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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of conges
trend Pricing. That one courtesy of Vanadium Silver on the discord.
I think, yeah, new York City congestionrend pricing. Thank you
Vanadian Silver. We talk congestion pricing on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But just hats off.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
To you in New York and go fuck yourself the
New York Post for all the scare mongering they're doing
around that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This guy fucking stabbed a guy. Man, he's so mad
about congestion pricing.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, go on, subway stab because of congestion pricing.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Man, Oh my god. It's so depressing that that shit works.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
But yeah, yeah, don't don't read the opinions of the Look,
there's got to be a better way to just get
your sports scores and some terrible opinions on sports.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's right, And you can just do the best thing
that the New York Post has is the headlines and
you can just take them in while walking past them.
You don't need to actually buy the page.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And you could do better. Just think about the news
and think of a pun you can do. You can
do better.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, yeah, all right. My name is Jack and I'm
thrilled to be joined by Andrew T.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What up.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Miles is out? He's yeah, the wildfires are affecting a
lot of people. I'm gonna just let him kind of
tell his story when he gets back, but you know,
sending lots of love, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Sure you all are as well.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Uh and yeah, I mean super producer Justin is still
out like a lot of people still without power. A
lot of people have been evacuated. We've got somebody at
our house who has evacuated. Andrew, I think you got some.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Gut incoming, particularly in the middle of this record according
to theirs, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, but are you Have you gotten out?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Much like have you? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I'm really lucky that I'm in Echo Park in that.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Number one, my air quality has always been bad. But
number two, I'm just like in a really a really
urbanized part of LA so that the fires, Like, I'm
not in wildfire danger and if not not, I guess
anything could happen. I don't want to say not and
fay in that way, but like you know, it's it's
(02:36):
the I'm not in that part. So I've been lucky
to solidarity and snacks, the Mutual Aid group that I've
tried to do as much as I can with has
been we've been able to We usually concentrate on skied
Row anyway, so we were able to get our hands
on a thousand masks. Many of them are still in
my car right now, but they won't be by the
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time this comes out. Actually, And so oh yeah, I
was out on skid Row last night, getting people masks,
getting people water. It's a little weird the sort of
situation with the need because obviously need and sort of
secondary tertiary needs because of the fire have increased everywhere.
(03:20):
But yeah, it's it's like an ever changing situations. So
even as I say this, things might be different by
the time this comes out. But currently the sort of
main shelters at the Pasadena Convention Center, and I think
they just actually closed the one at Pan Pacific Park
and are moving supplies out.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But don't quote me on this because everything keeps changing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But there's anyway, there's there's sort of a lot of
immediate need for people in shelters, partially because just there's
only so much space and logistical distribution and like things
like food can't keep forever and things like that. So
I'm hesitant to even say what the immediate needs are.
But I think the in the coming days in weeks
is when like real need is going to start like
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becoming very clear, and hopefully people continue.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
To pay attention and be because yeah, there there's been
like an outpouring of from like across the country if
people being like how can I help? And yeah, that
is everything, and I'm just hoping just kind of want
to tell people like pump the brakes and just like
keep that energy up when it's like no longer in
the news, like people actually are like now settling into
(04:28):
having to deal with what this is, and like the.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Flyers aren't even out, like you know, it's not like
we're not in the aftermath and no aftermath and there
isn't really anything not anything, sorry, but there's not like
a specific thing that you can like immediately do that's helpful.
I'm repeating myself from the future now. But one thing
I will say is, especially in this stage of the internet,
and it's easier than ever to like move money around
(04:54):
if you can try to do some research on where
to send your resources because like well funded and you
know the places you've heard of your red clrooss not
for this situation, but your planned parenthoods are typically uh,
in my opinion, the best way for you to send
(05:15):
key resources. Yeah, figure out what you believe in, and
you can find a direct way to do that to
help with that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And it's easier than ever to do that. That's what
I will say.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm the type of idiot who when the wind like
just you being like and obviously the fires are still
raging and like zero percent contained, like the fire the
winds have stopped blowing this morning, and like my brain
is immediately like, well that was scary.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well we are on the slope of hopefully although yeah,
the weather report is a little wind back up, yeah exactly, yeah,
but like we we are hopefully at the.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Part of starting to be able to contain it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I mean this, you know, kind of goes with something
where ought to talk about too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But like just the general like right wing finger pointing.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, there's like nothing anyone, there's no like listen, even
your little Trump Nazi fire brigades wouldn't have been able
to do anything against the wind and the underlying drought
conditions in southern California.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So unless they were like really like working against client,
like taking direct client action, you know, to go maybe.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
As far as like Trump based actions go. I suppose
this might be a little science fiction, but I think
it works.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I do think.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Ah, you know, if you don't care about collateral damage,
there's there's some amount of bombs you could have dropped
on the fire that would have put it out, started
other fires probably, but you could have had would have
been certainly seen like less of a problem.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, we talk on tomorrow's episode a little bit about
the role of the police.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I think we talked about it two days ago.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Also, this idea that the police funding is kicked up
while firefighter funding was kept about the same slightly lessened,
at a time when fire danger is growing and crime
is dropping. But yeah, the police interjecting themselves into the
story being like, don't even try it about looting at
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a time when like it's just not that they just
have to like create a narrative that they can be
the hero of.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But I think it's disgusting. Yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But it's like so because I was seeing like kind
of a similar thing on k CAL. I was like
watching local news and they were just doing you know,
helicopter footage of a new fire that had popped up
in Studio City, like totally not totally different, but like
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a new, distinct fire, and it was like located on
a couple of homes were burning down, And I don't
know if he'd just been like on the air for
thirty seven hours in a row and was like losing
his mind, but he just kept trying to blame the
fire on the people who lived in the house for
some reason, like he kept emphasizing, like I think this
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one started inside the house. I mean, I'll tell you
it wasn't a lightning strike, so we know that, so
it started by somebody, which was like, first of all,
seems extremely unlikely, like these fires are all picking up
around the city on the same windy nights, because they'd
be probably being started.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
By each other, you dip shit.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, And but it was just like they were so
horny for somebody that they could like send the cops
after it felt h you know.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I mean it's like like, I mean, I know it's
gonna be a blame game, but like this is sort
of the reason why I don't like disaster movies. Yeah,
because like we as people are need like a villain
that we can understand. Yeah, and so like an arsonist,
(09:10):
a fucking you know whatever, like an inept like police chief.
