In this edition of , Miles and Becca discuss Jonathan Majors' getting arrested on assault charges, Spotify's bullshit diversity initiative, the school shooting in Tennessee, Trump's Waco,TX rally, Twitter's source code getting leaked, and Dolly Parton's song "Rainbowland" and Michelangelo's David corrupting the youth!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to this special edition of First Time Paratrend.
That's the first time parents. That's me. Okay, that's a
reference to me. Hello, I'm Miles Gray. I am joined
to tell you what's trending by super Due Becca Ramos. Hello,
are you back? Miles? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh,
(00:22):
appreciate it. Thank you for that little little shoulder shimmy.
It's almost felt like a Harlem shake. Appreciate that. Yes,
it's good to be back and talking to people about
things that aren't you know, I don't know, like breast
pumps or strollers, travel systems, Ergo, Omni three sixty carriers,
baby burans, things like that. But I digress. We're here
(00:45):
to tell you about what is trending on this beautiful Monday,
March twenty seventh. First up, Jonathan Majors is in the news.
He was arrested this weekend on strangulation, assault, and hara
estimate charges after the police were called to an apartment
in New York and after allegedly assaulting a woman. Quote
(01:06):
known to him as the police report says, his lawyers
are like, he is innocent, and we have evidence to
prove that, but he's not going to be in court
officially until May, so I don't know what officially legally
is happening, but yeah, that's a oof city, sir. So
many things swirling about this, all kinds of allegations coming
(01:28):
on Twitter, from people being like we knew that from Yale,
and then other people are defending him. Other people are
like trying to argue the merits of what strangulation may
or may not be, which is you don't want to
be on that side of Twitter, no, And then there
was statements made, you know, obviously unsure how truthful they are,
but his lawyer coming out and saying that the victim
(01:50):
recanted her statement, which you know, not coming from the
police department, so like, don't know if that is a
rumor or if it is true that a recanted or
you know, if that's even true at all, like that
the lawyer said that, So you know, all there is
to say, in my opinion is believe women A and B.
(02:12):
Just because you are beautiful and talented doesn't make you
an not an abusive person. So yeah, platforms a lot
of cognitive dissonance out there were people reckoning with these
accusations and like, well, if it is true, or maybe
it's not or whatever, this that and the other. I mean,
what's what seems to be clear is that Marvel is
(02:33):
not saying anything. They're like, well, you know, we're gonna
wait for that to play out a little. She's like
in seven thousand Avengers movies coming up. So there's there's
that part working with the MCU. But the US Army
though not fucking around. They have pulled their entire new
ad campaign which is starring him. They said, quote until
the investigations into these allegations are complete. Wait wait, wait, wait,
(02:55):
why was he in a US Army camp? That's all right.
I mean when I saw that, I'm like, that's why
that is an l because in it there's like questionable.
The whole thing though, like the whole like look of
it is. He's like traveling through fucking wars to talk
about the US military only get up to about World
War two though, So okay, you know, whatever whatever hand
(03:20):
you have in the revisionist history of the United States
military policy is your back. But apparently they spent one
hundred seventeen million dollars on this shit. Um that is
absolutely and say it doesn't shock me because a you know,
the military is so much money and b you know,
historically the military prize on like black and brown, you know,
(03:46):
especially Poles, to put them on the front lines. You know,
the people that are doing the cool jobs. That people
are doing, the safe jobs, the tech jobs. Those are
people that went to West Point. Those are people that
have you know, generational sergeants and their family. They are
not the people the Offerer's Candidate school or something like
that OCS. But yeah, it's I mean the what's really
(04:07):
wild too is the army, they said again, because people
are like beginning to be able to become a little
more sober eyed about like being in the United States military,
and it's like, what the Yeah, it's what. It's a
force for around the world. It's not doing freedoms everywhere.
