December 14, 2018 • 60 mins
In episode 294, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian the Reality Bytes podcast co-host Sofiya Alexandra to discuss a 'high-tech' robot in Russia that's just a man in a costume, earthquakes in the Midwest, Trump's love for Adderall, David Pecker and AMI flipping on Trump, the Senate passing a resolution to stop support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, the creep the GOP were trying to bring in to discourage increased minimum wage, how women-led movies are more profitable, Netflix claiming 'The Christmas Chronicles' is the biggest film of the year, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
1. 'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit
2. How likely is an earthquake in the Midwest, South? The Big One could be coming
3. WATCH: Noel Casler 12 1 18 Gotham Vet Show
4. Trump confides to friends he's concerned about impeachment
5. Tabloid Publisher’s Deal in Hush-Money Inquiry Adds to Trump’s Danger
6. What Exactly Is Our Problem With Saudi Arabia?
7. A Big Day For the War in Yemen
8. House panel delays hearing after discovering witness’ anti-gay, anti-feminist blog posts
9. Sorry, comments sections: Women-led films just make more money
10. Netflix says 'The Christmas Chronicles' is Kurt Russell's biggest movie ever
11. Netflix’s ‘Christmas Chronicles’ Breaks 20 Million Streams in One Week
12. Brandon Coleman - 'Walk Free' (Flying Lotus Remix)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixty one, Episode
five of Daddy's Right Guys, the podcast where we take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness using the headlines,
box Office Reports, TV rating, what's trending on ease and
social media? Which Friday, December fourteenth, two thousand eight. Team
my name's Jack O'Brien, a Kay, Jack O'Brian, Miles Gray
(00:22):
and a hose Na the Daily's like guyst in your
ears keeps all problems at bay like the Salt Guy.
That is courtesy of Shawn Constantine on Twitter. And I'm
thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Great Jackie, are you all great? Jackie? Are
you all great? Are you all great? Jackie? Jackie? Are
(00:44):
you well great? Dackie are you well great? Oh great?
Duckie day? Are you all gay? Are you all gay? Jackets? Dear?
All right? Anyway? That is from at Sir Brent's Worth,
Brent Liberator, believe you did the actual lean. That was
an incredible the smooth operator. Yeah, d whole pint of yes.
Oh that lead the lean from the video. Sorry, yeah,
(01:05):
if I stopped breathing the smooth criminal water on my head,
different film. Uh. Well, we are sorrow to be joined
in our third seat by fan favorite and one of
our favorite comedians to have here on the show, Sophia Alexandra,
how are you feel good? All right, we're gonna get
(01:28):
to know you a little bit better. But first we're
gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're
talking about today. Talking about a fancy Russian robot who
turned out to be just a guy in a robot costume.
We're gonna talk about more Earthquake Ship. That's gonna be
a new segment on the show, More Earthquake Ship. We're
gonna talk about the dude who claims he has witnessed
(01:50):
Donald Trump just grinding up the adderall and blowing lines. Uh.
And we're gonna talk about am I and David Pecker
our old home is from the days of flipping on Trump,
along with so many others and other things. We're gonna
talk about a lot today. But first, Sophia, what is
something from your search history that's really about who you are?
(02:14):
I tried to search the most prolific child killers, Oh,
the people who murdered children or children that killed children,
who murdered the most people. Now that's more fun searching. Yeah,
And my favorite thing that I came upon in that
(02:34):
search was a child, a girl that had killed another child,
then came over to the mother's door, knocked on the
door and was like, hey, have you seen billy? I
feel like I saw him out in the meadow just
so she could watch. The mother discovered by body. That's
(02:56):
my favorite thing that I found. That's crazy. How old
was she? I think she was like seven or eight?
I mean like a child? Country was England? Wow? Recently? No,
there's like an old mythical tale. Yes, child, chill that
(03:18):
what the tale as old as time is from that
beauty they were talking about that little girl who is
savvage that is fucked up a little boy? Huh? You
don't know that the beauty and the beast were the
same person. You just blew my mind? Is that the moral?