And it's like the real villains of this, the real
villains of twisters. This is how I initially have been
phrasing this. The real villains of twisters are like two
hundred white guys that are in boardrooms in Dallas and
you know, the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, and it's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Like, there's just too many steps away from the real villains,
So we need to find other villains. But it is
a you know, it's how our brains are being used
against us, because it's like even if even if this
fucking person like like set their house on fire, even
if they wanted to set a wildfire, like, yeah, they
couldn't do it without the fucking you know, century of
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climate change that we've been doing to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, Albert the Butler said some people just want to
watch the world burn, and everybody quote at him. But
I think it's more just like people really want to
get rich, and the content of that is that the
world is going to turn into like a ever worsening
fire vortex something something shit.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The world burned, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, exactly, but yeah, I mean and then some people
I think that there are arsonists for sure, and a
lot of people are inherently suspecting arson. Like on social media,
supers a victor was pointing out, like keep hearing people
be like and I mean the police are gonna that.
That was actually one part of this like press conference
(10:37):
where they did like the handoff from the fire chief
to the police chief, and they were like, and who's
going to investigate the cause of all these fires? And
like who you know what if it was arson? And
the fire chiefs like, we have a whole department for that.
By the way, you don't need the police. But yeah,
so that's the thing that is being reported, is like
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they just need him instigated.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So but again, even the narrative of the cause was
even if it's a person, it's a fucking ten people
with lighters in gasoline, they are not the cause of this, yes,
Like that's the thing that's like, They're not the cause.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Right, They're not the cause of the circumstances that make this.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, some of those photographs of just like the fucking
palm trees like fucking doubled over and blowing and like
on fire just yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
The drought and the wind.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
None of those are caused by a person or even
a handful of people.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
An industry though, yeah, I guess they are.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And trillion they are caused by a handful of people,
but not yeah, the ones with yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Not the ones you're thinking of. We are starting to
get reports on the cause of the fire, which this
guy went viral.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
We don't do it, say that again.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Why is there a fire opening right now?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
There are multiple fires that are taking place.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm useful.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You're supposed to know. Well, I don't know how it started.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
We don't know how it started.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
There, you know, when all the all the all the
gay people in LA.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So that the news, the local news is doing their
job of like investigating this by stopping to talk to
the drunkest guy on the streets of LA who who
asked the question, why is there a fire going on?
And they were like, oh, we better talk to this
guy answer. He is genuinely curious about this. But the
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only reason I want to raise this is because first
of all, it's going around and this is a trending episode,
and also because it reminded us of this clip of
the Westboro Baptist church singing there her version of poker face.
That is one of the UH constantly referenced Daily's ice
(13:08):
clips between Miles and Brian the editor and I, so,
I just had you seen this before, Andrew God?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh oh oh, you piss up God.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You'll see why he's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Got oh oh oh you piss up.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You'll see why he's got Oh. It really is.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
When the chorus is about to explode on ours, we're
all waiting for them to start singing.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You hate God, You hate God.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh, the lead singer says nine to eleven and points
her points her two fingers down to you know, symbolize
the two the two buildings coming down.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I had noticed on the second watch through that the
did they like hijack like a geometry class or something.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's so weird.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That was one of my first notes on this video
was why is this happening? It in like an NYU classroom.