But apparently the reason they've chose majors was because quote
his resonance with gen Z, Like yeah, just to add
(04:29):
some insidious shit on top of it all, they're like, oh,
let's a new batch of kids to enlist into. Uh
you know, yeah, I guess. And that's what I was
literally reading of, like how could you? And maybe he
does not have that self awareness. Obviously, he doesn't seem
like a good person now, um to recognize like you
as a reflection of like what they choosed you do,
our community is and then like be the representation of
(04:51):
that is yucky. So yeah, don't never accept the army's money. No,
it just says you don't need no one needs that back.
But again, this is uh, we'll see where this story goes,
because it is it's like it's it's got every part
of Twitter, like a light yeah, like Twitter everything. Yeah,
(05:13):
over the weekend, I was scrolling. I even had people
tweet at me, um, just being like, oh my god,
did you see I Like, yes, I obviously saw. I
know I was thirsting after him over Creed, you know,
but I can put that thirst away. There are many
other men I can thirst after. I don't need him
in my corner of people. Uh. But all that to say, yeah,
I just think the conversation of a oh, well she's white,
(05:37):
the implication kind of being deserved fucked up. Yeah, that's
not that's not a place to go with it. Yeah,
the implication of well, also she's a liar because she's white,
and that's historical, and it's like, yes, there is context
of that, but there's also context of me. Two times up.
We are not in an era pass those things very much.
In Hollywood, if you are powerful, if they want you
(05:58):
to succeed, they will ignore your bad behavior in order
to propel you because you're a man at the end
of the day. Yeah, blanket, those blanket generalizations don't help anybody,
but they're they're to definitely clawback progress. I mean, because
it's just a very like attacking the victim is a
time honored tradition in the parts of maintaining power and
(06:20):
the status quo. Don't be a part of it. Don't
be a part of it. You know, you don't have
to say shit about it. You can just watch and
read and then react in real time, don't You don't
need to have a go out there with a take
next up Spotify, Um, how are they doing? You know,
a lot of talk about we got this equity fun man,
one hundred million dollars, were putting our money where our
(06:41):
mouth is because this was what after Joe Rogan, they said, look,
we know we're bad, but we're gonna remember they pulled
all those episodes. They were like, oh my god, Yeah,
he does say the N word a lot. That's crazy. Yeah,
oh that's wild. Okay, here's okay, we're telling you we're
going to spend one hundred million dollars on diversity and
that's in air quotes that are so airy. But how
(07:01):
much they spent nine million already they spent. How much
have they spent? Zero dollars? No? Ten percent? Which is
like what wow? Million? Okay, but I've put the whole Okay,
I mean, so what if you're distributing that, I know
(07:21):
there suposed to do that over three years, you might
be a little bit behind on that. Such a little
maths would be thirty three and a third Okay, Um, yeah,
it is what it is. So I guess man, a
lot of a lot of money being pledged all the time.
Yeah yeah, yeah wow. Well and also the curious thing
(07:43):
about this too is that the hundred million statement was
supposed to be more of like a declarative statement of like, yeah,
this is a big gesture, but in reality, they paid
Joe Rogan. It found out after they had made the
hundred million statement as a representation of how much they
paying Joe again double that, So it wasn't even giving
(08:04):
the amount to diversity initiatives across a plethora of you know,
shows and artists and things of that nature. Um, at
the same amount as one person. They're literally doing half
of what they gave that one person sprinkled that over
like seven thousand things. Yeah, Yeah, there wasn't insult to injury.
I bet there. There's probably some real cynical accounting too,
(08:26):
like did a did a person of color or any
diverse people work on that show? Okay, let's put it literally,
let's put that to there to the side. Uh, and
then before we take a break. Um. In Nashville, Tennessee,
there was another school shooting. Six people killed, three kids
among them and three adults. Uh. It's like it does
(08:47):
not stop. There was a video that's kind of going
around now that a woman who survived the Highland Park
shooting in Illinois was around. I think she said she
was visiting, like and she just was like she's like
I've spoken to over like one hundred thirty some lawmakers
to try and figure out how we do something to
ensure have some semblance of gun safety, and we have nothing.
(09:10):
And it's my god, I mean, like it's such a
like a national embarrassment to be living in a place
where you're looking at the statistics say guns are the
biggest now killer of children, and and act doing nothing crickets.
But then you know, and I think this take has
taken over like one million forms on the internet now.