That's the moral? Wow? Okay, yeah, that's the whole thing
(03:40):
where we watched that movie. Now, through being a fan
of Last Podcast on the Left, I've learned about killers
who really enjoy like it's true what they say about,
like look at who's that the crime scene when bodies
being discovered, because that's like part of the thrill for
a lot of thrill killers. That's why you return to
the scene at the time. There was a Japanese guy
(04:01):
who killed his classmates that were bullying him, and then
he killed his own mom because he didn't want her
to live with the shame of being the mother of
a killers the other way, that's the other direction right
now we do in Japan. So sweet about your mama.
I'm going to send that person a card. Good luck
getting into them. Are there any did you find any
children who like killed a bunch of adults, Like kids
(04:23):
who were like twelve vere younger that would be dope,
and nothing that was nearly as interesting as this, Like
everything paled one that, especially when you're like, yeah, I
think I saw him over there. Yeah, it was like
two in the morning. All the hair on my arms
stood up. That is so crazy, the idea that you
(04:45):
went through some other bunk stories to be like, man,
this ain't fucking late enough. Got google other child. I
was like, please, a child that didn't even care whether
the victim's mother was going to see it now for me. Thanks.
So that's what you'll get On Sophia's Twitter feed and
something like that and her dating podcast Reality. But yeah,
(05:07):
use you guys listen to when Jackie learn a lot
about our romantic lives. If you ever thought, what's it
like to date us? Yes, check it out story so
you'll never want to date us again. It's not true.
I think everyone's going to fall a little deeper in love.
You were vulnerable. A lot of listeners don't think that
(05:29):
jack is capable of being vulnerable, that he's just a
brain and humor machine. You're wrong. I want to see
a grown man cry over having a baby. Check out
another podcast. It's not that one. What is something you
think is overrated? Okay? You know I fucking write these
down in advance. Okay, have you guys seen the movie
(05:52):
The Favorite? No, I'm about to though I have the
screener is amazing, ok underrated? Big fan of that movie.
First of all, it's just so many women being so
dope and like hilarious. It's a legit funny movie. I
heard it's just like walks this really amazing line, but
(06:13):
you being like tortuous and hilarious at the same Yeah,
I tweeted, I was like it made me like think
and it made me horny and it made me like
it was a real weird those same time, Jack, you
know this is your underrated correct, that is my underrated.
(06:39):
We were going out listening to the whole album. Okay,
I thought that might have been too emo to say,
but talk about don't listen to a whole album of
music anymore. It's all, let's what's the best songs single? No,
listen to a fucking album. I prefer doing it on
a tape or vinyl, not because I think the sound
(07:01):
quality is richer or some bullshit, which it is it is.
I know, don't write you like no. Um. The reason
I like it is I read something a long time
ago that made me think of albums in a way
that it was really cool. And every time I listened
to tapes or vinyl, I think about that, which is
that people used to when they made albums, think about
the first side on the second side, Like, how do
(07:24):
you want to begin end this part? In this part
because there's no tracks, there's no skipping tracks. Yeah yeah,
but it's also like annoying you to do that, so
and you get more uh. I guess you pay attention
more to the music when you physically have to go
and flip the thing to like side B, and it
(07:47):
makes you connect more with what you're listening to, and
it us still also be like you would study the
liner notes and you would just lay around and like
try to the experience of listening to the whole album,
I think like you will rediscover songs in a different
way versus just listening to some of your favorite songs.
That's all. Especially, Yeah, I think like Marvin Gay, What's
going On is a great album if you don't listen
(08:08):
to all the way because like there's a central theme
that kind of goes through the entire album and like
the songs going to the next And I was like,
oh yeah, listening to albums like in college, I think
I had a profession to be like, you should listen
to albums all the way through, and that blew my mind. Also,
I think that Blurredline's case was solved, and I think
Robin Thicken Frell oh them like five million dollars totally.
I think I finally just got like five million bros. Sorry, Yeah,
(08:33):
especially albums that were made at the time, because that
was part of the intent. Yeah, exactly, That's what I mean.
I like to think of them as filmmakers. My favorite
albums tell a story where that barret come from inside.
What is something you think is overrated? Sophia overrated? Adding
lady endings to jobs like a comedian. I am so
(08:59):
fucking so gendered descriptors of occupations. Yeah, like you're if
you're not calling someone a doctoris or a lawyeris, please
do me the fucking favor of not calling me a
comedian presidents even when you're like people, I think I
think they're being polite, but I'm like comedian. Yeah, no,
I do the same thing as I'm a comedian. That's
(09:22):
what I am. You don't need to know I have
a vagina in that word from yourself. Yeah, I mean
obviously because I opened with a vagina dentat a bit.
