Dog Pawrade > Filibuster, The Barbz Are BOTTING?! 02.27.26

In episode 2014, Miles and guest co-host Mort Burke are joined by hosts of Text Me Back, Lindy West & Meagan Hatcher-Mays, to discuss… Thune Filibuster Dog Parade, Tampa Airport Has Lost The Plot, Nicki Minaj MAGA Psy-Op? And more!

1. Thune Filibuster Dog Parade
2. Tampa Airport Has Lost The Plot
3. INAUTHENTIC AMPLIFICATION OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE ON NICKI MINAJ’S X ACCOUNT

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Is that your matching tattoo? Right there, Megan, right there?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, we have a match Lindy and I have.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
I saw your posts on Instagram. Got the matching tattoos.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, we're really serious about our podcast about.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hell yeah, how do you convince your co host to
get a podcast or a podcast tattoo? Because Jack never
wants to get the Calvin and Hobbes tattoo I want
to get.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I hate that for you guys because it's so cute
and it's so nice. But also, Lindy and I have
been best friends since high school, so and I think,
you know, so we're like we're already in pretty deep,
you know what I mean, friendship.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's probably the thing I should put ahead.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm going to talk to Jack about for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Although we were friends in high school.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
What the hell?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I do want to say that it does say the
name of our podcast, and we did do it as
a stunt to grow our Patreon. We were like, if
you subscribe to the Patreon, you can pick our tattoo. Yeah,
so actually we are very committed to podcasting. Yeah, yes,
but we then they we rejected anything ugly that they suggested.
We kind of we kind of gamed.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
They were able to vote on what.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
They submitted drawings and stuff. But then we cooked the
books and were the one that one. I was like,
I just don't I'm not getting a tattooed of that.
They open, Okay, yes, we told them it was really
it was a good drawing. That was really it was
really fun. It was like a drawing of Sasquatch and
it was. It was great. No complaints. Yeah, it's just

(01:41):
that I didn't want a tattoo of it. So we
got the best the best friend Locketts, except it spells
out our podcast best press.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I love that you guys rat fucked the democratic process
there and vote on your favorite ones.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Look, if Donald Trump can do it, I can't to
moderately successful podcasters do it. You know, time ahead, your time.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I've been trying.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
I've turned trying to get Miles to get the guy
whispering into George Bush's ear about nine to eleven, and
then I have George Bush on my arms.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yes, tattoo.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, that's a good one, you know sweet right on
nine to eleven?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Your best friends?

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Were we ever that? Of course we're close that day?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, we all were. We all were one of
my one of my best friends since preschool. His birthday
is nine to eleven, and I remember that day in
high school because we're all.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Like, WHOA, your birthday's permanently ruined?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Would you do? It? Wasn't appropriate at the time and
not now. Oh hello everybody, and welcome to Season four,
twenty seven, Episode five of The Daily's like Geist production
of Our heartrateed This the podcast where we take a
deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news.

(02:59):
All So, if you've been living under a rock and
you're not one of the day one zechgang who listen
to all the episodes, we do have a new history
version of the episodes we do on Monday, dropping every
Monday morning to do a deep dive into, you know,
some kind of icon and try to understand the zeitgeist.
Do different icons. So we've done Tony Hawk, We've done
Sherlock Holmes, We've done Tupac Shakur, We've done let's see

(03:24):
who else, we got Dolly Parton, Marilyn Monroe, Santa Claus.
We're gonna have some upcoming ones that are gonna blow
your mind. And I want to tease when we're gonna
do a Lisa Frank episode eventually. Get ready for that one? Yeah, yeah,
yes you can trap or Keeper World, Hell yeah, bro,
and the people who are on acid and looking at

(03:45):
those things being like, yo, what if a dolphin was
purple and pink? Anyway, it is Friday?

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Whoa hey, yeah, sounds.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
That feels good to say. It's Friday, February twenty seven.
That means it's hook hmon day. Let's see National Retro Day.
I don't know what that means, National Polar bear Day,
National strawberry Day, and shout out Kolua because it's your day.
I'm sure you didn't pay to get on a national
calendar as a marketing thing, but hey, yet again, here

(04:17):
you are on the national calendar. My name is Miles
great Aka. I learn yes and from Kevin Sorbo paid
sixteen hundred to him and Dean Kaine. I only got
one hour with old hercules, And what the fuck this

(04:41):
museum's awake? Oh, what the fuck this museum's awake. Okay,
shout out to Trey Gang on the discord. People don't
realize and our guests surely don't know that Kevin Sorbo
and Dean Kane have a new Jesus movie coming out
called Night at the Bible Museum.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
No Yes, never Living Ye, get Away from Me and.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
So, but to cast children as background, the production company
has set up a film camp during the weekend we're shooting,
where people can send their kids there for sixteen hundred
dollars to learn the film experience but really just be
extras in the back. And I keep this, this is
the funniest shit to me. On this schedule, they see

(05:22):
like this is what the campers will get. There's like
a daily one hour of improv with Kevin Sorel.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Sending my children to Kevin Zorbos feels like I would
be putting them into a wood chipper. That sounds oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Is that how they're financing the movie with the sixteen
hundred dollars of the parents financing.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I know you haven't introduced us yet, so we're two
mysterious voices. Can I say something at the museum. I
think people probably know this, but the Museum of the
Bible is like primarily funded by the same freaks whose
own hobby lobby yeah yeah, who were also found to
be stealing antiquities from Iran and put them on display
at the Museum of the Bible and they had to

(06:05):
return them in like in shame, although I doubt they
were ashamed. So it's like, what else there was anything
they were I learned about there, like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
They were probably be like we got burned by that
antiquities dealer. Now we're going to give this ship back
because they also got in trouble for claiming they had
parts of the Dead Sea scrolls and people like, yeah,
shit is on printer paper.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Still I still believe it, though I'm sending your child
to Little Grifter Camp to fund a film. Wow, I'm obsessed.
Is there an age limit on.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
The fourteen to eighteen fourteen?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Do they look at your birth certificate or some of us?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I know, I've said this so many times, and like
I need to infilt I just need to see what
the Kevin Sorbo improvs. I'm losing my mind because the
bit I've just been doing is like he enters every
scene just being like, well, what the fuck is this?
And it goes nowhere because everything stinks like shit or
something thing.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Has Kevin Sorbo ever told a joke?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, yeah, probably when he states his.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Value career nailed it.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Is he trained an improv I mean specific skill set.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
He I did it. I while we were talking about this,
I found an interview where he mentioned improv. And it's
because like one of his co hosts on Hercules, who
played aries this like New Zealander Australian actor, was like, hey,
come down to hang out with me, and he saw
him do improv. And Kevin Sorbo was like he did
sports theater or theater sports and it was really captivating,

(07:36):
and You're like, Jesus Choo Christ, there's no fucking way
this guy knows proper improv and I want to go anyway.
I'm thrilled to be joined by my co host today,
look one of the greats, one of our favorite people
to have on the show, a comedian, an actual improviser
I've done okay, podcast host uh and skateboarder. Please welcome

(07:57):
to the Mike mort Burke.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Every buddy, Thanks Miles, gonna see you guys. Don't We're
still We're still mysterious.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Cool dude, they're disembodied voices. Now. Our guests today have
a fantastic podcast because they are literal, legitimate best friends.
If the show was called Text Me Back. One is
an expert on democracy, the judiciary. The other a fantastic writer,