(09:30):
But if like plick of like art just completely skewed
priorities where we're mad about, like tell us telling kids
that Rosa Parks was black in a history book and
we're trying to deracialize things like that, or get the
head of TikTok up here because it's a Chinese spy
machine and things like that, where we have real you
can you can point to a legitimate, quantifiable body count
(09:53):
here and or we're in the same place. It's it's horrifying,
it's really, it's really yeah, yeah, it's it's absolutely heartbreaking.
And it's also interesting that Miles, when you were out
just a couple of weeks ago, we had covered this
viral video of this teacher demonstrating I don't know if
(10:13):
it was a teacher or the company that's called Corner
Wall things. It was like the four corner wall like
blast shield. Yeah yeah, and it's like that's our solution
instead of I don't know, removing guns. Like it's like,
there's so many things wrong with that there's so many
systems that can make that fail in terms of there's
not equity in the local state, you know, national whatever
(10:37):
systems of schooling and budgets and what schools get those,
everybody's going to get that. Yeah, I don't think so.
And here's the other thing too, is because whenever we
have a problem societally in this country, if the solution
is an industry has to make less for the greater good,
we'll never do it, absolutely because money still has to
be made. And it's like, well, well, if we dial
that back, then somebody needs to make money off these
(10:59):
like class room shields rather than substantive reforms around keeping
people safe. I mean, you know it's only now that
like people were like, oh man, solar is kind of lucrative.
Maybe looking into that, but it's just the yeah again, uh,
for the consistent, consistent sickness that we're having to come
(11:20):
up against living here, and yet my heartbreaks. Um, all right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
to talk some more after this and we're back Waco, Texas.
(11:41):
We talked about this going into the weekend, that Trump
was going to have a little rally there. You know
what I mean, you know, he's like, you know what
happened here right remember that? Well you know what I'm
wearing right now, myles, look represent look represent where you're from.
But you didn't go at a bay because you're down
with the branch Davidians, unlike Trump, who's there to send
(12:04):
a message because he's trying to get a slow motion
riot going right now because he feels he fears he's
going to be he seems seemingly is shook. So now
everything's talking about like, well, if you rescued me, then
the people are going to turn up and get real violent.
And it's already you've already seen with the DA getting
a mysterious white powder and a death threat sent to
him at the end of last week, that you're already
(12:25):
seeing things happen. But the rally was some people showed up,
but a lot of people left early from a lot
of the reports. I don't know if the weather was
like over there, but I don't blame you can only
you know, stand in the sun and hear someone just
sundown on the microphone for yeah, NonStop. But he also
said he also fit in a couple of good shoutouts
to putin where he was like, yeah, he said he's
(12:46):
gonna invade. He looks like he's gonna get a piece
now of Ukraine or maybe the whole who knows. And
it's like it's like, who are you talking to? I
think the audience is even like good, They're like, where
are you getting this information from? Yeah, so i'd play
the sound clip, but look, I'm slowly trying to get
the bandwidth back to be able to report on everything
that's happening in our country all the time. So I'll
(13:07):
spare everybody that sound bite and we'll move on to
our next topic, our next trend, which is Twitter. I've
you friends from tech who are like, oh, the Twitter
api leaked or the source code or the source code leaked.
I'm like, yeah, I saw this, and I was like,
I'm like, is bad? Is bad source code? But yes,
that is kind of like the entire that's like the
(13:29):
instruction manual to like how to fuck up Twitter, because
a lot of people are saying, like, the easy way
to describe it is if a hacker like hacked in
the main frange, Well, it's like a it's like a
map where you can like see how the platform is built,
but also you from there, you can look at any
vulnerabilities that exist because you can play around with it.
So that's not good. And apparently it leaked right after
(13:52):
Elon Musk went on a firing spree, so god, oh no,
how could that happen? And meanwhile, this dude is out
here being like, oh my god, Twitter lost half its value.
It's only worth twenty billion now, Oh my god, leopards
ate my face? Why would they do that? Uh sir,
(14:13):
this is all of you. You made it all happen, buddy,
you can That's like, this is one of the times
you can be like that was me. Maybe Tesla wasn't me.