She's a comedian, walks immediately. Right. It's easier though, too,
because like you just give it one thing, Like you
(09:42):
stop saying Stewart iss or students fight intended or what not.
Waitress is a server, you know what I mean? Or
firefighters instead of firemen, right, you know, Okay, we've got
to move towards that more podcaster. Yes, you know, yeah,
podcasts is not a thing. Podcasts sounds like an amazing
podcast though. And also I'm wearing like like I'm serving
(10:04):
you like a ham in one hand and like I
don't know what stew in the other, and I'm wearing
like a roughly like kind of like lunch lady, yeah
outfit where I'm like, I'm here to serve right, podcast
dress cast straighter? Okay, all right? What is a myth?
(10:26):
What's something people think is true? You know, to be false?
Feminists can be feminine in small fonts like sophia. You
can do better? Can you're saying they can be? Yes.
I just feel like, you know, it's very trendy to
(10:47):
be like feminist or you know they're hard and they're badass,
and I think that means to a lot of people
that you can't like be feminine and enjoy ship that
people think is like friver List just because it's feminine.
You can be a feminist and like makeup and shave
your legs. I feel like that's an argument make men
(11:08):
have more against feminism right than women themselves, because I
feel like that's when you see on Twitter, they're like, oh,
you like this, but you're a feminist because it's like
a very shallow, one dimensional I wish that was true.
I live in an ideal world. When I'm here. There's
a serial like thing that was going around of like
women posting signs being like I'm not a feminist because
it's like and they were like, because I like my husband,
(11:30):
because because I don't mind that he opens my jar
for me. Like these are the kind of things that
you don't think that, Like you think women should be
immune to like someone else limiting us, but no, we're
also capable of women. Okay, you're right. I assumes that
women can be terrible. Two miles. I think women are women.
(11:54):
It assumes that feminism is attempting to just erase all
differences between men and women and to categorize masculine things
as it's better. You know that a woman that's like,
I'm not like other girls I love b are sweeping
up football jersey, you know, like a daily back tattoo. Yeah,
(12:17):
like I love Rick and Morty. It's like everybody everybody
can like those. They're not gendered. Not Oh, if she
likes Rick and Morty, she's better than a girl that
just cross stitched. It's born out of a very Yeah,
I think regardless of your gender or your whatever, your
viewpoint is on it. It's born out of a very
superficial understanding of what Yeah, because you're like, I think
(12:39):
feminism just like when a woman stomps on the guy's
balls exactly, and I think that's it. Yeah, am getting
that right? You got it? Great? Great, That's why I'm
not feminist. Yeah, precisely. I just feel like, you know,
we're doing ourselves a disservice to like grade what kind
of feminist you are based on what your interests are
and then preferring masculine quote unquote seeming interests and also
(13:00):
entering interests like men have been chefs for like an artists,
more no more respected chefs for much longer than women,
but cooking somehow is considered a feminine and domestic thing.
So we're getting fucked on two levels. It's like there's
not as many women profiting from being chefs and getting
(13:23):
as much respect. But at the same time, if you're
a man who cooks, it's like either you're gay or
being feminine. If you're a woman who yeah, you're doing
domestic ship and you could be doing more important things
with your time, but you're not, you dumb domestic bitch.
So yeah, anyway my thoughts exactly. Oh you were saying
that's not right. Oh yeah, yeah, terrible. Alright, guys, that's
(13:45):
enough about here the present tense. I want to take
you into the future, where a robot named du Boris
dazzled audiences at a tech forum near Moscow. Uh and it,
you know, answered questions, danced, dem straited, skills that not
many humanoid robots have many Russians have you Yeah, also
(14:06):
also that Uh but yeah, I've long been disappointed by
humanoid robots. They suck at walking, They're just idiots. They're
good at dancing, doing the robot Okay, maybe not definite.
