Girl Scout Cookie Conspiracy, Florida Lies People Dies 1.11.22

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to nineteen, episode
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is Jack O'Brien, speak of National Milk Day. Ak. My
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they're like mountain deer diet coke, and I'm like a

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little bit of both. Damn right. It's a little bit
of both. That is courtesy Apo Moran in reference to
my favorite mixed drink, which is mountain dew and diet
coke mixed together. And I'm thrilled to be joined as
always buy my co host, Mr Miles Grass. It's my
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to uh one of my near my old neighborhood and
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can't believe the world is changing like it is. But
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written for Good Mythical Morning Practice, Doctress and Brackmire. You
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It's one of our favorite guests on t v Z,
one of your favorite guests. Please welcome the brilliant and
talented Teresa Lee. Go go. Where's my test today? I've

(01:48):
isolated five days. I like it now or ever, where's
my test today? I took the bay I ordered on
FedEx Sunday, but I never got it in the mail.
What the funk? L A, Okay, that's I wrote that
just now, but it's already won over a week ago
and I did not get it, and I went in person.

(02:10):
I took one and I was negative, but I still
haven't got my home test. Yeah, well, you know it's uh.
I don't know why this country can do so many
things except the just the real simple ship like a test.
I think they're still building the government too. We've given
somebody tests, yeah exactly. Just had to buy masks for

(02:32):
our kids, so like and masks with dinosaurs on them,
and they are so fucking expensive. It's like, yo, they
should The government is sending these out to everyone. On
top of making it really clear that ninety five is
pretty much what they're all saying is like you should
you need to do surgical or better, don't work around

(02:52):
with cloth masks with a macron because it's, uh, this
is this isn't this is this? Ain't it? The school
will accept nothing less at this point. And yeah, I
mean it makes like other countries out are shipping like
they'll just ship you test regular release, so you have
to take it before you even order it. It's like
we're like, I don't know just what you mushrooms again?

(03:16):
You trip in hallucinating stuff in that country that's sending
people tests. A funny you say that I did do
mushrooms and go to see the Enchanted Force of Light
this weekend. Oh it's fun. It was really nice after
I got my negative tests. Is that in this cancel? Yeah? Yeah,
that's that's just slept on botanical garden. Yeah, I mean

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it's really it really did feel like because at first
I was like this is really wholesome, but I'm like,
this is probably the part when I get dragged to
festivals that I like anyways, the like lights and pretty flowers,
it's like I don't like the loud music or the people.
So I mean, I know I like the people. Some
people like that. I I don't like crowds, not like
specifically hate everyone, but but you go to these like

(04:00):
gardens and it's like very family friendly, cute flowers and
you can just roam around and just enjoy and kind
of get lost, and like this is dies like why
this has slept on? For sure? Yeah, that is one
of the handful of events that I went to that
I brought my kids to and desperately wished that I
had been on mushrooms. Well was there that did you go?

(04:24):
You went recently to, like a year ago or two
years ago? Yeah? That dis cancels always where people go
to take like their family photos to like you always
see people doing like first birthday photos and ship like
it would always be like a child who is incapable
of sitting still for a photo and they're like a
guy with six cameras and like stressed out of parents,

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and I'm like, there's that's always a mainstay at dis
canceled Card. No, it's just a good place to let
them run. It's funny to watch the photos being taken
at something like that because you really can see where
there's different like agendas of people who have come together
then make that event. Like you see the pr girls
work in the like giant drink cabin and it's all

(05:07):
lit up with a flancy arrow and like sparkling lights,
and then there's like you know, very easy to read
signs are like go this way for the like you know,
fairy fairy lights are like you know, two lips. And
then like behind in the dark there's like in actual
like probably the botanists or the scientists who actually like
spend the tax dollars to make it. It's like really
dense writing and it's all in the dark, covered by leaves.

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It's like you want to learn about trees and you
have to like go off the like it's not even lit.
It's like nobody wants to learn about tree yea, And
all the photos are just being taken in the light
and like the cool gast flowers are in the corner,
like we are cool too, Like nobody wants to look
at them. One of the few places where the oak
coverage is expanding naturally in l A County. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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where's the hot chacolate? Yeah, that's right, all right, Theresa.
Weird to get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
few of the things that we're talking about today. We're
talking about what what's going on with the mandates. Why
isn't Biden doing anything about those mandates? I have no

(06:12):
no clue, can't can't possibly guess, nor can I guess
why Florida having a low death rate in context of
how high their hospitalizations are. That continues to be a story,
even though we know that they are hacking their numbers,
they are just not letting the death the deaths be reported. Essentially,

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we'll talk a little bit more about it. We we
talked about it last year, and like how they're basically
delaying any death, like the people calling a death a
COVID death until like two weeks after it happened, and
then that death only gets reported four two weeks ago.
So instead of being like, okay, now that it's been called,
we count that as a death today, it doesn't get

(06:58):
counted as death today. It gets counted as death two
weeks ago. And it's just a blatant like plan to
hack the way the mainstream media reports COVID stats. And
wouldn't you know it, the front page of MSN dot
com head the headline Florida's COVID cases and hospitalizations are surging,

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but the state has the second lowest death rate in
the nation. What's going on? And then doesn't Yeah, it
doesn't tell the truth until like three paragraphs, and so
we'll talk about that. Uh, we're gonna talk about it's
Girl Scout cookie season. It's upon us and the you know,
there's two cookies that were new last year that are holdovers,

(07:41):
adventure Fuls and toast yeahs toast, Yeah, it's a play
on toast. They say it's a play on toast. E h,
that doesn't that's not how we're playing works though, right,
Like yeah, anyways, they're like French toasts and adventure foles
are chocolate caramel to kick concoctions cocaine users breakfast. Yes,