(08:30):
a fantastic podcast host. You might know their work. I
don't know you ever heard of shrill? Heard of it? Yeah?
You ever heard about the Witches are coming? Maybe because
they might be. Please welcome to the microphone, the brilliant
and talented Megan's amazing Lindy.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, wow, that was such a nice intro. I feel
like I have to take all that expert stuff out
of my bio. It really gasses me.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
But you are, I hope you're not claiming expert.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, no, I really I know. No. My day job
is really that depressing. So yeah, yeah it's really great.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh yeah, well look I'm sure, especially looking at it
through like the lens of the judiciary, you're like.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, really, it rocks so much.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
My favorite was when the Supreme Court was like, no,
for sure, the president can commit crimes. We like him,
and in fact, you cannot hold him criminally liable for
all of his crimes. Commit murder if he wants to
have a good one.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, all right, later, have a good summer.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah it's June thirtieth. Have a good summer. We're going
on Vaca, which is paid for by a white crystal
fascist billionaire.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Hey, guys, see at the grove. Huh, he'll be here
till you die. Okay, Harlan Crow's got some really cool
Nazi stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Hey, hey, he just is a fan of history.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, and I think what he said. He it's he
wants to unburden him from his wealth by buying these things.
There's such an odd description of saying like I'm a
I'm a Nazi boy.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Every time I come into a bit of money. The
first thing I punched into the eBay search, you.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Know, bar is not youth jagger.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I type anything with swastika. I just say a
lot of swastika question mark, and I just whatever you got,
I'm buying, because what are we gonna do with this
million dollars?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
God? I mean they were designed by Hugo Boss. There's
there's a fashionista you know, just shoot me. Well, it's
great to have you both on the show. We're obviously
going to get to know a little bit about you
when we do our overrate underrated search industry. But we
got to tell the people what we're up to today. First,
we're going to talk about, Hey, Salmon leader Thom just said, hey,

(10:55):
we're not maybe the filibuster ain't gonna happen, and so
maybe we're not going to save America with the save.
Maybe we'll see. I'm kind of hopeful he's been somewhat
consistent on that, but we'll see where he actually nets out.
Because it's also funny that while he's saying we don't
have time to do anything, there was something that happened
on the Hill yesterday that clearly they did have time
for that had nothing to do with voting. Then we
got to talk about the Tampa airport. They have lost

(11:17):
the fucking plot and have just become some weird like
Maga troll account, which is really dumb. We'll even probably
get to Nicki Minaj being was she like a Magasaya? Now,
what's what's going on? Because there's an analysis that was
done by Politico that says, oh, yeah, they've boughten. There's
a lot of bots there. We haven't seen bot activity
like distance. I don't know our elections usually, but it's

(11:39):
all around Nicki Minaj, And then talk about AMC theaters.
We're a lover of films because in a place like
this heartbreak, it.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Feels I can't remember it.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Oh god, I've never yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's okay,
it's okay, it's okay. I didn't mean. I shouldn't have
done that. I should have actually.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Checked it every I want to apologize to Nicole and
every gay man I know. I thank you for calling
me in. I'll be working on it. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
So you're not watching heat a rivalry and you can't
do an alley You finished the sentence of a Nicole
Kidman iconic line.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm losing my ally status.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
You are not the moment.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, this isn't doing. You're not painting, you're not covering
yourself in glorious.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yes, this is a gotcha podcast here.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah yeah, well you and you watched me real bad.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh I've got a whole DOSSI yeah, really push you
to the sword later. But yeah, we'll talk about AMC's
like new fucking system of selling tickets that's just putting
people off further. But before all that, Lindy Megan, we
got to ask, what's something from your search history?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
This is real from this morning.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Because I sometimes when I have a lot to do,
I'm very stressed, like today, I like to wake up
and immediately start watching Traders on television and not doing
any of my work, and so I don't know if
you watch Traders. But this morning I googled is the
is this Alan Cummings real castle?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
It's not. It's not. No, of course it's not. He's
not quite that stacked.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
He might be, I don't know, but they why would
he invite these these into his home?

Speaker 1 (13:22):
But I think that's the fun that like an accent,
like a European accent has on Americans. You're like, yeah,
it's probably his castle. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, he says it's his castle in every episode, but
is that.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Not the whole point of the UK is that the
least the person you'd least expect owns an ancient British manner.
It's not that weird, you know what I mean? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, I will say Alan is a great porn star name.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh yeah, and the way singular yeah, because the way
he says it with that Scott it's Alan. You're like, oh, ship, okay,
flavor patrol.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
You know, I Betty's never heard that before. I right,
brand new.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
He's like, I was going to change my name to
Alan Conrad. No, it would have never worked, Megan, how
about you.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
What's Mine is just a little bit of a journey
through my emotional state. On Sunday, the last day of
the Olympics, and it was the US versus Canada men's
hockey final. I'm I'm not a big hockey watcher, although
I'm really excited because Lindy and my hometown Seattle got
a p w h L, which is the new Women's

(14:35):
Professional Hockey League, the Seattle Torrent and the captain for
the US team, Hillary Night, plays yet so I'm really Coxcity.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
She had a great comment after the y.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, just yesterday. She was like, now I have to
sit here and take responsibility for somebody else's actions, and
that's like not. I was like, yes, sister, yeah, you
tell them. So I went to go buy her jersey
sold out and I love to see that. But that's
not what my search history says. My search history is
men's hockey start, then cooking question fighting aloud in Olympics,

(15:09):
and then I went for that, which it's not, and
yet they kept doing it, so I guess fighting aloud
in Olympics period. Then I went I took my dogs
for a walk because I was getting stressed because despite
me not really following hockey or caring that much about it.
I nevertheless picked a guy I wanted to win, and
then it was stressful, and then I was into deep immediately.

(15:31):
You have a you have a rabid competitive spirit, yes,
and it kicks in instantaneously, like it could be like
the Nuggets versus the Rockets or something if I just
I don't know, off handedly, like, oh I hope Denver wins. Oh,
it's over for me because if Denver loses, like now,
now my reputations on the line.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Are you Denver sports fan?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, I'm from Seattle, but they just might team away,
So I kind of don't acknowledge. Yes, I acknowledged that
m NBA until I get my team back. Anyways, So
I went for a walk and then my searches on
my walk were US men's hockey team score, US men's
hockey team score, US men's hockey team score score, like

(16:16):
a lot of refreshing. Then I get home and I
stopped googling, and then uh, and then we won. And
then I googled Jack Hugh's teeth because I noticed that
he was bleeding out of his mouth. But I had
missed that he had lost them in that game. And
I was like, Jack Hughes, teeth lost today, question answer yes.
And then it starts kind of falling apart for me

(16:36):
because I started seeing a lot of chatter online about
these guys on our team. It turns out some of
them aren't so good. I'm like Katchick Brothers, Oh yeah,
Katchak Brothers, Maga, Katchack Brothers, Anti trans commissioned, Donald Trump,
question mark, Wayne Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky, Maga, And I think
we all know where my searching ended up. It all

(16:59):
fell apart. I was. I went from I've never turned
so fast on a team that I was excited about
than I did with the men's hockey team. I was
really excited the Jack Hughes, the Hughes brothers, I thought
had a good story because their mom is one of
the coaches for the women's team. And I was like, wow,
it seems like a couple of good guys. And then
they're like, nope, I want to go to a strip

