California Heading For Disaster? Literary Genius Meghan McCain 05.18.22

In episode 1250, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, film producer, and comedian Dani Faith Leonard to discuss… The Biggest Water Disaster In US History Coming To California And We Aren’t Ready, Critical Race Theory ESPECIALLY bad when taught to…Black kids?, The Sad State of Meghan McCain’s Literary Career and more!

1. The Biggest Water Disaster In US History Coming To California And We Aren’t Ready
2. Critical Race Theory ESPECIALLY bad when taught to…Black kids?
3. The Sad State of Meghan McCain’s Literary Career
4. Meghan McCain's New Book: "My Dad, John McCain"
5. Meghan McCain’s Book Sold to Hyperion For High Six Figures

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two thirty seven,
Episode three of Dirt Das Dice Day production of I
Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
deep dive into America share consciousness. And it is Wednesday,
May eight, which of course means National no dirty Dishes Day.

(00:20):
None exactly, throw your dishes out. It's also National HIV
Vaccino Awareness Day. And it's also National Visit your relative
to Day. Come on check in mom's every busy relatives. Yeah,
HIV Vaccination Day is. So are we close on that

(00:43):
the HIV vaccine? That do we just to throw a
conversation that requires loads of research that we didn't? I mean,
I know that obviously that the treatments are are pretty
have improved fastly, you know, the eighties. But yes, this
that this is meant to bring awareness around you know,
looking for a safe and expressible vaccine. Yah, yeah, we

(01:07):
need it. Yeah alright. Well my name is Jack O'Brien
a k. This country makes me lose my mind and
now my baby is hungry and only craft. Well there's
something you can do. You just give you a baby
mountain dew that is courtesy if Christie. I'm a Gucci man.

(01:30):
Hit it with the you know, one of the many
means that suggests Baha Blast flavored or just Baha Blast
as an alternative. There there was the Baha Blast baby food, right.
I don't get it. I don't get what people think
it is funny about this. The kids love Baha Blast.
It's one of our national treasures. Gives them an extra

(01:52):
little pep in their step and then just a horrifying
crash afterwards. But what's the secret to all those gold
medal counts at theeling big kids do? Early? Well, I'm
thrilled to be joined as always buy my co host,
Mr Miles Grad Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, Susan Collins.
I'm headed to your sidewalk, and I hope you're ready. Yeah,

(02:15):
I'm going down to Susan's with some chock sun. This
senator ain't seen a browns man. Sister grandparents bought one. Look.
I just that came to me in the shower. I
was like, shotgun chock sun. Yeah, okay, I'm headed down
to Susan's with some chalk sun. Uh and saying hey, Susie, please,
you know, maybe vote to a carter fire row. But hey,

(02:36):
you know it's it's it's that's terrorism exactly. Ship with chalk. Luckily,
the police said did not seem like an overt threat.
Please and thank you. It's not enough to just say please.
If you don't say please and thank you, then it's
a threat. The police will be called. Well, Miles, that
was wonderful. Anytime there's a backing track, it feels like

(02:57):
a wrestling entrance, like, oh sure, sure, and I'm like,
what's happening, what's happening here? He's coming down from the rafters. Yeah, yeah, Well,
we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
a very talented writer, comedian, and film producer, co founder
of the inclusion focused film and media incubator Big Vision,

(03:18):
Empty Wallet. It's Danny Faith. Hello. I wish I had
a really cool prepared intro. Okay, I mean look, I
would say, next, what's your favorite karaoke song? And then
try and find a spin on those lyrics that make
it about you. I feel like that's always the easiest
way for somebody to improve the song. But no pressure,
you don't have to do it right now. Next time,

(03:42):
I'll spare you. I Also, I need a new I
need a new karaoke song. But my former business partner
walked down the aisle at her wedding to careless Whisper,
and I just thought that that was brilliant. Wow, that's
a meme right there. Wait, but what do you have
a favorite karaoke song? I'm not gonna make you think,
but it just in general, just that it's always nice
to know where people are at with their carecters. I

(04:04):
tend to go nineties songs that crowd would like to
sing really well. It's like not that they're necessarily my
favorite songs. And then when I get really drunk, I
always seem to request the theme from Full House. People
love it. I mean, that's another nine that the going

(04:25):
to appreciate it. Yeah, but it has this verse. It
has this verse in the middle that we don't know right,
kind of like the theme from Fresh Prince has the
same thing. It has a verse that wasn't It wasn't
and yeah that wasn't in the TV version of it?
Is it about about the cab rod that's stinky? What

(04:45):
happens in the middle verse of the Fresh Prince one? Oh,
I don't remember, but yeah, it definitely prolongs his trip. Yeah,
there's a transphobic verse and cheers. I think so absolutely. Yeah,
those those hidden verses where they were like maybe maybe
not maybe here and the end they're like, let's just
focus on the fact that he came to bel Air

(05:10):
a little problematic. I don't know why that's necessary. Just
say that the cab smelled weird. Yeah, go home, smell
you later, or yo home's smell you later, Yo home.
I think it's your home, smell you later. All right, Yeah,
that's what I think. My friend's dad thought it was
go home, smell you later, and he like loved to

(05:31):
make fun of him for that, and I was like,
I mean, it kind of works. He is saying by
whatever happened to predictability, thank you man the paper boy?
That that that's a little conservative and regressive. Happened to
the weak man? The paper boy? No contraception. You're like, way,

(05:55):
what the fuck? Wait are these lyrics? How did I
get delivered here? Yeah? Wow? What a song? What a song?
What a song? I like your altruism though, as a
karaoke like selector, where you're like, let me get a
torch song, going to turn up the crowd, and then
if there's a little treat for me, it's gonna be
what's the what's the full name? Everywhere you look at

(06:15):
the full house? But I think that's how that ends. Anyways, Danny,
we're going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
a couple of the things we're talking about. There's a
big water disaster looming over California and yeah, I don't know.

(06:36):
I was reading about it and I was like, Oh,
you need like hundreds of different politicians to agree on this.
I don't know. It was just one of those stories
that felt like it hit a little different now than
it would have even a few years ago. It feels
like with a lot of politicians being fully unmoored from reality.

(06:56):
So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the mom
who went on the Jesse Waters Show. Is that his
name Jesse Waters? Yeah, on Fox and talked about the
evils of critical race theory when it comes to her
bi racial fourteen year old son. We're gonna talk about
Megan McCain, my favorite author, all of that, plenty more.
But first, Danny, we do like to ask our guests

(07:19):
what is something from your search history? Well, you are
in luck because I was doing a lot of research
for different projects this week. I feel like going into
any writer or creator or comedian search history is just dangerous.
And I've been doing research for a project I don't

(07:41):
want to say that much about because it's in the
very beginning stages and it's something I'm writing with two
other people. But I was looking up Nazis on Long Island.
I grew up on Long Island. There's a town that
I've been obsessed with for a while, or obsessed with
learning more about Automa, actually obsessed with this place. But

(08:02):
it's called yap Hank And until seventeen, the town was
basically run by Nazis. And yeah, yeah, five years ago
and in inen there was a federal lawsuit where they
finally weren't allowed to only sell homes to German Americans anymore.