Maybe I was, you know, partnered with some smarter people
on those other past projects. But this shit, oh me am,
I want to be edge lordiness and lack of I
(14:34):
don't know, being told no ever as a human being.
So h yeah, tear tear, drop tears. I guess has
your Twitter used changed it all since I've been going?
Are you kind of on at the same amount? Yeah?
I'm on it about the same amount. I mean really,
I wasn't on it much before and then obviously you know,
the Elon Musk of it all. I'm like Okay, well,
definitely not trying to be on it now for sure.
(14:55):
You know, I'm on it for the show. I get
tweeted out for the show, So yeah, there's some discors
yeah about it, all right, yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm
not there to like be like and how do you
figure into all this? But I'm just as someone who
quite literally just i mean, having a baby was so
easy to be like, Man, I ain't looking at shit.
I mean, I feel very grateful that I never jumped
(15:19):
into Twitter, you know, like back in the day, I
was a Tumblr girly and I just never got on
Twitter like that out of Twitter since high school. But
I just you could probably see a total of like
ten tweets before I started working this job, like I
was not that. I'm sorry, and you know, yeah, and
we're not responsible for the psychological damage that has done
for Twitter, so don't use it. Uh. And then finally,
(15:43):
Dolly and David are trending first because Dolly Parton she
has a song with Maya Lee Cyrus called rainbow Land,
and a first grade teacher in Wisconsin wanted to have
like the tea the kids sing this like rainbow Land
song for their spring concert. Because you know it's a
(16:04):
great song. Let me really read the lyrics, because according
to other people, this is like a terror, it's too controversial.
It says living in a rainbow land where you and
I go hand in hand. Oh, I'd be lying if
I said this was fine. All the hurt and they
hate going on here. We are rainbows, me and you,
every color, every hue. Let's shine on through together. We
(16:25):
can start living in a rainbow land. Living in a
rainbow land. This guy's are blue and things are grand.
Wouldn't it be nice to live in a paradise where
we're free to be exactly who we are. Let's all
dig down deep inside, brush the judgment and fear aside,
make wrong things right, and end the fight because our promise,
ain't nobody gonna win. Come on, that's so man, that
(16:46):
isn't enough. Yeah, but again, people just have the conservative
shit that's going on now that this is absolutely just
a nightmare, just a nightmare. So uh sorry, sorry to
those kids who had to I don't know, be subjected
(17:08):
to something that was about being more inclusive. And then
I also want to touch on the reason David is trending,
because did you I don't know if you saw this,
like this teacher in Tallahassee, uh, like showed a picture
of Michelangelo's David to a group of sixth graders and
(17:28):
like the like the principle had to step down because like,
I'm sorry, we did not alert the parents that they
would see a little marble penis of Michelangelo's David. The
frenzy around like sexuality of any kind and how that's
like the gateway to de deviancy or being you know,
(17:52):
taken or trafficked or something like that. I mean, yeah,
at this point, they're probably just going to be showing
people like in like art class is like just a
text panel that's like describing the art, and they're like,
and that's that's all we can show you because it
will ruin your brain, not the amount of gun violence
that is around you, but because you saw Michelangelo's David.
But yeah, it's yeah, I mean, hey, great time for
(18:17):
great time to be a parent and think about Mike.
I'll say that literally, like Okay, so I'm never moving
back to the South ever again, Like it's just crazy. Yeah, yeah,
well i mean it'll it'll eventually, it'll event I mean,
who knows if if if the conservatives have their way,
this could be a standard. But anyway, that's a reason
why we have to keep an eye out because this
(18:38):
has just man the culture war stuff is getting so old. Please,
is getting so old? Please please. Eventually people might realize
you're not doing anything with policy, but whatever, that's for
a dream world where people are engaged. Um. Anyway, thank
you for joining us. That's going to do it for
it today. We're back tomorrow brand new, staying in an episode.
(19:01):
Thank you for joining me, beck up, we'll talk soon.
