In this edition of Depopulate Through ConTrendception, Jack and Miles discuss the potential government shutdown, Gavin Newsom getting slammed for his dumb podcast, "dangerous times" at Columbia University, photographers trying to fix Wikipedia's bad celebrity portraits, the "Sleepmaxing" trend and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Depopulate
the contranception. Depopulate by what was what was the You're
going to stick the landing?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This was the abortion endorse abortion.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yes, depopulate by endorse abortion trend.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is from the Christian Nightmare. Christian Nightmare.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Still so good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Just I'll play a little bit for y'all just because
and the things you say Christian reggae, it's different.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's a reggae. So yeah, he's saying he's saying what
they want you to do. He's not saying what we should.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Our consumption and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But hey whatever, Nah, no, no, no, just deep up wrong
devil worship. As a Christian, my main thing is go
in there wrang. You know what I'm saying. Hell yeah, anyways,
my name is Jack. That over there is Miles gr Yep, yep.
And this is what is trending on Wednesday afternoon, March twelfth.
(01:14):
Got a spending bill coming out.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, there's an Yeah, so basically to avert the shutdown
right now as it stands, Republicans pass their continuing resolution.
Basically they're getting the Republicans have able to keep the
bill that pass that keeps the government funding. They passed
that in the House, all the all the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
For what the government funding. I can't stop, Like my
brain is just stuck on that ship. Now, that's it's
gonna be a real problem for.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Me doing it in public enough and people go, you
hear that white bue singer reggae like that will probably
help weird voice or make you double down harder, And
you're like, how come a white man con sinc reggae?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I've been saying this, Miles.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, Adam, No, Adrian, yeah, Adrian. But anyway, now, so
it's now passed the House. It's up to the Senate
to pass this. The thing is, they need sixty votes
for this shit to pass in the House and in
the Senate, and right now there's talks of Chuck Schumer
getting the fucking votes together to pass this thing to
keep the government funded because they don't they don't want
to have a shutdown and having us be blamed. So
(02:21):
just so we're clear, this bill that they passed, there's
nothing fucking like as they say, it's a clean bill.
There was bipartisan because maybe one fucking Democrat who's so
lost voted on it. It's gonna slash spending. It's gonna
cut fucking Social Security staffing, emergency food assistance. It's like,
it's gonna allow Trump to just redirect funds however the
(02:42):
fuck he likes. So for everything you think it's gonna
keep the government funded, this asshole can just be like, nah,
I don't really want to fund it that way.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I don't understand what they think they gain from
being like, well, we're not gonna we don't want any
part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't want the finger pointed us pointed at us
when the government shuts down. Fucker, the finger is going
to be pointed at y'all because you are a party
to this nonsense that the Republicans are doing. That's what
the fucking issue is here. And it's even wild to
to have other Democrats and stuff out here being like,
do not fucking vote on this thing, you losers. This
is Ted Lou saying to the Tenate Democrats please be
(03:19):
fucking for real for once. This is not some shit
that we need to keep this shit going.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is Ted Lou.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
House Democrats are very clear. We're asking Senate Democrats to
vote no on this cutering resolution, which is not clean
and it makes cuts across the board, and it's gonna
be one of those things where people are going to
look at this vote and every bad thing that now
happens with Doge and Donald Trumpy lammas, they can go
back to this vote. So we're asking Democrats to vote no.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, pretty easy. I mean, what's the fucking point. The
government is basically being shut down in front of our eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, already they're dismantling the government and I guess just
is you signing off on that?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And the only benefit to Democrats right now is like
with John Fetterman, like I would never shut down the government,
blah blah blah blah blah. This is not the fucking
So all this is being done is because they are
very worried about their own re election chances. So they
just don't like the label of getting having the government
shut down. There they're not standing up for a fucking anything.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So yeah, again, with the majority of the population behind them,
they it comes down to a game of chicken, and
they're like, actually, we're not even going to get in
the car. We're because like we know, we are afraid
of car crashes. It so much of the Democrats problem
(04:38):
comes back to just their main ethos being I don't
want to get in trouble, like I don't want people
to be mad at me like that that is institutionally
gonna they are. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I hope you'll all y'all get primary for this, nons,
it's just get I mean again, keep again, but you
know what, keep revealing to people that you are actually
have no ability to help or protect them American people
that you are. You are one and the same with
the Republicans in terms of basically saying, we're fine with
this kleptocracy we have and let's just maybe something they're
just I don't know if like maybe deep down the
(05:11):
Democrats like maybe something easy will happen that'll make it
a lot easier for us rather than fucking fighting. Right,
But you're going up against the softest, fucking scared Republicans ever.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's just even like, yeah, they're so addicted to triangulation
that they just like haven't been able to so addicted
to triangulation that they can't give it up. They just
can't give it up. This is why it's so nice
to hear from Bill Burr every once in a while. Uh,
just continues to be on a heater. Went on uh
(05:46):
fresh Air with Terry Gross, who's kind of I haven't