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so we're gonna talk about that, and the fact that
depending on where you live, there two very different Girl
Scout cookie manufacturers that make cookies, both with different names
and also like different totally different like concepts, and in
one case, the s'more cookies, like they don't look at
anything alike. Oh, I feel like I vaguely this is

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a conspiracy we used to have, like as Girl Scouts
were like why are they called different things in different places?
And that's a mystery, but we we didn't know back
in the day. Yeah, no, legit. I was like, the
Girl Scouts have gotten rid of or they've changed the
names of Samoa's too, Caramel Delights. I was the Karma
Delight girl. I was like what, I was so confused,

(08:45):
And then peanut butter Patty instead of tag along. Yeah,
it's I always assumed they were at some phase of
like at some stage of phasing one out and adding another.
End turns out, nope, there's just two different manufacturers to
make different cookies. Even the thin Mint is like pretty
wildly different. So we'll we'll talk about that all of

(09:07):
that plenty more. But first, Teresa most importantly, we do
like to ask our guests, what is something from your
search history? Oh yeah, I searched this this morning because well,
I searched how to replace a previous key battery because I,
as you know, I went to the Disconnot Gardens this weekend,

(09:28):
but as you did not know, I lost my backpack
on the lift home, as I can only imagine, which
is okay. I mean, it was annoying, but I what
I realized. The best thing about losing everything in the
New Year's it's kind of like just zero some m
You're like, hey, it just pretend it happened last year,
and it's like it doesn't matter. Yeah, you know, it's

(09:53):
like a new star reset. It's fine. But then in
the backpack was my keys as well, and so I
had to come back to my place to get my
spare key. It was the whole thing turned out did
not have battery. Went to CBS, bought the battery that
the Google said was the wrong battery. So life's going
well right out. But you know, somebody got to go

(10:15):
to a dealership or some ship to get that ship.
I'll probably no, I think I can go to yes, possibly,
but I think I have to go to um like
home Depotion and get the right battery. They didn't have
it a TVs. I your car is still there. No,
so I was able to like manually open it. But
it's the smart it's this is so boring, but the
smart lot, Like in order to turn it on, I

(10:36):
have to like press, press it visit manually instead of
like you have to p there's a way to do it.
You press the key to the button and then pressed
the brain. Yeah, what kind of battery you working with? Their?
Well I two and it was wrong. I guess I've
turned into like a fifty year old just like what

(10:58):
kind of entire size which I'm on that I have
to say, I'm desperately interested in, Like you talking, are
you in the car? Are you in car mode? Now? No?
I just I figured out how to change my keys
batteries and so it's like the hand the one handy
thing I've done in the last few months. It is
a rush though I didn't realize like all this stuff,

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like how you know the stereotype like girls do crafts,
guys do cars, But then when you actually break it down,
it's the same feeling like when you're starting to open
up a thing and fix it. I'm like, this reminds
me of so like I'm like this, it was like
it brings me back to arts and crafts. And now
I'm like I understand why, like guys like to work
on electronics because it's sort of like taking care of

(11:39):
something that won't die. You can't hurt it. Really, you know,
it's a battery for all this battery replacement talker, tell
me why my mazdaki has not had a battery since
we started this podcast. Wow, I've been taking out like
the opened the door, then I gotta press my button

(12:02):
on the ignition and whenever I have I'm in a
valet situation and taking like fifteen miss like look, bro,
the batteries that you gotta touch it to this thing
or it's not gonna start. Like yeah, we get it,
your lazy piece of ship. And I haven't changed it
in ages. And then the pandemic happened. I'm like, well,
what the fund does it matter? And I find myself
in the same place now. So you've inspired me to
perhaps change this myself and to move on to But

(12:23):
you've actually given yourself this interesting moment because by waiting
so long, you're almost gifting yourself this like really like
when I have things I want to do list that
last way too long, it becomes that's the new norm,
you know, like how you side forever, it's you get
to go. Yeah, if you get to just once open
your car door without like the old old way again,

(12:43):
it's gonna feel like ten times better than if you
had changed that battery a year ago, you know what
I mean. And now it's gonna make your whole week.
It makes people fucking nervous because like they see me
like going through like I'm at the grocery store, be
like a white woman or a car, and I'm like
going through my pockets like let me get my ship
real quick because I don't have I can't just hit
the button opening and they're always like looking at me
like it's a key and I'm open, thank you. But yeah,

(13:06):
there's there there are physical emotions to it that I
realized are like we're kind of in certain aspects we
don't we've moved forward from like unlocking a car with
your key. It feels like something for strange, the working people,
not the elevated folks West Hollywood. Yeah, I have a
theory that the reason you haven't done. That is because

(13:28):
like having kids provides you with so many moments of
boredom that you like think, you like make to do
lists and ship and that's the only right because that
that is Anyone who knew me before I had kids
would tell you that like having no batteries and a
key or having the lights out in like every room
of my house except one was like the sort of

(13:50):
ship that I would just my brain would just be like, okay,
so we don't have lights in here now, but I
think the boredom parenthood, yeah, in order to But you're
saying you're board from having a child. It's so having
would your wife feel about this statement? Because I feel
like a bared kids. You're constantly taking care of the kids,

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but there's also like you're doing it and then like
they are playing or you know, asking you a question
every like ten minutes. But it's it's a lot of
like you have to be there, you have to be
with them, you have to be like ready to answer
a question or like you know, put a band aid
on something. But a lot of it is just your

(14:41):
brain is like so standby. I feel like it's a
drastically different experience, like even when both parents are as involved,
Like I think the mother brain is just wired in
a way. Because I had this convo with my boyfriend
because he sometimes watches my dog, and when my dog
is over, I'm the only one who takes about in
the morning, and I was like, I think he needs

(15:02):
to pee, and he's like, now he's good. Like no,
it's like if we leave now, it's it's gonna be
like six hours before we come back. And and then
in his mind he's like, well, when he stays over
with me, he's always good. I'm like, yeah, that's because
it's like one day at a time. I was like, oh,
it's Grandma's house. And I'm like, now, imagine if you
had him for a whole month, Like he's gonna be
waking up at seven am, like every morning. I have
to do this every day. There's not a day off.