(08:28):
But there, you know, in the in the nineteen thirties,
there was a summer camp there where they had a
special train that ran straight from Penn Station to the
summer camp every weekend. And it was a training ground
for Hitler youth and it was called Camp Siegfried. And
it's this crazy place that no one seems to know exists.

(08:50):
Except for the people who were there who definitely know
it exists. And you know, I was reading all of
these articles and of course when they interviewed people in
the town, they were like, well, there's nothing to see here,
but but it's super fascinating. That's just Adolf Hitler Street.
It was Adolf Hitler Street. Yeah. Yeah, the main street

(09:15):
was called Adolf Hitler Street. There was Gebel Street, there
was Garing Street, not until I think they changed that earlier. Yeah,
yeah right. They're like okay, and the script is so
like aggressively third Reich on these streets signs, You're like wow,
like it's like a log cabin behind it on Adolf
Hitler Street. Actually don't know. I can't visually play. It's

(09:36):
just based on you saying that the third Reich funt
what Let let me look it up now, like here here,
let me just put the link into the chat helvetica.
Is it healthy? It's just that very like stylized, like
scripted handwriting, like highly seraphed. Oh yeah, yeah, there it is.
You know, like when you see stuff written in that,

(09:58):
like for me as a person of color, on my
maybe they're like not just Germany, old Germany. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
mother Motherland, Germany, so yeah, it's it. Also, you will
find that script at like EPCOT Germany, right, yeah, yeah, okay,

(10:18):
it's Bavarian script. Probably it's what it's called like in
Microsoft Word or whatever. How did you first hear about yeah, pank,
like growing up in Long Island. I I definitely didn't
hear about it growing up, So it's like it's that
much of a thing where it's like you only heard
tell maybe later in life, Like it was very Yeah,
a few years ago and I was doing research for

(10:38):
something else I found it. But I'm surprised I didn't
find out about it growing up, because we used to
find out about all of these weird places and go
to drive to them and and look around because there's
like what else is there to do? And when I
lived in Kentucky, there's a place called Hell House and
it was just a house those supposedly like people have

(11:01):
been possessed by the devil there, and we would like
go drive by it and I would get scared, and
I was driving. I was of driving age, and I
was like who I would drive a little faster, but oh, ship,
do you ever go to Gravity Hill? I don't know
what that is. Oh man, you don't know about gravity
Hill the magnetic hill, Like I mean that sounds like
some ship I would still go to, Like oh yeah, yeah,

(11:22):
oh man, the vortex here is crazy. Man. It makes
it sort of like this, like it's an optical illusion
where it looks like this downhill slope is actually slightly uphill.
So when you put it in newt like and you're like,
it's an optical illusion, asshole. But I'm putting this on
my list of things to do an that way. Oh yeah,
gravity Hill, you know, shout out to Somar, shout out

(11:45):
to the deeper parts of the valley. So I how
like this is one of those things that I don't know.
I assumed, like coming out of school that I knew
most of the cool stuff. Like not not that this
is cool, but it definitely makes the world like oh damn.
They're like still Nazis out there, Like how is this

(12:06):
not a movie? How is this not like a cover
story of every like do you have any sense of
like why this wasn't covered more? I think there I
know that in New York anyway, I think people kind
of like to pretend that that New York has always
been really liberal and all of this stuff is never there,

(12:28):
so I have a feeling that that's it. But I
I didn't grow up near this town. This town was
in Suffolk County, so further out on Long Island. I
grew up really close to Queens in Nassau County. And
even in Nassau County, there was this place. It's like
it's a wedding venue now called the New Hyde Park
in and I went to Sweet sixteens there and I think, no,

(12:51):
my problem wasn't there is it a different place? But
but I went to Sweet Sixteens there and other like
school events, and that was the Nazi headquarters of Nasau
County d And so that's so insane to me. And uh,
but but this, but you know, the stuff has always
been there. There was a big Nazi rally in Madison
Square Garden in the thirties and like it was always

(13:13):
a part of of the history of of New York.
It's just you know, like the things that you never
learned about. Yeah, I've been thinking a little bit more
about fascism in America for no particular reason having to
do with the news or anything. But yeah, people forget that,
like it could have gone either way there for for

(13:33):
a while in the in the thirties, the business plot
it was dicey times. And now we've relatedly decided what
if we did go and what if we did decide
to join up with with the Nazis? So what is
something you think is overrated? So this is a little
bit of a complicated answer. I so I love our

(13:56):
culture's recent fascination with cults and cons and all of
the documentaries and and documentary series on on Netflix and
the other platforms that are focused on on these criminals.
But I think the documentary series are overrated and way
too long, and I wish that they would all just

(14:17):
be movies, like dramatic feature films. You mean, no, even
if it's a documentary, just just condense it into ninety
minutes and tell us the story. I feel like it
doesn't need to be a series, and they they've gotten
too too long. And I watched a really good one
that that's, you know, probably ninety minutes, and it it

(14:39):
like really helped me realize how long the other ones are.
I watched Our Father, which is about this doctor, this
fertility doctor who swapped out his sperm and fathered I
won't say the number because then it's kind of a spoiler.
But he fathered all of these children, and he even
swapped out the sperm of like his best friend and

(15:03):
and and used his instead, and it's like it's insane.
In the beginning, I was watching it and I was
like like, is this so bad? Like how is this
going to get interesting? And then it's like got totally crazy.
And the craziest part about it is that this all
took place in Indiana and in the end he wasn't
really convicted of a crime and him and his best

(15:28):
friend are still tight to this day. There the water
under the Bridge. Yeah wow, Yeah. I was watching that
other documentary about that guy in the UK who was
like convincing all those people that they were like on
the run from like am I like from m I
five because they were caught up in ship? Do you
know that documentary? I forget what it's called. It's it's

(15:49):
another one where like the premises really interesting, but it's like, yo,
this is it's like fucking four episodes. I feel like
you could have told me the whole thing in like
two hours, probably, But yeah, I do. I do find
myself being like, okay, you found that this is a
way to stretch people's viewing time a lot, because I
think they realize, oh, like we've got like a you know,

(16:10):
lost type cliffhanger ending sort of pattern we can get
people into. Or it's like, oh and you gotta you
gotta watch the next one now to learn who the
detective is. That's gonna look into it because that's a
whole episode, and yeah, it gets a little tiring for sure.
I love this overrated. I think that's right. I think
that the default should be docuseries and then like if necessary,

(16:33):
like The Staircase. Probably, I think earned it's it's a
long running time, even though I only watched like three
of them and then got bored. But it does seem
like it's very twisty tourney and they were learning things
other went. But for the most part, yeah, don't don't
stretch it. And albums too, like albums don't need to
be as long as they are, and movies make movies, alright,

(16:59):
forty people got naps to take you know, to now
minutes for what something you think is underrated? I think
this is like this sounds it's gonna make me sound
kind of old fashioned because this is something that my mom,

(17:20):
This advice that my mom would have given to me.
I feel like it's going someplace by yourself is underrated.
I think people should get more comfortable going to things
like comedy shows by themselves and just going to the
things that you want to go to and not waiting
for your friends to want to go with you. Oh okay,