Very strange. It's like it's just like has the appearance
of a college lecture room.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, there's equations of the blackbart and back, but they're
not like super difficult. It's like there's there's one that
just says why equals fifty eight or whatever. So it
does feel like a little bit like Moron's try to
do a good will hunting to make themselves look smarter.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Do you have any idea how easy this is for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I mean it's like fifth rage math, so it should
be fairly easy for you.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, I will just say I feel like there's a
narrative of handwringing about, like especially on Twitter, about like
all the right wing disinformation and and gleeful like you know,
just being so whatever about like I told you so,
it is about various pieces of this fire, And I
(15:10):
will just say a little bit like, yes, it's obviously
annoying that it's on Twitter and everyone's I guess sad
that it's become more overtly like right wing fascist media,
But you know, as this fucking poker face things show
like this is what these people have always been.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Like I feel like every time.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Like anything right wing kicks off, it's like this like
specific cadre of I guess Democrats, resistance libs are just
like can you believe this is happening?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And now it's over And I'm not saying we're not
really dealing with now, dummies, forever, and.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They've been like this forever. So like, I think it's
just that these people it's new to them, so they're
very shocked by it. But it's like, I'm so sorry,
but Ronald Reagan was like this, and I wasn't around
for that, but I'm sure, you know, fucking Nixon supporters,
Goldwater supporters, whatever, were all like this.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
He didn't say it quite out loud as much his
press secretary said it out loud, and then he just
was kind of like, well, but.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
These people were absolutely like. These people were out there
and they have always been like this.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, although the Westboro Baptist Church was like a family
that just like they knew how to get the media
to cover them. And that's what it looks like when
you look at this video of them singing. It's like
a mom and two daughters.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
One of those daughters has since been like that was bad, right,
I was.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
It's just the thing she says, Yeah, that's actually so,
I know, it seems like I'm blaming your sins nine eleven.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That is just a nervous tick that I have.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And you know what's also amazing is like seeing nine
to eleven as Godly retribution means the Westboro Baptist Church
and fucking Osama bin Laden essentially have the same politics.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
On this day, God speaks through bin Laden, according to
the Westborough Baptist Church, all right, let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and
(17:25):
so is Jason Statham. I spent probably a little too
much time singing the praises of the movie The Beekeeper
last year.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I saw it on a plane. I can't be.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Can't be held to any opinions of movies that I
saw on a plane, but it is it's like the Equalizer,
but like weirder. People have pointed out that it seems
like it is catering to like maga conspiracy theorists with
a story about the villain of the movie is the
(17:59):
Writen son of the president, and people are like, well,
that's a stand in for a.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hunter byde Yeah, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Like the what about the rich son of Donald Trump,
who is also a fucking idiot.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I know I'm probably railing against these, you know whatever,
like kind of moderate democratic people that are sort of
seeing these things most I think, but I'm just like
every action movie has always been fascist propaganda since they've
ever existed.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, it's always basically the city is evil and yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, so I mean yes, it's like I'm sure they're
like finding this repellent audience, but like, I don't know, guys,
it's just like like, sorry, down down in the notes,
someone's written that's a trumpier version of taken.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah. Take.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's pretty trumpy, right, I mean, foreign people are that.
You gotta be scared of the foreign people. If you
let your daughter go to a foreign cun like the
to Europe.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
She's gonna get taken.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And the solution is personal, immediate vigilante.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, just violence. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So we do have the trailer for Jason Statham's newest movie,
also made with David Air. I don't know if I'm
accepting that a beekeeper is trumpy, but this one sounds
like it might be. As a jm Our writer pointed out,
it's basically taken, but this time Statham's trying to get
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his friends girlfriend back from human traffickers. It's funny that
it's his friend's a girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I guess we'll have to see it, but it's like real,
she's a friend, but you know, I we met her
through my friends, so like, I don't know, whatever you
want to call it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Also, David Harbor shows up as a blind gun toting
Iraq war veteran who gives them his guns. I love
a blind gun expert is great really giving people good ideas.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Only a matter of time until the human trafficking action movie,
like because that so that movie Sound of Freedom, remember that,
like being so successful that was like made by that
guy who's a scam artist who claims that he recovers
people who are being human trafficked and like trade on
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this version of human trafficking that doesn't exist anywhere except
for the Instagram videos of like white women in the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Well, I will also just say that, like and this,
this might be attacking something that listeners to uh daily's
like guys and Daily's like I was trending do Like
I would say all true crime murder stuff is feeding
into the same industry of making white women feel paranoia
about their physical safety as far as strangers go. Yeah,
(20:57):
like pointing the finger out of this you know world
of dark, shady random violence, right, both makes them more xenophobic,
makes them more racist, but also ignores the real perpetrators
the most frequent perpetrators of violence against women in general,
which is people they know.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It was the girlfriend's boyfriend all along. Maybe yes, exactly,
yeah exactly. Maybe maybe that's the twist at the end
of this. Yeah, but this one feels like it has
some trunk.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'm not saying, yes, I should say I talked too
about shit, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I just I'm always reminded of this one video where
I saw like a blonde white woman being like, you
see the zip tie on my doorhad Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that means I've been marked to be taken. It just
like doesn't make any sense, but it's you.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Know, my my favorite part about all those things is
house stupid. They think kidnappers are right exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like it's reminds me of did you ever read the
Da Vinci Code? No, but you know I feel like
I have because it just it's.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Written with this narrative logic and it assumes that like
Leonardo da Vinci is like such a dumb guy. Like
it's like a dumb guy's version of a smart like
he's hiding all these clues and like words, scrambles.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Around the move and ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
But yeah, like they're they're assuming the criminal masterminds like
have to remind themselves which car they've like decided to
taken somebody from with zip ties. And also weird the
bit about like all right, we've we've concocted our plan.
Now for the last part the clues, where we set
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out all.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
The ways why people clues.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That they anyways, the plot does seem to go full
Quan on the human trafficking ring. Also false corrupt government officials.