(15:23):
You don't get a prize because you remember to do
it once. It's just like, yeah, this is just your life.
I'm like, if we have kids, you're gonna be like
I changed a diaper. I'm good for a month now, right,
I'm like, I think the baby needs the diapers. Now,
they're good. They're it happens every couple of hours. You
what's his name? What's his name? Bitcoin? Wow, okay, this

(15:50):
makes sense. Now what is what something you think is overraged? Oh? Okay,
this is a real basic. But I think strawberries because
I was eating one strawberries. I always buy raspberries. I'm
a raspberry gout. I don't know. Strawberries are everywhere. I'm
not saying they're not good. I'm just saying they're like
they have way too much type everything strawberries, strawberry showerry.
You put them on pancakes. Raspberries are better. And I

(16:12):
actually got strawberries. They look good. I cut them up.
They're just fine. Like I see your face, Miles, and
I acknowledge. It's more like because I think I don't
I don't really have a berry in this fight. But
I know that they're always better when it's hotter. That's
the one thing. Like whenever you get in the winter,
the strawberries aren't as good than they are like when

(16:34):
it's warmer, because I know, because what most of our
strawberries in California grown in California. Anyway, It's like the
real prime time is like in fed like starts in
February or something. That's a good Yeah, that's a good point.
Like I feel like we have gotten to a point
where we just expect every fruit to be in season
all the time. The only season that I'm aware of

(16:55):
is easy season. Easy seasons of course, but like in
terms of produce, also easy season. I do love easy
produced but peaches. Peaches are drastically different. For less a
month in the summer, like in like July August, they're
just like holy shit, and then every other time it's

(17:16):
just like but I agree. Like strawberries, I probably don't
pick close enough attention to them, but especially like there's
nothing worse than like a chunk of frozen strawberry, as
opposed to if you get like a frozen raspberry or something.
It's like having a treat, but a chunk of frozen strawberries.
Like I have a good strawberries, but just in general,

(17:37):
the ones that grocery store and perhaps I'm not chopping
in the right season, but the best ones I've ever
had where like in Japan, where they don't they're not
like engineer and they look not that sweet, but they're
they're small and almost like not red, but they're really sweet.
The ones you look red and huge and they just
taste like fine. Right. There's actually a really good New
Yorker article about the picking of berries and like how

(17:58):
they haven't been able to fully like robotize it yet
that they do talk about how the entire like evolution
of strawberries has been towards big, bright red and and
like regardless of taste. Yeah, they just like don't take
taste on it because it's all about, like people, what
is going to look best to people in the produce as.

(18:19):
I think that's probably a uniquely America. That's that's why
I like a good farmers market, because they're not gonna
fun like they're gonna tell you straight up. They're like
no, no no, no, I would wait on those. They're like,
I mean, if you need strawberries or something, you can
get those, Like these apples are better right now, you know,
unless how you start learning the waves, man, apples stay good.
I love I love app Okay apple? Gang? Oh wow

(18:44):
that apple? Or did you are you done with that?
How how close to the court there? No, No, this
is an all day process, I was saying. I always
talk about one of my earliest memories of driving the
car with My dad used to have this Toyota truck
is like work trug. It was fucked up and it
would have apple cores all on the dash board and
in various like states of being dehydrated by the California

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l a son. And my mom would always be so
mad at him for having all his apple all these
apple cores and car taking me to school and ship
and he's like, I guess fine, it's apples. I eat
apples a day. I remember him eating them to the
fucking core, like and I remember the first time I
had apple. I tried to get there and I'm like,
this is this is too intense. I can't get down
like that. Yeah did they ever sprout? No? No, they

(19:29):
would just turn brown and like you know, sound like
a like fucking like a dish sponge. Yeah, smells start
smelling like some some form. Yeah, exactly. What is something
you think is underrated? Teresa? Okay, I think this is
like gonna sound strange, but I shall explain. Okay, I

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underrated just like baggage like can like but people with
baggage as adults. And I would go even so far
as to say, like this is because I was reacting
to how we're obsessed with you and like having like
you know, like over sexualizing sort of being young and
pure and innocent. And I'm like, I really, the more
I think about it, the more I'm like, you know,
what's actually fun? It's like consensual adult sex with baggage,

(20:12):
you know what I mean. Like that's the opposite and
what you would think when they're selling like, oh my god,
pure innocent. But it's like I think that that's the
most fun when two people, you know what I mean,
like two people who are working on themselves. I'm not like, oh,
I hate my baggage, but like two people with baggage
who are like, hey, I did the work and now
we're adults, and we're also like, I mean that is it?

(20:35):
Is it baggage? Right? Because you're talking about like what's
better than self aware of people being passionate and up
like you know, but that's not what we're being told.
We're being sold like the idea of like oh, like
the innocent and pure and like that's actually kind of
annoying to be honest, like you know, let the kids
have their innocence, but like that's annoying. I don't want

(20:55):
to be around someone immature, and so I think we
should start actually marketing, like just like you know, our
icons are sports illustrated models should just straight up be like,
I'm a mother divorce and I also am in therapy,
so it's like, woo, isn't that hot? Like that should be.
It's like dad didn't reach out till my first magazine cover.
But I don't hold it against you. I have power

(21:17):
to make my life better and I chose to be
here and you're like, damn, that does not define me. Though. Yeah,
I know that's interesting. I mean, I yeah, there is
something too like it says. I don't know, just in general,
there's something attractive about people who can be like who
are aware of like the ship that they've been through,
how it's affected them, and also being like and I know,