(17:41):
it got you, and think we should we should get
more comfortable doing that just and and you know, so
that people people feel like like that's something that they
can do. I did a show in l A a a
couple of weeks ago, and I met someone after the
show who came by herself, and even in my head,
I was like, oh, you came by yourself, and and
I caught myself doing it, and I'm like, no, that's

(18:02):
totally normal. You should be able to go to something
by yourself because you wanted to go to it, even
if no one else wanted to go. You should take
yourself on a date. And and this is also advice
that my therapist gave me last week. So perfect figured
I would impart it on other people. Yeah, oh that's
that's my favorite thing to do. In the shows, Like
let me tell you what my therapist said last week,

(18:24):
and I'm like, give you for y'all for free, okay,
but yeah, that is like I definitely find myself in
a place where I'm like, Okay, I want to go
to this thing, who's gonna go with me? And people
like I can't make it or whatever, I'm not interested,
and then I'm like, well, I guess I'm not going,
versus just being like, well, then I guess I'm going
at it alone. And I do that from time to time,
but I typically like ask first to see if there's

(18:46):
a coalition of people would need to go first. I'm
a I'm a going to movie. A movie by myself
is one of my favorite things that are doing the world.
To the point that I don't really ask people anymore.
I just go by myself and then like day in
the theater for the next one. He used to really
depress me to see people eating by themselves at a
restaurant for some reason until I did it. Yeah, but

(19:09):
then like I love doing that ship, so I don't know. Yeah,
I mean, I really like, I like this underrated because
I've definitely enjoy like if I'm in a new city
being by myself, walking by myself in a new place,
Like it's always fun to share that experience with somebody,
but there's also something that feels really like an adventure

(19:31):
when you just you're like, Okay, new city. I'm going
out with my backpack on, I got my air pose
and I'm listening to some music. Cruise around and like
show me what you got. Like that's one of my
favorite active I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge like three
times when I was in New York, just on foot
because like whatever, I got time, I'll do this, Like
let's just have a good time. And I really really
enjoyed myself and even had a meal by myself where

(19:53):
the host was like, uh their matri d was like, oh,
we don't have any openings for like a table two.
I was like, it's just me and I could eat
right here with you. Yeah, there's that bar seat open.
I'm like, yeast the phone and read a little bit good. Yeah.
And like with with the judgments of I'm talking to you, Danny,

(20:16):
like with the judgments being like, oh, you can't buy yourself,
oh no, but like I do that ship but and
that's my favorite thing in the world to do. So
I think let's people do it and not be sad
for them unless they tell you to be sad for them.
What do you if you eat alone? What do you do?
What do you do? You sit in silence? Do you
read your phone? Do you watch something? Or do you

(20:37):
just try and be like I'm gonna fucking act like
I'm just gonna be so present with this meal right now.
I try to be present as long as I can
and then look at my phone right like a noorable person,
right because in my mind, I'm like, people are gonna
think I'm weird if I'm just eating here with no
phone out by myself, like they think I'm prepared aaron

(21:00):
for something weird or something like that. I pretend I'm
on a very loud, very funny conversation phone call with
a celebrity, and I just keep name dropping the celebrity
that I'm talking to, and usually that impresses people. Oh
my god, Colin Farrell, you are so funny. You are
too much. What Alright, let's take a quick break. We'll

(21:24):
come back and talk about some news, and we're back,
and yeah, there's a story in the New Yorker couple

(21:45):
weeks back about like California's looming water disaster basically based.
It is drought based. Miles maybe it's it's drought based.
It's all so um so as as the drought happens,
you know, some of the land, the like the delta,

(22:07):
the fresh water river banks, and you know land that
is like wetland is now sinking and so that puts
it below sea level. And there are levies, levies, eugene
levies in place to prevent to separate the sea water out.
But the people who are like experts on this have

(22:29):
been saying for about a decade now that like it's
going to take one earthquake too, you know, for those
two fail and then all of our fresh water supply
is inundated with saltwater. You can't drink it. You have
a major disaster. I feel like that. The reason I
wanted to talk about this mostly is because it's just

(22:52):
a different experience to read a story like this where
the solution is some form of like that. There was
a similar story, um, I think it was like fifteen
ten years ago, called the really big one that I
made everybody read. That was all about like you know,
everybody talks about San Andreas being the fault that where

(23:12):
the big one is going to come from. But there's
this Cascadia subduction zone up along like northern California, Oregon,
Washington State that is going to like goes off every
hundred years and has you know, unleashed some of the
biggest earthquakes that like the world has ever seen. It
like sent a tsunami across the Pacific and it reached

(23:33):
Japan and it was called the ghost tsunami for a
long time and because they didn't know where it came from,
but turns out it came from this earthquake all the
way in northern California, so they like the article is
all about people have been aware of this for about
ten years, nobody's really doing anything and that was frustrating

(23:54):
to read then. But like reading about this looming disaster
and I still don't think anybody's like done what they
need to do to prepare for that, the really big one.
But reading about this one is like an extra layer
of urgent and scary because there's so many people now
that don't seem to exist in reality, like they're just

(24:17):
you know, like you can't talk to yeah, you mean,
like in terms of the political in place, who need
to come to some consensus to figure out a problem
that will that will affect every single person in the state,
not just you know on a partisan level. Yeah, they're
they're focused on like stopping Disney from grooming children and

(24:39):
like overturning the election, and like they sure ash it
aren't going to compromise with like the you know, the
people who they think stole the election. It's just it's
a it's a fucking mess. But like it does just
it's the article keeps being like each problem makes the
other problem worse. And they're talking specifically about how like

(25:03):
the land being dryer makes the land sink, which leads
to it being below sea level. Like just these like
kind of cascading things problems that like build into other problems.
But like it they don't really mention the politics of
it all. But that's that's another thing. Like Robert Robert
Evans and the cool Zone media folks talk about this

(25:24):
a lot on there. It could happen here. They call
it the crumbles, where it's like, you know, small, major
like horrifying disasters happen and they like build on each
other because of climate change. But you know, climate change
is also tied into you know the rise of fascism
and extremism, and I don't know, it's I just feel

(25:46):
like we need we need to be acknowledging like all
the interconnected ways were in danger, you know, and there's
and there's so many and I mean, like, this is
something I remember hearing from like friends, like spooky conspiracy
theorist dad, like when I was in high school, and
it's like, you know, the delta only needs like a
real specific earthquake and it's gonna mess up the whole state.

(26:09):
And I was like, Okay, sure, And then as I
like read more about it, and then like when I
got into like Larengst in like state politics, and I
was like asking around and was like, oh right, that, okay,
this is very possible. I mean, I guess, on one hand,
it's a you know, significantly blue state, so they're probably
on a state level probably easy to find some consensus.