(17:19):
club in Miami. And then after that, I want to
eat cold with our freak president.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
And did the women's teem hang out with Stanley Tucci?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes, the women's team got to have a lovely Italian
deal with Stanley Tucci and Champagne supplied by Megan v Stallion,
our nation's top Megan one. Yeah, you know what I'm
saying for me? Yeah, how far her story is fallen?
You know?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh man, it's funny too because I remember when their dad,
Keith Katchick, was playing.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I was like, I remember seeing I used to play hockey,
but I've completely checked out from checking it with like
the NHL, and I'm like, is Keith Katchicks still playing?
And I was like, no, it's fucker fifty five or whatever.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, he's got two scumbag sons. Now.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Jerseys are dope at are they good looking? Such a
good color scheme, like the emerald green blue with the cream.
Oh good, Catch me at Dick's driving rocking this ship cut.
I'll always give it up to Dix because they got
the best fucking fries in the game, and I really do.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's crazy what they do to those French fries.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Floppy, I like, I don't like them too crispy. I
like the way they do them at Dick's.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
And they keep the skins on as well. I don't.
I don't care for any of that but.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, I definitely go a Crispy fry over a floppy.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, it's an acquired taste, but I like, hey, I
you know, Dick's obviously great sattle company hometown heroes, so
I like, I do like to teach the controversy. I
appreciate that some people like the Dicks fries. Personally, I
like a Crispy fry. The Dicks fries are floppy, brown
and just saturated in oil. But I do like a

(18:59):
Dix Burger.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, they're all good. They're all good, They're all good.
I think the floppy fry is definitely not a popular choice.
Most people like crispy, so whenever I go in, the
default is floppo. Oh maybe it's rue for the underdog.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
So I support you.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's fine, that's fine. You don't have to look no
I do. We don't have to like with each other.
Like you know, Megan cannot watch heated Rivalry and it's okay.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Literally the first person who said that, thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I'm just trying to make bring something relevant up, Megan.
What's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Okay? What I think is underrated is sorry? Can I
start with overrated because mine is it's funnier the other way, right.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, Okay, let's let's mess with the form. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Overrated prestige television. Okay, don't make me sit around watching
freaking succession. I don't want to do that. I don't
want to watch the bear and be stressed out by
the yelling and the you know, the emotional violence that

(20:03):
we're committing upon in the sake for the sake of comedy.
They say, you know, laugh riot, Yeah, wow, I do.
Surely do love to laugh as people scream over sandwiches.
It's one of my top comedic When I'm doing improv
and someone says location, I say, at the sandwich shop.

(20:24):
You know, because what I think is underrated is slop
on TV. More slop, more stupid shit that gets thirty
eight seasons. You know what I mean. By the way,
when you started the show and you said this is
your four hundred and twenty seventh season, I said, yes, Yeah,
that's what I'm talking about this podcast.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
I want for deep on the show.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Hell yeah, this morning before you Oh god, everything, Every show,
even if it sucks, should have eighteen seasons as an
absolute minimum.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
You know what I mean? At this kind of slow.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay, we've talked about this on our show before it
Text me back podcast, check it out everywhere you get
your podcasts. Two best friends, Megan and Lundy, and that's
their way about to tattoos. Anyway, we talked about this
on my show. Here's another problem. I think this kind
of fits into my tendency to get too attached too quickly.
I watch a lot of television and I like to

(21:21):
watch it non.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Stop, like like a like a stretchy saltwater taffy, you
know what, and like I so, I like to immerse
myself in it and never leave.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
And so, unfortunately, the last time this happened to me,
I sat my ass down and watched like all thirteen
seasons of House. Wow. What a show. Yea, you know
it's a nightmare, but you know, the procedure is what
makes it comforting. Somebody gets sick, they try to guess
what it is, they're wrong, they figure it out, problem solved,

(21:55):
and wow, that's House baby and you and doctor House
MD gets a really high. It's sensational, just like yeah, wow,
we're twins. So the thing I love about this show
is I think it was considered a good TV show
at the time, which is crazy to me because it's

(22:16):
so bad. It's like really offensive. It was definitely like
the Obama era of like, oh, it's okay to make
racial jokes because we have a black president, Like thirty
Rock did that a lot, and The Office did it
a lot, and it's just something you have to understand
about the time. Turns out we were super wrong about
racial progress and those jokes aren't funny.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
He doesn't mean it.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, it doesn't mean it. Plus Obama's the freaking president.
Like how bad could it get? Get over it? You know,
But there's like so many like I don't know, there's
like one episode where a kid died because he was
inhaling termite poop. You know, there was like pigeons.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, okay, because I was just doing lines off to
you better.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Watch out because I can really fuck you up to stop.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
But he loves the stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh can we swear on the show?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
You want nice?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
And it just was so satisfying because every episode got
more and more insane, Like you know, at the at
the very end, you know, at some point House goes
to jail for I guess drugs or something, and then
he sort of yeah, finally and then after he's been
sort of like highly treating patients and like virtually abusing

(23:34):
all of them because he's really mean to everyone, especially
the women and the people of color. So he finally
goes to jail, which I guess is technically not illegal
to be a racist and misogynist, but anyways, yes, he
at one point he crashes his car into his beloved
girlfriend's home because he's like obsessed with her, and then

(23:54):
she's like, Okay, I'm going to bounce out of this,
and he's like, why would she leave. I'm it's like,
because you crashed your buick into her hall, Like what
are you talking about? Anyway, but at the very end
he like he goes to jail. He finally gets out
and he's on probation and so he can't commit any
crimes while he's on probation. And at a certain point
he somebody gives him like season tickets to is it

(24:18):
hockey related? I think it might be like somebody gives
them like season tickets to like Rangers or no, the Devils,
I guess is the New Jersey, and so he doesn't
want it. For whatever reason, he chucks them in the
toilet and flushes him down the toilet. Now, the old
plumbing of the hospital cannot abide that level of waste,

(24:38):
and so the pipes explode and drowned the MRI machine
and sewage water and like wet paper from the tickets,
and everyone's like, who did this? Who ruined the pipes
and the MRI machine? And it was you know, they
were able to figure out it was House because they
found the tickets, and they take give tickets to the police.

(25:01):
The police quote unquote finger print the tickets, which at
this point have been soaking in toilet water for five
What do you mean you finger printed?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Pull don't. Don't point out the plot holes, okay.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
And so they're like, we're going to have to take
you back to jail. House, And so this is a
spoiler for the whole series. So if you don't want
to listen, I guess pass. And by the way, this
finale did air like two thousand and nine, so but
still I want to be respectful, So House instead of
going back to jail for what is at most like

(25:40):
a level one misst amean level three miss but the least.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Misdemeanor depends on the damage depends.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's just like not anything, so Instead of going back
to jail, he fakes his own death in a warehouse
fire and goes on a motorcycle ride across the country
with his best friend. That's right, So that means they
can bring a baby, and that means they can bring
it back. And I hope they do because there's nothing
more sloppy and disgusting than Doctor House Empty. And I

(26:09):
can't get enough of it. And that is underrated and overrated.
Is trying to make me watch any show that's ever
been nominated for an Emmy That yeah boo, I mean
that's I to me that and I'll stop talking. But
to me, that's the worst part of television modern television,
streamer television is that you get one really good season

(26:30):
of something like like Lindy and I actually both just
finished Pluribus. Loved it. I loved it so much, and
I'm like, immediately Pluribus season two, question mark, and Vince
Gilligan's like, I have no idea. We haven't even started
writing it yet. It could be seven years before you
get season two of Pluribus. I'm like, buddy, yeah, the
pit was back in the lab immediately. They only made