listened to Fresh Air in a while, but he was like,
you know, talking about these fucks who are eating almonds
and competing to have like the biggest infinity pool, who
are like making life miserable for everybody else and getting
away with it. Terry Gross was like, and who besides
(06:07):
almond eaters are you talking about. It's like, wait, I
don't think he was specifically saying like anyone who eats
almonds are bad? Uh? And then he just like goes
off on Elon Musk in a way that's really funny
and just feels like, I don't know if one politician,
one Democratic politician, just tried to talk like that, I
feel like they might recognize how people are actually feeling
(06:31):
right now. Hyeah also went off on the shitty quality
of Jordan's on a complexy.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think it's look, he's he's he's got our he's
got our vote, I guess, but yeah, it just shows
immediate Like there was a thing I saw in New
York mag that was like why AOC and Bernie just
are doing so much. They are so much better at
this than the Democrats, and it was kind of like
sort of not really saying the most obvious part is
that they're not fully like beholden to a capitalism as
(07:01):
the reason why, Like they're able to speak critically of
it because they don't think it's the fucking undergirding of
all that is great in this country. They're like, no,
there's actually this cause of all of our pain. And
they're like, yeah, well, other people struggle. They they've found
a way that they also have been idiologically consistent. It's like,
just talk about what the problem is. Like they're actually
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speaking to the fucking problem, which is all of this inequality,
and they're able to point a direct finger out this
financial system that anyway. So there's a lot of what
is different what can be done differently, And the problem
is these people they're there to protect the status quo,
so of course they have no idea how to talk
shit about it or talk about it critically because they're
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in office to protect it and nothing else. And they've
been rewarded because they are so dedicated to protecting the
status quo and twisting their mind into the weirdest shapes
to be Like, actually, I'm doing a good thing for
working people by bailing out Wall Street. I'm doing a
good thing for people by getting real mealy mouthed and
(08:04):
inconsistent on what human rights are or what like what
police brutality is anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So I'm doing a good thing for working people with
this massive spending thing that is actually funded by private
equity and will retrain you to be data entry.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I'm also doing great because I'm having Steve Bannon
on my fucking podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yes some Jesus Christ again again with the triangulation, like
this is just this is who like they are. It
truly is just the only thing they're capable of. It's
like asking people to have you ever seen like the
footage of pigeons in zero gravity, Like they took animals
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up into zero gravity in space shuttles, almost seemingly just
to fuck with them, and like they just like don't
don't know what's true.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's fun lying around.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They're like, yeah, exactly, experiment and they just look so
weird and confused, like trying to fly, but like they're
just like kind of floating their entire reason for existence,
their entire like moral universe like functional, like universe is
oriented in this one direction, and when you ask them
to change it, they just like they're like, Okay, yeah,
(09:18):
we'll change it. I'm gonna be Joe Rogan of the
left and I'm gonna have Steve Bannon on my right
because yeah, because the only thing you can do is triangulate.
That's the only that's they can't do anything. Took so
mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
To be like, how do you popularize left oriented politics
for the masses? That's what they meant by Joe Rogan
of the left, rather than will you have the same
guess as Joe Rogan on your podcast but you're.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
On the left.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, I have Nazis on too. I
have science denials on my podcast too, right, And my.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Whole is that I just like, think they're pretty cool,
think they're neat, and I'm going to tell them that
I perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
These pigeons are fucking confused.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Flapping pigeons and zero gravity. Zero gravity pigeons is what
the Democratic Party is right now. They're just they don't
know which way is up. I mean, they know which
way they're supposed to think is.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
This is why more people just need to start trolling
these people and just primary them like regular people, just
to fucking make them waste their money, because like, if
you say something even remotely normal, I just have a
feeling people's appetites are fucking up there are pretty intense
for something that is anything other than well, you know,
(10:40):
the Republicans are just maneuvering in a way that's making
it very difficult just say it for what it is.
These people want are actively destroying just any semblance of
what America used to be. And you're just basically there
being like, oh okay, yeah, yeah, that sounds good. I guess
I'll kind of I won't sit at the same table,
but I'll definitely dine in the restaurant the same restaurant
(11:00):
as them.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Right, all right, uh so, we we've talked on the
past couple episodes about the arrest and attempted deportation of
Mark Moose, and uh so there's still we don't have
as of this recording, still hasn't been charged with a crime.
(11:22):
Still his lawyers still can't contact him. Yeat again, Green
car Like he's married to an American citizen, he's fully
an American.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Citizen months pregnant by the way.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Eight months pregnant American citizen. Uh and you know, just
taken away from his family. They're going to try and
deport him because he led the protests. So just like
they're you know, openly trying to deport him for saying
things that they didn't like.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Wrong thing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So yeah, yeah, one one thing in particular for some reason.
But I just so at Columbia University, I just wanted
to read this New York Times article. Those at the
top of the front page of the New York Times.