I was saying that off Mike, But well, anyways, Boris,
(14:28):
who had given us all hope that the future might
be here, he turned out to be a human, just
a snow oid robot. About he was just a human
in a really good Halloween. Yeah. It was a really
weird thing where like they like Russian State TV was
(14:48):
like check out Boris, like it's got them, And then
a lot of people in Russian are watching, They're like yo, there,
how like people who just had a very elementary understanding robots,
like we're the outward sensors so it can make sense
of where it is in space, and like why is
it making so many unnecessary movements as it dances? Like
at one point when you look at the footage, it
looks like a dude in a fucking suit pretending to
(15:11):
be a robot. And then like people on stage like,
whoa boris this robot? And then the the I think
the people who were organizing the technology form, We're like, well,
we never said it was like a robot. We never
said that, really, and they're like, what your headline was,
check out this crazy good robot. Yeah. They were just
like no, no, no, no, we don't we don't know.
(15:32):
We never said that. But the wild thing was like
when you look at the photos from the thing, you
could see the guy's neck like from in between the
helmet and like where the shoulders started the thing. But again,
you know it's fun to I guess pretend. Yeah, but
the rope, but the costume was bought from a website,
so it was like it was an expensive suit. It
wasn't a cheapass robot suit, like it was one of
the more like you had to put your money into
(15:54):
this home. But also, don't we have a history of
cheating with Russians. I think every America too. You guys
are the only ones that you're good a cheating. I mean,
we cheated the Olympics hardcore. We also it's true by
any means, yeah, but yeah, no we don't. Didn't. We
also pretend to have a chess robot at one point
(16:15):
that used to beat people, and then it turned out
it was just a chess master. The turk. I think
I think that was a Hungarian dude, Hungarian well whatever,
it's former us the mechanical turk or a tumaton chase
chess player. This is actually a thing that has been
like a hoax multiple times throughout history, and it's just
you know, they'll have a thing that looks like a
(16:37):
robot that will be like, can you beat the amazing
chess playing robot, and then it's just a dude like
in a suit, sitting there like playing it, and you're like, yo,
the robot sneeze. Yeah. It's It's the oldest trick and
a very simple trick, but it apparently still works because
it fooled the unfoolable RT or whatever Russian state television.
(17:00):
This was guy's Earthquakes have been in the news a
little bit. Uh, and that's always unnerving for us here
in l A and California. But this time, so the
last earthquake was in all the way up in Alaska,
and this time it was in Tennessee. So the middle
of the country you don't really think about in the
(17:21):
context of earthquakes. But long ago, eighteen eleven to eighteen
twelve and eighteen thirteen there were that's how long the
after shocks lasted for. There was this thing called the
New Madrid seismic Zone where all these towns along the
Mississippi River just got completely like swallowed by the earth
by this like seven point nine I think earthquake that
(17:45):
I think it's one of the top three strongest earthquakes
in the history of North America on record, and it
basically like it turned the earth. There's this thing called
liquefaction where the particles of dirt in the ground like
shakes much that they basically stopped cohering together and they
like swallow everything on top of them. I don't need this.
(18:06):
And there it's sent it's sent tsunami's up the Mississippi River.
It was just fucking bonkers. And so that's the thing
that they're saying, could happen again. Basically, so this earthquake
in Tennessee could be related to the New Madrid. It's
the same seismic zone or whatever. So it is like
a fault line that's running along Yeah wayow. I was like,
(18:30):
is that fracking? Yeah? Like no, no, no, has been
there right, yeah. But it's crazy because it's like the
most dramatic earthquake I've ever heard of, and it was
along the Mississippi River. They basically say that if this
happened today, Memphis would be gone and St. Louis would
be in ruins. What yeah, what? But like it would
(18:51):
just swallow up, Like when they say it would Memphis
would be gone. They're saying the damage it was just
like not the liquid liquiff. I don't know, I've been
talking about equifex thing, but I think probably those towns
aren't necessarily as much built for earthquakes. Los Angeles people
where there, like, yeah, there's earthquakes here, so we need
to retrofit everything in the event that shaking. And also
(19:15):
because it's landlocked, and because of the type of rock
that exists in that part of the world, which is
like limestone, the rocks don't take the shaking as well,
So rigid shale in the West is better at containing
the shock waves. Basically, well, perfect that we're blessed, yes,
(19:39):
you know, except we got l a though. Was just
like it's basically outlined by fault lines. So yeah, cool, yeah,
no we're all fucked. But no we're safe, guys. Yeah yeah, yeah,
forget it. But it's like you can get such good juice,
that's true. Actually have moon juice in Memphis? Do you guys?