(26:51):
me wait six months. And in this season, I had
to see a man's erect penis, and.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's doesn't worse This season of The Pit.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
I haven't watched it yet. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's where they're like, this is a death Duela.
What I do is this? I'm like.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
The Pit sometimes does a little bit of you know,
sort of like anachronistic wokeness. I guess or I'm not sure,
and sometimes like you get this with historical shows like
Frannie Fisher was always doing this too, like historical wokeness
where it would not have existed. Where they're like, by
the way, here's what here are the statistics on sexual assault,
as if any two er doctors would be having some

(27:35):
conversation about you or like black women are often under
underdiagnosed for x y Z mental illness or for x
y Z pain medication or whatever, and it's like, I'm
sure those conversations happen, but you are really I.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Feel like they did it. They did it subtly with
the woman who had sickle cell, Like I felt like
that was just like a patient came in and that
naturally comes up. They're like, yeah, I don't ever tell
this person they're not and pain when they're in panels like,
okay that, but this season it really feels like here's
a new concept that I will explain very painfully to you.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Lindy.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
What about you? What's some thing is underrated?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Okay, underrated? I'm going to say, free doos, free doos.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Okay, unless you're vegan, I think or you know you
have some sort of vegan No, they are. I'm saying like,
if there's some sort of restriction that drives I feel
like people are not going and picking up the free doos. Yeah,
and if you do, you will find that they rock

(28:40):
they dog feet yeah, which is uh fine, comforting selling
point Exactly, I feel like free doos and I'm.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
One of these people.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
By the way, I this is an accountability segment. I
am myself am not. I am not buying FreeDOS as
the stand, But then every.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Time I you're a big Dorito's girly, you're always blah
blah blah.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Oh yeah, I got I've got you know on my
resid for sure. But you were exactly, I'm guilty of
not buying a freedom.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Black me up.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
But yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Think that Fredo's every time one passes my lips and
I get a crunch. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is
one of God's finest creations. It's obviously great as an ingredient,
like if you want to put some on your chili,
But I just want to flag as underrated simply opening
a bag of fritos and eating them.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
You're on the record that I.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Am so so glad you brought that up. People are
not talking about that. Literally, you know, can I say
something crazy? You ever put some Frido's and some cottage cheese.
Lot of situation, it's own thing. You're both Yeah, I've
never heard of that. You never heard of it? Get
into it, really get involved. I could see it because.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
There's sort of there's almost like a spiciness to the
savory of of a frios.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
So salty, salty. Yeah, it's percent of my daily sodium.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Cool cheese going so good, so good.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
H Lindy, what do you think is something that is overrated?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Well, you're not gonna like this one. This is this
is this is a take so controversial. I've never uttered
it out loud before. I'm taking a big swing.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Overrated potato chip interesting, don't care for it. Wow, mort
is leaving the room.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
I might leave podcasting altogether. Oh, leaving the industry, but
I would listen.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Look, I'm open to to hear the explanation.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I mean, I'd like to hear this.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I'm just being told Lindy doesn't fuck with potato chips.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Potato chips.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Potato chips suffer from a cruel circumstance known as sitting
on the shelf next to the dorito's. Doritos are so superior,
like it's immeasurable. There is no metric, and uh.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I feel like it's not fair to the potato chip.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
And yet I am. I am not immune.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
I live in the world. And you know, it's interesting
because I feel like you kind of can't go wrong
with a dorito no matter what. But potato chips definitely
have a hierarchy, Like there's there is such a thing
as a bad potato chip. Look.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Look, a sour cream and onion great, A ruffle, sour
cream and chaddar great, like a crust see skin on
h First of all, plane potato chip, don't waste my
fucking time.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I like a salt and vinegar, but none of those.
I would never choose one of those over any dorrito.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know, I afraid even a freedom.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I love a regular ass chips something I know. I mean,
I like flavor. I love when they're homemade. Like if
there's a like we make our own chips, I'm like, fuck, yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Okay, you know what this is. Okay, you're right, you're right,
you know what. You know, what's the one exception that.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Proves the rule that I would choose over a dorito?
If a restaurant made me a potato chip and they
gave me an onion dip, Okay, then we're talking cheez Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
But you know, I think if I were to really
dial it in on on why I say this, a
potato chip never has a flavor powder and a dorito, babe,
they're getting.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
The flavor powder.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yeah, your hand is more than hand.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, exactly, it's like a second helping of you know.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
I also and that I know we have to move on,
but I also want to well, look, you sit down,
you sit down at a banquet table. You got a
pile of boiled potatoes, You got a pile of boiled corn.
Which one are you gonna eat?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Corn? Boiled potato? Yeah, I'm just like.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
I will say as as you're you're neglecting the French
fry when you belittle the potato.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Oh interesting, I'm not belittling the potato, that's but I
think let's I'm just stay focused.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
If we distill the chips to their essence, who has
a more delectable base?

Speaker 2 (33:56):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Well, unfortunately, we have to take a break right now. Yeah,
and and and like I said, I want toologize. I
need to apologize to our sponsor, Tim's Cascade Ship.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
When we talk about potato chips, we are never ever
defaming Tim's shout.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Out to the sponsor, Tim's Cascade Chips based in the state,
the great state of Washington. You'll hear more about them.
After this break. We'll be right back and we're back.
Big things happening on the hill as we just watch

(34:35):
democracy fall by the wayside, mid terms creep closer and closer.
Primary season is beginning, and there's been a lot of
emphasis from the Trump regime to pass the Save Act.
It's like trending on X every day because we're like,
we gotta we have to affect these elections in some
way because we're not going to win based off the merits.
So rat fuckery is on the menu fellas. Obviously we

(34:59):
talked about the bill. It's just designed to make it
harder to vote and presupposing that there's an issue with
fraudulent voting when they're in fact is not. But anyway,
the House passed its version and now it's waiting for
a vote in the Senate, and the pressure is mounting
on Senate Leader John Thune to nuke the filibuster so
this can pass with a simple majority. However, Dune has
been pretty consistent in saying that he's like, I don't

(35:23):
see her he's gonna do this, like it's not gonna happen.
He recently said he's like, we'll see if there's a
Democratic blockade, we will at least have them on record
for not wanting to have secure elections, which I think
will be good in the midterms. I'm like, oh, we
love them winning less vote to put things on the record,
don't we. I'm still very dubious that someone would have
would be so upstanding when they know that so much

(35:45):
hangs on the fact that they cannot have any kind
of free or fair election to really get the line over.
I mean, they see all the pollings like yikes, dot
com slash gop Are you seeing this? But we shall see.
There is a good this is, so take that with
a grain of salt. But the funny thing that people
are pointing out is that soon Thune said that with

(36:06):
the partial shutdown, the Senators don't really have time to
debate the Save Act. But on Wednesday on the Hill
they had time for their annual pawaraide where you get
your doggies out and do a little fucking dog dog
show at the Capitol. Here's what I just play because

(36:28):
you got Tom Tillis on a fucking like megaphone being like,
all right, who's our next doggie coming up?