Days after immigration officers arrested a prominent pro Palestinian campus activist,
administrators at Columbia University gathered students and faculty from the
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Journalism School and issued a warning. A warning. Okay, yeah,
so I'm maybe expecting if I'm a student at the
journalism school, I'm expecting, you know, a speech of like, look, guys,
like this is obviously very scary, but you have the
institutional power of like one of the most respected journalism
schools at you're back. Students who were not US citizens
(12:37):
were told they should avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine
and protests related to their former classmates. Arrest urged Stuart
carl A First Amendment lawyer and specifically said, like, you
guys only have two months before graduation, Like, don't fuck
this up to be bad for your career. If you
have a social media page, make sure it is not
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filled with and terry on the Middle East, he told
the gathering in Pulter Hall. When a Palestinian student objected,
the journalism school's dean, Jelani Cobb, was more direct about
the school's inability to defend international students from federal prosecution.
Nobody can protect you, mister Cobb said, these are dangerous times.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's maybe what they should have set up top. Yeah, yeah,
just I don't even know. They're like, look, nobody can
protect you a because we don't have the fucking spine
for it. And also be like, these motherfuckers are just
doing whatever the fuck they want, so truly, I don't
know what the fuck we can do. And yes, you're right,
these are dangerous times you are.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Having pease, are dangerous times, which I'm sure everybody is
aware of.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, whisked away by the White House's secret police Ice. Now,
who's just using their fucking weird ass jurisdiction to terrorize
these people who are not United States citizens and completely
try and put a nice chill on our ability to
organize and protest in a time when it's probably going
to be one of the few at this point still
(14:04):
somewhat guaranteed rights that will help us, you know, potentially
navigate whatever this fucking new regime is.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But yeah, it's just half YI. We don't have your back.
Nobody can protect you. You're on your own. Get right
with Trump and Jesus or get fucked. Thank you for
coming to this meeting.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just do that and just like
just nuke your accounts, man, Just don't. Oh, it's real
bad out there. Yeah, I mean, at least they're kind
of telling the truth now where they're.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Like, we're not gonna we can't fuck we can't do shit.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We're not doing shit.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All right, we're not doing and doing shit. Let's take
a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
We're back, And wanted to shout out four or four Media.
First of all, met a couple of people who work
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there are really cool. So, like Wikipedia has is, you know,
still one of the last good things that hasn't been
completely ruined on the Internet. One place that they're lacking
A little bit that you might have noticed is that
the photos they have of people look like shit. Like
(15:22):
when you go to somebody's Wikipedia page, like they're they
like Scott Beao's page is Scott is all fucked up,
Scott BeO in nineteen eighty five being shot from like
across like his prom like I don't I don't know,
so like everything's like blurry. And the reason is because
(15:43):
Wikipedia editors like just have to find public domain photos,
and when it comes to like famous people, it's it's
hard to find that because there's such a huge industry
of people trying to make money off of uh, off
of their product, off of their image. And so a
few years ago, like this group got together and was
(16:05):
like we're just gonna like make it so that we
can like have good pictures of celebrities. And so they
started in the eighties. Yeah, yeah, So they started like
going like getting press credentials where they could a lot
of times, like the media event will be like, we
don't really consider you guys to be a media really,
even though their circulation or like that their reach is
(16:29):
like billions and billions of people every month and yours
is like you're giving access to like zines that have
like dozens of people. But yeah, so they basically kind
of pro bono. I think they like put together a
little like group and like a little bit of funding
to like go and take these pictures. And there's just
this one interaction with Jeremy Strong that may like kind
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of highlights what I'm talking about, where it's just like,
oh yeah, it's just a person an uncomplicated way that
someone's like this thing should be better. I'm going to
do something about it, and gets tangible results despite that
not being how things work anymore. The article says, since
last January, Wiki Portraits photographers have covered around ten global
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festivals and a word ceremonies and taken nearly five thousand
freely licensed photos of celebrity attendees, and the celebrity attendees
are often quite excited about it. Dixit, for example, found
Jeremy Strong of Succession at a New York showing of
The New Apprentice and as to take a new headshot
of him for Wikipedia. His publicist said no, dix had said,
(17:36):
but Jeremy said, wait, you're from Wikipedia. For the love
of God, please take down that photo. You'd be doing
me a service. So he stood and posed and I
got a shot of him. Strong's old photo was from
twenty fourteen, so it was ten years old. Yeah, but
that's just like, that's such a clear Yeah, there's so
many people in the way who are like trying to
be like, no, we have to protect this image so
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that the maximum number of people can make the maximum
amount of money off of right, and not even like
doing the base the most basic fucking job of a publicist,
which is.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
To think about what your public image is. And you're like, yeah, bro,
let that fucking eleven year photo cook on Wikipedia of you,
so when they look you up, they're like, oh, he's
still wearing fadoras.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, exactly, Like that is a bad thing. Every publicist
should be trying to get a better picture of their
client on Wikipedia, and instead they're just, you know, willing
to go along and be complicit with a system that
is just maximizing as much profit as they possibly can
from the system as it exists.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I do like this Instagram page. It's like all the
bad Wikipedia photos. There's one of this footballer, Kyle Bartley.