Do you have moon juice? Doubt it? They're ribs though,
(20:00):
the ribs though not a game to Memphis. Tenni kee. Alright,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back
edward back and uh, did we want to talk about
the adderall sniper in chief? Well, this is a great
(20:23):
story because it's the intersection of things we all know
about politics and terrible open mic comedy. Yeah, and this
comedian quote unquote named Noel Castler uh took to the
stage in New York, I think, and basically just spilled
the t on like his time working on the Apprentice,
and it was like I don't give a funk about
my nda uh and let's just listen to some of
(20:46):
the nuggets he drops. Yeah, it's like he knew he
wanted to like get some publicity out of having this
like crazy information, and rather than doing like an interview
with ABC, he's like, I'm gonna launch my stand up
career because he didn't know how stand up worked, and
here are the results. He's a speed freak. He crushes
(21:09):
up his adderall and he snits it because he can't read,
so he gets really nervous when he has to read
cute guards. I'm not kidding, this is true. I had
a twenty four page n D a nondisclosure agreement. I
didn't know that he was becoming president. Now it's no way,
dumb ass. I'm telling you everything I know. So he
got and he crushes up these pills. That's why he
sniffing when you see him in debates, and when you
see him reading, it's why he's tweeting. You know, he's
(21:30):
like he's out of his mind. It makes sense if
you think about it. Met the amphetamine was invented by
the Nazis to keep the fighter pilots up all night
on the bombing runs, right, So it makes sense that
Trump when uses to hate tweeting the self centered rage
and four am on a toilet, So we missed a
couple of awful jokes. I'm glad super producer Nick cut
(21:51):
that out because there's some lame ass jokes about his
preference for women. But yeah, he also spilled some tea
about when he was doing the Miss teen US a
competition Teen USA. Mind you, he was inspecting their teeth
like the fucking Westminster Dog Show and then being like,
if you want to win, maybe in the penthouse and
(22:14):
people were apparently going up, and the people who went
up were performing well in the competition. Yeah, I don't
know what. The people would laugh at that story and
he would be like, no, I'm serious, which is not
usually a good stand up strategy, but it is a
fucking crazy story that this guy apparently had access. Yeah,
working on the Apprentice saw that he was snoring. I mean,
(22:35):
you know, who knows if this is real, but it
he was sniffing so goddamn much during those debates where
you're like, yeah, that's when everyone was like what is
going on? And that is definitely something that happens you
start getting well, I mean if you don't want yeah,
I meant doing that below, but I think that weren't
(22:55):
you saying, like in the eighties though, he was like
into doctor prescribed pep or something. There was that the
doctor the doctor said that da Yeah, there was a
doctor who prescribed him all sorts of pet pills and
like feel good pills, and he uh yeah, he has
like a medical record history that I think people are
trying to pull from his doctor's office. That either the
(23:19):
Secret Service came in and like pulled it or something
or like got rid of it. But it was that
dude who like looked all shady porn director. Yeah, yeah,
who does not look like like like your weed prescription checks.
He checks your fucking blood pressure for two seconds. Yeah, yeah,
you're good. Okay, you might want to get your blood
blood pressure. Yeah. I forget the specific details, but I
(23:42):
know that he was like using basically medical speed during
the eighties and then like the trail kind of went cold.
And I mean this is there's a type of celebrity
who you know, uses their influence and celebrity to you know,
get doctors to give them the good ship. Ever, celebrities
any person who grew up on the well a lot
(24:03):
of like teetotaling celebrities like Elvis never took illegal drugs.
He just died of a drug overdose from drugs that
like his homide doctor just prescribed dry or Dr pepper. Yeah,
I think. I mean, that's the same kind of mentality
a lot of people who get even into other prescription
drugs do because they're like, well, it's not a drug,
and it's easy to just in your mind be like, oh,
(24:24):
I'm not a drug addict taking these things, and that's
never gotten anyone in trouble. Yeah, except for America right now,
so we'll see, you know. And it's also like, for
sure he's on speed when he tweets, Yeah, like the
middle of the night, Like how else do you think
that happens? Yeah, I thought he's a man with incredibly
poor nutrition, Like of course he would be asleep, Like
(24:48):
do you know what I mean, Like he doesn't eat
well enough to have energy. He doesn't exercise, he doesn't
believe in it. He believes that exercise wears out your machinery. Right,
So if you don't believe in any of those things,
I can't imagine you have enough energy to run the country.