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Dog and show? Oh that must be the West Virginia guys.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Baby dog. Yeah, yeah, that's baby dog in a literally
in a fucking wagon. They're cheering.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
It's it's so nice to be just reminded that all
these people are you forget that they're just old dorks.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, yeah, you know. You know, Lindy and I talked
about this. It would actually be very funny if it
wasn't destroying our ability to live freely, you know what
I mean, Like, because a lot of the stuff Trump
says is unfortunately hilarious. Yea, but it's he's evil yea,
no laughing aloud?

Speaker 1 (37:17):
You know this thing with like, where do you think
Foon's going to end up? With the filibuster?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I'll put my day job hat on. You know, it's
hard hard to say. I I here's the deal. And
I worked on the filibuster for a long time when
I was at working for Indivisible, this huge national grassroots organization.
Our stated position was Democrats should nuke the filibuster and
pass the Four the People Act, which would have made
it easier for people to vote. Fancy that, and restore

(37:48):
the Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme Court struck major
parts of in twenty thirteen. And then pretty much every
single case involving the Voting Rights Act since twenty thirteen
they have chipped and chipped away at it. And there's
another case, sorry, quick digression. Another case. It's called Louisiana v. KLA,
and that's about vote dilution in Louisiana. Basically, Louisiana was
required to draw a second majority black district, so two

(38:12):
out of six our majority black districts, because one third
of Louisiana's population is black, and a group of white
voters said, oh well, that's not fair because now you're
diluting our Caucasian vote and we should have more representation
than we're due. And the Supreme Court is really on
the precipice of agreeing with that sentiment. So that would

(38:33):
pretty much so they've already gotten rid of sections four
and five of the Voting Rights Act. The only provision
pretty much that remains that allows people to litigate voter
discrimination cases is section two. And that's what's that issue
in Louisiana v. KLA. And that's the provision that it's
almost certainly going to be murdered by John Roberts and
the rest of the MAGA justices on the Court. So

(38:55):
stay tuned. Should be a gas anyway. And while all
that's happening, I mean, you got it right on basically,
Republicans need to find a way to keep the House
this year because they're not going to win it on
the merits. Everything that they're doing is horrifyingly is horrifying,
and it's deeply unpopular even among white people, like yeah,

(39:20):
even oh boy, I didn't know you were going to
all my friends, which is like this dumb you know,
but a lot of people really didn't think he was
going to do this, and he is doing It's like
you grow, he straight up told you what he was
going to do. A lot of people didn't believe it,

(39:40):
and a lot of people just thought, well, he's a businessman,
he'll fix the economy, which is funny because he didn't
do that either anyway, So now they want to pass
Republicans in Congress want to pass this bill called the
Save Act, which would require Americans to show proof of
citizenship before they can vote, which is obviously a huge
barrier for millions of people who don't have a paper
birth certificate, don't have a passport, don't have a real

(40:04):
ID yet, which you're sure if you're in jail, and
by the way, you might be sitting at home thinking, oh, well,
I do have a I do have my birth certificate,
and exactly so, if you are a woman who changed
your name after you got married, this fouls your ship
up as well. So if this passes, women who have

(40:26):
their maiden names on their birth certificates are going to
have to jump through a lot of administrative hoops to
figure this out. Not to mention the fact that the
states are the ones who have to I would have
to implement these rules. If they pass, it'd be a
huge clusterfuck and be really expensive, and there's no money
attached to this. So basically it's telling a bunch of states, well,
figure it out, figure out who's a citizen and who's not.

(40:47):
And and by the way, you have to send your
voter rules to the Department of Justice too, which under
this probably there's probably no dj I would want having
my state's voter role, but especially not this one, not
especially not PANBONDI. So all that said, is John Thune
going to get rid of the filibuster to pass this?
I am often wrong, but I don't think he's going to.

(41:09):
And here's why Republicans don't really legislate that much. They
and they've already gotten rid of the filibuster for the
things they care about. So they already got rid of
the philibuster for judges who are regularly ruining our lives,
Supreme Court and lower court judges. And they don't need
a supermajority, they don't need to overcome the filibuster to
pass like tax stuff like tax cuts. And that's really

(41:32):
all they do is confirm judges and cut taxes for
rich people. So they already don't need the filibuster for
those two things. Would it be nice to suppress the
votes of millions of people across this country to improve
their chances of winning back the House? Yes, But if
Republicans get rid of the filibuster for legislation, that clears

(41:55):
the deck for Democrats to pass stuff without the filibuster
if slash when they ever regain a majority, because Democrats
are losers who didn't get rid of it last time.
Democrats do legislate, or they want to, they claim to
want to, and the stuff that they want to.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Pass Cinema man, and forget Joe Man, what am I
to do?

Speaker 2 (42:19):
So so like yeah, so so they do want to
pass up or they claim to say they say that
they want to, but they are too scared to get
rid of the philibusters. So really, in a weird way,
I kind of I wish he would. I wish John
Thune would, because then there's no argument for keeping it
or bringing it back or anything. We're already in a

(42:40):
place where Senate candidates Democratic senate candidates are pretty quickly
pillar read if they say they support keeping the legislative philibusters.
So that's good, that's good for us, that like people
really aren't running for office who are like, oh, I
love rules and I.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Want to keep all the rules, especially the really good
to have it.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
If Republicans break down this final thing that it's bad,
really bad. Yeah, And I don't want it to happen
in the short term, but in the long term, that
opens the door for like you know, Medicare for.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
All for the People Act, the Big If. That's the if.
That's like what's really troubling about It's like the if
of it all because you see a version where they're like, look,
a lot of us are creating exit positions for ourselves
financially right now. It's like just pillaging as much as
we can. So if the music stops, like we have
a way to just buy our way out of it. Maybe.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
But it's really hard to say what is going to
happen in this country. I'm speaking to you as though
the country will continue to exist.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Yeah, yeah, I want not to.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
I'm actually genuinely not sure what's going to happen. I
think that what Donald Trump has done just in the
last eighteen months is oh, I mean, it's unheard of,
and so much of the stuff that he's gotten, he's
just ditched. I fear will never come back. It's like,
it's really it's easy to get rid of it. It's
a lot harder to bring it back and then make
the case of the American people like, hey, we want

(44:00):
to bring back the Department of Education, and this is
how much it's going to cost. Right, because voters are
so well trained to hate the concept of taxes thanks
to Republicans basically, but this Save Act thing, I mean,
it really would be a disaster. I don't know if
it will pass the Senate, but people should act like
it's going to So if you if you're if you're
hearing my voice and you have a Republican senator, spend

(44:23):
your weekend making calls. There's a chance that might come
up next week. And so two o two two two
four three one two one. That's the Senate switchboard. You
give them your zip code, you can leave a message,
you can send an email and tell them that you
don't support it. It's it would be just a disaster
if they try, if they pass it at all, but
if they try to implement it before the midterms, it
would just be a nightmare. And I think we should

(44:44):
all just you know, I just would like to say
one last thing. I feel like a lot of people
on the left will do this sort of dismissive say,
be very dismissive of voting, like and I get that
it's annoying when somebody in power says, well, just vote,
vote really hard. I get that that's annoying. But if
it wasn't important, they wouldn't be trying to stop you

(45:04):
from doing it all the time. So here's what everyone
should be doing. In addition to calling their senators, check
your voter registration, make sure you have all of your stuff.
This is going to be a rough election and it's
probably going to take a lot more effort on your
part to vote. Also be aware of like the cutoff deadlines.
If you vote by mail, send your ballot as early
as is humanly possible. Because now the post Office is