He used to play for Arsenal as a youth player,
but like the photo of his is like a dude's
like fingers scraping his mouth and nose midaction.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It just has a hand in his face.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's so stupid. But yeah, just again, I think they
don't realize, too publicist, most people's first foray into understanding
your client is probably a Wikipedia page.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, to be like very first, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let me get that ten thousand foot view of this person.
I do that shit all the time. If I don't
know somebody is, I'm I'm first, I'll pull up the
Wikipedia and then don't realize that the first page that
they're gonna see, the first photo they're gonna see. Damn
the Perusa Balk photo they have her. Don't do Ferusa
Balk like that? She has so many better photos than
the one they put on her page.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh yeahs Balk is cool. Yeah, there's true. I mean
some of thes seem like they were put there by
people who were mad at them.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, or like you dropped a publicist and they go
to Wikipedia like, oh, actually have a license free photo
you can put up of this person.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
This one, the more you're fucked.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Up one you've ever seen of them? But yeah, it's
just again, Yeah, to your point, they they'll prioritize vanity
fair over the thing that most people are seeing their
client on.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Chapel Rone should fire her publicist for the Wikipedia photo
that's up there.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's just like they got a about probably is it
like ten years ago, Chapelone.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It's not even that old, but it just like doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, it's like so not her vibe. She's sitting like
with sitting. It looks like she's at a like comic
con panel where she's like, you know, answering questions about
her uh you know book that she wrote about Star
Trek the Next Generation and Marxism or something. Chapelone, Chapelone,
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you know. And I did need to go to Wikipedia
to find out who Chapelone was at a certain point,
not too many if you go.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
To her Wikipedia find out that her uncle is a
Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wow, they got all that in there. Damn all right?
Are you sleep maxing? Miles? Am I sleep maxing?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Was that talks? This is talk soup maxing? You're scent maxing?
What is that?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's what you're putting on? I'm like criminal amounts of
cologne and axe bodies because they're maxing. It's like, bro,
I want I want your eyes to water from the
chemical reaction your brain is having from being in the
presence of my own.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The trend doesn't even really seem to be sleep maxing
so much as just like insert anything maxing and now
that I'm like, Okay, this is how I optimize, that's
how I get on my grind set about getting enough sleep.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's funny like gen Z, they're what like billionaires are
to quote, reinventing things or inventing new things. Is kind
of how gen Z or younger people just describe things
that have already existed, but with like a new phrase,
like like just like the whole quiet quitting. It's like, yeah, bro,
we've not been giving a fuck at our jobs for
a while. That's not that's not anything new. But again,
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I like the succinct nature of the new phrase. So
sleep maxing is what you just sleep as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's not sleeping as much as possible. It's like optimizing
sleep with like a bunch of different bedtime routines. And
I didn't find anything that I wasn't really familiar with, but.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yes, try try the crippling weight of existence on your
shoulders all day, and the first thing you want is
to slip away into the darkness of sleep to give
you a reprieve from the hell that is your day
to day realities.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Forget the This is from the CNN article on sleep maxing.
Forget the simple bedtime routine of brushing your teeth, washing
your face, and putting on pajamas. I mean that is
about pajamas. I do doffing your nightcap now, yeah, exactly,
holding a candle up in the candle holder and asking
a dark hallway who goes there? Now? People in search
(22:36):
of the perfect sleep routine are adding steps that can
include supplements, specific foods. I don't think you're supposed to
eat before right before bed. It's not sleep maxing in
my book, certain apps and other devices, and a layered
beauty routine. I don't know that for some this is
called sleep maxing.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I like one is some Some sleep baxing tips are
evidence based. Other hacks may or may not work.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Mean I've like on my I got an Apple watch
that has because my one burned in the fire. But
the new one I got has a new sleep function,
like where it does like sleep analysis, and I thought
maybe that I don't even know what to do with
all that data. I'm like, yeah, I slept during that time?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
What to see? Like yeah, oh, should I need to.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Start optimizing based on all this data.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm such a bummer when you get you think you
got a good night sleep and then your sleep data
is like they're like kind of actually fucked up. Man, Yeah,
you actually blew it last night. You kind of sucked
from the mini bar. Oh my god, wellness check mini
bar wellness the first non alcohol related mini bar. Wellness
(23:45):
check is what I achieved, Like, did you track all
of that? Yeah? Has just did you eat all those snacks? Maneah?
You good.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Usually when we see when usually when we see a
spike in that kind of activity the mini bar, it's
because someone has like fallen over and they can't get
up and they've knocked it all down. They're thrashing and
they're finally.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Last time we saw a spike like that was at
an earthquake knocked everything off the mini bar. Anyways, I'm good.