Again I don't know, or maybe or maybe the corrupt
government officials are standing for Trump. Probably not, but we
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think that's the thing, is like the projection is
always means it's both everything they're talking about. It's the
reason it's like this could be either side is because
they say the Democrats do it. Democrats do a softer
version of it, and then you know, current Republicans do
the hardest, most insane version of it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In everything, the best indication that it is trumpy is
that it was co written by Sylvester Stallone, who is
disappointingly way more. I'm way more in this than I
should be. You are a magic Trump supporter, Andrew. My
favorite genre of movie growing up was Sylvester Stalone movies
(23:52):
like I didn't like. When I was like five, the
first movie I saw in theaters was Rocky for Yeah,
the first movie that I written. My first movie experience
that I remember is my dad going to see Rambo
at the theater and coming home and describing it too
like I and and then like yeah, I got to
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see Rambo three in theaters at an age where like
I don't know why they were letting me in to
see that, Like yeah, I love, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's like formative, but like, I think this is why,
this is why, the advantage of just inherently being able
to grain AsSalt all white people media has helped me
see the world more clearly, I believe.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I'm like, yeah, I'm not saying it's not fun, but
come on, these guys are.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I had a lot riding on his politics turning out already.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'm just saying have been.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Like I've also talked a lot about how like the
politics of Stallone movies are the most jingoistic bullshit, like yeah,
like the movies he writes, the movies that he stars in,
but it was you know, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah,
speaking of all these guys. Jimmy Carter's funeral happened was
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a reunion of ex president's vice president's first ladies, and
uh Trump had to shake hands with Mike Pence. Mike
Pence willingly shook hands with uh Donald Trump, the guy
who wanted to tried to.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Have him hung.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Karen Pence was serving kunt mother, but in many senses
of the word both what her husband calls her, because
she was the way she was ignoring the Trumps.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
God.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes, general question, Yeah, why the fuck it? Like, isn't
Jimmy Carter allegedly one of the good guys, Like why
the fuck is Trump even invited.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
To his funeral?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I think it's just like all presidents to go to
the thing of the president, go to the funeral of
the presidentsident Trump can't come because he's a Democrat man
Like Democrats believe in nothing if not decorum, like the
number one thing.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, it's really disgusting.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, so yeah, I mean there there's just like a
lot of like, oh, look at Al Gore back here, mean,
mugging Trump. The main thing I will come away with
is Donald Trump and Barack Obama sitting next to each
other and like just Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Cracking Obama up. Obama just laughing his ass off while
Trump is like saying stuff to him. It's like we did,
we did know who Obama was, but it is wild
that whatever remains of his personal brand, he's willing to
just be like, eh.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna give a fuck. These are my people,
my former presidents. Only they know yeah yeah, the wild one.
So like, I don't know, maybe Trump catches him off
guard and you know, and he's like, you know, nervously laughing.
I don't know. I wasn't there, but there there's also
a moment where George W. Bush like gives him a
(27:08):
little belly tap as he squeezes past him that is
like very fraternal, like very much like, so like it
might as well give him a like dick tap, like
a bag tag as he walked. Yeah, like real like
old homies from way back energy.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I mean, I thought we had talked about this, but
I didn't realize I hadn't. But like, my big disillusion
moment with this class of people was the learning. Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scullia were good friends. Good good families,
would go on vacation to each other with each other
routinely friends, which really put a like Notorious RBG spin
(27:50):
on it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
For me, I was like, oh, so fucking not.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Like I as a human being would be like if
I would had been in a room within a live
antonin Scalia, I probably wouldn't, but my thought would be like,
would it be justifiable from a like human rights perspective
to do violence upon this man?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Would it be justifiable to not do violent? You know,
like yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
And the fact that like fucking again, badass notorious RBG
willingly spent money to hang out patience like that's like
fucking really made it odious for me, where I was like,
no democrat believes anything.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, it's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
At least have the decency to make it look like
you hate this person who is evil.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You can't even do.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That, you're brandon out of your point out. I really
looked like George Bush is walking by him, going what up?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Playboy? He probably is, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Don't know if we've ever talked about this, but I
had an opportunity years ago to go to an event
at the Crawford Branch, and I turned it down because
I was like, and multiple people you gotta go, you
gotta And some people were like, I mean, we're going
to pass up a chance to call Bush a war
criminal to his face. And first of all, I was like,
(29:13):
I'm not really trying to go out by the Secret
Service like that.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But second of all, it was just this thing where I.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Was like, you know, not not to compare it a
discredited theory of competency, but Bush has put in his
ten thousand hours of being called a war criminal, and
I will be doing it for the first time, and
whatever happens, he's going to be better at it than me.
Like this interaction, I just like, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And he became a president by being like a charming,
unassuming motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I would be like, you have blood on your hands,
you know whatever, and he'd be like, all right, buddy,
you want to be here like the hundred percent how
it would go, And I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
But also it's like I hate him. Yeah, yeah, I
genuinely think.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
He's a mass murderer and I would not want to
meet him or be you know, hosted by him.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah yeah, And fucking.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Ruth Bader Ginsburg can't at least pretend to believe that, like,
what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I know that is wild though, that as a part
of that illuminati club that you're in where you get
like black eyes from being punched by Jay Leno, that
you almost got to go to the Crawford Ranch.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That's it was just weird. It's a it's a tough situation,
but yeah it's bad.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, Wall Wall your favorite song shuts the Eye Wide
shut or.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Andrew t what a pleasure having you as always?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I feel like I really casually just dropped a pretty
insane story that I can't tell all of but that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Sorry, I know, I like I yeah, I think we
can all just assume we we know how you got
that invite and no, uh.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I mean man as always, mind you follow you all
that good suff.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I don't know, Joss Racist, Andrew Tea, if you're feeling
up for it, not God Solidarity and Snacks is the
mutual aid group that I try to work with as
much as possible. I don't actually know if is the
best way to send your want to do something about
the fire. We are going to be out serving skid Row,
(31:26):
but I know skid Row is not one of the
immediately affected places. I don't know it's fucking happening though,
but you know, and we're trying to help around the city,
but it just seemed like our usual beat was the
place where there.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Was also need.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
So I don't know if that's the right thing, but
look up. There's so many resources out there. I genuinely
can't even tell you what the best place is. But
if you can, if you find it, if you find
these words compelling, send send money, send resources, but also
try to spend the time to not do one of
the Big five or whatever the fuck.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, take your time.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It's still going to be needed, and especially going to
be needed, especially like once it's no longer on the
front page of the New York Times and Drudge. You know,
all right, that's going to do it for this Thursday.
We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
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get your vaccines, get your flu shots, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, and we will talk you out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Fight
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of conges
trend Pricing. That one courtesy of Vanadium Silver on the discord.