(45:26):
messing around with postmarks. The Supreme Court is hearing a
case about counting ballots if they're received after election day.
So just it's not I know it's only February, but
it's actually not too early to start to make a
plan about voting in the midterms in November, because just
really keep checking that you're on the rules, make sure
you have everything you need to go vote. Make sure

(45:47):
you have stamps or you know where dropboxes are, whatever
it takes, because this is actually one of those times
where like we do have to vote really hard to
try to like overcome this insane set of rules that
they are trying to implement, which hopefully they won't, but
even if they don't, it's if you live in a

(46:08):
red state, a Republican led state, it's going to be
difficult for you. So make sure you have all your
stuff ready.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
Unless you want to live in in America where the
only two votes that count are Donald Trump's and John Voyd.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
If you think that sounds.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Unless you have signed up for Kevin Sorbo's improv class,
which is also on the ballot this November.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Megan, uh, if you thank you for the Senate switchboard number,
do you have to have the number for that bulldog
and a wagon? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:36):
One eight hundred b U L L.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
D O G.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Also, does they have Mike Jones's number? Zero zero foe
get Mike Jones up on the load because Mike Jones
about to blow. If you don't work, you don't eat,
If you don't grind, you don't shine. So next time
you come up to me and ask how I blue
put that on your mind?

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Give them mcole as well this weekend.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
I think Mike Jones still does answer that. Mike Jones
does still answer that number. Okay, let's take another break
and when we come back. No not, I mean this
is this is we do this every day. Maybe it
is what it is because at the very least, like
we have to be aware. And I totally I agree,

(47:15):
Like I think thinking like electoralism is the be all
end all is a little bit narrow, but it's definitely
part of how you do things because you have to.
I look at it as it's the context in which
you're having your fight. You can have your fight with
a full MAGA takeover, or you can have a fight
where there at least there are some blue dots that
are putting back, and that that creates a context that

(47:37):
it's a little bit easier to push it.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Think of it. Think of it as picking the ball
field where you want to play Like it's not going
to be perfect, but you can pick the circumstances under
which we fight for something better.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
It can be a bunch of rattlesnakes, or it can
be a bunch of discarded Heroin needles or grass or
grass like a couple Heroin deals when they clean most.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Of them up and they give you a beer in
a tiny little upside on hat.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna take a break. We'll be
right back.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
And we're back.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
And look, if you're at the Tampa International Airport, take
off the fucking pajamas and crocs, asshole, because last fall
we saw Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy talk about a new
golden age of travel, where he basically shamed people from
dressing comfortably for overpriced plane flights. Specifically, it's like, hey,
you know, man, why you gotta wear pajamas all the

(48:40):
time and slippers looking sloppy? I remember when you could
smoke cigarettes on an airplane and you wore a business
suit while saying racial slurs and harassing air flight attendants.
That's the golden age we want to bring back. Well,
apparently the Tampa Airport has taken things a step further
with a new policy. They're it's clearly a troll post.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
But just so dumb.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
This is what they posted. Quote. We've seen enough, We've
had enough. It's time to ban pajamas at Tampa International Airport.
After successfully banning crocs and giving everyone the amazing opportunity
to experience the world's first crocs free airport, it's time
to take on an even larger crisis. Pajamas at the
airport in the middle of the day. We know this

(49:20):
decision could be disruptive to someone in your life. It's
time to have a difficult conversation with them. You can
do this. We and Phoebe believe in you. The madness
stops today. The movement starts now. Help help Tampa International
become the world's first crocs free and pajama free airport.
Do your part. Say no to pajamas.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
You know, they really know how how to tap into
what the people care about. Yeah, you know, planes are
literally falling out of the sky because of Sean Duffy
and Elon Musk's mismanagement transportation. But no, it's really at
the pajamas.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
The air traffic controllers are wearing pajamas. Isn't what we
think in the tower, So that's for sure. I like
how this is like this this set sounds like a
thing we should be saying about your friends who are
still maga at this point where it's like, we know
this decision could be disruptive to someone in your life.
It's time to have a difficult conversation. Yeah, you can
do this. We believe if your uncle cut these motherfuckers
out of your life, because they literally stand for all

(50:14):
things evil in the Yeah ever, but they haven't anyway,
but here they are the madness stuffs.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Today just feels like the whole country's in crisis. Everyone
I know is depressed and like on their last nerve,
you know, barely hanging on.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
And that.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Who would this appeal to? Who would even get a
chuckle out of? First of all, they the right does not.
Donald Trump is the only funny.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Person, right, right, And that's ninety eight percent that's doing.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Yes, it's also all like what he's saying somebody should
only say sarcastically, so he gets extra like like he
gets lucky with how fun he is.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I mean, I right, I mean I think of him
as like outsider art, Like it's like, oh, you stumbled
onto something interesting here, but.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Over these gatorade bottles is an interesting take on consumer culture.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Yeahs like stage capitalist evil, Daniel Johnston or something exactly.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
There's something about this this airport pajamas meme that that
it makes me sick.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
I hate it so much.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
I hate the punctuation pajamas period period, Like, I'm sorry,
is this two thousand and nine Twitter?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Like what you put the clapping emojic?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It's it's cringe millennial Twitter.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Oh millennial. I'm my culture is not a costume.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
For this airport?

Speaker 2 (51:46):
I guess this. I mean this fisses me off for
all the obvious reasons, and also for the reasons Lindy named.
But it's like, I'm sorry to be too serious about this,
but it's like people are dressing for the experience they're
having at the airport and on place. You know, it's like, yeah,
you can wish for a golden age of travel. Back
then you were treated as a human being with a

(52:07):
seat that your butt fit in, and they gave you
actual food and nobody was, you know, scanning your genitals
with radiation to see if you were packing a knife
in there. And you know, it's like, of course, why
do I have to get dressed up just to have
my Fourth Amendment rights violated? Yeah, like come on now,
it's a stupid And then you know, you get on

(52:27):
the plane. Everyone everyone is pissed off. And angry because
they've all been treated like garbage all through security. Everyone's
are they're getting they're being treated like garbage at the
gate they're getting and I and I say this with
love because we know our nation's flight attendants are God's
strongest warriors. But you know they're sick of everybody's ass
as well. People are getting in fights. Everybody's drunk. It's

(52:50):
like you want me and I have to wear a
gown to this.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
I'm dressed. Yeah, I'm dressed like how you would see
me come out of my house if I heard there
was a car crash in there.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
Yeah it is. Everybody looks profoundly hungover. Sorry, go ahright, yeah, no, I.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Just people are wearing their pajamas because they're clinging to
one shred of comfort.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Yeah. Absolutely hellish nightmare experience.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
That Also, you're constantly aware this might be the when
you when you die, will they finally there there aren't
any any air traffic controllers left, and that you are
going to fall out of the sky and die.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
And producer Victor is a good plane in the chatt
he said, Also a lot of people go to sleep
on the plane like half the time online bro I'm
just trying to I'm trying. I want to time travel there,
so I can't, Yeah, pay fourteen dollars for hummus.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
And like the worst part of it all is that
like you can't ever get mad, or they'll put you
on a list that says you can never get on
the plane again. Yeah, yeah, which I don't. I don't
ever want to be on the plane again. And yet
there's no other way for me to get anywhere, And
so you have to just be disrespected and be like, thank.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
You, thank you so much, so much so.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
And it's giving next Top Model documentary where Tyra made
Danny close her tooth gap, and then seasons later she
made some other girl created tooth gap. If you fly
like business class to Europe, they give you pajamas.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
It'll make you while you're in the bathroom. We made
your bed. I remember, like, looking at what the fuck
are making a bed for you?