(21:38):
I kind of gotta work on that kind of thing
versus I remember when I was younger, you deep, you know,
when you have no awareness around your own ship, it
just looks like to fucking Tasmanian devils, like emotional Tasmanian
devils be near each other. Yeah, I like a I
like a little bit of thinking awareness for sure. Yeah,
especially like the the idea of like innocence and not

(22:00):
anybody who in the current world is just like I'm good,
Like you know, I'm just like innocent and I don't
really I don't let this stuff get me down. Yeah,
it's like what stuff life reality, like the reality of
where we live. I feel like when I was, you know,
before the pandemic, and I was interacting more people and

(22:21):
like assessing people for new friendships and things. If people
seem too innocent, bro, we're not gonna get along. Like
you need to know you've stolen ship and I need
to know that, like you've screamed at the top of
your lungs at a parent because they didn't understand you
or some ship. Like when people are just like, yeah,
like this like Disney like energy, I'm like, yeah, that's

(22:44):
that Disney And because it's what it is is it's
almost like it's one thing to be happy and optimistic.
I'm like, nothing wrong with high happy energy as long
as you're aware of the truth. But I think the
energy of like everything's fine is almost like dystopian because
it's like, oh, you're gonna need my help when things
go wrong, because clearly you have not ever had to
solve you know what I mean that feeling like versus

(23:06):
someone who's like, hey, I can, like, you know, change
all of my car I could do this. Uh, and
so at the end of the day, I'm not gonna
like lean on you so hard, but I might, you know,
help you out. You can help me out, and it's cool.
Maybe come my surrogate emotional mother. Yeah, yeah, we will
negotiate the terms of this emotional handoff. But I don't worry. Yeah,

(23:29):
negost the emotion. I don't think Disney like affected me
that much. But I am only attracted to very happy,
positive orphans parents tragically when they were too young to
know them. Oh my gosh. Disney also sucked up like
how we see animals because I didn't realize this until recently,
because I'm like, we have to new to our dog.
That makes sense, yes, even though I was watching puppy

(23:51):
videos of Tibetan spaniels thinking how sad my dog will
never have a family of his own, And then I remember, like,
why did I love puppy so much? Growing up? All
the Disney movies, you just randomly go puppies, Like there's
just like families who have dogs and suddenly puppies. I'm like,
this is propaganda. How are you telling children that you
got a dog for as a pet and you could
have puppies when literally the Humane Society came to our

(24:13):
elementary schools had told us neuterin in Spain, it's fine
like that, we had bookmarks that said neuter and spay
your dogs. Damn. And at the same time, all the
cartoons are like puppies have families too, And you're like,
wait a minute, wait a minute, Oh, I mean I was.
It was one of my nieces, Like over the break,
they break their necks trying to look at a puppy anywhere. Puppy.

(24:35):
You're like, we're driving in a car, like I thought
some ship went down, but you just saw a puppy outside,
And I get that. Disney used Disney actually used like
baby animals to like hack what what we will find cute?
Like they used like the head shapes of baby hippos
and the head shapes of baby humans to design all

(24:58):
their cute animals. So yeah, there, you get it right there. Alright,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And

(25:21):
we're back, and you know, people are starting to ask
the question that the Biden administration heading into the New
Year was talking a lot about mandates, and you know
how this was, we had deadlines. Everybody's gonna have to
quit their jobs if they wanted to stay with that
anti back ship. And it just seems like that is

(25:42):
stretching on the vaccine man dates aren't aren't really being
enforced that much, and people are asking why, whether it's
people fucking suing to stop it, and obviously many states
state attorneys general have you know, that's like a case
of the Supreme Court is hearing. There's been all kinds
of resistance, but I think one that hasn't really been
talked about a lot, or at least looked at enough,

(26:05):
is really what Corporate America's hand is in this, Because
at first it sounded like Corporate America was all on
board with this. We're like, yep, absolutely, They're like, you're
working here, you better get vaccinated. We see what the
economists are saying. If you know people are vaccinated, it
makes the situation more stable, really, which means we have
healthy people to buy our ship. But as like the

(26:28):
Biden administration's call for the vaccine mandates like grew larger
and louder and clearer, things apparently changed, and suddenly the
corporations have changed their tune. And I think since worker
safety means no money going to c suite bonuses, they're
very quickly be like, yeah, you know what, Actually, no, no no, no,
this is all bad and how's it happening. So this

(26:48):
is from the starticle quote um from Jacobin saying, just
analyzing where a lot of the corporate influence has been
exerted as it relates to mandates. Quote. Some of the
groups are fighting the mandate in court, while others have
been Some men comments to OSHA throughout the public comment
period for the new rule urging modification, clarification, or even
wholesale abandonment of the rule. And so what they're saying

(27:10):
is like these are industry lobbying groups who are just
getting all their hot takes in during the public comment period,
Like this is stupid, It's gonna funk up everything. Suddenly
they go on to say, quote, some corporate lobbying groups
want to revise Biden's vaccine and testing mandates to allow
for nonsensical exemptions for people who self attest that they
have been tested or have experienced quote natural infection and recovery.