(26:30):
But when you get down to like the individual water
districts that are involved in California, those everyone's got a
different agenda there, and I think, yeah, that kind of
makes it a little bit alarming to when we're also
talking about how much the agriculture in the state is
using the water as well. But meanwhile we're like, hey, man,
don't maybe wash your clothes like every other week or

(26:51):
something like what do you fucking tell the almond people
to cut the funk back on using water? Like, you know,
and I think we have like you're saying, there is
all these sort of skewed priorities when it comes to
the water management, and what we think is the way
out that yeah, we have a very simple thing that
we need to tackle first. It's so hard to get

(27:11):
people to care about climate change when it feels like
it's something that's so intangible. But drinking water is something
that's so tangible that you would think that it would
you know, it would be an easier thing to bring
people together on. But I feel like there were people

(27:32):
who had that theory a few years ago when it
looked like specific wines were in danger, Like it was like, oh,
like Republican ladies care about white wine do and uh,
you know all of these grapes aren't growing in France
anymore because of climate change. So clearly this is going
to be the thing that the people are going to

(27:52):
come together around and then they're going to see that
this is a thing. But they're never really seems to
be that moment where people care about climate change for
more than five minutes. And I hope that maybe this
could be a thing that that could at least bring
some people together, you know, And and I like, I

(28:15):
I read the article, and I like that it's not
I mean, it's not like any of us are questioning
climate change at this point, and these articles aren't being
written to prove that climate change exists. It's like that's
the given and you know, this is the impact, and
we have to fix this right now. But it's all
very scary because it I feel like people are on

(28:38):
such a different wavelength with it, and even for those
of us who understand that it exists, in what the
impacts could be, I feel like there's so many other
things to focus on that It's like I think about
climate change real hard for like a week, and then
suddenly I'm off to thinking about abortion. You know. It's
hard to keep my attention to the model in my mind,

(29:00):
like you're you're reverencing, like maybe this will wake us up,
and like that had been sort of my hope, like
for the past, you know, twenty years, was like, well,
you know, it's a problem, but as it gets worse,
Like humanity has a history of like coming together to
solve big existential threats like this, um not this big

(29:24):
and existential, but like close enough. And now I'm like
that's what That's why I wanted to bring in the
politics because I don't feel like like, if this crisis
happens and if like suddenly all fred like California's out
of fresh water, and like you know, the many hundreds
of thousands or millions of people you know suffer or

(29:47):
die from that, Like I don't foresee that being a
thing where everyone who doesn't believe in climate change suddenly
believes in climate change. I feel like that becomes just
a like fertile ground for more conspiracy theories like that.
That feels like where where we are right now. I
don't think it. I don't think we're doomed to that.

(30:09):
It just feels like that is the place that we
are right now, with social media being is prevalent and
unregulated and just companies and capitalism being as unregulated as
it as it is. So that's yeah, it's a it's
a scary situation. Yeah, that and I think you know
the history of our country is we don't solve problems
until like it's absolutely destroyed a ton of people. First,

(30:33):
we can will never get out ahead of anything. It's like,
well wait till millions of people die, and then then
it's proven that we have to do something about it.
And I mean the one benefit is, like you do
see like in states that have been hit like that
are dealing with climate change, like Republicans are slowly being
like fuck, yeah, it's I'm old enough to remember. This

(30:57):
wasn't normal, you know, like in like for example, like
North Carolina, like like like last year they found like
some bipartisan consensus on more renewables and things like that,
because even Republicans came to the table to talk about
climate change, maybe not in the most authentic way, but
clearly it was enough that their voter, their their constituents
are like no, you know, because there was a clip

(31:18):
last week from the Outer Banks where a house just
fucking went into the washed into the sea. You know
that was like almost a four hundred thousand dollar home
just fucking the sea just ate that ship and just
said this is mine now. And I think for people
who see that, they're like, man, I remember when the
sea level wasn't that high up when I was a kid,

(31:38):
And I think a lot of those things work on people,
but it's only happening like very specific places where people
are having to confront that ship head on. And I
think because of the fact that all of those things
aren't necessarily equally distributed experientially, it's easy for many people
to stay like, you know, like you know, so many Republicans,
I think, like less than climate change isn't big deal.

(32:01):
There's a there. It ends with an interview or like
sort of mentioned this guy Michael George, whose title is
Delta water Master. So first of all, people need to
just be given cool, cool titles like that and maybe
motivate them to solve this ship. But his background is
like as a water lawyer, water company CEO, public utility, executive,

(32:22):
investment banker, college guest lecture like that that was weirdly
and depressingly the moment of the article. There's also like
this beautiful long description of how San Francisco Bay when uh,
you know, white settlers first got there, the water was
so clear you could see like shoals of fish swimming
at the bottom of the bay, and so many samon

(32:44):
migrated through its waterways that the sound kept people awake
at night. And then they found Golden invented a water
cannon for hydraulic mining that could kill a person from
two d feet away. So but like there there's all
this beautiful description. But the thing that made me most
hopeful is that they somehow got a water company ceo
to like pitch in and like granted, like he might

(33:06):
still have connections to that and it might be fucked,
but he is like working on help like that. I
feel like that is what we need, is to attract
the sort of people who go into investment banking and
fucking being water company CEOs into like finding smart ways
to actually like regulate and control capitalism and like bring

(33:30):
you know, like steer it in a direction that isn't
going to fucking end our entire civilization. Hey, use that
hedge fund brain to find an efficient way to solve
our water crisis. Yeah, and like, you know, figure out
how you're gonna balance the relationship between like big agriculture
and the other you know, stakeholders that are the biggest

(33:53):
users of water, and maybe they'll be enough for people
to wash their bodies. Yeah. Maybe, Yeah, as long as
my golf course looks good. Though, that's what that's mine.
I mean, that's the thing, Like, yeah, when are we
just going to start just cutting off the water lines
over there? We're like, you don't even let us use
these fucking green spaces. And they get that ship like

(34:14):
at a at a bargain, they get the water. Yeah, yeah,
that's that is how we'll take down golf courses. This
is a boy cutting off their water supply, and like
we we need to do that ship soon and then
turn them into the public parks. If we had a
if every golf course in the city was a public park,
oh my god, Los Angeles would be like one of

(34:38):
the great cities in the world. And instead it's fine.
Instead it's a it's a brittle, fucking pummice stone with
nice buildings on it. All right, let's talk about Jesse Waters.
The Jesse Waters Show Must watch TV if you just
want to feel your life just led out of you,

(35:01):
your will to live, just a true piece of ship.
I remember, like the first time I saw this motherfucker
on TV. He was like Bill O'Reilly's like intern and
I was just like, oh, this motherfucker is going to
be a problem. Like right away, he just so confident
and so dumb and so yeah sure of his racist,

(35:24):
horrifying worldview, but he waited on critical race theory as
he just wanted to do. Yeah, um, first off, got
it again for everyone knows this. But the disclaimer that
critical race theory is not being taught anywhere outside of
a college lecture hall. So let's put that on the side. Now.
If you're just mad that teachers are talking about just

(35:45):
general inequality and you just want to call that this
other thing, man, fine, you know, to do your thing. Um.
But in this Jesse Waters clip that was just going
around on Twitter, it's one of the more like pathetic
appearances I've seen from like a concerned parent quote unquote
who's like, I'm here to help you know further, this
narrative that you want to keep broadcasting on your television,

(36:08):
which is critical race theory, is ruining my child. And
in this clip, there's a concerned mother from Virginia of
a biracial child who she the mother is white, the
father is black, and she is in a state of
utter shock because her fourteen year old son is starting

(36:28):
to form an identity at fourteen. I don't know what's
going on here. Jesse is it this critical race theory
stuff or is it puberty? I don't know, but I'm
gonna say critical race theory. And let's just listen in
because it's uh yeah, just just hold onto your butts.
Your your son is uh, the father's black, you're white.

