,
check your pulse and your weed. But honestly, I was
worried when I went to see it. I was like,
oh God, what is this going to be like, because
we haven't seen him do com a long time and
it's so by far surprised. Yeah, once more and more
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comedians that like who I respect, were like, hey, this
is dope. Yeah we're saying. I was like, oh, ship, yeah,
because most of the time you would think, oh, Sandler
Netflix thing is like just something to fulfill his like
nine Picture deally totally crab City really or whatever. I
just haven't been watching his movies for a long time
(21:06):
because of how panned they are. But like I've also
I saw a couple back in the day and I
was like, Oh, these aren't very good anymore, or maybe
I'm getting older, Like I didn't know what my relationship
with Adam Sandler was like, had his movies got worse,
had I just gotten like matured out of them? But no,
it just turns out like, yeah, this is what I
(21:27):
was missing, was just being took me right back to it. Yeah,
he's in a stup business person. He was making dollar
dollar bills, y'all, and that's all he did. And you know,
it's funny. I've watched every single Adam Sandler movie, Like
I've watched every Netflix one too. So my friend, so
Dave rankin the other Reality Vice person, we me and
him have a long standing Adam Sandler joke about the
fact that we won't see the new movies and theaters, um,
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but then whenever they come on TV we end up
watching them. We're always liked alright. I mean some of
the Netflix ones are pretty whack, but like I haven't
seen the Netflix only ones. I just mean the ones
from yeah yeah, yeah yeah. We should do a dive
into like the more recent Adam Sandler movies, like ranking
them as far as like you're gonna be surprised. What
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would be the the sort of demarcation point. I think
for me it was. I think it was water Boy
was where I was like, this is still Oka but
about it. Big Daddy would have been maybe I still
I love Big Daddy. But then I watched her recently
on to me and I was like, it's so sexy. Yeah,
and I was like, holy sh it, not that you
(22:33):
know what like any nineties yea, they are, but I
feel like we forget oh yeah no, no. No. Standards
were so different that when even the women were down
with fucking hating, women were like, stupid, bitche stupid, you
don't deserve ship. You worked at Hooters earning money with
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your dumb body, dumb bitch. But the soundtrack was flameing alright,
we're gonna take a quick break and we'll talk about
the election when we come back. And we're back, and um, so,
(23:24):
I mean you guys, you guys said you weren't really
paying that close of attention to the projections as they
were rolling in had a model that like Nate Silver
came on after like forty minutes of it like going
in the direction that like Republicans were going to keep
the house where he was like, it looks like our
(23:46):
models being a little too sensitive, Like I wouldn't freak
out too much yet, And I was just like, yea,
you probably killed some people with that, Like people probably
died of a heart. You almost killed me. Yeah. It
was when I was looking at like political and a
few other things, I was like, all right, well, you know,
a lot of these races are tight. Nothing've been called
in the wrong direction yet, but like a lot of
(24:07):
things seemed a little bit tighter than we thought maybe
at first. And the way you were just like going
on it was almost it sort of unnerved me because like, wait,
why are they so like wholeheartedly being like okay, well,
now the Democrats have a thirty four percent chance of
winning the House, and this is absurdity. But luckily we've
(24:30):
got our gears together. We got we got our feet
on the ground and our head of the clouds, and yes,
well we were able to find a version that worked.
But yeah, that that was pretty wild for them to
be kind of constantly swinging the probability like that on people.
We have PTSD when it comes to looking at I
think that's exactly what it is. Like, I mean, and
people can be like, oh, the Libs they're so weak,
(24:51):
like they act like they were traumatized, but yeah, I mean,
you can call me weak if you want, but I'm
legitimately traumatized from two thousands sixteen because everything after it
has been just as bad as I was worried it
was going to be. On that. It would have been
great if we were all just being you know, extreme
in our predictions and like the wall the world is
(25:13):
ending kind of stuff. But now the world's actually ending.
They have a date. So we were right two decades.
Just in terms of kind of early reactions to the results,
it seems like it was basically a return to Nate
Silver being right about everything like in his in terms
of the predictions heading in, it was like, Okay, the
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Democrats will take the House, the Republicans will keep the Senate.
They were off on a couple of the gubernatorial things,
but just in general, it wasn't a huge broad repudiation
of Trump in the sense of, you know, there was
not a blue wave, or at least that's how it's
being covered that there wasn't a blue wave. But it
was a you know, successful night for Democrats and basically
(25:57):
enough for both sides to transmit it is a positive
night for them. Yeah. Oh man, Hannity was really trying
to spend this as a positive night. He's like, it
was actually a great night for yeah, for d j T.
And I'm like, oh, really, sir, because I think one thing,
you know, as we look at all the returns, i
mean we've seen most of them, but like as we
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really kind of get a picture of what actually happened,
I know, I think Colorado completely flipped their state legislature blue. Like,
there's been all kinds of little things going on. So
there's a lot of state level things that we've yet
to kind of fully you know, wrap our heads around.
But the idea now that with the Democrats in the majority,
you know, now they're going to have those chair positions
and a lot of those committees, which means a whole
(26:39):
new bevy of investigative and subpoena powers that we didn't
have because you know, being in the majority is a
tricky thing because you have to do lame shit like
oversight or hold the president accountable. And I think one
thing that like among the many things that not not
just that the Democrats are finally gonna act as a
check legislatively from a congres sational standpoint against trumb is
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that now we have the ability to start really calling
people in to answer questions and splain things. And you know,
a few months ago, we talked about how there was
a spreadsheet going around that the Republicans are putting together
being like, Okay, remember all the things that the Democrats
kept asking us for and committee, like whether it was
around Russia? Are these other things? Well, and we kept
saying no because we were the majority party. Well, they're
(27:23):
probably gonna do this to us now because these are
the things they wanted. And I just kind the Republicans
list of things they're scared that Democrats would start doing
if they want back the House. They called it a
literal hell list, Okay, And This was all meant to
basically put the like legal team of the White House
under alert to be like, prepare yourself for like to
get produce these records. It's gonna be a nightmare for them.
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But again, not that these things that I'm about to
list are going to be resolved instantly, but it's good
to know that now we do have some ability to
begin to look into these things. And I'll just read
off this list, very short list, just to give you
an idea. So, starting in the top, President Trump's tax returns,
Trump family business and whether they comply with the constitutions
of moinment cloud, Trump's dealings with Russia, the payment of
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Stephanie Clifford, ak Stormy Daniels, James Comby's firing, Trump's firing
of you as attorney's, Trump's proposed transgender band for the military,
Treasury Secretary Steve Manuchan's business dealings, White House taffs, personal
email use cabinets, Secretary travel Another misused Burke's discussions of
classified information at mar Lago, Jared Kushner's ethics law compliance,
dismissal of members of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors,
the Travel Band family separation policy, hurricane response to Puerto Rico,
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election security and hacking attempts, whiteout security clearances are just
a few, just a couple things. Those are. That's the
greatest hits list, that is the past couple of years.
And again, like I say before, these people on the
right were able to just obscure this nonsense and buffoonery
and act like we're the whiny people. But when you
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look at this, this reads like a list of things
you probably would care about if you were in Americans. Right, So,
so we'll see MSMB he had the hot breaking news,
like the moment after they called the House for the Democrats,
they were like, and this just in. The Democrats have
informed us that they are requesting Trump's tax returns effective immediately.
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So they basically checked off that first box, like right
off the bat. But they don't have to, virus doesn't
have to. Uh looks like they could put up a
fight about handing over the tax returns to So it's
none of this gonna matter. Is it just gonna be
like is it gonna be just like well, you never know.
That's the thing about the way our democracy or quote
unquote democracy is set up. You know, there's a lot
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of ways, like if you're cheating like they do, you
stack the courts with judges who, like, again, if you
had to sue to get these tax returns, might be like,
I don't think, I'm just worried that this government doesn't
respect the process. Well, of course not. I mean look
at all the last minute voter suppression ship that was
going down. Uh, and I wouldn't be optimistic. But again,
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I think what we do have here, though, is that
we can finally formally begin producing information around these things
in a way that it isn't just us, you know,
banging outside the shop window being like please let us in, right.
I just sworry because we have the information like about
you know, speaking of disenfranchisement, the Stacy Abrams thing, we
have the information that the votes were being changed, yeah,
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or at the very least yess are being registration. Yeah,
all of that. So like, and what what the knowledge
is out there? I think, yeah, a lot of people
are encouraging her to not concede that race, because you know,
you have someone who is running the basically the election
also running. I was just yeah, you can't do both, know,
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You're like, I checked it out. I won everything checks out,
looks right cool, someone had to wait four and a
half hours to vote and anyway, I don't know whatever.
So there's this thing that is very important in political
media coverage with expectations going into it, where counterintuitively, you
want to set your side up as completely inept heading
(30:59):
into an event so that when it goes in the
other direction, you seem like you came out of nowhere.
It's basically going against expectations. Like watching the results come in,
you know, the only stories, the only races that they
were covering were the ones that were sort of going
against expectations, and then you'd get the one that was
like called that was a foregone conclusion. But I feel
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like that's going to work against the Democrats a little
bit as well, just in terms of how this midterm
is covered, because I think there are races that were
being covered like gilhim in Florida, like Stacey Abraham's, like
betto or probably the biggest one that didn't go the
Democrats way. But those would have been kind of upsets
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if you were if you were looking a month ago
at what was its insane it got that close in Texas? Yeah, right,
And that's the thing I think despite that, I know
we were really pulling for a Betto to pull off
a upset against Speech and Cruz. Guy, I know you
love Mayonnai's face, but I just like that. I don't
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know again, but I think there are a lot of
good takeaways from that. Is that, you know, Betto really
did energize the Democrats in the state and also with
a very progressive platform in the state like Texas, to
get that close, that's saying something and who knows if
we're looking at uh, you know, president of work sounds better,
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but you see, and one of the details that was
kind of being papered over by Republicans on these sort
of talking head shows is you know, they were like, well,
when Obama had his first midterm, he lost a number
of like x number of seats, like you guys are
only picking up this many, and when you look at overall,
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like how many House votes, they're predicting it will end
up between six and ten percent Democratic victory, which is
a pretty big win. Like Bush beat Ducacus by eight percent,
Reagan beat Carter by nine percent. Those are seen as
pretty like definitive and era defining victories. But because it's
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like people were going in with this idea that there
might be a blue wave, that sort of everything was
going to be more left than people predicted heading in.