Until next time, make sure you know you're out there
being kind to yourself, be kind to each other, get
that vaccine if you haven't yet, don't do nothing about
white supremacy, and take care of yourself. I already said that,
but we'll see then tomorrow five
Hello, and welcome to this special edition of First Time Paratrend.
That's the first time parents. That's me. Okay, that's a
reference to me. Hello, I'm Miles Gray. I am joined
to tell you what's trending by super Due Becca Ramos. Hello,
are you back? Miles? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh,
(00:22):
appreciate it. Thank you for that little little shoulder shimmy.
It's almost felt like a Harlem shake. Appreciate that. Yes,
it's good to be back and talking to people about
things that aren't you know, I don't know, like breast
pumps or strollers, travel systems, Ergo, Omni three sixty carriers,
baby burans, things like that. But I digress. We're here
(00:45):
to tell you about what is trending on this beautiful Monday,
March twenty seventh. First up, Jonathan Majors is in the news.
He was arrested this weekend on strangulation, assault, and hara
estimate charges after the police were called to an apartment
in New York and after allegedly assaulting a woman. Quote
(01:06):
known to him as the police report says, his lawyers
are like, he is innocent, and we have evidence to
prove that, but he's not going to be in court
officially until May, so I don't know what officially legally
is happening, but yeah, that's a oof city, sir. So
many things swirling about this, all kinds of allegations coming
(01:28):
on Twitter, from people being like we knew that from Yale,
and then other people are defending him. Other people are
like trying to argue the merits of what strangulation may
or may not be, which is you don't want to
be on that side of Twitter, no, And then there
was statements made, you know, obviously unsure how truthful they are,
but his lawyer coming out and saying that the victim
(01:50):
recanted her statement, which you know, not coming from the
police department, so like, don't know if that is a
rumor or if it is true that a recanted or
you know, if that's even true at all, like that
the lawyer said that, So you know, all there is
to say, in my opinion is believe women A and B.
(02:12):
Just because you are beautiful and talented doesn't make you
an not an abusive person. So yeah, platforms a lot
of cognitive dissonance out there were people reckoning with these
accusations and like, well, if it is true, or maybe
it's not or whatever, this that and the other. I mean,
what's what seems to be clear is that Marvel is
(02:33):
not saying anything. They're like, well, you know, we're gonna
wait for that to play out a little. She's like
in seven thousand Avengers movies coming up. So there's there's
that part working with the MCU. But the US Army
though not fucking around. They have pulled their entire new
ad campaign which is starring him. They said, quote until
the investigations into these allegations are complete. Wait wait, wait, wait,
(02:55):
why was he in a US Army camp? That's all right.
I mean when I saw that, I'm like, that's why
that is an l because in it there's like questionable.
The whole thing though, like the whole like look of
it is. He's like traveling through fucking wars to talk
about the US military only get up to about World
War two though, So okay, you know, whatever whatever hand
(03:20):
you have in the revisionist history of the United States
military policy is your back. But apparently they spent one
hundred seventeen million dollars on this shit. Um that is
absolutely and say it doesn't shock me because a you know,
the military is so much money and b you know,
historically the military prize on like black and brown, you know,
(03:46):
especially Poles, to put them on the front lines. You know,
the people that are doing the cool jobs. That people
are doing, the safe jobs, the tech jobs. Those are
people that went to West Point. Those are people that
have you know, generational sergeants and their family. They are
not the people the Offerer's Candidate school or something like
that OCS. But yeah, it's I mean the what's really
(04:07):
wild too is the army, they said again, because people
are like beginning to be able to become a little
more sober eyed about like being in the United States military,
and it's like, what the Yeah, it's what. It's a
force for around the world. It's not doing freedoms everywhere.
But apparently the reason they've chose majors was because quote
his resonance with gen Z, Like yeah, just to add
(04:29):
some insidious shit on top of it all, they're like, oh,
let's a new batch of kids to enlist into. Uh
you know, yeah, I guess. And that's what I was
literally reading of, like how could you? And maybe he
does not have that self awareness. Obviously, he doesn't seem
like a good person now, um to recognize like you
as a reflection of like what they choosed you do,
our community is and then like be the representation of
(04:51):
that is yucky. So yeah, don't never accept the army's money. No,
it just says you don't need no one needs that back.