Things are good. I feel great. I feel great. Those
are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday,
March twelfth. We are back tomorrow with the Who last
episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
(24:24):
be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines. Why you still
can't get your flu shot? While you still can, don't
do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to
you all tomorrow. Bye, Bar
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Depopulate
the contranception. Depopulate by what was what was the You're
going to stick the landing?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This was the abortion endorse abortion.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yes, depopulate by endorse abortion trend.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is from the Christian Nightmare. Christian Nightmare.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Still so good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Just I'll play a little bit for y'all just because
and the things you say Christian reggae, it's different.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's a reggae. So yeah, he's saying he's saying what
they want you to do. He's not saying what we should.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Our consumption and all that.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But hey whatever, Nah, no, no, no, just deep up wrong
devil worship. As a Christian, my main thing is go
in there wrang. You know what I'm saying. Hell yeah, anyways,
my name is Jack. That over there is Miles gr Yep, yep.
And this is what is trending on Wednesday afternoon, March twelfth.
(01:14):
Got a spending bill coming out.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, there's an Yeah, so basically to avert the shutdown
right now as it stands, Republicans pass their continuing resolution.
Basically they're getting the Republicans have able to keep the
bill that pass that keeps the government funding. They passed
that in the House, all the all the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
For what the government funding. I can't stop, Like my
brain is just stuck on that ship. Now, that's it's
gonna be a real problem for.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Me doing it in public enough and people go, you
hear that white bue singer reggae like that will probably
help weird voice or make you double down harder, And
you're like, how come a white man con sinc reggae?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I've been saying this, Miles.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, Adam, No, Adrian, yeah, Adrian. But anyway, now, so
it's now passed the House. It's up to the Senate
to pass this. The thing is, they need sixty votes
for this shit to pass in the House and in
the Senate, and right now there's talks of Chuck Schumer
getting the fucking votes together to pass this thing to
keep the government funded because they don't they don't want
to have a shutdown and having us be blamed. So
(02:21):
just so we're clear, this bill that they passed, there's
nothing fucking like as they say, it's a clean bill.
There was bipartisan because maybe one fucking Democrat who's so
lost voted on it. It's gonna slash spending. It's gonna
cut fucking Social Security staffing, emergency food assistance. It's like,
it's gonna allow Trump to just redirect funds however the
(02:42):
fuck he likes. So for everything you think it's gonna
keep the government funded, this asshole can just be like, nah,
I don't really want to fund it that way.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I don't understand what they think they gain from
being like, well, we're not gonna we don't want any
part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't want the finger pointed us pointed at us
when the government shuts down. Fucker, the finger is going
to be pointed at y'all because you are a party
to this nonsense that the Republicans are doing. That's what
the fucking issue is here. And it's even wild to
to have other Democrats and stuff out here being like,
do not fucking vote on this thing, you losers. This
is Ted Lou saying to the Tenate Democrats please be
(03:19):
fucking for real for once. This is not some shit
that we need to keep this shit going.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
This is Ted Lou.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
House Democrats are very clear. We're asking Senate Democrats to
vote no on this cutering resolution, which is not clean
and it makes cuts across the board, and it's gonna
be one of those things where people are going to
look at this vote and every bad thing that now
happens with Doge and Donald Trumpy lammas, they can go
back to this vote. So we're asking Democrats to vote no.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, pretty easy. I mean, what's the fucking point. The
government is basically being shut down in front of our eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, already they're dismantling the government and I guess just
is you signing off on that?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And the only benefit to Democrats right now is like
with John Fetterman, like I would never shut down the government,
blah blah blah blah blah. This is not the fucking
So all this is being done is because they are
very worried about their own re election chances. So they
just don't like the label of getting having the government
shut down. There they're not standing up for a fucking anything.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So yeah, again, with the majority of the population behind them,
they it comes down to a game of chicken, and
they're like, actually, we're not even going to get in
the car. We're because like we know, we are afraid
of car crashes. It so much of the Democrats problem
(04:38):
comes back to just their main ethos being I don't
want to get in trouble, like I don't want people
to be mad at me like that that is institutionally
gonna they are. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I hope you'll all y'all get primary for this, nons,
it's just get I mean again, keep again, but you
know what, keep revealing to people that you are actually
have no ability to help or protect them American people
that you are. You are one and the same with
the Republicans in terms of basically saying, we're fine with
this kleptocracy we have and let's just maybe something they're
just I don't know if like maybe deep down the
(05:11):
Democrats like maybe something easy will happen that'll make it
a lot easier for us rather than fucking fighting. Right,
But you're going up against the softest, fucking scared Republicans ever.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's just even like, yeah, they're so addicted to triangulation
that they just like haven't been able to so addicted
to triangulation that they can't give it up. They just
can't give it up. This is why it's so nice