(27:33):
And others want the rules scrapped outright, arguing that the
mandate will turn businesses into quote the government's instruments of
coercion against their own employees. Um So in short, he's
shook slash beholden to the groups. We saw with Djokovic
over the weekend that he basically waited waited out the

(27:56):
Australian government and there was enough pressure from the tennis
body to like let him play, and they were like,
oh he had COVID, okay, so he has these natural
were good. We're good as if you can't get it
more than one, like I know people who have got
it more than one vaccinated. Yeah. So essentially, like it's

(28:17):
just creating this environment, I think, not just as it
relates to this specific mandate, but like we're now we're
seeing people like teachers or flight attendants. They've suddenly become
like the front line in terms of advocating for workplace safety,
and not because like their revolutionaries, but because their employers
have put them in like an impossible position where they're

(28:37):
like no, like this is too much, like you're not
you're you're ignoring the spiking COVID cases. We've had coworkers
passed away at the environment. This is just too much.
I don't want to be out there. And currently, like
many flight attendants have been pleading for vaccine mandates on
flights in the in the US, like they're like, hey,
f A, what happened to this talk of like having

(28:59):
people like vaccinated on like airline flights. This is this
could be potentially great for us, because I don't know
if you've seen the news since flights started taken off again,
we're basically getting punched and having to tape people to
seats because they don't want to fucking wear masks. So
they're all saying, like anecdotally, like we very much see
a clear line between if there was like people who

(29:20):
funk with like vaccines or respect the mask, they're not
the kinds of people that end up assaulting us on flights.
So they're like, this would just be a tremendous weight
and safety concern lifted from our shoulders. But then like
when the White House Press Sector Jen Saki was asked
about it, she said quote, they had not heard that
explanation internally and and directed questions to the f a A.

(29:45):
The f a A A in turn referred the Daily Beast
was asking to the White house. It's almost like they
did none of these people should be in charge because
they basically are acting the way like a big companies whenever,
like a big company makes a new and everyone's like, wow,
why do we have to sit through this harassment training
or whatever? But it's like now the CEO is like what,

(30:05):
why do we have to do the thing? It's like
the thing that like rules, you don't like rules, the
thing that you make your employees do like hm, when
it applies to them, they just can't stand it, right,
And also like, so now I have to pay for
them to be tested. No, no, no, we're not doing
any of that. It's only cool when they pay my salary.

(30:25):
And they do work for absolutely. And they noted that
the flight attendants and teachers are the front lines because
they're almost all unionized, and that's thus they're able to
actually like bring a fight as opposed to other people
who are just getting fucking railroad up. And that's what's
wild too, right, the especially as it relates to Chicago,

(30:45):
you know, and you look on teacher Twitter, My god,
the things that like people are saying is happening in
their school district and the conditions they're made to work
in you'd be like, fuck, that is so it's so
fucked up. But again, because of the bunch of capitalism,
most people's responses like I go in because I can't
lose this job, like I'm already supporting family, Like I

(31:07):
can't this isn't when I have to look at up
like a decision to stay or find something else is
just easier for me to stay with this. But me
in the meantime, you have like politicians of the audacity
to be like these teachers are like out of line,
like abandoning these kids, like these kids and like I
heard you know, saying things like they're coming from homes

(31:27):
or the parents are struggling and need to go to work.
It's like, motherfucker. As a leader, why are you not
ideating around how you can keep those parents safe that
they're not having to be in an impossible situation like
well if I if I don't go to work, then
I lose my job. But if I but if but
my kids are not in school, So what am I
supposed to do? And just treating it like this unsolvable problem.

(31:50):
It's just really fucked up, just even how it's being
discussed out loud, and like hearing people take those, you know,
rhetorical arguments interesting. Yeah, are the teachers selfish? Yeah? I
also don't know all or even most flight attendants or
teachers are unionized, But I just I just know that
I've heard of the unions for those professions, so like that.

(32:13):
I'm not I'm not saying they're all unionized. I'm just
saying that that gives them at least a fucking foothold,
whereas a lot of the other professions, your Amazon delivery
and warehouse workers don't have that option. I will say
that when I searched our most flight attendants, the Google
auto complete number one with a bullet was single. So

(32:36):
people are just way too thirsty out here being like,
are you single? Are most attendant? That's like someone's weird
interpretation of being unionized. It's like they have they entered
a wholly union of matrimony. That's probably what it means.

(32:56):
That's how we get the evangelicals on board the union
with Christy. I mean, look at these people. Some of
these people are not even Christians and they're willing to
enter into a union with christ I mean, please, we
need your support for minimum ways, the Great collab the
labor the labor movement after the Great the Great collab Collabo. Alright,

(33:27):
let's talk about Florida real quick there. Yeah, so they
have low death rates. Recently, people are asking us to
solve the solve the riddle. Their COVID cases and hospitalizations
are surging, but the state has the second lowest death
rate in the nation. What's going on? So we talked
to a couple of months ago about how they changed

(33:47):
the way they were reporting COVID deaths so that when
a death was determined like weeks after it happened, that
death would only be counted to two weeks ago, as
opposed to revery other state, which is just giving it
to like the current day, which keeps things up to
date and at least like gives you the information as

(34:09):
constantly as possible and as like up to date, so
that people are like, oh ship, Florida deaths from COVID
are really going up, instead of oh ship, we're getting
a revision that says Florida deaths from COVID went up
a couple of weeks ago. They don't usually, It's like
it's like you have to go back and check it
every two weeks to actually see it. I'd be like

(34:31):
if you're like late every day, but instead of it's
like we won't marculate today and then in two weeks later. Yeah, exactly.
It's just you have to look at the rate from
like weeks ago to see. Yeah, it's very st if
you're a time traveler, though, do not go to Florida.
The COVID death rates from the past are mind blowing. Yeah, so,

(34:53):
I mean deaths are always a lagging indicator, Like we've
learned that by living through this pandemic. But there's is
like you know, doubling tripling the leg that we have.
We didn't always show going down to them because if
as you get visit the present day, so then it
always looks like we're want to decline in some ways exactly,
and you know that's that's how they do it. But

(35:15):
this MSN article is just like really buries that fact.
There's like a sentence about it. But they say experts
say several factors could explain the currently low rates. Florida's
horrific toll from Delta, and it's acquired resistance and vaccination
rates maybe buffering the state at a time when others
are contending with two variants, which doesn't really make sense.