(36:49):
And he had never mentioned issues with race before. You're saying,
what exactly changed? Right? We didn't have issues before. He's
in eighth grade. They introduced this critical um program, and
now he's having racial issues not there before. What kind

(37:11):
of racial issues is he have? Well, he's seen himself
just as a black man. He's seen things that don't
go his way as racism um, and he's finding safety
and numbers. Now, so what you're saying, he gets a
bad grade at school, he blames racism, or a girl
rejects him on a date racism. Are those kind of

(37:34):
things you're seeing? She's smiling. Yes, I asked him to
clean the house. Racism. Yeah, you're kidding, right, Are you serious? No,
I'm serious. They have totally changed his perspective. They have
put him in a box. M hm. So your fourteen
year old son is talking back, yeah, m hmm. And

(37:55):
again that that's never happened before. That's weird that a
teenage the talk back to the to your mom who
told you to clean your room? I've never done I
remember when my mother said that. As a half black
biracial child, I didn't say that. I didn't say it
was racism. I just said I don't want to do it, mom,
and I'd run out the house. But we didn't have
the same vocabulary to use. I guess as these kids do.

(38:17):
But then also, man, are so he's right when you
when you just uh when he says that it's racism,
but not when other parents as their kids, but you
are racist, piece and give some issues. The program that
he was participating in was one that was around encouraging

(38:38):
students to have open discussions around race, race now. And
this was in the like aftermath of the George Floyd murder.
So they're like, we want to have you know, brave
conversations about race. So it wasn't something like kill your
master's type ship. They were just saying, hey, we want
these young people. We want to facilitate you know, healthy
conversations so these young people can begin to have a

(38:59):
reckoning with our country's culture of discrimination. Pretty easy stuff
like it's not again not in the extreme that this
woman is sort of making out to be and naturally
like everything, we see the backlash of it and time
and again, and so a couple of things. You know,
He's this kid is fourteen. So the little baby that
you were used to like, you know, is absolutely in

(39:20):
the period of their life where these questions are being asked. Right,
you begin to explore who you are, what that means
to you, what's your own identity, is what race means
to you? You know what she I think she may
consider her son, I think half white, and she looks
at it that way, but he is also half black,
and I'd imagine he isn't completely white passing, so he like,

(39:43):
even though she may see her son is this, the
rest of the world does not. That's just that's just
the facts, And there's no matter. There's no amount of
proper speaking I could do or polo shirt wearing I
could do to suddenly look different to somebody who has
a bigoted perspective on race. That's just unfortunately the stakes
of how you know it means to be not white

(40:05):
in this country. So there's just kind of this whole
thing where I'm like, do you even I'm curious of this.
Mom clearly is probably very disconnected from the idea that
what it means to raise a black child in in
Virginia even and what all of that means just in
America in general. And that's when I'm like, Jesus, we
just watched you come out here and use your son

(40:26):
as like a fucking pond in an optics when for
bigots like what the fund was that That's where I'm like, really,
it's disheartening for me to see that about like, Wow,
you really have no idea what your son is about
to go through or is going through, right, because you're like,
I don't she referenced like he was never having racial issues.
M Yeah, I mean even if your classmates aren't bigoted,

(40:48):
you know outwardly, there'sn't. The fact of the matter is
he's existing in a country that is sending a lot
of signals to him, and he's probably beginning to see
when you say he's finding comfort in number or something
like that, what the fund does that mean that he's
hanging out with other black kids? Is that wrong? Yeah?
That was weird. And also like the insistence that you

(41:11):
know a time where people are wrestling with just systemic
and like murderous, like violent racism in the country, that
his response to that would be first of all, like
incorrect for him to like have feelings about that, but
also that it would be like the school's fault and

(41:34):
not the fault of like what what is actually happening
the reality, Like that's it just assumes that there's no
such thing as racism, So like they must be getting
this idea from school because that's the only place they
could have learned. It is a very blinded perspective. Yeah,
and he's fourteen, so it's not like he's first discovering

(41:54):
his identity. Now, this has been a process, and he
he probably just never felt comfortable speaking with her about
it because of the environment that she created. Like if
you think that people start discovering who they are and
forming an identity at fourteen, that's not the case either.
I don't I feel like whatever was going on at

(42:17):
school maybe finally made him comfortable to say something to
his mom about it. But I also like, I don't
understand how they always have these parents on roster to
speak on these shows where I mean, I'm sure they
find them on Facebook now, but they've always had disgruntled
parents just ready to go on all of these shows

(42:38):
about whatever the topic might be. But it's so crazy
to me. It's typically like these law firms will look
for aggrieved parents so they can represent them in a lawsuit,
and that's kind of how they end up to that
next level where the Fox producers end up saying, oh,
like okay, like you know, like, hey man, we got
this mom. She's suing the State of Virginia for critical

(42:59):
race theory because like her her son who is black
now realizing he's black. So that's that's pretty that's all
kinds of funked up, right, that's because I'm sure I'm
pretty sure that was sort of like the segue or
the introduction to this piece is that she's suing, you know,
on behalf of her son or her her own rights
as a parent. But yeah, the it's it's really disheartening

(43:22):
to see a parent like that. Who you she even
said she's like he sees himself as a black man.
Mm hmmm, I'm sorry. What can we can we unpack
that a little bit? Like from your perspectiveness, what does
that mean? And what is wrong with it? He is
he not? And in your mind are you telling him
he is not. Is that why you're upset because you've

(43:43):
been conditioning him to deny that he's black and that
he's living in some post racial like utopia that actually
doesn't exist. I'm that's what I'm really curious about. Like
it really feels like my son was not black before this.
And there's also like a patron like they're part it's
where she's like grinning and laughing, and like, like you said,

(44:04):
it's a parent who is having a difficult time getting
their mind around the fact that it's that's not your
like eight year old child anymore and they are like
growing up. But like that just that is so fucking toxic.
And yeah, or I don't know if maybe she's completely
scared of the idea that, oh my god, that's right,

(44:27):
my son is black and he's living in America in
two and subconsciously that's making uncomforta when it's coming out
this way, I don't know that might be an overly charitable,
you know, analysis of where she's coming from. But you know,
it's clear that she was not thinking about this at
all until her son was, you know, probably articulating things

(44:47):
where he was like I'm identify I can. I see
my blackness and I see how people like me or
treated in this country. It hurts me because that is me.
I am part of this group of people. And yeah,
now I'm realizing how much, how much things I may
be ignored up until fourteen, that now I'm realizing we're
actually pretty fucked up. But you always told me, don't

(45:09):
worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry about it.
But it gets to a point where you actually you
can't ignore that anymore. And I think you credit to
him on his journey figuring out who he is and
you know, the the culture that he's part of. But wow,
what a fucking yeah. Yeah, you already think your parents
are the worst when you're fourteen, even when they're not,

(45:32):
But when you do have the worst mom in America,
that's gonna be tough. I'm this poor kid is probably
getting flame. They're like, yo, is that your mom? On Twitter?
I saw on that Jesse Waters clip and he's like, bro,
I told you that's why. Like I'm just, uh, it's
hard growing up in that house with that mom or whatever.