I think, yeah, new York City congestionrend pricing. Thank you
Vanadian Silver. We talk congestion pricing on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But just hats off.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
To you in New York and go fuck yourself the
New York Post for all the scare mongering they're doing
around that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This guy fucking stabbed a guy. Man, he's so mad
about congestion pricing.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, go on, subway stab because of congestion pricing.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Man, Oh my god. It's so depressing that that shit works.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
But yeah, yeah, don't don't read the opinions of the Look,
there's got to be a better way to just get
your sports scores and some terrible opinions on sports.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's right, And you can just do the best thing
that the New York Post has is the headlines and
you can just take them in while walking past them.
You don't need to actually buy the page.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And you could do better. Just think about the news
and think of a pun you can do. You can
do better.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, yeah, all right. My name is Jack and I'm
thrilled to be joined by Andrew T.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What up.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Miles is out? He's yeah, the wildfires are affecting a
lot of people. I'm gonna just let him kind of
tell his story when he gets back, but you know,
sending lots of love, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Sure you all are as well.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Uh and yeah, I mean super producer Justin is still
out like a lot of people still without power. A
lot of people have been evacuated. We've got somebody at
our house who has evacuated. Andrew, I think you got some.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Gut incoming, particularly in the middle of this record according
to theirs, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, but are you Have you gotten out?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Much like have you? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I'm really lucky that I'm in Echo Park in that.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Number one, my air quality has always been bad. But
number two, I'm just like in a really a really
urbanized part of LA so that the fires, Like, I'm
not in wildfire danger and if not not, I guess
anything could happen. I don't want to say not and
fay in that way, but like you know, it's it's
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the I'm not in that part. So I've been lucky
to solidarity and snacks, the Mutual Aid group that I've
tried to do as much as I can with has
been we've been able to We usually concentrate on skied
Row anyway, so we were able to get our hands
on a thousand masks. Many of them are still in
my car right now, but they won't be by the
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time this comes out. Actually, And so oh yeah, I
was out on skid Row last night, getting people masks,
getting people water. It's a little weird the sort of
situation with the need because obviously need and sort of
secondary tertiary needs because of the fire have increased everywhere.
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But yeah, it's it's like an ever changing situations. So
even as I say this, things might be different by
the time this comes out. But currently the sort of
main shelters at the Pasadena Convention Center, and I think
they just actually closed the one at Pan Pacific Park
and are moving supplies out.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But don't quote me on this because everything keeps changing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But there's anyway, there's there's sort of a lot of
immediate need for people in shelters, partially because just there's
only so much space and logistical distribution and like things
like food can't keep forever and things like that. So
I'm hesitant to even say what the immediate needs are.
But I think the in the coming days in weeks
is when like real need is going to start like
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becoming very clear, and hopefully people continue.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
To pay attention and be because yeah, there there's been
like an outpouring of from like across the country if
people being like how can I help? And yeah, that
is everything, and I'm just hoping just kind of want
to tell people like pump the brakes and just like
keep that energy up when it's like no longer in
the news, like people actually are like now settling into
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having to deal with what this is, and like the.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Flyers aren't even out, like you know, it's not like
we're not in the aftermath and no aftermath and there
isn't really anything not anything, sorry, but there's not like
a specific thing that you can like immediately do that's helpful.
I'm repeating myself from the future now. But one thing
I will say is, especially in this stage of the internet,
and it's easier than ever to like move money around
(04:54):
if you can try to do some research on where
to send your resources because like well funded and you
know the places you've heard of your red clrooss not
for this situation, but your planned parenthoods are typically uh,
in my opinion, the best way for you to send
(05:15):
key resources. Yeah, figure out what you believe in, and
you can find a direct way to do that to
help with that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And it's easier than ever to do that. That's what
I will say.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm the type of idiot who when the wind like
just you being like and obviously the fires are still
raging and like zero percent contained, like the fire the
winds have stopped blowing this morning, and like my brain
is immediately like, well that was scary.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well we are on the slope of hopefully although yeah,
the weather report is a little wind back up, yeah exactly, yeah,
but like we we are hopefully at the.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Part of starting to be able to contain it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I mean this, you know, kind of goes with something
where ought to talk about too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
But like just the general like right wing finger pointing.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, there's like nothing anyone, there's no like listen, even
your little Trump Nazi fire brigades wouldn't have been able
to do anything against the wind and the underlying drought
conditions in southern California.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So unless they were like really like working against client,
like taking direct client action, you know, to go maybe.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
As far as like Trump based actions go. I suppose
this might be a little science fiction, but I think
it works.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I do think.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Ah, you know, if you don't care about collateral damage,
there's there's some amount of bombs you could have dropped
on the fire that would have put it out, started
other fires probably, but you could have had would have
been certainly seen like less of a problem.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, we talk on tomorrow's episode a little bit about
the role of the police.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I think we talked about it two days ago.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Also, this idea that the police funding is kicked up
while firefighter funding was kept about the same slightly lessened,
at a time when fire danger is growing and crime
is dropping. But yeah, the police interjecting themselves into the
story being like, don't even try it about looting at
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a time when like it's just not that they just
have to like create a narrative that they can be
the hero of.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But I think it's disgusting. Yeah, it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
But it's like so because I was seeing like kind
of a similar thing on k CAL. I was like
watching local news and they were just doing you know,
helicopter footage of a new fire that had popped up
in Studio City, like totally not totally different, but like
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a new, distinct fire, and it was like located on
a couple of homes were burning down, And I don't
know if he'd just been like on the air for
thirty seven hours in a row and was like losing
his mind, but he just kept trying to blame the
fire on the people who lived in the house for
some reason, like he kept emphasizing, like I think this
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one started inside the house. I mean, I'll tell you
it wasn't a lightning strike, so we know that, so
it started by somebody, which was like, first of all,
seems extremely unlikely, like these fires are all picking up
around the city on the same windy nights, because they'd
be probably being started.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
By each other, you dip shit.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, And but it was just like they were so
horny for somebody that they could like send the cops
after it felt h you know.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I mean it's like like, I mean, I know it's
gonna be a blame game, but like this is sort
of the reason why I don't like disaster movies. Yeah,
because like we as people are need like a villain
that we can understand. Yeah, and so like an arsonist,
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a fucking you know whatever, like an inept like police chief.