(35:36):
And it is also like the anti bax ornies I've
got the antibodies don't give credence to that ship. Yeah,
And then only after that they say or because of
the white Florida reports COVID deaths, which already tend to
leg infections and hospitalizations, the true death rate from this
recent wave maybe too soon to know. And then somebody

(35:57):
later on does say that that it of always looks
makes it look like they're declining, even though what what's
really happening is that we're just learning later and attributing
those two earlier on. But it's just they did a
very specific thing too, with a very specific like aim
for their outcome, and it is working perfectly. And and

(36:20):
these fucking the treatments of this kind of news story
are they've completely fucked people's perception up of like what's
happening to because you could be like, damn, what's going
on Florida. Then you probably see Ron de Sant has
come out and he's like, so, you know, um, with COVID,
you know we're doing well. Do you see that clip
of him trying to like catch his breath at a

(36:41):
factory opening and it was like, are you hiding something, sir?
You you're either you are so emotional from this semiconductor
factory opening, or you are having serious troublereathing from potentially
respiratory passionate about his job. It chokes him up. Yeah right, yeah,
having to do it makes him sad. Right, and you
get this idea. It's like, well they got something right
by completely throwing out people's like basic rights to be

(37:04):
treated as a human being that should live like out
the window, and like their brute force policy is working.
Rather than just saying Florida, this story is just Florida
keeps lying about how the report and deaths there. It
is not m let's do this. They really did a
New York Times on that one. We got to go
through Florida's phone. Florida has been lying. Florida is hiding shit. Okay,

(37:29):
who's table talking Florida? What's going on? Any headline that
I mean this is not that our listenership is falling
for this, and this is more recovering the story as
an example of how the industry media is complicit and
all the misinformation that's going on. But any headline that
ends with what's going on. At the end, they're putting
out a bunch of different theories and it's probably completely bullshit.

(37:54):
It's like stirring your curiosity. But like, but your job
was supposed to ask this question internally and then figure
you're supposed to this is like the pitch to your editor,
and then you're supposed to figure out what's going on
and tell us. Buried in the article is a very
succinct description of what is happening, Like Florida is the
only state that reports COVID death to the Center of
Disease Control and Prevention by the date the death occurred,

(38:17):
rather than the date reported to the state, or a
combination of the two. According to a notation, the way
Florida reports can give the appearance overall deaths are decreasing.
The CDC notes this does not reflect a true decline
and data should be interpreted with caution. So, yeah, exactly
what you said, Teresa, that it gives the impression that
there's perpetual decrease and it's actually just slow reporting and

(38:41):
manipulation of the system. Yeah, what's going on? Then meanwhile,
says I see you beds are filling up. Is another
slug in that story it's like, Okay, it doesn't sound
like everything's doing great, but don't believe what you hear.
There could be magic. I mean Disney Disney World is
in floor. Maybe magic will help them. I don't know,

(39:04):
you believe in tragic There you go. Yeah, the the
implication is that Florida's like rapidly aging or already aged
population is just like killing it when it comes to
surviving COVID and also like very relatively unvaccinated population. Anyways,
good media we have. Let's take a quick break and

(39:28):
we'll be right back. And we're back, and Girls Got
Cookie season is as well. And this is exciting times,

(39:48):
I think for people who like sugar such such in myself.
But so there's this article in the takeout where they
made reference to the fact that the there are two
entirely different like kitchens, entirely entirely different factories that make
the girl Scout cookies, and the cookies are like totally
different depending on where you live. One of those called ABC, right,

(40:12):
that's the one I remember growing up. Two bakers ABC
and Little Brownie And yeah, you know they're mixtape on SoundCloud,
fucking fire full Little Brownie. But the terrible joke. I'm sorry.
I like it, man, I thought I thought it was good.
It was. It was like one of those ones that

(40:35):
like makes you think. So that's like me, that's my tagline.
I'm one of the ones that makes you one of
those that makes you think so. Thin mints, like I
had definitely experienced this, Like some thin mints don't have
that much chocolate around them. Some of them are just
like kind of way free cookies that don't have much

(40:56):
chocolate around them, and our mintier and those are different
than the ones that I grew up with that have
a bunch of chocolate around them. And I had interpreted
that as Girl Scout Cookies are working with them with
the process, working with the formula. Oh yeah, weren't. That's
like some ship you would say, I feel like in
the years past, like you black Yo, I think they're

(41:18):
working with the formula. Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised that
you're asking if I said that, seeing you got my
invite to the City Hall protests that I staged and
completely flaked on it. That don't let him fuck the formula.
The standards of Thinness and Girl scott Cookies is just
unachievable these days thank you, keep going up and down.

(41:41):
It was on January six then why d C So
that was kind of got overshadowed. But all cookies are bad,
okay sir? But yeah, the it's it's just And also
I did such little research that the answer was very clear,
and I just like didn't didn't know that, like, oh no,

(42:03):
there are two separate cookies. Nobody's changing anything, you dipshit.
But people who don't move around, I think, would just
assume that we all lived in a Samoa's world or
a tag Along's world versus a Peanut butter Patties world.
But those are two separate cookies made by the two
different like regional Girl Scout Cookie kitchens. What's their like?

(42:26):
Turf map look like like who gets what? Yeah? Is it?
Like Jerrymander? Like, how does because it sounds like you
grew up in California? R Yeah, I grew up in
North Cala and we had peanut butter patties and caramel
de lights. We had Samoa's and tag Alongs down here. Yeah,
I think it's totally man. Look like there's something deeper

(42:49):
we need to dig into. The big Girl Scout Cookie
is trying to create divisive lines between northern California and
southern California from a young age. They're working with Big
Sugar to make us angry. I think I think there's
something here. Yeah, there is. Uh. There is a map
on l A Times that supposedly tells you which cookie

(43:12):
you're eating and who who services you or zip code,
but then the second type of city or an address,
and it doesn't tell it's a no results found, Please
refine your search. Huh. Okay, they they've never heard of
Los Angeles apparently, But how are people selling girls coo
cookies now? I mean they're not going to door to door,

(43:34):
are they. Yeah, there's like an online online thing, Yeah, happening.
But for instance, people on this podcast Zake Gang, we're
probably confused because we kept referring to s'mores as being
the sandwich style cookies with frosting and fudge hints of maple,
as opposed to like s'mores from ABC Bakeries, which apparently

(43:56):
doesn't service Los Angeles. Is like h ocolate coverage, Graham Cracker.
It's like totally it doesn't even look like I don't
know if I remember. That might be a new one,
since mores are now They're like they're the third newest
kind of permanent a dish and they're pretty. Actually, lemonades
might also be um lemonades again, totally different looking cookies.