But I also think that speaks to all the jerrymandering too, right,
you know, And that's the same thing we have somehow
winning to almost buy double digits, but it's this close.
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Yeah yeah, so again, and that's something that governors could help.
Uh if you know that if the Democrats had one governor,
they are still winning. We you know, we don't know
the full picture, but the picture, you know, there's there's
there's things to be smiled about. A couple of things
are frowned about, but overall, like, you know, we did
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the ship that we had we needed to do at
the very least, which has gained control of the House.
But the way the New York Times is covering it
ted Cruz to It's better oh Rourke for Senate as
blue wave fails to reach Texas is their headline for
that race, which is like, yeah, I don't know, And well,
Pete Sessions lost, so I don't think they were they
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were expecting that in Texas also, so that was another
I mean, there's pet Sessions as a congressman from Texas,
I think the Dallas area, and you know, he's been
around for a long time. But again, you know, he
had a challenger coming up against him, very handsome, uh,
a man of color, and he did his ship and
then one so there, you know, Texas, as much as
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they want to, you know, we were over here being like,
come on, Texas, what the fun is going on? At
least there's we've seen something awakened in in that state.
But at the same time, come on, white women voted
for Ted Cruz. Was that a real stat Yeah, that's
what people were reporting on on the TV. White women
in in Texas fucking ain't ship. I don't fucking how
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much do you have to hate yourself? Or I mean
literally who hurt you? Like? I just don't understand. I think,
you know, I think there are some people who just
so entrenched in the partisan aspect of it where they're like,
I'm just I don't care. I'm not gonna be suddenly
better because all the cool people are like, all the
young people think he's great. And I'm sure there are
also those people who are problematic, you know, they have
(35:20):
racist views or other things where they like the president's
agenda and that's why they voted for him. But yeah,
you know, things are moving. Yeah, So what what does
this mean in terms of like what the Democrats I mean,
is it basically they'll be able to stall things out
that Trump is trying to push through. I mean, I'm
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not going to get anything through the House obviously, you know.
So what are some examples of things that he got
through the House during the first two years of his administration,
like the fucking tax cuts, like the attempts at Obamacare
repeal those things. Now you have no way to legislatively
do that. So it's gonna be of executive orders and
(36:01):
ship and lawsuits probably, so the things that literally hurt people. Yeah, yeah,
I mean there are gonna be many ways to inflict damage,
as we found, because he is, you know, unstoppable in
that aspect. But you know, the other thing too is
that the Democrats can now begin to pass bills that
are gonna signal to voters coming up in the next
election what the funk this platform is about. And I
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think the other it's a double edged sword because on
the other side, too, we may really find out how
deeply fractured the Democrat Party is. Where you have a
lot of these younger or freshman income in Congress, people
who like ran on really progressive things, and then you
have someone like Nancy Pelosi with the speaker's gavel who
might not be down to do Medicare for all off
the rip, you know, and and expend all that political
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capital you know, you know, probably more realistically stuff like infrastructure,
prescription drugs, and things like that that are just a
little bit easier to get even get a little bit
of bipartisan support for. Yeah, things like that. And and
also too, uh, just general things like reverse some of
the damage that's been done now with the Senate being
in full on Republican control, that's going to be difficult.
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But again that's why that's how Democrats are gonna make
their case. So like, this is what we're trying to
do on behalf of people, you know, and then this
is what's the gunking it up at the top, So
please vote correctly. Yeah, At the same time, I will
just say, going against everything I just said about like
expectations setting, this did just feel like from a gut
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level to me, like I was back at a place
the same place I was at in the aftermath of
the two thousand and sixteen election where it was like, Okay,
so I can get away from the reality of what
America is like all I want by you know, reading
actual journalism and you know, talking to other people who
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are paying attention to the news. But there's just this
like hard, immovable reality that you have to come up
against every time there's an election. And this just didn't
make me like I started thinking forward and just like
pooped a little bit. I mean, there are definitely encouraging things,
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you know. I don't know the specific detailed numbers of
you know, turnout, millennial turnout, but you know, there were
huge moves to the left in anywhere people basically had educations.
It seems like so like suburbs and stuff like that.
And basically how Florida broke down and how a lot
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of Texas broke down was basically completely based on, you know,
whether you had a college degree or not, and things
in counties where people have college degrees really moved to
the left in a significant way. But just you know,
when you are seeing a charismatic figure like betto or
(38:54):
lose a statewide election, even even if it is like
read Texas, it's when when he's losing to Ted cruizes
just like, wow, Like I live in a different reality
than a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. But also this
year over a women, I think we're elected yea, and
that showing you something too. This is we're trying to
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have a government that is a little more representative of
what it looks like. It reminds me of my favorite
tweet that I brought. Oh wow, sweet, but you kind
of jump in the gun, Mr you can Okay, what
did you say? Now? This is my friend. Um. Alison
Lippert tweeted this on Twitter and she said this gay
kid never imagined that her hometown would elect Charise David's,
(39:39):
an openly gay woman, as the first Native American woman
to Congress. Thanks for giving me new hope, Kansas and
a picture of her as a little kill gay kid. Um.
So yeah, I think that's something that's giving me hope. Yeah.
I had the first I think Latina elected to Congress
from Texas. You had the first two Muslim American women
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in Minnesota and Michigan. Yeah. Iana Pressley was the first
black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts finally. So yeah,
a lot of first and yeah, I just hope this
is more indicative and like when a lot of the
ballot measures that passed to like with restoring voting rights
to felons like in Florida and things like that. There
are moments where I was like, how are you voting
for that? And then the progressive guy didn't win, and
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I get how some people, you know there some vote
just straight down the ticket for some things. But it
was also it was there were more heartening examples two
of sort of shifts happening on smaller levels. Yeah, and
even the bed old thing I was talking about how
in the Texas governor race, the Republican they called it
like with pcent reporting just because it was like, oh,
(40:47):
this guy's crushing the Republican is winning by such a
wide margin. But enough people, enough Republicans defected to be like,
I mean, look at these two as like who are
you going to vote for? Uh that? You know, maybe
that is something to take a little bit of Solacen
and Michigan welcomed to the legalized weed club too, And
(41:08):
now Betto is free to run for president. I guess,
uh where whereas the Senate would need him uh to
to keep that seat since you wouldn't want it to
go to a special election. So we'll we'll see what
happens there. Uh, let's let's just a little wish fulfillment
here at the end of this segment. Of the different
things that Miles read off, of the different house investigations
(41:33):
that can be launched, what is the one that you're
most looking forward to? Oh? God, what is the most
There are so many? How can you pick one? The
family separation policy and the travel band. There's just gonna
be emails behind the scenes on those that, like you
can just foya and it's just gonna be like wild Actually,
(41:57):
hurricane response to Puerto Rico, that's my that's that's gonna
be un unbelievable. I think also finding out about what
Trump is doing with all these Chinese trademarks and other
business things that are going on, I think could be
rem Yeah, the emolument stuff. I think also, you know,
anything around Jared Kushner, because we know he's shady's fun
(42:19):
So I don't know. Honestly, they're all I'm excited of
everything again. But I don't mean to say this as
if because of this happens, you know, they're going to
be marching Jared out in the in the prison orange jumpsuit.
Or anything like that. But again, it'll be good to
bring some truth out around these things and begin to
call people forward to be accountable, especially people who are
running departments like FEMA and things like that, and be like, okay,
(42:42):
what what what went on? Exactly? My man. I think
I'm most excited about the ones that like are hurting people,
like what you were saying, Jack, the most directly. You know,
they are all hurting people, obviously, but like the direct
depths from like the horrible response in Puerto Rico and yeah,
and for sure family separation, yeah, or have all the
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people in the army come up, who like whose own
assessment of this migrant caravan. We're like, yeah, this is
not an actual threat, and have those people come up
say that out loud and you know, help people realize
what's going on a little bit. But again, yeah, this
could be wish fulfillment and wishful thinking. And we're just
delirious because we're watching the news all day. Trump's dealings
(43:24):
with Russia. I'm I'm excited for that too. I feel
like we were on hold there for a little bit.
It's like that part in the Hamilton's where they're like,
can we get back to politics. Good, Oh, I'm not
doing that. Well. I haven't been able to see Hamilton's,
so you know, it's like, okay, it reminds me of
the original cast of Hamilton's, not so much the one
(43:45):
that's out. Did you not see? Oh yeah, Lynne is
a great friend of mine. Remind just performed it in
my living and I was like, oh my god, this
is so embarrassing. And he's like, Sofia, look, I gotta
just tell you this is going to be big, and
I'm like, okay, I guess. But yeah, again, we don't know.
(44:05):
We'll see what happens. That. The other thing is because
just because this is happening doesn't mean Trump isn't gonna
do everything in his power to avoid being held accountable
or protecting the people around him. We were enabling him.
So but again, the very least we have some kind
of a check now, right, they don't. He doesn't have
just an entirely Republican House and Senate. But it does
(44:26):
seem like the Muller investigation went quiet for about three
weeks there and stuff was happening behind the scenes. Well, yeah,
because he was I think the whole deal is he
wasn't gonna do anything that was gonna become a distraction
during an election. So that's when we'll see now, because
he's been in the lab, you know, in the on
the cover of darkness, so we'll see what he's cooked up. Yeah,
and I do think, you know, we've talked in the
(44:48):
past couple of weeks about how Trump's approval rating has
slowly inched up a little bit, and I do think
that probably has something to do with the fact that
he's only in the headlines for like on his own terms,
and there's not just this steady drip of Muller news
coming out where it's like this, look at this, Like
even though people are like, oh, the Russia stuff is
(45:09):
just a distraction and it doesn't affect Middle America, I
still think that when you have this like steady drip
of stories that just show clear evidence that the president
is corrupt, like that has to hurt his approval rating. Yeah, well,
I think it went it dipped again though before today.