So of course you're going to be a speed at it. Well,
there's also that thing he said that he only needs, like, what,
three hours of sleep at night. I wonder if that's
(25:09):
a lie he created, because he's just covered up, whacked
out all night. Only three hours of sleep exactly. And
I need a screwdriver and some old TVs. A lot
of porn, a lot of poorn. And there's also the
dude who he wanted to give the entire Veterans Affairs
department too, who ended up having to pull himself from contentions.
(25:30):
Doctor Ronnie, I think was the name something. One of
the things that he got in trouble for was being
like a doctor feel good hand pills, and a lot
of people were like that. It's funny because there are
a lot of people on other administrations were like, yeah,
well you know, yeah, take those flights, something to go sleep,
you need something to stay up. No, I don't doubt that.
So I gotta say doctor feel Good always sounds amazing
(25:53):
as a job. He's not a bad guy, he's making good.
Call it something more nefariously. Yeah, the killer of Prince right, Yeah,
the doctor yeah killed the King of pop and Prince.
(26:13):
It's not the same doctor, but doctor doctors, doctors who
just didn't know how to say no. Enabler doctors. Yeah, alright,
yeah exactly, doctor murder earl. Yeah, it's got we'll workshop that.
I think we I think we got it. Okay, let's
print move forward from here. Uh, let's talk about am I.
(26:38):
This is a company that we've been talking about for
a long time, since before they were in the National spotlight.
This is run by a dude named David Pecker who
is a friend of Donald Trump. Uh and am I
publishes National Enquirer except I think okay, yeah, they're like
(27:00):
two tablets that a yeah. But anyways, he's gotten pulled
into the entire Trump investigation because he was basically catching
killing stories to try and protect Trump. So he would
buy a story and then just not run it in
order to protect Trump from, you know, having that story
(27:22):
told to another outlet. Right. Well, in this case, now
they're saying he's involved now because it's an illegal campaign
contribution by paying money for someone to alter or influence
the outcome of an election. Uh. And yeah, he got
caught up in all this ship and we find out, oh,
he has an immunity deal and he's ready to talk
about all that that's happened. So at first we know
(27:44):
Michael Cohen got done for doing that, but there's a
lot to say that, oh, well, he's a liar, so
we can't really trust his testimony. But now you have
people like David Pecker who's like, well, I can tell
you everything, and we have receipts. And there's also his
like second in command, who also has immunity and can testify.
But the whole thing with Cohen's plea basically makes it
hot for a lot of other entities. So am I
(28:05):
was the first one. They've basically are now caught up
in this and are working with the investigators and also
the Trump organization itself. And now, like you know, granted
Trump is one of the part of that executive body
that runs the organization, but the other people who work
there and are part of that decision making are his
children's that he loves. Uh So that's Ivanka Eric I
(28:27):
don't know if he loves him, and yeah, and the
other yeah, and the two are exactly. And then also
this other guy, Alan Weisselberg, who has been the CFO
of the Trump organization forever. He was like Fred Trump's accountant.
This guy, uh, Weisselberg also has immunity. So you've got
like basically like three other people besides Cohen who can
(28:47):
actually attest to what happened and basically say like, yeah,
this motherfucker is directly implicated in this felony. He was
all done at his direction. Uh, So yeah, we'll see
what happens there. And I think that has also led
to a lot of people, like especially the GOP, did
begin kind of having to check how they're defending this president,
because first you have people like or and Hatch was like,
I don't care, even if it's like he's like the
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Democrats are trying to smear this guy, and like the
report is like this is the southern district of New York.
Who's pointing this out as I don't care? And then
grass Lee is also, remember right, remember because he's white,
it's all good. And then but then Marco Rubio is like, well,
we have laws, so maybe you know, if you break
the laws, I guess like maybe you should like answer
to said laws. I don't know, like not really putting
(29:29):
his foot in, but definitely not defending him. Uh. And
also Bill Cassidy was also kind of saying the same thing.