And it's like the real villains of this, the real
villains of twisters. This is how I initially have been
phrasing this. The real villains of twisters are like two
hundred white guys that are in boardrooms in Dallas and
you know, the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, and it's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Like, there's just too many steps away from the real villains,
So we need to find other villains. But it is
a you know, it's how our brains are being used
against us, because it's like even if even if this
fucking person like like set their house on fire, even
if they wanted to set a wildfire, like, yeah, they
couldn't do it without the fucking you know, century of
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climate change that we've been doing to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, Albert the Butler said some people just want to
watch the world burn, and everybody quote at him. But
I think it's more just like people really want to
get rich, and the content of that is that the
world is going to turn into like a ever worsening
fire vortex something something shit.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The world burned, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right, exactly, but yeah, I mean and then some people
I think that there are arsonists for sure, and a
lot of people are inherently suspecting arson. Like on social media,
supers a victor was pointing out, like keep hearing people
be like and I mean the police are gonna that.
That was actually one part of this like press conference
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where they did like the handoff from the fire chief
to the police chief, and they were like, and who's
going to investigate the cause of all these fires? And
like who you know what if it was arson? And
the fire chiefs like, we have a whole department for that.
By the way, you don't need the police. But yeah,
so that's the thing that is being reported, is like
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they just need him instigated.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So but again, even the narrative of the cause was
even if it's a person, it's a fucking ten people
with lighters in gasoline, they are not the cause of this, yes,
Like that's the thing that's like, They're not the cause.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Right, They're not the cause of the circumstances that make this.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, some of those photographs of just like the fucking
palm trees like fucking doubled over and blowing and like
on fire just yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
The drought and the wind.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
None of those are caused by a person or even
a handful of people.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
An industry though, yeah, I guess they are.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And trillion they are caused by a handful of people,
but not yeah, the ones with yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Not the ones you're thinking of. We are starting to
get reports on the cause of the fire, which this
guy went viral.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
We don't do it, say that again.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Why is there a fire opening right now?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
There are multiple fires that are taking place.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm useful.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You're supposed to know. Well, I don't know how it started.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
We don't know how it started.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
There, you know, when all the all the all the
gay people in LA.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So that the news, the local news is doing their
job of like investigating this by stopping to talk to
the drunkest guy on the streets of LA who who
asked the question, why is there a fire going on?
And they were like, oh, we better talk to this
guy answer. He is genuinely curious about this. But the
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only reason I want to raise this is because first
of all, it's going around and this is a trending episode,
and also because it reminded us of this clip of
the Westboro Baptist church singing there her version of poker face.
That is one of the UH constantly referenced Daily's ice
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clips between Miles and Brian the editor and I, so,
I just had you seen this before, Andrew God?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Oh oh oh, you piss up God.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You'll see why he's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Got oh oh oh you piss up.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You'll see why he's got Oh. It really is.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
When the chorus is about to explode on ours, we're
all waiting for them to start singing.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You hate God, You hate God.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh, the lead singer says nine to eleven and points
her points her two fingers down to you know, symbolize
the two the two buildings coming down.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I had noticed on the second watch through that the
did they like hijack like a geometry class or something.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's so weird.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That was one of my first notes on this video
was why is this happening? It in like an NYU classroom.
Very strange. It's like it's just like has the appearance
of a college lecture room.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, there's equations of the blackbart and back, but they're
not like super difficult. It's like there's there's one that
just says why equals fifty eight or whatever. So it
does feel like a little bit like Moron's try to
do a good will hunting to make themselves look smarter.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Do you have any idea how easy this is for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I mean it's like fifth rage math, so it should
be fairly easy for you.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, I will just say I feel like there's a
narrative of handwringing about, like especially on Twitter, about like
all the right wing disinformation and and gleeful like you know,
just being so whatever about like I told you so,
it is about various pieces of this fire, And I
(15:10):
will just say a little bit like, yes, it's obviously
annoying that it's on Twitter and everyone's I guess sad
that it's become more overtly like right wing fascist media,
But you know, as this fucking poker face things show
like this is what these people have always been.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Like I feel like every time.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Like anything right wing kicks off, it's like this like
specific cadre of I guess Democrats, resistance libs are just
like can you believe this is happening?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And now it's over And I'm not saying we're not
really dealing with now, dummies, forever, and.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They've been like this forever. So like, I think it's
just that these people it's new to them, so they're
very shocked by it. But it's like, I'm so sorry,
but Ronald Reagan was like this, and I wasn't around
for that, but I'm sure, you know, fucking Nixon supporters,
Goldwater supporters, whatever, were all like this.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
He didn't say it quite out loud as much his
press secretary said it out loud, and then he just
was kind of like, well, but.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
These people were absolutely like. These people were out there
and they have always been like this.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, although the Westboro Baptist Church was like a family
that just like they knew how to get the media
to cover them. And that's what it looks like when
you look at this video of them singing. It's like
a mom and two daughters.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
One of those daughters has since been like that was bad, right,
I was.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
It's just the thing she says, Yeah, that's actually so,
I know, it seems like I'm blaming your sins nine eleven.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That is just a nervous tick that I have.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And you know what's also amazing is like seeing nine
to eleven as Godly retribution means the Westboro Baptist Church
and fucking Osama bin Laden essentially have the same politics.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
On this day, God speaks through bin Laden, according to
the Westborough Baptist Church, all right, let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and
(17:25):
so is Jason Statham. I spent probably a little too
much time singing the praises of the movie The Beekeeper
last year.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I saw it on a plane. I can't be.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Can't be held to any opinions of movies that I
saw on a plane, but it is it's like the Equalizer,
but like weirder. People have pointed out that it seems
like it is catering to like maga conspiracy theorists with
a story about the villain of the movie is the
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Writen son of the president, and people are like, well,
that's a stand in for a.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hunter byde Yeah, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Like the what about the rich son of Donald Trump,
who is also a fucking idiot.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I know I'm probably railing against these, you know whatever,
like kind of moderate democratic people that are sort of
seeing these things most I think, but I'm just like
every action movie has always been fascist propaganda since they've
ever existed.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, it's always basically the city is evil and yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, so I mean yes, it's like I'm sure they're
like finding this repellent audience, but like, I don't know, guys,
it's just like like, sorry, down down in the notes,
someone's written that's a trumpier version of taken.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah. Take.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's pretty trumpy, right, I mean, foreign people are that.