So yeah, but I guess then like ten points underwater range,
(45:31):
like just more people ten percent disapprove of him than approved. Well,
he seems very confident because you know, he tweeted just
late at night on Tuesday after the Democrats took control
of the House, and I mentioned all those things that happened,
this dude was tremendous success tonight, Thank you doll. M course.
(45:54):
But then, you know, but then he'll probably wake up
at like three in the morning, should his pants and
start being like, Paul Ryan is a little fucking loser
and I should have never trusted him, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was right, which I do think he was. It
turns out because like all the places where he went,
they did end up winning the Senate seat by more
than was predicted. And yeah, racism still works in America.
(46:16):
Who knew what? Yeah, by the way, I don't know. Uh,
maybe we can dig into this a little bit more later.
But you know, the whole idea of not talking about
something having a blackout period on a story that's bad
for the president in the run up to an election
seems like that in itself is a you know, is
(46:38):
a bias. It's not telling a story that is happening.
And the same thing happened, right, and Komy kept himself
quiet because he knew Fox News was going to lose
its ship in the run up to two thousand and
sixteen and actively like made it seem like the investigation
into Russian meddling on behalf of Trump was less of
(46:58):
a thing because he didn't want to be accused of bias.
But being like aware of only one side of the
bias is in itself bias. Well, yeah, and that's what's
led to the rise of right wing extremism. Violence too,
is because that's another thing that they try and defend
and be like, oh, why are you just trying to
pick on these people because they have guns and a
violent agenda, military weapons and blew up the Oklahoma city
(47:21):
But you know what I mean, But it's true, And
like they there was an article talking about how that
did affect UH law enforcements ability to like seriously assess
those threats because people were going to try and you
know that they would face criticism for doing. We're doing
a whole section on that this week because, yeah, that
article underlined a lot of stuff we've been saying for
a while that we've been saying, thank you, all right,
(47:44):
we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll talk
about how aliens are coming for us all and we're
bad back, and so there might be alien life terms
(48:04):
if I'm reading this threat, I know, I'm a little
might be story now, Well, no, I only I exhale
because the originally, I think we wanted to talk about
it in the event that things went horribly awful and
we're just like whatever, due to an alien ship might
just come kill us all and take us out of
our misery. Muammuah. Okay, that's that's pretty basic to think
(48:24):
that the aliens would want to kill us smile. But
they are evolved. They are going to take us with them.
Oh you're right. Okay, my bad, my bad. Sorry for
the back quash. But but Jack was pronouncing the name
of this object, this foreign object that they have detected. Sorry,
did I say something? I thought I just blacked out
there for a second. Okay. So to set the story up, y'all,
(48:47):
what happened was like a while back, I think a
year ago or something. Yeah, the astronomers they detected this
like gigantic object that was very sort of odd looking,
dubbed Jack as you pronounced ah muamua orma or whatever. Hey,
whatever you wanta all right? Uh? Yeah. They say it
(49:10):
arrived from interstellar space beyond the bubble like region that
demarcates the Sun's domain. Yeah, it looks like it looks
like any Claire or a lady finger. Yeah, I think
is what you would call that. But the thing that
got people sort of interested in it is that, especially
these people at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for astro Physics.
(49:31):
So you know, there's not they're not just lying to
you that they're saying, you know, first like, oh, maybe
there's a comment, but they have a very different theory.
So some of these astro physicists claim that Omoamua could
be a quote fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth
vicinity by an alien civilization. Omamua deviates from a trajectory
(49:52):
that is solely dictated by the Sun's gravity. This could
have been the result of commentary outgassing, but there's no
evidence for a commentary tale around. Did moreover comments change
the period of their spin and no such change was
detected for omama. So they're saying, you know, this thing
is moving around not like anything else. We know what's
going on here. Yeah, And there's also also like the
(50:14):
one of you thought it looked like a dildo and
the other one like in a Claire, it's like a
free horny situation. Depends on who's got dicks on the
brain and who's got there's a you know, truth be told,
there's no amount of marshmallow fluff you can put on
a dildo first taste good. So they're they're talking about
it seeing potentially a light sale. What is that something
(50:37):
where you're using the speed of light to like transport
yourself at the speed of light. Is that the idea? Well,
they're saying that they again, this is so science, and
I did so terribly in science in school. I had
to cheat to pass. Okay, so I'm sorry, I'm little
confession for y'all. But the way that it's moving, they're saying.
Another explanation is that the quote extra force exerted on
(50:59):
and well by sunlight, that is what's moving it. And
for that to be possible that the actual object would
have to be less than a millimeter in thickness, like
a sale. That so they're saying that this may be
some kind of light sale produced by an alien civilization,
but it's also kind of a thing that we're kind
of working on on this planet too with h Yeah. Anyway,
(51:21):
first of a light sale, I'm pretty embarrassing. More broke
boy space dart. It actually also comes to the lights.
That's actually the color of your car is light sale.
One of the theories that I've heard. And by the way,
we'll we'll talk about people who are debunking this because
the scientific community loves themselves a backlash. Yeah, well let's
(51:47):
really look at this object. I mean, essentially, the point
that somebody made in debunking this was just that a
theory is just something that you can't prove incorrect route, right,
which is true. It's one of like a thousand possibilities.
But this is a very interesting possibility, so it's worth
talking about, and uh, you know, it helps explain a
(52:10):
couple of things that haven't been explained otherwise. But a
theory I saw somewhere was that this is like part
of a ship that has been like cast off from
another craft that has been like now slowing down and
its approach to Earth. Because like if you had like
our spacecraft, you know, you like shed different parts of
(52:30):
it that are like powering it as you're going up.
So if you shed something that was like part of
a spacecraft as you were like slowing down to approach Earth,
then that thing would go flying by the Solar System
before like the ship actually arrived because they would be
down so like we might be seeing what was actually
(52:52):
coming here. And so that's them ditching the rocket booster, right,
that's the rocket booster that they ditched. The real deals
coming four Um, that sounds like independence And now I'm
it's like I feel like the way you look at
Aliens is people the same way people were like optimistic
about the election before and after. There are groups of
(53:14):
us who are like, yeah, baby, any signal means Aliens
or means Hillary is gonna win. And then there are
other people are like, no, even though I'm an expert,
I need the fucking alien to come down on the
planet and me to shake its hand for me to acknowledge.
I just also hope that they love O. That's the
only thing that will be the ultimate ninety fiance is
(53:39):
coming down to Earth. Idea. Ever, Jack like Bleak was
way different than we were first chatting online. Right he
said he was a multi cell organism. But actually when
I met him, but I was like, I thought, on Earth,
you guys have gold and go on vacations. This is
not what I signed up for. God with flowers, where
(54:01):
are my flowers? Anyway, we have to figure out how
we're going to talk about this show. One possibility that
I've always thought was like more likely that I didn't
understand why people don't talk about more is that like
we would encounter an alien civilization that had like died
off a million years ago, and we're just like seeing
evidence of it coming to us through space. And that's
(54:24):
something that I saw mentioned while people were discussing this report,
that like it could be a long ago civilization and
it's just like passing by their space ship is only
making it to us now. But like that would be
fucking dope if we found out about an entire civilizations
like history and entire species history, but we didn't have
(54:46):
to deal with like getting killed off by them. We
just got to read an entire history. But wouldn't it
be crazy if it was just our history? And with
Donald Trump, like yo, dude, a scrill couldn't get people
to vote him out of office. That's a script. That's
(55:08):
a script. Write that down. Like honestly, though, like I
can just imagine like us being like, holy sh it,
this is our history and the next year Donald Trump
ends the world and people be like not fake news,
like you would just it would go exactly the same
way said for a long time that the Aliens are
very big Lee losers. This is a crisis space refuse
(55:32):
it's not real ship right. Well, Sophia, thank you so
much for coming and joining us on this special election
episode of The Daily. It was great having you. We're
burning the midnight oil, so we appreciate it. Yes, where
can people find you and follow you? I am the
Sophia t H E S O F I y A
on Twitter and Instagram, and I got a podcast called
(55:56):
Reality Bites a Lot of fun. Is there a tweet
that you've been enjoying besides the one you shared with
us already? I'm just gonna share my all time favorite
tweet by Ted travel Stead, which is I'm not Everyone's
cup of teeth. That makes me more than Yeah, miles
(56:16):
Where can people find you? Oh? You can find me
on Twitter and Instagram at miles of Gray And a
tweet you've been enjoying? This comes from at Cotton Can
Daddy Gracie, who's just is the display name It says, wow,
this is really will get ten thousand likes on a
tweet and move to l a for real, for real
(56:39):
and then another one ever Maynard. Shout out to you, ever,
because all calves you tweeted out loud and proud just
got health insurs. Bitch, Yes, please get that healthy sharts.
I'm sorry we live in such a place where we
can't take care of our people, but yes, as ever
is hilarious. Yeah, pop bottles so funny. You can follow
me on Twitter A check underscore, O'Brien. I'm just gonna
(56:59):
draw are your attention to a thing I tweeted a
couple of days back that says, flip your phone upside down.