(44:20):
And holdly you're saying you grew up with a thin
mint that have more fudge covering on it. Yeah, like
we didn't take that bite. You felt like, oh, I'm
getting through chocolate and I'm hitting the cookie. Yeah, whereas
the crunch here with more mint. Thin mints are made
by ABC Bakers, which are are the ones that don't service.

(44:43):
But that's weird because I feel like I'm eating. When
you said there was more chocolate, I'm like, I mean,
I feel like the chocolate is lacking on some of
these thin mints. How much chocolate it could have had.
I remember chocolate. There's a little it was chocolate coating, right,
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but it was thin. Yeah.
So the thin mint the other ones are just away

(45:04):
for cookie. There's no chocolate. That's not what I grew
up with, though I had here let me I mean,
unless I'm unless this picture is fooling, I do have
to say, Okay, I'm googling, and it's funny, Miles that
you said to hit this cookie because I wanted to
see what a dosy do look like. Pretty Much, any
Girl Scout cookie you put into Google image is going
to show you pictures of weed. Like, yeah, that's true,

(45:26):
the pictures of weed. Thin mints. Yeah, I mean it
should be noted all of ABC Baker's cookies are just
you know, loaded down with ta They should open a
dispense Girl Scout Cookie dispensary. Is this thin mint with
the whole No, right, but that's the ABC. That's what

(45:47):
a lot of people grew up. Okay, that's no, that's
not anything. And then okay, so we're definitely in Little
Brownie because I remember you bought a pack of Smores
that your Super Bowl party a couple of years ago,
and this was the ships that we had. Yeah, it
was the Little Brownie Baker's version. Remember the short short
bread that's the classic, right yeah yeah, yeah, trefoils, but

(46:13):
they look different, Like, look, I just posted a link
above the one that that com posted in there, and
like you get side by side and even that even
like the classic is like very different looking. This is trash.
This is like forget the what is the Mandela effect?
I mean, this is where the divide in our country
from off? Keep that going? What if someone dug in

(46:38):
and it was just like you know, Trump voters or
service by ABC bakers, Biden voters right a step fucked
up Kendall gender Pepsi commercial. But Girls Scout Cookies in
Fanuary six like what the try this thing? Ment though
Q and on Viking and it's like, oh my god,
actually go Mike Pennce protect democracy. My mind is being changed.

(47:03):
I do feel like the Girl Scouts as an organization
has has historically done a lot of like progressive things, right,
But but it is interesting too. It's funny that the
cookies is like we still think of the cookies as
a big part of it, and they don't really. I mean,
I don't know. I remember thinking like, oh I want
to sell cookies, but it's like you don't get to
bake the cookies. You don't get you just go to

(47:24):
the door. Now you don't even go to the door
and you just take an order. And then so I
think they're like, maybe these bakeries are using these girls
to raise money in a way that it's not going
back to the girls. Make a little capitalism soldiers, you
know what, go out there and fucking hustle. You're fucking
selling out your trunk. Did you to like compete to
be employee of the month like that with most picture

(47:49):
like a wall that like otherwise doesn't get you ship?
Yeah why not? Why not make you just make something
and how the cut? Yeah? But so the two new
ones are toast yea and Adventurefuls. Adventurefuls are like chocolate
e they look fucking good. I haven't had one, but

(48:10):
they are chocolate cookies like they look a little bit cakey.
Shout out to my mom, who's chocolate chip cookies are
very cakey, very caramel flavored cream. But it's like cream
spelled the fancy ways. Yeah. Yeah, but anyways, you know,

(48:30):
don't keep your head on a swivel out there as
you're buying girl Scout cookies and check the box. Sniffet no,
no this this this, let me this weight feels like
you got a b c's in a little Brown's box.
Open that ship right now. Yeah, let me let me
use my razor blade real quick, like you doing chocolate.

(48:51):
Oh my god, yeah, no, no fudge on this. They
can come. Yeah. So I just I need to applaud
the hey like we it's probably the website that we
most approve of on the daily's. Like, guys, with the
possible exception of Reductress, like we we love the food takes,
we love their just so I love their editorial perspective

(49:15):
on this. This new cookie called toast yea that is
toast dash yea exclamation point. And they were just like
they were literally reached out to the Girl Scout Cookies
and were like, what what does that mean? A toast a?
The Girl Scout of America responded, The name is designed

(49:39):
to be a play on words for toasty, which evokes
the warmth and joy with living. Blah blah blah. You
know what toasty evokes. Toast draws on the cookies unique
toast shape and attribute to the French toast, and yeah,
he celebrates joy. It's like that is obfuscation. That is like, okay,
so toasty is a word we all know, and then

(50:00):
yea is a word we all know. So I just
brought those together and answered question. Answered right. It's like
if I wasn't much just before, now I really now
I think this whole operation is being run by Russian bots.
Like that does not sound like a human answers also
like the the like politician level spin because Jack read

(50:22):
the second read the full explanation of the YEA part,
because it's not just like yeah, yeah, here we go
and yeah. Celebrates joy, the joy that Girl Scout cookies
bring to consumers, and how girl Scouts create moments of
joy as they use their cookie earnings to support their
communities and donate cookies to frontline workers and local causes