You gotta be scared of the foreign people. If you
let your daughter go to a foreign cun like the
to Europe.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
She's gonna get taken.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And the solution is personal, immediate vigilante.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, just violence. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So we do have the trailer for Jason Statham's newest movie,
also made with David Air. I don't know if I'm
accepting that a beekeeper is trumpy, but this one sounds
like it might be. As a jm Our writer pointed out,
it's basically taken, but this time Statham's trying to get
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his friends girlfriend back from human traffickers. It's funny that
it's his friend's a girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I guess we'll have to see it, but it's like real,
she's a friend, but you know, I we met her
through my friends, so like, I don't know, whatever you
want to call it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Also, David Harbor shows up as a blind gun toting
Iraq war veteran who gives them his guns. I love
a blind gun expert is great really giving people good ideas.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Only a matter of time until the human trafficking action movie,
like because that so that movie Sound of Freedom, remember that,
like being so successful that was like made by that
guy who's a scam artist who claims that he recovers
people who are being human trafficked and like trade on
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this version of human trafficking that doesn't exist anywhere except
for the Instagram videos of like white women in the suburbs.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Well, I will also just say that, like and this,
this might be attacking something that listeners to uh daily's
like guys and Daily's like I was trending do Like
I would say all true crime murder stuff is feeding
into the same industry of making white women feel paranoia
about their physical safety as far as strangers go. Yeah,
(20:57):
like pointing the finger out of this you know world
of dark, shady random violence, right, both makes them more xenophobic,
makes them more racist, but also ignores the real perpetrators
the most frequent perpetrators of violence against women in general,
which is people they know.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It was the girlfriend's boyfriend all along. Maybe yes, exactly,
yeah exactly. Maybe maybe that's the twist at the end
of this. Yeah, but this one feels like it has
some trunk.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'm not saying, yes, I should say I talked too
about shit, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I just I'm always reminded of this one video where
I saw like a blonde white woman being like, you
see the zip tie on my doorhad Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that means I've been marked to be taken. It just
like doesn't make any sense, but it's you.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Know, my my favorite part about all those things is
house stupid. They think kidnappers are right exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like it's reminds me of did you ever read the
Da Vinci Code? No, but you know I feel like
I have because it just it's.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Written with this narrative logic and it assumes that like
Leonardo da Vinci is like such a dumb guy. Like
it's like a dumb guy's version of a smart like
he's hiding all these clues and like words, scrambles.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Around the move and ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
But yeah, like they're they're assuming the criminal masterminds like
have to remind themselves which car they've like decided to
taken somebody from with zip ties. And also weird the
bit about like all right, we've we've concocted our plan.
Now for the last part the clues, where we set
(22:51):
out all.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
The ways why people clues.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That they anyways, the plot does seem to go full
Quan on the human trafficking ring. Also false corrupt government officials.