So I think it's got Trump a little worried. But
do you also think that like part of him when
they did the catch and kill on the story of
him with the newest like with the Playboy, asked Kary mcduell,
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don't you think part of Trump was like mad that
that news didn't get out because he was like, how
are people not gonna know? I hit that was Also
it's a ten year old fucking worry. Also, I mean
I saw her picture and I was like, he definitely
wants this to get out. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty good, right,
I don't know, nothing happened, is very simple transaction. I
don't know nothing's wrong, but if there was a transaction,
(30:12):
it was pretty good at it. Well. Yeah, and I
think when you see just how how it's getting closer
and closer, we're seeing bigger chunks of his like fake
facade statue start to crumble. You know, he's apparently, according
to NBC, they're saying he's really confided in close aids
that he is very worried about impeachment. Now he's like, uh,
I didn't know. I couldn't do that, right, So maybe
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we'll see what happens. We'll see, you know, we've got
the new Congress coming in new year, so we shall
see where they take it. But yeah, it's definitely looking
like it's getting closer and closer to Mr Trump. Mm hmm. So,
speaking of it being close to the end of the year,
Time Magazine has released their Man of the Year Person
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of the Year award and it's basically a combination of
journalists who you know suffered or died to you know,
fight injustice, Jamal Kashoji being one of them. And uh,
that kind of ties into the next story we wanted
to talk about, because the Senate has now decided to
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care about Saudi Arabia. Uh. And it's not totally clear
why they're now like deciding to worry about people from Yemen,
but they are, which is good. It's just a matter
of like, how are they going to justify it? I
guess yeah, I want how do you move forward? Because
so they Senate passed a resolution using the War Powers
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Act or the War Powers Resolution to end US cooperation
with the Saudis in Yemen. Now this isn't the end
because there's also a similar bill in the House I
would have to pass. But the Republicans have procedurally done
a lot to Basically they're doing a lot of trickery
to make sure it doesn't come to a vote. But
those things can change once the Democrats are in the
majority come next year. But it's odd because, you know,
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in the beginning, when a lot of even Democrats senators
were confronted with the evidence of what's happening in Yemen
over the what past three years, they were like, I no, no,
I don't know. Uh. And then suddenly, like afterhog, people
are like, oh, okay, well let's like that's what that means. Yeah. Well,
and then now it's like, well, what what reason now
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have are they using to begin reevaluating this relationship with
Saudi Arabia? Is it the oh, you know, it was
okay when like tens of thousands of civilians are dying
needlessly and children are dying of starvation and widespread famine,
that's fine. But now that this journalist got kill, will
hold on? Now is the calculus that we need Saudi
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Arabia as like a strategic ally or is it the
freedom of the press angle? Or is it you know, like,
it's weird to see how they're gonna begin to articulate
why they're suddenly now there's the votes, especially in the
Senate to try and do something. It's just embarrassment, right, Well,
of course, yeah, I mean the pressure, the pressure clearly
got to a point where they're like, the Kaushog thing happened,
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and then now people are looking at all this other
ship and they're like, ye know, what the funk is
going on? Right? There was that picture of the starving
girl who was starving because Saudi Arabia had been just
bombing the ship out of her town and Yemen and
and the ports where any of the aid was going
to come, right, and you know, she was on the
front page of the New York Times and captivated a
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lot of people's attention and was just one of the
most horrifying pictures you've ever seen. And then she died
on November one. Hashog died on October two. So it's like,
you knowhowg brought attention to this conflict and to Saudi
Arabia being uh, just international funck boys. And so then
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like the New York Times was motivated to, you know,
send more resources to Yemen. And maybe it's just like
the freedom of the press sort of working. I think
it's just that the Hahog thing made it too hot
for them that they finally had to acknowledge how bad
the Yemen ship was too. And I don't think they
really gave a fuck because it was only public outrage,
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because I mean, pictures had existed for years, so if
you really wanted, if you wanted to get there, you
could figure out what was happening. So it's a dark outcome.
You're like, well, I'm glad it happened, but you know,
like what's going on the other thing too? Is I
wonder if they're gonna just solely be like, well, it's
all MBS, you see, that's the problem. That way they
can keep the status quo in terms of the relationship,
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the elite alliance between the US and Saudi Arabian just
be like, whoa is MBS. That has to go and
that's the problem. But are you just gonna ignore anything
that's happened before that? It's you know, we'll see what,
you know, Like, are we really going to actually reevaluate
the relationship between the two countries. I don't think we're
going to go to war with MBS or yeah no,
but I mean, and Saudi Arabia is not going to
(34:52):
back down from what I mean, if the US spearheaded
a thing to be like, Yo, you're sucking up my man.