That's pretty fucking cool. It's just somebody showing like a
like outside their car window as they're driving, and it's like,
you know, dusk, so it's a pretty sky. But then
it says, flip your phone upside down, and when you do,
for whatever reason, it just becomes this like crazy, trippy,
(57:22):
like weird light show just from like changing the perspective
that you're looking at it. So yeah, yeah, a highly
visual tweet for this audio medium. And then a partner
on Charlotte said, Sunday is the day of rest unless
you're existential dread, in which case you better work, which
is so true for me. I Sundays I feel so
(57:45):
much anxiety, do you I just talked about this on
the Mental Illness Happy Hour. I said that the way
it feels on Sunday is like that something is ending
and you don't know what it is, but it makes
it so sad. You know, it's funny. I used to
get it until I started doing it. Show no likee
now you're happy. It was always like, are you doing
a job I didn't like? Because I'd be like, fun,
(58:07):
it doesn't matter. I still feel like that's like I
feel blessed. Last thank you? Sunday is the fall of
like days. Yeah, the fall of days, the end of days,
like the season, okay, autumn of days, Monday's winter. Okay,
(58:29):
let's well, let's we'll work. We'll work work for next time,
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ride out on. You can also find that information in
the show notes show notes miles, what song are we
going to write out on on this day? After election, guy,
the song will go out on today. Now. I know
it wasn't at the quite the blue wave we were
hoping for where both houses go, but it was still
a bit of a wave none the less. And I
played this song a while back we were first talking
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about the wave, and this is the song for the
wave by Little Little Haiti and Cush below. But again,
and it's not a fool bowing wave. But if you
just want to hit this money dance and then bust
the wave, you can do that on all your homies
who voted read yesterday. So yes, the wave, Little Haiti,
there you go. And I know what all those words
to me. All Right, we're gonna ride out on that.
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We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.
We'll talk to you that way. Turn up, tun up,
Tun up. Charlie hit me, yes you want a chair,
wanna chill? Turn up on the blush? You bust away
trying to turn up. She hit the money dish, but
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the worst she bust the wave. She hit the money dish.
That's the wish. What's the way? Shirt? He hit me,
Yes you wanna chair, wanna chall pull up on the blush.
But's the way what's the way she hit this money
that she but's the wish? What's the way turn out
she hit this money that she pu's the way cash money, nigger,
that's the way. That's the way. I don't fuck a
(01:00:19):
lot of him niggas. Bunch, your fat bunch, your fake
snake gets the niggas moving like a snake, like the
snake put the hollow tiper, I don't even had you leave.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season fifty six, episode
three of Dailies Eyed Guys, the podcast where you take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness and unconscious using
the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings. You're gonna keep
this skulling the whole time. That's amazing. What's trending on
Google and social media and the polls? I guess today? Uh,
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it's Wednesday, November seven, two thou eight teen. My name
is Jeck O'Brien. A. Hey, MIZI gang, are you with me?
Where you went from the Gray to the Jack daily
Z's on attack? Oh courtesy of Job eight oh six,
and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my
co host, Mr Miles Gray. So when I'm around you,
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grabby can't touch? Does I you make my temperature? My
you're making me pray, big baby? Anyway, thank you for that.
Tony Braxton is priored hashtag ak to see Yamaguchi Maine
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also shout out to at mother of Ferbiees. I know
that's your Twitter identity, but yes I know your sister.
She's the home girl. And yes you don't have to
hide on Twitter anymore. Bro. That's an inside joke, okay
for that person, for that one person. My favorite kind
of joke you have on a exactly. I use it
as my you know, tin can with a string attached
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to just talk to the private people across anyone else
you want to talk to. No, I'm just you know,
my state because of what we just had to go through.
But anyway, Jesus, we will get to it. We are
thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the
hilarious Sophia Alexandra. Hello, and thank you for having me.
Thank you for being here. Oh my god, how are
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you feeling. I'm feeling, you know, hanging in there. There
you go, real red on feeling awesome. Yeah. We uh.
We lived through election night and I almost had a
mental breakdown when I saw the five thirty eight like
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five pulling thing go into the you know, the house
was going to go to the Republicans, like percent. You
were sucking beating me with your phone, like looking at
that page and you kept going, all right, it says
seven and eight now one out of going on. I'm like, yo,
I know, but I guarantee most of the country was
(02:30):
having that same experience. Yeah, but I was not. I
was avoiding looking at some kind of forecasting model because
it was the same here all over the person. I'm like,
let me look at races individually. So but you were
so I could see in your eyes, like what was happening.
It was just a flashback to two thousand sixteen where
I was like, well Hillary still got this in the
bag all the way to than I did last year
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last election, where you know, I had hope right this election,
I was like, let's be real, but I think we'll
get the house, you know. And then what I did
was I kept telling myself. I was like, Sophia, this
is like basketball. It's the fourth quarter that decides everything.
You don't stress out until the fourth quarter. And then
(03:16):
when I was like, oh, somehow people are still voting
for Ted fucking Cruise, that was when it all made
me quite women in particular went big to Ted Cruise.
I guess white men also, did you know what I'm saying,
hurt using this cast? We really we just took liberties
(03:36):
with the whole format right there, because we're all we
got some anxious energy. Well we're gonna so if you
were going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. But first we're gonna take our
listeners through what we're talking about today. Uh, we're gonna
talk about the Adam Sandler concert to Fresh is very good.
(03:59):
We were going to talk about that the entire show
if the house had gone the other way, but instead
we're gonna talk about the election. It was that or fiance,
but I do not know anything about dance compromise. We'll
we're gonna talk about insane news that people intentionally released yesterday,
like Amazon dropped their big HQ will be in Queens
(04:22):
and Arlington news on election day that was just bad
decision making, and the New York Times put up a
comi op ed which was weird and imped policies honestly,
like combined by a high person. Or Yeah, we're just
gonna talk about the experience of watching the election for
anybody who watched it live as the results were coming in.
(04:44):
Then we'll talk a little bit about what we have
in front of us as citizens of this nation with
a split Congress. We're gonna talk about Fox News denouncing
Sean Hannity because Fox News is apparently still thinks that
some people think that their objective. And then we're gonna
talk about the story that I was consoling myself with
(05:05):
during the time when tracking poll like went wildly in
the opposite direction. There may be alien life. This weird
object came into our solar system, and we're gonna talk
about it. Why why people think it might be alien
life exactly? But first, Sophia, what is something from your
search history that is revealing about who you are or
(05:27):
where are you at? Um? It was mostly anxious political things,
but also I guess I looked up that Arianta Grande
ponytail thing because I'm a piece of ship that what
is it? Yeah? She was like, I do it all
the time. I put it, put my hair in a
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ponytail all the time, even though it hurts all the time.
Oh no, it hurts. I just remember seeing that this morning.
I was like, honestly, not today, God, any other day.
I would love to hear about her poor scalp from
having it in that up. Yeah. Here's the thing about
that is a couple of years ago, a story was
I'm so sorry, listeners, the story was trending. I needed
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something to distract me from the attention. Yeah, so uh.
A couple of years ago story was trending that she
was wearing her hair in a ponytail all the time,
because I google this, I was like, what is that,
bitches problem? Like why is that the only hairstyle specific look?
And it was a trending story that basically she was
doing it because her hair got so ruined from like
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when she was on that Disney show and I got
died all the time. And then I was like, but
that doesn't make sense, because you put your hair back
in a ponytail has like more chances of like your
hair falling out. We would want to kind of just
leave it loose. So I was like, that doesn't make sense.
But then I was like, Sophia, you've already spent more
time thinking about this than it deserves. So that I
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shoved that until the story yesterday, which was like ye yeah,
a couple of years later, and I was like, I
knew it. I've always been fascinated by her, like her
ponytail thing and the fact that because we did a
story back when I was cracked about the fact that
she basically went back on an entire photography session because
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they photographed her from the wrong side. She was like,
I only do left side, Like you cannot photographed me
from the other side, and then I was noticing, like,
she's the only famous person who like always has the
same hair do like every time she's seen in public,
and I was like, wow, she really carefully cultivates her image.
Like we studied Bruce Willis movie posters and found that
(07:38):
he like cocks his head to the same like fifteen
degree angle on every movie poster just because he's like, yeah,
my head looks good at that angle. It's like the
famous people are very it looks, but they're experts at
like very minute details of how they come off to
other people. When I worked in video will head, yes,
(07:59):
it's just a a goal circle. And also he looks
kind of like just a turtle, so what's he worried?
But very like thuggish one. Yeah, but yeah, no, Ariana
Granni will not let you show her non dimple side.
That's what it is. It's her non dimple side, which
I learned quickly to working with her. And then there's
like a lot of bands do this, Like there's one
band called the Neighborhood and they only allow you to
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shoot them in black and white, Like alright, dude, okay, thanks,
you know, but I guess ay, you gotta be real
careful about how you present your image out there. So
that's but it's like funny because knowing that about how
careful your images makes your image not really and just
makes slanning. Yet, but maybe it only hurts you two
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people who are paying attention, which, as we'll get to
there aren't that many of those. There are more people
who aren't paying attention in this country of errors. So
uh yeah, maybe it works out in the end. What
is something you think is overrated? Okay? You know I
love this part overrated? Underrated? So Larissa from Let's stop,
(09:07):
don't get me started? Okay, So I think that what's
overrated is like backlashers, you know, like people today we're
posting all of these selfies with their I voted stickers,
And then of course I was like, how many seconds
till the first backlasher posted there a little oh I'm
(09:29):
I'm an edge lord status word no where they're like, oh,
I love how we reward ourselves for doing the basic
minimum of democracy by posting a said, oh, narcissism combined
with democracy that is so American, And I was like,
Jesus fucking Christ, shut the people have to you know,
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I think what you're calling, but it is a very
specific thing where it's like they get the very front
end of a trend before that is just a positive
thing and just have to jump in, like what's the
contrarian angle? I can take on a thing that everyone
is just appreciating and enjoying, right, and it annoys me
that it becomes a thing like for example, like you know,
(10:13):
people going, uh talking about the Doors sucking. I'm like, Okay, objectively,
they're a fucking band. They're you just don't like to
like them, That's fine, let's just be like suddenly they're trash.