Again I don't know, or maybe or maybe the corrupt
government officials are standing for Trump. Probably not, but we
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think that's the thing, is like the projection is
always means it's both everything they're talking about. It's the
reason it's like this could be either side is because
they say the Democrats do it. Democrats do a softer
version of it, and then you know, current Republicans do
the hardest, most insane version of it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In everything, the best indication that it is trumpy is
that it was co written by Sylvester Stallone, who is
disappointingly way more. I'm way more in this than I
should be. You are a magic Trump supporter, Andrew. My
favorite genre of movie growing up was Sylvester Stalone movies
(23:52):
like I didn't like. When I was like five, the
first movie I saw in theaters was Rocky for Yeah,
the first movie that I written. My first movie experience
that I remember is my dad going to see Rambo
at the theater and coming home and describing it too
like I and and then like yeah, I got to
(24:15):
see Rambo three in theaters at an age where like
I don't know why they were letting me in to
see that, Like yeah, I love, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's like formative, but like, I think this is why,
this is why, the advantage of just inherently being able
to grain AsSalt all white people media has helped me
see the world more clearly, I believe.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I'm like, yeah, I'm not saying it's not fun, but
come on, these guys are.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I had a lot riding on his politics turning out already.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'm just saying have been.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Like I've also talked a lot about how like the
politics of Stallone movies are the most jingoistic bullshit, like yeah,
like the movies he writes, the movies that he stars in,
but it was you know, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah,
speaking of all these guys. Jimmy Carter's funeral happened was
(25:13):
a reunion of ex president's vice president's first ladies, and
uh Trump had to shake hands with Mike Pence. Mike
Pence willingly shook hands with uh Donald Trump, the guy
who wanted to tried to.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Have him hung.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Karen Pence was serving kunt mother, but in many senses
of the word both what her husband calls her, because
she was the way she was ignoring the Trumps.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
God.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes, general question, Yeah, why the fuck it? Like, isn't
Jimmy Carter allegedly one of the good guys, Like why
the fuck is Trump even invited.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
To his funeral?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I think it's just like all presidents to go to
the thing of the president, go to the funeral of
the presidentsident Trump can't come because he's a Democrat man
Like Democrats believe in nothing if not decorum, like the
number one thing.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, it's really disgusting.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, so yeah, I mean there there's just like a
lot of like, oh, look at Al Gore back here, mean,
mugging Trump. The main thing I will come away with
is Donald Trump and Barack Obama sitting next to each
other and like just Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Cracking Obama up. Obama just laughing his ass off while
Trump is like saying stuff to him. It's like we did,
we did know who Obama was, but it is wild
that whatever remains of his personal brand, he's willing to
just be like, eh.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna give a fuck. These are my people,
my former presidents. Only they know yeah yeah, the wild one.
So like, I don't know, maybe Trump catches him off
guard and you know, and he's like, you know, nervously laughing.
I don't know. I wasn't there, but there there's also
a moment where George W. Bush like gives him a
(27:08):
little belly tap as he squeezes past him that is
like very fraternal, like very much like, so like it
might as well give him a like dick tap, like
a bag tag as he walked. Yeah, like real like
old homies from way back energy.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I mean, I thought we had talked about this, but
I didn't realize I hadn't. But like, my big disillusion
moment with this class of people was the learning. Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scullia were good friends. Good good families,
would go on vacation to each other with each other
routinely friends, which really put a like Notorious RBG spin
(27:50):
on it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
For me, I was like, oh, so fucking not.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Like I as a human being would be like if
I would had been in a room within a live
antonin Scalia, I probably wouldn't, but my thought would be like,
would it be justifiable from a like human rights perspective
to do violence upon this man?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Would it be justifiable to not do violent? You know,
like yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
And the fact that like fucking again, badass notorious RBG
willingly spent money to hang out patience like that's like
fucking really made it odious for me, where I was like,
no democrat believes anything.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yeah, it's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
At least have the decency to make it look like
you hate this person who is evil.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You can't even do.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That, you're brandon out of your point out. I really
looked like George Bush is walking by him, going what up?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Playboy? He probably is, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Don't know if we've ever talked about this, but I
had an opportunity years ago to go to an event
at the Crawford Branch, and I turned it down because
I was like, and multiple people you gotta go, you
gotta And some people were like, I mean, we're going
to pass up a chance to call Bush a war
criminal to his face. And first of all, I was like,
(29:13):
I'm not really trying to go out by the Secret
Service like that.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But second of all, it was just this thing where I.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Was like, you know, not not to compare it a
discredited theory of competency, but Bush has put in his
ten thousand hours of being called a war criminal, and
I will be doing it for the first time, and
whatever happens, he's going to be better at it than me.
Like this interaction, I just like, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And he became a president by being like a charming,
unassuming motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I would be like, you have blood on your hands,
you know whatever, and he'd be like, all right, buddy,
you want to be here like the hundred percent how
it would go, And I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
But also it's like I hate him. Yeah, yeah, I
genuinely think.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
He's a mass murderer and I would not want to
meet him or be you know, hosted by him.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah yeah, And fucking.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Ruth Bader Ginsburg can't at least pretend to believe that, like,
what the fuck is wrong with these people?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I know that is wild though, that as a part
of that illuminati club that you're in where you get
like black eyes from being punched by Jay Leno, that
you almost got to go to the Crawford Ranch.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That's it was just weird. It's a it's a tough situation,
but yeah it's bad.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, Wall Wall your favorite song shuts the Eye Wide
shut or.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Andrew t what a pleasure having you as always?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I feel like I really casually just dropped a pretty
insane story that I can't tell all of but that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Sorry, I know, I like I yeah, I think we
can all just assume we we know how you got
that invite and no, uh.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I mean man as always, mind you follow you all
that good suff.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
I don't know, Joss Racist, Andrew Tea, if you're feeling
up for it, not God Solidarity and Snacks is the
mutual aid group that I try to work with as
much as possible. I don't actually know if is the
best way to send your want to do something about
the fire. We are going to be out serving skid Row,
(31:26):
but I know skid Row is not one of the
immediately affected places. I don't know it's fucking happening though,
but you know, and we're trying to help around the city,
but it just seemed like our usual beat was the
place where there.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Was also need.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
So I don't know if that's the right thing, but
look up. There's so many resources out there. I genuinely
can't even tell you what the best place is. But
if you can, if you find it, if you find
these words compelling, send send money, send resources, but also
try to spend the time to not do one of
the Big five or whatever the fuck.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, take your time.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It's still going to be needed, and especially going to
be needed, especially like once it's no longer on the
front page of the New York Times and Drudge. You know,
all right, that's going to do it for this Thursday.
We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
(32:20):
get your vaccines, get your flu shots, don't do nothing
about white supremacy, and we will talk you out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
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