to hear from Bill Burr every once in a while. Uh,
just continues to be on a heater. Went on uh
(05:46):
fresh Air with Terry Gross, who's kind of I haven't
listened to Fresh Air in a while, but he was like,
you know, talking about these fucks who are eating almonds
and competing to have like the biggest infinity pool, who
are like making life miserable for everybody else and getting
away with it. Terry Gross was like, and who besides
(06:07):
almond eaters are you talking about. It's like, wait, I
don't think he was specifically saying like anyone who eats
almonds are bad? Uh? And then he just like goes
off on Elon Musk in a way that's really funny
and just feels like, I don't know if one politician,
one Democratic politician, just tried to talk like that, I
feel like they might recognize how people are actually feeling
(06:31):
right now. Hyeah also went off on the shitty quality
of Jordan's on a complexy.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think it's look, he's he's he's got our he's
got our vote, I guess, but yeah, it just shows
immediate Like there was a thing I saw in New
York mag that was like why AOC and Bernie just
are doing so much. They are so much better at
this than the Democrats, and it was kind of like
sort of not really saying the most obvious part is
that they're not fully like beholden to a capitalism as
(07:01):
the reason why, Like they're able to speak critically of
it because they don't think it's the fucking undergirding of
all that is great in this country. They're like, no,
there's actually this cause of all of our pain. And
they're like, yeah, well, other people struggle. They they've found
a way that they also have been idiologically consistent. It's like,
just talk about what the problem is. Like they're actually
(07:22):
speaking to the fucking problem, which is all of this inequality,
and they're able to point a direct finger out this
financial system that anyway. So there's a lot of what
is different what can be done differently, And the problem
is these people they're there to protect the status quo,
so of course they have no idea how to talk
shit about it or talk about it critically because they're
(07:44):
in office to protect it and nothing else. And they've
been rewarded because they are so dedicated to protecting the
status quo and twisting their mind into the weirdest shapes
to be Like, actually, I'm doing a good thing for
working people by bailing out Wall Street. I'm doing a
good thing for people by getting real mealy mouthed and
(08:04):
inconsistent on what human rights are or what like what
police brutality is anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So I'm doing a good thing for working people with
this massive spending thing that is actually funded by private
equity and will retrain you to be data entry.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And I'm also doing great because I'm having Steve Bannon
on my fucking podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yes some Jesus Christ again again with the triangulation, like
this is just this is who like they are. It
truly is just the only thing they're capable of. It's
like asking people to have you ever seen like the
footage of pigeons in zero gravity, Like they took animals
(08:47):
up into zero gravity in space shuttles, almost seemingly just
to fuck with them, and like they just like don't
don't know what's true.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's fun lying around.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They're like, yeah, exactly, experiment and they just look so
weird and confused, like trying to fly, but like they're
just like kind of floating their entire reason for existence,
their entire like moral universe like functional, like universe is
oriented in this one direction, and when you ask them
to change it, they just like they're like, Okay, yeah,
(09:18):
we'll change it. I'm gonna be Joe Rogan of the
left and I'm gonna have Steve Bannon on my right
because yeah, because the only thing you can do is triangulate.
That's the only that's they can't do anything. Took so
mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
To be like, how do you popularize left oriented politics
for the masses? That's what they meant by Joe Rogan
of the left, rather than will you have the same
guess as Joe Rogan on your podcast but you're.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
On the left.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, I have Nazis on too. I
have science denials on my podcast too, right, And my.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Whole is that I just like, think they're pretty cool,
think they're neat, and I'm going to tell them that
I perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
These pigeons are fucking confused.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Flapping pigeons and zero gravity. Zero gravity pigeons is what
the Democratic Party is right now. They're just they don't
know which way is up. I mean, they know which
way they're supposed to think is.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
This is why more people just need to start trolling
these people and just primary them like regular people, just
to fucking make them waste their money, because like, if
you say something even remotely normal, I just have a
feeling people's appetites are fucking up there are pretty intense
for something that is anything other than well, you know,
(10:40):
the Republicans are just maneuvering in a way that's making
it very difficult just say it for what it is.
These people want are actively destroying just any semblance of
what America used to be. And you're just basically there
being like, oh okay, yeah, yeah, that sounds good. I guess
I'll kind of I won't sit at the same table,
but I'll definitely dine in the restaurant the same restaurant
(11:00):
as them.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Right, all right, uh so, we we've talked on the
past couple episodes about the arrest and attempted deportation of
Mark Moose, and uh so there's still we don't have
as of this recording, still hasn't been charged with a crime.
(11:22):
Still his lawyers still can't contact him. Yeat again, Green
car Like he's married to an American citizen, he's fully
an American.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Citizen months pregnant by the way.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Eight months pregnant American citizen. Uh and you know, just
taken away from his family. They're going to try and
deport him because he led the protests. So just like
they're you know, openly trying to deport him for saying
things that they didn't like.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Wrong thing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So yeah, yeah, one one thing in particular for some reason.
But I just so at Columbia University, I just wanted
to read this New York Times article. Those at the
top of the front page of the New York Times.