They suck. Yeah, it's just like the Backlashers when they
have a big there's a lot of you know, there's
a lot of doors hid in this building. People don't know.
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It's very close band to my family, you know. I
love them. Yeah, I think they're a great band when
you're a certain age. And then dude, I'll straight up
stand for Sublime. I was just at a three eleven concert, Okay,
I can't stop. I feel like the Backlasher is a
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social media thing that has take in the place of
what used to be like newspaper columnists like newspaper columnists
used to be like what's the like the andy the world, Like, now,
why do we have to have these stickers? Like that
is a take you would normally get like back in
the day, and like the on the Life and Style
section of the fucking USA. Today, I feel like it's
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almost like the nineties turned up to an eleven where
we were all like into Chandler and we were like Daria,
We're like, oh, starcasm, that's the way. And now it's
come back like as like a horrible deformed monster, where
it's just just just like horrible and cynic source prints.
(11:42):
Uh so yeah, so that that kind of love that
I love that overrated what is your underrated? Underrated as
um liking things a medium amount, okay, because I think
that's what's been like lost in this like going black
and white about out anything all the time, and these
(12:02):
headlines and like the you know, people going for clicks
by being like this is the greatest thing, this is
the worst. Yeah, I hate that. Sorry, I don't mean
it's fine. Oh god, most things are fine. No, here's
the thing. No, I think we can feel strongly about things,
(12:24):
but I think like the that Haunted Hill Show, right
now that everybody's talking about I watched it. I feel
a medium amount about it. I feel like it was good,
it was fine, But I can't post that because like
people are gonna be like, are you kidding me? That
was the best thing I've ever seen? I killed my
mother right after seeing it, and guess what, didn't care
(12:44):
at all. I feel great. That didn't even compare to
the ship I saw on the net. And now it's
just like I just want to be able to like
things a medium amount and then when we talk about
things for me to be like, yeah, that was okay,
and people are like, you know what, you are right,
that was okay. You know, just let allow people to
have their opinions, you know, if they don't like it
full bore like you whatever, Like that doesn't make that
(13:07):
doesn't make your point less valid or there's you know,
I think people just look at it like in this
comparative way. I think it um dumbs down the level
of our cultural discourse. That's really why I don't like it,
because I would like to be able to talk about
a movie or a person or an opinion and say,
you know, hey, I think so and so's politics on
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this are great, but I think that is pretty problematic
instead of every headline being like this person is a
pile of garbage, or this person is a saint who immediately,
you know inevitably is going to become um a piece
of garbage next week when you find out something from
their browser history that you are disappointed in. And I
(13:50):
just really want to be able for us to just
be realistic, and video game fans who are notoriously even
measured basically threatened to kill someone for giving red dead
redemption to like an okay score. They were like it's good,
and that was bullshit. People got real mad. This is
(14:12):
the asshole who's bringing down the meta score. Yeah, I
told him. I was like, yo, if when I see
it was ugly, you could bet that, Like that's stupid.
Y'all reviewer where you go and you're like, oh, this
restaurant has all five star reviews, but there's this one
star and you read it, it's like it started on
four to my daughter was born. And then you're like
(14:37):
keep scrolling and they're like, we came there for her graduation.
They were not able to accommodate her alloverra allergy one
and you're like, what foy just people having bad days. Yeah,
like dude, get a hug. Or someone's like, oh, you
(14:59):
tried to set up a date for your girlfriend and
you funked up earlier in the night and y'all were
still mad. So your Yelp review is about how they
fucked up your anniversary when the problem was you panic
booked this restaurant because you've forgotten money. Your use of
the word accommodate in your fake Yelp review is so
on point. They use accommodate like five times in review
(15:20):
that the chronic Yelp reviewers they would care about their customers.
I guess the customer is wrong in this sense. Or
it'll be like something you could never expect from where
they're at. You know, they'll like go to a concert
and like their supporter potties and I'll be like, what
do you mean the porter party smelled like someone pooped
(15:43):
in a hole. Yeah, bitch, someone just pooped in a hole.
What were you thinking is going to happen? Uh? And finally,
what is a myth? What's something people think is true?
You know tobe holes? All right, So I guess I
want to debunk um. There's like I just feel a
lot of stuff that goes around that's like Americans pass
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along for a long period of time, is like a truism,
and then you have to keep referring to it as
not true, even though it's been a long time, and
it's like not not ever been true, Like for example,
that um, black people are who's unwelfare and it's like, okay,
well there's been statistics for a long time that have
(16:26):
shown that that is not the case. They're not the
only people on welfare, and proportionally they are not people
in welfare. Yeah, that's what I mean, the myth of
the welfare queen and um my mom and I were
on welfare when we moved here. And I love telling
people that because a lot of white people's faces will
change like they've never heard that, and they're like, well
(16:47):
when did you start bleaching your skin? Which is so crazy,
And so I just feel like I need to go
around telling people that we used to be unwelfare because
people divide minorities into like good minorities and bad minorities,
and like, uh, you know Jews Asians. I'm Russian, so
like Russian Jews were like model minorities and we're like, oh, Yeah,
(17:10):
you're gonna move here, You're gonna go after you know, schooling,
You're gonna get a great career. We love you. What
would like to vilify being poor and right? Exactly and
it's not. You know, my mom was a software engineer
where we were from, and then we moved here, or
she was a computer programmer. We moved here and she
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had to start over. She had to learn English, and
we used to clean houses together and like, uh, be
on welfare. And that is how it works when you
move to a new place and you're trying to get
your life together. We were immigrant refugees, and so many
white people and so many Russian people I know were
on welfare when they moved here. So the next time
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you think of the welfare queen, picture my face, bitch,
because that's who that is. You're talking about me and
my mom. Well, now you're about to take down all
the Fox News talking point invite me to talk about
welfare on New York Conservative network. All right, let's talk
about the Adam Sandler concert in the next couple of minutes,
(18:12):
because there's not a whole lot to say other than
that it's really good. Yeah, I don't want to start
re enacting ship because that's what we've been doing the
whole week. But so great. I saw him tape it.
I saw her. Yeah, so me Courtney, my co host
from reality but my podcast. Sorry to plug it real quick. Yeah, um,
two great guests. Yes, Jack and Miles guested and guess
(18:37):
what Jack got vulnerable. I know you didn't expect that.
We went and we saw him do his little residency
at the Dynasty Typewriter. We saw one of the shows
and five or six of us went together and all
of us walked out of there with red eyes because
(18:57):
we cry. Laugh. Yeah, I cry left. I loved if
throughout if you like Adam Sandler, and you loved especially
if you bought his albums, if you were that level
Sandler person. I had his albums as a kid. I
was fucking scream crying her majesty. My girlfriend thought I
was losing my mind during certain parts and it was
(19:18):
so man, there's just something like it really transports me
to another time. I think that style of humor because
I haven't been able to laugh at something like that.
That's not just you know, overtly vulgar or whatever. It's
just his delivery and just the ship that he choose
to talk about. It's so funny, so silly and joyful
in a way that we haven't seen in a long
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ass time. And it reminds me of like when you
saw Billy Madison for the first time, and just like
the little lines that are the throwaways and all the
you know, the shampoo, see the condition I make that
we all really, we all love that so much because
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it was so simple and joyful and goofy. Yeah, and
I still remember where I was when I first heard
his first album, like just because of how hard I
was laughing. It was like my friend's basement, basically like, yeah,
this felt similar. So I also don't want to like
(20:22):
overdo it. Yeah, I'm just sufficed to say we're I'm
a Sandler fan, so of course I'm gonna love it.
But if you're a Saidler fan, I can tell you.
If you were a Saidler fan and you don't like it,
check your pulse and your weed. But honestly, I was
worried when I went to see it. I was like,
oh God, what is this going to be like, because
we haven't seen him do com a long time and
it's so by far surprised. Yeah, once more and more
(20:45):
comedians that like who I respect, were like, hey, this
is dope. Yeah we're saying. I was like, oh, ship, yeah,
because most of the time you would think, oh, Sandler
Netflix thing is like just something to fulfill his like
nine Picture deally totally crab City really or whatever. I
just haven't been watching his movies for a long time
(21:06):
because of how panned they are. But like I've also
I saw a couple back in the day and I
was like, Oh, these aren't very good anymore, or maybe
I'm getting older, Like I didn't know what my relationship
with Adam Sandler was like, had his movies got worse,
had I just gotten like matured out of them? But no,
it just turns out like, yeah, this is what I
(21:27):
was missing, was just being took me right back to it. Yeah,
he's in a stup business person. He was making dollar
dollar bills, y'all, and that's all he did. And you know,
it's funny. I've watched every single Adam Sandler movie, Like
I've watched every Netflix one too. So my friend, so
Dave rankin the other Reality Vice person, we me and
him have a long standing Adam Sandler joke about the
fact that we won't see the new movies and theaters, um,
(21:50):
but then whenever they come on TV we end up
watching them. We're always liked alright. I mean some of
the Netflix ones are pretty whack, but like I haven't
seen the Netflix only ones. I just mean the ones
from yeah yeah, yeah yeah. We should do a dive
into like the more recent Adam Sandler movies, like ranking
them as far as like you're gonna be surprised. What
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would be the the sort of demarcation point. I think
for me it was. I think it was water Boy
was where I was like, this is still Oka but
about it. Big Daddy would have been maybe I still
I love Big Daddy. But then I watched her recently
on to me and I was like, it's so sexy. Yeah,
and I was like, holy sh it, not that you
(22:33):
know what like any nineties yea, they are, but I
feel like we forget oh yeah no, no. No. Standards
were so different that when even the women were down
with fucking hating, women were like, stupid, bitche stupid, you
don't deserve ship. You worked at Hooters earning money with
(22:56):
your dumb body, dumb bitch. But the soundtrack was flameing alright,
we're gonna take a quick break and we'll talk about
the election when we come back. And we're back, and um, so,
(23:24):
I mean you guys, you guys said you weren't really
paying that close of attention to the projections as they
were rolling in had a model that like Nate Silver
came on after like forty minutes of it like going
in the direction that like Republicans were going to keep
the house where he was like, it looks like our
(23:46):
models being a little too sensitive, Like I wouldn't freak
out too much yet, And I was just like, yea,
you probably killed some people with that, Like people probably
died of a heart. You almost killed me. Yeah. It
was when I was looking at like political and a
few other things, I was like, all right, well, you know,
a lot of these races are tight. Nothing've been called
in the wrong direction yet, but like a lot of
(24:07):
things seemed a little bit tighter than we thought maybe
at first. And the way you were just like going
on it was almost it sort of unnerved me because like, wait,
why are they so like wholeheartedly being like okay, well,
now the Democrats have a thirty four percent chance of
winning the House, and this is absurdity. But luckily we've
(24:30):
got our gears together. We got we got our feet
on the ground and our head of the clouds, and yes,
well we were able to find a version that worked.