But again, this is uh, we'll see where this story goes,
because it is it's like it's it's got every part
of Twitter, like a light yeah, like Twitter everything. Yeah,
(05:13):
over the weekend, I was scrolling. I even had people
tweet at me, um, just being like, oh my god,
did you see I Like, yes, I obviously saw. I
know I was thirsting after him over Creed, you know,
but I can put that thirst away. There are many
other men I can thirst after. I don't need him
in my corner of people. Uh. But all that to say, yeah,
I just think the conversation of a oh, well she's white,
(05:37):
the implication kind of being deserved fucked up. Yeah, that's
not that's not a place to go with it. Yeah,
the implication of well, also she's a liar because she's white,
and that's historical, and it's like, yes, there is context
of that, but there's also context of me. Two times up.
We are not in an era pass those things very much.
In Hollywood, if you are powerful, if they want you
(05:58):
to succeed, they will ignore your bad behavior in order
to propel you because you're a man at the end
of the day. Yeah, blanket, those blanket generalizations don't help anybody,
but they're they're to definitely clawback progress. I mean, because
it's just a very like attacking the victim is a
time honored tradition in the parts of maintaining power and
(06:20):
the status quo. Don't be a part of it. Don't
be a part of it. You know, you don't have
to say shit about it. You can just watch and
read and then react in real time, don't You don't
need to have a go out there with a take
next up Spotify, Um, how are they doing? You know,
a lot of talk about we got this equity fun man,
one hundred million dollars, were putting our money where our
(06:41):
mouth is because this was what after Joe Rogan, they said, look,
we know we're bad, but we're gonna remember they pulled
all those episodes. They were like, oh my god, Yeah,
he does say the N word a lot. That's crazy. Yeah,
oh that's wild. Okay, here's okay, we're telling you we're
going to spend one hundred million dollars on diversity and
that's in air quotes that are so airy. But how
(07:01):
much they spent nine million already they spent. How much
have they spent? Zero dollars? No? Ten percent? Which is
like what wow? Million? Okay, but I've put the whole Okay,
I mean, so what if you're distributing that, I know
(07:21):
there suposed to do that over three years, you might
be a little bit behind on that. Such a little
maths would be thirty three and a third Okay, Um, yeah,
it is what it is. So I guess man, a
lot of a lot of money being pledged all the time.
Yeah yeah, yeah wow. Well and also the curious thing
(07:43):
about this too is that the hundred million statement was
supposed to be more of like a declarative statement of like, yeah,
this is a big gesture, but in reality, they paid
Joe Rogan. It found out after they had made the
hundred million statement as a representation of how much they
paying Joe again double that, So it wasn't even giving
(08:04):
the amount to diversity initiatives across a plethora of you know,
shows and artists and things of that nature. Um, at
the same amount as one person. They're literally doing half
of what they gave that one person sprinkled that over
like seven thousand things. Yeah, Yeah, there wasn't insult to injury.
I bet there. There's probably some real cynical accounting too,
(08:26):
like did a did a person of color or any
diverse people work on that show? Okay, let's put it literally,
let's put that to there to the side. Uh, and
then before we take a break. Um. In Nashville, Tennessee,
there was another school shooting. Six people killed, three kids
among them and three adults. Uh. It's like it does
(08:47):
not stop. There was a video that's kind of going
around now that a woman who survived the Highland Park
shooting in Illinois was around. I think she said she
was visiting, like and she just was like she's like
I've spoken to over like one hundred thirty some lawmakers
to try and figure out how we do something to
ensure have some semblance of gun safety, and we have nothing.
(09:10):
And it's my god, I mean, like it's such a
like a national embarrassment to be living in a place
where you're looking at the statistics say guns are the
biggest now killer of children, and and act doing nothing crickets.
But then you know, and I think this take has
taken over like one million forms on the internet now.