Days after immigration officers arrested a prominent pro Palestinian campus activist,
administrators at Columbia University gathered students and faculty from the
(12:13):
Journalism School and issued a warning. A warning. Okay, yeah,
so I'm maybe expecting if I'm a student at the
journalism school, I'm expecting, you know, a speech of like, look, guys,
like this is obviously very scary, but you have the
institutional power of like one of the most respected journalism
schools at you're back. Students who were not US citizens
(12:37):
were told they should avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine
and protests related to their former classmates. Arrest urged Stuart
carl A First Amendment lawyer and specifically said, like, you
guys only have two months before graduation, Like, don't fuck
this up to be bad for your career. If you
have a social media page, make sure it is not
(12:59):
filled with and terry on the Middle East, he told
the gathering in Pulter Hall. When a Palestinian student objected,
the journalism school's dean, Jelani Cobb, was more direct about
the school's inability to defend international students from federal prosecution.
Nobody can protect you, mister Cobb said, these are dangerous times.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's maybe what they should have set up top. Yeah, yeah,
just I don't even know. They're like, look, nobody can
protect you a because we don't have the fucking spine
for it. And also be like, these motherfuckers are just
doing whatever the fuck they want, so truly, I don't
know what the fuck we can do. And yes, you're right,
these are dangerous times you are.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Having pease, are dangerous times, which I'm sure everybody is
aware of.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, whisked away by the White House's secret police Ice. Now,
who's just using their fucking weird ass jurisdiction to terrorize
these people who are not United States citizens and completely
try and put a nice chill on our ability to
organize and protest in a time when it's probably going
to be one of the few at this point still
(14:04):
somewhat guaranteed rights that will help us, you know, potentially
navigate whatever this fucking new regime is.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But yeah, it's just half YI. We don't have your back.
Nobody can protect you. You're on your own. Get right
with Trump and Jesus or get fucked. Thank you for
coming to this meeting.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just do that and just like
just nuke your accounts, man, Just don't. Oh, it's real
bad out there. Yeah, I mean, at least they're kind
of telling the truth now where they're.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Like, we're not gonna we can't fuck we can't do shit.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We're not doing shit.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All right, we're not doing and doing shit. Let's take
a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
We're back, And wanted to shout out four or four Media.
First of all, met a couple of people who work
(15:00):
there are really cool. So, like Wikipedia has is, you know,
still one of the last good things that hasn't been
completely ruined on the Internet. One place that they're lacking
A little bit that you might have noticed is that
the photos they have of people look like shit. Like
(15:22):
when you go to somebody's Wikipedia page, like they're they
like Scott Beao's page is Scott is all fucked up,
Scott BeO in nineteen eighty five being shot from like
across like his prom like I don't I don't know,
so like everything's like blurry. And the reason is because
(15:43):
Wikipedia editors like just have to find public domain photos,
and when it comes to like famous people, it's it's
hard to find that because there's such a huge industry
of people trying to make money off of uh, off
of their product, off of their image. And so a
few years ago, like this group got together and was
(16:05):
like we're just gonna like make it so that we
can like have good pictures of celebrities. And so they
started in the eighties. Yeah, yeah, So they started like
going like getting press credentials where they could a lot
of times, like the media event will be like, we
don't really consider you guys to be a media really,
even though their circulation or like that their reach is
(16:29):
like billions and billions of people every month and yours
is like you're giving access to like zines that have
like dozens of people. But yeah, so they basically kind
of pro bono. I think they like put together a
little like group and like a little bit of funding
to like go and take these pictures. And there's just
this one interaction with Jeremy Strong that may like kind
(16:52):
of highlights what I'm talking about, where it's just like,
oh yeah, it's just a person an uncomplicated way that
someone's like this thing should be better. I'm going to
do something about it, and gets tangible results despite that
not being how things work anymore. The article says, since
last January, Wiki Portraits photographers have covered around ten global
(17:14):
festivals and a word ceremonies and taken nearly five thousand
freely licensed photos of celebrity attendees, and the celebrity attendees
are often quite excited about it. Dixit, for example, found
Jeremy Strong of Succession at a New York showing of
The New Apprentice and as to take a new headshot
of him for Wikipedia. His publicist said no, dix had said,
(17:36):
but Jeremy said, wait, you're from Wikipedia. For the love
of God, please take down that photo. You'd be doing
me a service. So he stood and posed and I
got a shot of him. Strong's old photo was from
twenty fourteen, so it was ten years old. Yeah, but
that's just like, that's such a clear Yeah, there's so
many people in the way who are like trying to
be like, no, we have to protect this image so
(17:58):
that the maximum number of people can make the maximum
amount of money off of right, and not even like
doing the base the most basic fucking job of a publicist,
which is.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
To think about what your public image is. And you're like, yeah, bro,
let that fucking eleven year photo cook on Wikipedia of you,
so when they look you up, they're like, oh, he's
still wearing fadoras.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, exactly, Like that is a bad thing. Every publicist
should be trying to get a better picture of their
client on Wikipedia, and instead they're just, you know, willing
to go along and be complicit with a system that
is just maximizing as much profit as they possibly can
from the system as it exists.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I do like this Instagram page. It's like all the
bad Wikipedia photos. There's one of this footballer, Kyle Bartley.