(50:43):
in times like these O more than ever. Okay, yeah
that is a bit of a stretch, but I mean
consumers and then the frontline workers and local causes they've
been compromised. The golf Scouts of America, We've lost them. Yeah,

(51:03):
this was definitely written by a Girl Scout of America
who was either like had had somebody pointing some weapon
at them or or their family like had just been
shown a picture of their family in you know, being
held hostage. Right. It's it's definitely a chamber of commerce
type of response. I think of Girl Scouts. Hi, your

(51:27):
consumer product not makes sense? Explain please, And it's like
us to do with frontline workers. Fuck, You're like, oh shit, Okay,
they don't know what they're doing, so like it so
toast toast weed, maybe toast wet, toast eat. Oh yeah, man,

(51:47):
I'm sorry, I can't. How do we work stop this?
To be better? Right? Well, well, toasty if they're doing
toast toast we or just called toasty, Yeah, toase irena
sounds like you're taking a pea on some toast. It's
just like toasty is too close. Like they wanted to
invoke the word toasty, so you could just use toasty,

(52:08):
but they and what about the front Maybe you could
take about the French accent and they're so borny for
the frenchness, and there are other names, but then on
this one they dropped it because I think they're in
bed with the conservatives. That's what I gotta say. It's
like freedom fries. This is the freedom fries ization of

(52:30):
girls Scott cookies names or like just call them toast ease, Like,
doesn't that feel like a simple You're evoking toasty and
you've turned this adjective into like in a you know,
diminutive little names a little toasty, give your box of
toast these but that's probably taken from some other product, know,
think just call it this cookie is earnings will go

(52:52):
to support consist And what about Okay, so you don't
like toast? We what about toast? Like O P is
pretty warm and warm U it brings you back to
your childhood, you know, I'm just saying how so yeah,

(53:12):
we all remember when we beat the last time we
beat was jealous when we were kids with enjoy while
holding a cookie. Yeah, of course. All right, anyways, Teresa
as always such a pleasure having you on TV. Where
can where can people find you and follow you? Well,
my new project is to discover the secret behind the

(53:34):
Girl Scout Cookies conspiracy. So if you have any leads,
please message me. No, you can find me. I'm I
have a podcast, as you guys mentioned called you can
tell me anything, coming back with new episodes in like
two weeks. So you That's pretty much all I got
going on right now. And I'm getting a haircut this week.
But you can't come to that, so all right, I mean, hey,

(53:55):
unless you unless you ask as barber willing to give
discounts for a good edge of what I mean, Okay,
you can come, but not. But got his amicron Now
it's not a set. Oh Robert Durst died. Yeah, I
mean I was gonna save that for the entire themed
episode we're gonna do in memorial But yeah, we'll talk

(54:19):
yesterday's traveling. Yeah, he passed away in jail from probably
cod anyways distress. Is there a tweet or some other
work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh? Sure, Oh yeah,
there was a tweet Marcella Argrello. I should look it

(54:39):
up to read a word for a word, but she
had a funny tweet that I enjoyed. You're telling me
every household in America used to get shampoo samples in
the mail, but they can't find a way to get
us COVID test right seriously out that was a good
side too. I think that sigh should just about sums
up where everyone's at right now. Mm hmmm. Miles, Where

(55:03):
can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh? Man,
you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
of Gray and also the other pot Fiance where I
talk ninety day fiance off that loud with Sophia Alexandra.
So if you like trash TV, come by because we
also talk about Married at First Sight too, because that
new season just started and there's some red flags all

(55:24):
over that place. A couple of tweets I like. First
one is from you know what, Christi Yamagucci Mane did
it had a tweet that did fucking numbers like you
You wouldn't even believe because look it's a very wooty tweet.
Christi Yamagucci May wopple House tweeted the Taco bell drive
through at one am will have to two hundred thousand
dollar Mercedes S sixty five waiting right behind a ninety

(55:45):
six cavalier that's never had the oil changed, followed by
a moped written by three people all craving the same
thing to live. Moss truly the last great melting pot
of class in this country. I mean true rewords have
never have been uttered. And the next one is some
sleigh webster at yassac or Uh tweated Emily dies at

(56:06):
the end of Emily in Paris. By the way, it's
true like that aggressive spoiler energy. You can find me
on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian some tweets I've been
enjoying at Andrew Nadot tweeted found out if you start crying, yell,

(56:26):
I don't know when the gut pole asks if you
want walk, they'll give it to you for free a
little life hack. And then Bill Gate at Real Bill
Gate tweeted computer, h so, yeah, what the fund was
that tweet? Just think about it. I don't think it's
if you get it, you get it, don't I'm sorry,

(56:47):
computer is how I got I was able to plant
someone into the gieland Maxwell jury to get the decision
of I don't know, maybe I don't make that. I
don't think the real Bill Gates is real Bill Gate,
or that's what you would want you to think that
it's not here h Sharene tweeted just sitting here Jones

(57:07):
and for another word all which is a no word
game that I am also sitting here Jones and four.
And then Greta Titleman tweet what is it called when
you want to have a kid? Just to name? It's complex?
That feels like one of those things that Germans would
have a word for. But it's so American that maybe

(57:30):
like America needs to do the heavy lifting on this one. Anyways.
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that we talked about today's episode. So it's a song
that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do

(57:51):
we think people might enjoy today? You know you might
enjoy this. This experimental French funk band from the seventies
called cortext Okay with their banger of a track called
Blue Okay the Blue Herd, I believe it is the
name of it. And this band is really something else.
It's like if you like can uh and you like

(58:13):
that experty much stuff, You're like, this sounds like music
from now, but it's from seventies. Yes, this track is
like the drummer in this band is so good and
the syncopation that they're doing. I'm just like this this
next level and I think you'll enjoy it too. So
check out the top of Blue by that's actually the
name of the thin mints made by the ABC Bakery.

(58:35):
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