(09:30):
But if like plick of like art just completely skewed
priorities where we're mad about, like tell us telling kids
that Rosa Parks was black in a history book and
we're trying to deracialize things like that, or get the
head of TikTok up here because it's a Chinese spy
machine and things like that, where we have real you
can you can point to a legitimate, quantifiable body count
(09:53):
here and or we're in the same place. It's it's horrifying,
it's really, it's really yeah, yeah, it's it's absolutely heartbreaking.
And it's also interesting that Miles, when you were out
just a couple of weeks ago, we had covered this
viral video of this teacher demonstrating I don't know if
(10:13):
it was a teacher or the company that's called Corner
Wall things. It was like the four corner wall like
blast shield. Yeah yeah, and it's like that's our solution
instead of I don't know, removing guns. Like it's like,
there's so many things wrong with that there's so many
systems that can make that fail in terms of there's
not equity in the local state, you know, national whatever
(10:37):
systems of schooling and budgets and what schools get those,
everybody's going to get that. Yeah, I don't think so.
And here's the other thing too, is because whenever we
have a problem societally in this country, if the solution
is an industry has to make less for the greater good,
we'll never do it, absolutely because money still has to
be made. And it's like, well, well, if we dial
that back, then somebody needs to make money off these
(10:59):
like class room shields rather than substantive reforms around keeping
people safe. I mean, you know it's only now that
like people were like, oh man, solar is kind of lucrative.
Maybe looking into that, but it's just the yeah again, uh,
for the consistent, consistent sickness that we're having to come
(11:20):
up against living here, and yet my heartbreaks. Um, all right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
to talk some more after this and we're back Waco, Texas.
(11:41):
We talked about this going into the weekend, that Trump
was going to have a little rally there. You know
what I mean, you know, he's like, you know what
happened here right remember that? Well you know what I'm
wearing right now, myles, look represent look represent where you're from.
But you didn't go at a bay because you're down
with the branch Davidians, unlike Trump, who's there to send
(12:04):
a message because he's trying to get a slow motion
riot going right now because he feels he fears he's
going to be he seems seemingly is shook. So now
everything's talking about like, well, if you rescued me, then
the people are going to turn up and get real violent.
And it's already you've already seen with the DA getting
a mysterious white powder and a death threat sent to
him at the end of last week, that you're already
(12:25):
seeing things happen. But the rally was some people showed up,
but a lot of people left early from a lot
of the reports. I don't know if the weather was
like over there, but I don't blame you can only
you know, stand in the sun and hear someone just
sundown on the microphone for yeah, NonStop. But he also
said he also fit in a couple of good shoutouts
to putin where he was like, yeah, he said he's
(12:46):
gonna invade. He looks like he's gonna get a piece
now of Ukraine or maybe the whole who knows. And
it's like it's like, who are you talking to? I
think the audience is even like good, They're like, where
are you getting this information from? Yeah, so i'd play
the sound clip, but look, I'm slowly trying to get
the bandwidth back to be able to report on everything
that's happening in our country all the time. So I'll
(13:07):
spare everybody that sound bite and we'll move on to
our next topic, our next trend, which is Twitter. I've
you friends from tech who are like, oh, the Twitter
api leaked or the source code or the source code leaked.
I'm like, yeah, I saw this, and I was like,
I'm like, is bad? Is bad source code? But yes,
that is kind of like the entire that's like the
(13:29):
instruction manual to like how to fuck up Twitter, because
a lot of people are saying, like, the easy way
to describe it is if a hacker like hacked in
the main frange, Well, it's like a it's like a
map where you can like see how the platform is built,
but also you from there, you can look at any
vulnerabilities that exist because you can play around with it.
So that's not good. And apparently it leaked right after
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Elon Musk went on a firing spree, so god, oh no,
how could that happen? And meanwhile, this dude is out
here being like, oh my god, Twitter lost half its value.
It's only worth twenty billion now, Oh my god, leopards
ate my face? Why would they do that? Uh sir,
(14:13):
this is all of you. You made it all happen, buddy,
you can That's like, this is one of the times
you can be like that was me. Maybe Tesla wasn't me.