(45:53):
But that's I can't I can't imagine that her appearance
there did any good for him either, you know, like
the fact is already already already suing the state or
the school district, so already, Like I remember being in
school and you knew when somebody's parents was like doing
some wild ship trying to like cause a problem at
the school, or they're like, yo, so and so's moms

(46:14):
so in the school because the seesaw was like to
wobbly and said, that's why his little sister like heard
her wrist and everyone's like like people just like that
ship gets out in the ecosystem of the schoolyard. So
I can really imagine at this point you're on Fox
News too, that that's probably not creating more friends for him. No,
in my school, that was always about sex, said, like

(46:36):
we always knew the students who weren't allowed to take
sex said they had to go to like study hall
or something during and and I grew up with like
basically abstinence only sex, said anyway. But still, and that
was because of parents complaining us. But even so, we
always knew about the parents who were coming up to

(46:58):
school and yelling about something and it was almost always
that and uh yeah, it definitely it didn't make it
easier for those students, which I haven't really thought that
much about, but they probably were, so they're probably embarrassed
that they weren't allowed to go to sex And I
just didn't really think about it. No. I went to
a Lutheran K through eight school, and I remember in

(47:19):
sex said, like, there were those kids who like absolutely
couldn't be there for the outdated slide show from the sixties.
Were like the like female reproductive system was like triangles
and circles and lines, like not even close to looking
medically accurate, like like, we've had this like fucked up
vague version of sex said, were like the parts were named,

(47:41):
but I couldn't. I couldn't accurately tell you what anything
looked like because it was like and then there's uterus
and also, guys, it doesn't matter because y'all shouldn't be
having sex anyway. Yeah, we watched Philadelphia to learn that
if you have sex, you're getting its God. Yeah, yeah,
and I had. I ended up writing a show about this,

(48:03):
and I host the show mostly in New York, but
now I've done it in l A two called adult
Sex said. And it's because I had this sex said
in school. And then My mom was the opposite. She
was actually a sex said teacher, not mine, but she was,
and and we had this really open home and so
I had this totally missed mixed experience. But I feel
like the way that these parents are being interviewed on

(48:27):
TV now about critical race theory reminds me a lot
of in the eighties and nineties, they would have parents
being interviewed about sex said, and how that's going to
ruin children's minds. Right, Not that they're not doing that
today too, but it's like the generational thing. It's like, well,
back then, they weren't taught about sex, so then when
it comes up, they're like, oh. But then parents now

(48:49):
we're like, man, we're fine with sex, Like we're so
online porn brained like that, that that chat, that being
chased idea isn't necessarily as pervasive. But now it's a
generation of people who have never had a reckoning with
racial relations, and so that's the thing. It's like, well,
I've never talked about that, and that ship makes me
so fucking scared, much like how my parents, who never
talked about sex or how satisfying sex. I thought it

(49:09):
was the end of the world if we learned about
sex that it's like, now this is the next cycle,
which is like, well, we didn't talk about our race.
I don't know if this is good because it makes
me uncomfortable, but yeah, it's it's wild to hear because
like I, we were constantly just so just don't have sex.
I grew up with this idea that like, yeah, if
if you ever had unprotected sex, you're going to get

(49:31):
sick and have a child immediately. Like there's no, there's
no fucking middle ground. And I look through my life,
I was like, I was like scared shitless. The movie
scene progression is unprotected sex. Woman holds stomach and then
woman throws up. Then that's those are the three steps
to prove the okay, there there's a pregnancy happening here, right, Yeah,

(49:54):
I will I will say I I grew up in
the wild early nineties, and sex had really radicalized me.
Also really turned me into a freak. Those medical diagrams
I was onto fallopian tube pics. Those medical diagrams are
about as sexy as like the diarrhea diagram and pepto commercials,

(50:17):
Like they're just yeah, they're just like the human body,
like right, and I feel like that parents should have
been like like for me, like at the time, a
bunch of teenagers like kids that they're like most sexually curious,
or just like they're like even looking at that, like
this is so confusing to me, and I don't think
it's doing what you think it's gonna cause some perversion
in us, or like looking again at drawings from the

(50:39):
fucking early sixties that you're putting up on a stupid
slide projector and the and like like the colors are
like like not even human. It's like the uterus is
blue and like the ovaries are green, and you're like, man,
this looks like a bunch of geometric looks like a
mandreal painting. Let alone anything I can have some like
functional knowledge of anything. Yeah, Dare worked, though we do.

(51:03):
We can't say Dare worked. Oh what was it? Because
you know how they're they're out in the streets again, Dare. Yeah,
that's right. So I was out. I was out the
other day and they're like, hey, hey, hey, you want
to hear about Dare. I was like, actually, I do,
what's going on? Like why are y'all out here? Because
it's like I thought the drug ship was a wrap
like y'all remember y'all lost the drug war and all that,

(51:23):
and they're like, yeah, I mean it's about that too,
but it's also a lot about mental health now. And
we're like, oh, interesting, Okay, well I don't know what
other subversive messaging you might have, but that's that was
sort of what they're pivoting to. Like, look, we get it,
we completely lost on the drug front, but now at
least maybe we can be a force for good first
by the police. I have no idea. At that point,
I was just like, what's that? What are y'all pivoting

(51:45):
to it? They said mental health, and I'm like, thank you.
I have to were they like high school students? Who were?
They look like they look like normal people who are
like signature gathering, like you know, like mid twenties, early
twenties type people buzz buzz, haircut, chew and gum backwards,
had on a motorcycle. Alright, let's take a quick break.