But yeah, that that was pretty wild for them to
be kind of constantly swinging the probability like that on people.
We have PTSD when it comes to looking at I
think that's exactly what it is. Like, I mean, and
people can be like, oh, the Libs they're so weak,
(24:51):
like they act like they were traumatized, but yeah, I mean,
you can call me weak if you want, but I'm
legitimately traumatized from two thousands sixteen because everything after it
has been just as bad as I was worried it
was going to be. On that. It would have been
great if we were all just being you know, extreme
in our predictions and like the wall the world is
(25:13):
ending kind of stuff. But now the world's actually ending.
They have a date. So we were right two decades.
Just in terms of kind of early reactions to the results,
it seems like it was basically a return to Nate
Silver being right about everything like in his in terms
of the predictions heading in, it was like, Okay, the
(25:34):
Democrats will take the House, the Republicans will keep the Senate.
They were off on a couple of the gubernatorial things,
but just in general, it wasn't a huge broad repudiation
of Trump in the sense of, you know, there was
not a blue wave, or at least that's how it's
being covered that there wasn't a blue wave. But it
was a you know, successful night for Democrats and basically
(25:57):
enough for both sides to transmit it is a positive
night for them. Yeah. Oh man, Hannity was really trying
to spend this as a positive night. He's like, it
was actually a great night for yeah, for d j T.
And I'm like, oh, really, sir, because I think one thing,
you know, as we look at all the returns, i
mean we've seen most of them, but like as we
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really kind of get a picture of what actually happened,
I know, I think Colorado completely flipped their state legislature blue. Like,
there's been all kinds of little things going on. So
there's a lot of state level things that we've yet
to kind of fully you know, wrap our heads around.
But the idea now that with the Democrats in the majority,
you know, now they're going to have those chair positions
and a lot of those committees, which means a whole
(26:39):
new bevy of investigative and subpoena powers that we didn't
have because you know, being in the majority is a
tricky thing because you have to do lame shit like
oversight or hold the president accountable. And I think one
thing that like among the many things that not not
just that the Democrats are finally gonna act as a
check legislatively from a congres sational standpoint against trumb is
(27:01):
that now we have the ability to start really calling
people in to answer questions and splain things. And you know,
a few months ago, we talked about how there was
a spreadsheet going around that the Republicans are putting together
being like, Okay, remember all the things that the Democrats
kept asking us for and committee, like whether it was
around Russia? Are these other things? Well, and we kept
saying no because we were the majority party. Well, they're
(27:23):
probably gonna do this to us now because these are
the things they wanted. And I just kind the Republicans
list of things they're scared that Democrats would start doing
if they want back the House. They called it a
literal hell list, Okay, And This was all meant to
basically put the like legal team of the White House
under alert to be like, prepare yourself for like to
get produce these records. It's gonna be a nightmare for them.
(27:45):
But again, not that these things that I'm about to
list are going to be resolved instantly, but it's good
to know that now we do have some ability to
begin to look into these things. And I'll just read
off this list, very short list, just to give you
an idea. So, starting in the top, President Trump's tax returns,
Trump family business and whether they comply with the constitutions
of moinment cloud, Trump's dealings with Russia, the payment of
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Stephanie Clifford, ak Stormy Daniels, James Comby's firing, Trump's firing
of you as attorney's, Trump's proposed transgender band for the military,
Treasury Secretary Steve Manuchan's business dealings, White House taffs, personal
email use cabinets, Secretary travel Another misused Burke's discussions of
classified information at mar Lago, Jared Kushner's ethics law compliance,
dismissal of members of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors,
the Travel Band family separation policy, hurricane response to Puerto Rico,
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election security and hacking attempts, whiteout security clearances are just
a few, just a couple things. Those are. That's the
greatest hits list, that is the past couple of years.
And again, like I say before, these people on the
right were able to just obscure this nonsense and buffoonery
and act like we're the whiny people. But when you
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look at this, this reads like a list of things
you probably would care about if you were in Americans. Right, So,
so we'll see MSMB he had the hot breaking news,
like the moment after they called the House for the Democrats,
they were like, and this just in. The Democrats have
informed us that they are requesting Trump's tax returns effective immediately.
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So they basically checked off that first box, like right
off the bat. But they don't have to, virus doesn't
have to. Uh looks like they could put up a
fight about handing over the tax returns to So it's
none of this gonna matter. Is it just gonna be
like is it gonna be just like well, you never know.
That's the thing about the way our democracy or quote
unquote democracy is set up. You know, there's a lot
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of ways, like if you're cheating like they do, you
stack the courts with judges who, like, again, if you
had to sue to get these tax returns, might be like,
I don't think, I'm just worried that this government doesn't
respect the process. Well, of course not. I mean look
at all the last minute voter suppression ship that was
going down. Uh, and I wouldn't be optimistic. But again,
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I think what we do have here, though, is that
we can finally formally begin producing information around these things
in a way that it isn't just us, you know,
banging outside the shop window being like please let us in, right.
I just sworry because we have the information like about
you know, speaking of disenfranchisement, the Stacy Abrams thing, we
have the information that the votes were being changed, yeah,
(30:15):
or at the very least yess are being registration. Yeah,
all of that. So like, and what what the knowledge
is out there? I think, yeah, a lot of people
are encouraging her to not concede that race, because you know,
you have someone who is running the basically the election
also running. I was just yeah, you can't do both, know,
(30:36):
You're like, I checked it out. I won everything checks out,
looks right cool, someone had to wait four and a
half hours to vote and anyway, I don't know whatever.
So there's this thing that is very important in political
media coverage with expectations going into it, where counterintuitively, you
want to set your side up as completely inept heading
(30:59):
into an event so that when it goes in the
other direction, you seem like you came out of nowhere.
It's basically going against expectations. Like watching the results come in,
you know, the only stories, the only races that they
were covering were the ones that were sort of going
against expectations, and then you'd get the one that was
like called that was a foregone conclusion. But I feel
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like that's going to work against the Democrats a little
bit as well, just in terms of how this midterm
is covered, because I think there are races that were
being covered like gilhim in Florida, like Stacey Abraham's, like
betto or probably the biggest one that didn't go the
Democrats way. But those would have been kind of upsets
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if you were if you were looking a month ago
at what was its insane it got that close in Texas? Yeah, right,
And that's the thing I think despite that, I know
we were really pulling for a Betto to pull off
a upset against Speech and Cruz. Guy, I know you
love Mayonnai's face, but I just like that. I don't
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know again, but I think there are a lot of
good takeaways from that. Is that, you know, Betto really
did energize the Democrats in the state and also with
a very progressive platform in the state like Texas, to
get that close, that's saying something and who knows if
we're looking at uh, you know, president of work sounds better,
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but you see, and one of the details that was
kind of being papered over by Republicans on these sort
of talking head shows is you know, they were like, well,
when Obama had his first midterm, he lost a number
of like x number of seats, like you guys are
only picking up this many, and when you look at overall,
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like how many House votes, they're predicting it will end
up between six and ten percent Democratic victory, which is
a pretty big win. Like Bush beat Ducacus by eight percent,
Reagan beat Carter by nine percent. Those are seen as
pretty like definitive and era defining victories. But because it's
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like people were going in with this idea that there
might be a blue wave, that sort of everything was
going to be more left than people predicted heading in.
But I also think that speaks to all the jerrymandering too, right,
you know, And that's the same thing we have somehow
winning to almost buy double digits, but it's this close.
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Yeah yeah, so again, and that's something that governors could help.
Uh if you know that if the Democrats had one governor,
they are still winning. We you know, we don't know
the full picture, but the picture, you know, there's there's
there's things to be smiled about. A couple of things
are frowned about, but overall, like, you know, we did
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the ship that we had we needed to do at
the very least, which has gained control of the House.
But the way the New York Times is covering it
ted Cruz to It's better oh Rourke for Senate as
blue wave fails to reach Texas is their headline for
that race, which is like, yeah, I don't know, And well,
Pete Sessions lost, so I don't think they were they
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were expecting that in Texas also, so that was another
I mean, there's pet Sessions as a congressman from Texas,
I think the Dallas area, and you know, he's been
around for a long time. But again, you know, he
had a challenger coming up against him, very handsome, uh,
a man of color, and he did his ship and
then one so there, you know, Texas, as much as
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they want to, you know, we were over here being like,
come on, Texas, what the fun is going on? At
least there's we've seen something awakened in in that state.
But at the same time, come on, white women voted
for Ted Cruz. Was that a real stat Yeah, that's
what people were reporting on on the TV. White women
in in Texas fucking ain't ship. I don't fucking how
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much do you have to hate yourself? Or I mean
literally who hurt you? Like? I just don't understand. I think,
you know, I think there are some people who just
so entrenched in the partisan aspect of it where they're like,
I'm just I don't care. I'm not gonna be suddenly
better because all the cool people are like, all the
young people think he's great. And I'm sure there are
also those people who are problematic, you know, they have
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racist views or other things where they like the president's
agenda and that's why they voted for him. But yeah,
you know, things are moving. Yeah, So what what does
this mean in terms of like what the Democrats I mean,
is it basically they'll be able to stall things out
that Trump is trying to push through. I mean, I'm
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not going to get anything through the House obviously, you know.