Maybe I was, you know, partnered with some smarter people
on those other past projects. But this shit, oh me am,
I want to be edge lordiness and lack of I
(14:34):
don't know, being told no ever as a human being.
So h yeah, tear tear, drop tears. I guess has
your Twitter used changed it all since I've been going?
Are you kind of on at the same amount? Yeah?
I'm on it about the same amount. I mean really,
I wasn't on it much before and then obviously you know,
the Elon Musk of it all. I'm like Okay, well,
definitely not trying to be on it now for sure.
(14:55):
You know, I'm on it for the show. I get
tweeted out for the show, So yeah, there's some discors
yeah about it, all right, yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm
not there to like be like and how do you
figure into all this? But I'm just as someone who
quite literally just i mean, having a baby was so
easy to be like, Man, I ain't looking at shit.
I mean, I feel very grateful that I never jumped
(15:19):
into Twitter, you know, like back in the day, I
was a Tumblr girly and I just never got on
Twitter like that out of Twitter since high school. But
I just you could probably see a total of like
ten tweets before I started working this job, like I
was not that. I'm sorry, and you know, yeah, and
we're not responsible for the psychological damage that has done
for Twitter, so don't use it. Uh. And then finally,
(15:43):
Dolly and David are trending first because Dolly Parton she
has a song with Maya Lee Cyrus called rainbow Land,
and a first grade teacher in Wisconsin wanted to have
like the tea the kids sing this like rainbow Land
song for their spring concert. Because you know it's a
(16:04):
great song. Let me really read the lyrics, because according
to other people, this is like a terror, it's too controversial.
It says living in a rainbow land where you and
I go hand in hand. Oh, I'd be lying if
I said this was fine. All the hurt and they
hate going on here. We are rainbows, me and you,
every color, every hue. Let's shine on through together. We
(16:25):
can start living in a rainbow land. Living in a
rainbow land. This guy's are blue and things are grand.
Wouldn't it be nice to live in a paradise where
we're free to be exactly who we are. Let's all
dig down deep inside, brush the judgment and fear aside,
make wrong things right, and end the fight because our promise,
ain't nobody gonna win. Come on, that's so man, that
(16:46):
isn't enough. Yeah, but again, people just have the conservative
shit that's going on now that this is absolutely just
a nightmare, just a nightmare. So uh sorry, sorry to
those kids who had to I don't know, be subjected
(17:08):
to something that was about being more inclusive. And then
I also want to touch on the reason David is trending,
because did you I don't know if you saw this,
like this teacher in Tallahassee, uh, like showed a picture
of Michelangelo's David to a group of sixth graders and
(17:28):
like the like the principle had to step down because like,
I'm sorry, we did not alert the parents that they
would see a little marble penis of Michelangelo's David. The
frenzy around like sexuality of any kind and how that's
like the gateway to de deviancy or being you know,
(17:52):
taken or trafficked or something like that. I mean, yeah,
at this point, they're probably just going to be showing
people like in like art class is like just a
text panel that's like describing the art, and they're like,
and that's that's all we can show you because it
will ruin your brain, not the amount of gun violence
that is around you, but because you saw Michelangelo's David.
But yeah, it's yeah, I mean, hey, great time for
(18:17):
great time to be a parent and think about Mike.
I'll say that literally, like Okay, so I'm never moving
back to the South ever again, Like it's just crazy. Yeah, yeah,
well i mean it'll it'll eventually, it'll event I mean,
who knows if if if the conservatives have their way,
this could be a standard. But anyway, that's a reason
why we have to keep an eye out because this
(18:38):
has just man the culture war stuff is getting so old. Please,
is getting so old? Please please. Eventually people might realize
you're not doing anything with policy, but whatever, that's for
a dream world where people are engaged. Um. Anyway, thank
you for joining us. That's going to do it for
it today. We're back tomorrow brand new, staying in an episode.
(19:01):
Thank you for joining me, beck up, we'll talk soon.
Until next time, make sure you know you're out there
being kind to yourself, be kind to each other, get
that vaccine if you haven't yet, don't do nothing about
white supremacy, and take care of yourself. I already said that,
but we'll see then tomorrow five
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