(52:08):
We'll be right back, and we're back. And yeah, so
I did want to get to, you know, my favorite
American author, because you know, I like I like Shakespeare too,

(52:30):
but my favorite American words smith is probably Megan McCain
and the new memoir that she dropped. It's called Bad
Republican watch Out and it's sold two and forty four
copies in its first week out. And that you know,

(52:50):
it's probably like people might have realized they could spend
the same amount of money on literally any other book
by any other human being. But and like just a
little looking inside the cover and chapter nine. On and
off campus, she used a contentious speaking gig at Liberal

(53:10):
Read College as the canary in the coal mine for
the looming threat of cancel culture. She came out was like, look,
this book was released seven months ago exclusively on audible.
People listened to it. It has strong reviews, four point
four stars, over a thousand ratings. That's true. Uh, those
are number that's an app those are numbers that you

(53:33):
can you know, funds with. And like, if you want
to look at like actual appetite for a book, this
is a legit book being sold by major retailers like
Barnes and Noble. It is, you know, it was a
fairly by like internal metrics successful audio books, so like
they probably aren't like hiding it away in the back

(53:54):
of the Barnes and Noble and exactly two and forty
four people across America. We're we're convinced to buy it.
So there's also the fact that she posted a photo
on I think it was Instagram with her holding a
child and behind John McCain's grave and her book is

(54:20):
propped up like on his grave. So I mean, like,
like just a picture is so hard to look at,
like because it's so it. It's like, you know, like
when people are like our like our guests on like
cable new shows, and like they're clearly also wrote a book,
because it's like somehow the one thing facing outwardly on

(54:42):
their bookshelf right by like next to their head, and
you're like, okay, we get it. You just wrote a
fucking book. And there it is like this is like that,
except you're like desecrating your father's grave site with it,
with your fucking ego. So we wanted to look back
at her literary career. Her first work was literally called
My Dad, John McCain. It was a children's book all

(55:07):
about the life of John McCain, such as the time
he bombed villages in Vietnam. I'm sorry that's in the book. Yep,
he just dropped his bombs on the target. When a
missile blew the right wing off his plane, the plane
flew out of control and crashed. Oh my god, I'm

(55:27):
gonna skip forward a little bit in the writing. He
didn't get the right kind of medical care for his
broken bones, and the food was really bad once he
found a chicken foot in his lunch. Like, chicken feet
is a food that people eat, They're pretty yummy. This
bedtime reading, yeah, it looks like the bedtime books that

(55:49):
like I read to my kids, except like not not
as many planes plummeting from the sky with flame and
smoke trailing behind them. I mean, yeah, do you I mean,
when do you want to introduce your child Jack with
some bedtime reading where you say the line he didn't
get the right kind of medical care for his broken bones. Huh.

(56:13):
She's writing it in like a childlike way, that is,
but also racism. You know, he found a chicken foot
in his lunch, the food was really yucky. The fact
that like that was a detail she threw in is like,
I don't you know, I'm pretty sure he was not
treated great, But the fact that that's what she came

(56:33):
up with makes it sound like he's just very spoiled
and a tourist in Vietnam who's like, yuck, what is
this they eat that? We don't even sell those in
the store the grocery stores in America. Wow, I thought
we just grabbed him up and eat him and hot dogs.
There's like something interesting too write about, Like there's so
much nepotis, Like nepotism is just like at the heart

(56:55):
of everything she does, and even John McCain to a
certain extent, but like with because he was an admiral son,
like in your the things she was talking about being
the you know, the Canarian, the coal mine for cancel culture.
She's talking about how quote after describing how angry students
accused her of nepotism and mocked her for being ignorant
about tax policy, she laments the rolls rosy days of

(57:16):
civil minded debates and that theme like it's actually like
she touches on her father's nepotism in the even the
book because after the thing about the chicken foot in
his lunch, it said, quote, but then my dad got
a chance most prisoners didn't since he was an admiral
son the Vietnamese who had captured him said they would
let him go home. M hmm, Like, I guess you're

(57:36):
being honest, like, and it's true. Because he was an
admiral son, he was afforded a something that the other
prisoners of war weren't because they had his daughter. You
were reading this book right now, and yes again, my dad,
John McCain. Her first book was like a six figure
like bidding War of sixth years. Okay, I just wanted it,

(57:58):
says the from this article from the time John McCain's
twenty four year old daughter Megan has a book deal
exclamation point. They're excited. Sources say Hyperion has prevailed over
at least three other publishers in an auction that began
earlier this week, following a round of meetings during which
the in your face young conservative and the literary agent
she shares with her father, sterling Lord Literroristic president Flip Brophy,

(58:25):
discussed a number of possible approaches to the book with
editors around top. So Sterling Lord Literroristic is the label
or the agency and Flip Brophy, Hell yeah, so in
that book, they like, you know, they were like, we
gotta give him fucking something. You're so boring, do you

(58:46):
have any like crimes you committed, and so she divulged
this this one that when I forget which campaign it was,
it was one of her dad's presidential campaign's primaries where
he was going against Giuliani. She was out in the
field stealing campaign signs off people's lawns. Never thought anyone

(59:09):
would enforce this, nor did I expect expect we'd get caught.
But just as we had pulled over and I had
showed a ton, shoved a ton of Romney signs. So
it's yeah, Romney signs into our trunk, another car pulled
up and blocked us. A super dorky guy in a
suit leaped out of his car. He was pissed as hell.

(59:30):
See that's that is a sentence that you don't read
in most books. He was pissed as hell. What campaign
are you with? He yelled Giuliani, we said, He pulled
out a notepad proceeded to take down our license number.
This is when I started freaking out. McCain daughter arrested
was the headline that I saw in my head, getting
arrested on the day of the New Hampshire primary. Oh man,

(59:52):
I imagine the look on my mom's face. If only
we could get away. Um. Then she like yells at
the guy to move his car. He was such a jerk,
And when he wouldn't move his car, my heart started
to raise and I was afraid for a minute that
I might do something even worse than stealing a bunch
of Romney signs. But anyone who was lame enough to
pull over and her ask people on election day for

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stealing signs was probably lame enough to follow up and
bring some New Hampshire State Police. And then she blames
it on She like gives a phone number. She gives
the guy a fake phone number, which is like her
one of her dad's aids, and then is like, Hey,
don't be mad at me, but I like sort of
gave your phone number to somebody when I was caught

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stealing yard signs because I'm like so incompetent. Yeah, so good,
what a fun time? Yeah? What if I get arrested
for stealing one signs? Wow? The steaks are so high, Nagan. Yeah,
I think she like said she found the one, the
one campaign like campaign in turn, who also had blonde hair,

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and was just like that we'll be able to pass
it off on her, and like literally says that in
the book, first of all, I'm surprised that only one
campaign in turnhead blonde hair that sounds Republican primary. Really,
oh man, it makes it makes me happy that my
dad never did anything spectacular because I I have I think,

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because I work in film, I I'm surrounded by a
lot of nepotism. But I have I have friends who
have famous parents, and it affects them in so many ways.
And some of them handle it well and some of
them don't. And you know, there's it creates this interesting,

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you know conundrum with some people of like what's the
you know, how can you without being given something unfairly,
how could you carry on a legacy? Like it's it's
something that I'm glad that I never have to think about.
H Yeah, yeah, just nameing, just reading books, my dad
is this person? Yeah you couldn't. Like that's like such

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a hardcore distillation of a book about nepotism. We just
go my dad is this guy the book? Yeah. Yeah,
it's such a like naked psychological profile of like somebody
who has never like really done ship gets famous for
who their parent is and then is like so insecure

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about that that when people are like, you don't have
any insight into the thing you were here to talk about.
She's like, cancel culture, Like no, no, we're like talking.
We we just think you were Policy understanding is very lacking.
You're trying to cancel me because of because I'm conservative. Yeah. Yeah,

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it's a tough it's tough road. She was given that
first book deal when she was twenty four. Who has
anything to say when they're twenty four? Anyway? I mean, like,
I can't imagine what my twenty four year old book
would have been about. The section the one interesting section
feels to me like a college essay where you're like, um,
what else? What? Well, there was that one time where