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Right?

Speaker 5 (54:29):
They'll give you those hot sleep masks. I can't bring
my own bets, and I I have plain phobia, like
I can I freak out on plants. The only way
I can imagine it worse is a bunch of dudes
with annoyingly good posture in suits and ties, just like
rows of.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Caring and weirdly like a.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Middle school principal, like dress coding, you like spaghetti stress,
like getting the ruler out skirts six I went to
crazy fucking Sean duffy Duffe.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Moving on though, to just something that's really interesting because
we live in a world of like synthetic movements and
synthetic media, like you know, the Milania documentary being pop
propped up by you know, bulk ticket buys, the fake
Turning Point USA halftime show. There's a lot of these
things that want to give people the sense that this

(55:26):
is our shared reality and that this is people are
behind it, when really just a lot of shit propped
up by algorithms and like disingenuous engagement. And Nicki Minaj
seems to be part of that too now because she's
had a hell of a year, like after increasingly losing revelance,
relevance as a musician and her constant defending of her
sexual predator husband, people have not really been picking up

(55:47):
what she's been putting down recently, and her MAGA transformation
was solidified, uh and with an appearance on Erica Kirk's
show or whatever the fuck that panel as a turning
point panel they did, and from there she slowly became
one of maga's hottest new tokens, culminating in an appearance
with Donald Trump himself. But a recent analysis of the

(56:08):
Twitter we call it Twitter in this house Twitter activity
reveals that she's been propped up by bots and coordinating
with other MAGA influencers. So this was in Politico where
they got this full on analysis of like a lot
of the exmocial social media activity on Twitter that says quote.
The report, compiled by the disinformation detection company Syabra, identifies

(56:31):
a coordinated network of bots, more than eighteen thousand of them,
that drove algorithms to spread Minaj's posts on x. The analysis,
which looked at social media activity from November eleventh to
December twenty eighth, provides a window into how the rapper
was able to capture millions of views online and position
herself as a celebrity. The White House found value in
partnering with the report found inauthentic accounts repeatedly amplified Minaj's

(56:56):
post with praise that used highly similar language. As they
put a particular in response to posts where authentic accounts
were criticizing Minaj, So like, when real people are like
the fuck are you talking about? Are you for real?
The what what are you saying? There would be things
like this, Nicki, you are brave for living your truth. People.
I might not always agree with what's being played out,

(57:18):
but as an artist and watching your growth as a person,
it's inspiring. This was from a comment of a I
guess Nicki Minaj fan at Lax seven six two eight three.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Very real?

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and they're all using they say
supportive comments generated by fake profiles were predominantly brief, repetitive,
and low and semantic complexity, consisting largely of praising keywords
and positive hashtags rather than original or substantive engagement.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
And you're like, hum, yeah, although low syntax complexity does
not bar them from being mega people.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, the romantic quality, yeah that might
be we could maybe look at that a little bit closer.
But again, like, she posted her support for Trump and
then talked about the prosecutions of Christians in Nigeria, Gavin
Newsom's perceived in light alignment with the transgender community. The
bots were there to back her up. Cyba's report shows

(58:12):
they also amplified her posts related to the music industry too,
because I guess she's trying to really keep herself going there.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
It's interesting speaking of her tweets about the music industry
because she's willing to be like call out jay Z,
but you'll know she will never go so far as
to utter Beyonce's name.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Yeah, So there's still a sliver of in there somewhere,
you know, like the arsanity.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Yeah, the barbs just ain't what they used to be
on Twitter, you know what I mean. There was a
time when you're like, bro, watch out for the fucking barbs.
They they have ye. Now the Beehive probably they're like this,
that's legit, I think still, so we I don't know
if we have a synthetic defense program against the Beehive.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
It's just I don't know. This one just makes me
kind of sad. I was a huge Nicky fan. I
saw her in concert in New York. I saw at
Barclays and it was really fun, and she, you know,
was so talented, but even in her pre Maga days,
she had just this inability to she had She's always
had a scarcity mindset, you know what I mean, So

(59:17):
she can never like be Okay, yeah, yeah, especially other
women rappers, and so I feel like that was the
start of her downfall. And as she started getting gassed
up by like worse and worse people, I feel like
it corrupted her mind more and more. I'm not trying
to make excuses for her. Obviously, her husband is a
nightmare in and of himself as well, but the way
she goes after women in particular is really disappointing. And

(59:40):
then and then to be kind of co to sort
of willingly jump into this movement of people who like, like,
under their own legislation, under their own legislation, they you
wouldn't be in this country right like, and you what,
you won't be allowed to vote under like their new plans,
and you're like, you have an axe to grind about

(01:00:02):
jay Z and Cardi B. And somehow that's turned into
you appearing on stage with Erica Kirk, who's the most
menacing individual I've ever laid eyes on in my life. Okay,
And it just just absolutely took a hammer to her legacy.
And it's frankly quite sad. Yeah, although I don't like
feel bad for her, but it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
But you see this all the time, and a lot
of rappers do this because like the second they start
orienting towards mag I'm like, okay, what do you need
a pardon for? Who needs right? Exactly the first thought,
I'm like, there's no fucking reason for this, because you
believe your proximity to the administration is going to render
you some above the lost status And clearly with Kenneth
Betty's record, I don't know what they're I don't know
what's going on. I don't know what she who she knows,

(01:00:44):
or whatever's happening. But it's also like, lady, you were
born in Trinny, you're from Trinidad, Like you are you
seeing any anything that's going on. But again, it's just
that same proximity to the power that they're like, it's fine,
it's gonna protect me, and I can completely turn my
back on everyone else who's going to be affected by
this because at least I can carve out a little spot.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
Yeah no, no, you go, well, you just immediately become
the coolest, most powerful person in that arena compared to
everyone else.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Yeah, that's basically what I was like, what I was
going to say, like the it's that sort of oh,
someone annoyed me or hurt my feelings one time, and
I have such a fragile, tattered, wounded ego that the
first person who's nice to me, like I have no discernment,
Like I don't care at all, whoever's going to be

(01:01:34):
nice to me and tell me that the person that
was mean to me is bad, I'm going to move
toward them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
And if and then they're going to also pay me
to be there free of course, especially as her other
revenue streams are drying up. So it's like, yeah, this
is an easy way to just like launder the rich
Maga guy's money directly to Nicki Minaj through TPUSA.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
And I think what's interesting is like if they're doing
this whole campaign with the bots and all this spending
all this money, and you know, I guess there must
be someone putting a bunch of time into organizing this.
It's like the goal is that do they think that
they can trick Nicki Minaj fans into becoming maga because

(01:02:16):
it is that working?