So what are some examples of things that he got
through the House during the first two years of his administration,
like the fucking tax cuts, like the attempts at Obamacare
repeal those things. Now you have no way to legislatively
do that. So it's gonna be of executive orders and
(36:01):
ship and lawsuits probably, so the things that literally hurt people. Yeah, yeah,
I mean there are gonna be many ways to inflict damage,
as we found, because he is, you know, unstoppable in
that aspect. But you know, the other thing too is
that the Democrats can now begin to pass bills that
are gonna signal to voters coming up in the next
election what the funk this platform is about. And I
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think the other it's a double edged sword because on
the other side, too, we may really find out how
deeply fractured the Democrat Party is. Where you have a
lot of these younger or freshman income in Congress, people
who like ran on really progressive things, and then you
have someone like Nancy Pelosi with the speaker's gavel who
might not be down to do Medicare for all off
the rip, you know, and and expend all that political
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capital you know, you know, probably more realistically stuff like infrastructure,
prescription drugs, and things like that that are just a
little bit easier to get even get a little bit
of bipartisan support for. Yeah, things like that. And and
also too, uh, just general things like reverse some of
the damage that's been done now with the Senate being
in full on Republican control, that's going to be difficult.
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But again that's why that's how Democrats are gonna make
their case. So like, this is what we're trying to
do on behalf of people, you know, and then this
is what's the gunking it up at the top, So
please vote correctly. Yeah, At the same time, I will
just say, going against everything I just said about like
expectations setting, this did just feel like from a gut
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level to me, like I was back at a place
the same place I was at in the aftermath of
the two thousand and sixteen election where it was like, Okay,
so I can get away from the reality of what
America is like all I want by you know, reading
actual journalism and you know, talking to other people who
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are paying attention to the news. But there's just this
like hard, immovable reality that you have to come up
against every time there's an election. And this just didn't
make me like I started thinking forward and just like
pooped a little bit. I mean, there are definitely encouraging things,
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you know. I don't know the specific detailed numbers of
you know, turnout, millennial turnout, but you know, there were
huge moves to the left in anywhere people basically had educations.
It seems like so like suburbs and stuff like that.
And basically how Florida broke down and how a lot
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of Texas broke down was basically completely based on, you know,
whether you had a college degree or not, and things
in counties where people have college degrees really moved to
the left in a significant way. But just you know,
when you are seeing a charismatic figure like betto or
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lose a statewide election, even even if it is like
read Texas, it's when when he's losing to Ted cruizes
just like, wow, Like I live in a different reality
than a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. But also this
year over a women, I think we're elected yea, and
that showing you something too. This is we're trying to
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have a government that is a little more representative of
what it looks like. It reminds me of my favorite
tweet that I brought. Oh wow, sweet, but you kind
of jump in the gun, Mr you can Okay, what
did you say? Now? This is my friend. Um. Alison
Lippert tweeted this on Twitter and she said this gay
kid never imagined that her hometown would elect Charise David's,
(39:39):
an openly gay woman, as the first Native American woman
to Congress. Thanks for giving me new hope, Kansas and
a picture of her as a little kill gay kid. Um.
So yeah, I think that's something that's giving me hope. Yeah.
I had the first I think Latina elected to Congress
from Texas. You had the first two Muslim American women
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in Minnesota and Michigan. Yeah. Iana Pressley was the first
black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts finally. So yeah,
a lot of first and yeah, I just hope this
is more indicative and like when a lot of the
ballot measures that passed to like with restoring voting rights
to felons like in Florida and things like that. There
are moments where I was like, how are you voting
for that? And then the progressive guy didn't win, and
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I get how some people, you know there some vote
just straight down the ticket for some things. But it
was also it was there were more heartening examples two
of sort of shifts happening on smaller levels. Yeah, and
even the bed old thing I was talking about how
in the Texas governor race, the Republican they called it
like with pcent reporting just because it was like, oh,
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this guy's crushing the Republican is winning by such a
wide margin. But enough people, enough Republicans defected to be like,
I mean, look at these two as like who are
you going to vote for? Uh that? You know, maybe
that is something to take a little bit of Solacen
and Michigan welcomed to the legalized weed club too, And
(41:08):
now Betto is free to run for president. I guess,
uh where whereas the Senate would need him uh to
to keep that seat since you wouldn't want it to
go to a special election. So we'll we'll see what
happens there. Uh, let's let's just a little wish fulfillment
here at the end of this segment. Of the different
things that Miles read off, of the different house investigations
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that can be launched, what is the one that you're
most looking forward to? Oh? God, what is the most
There are so many? How can you pick one? The
family separation policy and the travel band. There's just gonna
be emails behind the scenes on those that, like you
can just foya and it's just gonna be like wild Actually,
(41:57):
hurricane response to Puerto Rico, that's my that's that's gonna
be un unbelievable. I think also finding out about what
Trump is doing with all these Chinese trademarks and other
business things that are going on, I think could be
rem Yeah, the emolument stuff. I think also, you know,
anything around Jared Kushner, because we know he's shady's fun
(42:19):
So I don't know. Honestly, they're all I'm excited of
everything again. But I don't mean to say this as
if because of this happens, you know, they're going to
be marching Jared out in the in the prison orange jumpsuit.
Or anything like that. But again, it'll be good to
bring some truth out around these things and begin to
call people forward to be accountable, especially people who are
running departments like FEMA and things like that, and be like, okay,
(42:42):
what what what went on? Exactly? My man. I think
I'm most excited about the ones that like are hurting people,
like what you were saying, Jack, the most directly. You know,
they are all hurting people, obviously, but like the direct
depths from like the horrible response in Puerto Rico and yeah,
and for sure family separation, yeah, or have all the
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people in the army come up, who like whose own
assessment of this migrant caravan. We're like, yeah, this is
not an actual threat, and have those people come up
say that out loud and you know, help people realize
what's going on a little bit. But again, yeah, this
could be wish fulfillment and wishful thinking. And we're just
delirious because we're watching the news all day. Trump's dealings
(43:24):
with Russia. I'm I'm excited for that too. I feel
like we were on hold there for a little bit.
It's like that part in the Hamilton's where they're like,
can we get back to politics. Good, Oh, I'm not
doing that. Well. I haven't been able to see Hamilton's,
so you know, it's like, okay, it reminds me of
the original cast of Hamilton's, not so much the one
(43:45):
that's out. Did you not see? Oh yeah, Lynne is
a great friend of mine. Remind just performed it in
my living and I was like, oh my god, this
is so embarrassing. And he's like, Sofia, look, I gotta
just tell you this is going to be big, and
I'm like, okay, I guess. But yeah, again, we don't know.
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We'll see what happens. That. The other thing is because
just because this is happening doesn't mean Trump isn't gonna
do everything in his power to avoid being held accountable
or protecting the people around him. We were enabling him.
So but again, the very least we have some kind
of a check now, right, they don't. He doesn't have
just an entirely Republican House and Senate. But it does
(44:26):
seem like the Muller investigation went quiet for about three
weeks there and stuff was happening behind the scenes. Well, yeah,
because he was I think the whole deal is he
wasn't gonna do anything that was gonna become a distraction
during an election. So that's when we'll see now, because
he's been in the lab, you know, in the on
the cover of darkness, so we'll see what he's cooked up. Yeah,
and I do think, you know, we've talked in the
(44:48):
past couple of weeks about how Trump's approval rating has
slowly inched up a little bit, and I do think
that probably has something to do with the fact that
he's only in the headlines for like on his own terms,
and there's not just this steady drip of Muller news
coming out where it's like this, look at this, Like
even though people are like, oh, the Russia stuff is
(45:09):
just a distraction and it doesn't affect Middle America, I
still think that when you have this like steady drip
of stories that just show clear evidence that the president
is corrupt, like that has to hurt his approval rating. Yeah, well,
I think it went it dipped again though before today.
So yeah, but I guess then like ten points underwater range,
(45:31):
like just more people ten percent disapprove of him than approved. Well,
he seems very confident because you know, he tweeted just
late at night on Tuesday after the Democrats took control
of the House, and I mentioned all those things that happened,
this dude was tremendous success tonight, Thank you doll. M course.
(45:54):
But then, you know, but then he'll probably wake up
at like three in the morning, should his pants and
start being like, Paul Ryan is a little fucking loser
and I should have never trusted him, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was right, which I do think he was. It
turns out because like all the places where he went,
they did end up winning the Senate seat by more
than was predicted. And yeah, racism still works in America.
(46:16):
Who knew what? Yeah, by the way, I don't know. Uh,
maybe we can dig into this a little bit more later.
But you know, the whole idea of not talking about
something having a blackout period on a story that's bad
for the president in the run up to an election
seems like that in itself is a you know, is
(46:38):
a bias. It's not telling a story that is happening.
And the same thing happened, right, and Komy kept himself
quiet because he knew Fox News was going to lose
its ship in the run up to two thousand and
sixteen and actively like made it seem like the investigation
into Russian meddling on behalf of Trump was less of
(46:58):
a thing because he didn't want to be accused of bias.
But being like aware of only one side of the
bias is in itself bias. Well, yeah, and that's what's
led to the rise of right wing extremism. Violence too,
is because that's another thing that they try and defend
and be like, oh, why are you just trying to
pick on these people because they have guns and a
violent agenda, military weapons and blew up the Oklahoma city
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But you know what I mean, But it's true, And
like they there was an article talking about how that
did affect UH law enforcements ability to like seriously assess
those threats because people were going to try and you
know that they would face criticism for doing. We're doing
a whole section on that this week because, yeah, that
article underlined a lot of stuff we've been saying for
a while that we've been saying, thank you, all right,
(47:44):
we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll talk
about how aliens are coming for us all and we're
bad back, and so there might be alien life terms
(48:04):
if I'm reading this threat, I know, I'm a little
might be story now, Well, no, I only I exhale
because the originally, I think we wanted to talk about
it in the event that things went horribly awful and
we're just like whatever, due to an alien ship might
just come kill us all and take us out of
our misery. Muammuah. Okay, that's that's pretty basic to think
(48:24):
that the aliens would want to kill us smile. But
they are evolved. They are going to take us with them.