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I faced adversity because I was terrible at doing a thing,
and um, it's like a draft that gets that your
counselors like no, no, no, no, no no no no.
One time, my sense of white privilege almost got me
in trouble. So that was kind of hair raising. Um
what else? Like this other thing, which I think is
maybe the only useful thing that was in that book

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was her talking about living in sketchy hotels on the road. Quote,
for instance, after six months on the road, whenever Shannon
and Heather and I checked into a cheap hotel where
the campaign was staying. We just assumed that they would
be pubic hair on the toilet seat or on the
side of the bathtub. We had a technique for dealing
with it. We used a blow dryer to blow the
hairs off if the electrical chord was long enough. Gene God,

(01:04:00):
thank you so much, Thank you so much. No one
like see you now. Where is that information in your
new book? That also is a terrible solution to that,
Because you're just blowing it elsewhere, blowing him around. You're
just blowing it around. You're more likely to get a
fucking pubic hair on your lip or something like. No,
you just get a handful of toilet paper and pick

(01:04:22):
it up and then throw that move towards the bathtub
and run the run the shower and let the water
do the job if you're you know, so inclined. But hey,
we had a technique for that. I haven't I haven't
been following it that closely, but I know that there.
I know that Steve Schmidt wrote that really long Twitter
thread recently about Megan McCain being kicked off the campaign

(01:04:46):
and and all of that. But yeah, but like this
is someone who many people have found to be insufferable
for a long time. Yeah, I only follow her literary career.
I don't actually follow any other aspect of her. So right,
and I think she didn't she call him a pedophile
basically like in response, I think she clapped back in

(01:05:08):
a very odd way, and we're like, oh, we're doing
that advanced internet only Elon Muskin, Megan mccainner at that level, right,
I don't know, so yeah, I mean Steve Schmidt is
another one of those people who's like, remember when I
was a Republican, But look, I don't like Trump though,
so let's forget anything else I may have said prior
to that and just say I'm one of the good
ones now because I don't like Trump. But then every

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now and then I will show my big gop butt
on TV like it's, uh, you know that I haven't
left the party like that. Well, Danny, such a pleasure
having you. Where can people find you? Follow you all
that good stuff on the socials? I am Danny F. Leonard,
which reads Danny Flennard. I know that that's that sounds

(01:05:51):
kind of silly and uh and that's the best way
to find me. And hopefully I will have some new
comedy shows being announced soon. The show I mentioned earlier,
Adult Sex said, is the one that I'm doing the
most frequently. And then I have a film that I
produced that came out recently called Coast, which is on
demand now, so you could find it on iTunes and

(01:06:14):
Amazon and and voodoo Google all those places. Yeah, is
it about roller coasters? Is it about Oh? Yeah, it
makes me wishes about roller coasters. Uh, it was filmed
on the central California coast, but it's also a euphemism
for kind of coasting through life. And it's a it's
a coming of age story that takes place in a

(01:06:38):
mostly immigrant farming community in California. And uh, it's about
a sixteen year old girl who whose life is upended
when traveling rock band gets stuck in her town and
she has to decide if she should stay or if
she should go. And uh, it has a really killer
soundtrack and it's super fun, So it's on my people

(01:07:00):
should definitely check it out. Is there a tweak or
some of the work of social media that you've been enjoying.
I'm a really big fan of people who made some
kind of a pivot during the pandemic and found something
else that they're really good at and aren't necessarily doing
what they did before. And there's this woman who founded

(01:07:22):
a YouTube channel and where she works out and does
workouts for senior citizens. And it's called Yes to Next
y E s the number two and next, and it
encourages fitness and joy at any age. And so I
received an email about this and I went on the

(01:07:45):
YouTube channel and I'm not going to do any of
the senior citizen workouts, but I might watch all of
them because they're so adorable. So that's my that's my
piece of media that I'm really liking. That YouTube channel. Yeah,
Miles working people. Find you what the tweet you've been enjoying? Well,
find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.

(01:08:06):
Also the basketball podcast Myles and Jack Got Mad boost
these Jack that out. We've got a new episode coming
out Thursday. It's gonna be wonderful. Uh. And also for
twenty Day Fiance. If you're a fan of ninety Day Fiance,
check out that pot I do as well. Tweet I
like Uh. First one is from Taddy Taddy Mason at no,
Underscore goblins just treated people who claim they don't poop

(01:08:27):
in public. First of all, you're lying. Second of all,
how look, I don't I can't explain how we do
what we do, but our bodies just don't. They just
don't enter that mode in public. It's like a governance
chip on a car. Like some cars know when you're
on a race track and now says, okay, you can
use all of the horsepower in the engine for me.
My body says, man, if you ain't on home court,

(01:08:49):
we're not playing. And then as you're approaching the front door,
does it just like start to break down and you're like,
oh boy, oh no, Well look we don't have talked
about part. But let's just say you're spot on. And
then another thing, the body knows. Another tweet I like
is from Rachel at Nurse Underscore. Ratch tweeted mac rib

(01:09:10):
and in chemical or d in parentheticals my chemical romances
back too too great things, the return of the mac
rib the return of my chemical romances, two things to celebrate.
You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
and also on Miles and Jack on bat boostis some

(01:09:32):
tweets I've been enjoying no uh at Noah, do not
care tweeted MSB wearing do or but not do or.
Durant Al Woa Vodka tweeted men sure love it, Men
sure love yelling let's go at literally anything that goes
the slightest bit positively. We do because we only have

(01:09:57):
one mode of expressing positive feelings. It's only in an
athletic context. It hell, yeah, dude, what the food got here? Early?
Let's go uh? And then Kenny at Evil Beast three
eight to nine four one tweeted, I love saying I

(01:10:18):
don't bite two people because Loki I'd be biting people.
You can find us on Twitter at daily zeite Guys.
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in today's episode, as well as a song that we

(01:10:39):
think you might enjoy. Miles song do we think people
might enjoy? Okay? This is a track from artists Molly Lewis,
who's like kind of big in l A. She's from
Australia originally but she's man. This the track she make
are like they sound like super like retro stuff, like
a you know, like almost feels like something like stan
Gets with be On or just like this kind of

(01:11:03):
it's very retro sounding and it's done in such an
authentic way that when I first heard it, I was like,
what what artist is is from the sixties? This is
from now? Uh? And you know her her tracks, it
featured like on like in Atlanta and other things like that,
So this is like kind of, you know, very very
interesting artist. Uh. So check this out. It's a very
haunting but like sultry song. It's called Satin Curtains uh.

(01:11:26):
And it's all instrumental with like her doing like this
spooky sort of humming falsetto thing. It's it's really cool. Uh.
It's good texture music in the background. It's not too
lyri contensive. So enjoy that. Satin Curtains by Molly Lewis
tolticsulter m h. I feel like that's like a movie
review of like Ghostbusters too. Yeah, what was I thinking

(01:11:50):
of Ghostbusters? I think it's the Glory Weaver, Yeah it was. Anyways,
our brains are both melted then broken. Okay, the Daily
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to tell you what it is trending and we will
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