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
I mean no, but I think like that's topifin our
point on what you and what we're saying, it's like
it's not just that, like I mean, she becomes the
most popular person immediately, but also because she's black, right,
Like they're constantly on this hunt for like black validators
or POC validators to be like, oh, it's not that bad.
And also because they've flattened like identity to be like, well,

(01:02:39):
if you could get one black person that'll like win,
that'll win over Yeah. That's like it's like how they
were running Alan keys against Barack Obama and Illinois, as
if there's no difference between those two guys. They're both
black men, So it's the same. I mean, like that's
as as nuance of their thinking is about like identity
and race, and so I think that's like one of

(01:02:59):
the reasons why like Nicki Minaj had a very easy
time ascending to the highest heights of loser dumb on
the MAGA side is because they're like, oh nice.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Yeah, because I've heard of her. They're like, yeah, I've
heard of her. It's not like these other people. They're like,
nobody's really fucking will walk a fakka anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
But they don't see, they don't see what we all see,
which is that her doing that lowers her escall. Literally
everyone else turned her back into it doesn't. It might
win over like six mentally ill barbs on Twitter, but
it's not going to win over like huge swaths of
the community because she's an insane person.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
And the reaction from black people was like, what the
fuck what is she doing? Like get the fuck out
of there, But also, hey, that's that's enough to let
us know where the fuck you're at, if you're willing
to just be like, ah, well, this is the right
wing grift I'm doing now because nothing matters to me
except my damn Yeah. To your point, though, Alex Brucewitz,
who's a median political advisor Trump considers a very close friend,

(01:03:59):
told Political he is confident there are no bots involved
with the social media the rappers presence quote. Nikki has
never used bot activity to promote herself on social media
because she doesn't need to. She has one of the
largest fan bases of any musician that's alive today, which
reads like some ship they read in some doc like
some kind of analysis where they're like, these are the

(01:04:20):
people with great social media presences that we could maybe
leverage their blackness to create color for our white like
naked and open white supremacy, and it's not working. Because
it later goes on to be like they're just mad
because she's They even said she's getting Democrats to like
open their eyes, and you're like, that's really you really think?

(01:04:42):
I will I'll tell you later, I'll get back, I'll
get back to I'll get back to their office.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
On that, you wouldn't know him, he's I met him
at summer camp.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Yeah, his name's Byron Donaldson. Who else? Tim Scott? Huge, huge, huge?
It worked on Yeah, You're like, yeah, she's when she's
spitting like Roman, then I'm just like, where do you

(01:05:11):
want me to go? Queen? Where?

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Since since the.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
Monster verse, I've based every decision of my life on
what Nick honestly that would have been.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Oh man, it's funny to think that some of the
best version the verses on that Monster track are now
like magot people.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Yeah, look, it happens. It happens. But hey, everybody, you
keep your head on the swivel and know the bullshit
when you see it and call it out and tell
your friends. Look, this is because again, this is so
funny to me, because so much of like what conservatism
is on the internet now is just pretending that a
bunch of people are fucking with it when they're not,
And it's like trying to give the perception that it's

(01:05:52):
so much bigger. And that's the one other little green
shoot of hope I have, is that there is so
much just being propped up in like the digital world
and like the esthetic of social media to make you
think this is mainstream. Yeah, it's it's not. It's not.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I mean I don't know how to process this because
I heard it from Candas Owans.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
But like Canda Owans made that video where she was
like I did some some YouTube math and like, actually,
oh yeah, only six thousand people watched the.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Kid Rock halftime show.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Now, look, Candas, Okay, I don't We're not relying on
Kansas as a source.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
But I believe it. I mean I believe yeah, like
based on the reality that I see around me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
I don't know, yeah yeah. And like of course the
people who are like fouging, Like we're watching the Turning
Point USA. It's like there's like five videos of like
people at their homes doing it, and like all the
kids in there look miserable. O.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
My god, I wanted to watch Bad Buddies.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna get cooked at school tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
Shit right, all the children are like I thought he
was gonna be a kid. He's sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Rock for kids rock.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
He's not a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Wait you said the TPUs a halftime with kids Bop
Kid Rock. Oh god. Well, Megan Lindy, thank you so
much for joining us on the Daily Guys today. Well,
pleasure and an honor. Where can the people find y'all?
You know, engage with your work, et cetera, and what's
a what's a work of media that you're liking, social

(01:07:29):
or otherwise?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Oh well, they can find us anywhere you get your podcasts,
text me back podcasts. We're on Instagram at text me
backpod if you like this, and we're like, wow, can
I financially support these two women? Yes, you can, Patreon,
dot com, slash, text me Backpod get involved with that
and very quickly. A piece of media I'm enjoying is

(01:07:50):
I keep getting served these TikTok videos from a guy
named Malibu Fitmax, who looks like a sentience surfboard. I'm
obsessed with him, and for whatever reason, it's not triggering
my fight or flight with respect to diet culture. He
just is like, what's up, guys, here's how you do
a killer chest press. You have to check him out.
He's amazing. If he turns out to be politically incompatible

(01:08:14):
with me, I will be devastated. But he's right now.
It's just you can just enjoy it because we don't know.
I've fit Max Megan.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
I also think that his vibe rocks and I get yes,
and I had, you know, I'd been a little cautious
about him. Then I was doing a little investigation yesterday
and I came across a comment where someone was like, ew,
what's wrong with his face? And then someone else, I'm
so glad you brought thoselves like he was in the
war and his face got blown up by an Ied

(01:08:45):
and then he got reconstructed.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
And that's why his face is weird, and stop being
so judgmental. And I was like, it never even crossed
my mind. He just looks like he's from California, but
like it just looks like he has filler. I never like,
what's wrong with your face? Turns out he took an
Ied in rack in fact Malibu fit next.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
For now, I don't know what happened, I'd like to say.
In addition to the podcast, I also wrote a book
that's coming out March tests and you should buy it.
It's called Adult Braces, and it's about a road trip
that I took from Seattle to Florida and back in
twenty twenty one when I had Adult Braces. And a
piece of media that I'm enjoying is called a podcast

(01:09:24):
called Adults in the Room, which is they've only released
one episode so far. It's coming out weekly, and it's
two friends of ours from high school who made a
podcast about all this insane shit that happened in our
senior year, which makes it sound like, oh, why would
I care about the gossip from your high school, But
it's not gossip from our high school.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
It's like truly horrifying. It's like inappropriate relationships with students' death,
Like our senior year was very insane, and they're is
reported out really beautifully and it's really goos called Adults
in the Room, and it's really helping us process our
trauma from high school, which is nice handling. So the

(01:10:03):
general trauma of the nineties.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Adults in the Room. You should you should check it out.
It's really really good, like very riveting in depressing and
good more.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
How about you? Where do they find you? Follow you? Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
Yeah, again, my Instagram is cooked, so I don't know
what again.

Speaker 5 (01:10:22):
I may be done as a public facing personality, but
I do just put out a stand up special called
There's Beauty in It All on YouTube, So if you
look that up and mort Brooke you'll find it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
Can check it out. I'm really proud of it. I
think it's beautiful to myself.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Dope. Uh, let's see a work of media. You can
find me everywhere at miles of Gray, a work of
media like front of the show. Kat Abugazile, who's running
for office in Illinois ninth District, just put out a
self attack ad, which I'm like, brilliant, Like get oh,
just let me see what you're talking about. Let me
see what this adds about. Abu Gazal is the kind

(01:10:56):
of radical democrat Fox News warned you about. Cat believes
you deserve universal healthcare, groceries and housing. Where does she
think you are the richest country on earth? Cat isn't
a millionaire, she doesn't take pack money. She can't even
afford health and sugar. So anyway, fucking brilliant, so fucking brilliant. Yeah,

(01:11:22):
strength and our to you cat as you pursue office.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Yeah, good luck.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
I need more people like that, just to get people
of the imagination to be like, that's right, you can
be a human and run for office.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
And I talk a lot of shit about the algorithm,
but it has been serving me her videos and I'm
so grateful and empowered by them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
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