Oh you're right. Okay, my bad, my bad. Sorry for
the back quash. But but Jack was pronouncing the name
of this object, this foreign object that they have detected. Sorry,
did I say something? I thought I just blacked out
there for a second. Okay. So to set the story up, y'all,
(48:47):
what happened was like a while back, I think a
year ago or something. Yeah, the astronomers they detected this
like gigantic object that was very sort of odd looking,
dubbed Jack as you pronounced ah muamua orma or whatever. Hey,
whatever you wanta all right? Uh? Yeah. They say it
(49:10):
arrived from interstellar space beyond the bubble like region that
demarcates the Sun's domain. Yeah, it looks like it looks
like any Claire or a lady finger. Yeah, I think
is what you would call that. But the thing that
got people sort of interested in it is that, especially
these people at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for astro Physics.
(49:31):
So you know, there's not they're not just lying to
you that they're saying, you know, first like, oh, maybe
there's a comment, but they have a very different theory.
So some of these astro physicists claim that Omoamua could
be a quote fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth
vicinity by an alien civilization. Omamua deviates from a trajectory
(49:52):
that is solely dictated by the Sun's gravity. This could
have been the result of commentary outgassing, but there's no
evidence for a commentary tale around. Did moreover comments change
the period of their spin and no such change was
detected for omama. So they're saying, you know, this thing
is moving around not like anything else. We know what's
going on here. Yeah, And there's also also like the
(50:14):
one of you thought it looked like a dildo and
the other one like in a Claire, it's like a
free horny situation. Depends on who's got dicks on the
brain and who's got there's a you know, truth be told,
there's no amount of marshmallow fluff you can put on
a dildo first taste good. So they're they're talking about
it seeing potentially a light sale. What is that something
(50:37):
where you're using the speed of light to like transport
yourself at the speed of light. Is that the idea? Well,
they're saying that they again, this is so science, and
I did so terribly in science in school. I had
to cheat to pass. Okay, so I'm sorry, I'm little
confession for y'all. But the way that it's moving, they're saying.
Another explanation is that the quote extra force exerted on
(50:59):
and well by sunlight, that is what's moving it. And
for that to be possible that the actual object would
have to be less than a millimeter in thickness, like
a sale. That so they're saying that this may be
some kind of light sale produced by an alien civilization,
but it's also kind of a thing that we're kind
of working on on this planet too with h Yeah. Anyway,
(51:21):
first of a light sale, I'm pretty embarrassing. More broke
boy space dart. It actually also comes to the lights.
That's actually the color of your car is light sale.
One of the theories that I've heard. And by the way,
we'll we'll talk about people who are debunking this because
the scientific community loves themselves a backlash. Yeah, well let's
(51:47):
really look at this object. I mean, essentially, the point
that somebody made in debunking this was just that a
theory is just something that you can't prove incorrect route, right,
which is true. It's one of like a thousand possibilities.
But this is a very interesting possibility, so it's worth
talking about, and uh, you know, it helps explain a
(52:10):
couple of things that haven't been explained otherwise. But a
theory I saw somewhere was that this is like part
of a ship that has been like cast off from
another craft that has been like now slowing down and
its approach to Earth. Because like if you had like
our spacecraft, you know, you like shed different parts of
(52:30):
it that are like powering it as you're going up.
So if you shed something that was like part of
a spacecraft as you were like slowing down to approach Earth,
then that thing would go flying by the Solar System
before like the ship actually arrived because they would be
down so like we might be seeing what was actually
(52:52):
coming here. And so that's them ditching the rocket booster, right,
that's the rocket booster that they ditched. The real deals
coming four Um, that sounds like independence And now I'm
it's like I feel like the way you look at
Aliens is people the same way people were like optimistic
about the election before and after. There are groups of
(53:14):
us who are like, yeah, baby, any signal means Aliens
or means Hillary is gonna win. And then there are
other people are like, no, even though I'm an expert,
I need the fucking alien to come down on the
planet and me to shake its hand for me to acknowledge.
I just also hope that they love O. That's the
only thing that will be the ultimate ninety fiance is
(53:39):
coming down to Earth. Idea. Ever, Jack like Bleak was
way different than we were first chatting online. Right he
said he was a multi cell organism. But actually when
I met him, but I was like, I thought, on Earth,
you guys have gold and go on vacations. This is
not what I signed up for. God with flowers, where
(54:01):
are my flowers? Anyway, we have to figure out how
we're going to talk about this show. One possibility that
I've always thought was like more likely that I didn't
understand why people don't talk about more is that like
we would encounter an alien civilization that had like died
off a million years ago, and we're just like seeing
evidence of it coming to us through space. And that's
(54:24):
something that I saw mentioned while people were discussing this report,
that like it could be a long ago civilization and
it's just like passing by their space ship is only
making it to us now. But like that would be
fucking dope if we found out about an entire civilizations
like history and entire species history, but we didn't have
(54:46):
to deal with like getting killed off by them. We
just got to read an entire history. But wouldn't it
be crazy if it was just our history? And with
Donald Trump, like yo, dude, a scrill couldn't get people
to vote him out of office. That's a script. That's
(55:08):
a script. Write that down. Like honestly, though, like I
can just imagine like us being like, holy sh it,
this is our history and the next year Donald Trump
ends the world and people be like not fake news,
like you would just it would go exactly the same
way said for a long time that the Aliens are
very big Lee losers. This is a crisis space refuse
(55:32):
it's not real ship right. Well, Sophia, thank you so
much for coming and joining us on this special election
episode of The Daily. It was great having you. We're
burning the midnight oil, so we appreciate it. Yes, where
can people find you and follow you? I am the
Sophia t H E S O F I y A
on Twitter and Instagram, and I got a podcast called
(55:56):
Reality Bites a Lot of fun. Is there a tweet
that you've been enjoying besides the one you shared with
us already? I'm just gonna share my all time favorite
tweet by Ted travel Stead, which is I'm not Everyone's
cup of teeth. That makes me more than Yeah, miles
(56:16):
Where can people find you? Oh? You can find me
on Twitter and Instagram at miles of Gray And a
tweet you've been enjoying? This comes from at Cotton Can
Daddy Gracie, who's just is the display name It says, wow,
this is really will get ten thousand likes on a
tweet and move to l a for real, for real
(56:39):
and then another one ever Maynard. Shout out to you, ever,
because all calves you tweeted out loud and proud just
got health insurs. Bitch, Yes, please get that healthy sharts.
I'm sorry we live in such a place where we
can't take care of our people, but yes, as ever
is hilarious. Yeah, pop bottles so funny. You can follow
me on Twitter A check underscore, O'Brien. I'm just gonna
(56:59):
draw are your attention to a thing I tweeted a
couple of days back that says, flip your phone upside down.
That's pretty fucking cool. It's just somebody showing like a
like outside their car window as they're driving, and it's like,
you know, dusk, so it's a pretty sky. But then
it says, flip your phone upside down, and when you do,
for whatever reason, it just becomes this like crazy, trippy,
(57:22):
like weird light show just from like changing the perspective
that you're looking at it. So yeah, yeah, a highly
visual tweet for this audio medium. And then a partner
on Charlotte said, Sunday is the day of rest unless
you're existential dread, in which case you better work, which
is so true for me. I Sundays I feel so
(57:45):
much anxiety, do you I just talked about this on
the Mental Illness Happy Hour. I said that the way
it feels on Sunday is like that something is ending
and you don't know what it is, but it makes
it so sad. You know, it's funny. I used to
get it until I started doing it. Show no likee
now you're happy. It was always like, are you doing
a job I didn't like? Because I'd be like, fun,
(58:07):
it doesn't matter. I still feel like that's like I
feel blessed. Last thank you? Sunday is the fall of
like days. Yeah, the fall of days, the end of days,
like the season, okay, autumn of days, Monday's winter. Okay,
(58:29):
let's well, let's we'll work. We'll work work for next time,
all right. You can follow us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist,
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foot We link off to the information that we talked
about on today's episode, as well as the song we
(58:50):
ride out on. You can also find that information in
the show notes show notes miles, what song are we
going to write out on on this day? After election, guy,
the song will go out on today. Now. I know
it wasn't at the quite the blue wave we were
hoping for where both houses go, but it was still
a bit of a wave none the less. And I
played this song a while back we were first talking
(59:12):
about the wave, and this is the song for the
wave by Little Little Haiti and Cush below. But again,
and it's not a fool bowing wave. But if you
just want to hit this money dance and then bust
the wave, you can do that on all your homies
who voted read yesterday. So yes, the wave, Little Haiti,
there you go. And I know what all those words
to me. All Right, we're gonna ride out on that.
(59:34):
We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.
We'll talk to you that way. Turn up, tun up,
Tun up. Charlie hit me, yes you want a chair,
wanna chill? Turn up on the blush? You bust away
trying to turn up. She hit the money dish, but
(59:56):
the worst she bust the wave. She hit the money dish.
That's the wish. What's the way? Shirt? He hit me,
Yes you wanna chair, wanna chall pull up on the blush.
But's the way what's the way she hit this money
that she but's the wish? What's the way turn out
she hit this money that she pu's the way cash money, nigger,
that's the way. That's the way. I don't fuck a
(01:00:19):
lot of him niggas. Bunch, your fat bunch, your fake
snake gets the niggas moving like a snake, like the
snake put the hollow tiper, I don't even had you leave.
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