He used to play for Arsenal as a youth player,
but like the photo of his is like a dude's
like fingers scraping his mouth and nose midaction.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It just has a hand in his face.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's so stupid. But yeah, just again, I think they
don't realize, too publicist, most people's first foray into understanding
your client is probably a Wikipedia page.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, to be like very first, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let me get that ten thousand foot view of this person.
I do that shit all the time. If I don't
know somebody is, I'm I'm first, I'll pull up the
Wikipedia and then don't realize that the first page that
they're gonna see, the first photo they're gonna see. Damn
the Perusa Balk photo they have her. Don't do Ferusa
Balk like that? She has so many better photos than
the one they put on her page.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh yeahs Balk is cool. Yeah, there's true. I mean
some of thes seem like they were put there by
people who were mad at them.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, or like you dropped a publicist and they go
to Wikipedia like, oh, actually have a license free photo
you can put up of this person.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
This one, the more you're fucked.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Up one you've ever seen of them? But yeah, it's
just again, Yeah, to your point, they they'll prioritize vanity
fair over the thing that most people are seeing their
client on.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Chapel Rone should fire her publicist for the Wikipedia photo
that's up there.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's just like they got a about probably is it
like ten years ago, Chapelone.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
It's not even that old, but it just like doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, it's like so not her vibe. She's sitting like
with sitting. It looks like she's at a like comic
con panel where she's like, you know, answering questions about
her uh you know book that she wrote about Star
Trek the Next Generation and Marxism or something. Chapelone, Chapelone,
(20:26):
you know. And I did need to go to Wikipedia
to find out who Chapelone was at a certain point,
not too many if you go.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
To her Wikipedia find out that her uncle is a
Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wow, they got all that in there. Damn all right?
Are you sleep maxing? Miles? Am I sleep maxing?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Was that talks? This is talk soup maxing? You're scent maxing?
What is that?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's what you're putting on? I'm like criminal amounts of
cologne and axe bodies because they're maxing. It's like, bro,
I want I want your eyes to water from the
chemical reaction your brain is having from being in the
presence of my own.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The trend doesn't even really seem to be sleep maxing
so much as just like insert anything maxing and now
that I'm like, Okay, this is how I optimize, that's
how I get on my grind set about getting enough sleep.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's funny like gen Z, they're what like billionaires are
to quote, reinventing things or inventing new things. Is kind
of how gen Z or younger people just describe things
that have already existed, but with like a new phrase,
like like just like the whole quiet quitting. It's like, yeah, bro,
we've not been giving a fuck at our jobs for
a while. That's not that's not anything new. But again,
(21:42):
I like the succinct nature of the new phrase. So
sleep maxing is what you just sleep as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's not sleeping as much as possible. It's like optimizing
sleep with like a bunch of different bedtime routines. And
I didn't find anything that I wasn't really familiar with, but.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yes, try try the crippling weight of existence on your
shoulders all day, and the first thing you want is
to slip away into the darkness of sleep to give
you a reprieve from the hell that is your day
to day realities.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Forget the This is from the CNN article on sleep maxing.
Forget the simple bedtime routine of brushing your teeth, washing
your face, and putting on pajamas. I mean that is
about pajamas. I do doffing your nightcap now, yeah, exactly,
holding a candle up in the candle holder and asking
a dark hallway who goes there? Now? People in search
(22:36):
of the perfect sleep routine are adding steps that can
include supplements, specific foods. I don't think you're supposed to
eat before right before bed. It's not sleep maxing in
my book, certain apps and other devices, and a layered
beauty routine. I don't know that for some this is
called sleep maxing.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I like one is some Some sleep baxing tips are
evidence based. Other hacks may or may not work.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Mean I've like on my I got an Apple watch
that has because my one burned in the fire. But
the new one I got has a new sleep function,
like where it does like sleep analysis, and I thought
maybe that I don't even know what to do with
all that data. I'm like, yeah, I slept during that time?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
What to see? Like yeah, oh, should I need to.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Start optimizing based on all this data.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm such a bummer when you get you think you
got a good night sleep and then your sleep data
is like they're like kind of actually fucked up. Man, Yeah,
you actually blew it last night. You kind of sucked
from the mini bar. Oh my god, wellness check mini
bar wellness the first non alcohol related mini bar. Wellness
(23:45):
check is what I achieved, Like, did you track all
of that? Yeah? Has just did you eat all those snacks? Maneah?
You good.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Usually when we see when usually when we see a
spike in that kind of activity the mini bar, it's
because someone has like fallen over and they can't get
up and they've knocked it all down. They're thrashing and
they're finally.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Last time we saw a spike like that was at
an earthquake knocked everything off the mini bar. Anyways, I'm good.
Things are good. I feel great. I feel great. Those
are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday,
March twelfth. We are back tomorrow with the Who last
episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
(24:24):
be kind to yourselves, get your vaccines. Why you still
can't get your flu shot? While you still can, don't
do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to
you all tomorrow. Bye, Bar
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