That's a that's a that's a it's a huge shift.
But I think also to the fact there's also way
too much money in like the defense industry that is
being used in lobbying to keep this thing going on,
because if we pull out of this conflict, that inevitably
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means less arms sales or you know, there are a
lot of money isn't gonna come the other way for
people who are trying to arm this outias and they
have a stake in this too. So yeah, anyway, although
Trump's argument about like, well we have so many, so
many arms sales that we can't like stop selling them
arms or it's going to hurt our businesses, it's kind
(35:34):
of bullshit for like, not not just ethically but also
like militarily, Like don't worry, well, the people who make
these arms will find some group is a new customer,
and they'll lobby to put them off a list of
why we can sell them. It doesn't matter, that's not
the case. They're just like, just come on, this is
(35:55):
an easy customer we got. I'm a little worried that
that it's taking us like more and more every time
to care about associate a situation like we need like, oh,
this is a picture of a murder child, just like
the picture of the Syrian child washing up on shore.
It's like, do we just need to see children's bodies
graphically displaying like the fate of the country in order
(36:19):
for us to have any kind of real attachment to
fixing the situation? Do we only begin to care when
it's like so so dramatic and it shakes us out
of And is it getting worse because like the news
is getting crazy and crazier with like everything Trump is doing,
and it's hard to keep the same level of outrage
(36:39):
going all the time. So is it just that now
it's going to be even harder for us to give
a ship. Well, I think it's also on the media
to to keep reminding people. It's easy to obscure what's happening.
If you only report on ship that's going on yem
In like once every six months, you know, there's no
Most people, if they're not proactive enough and understanding what's
happening the news, they're more passive audiences. So like if
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you're just talking about all this other ship, it doesn't
come to the forefront, and it takes the media being like, hey,
this ship, because I mean, look at even like with
the with gun control, there's so many kids have been
killed in mass shootings, but there's still no like yeah, well,
I don't know. I don't know what it is because
I think most people are empathetic enough, like when confronted
(37:22):
with that kind of ship, you'd be like, yeah, that's
not right, right, But the leaders of media is writing
about it. But also like that's not what's being presented
to us. Like when you go and see what's trending
on Twitter or whatever, I mean so frequently the things
that are being served to me in my moments or whatever,
it's like those are the things people are clicking on,
but they're all really dumb. And it's hard also from
(37:45):
like you have to catch yourself and be like, wait,
why am I clicking on now? Before like I click on,
Hey they murder a journalist or these people are starving
to death. So I mean it's on us, and it's
on the media like you're not. I mean yes, but
there are these huge institutions that are in place that
(38:07):
I don't know. It's I think it's hard for us
to hold like people to account for not being more
interested in it, because I think that's just the problem
with like Twitter being a news source or you know,
us having these algorithmically derived like yeah, yeah, but there's
also more stories than before about everything because everything is
(38:29):
a quote unquote like I think people have to just
confront their privilege to and understand that. I also need
to be aware of people who have a vastly nearly
antithetical existence to mine that is completely different and it's
uncomfortable I think for a lot of people to be like,
oh my god, but like I don't want to think
about it. Like I think that's the problem a lot
(38:51):
of people. They'll see it and they I don't really
want to think about it. I really don't want to
think about it. But you know, it's usually it's usually
not until the ship comes to your doorstep that people,
and then it's too late, right, So what do Yeah,
I don't know, just please, uh, just keep your eye
on ship. I don't know. I don't say. Man, if
you if you look at that ship and you're not
moved to do something, try and just figure out, like
(39:13):
you know, do what you can to try and move
in a direction where you can be more empathetic and
not just sort of tune out for your own comfort, right,
because I think that's the problem for like our own sanity,
which I know it feels like, oh, it's just part
of my self care, but it can't be part of
our self care to like not let the horrible ship
(39:33):
and that could make us care about other people. All Right,
we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back, and we just wanted to check in
(39:54):
real quick with a real world villain who puts any
movie villain that has ever been invented to shame, except
he's like, I guess not, he wouldn't make a good
movie villain because he's like, unless you could kill somebody
with douche chills, which I think this guy might actually
(40:15):
succeed in doing one day. Yeah, so this dude is
kind of the architect of the GOP's economic argument against
fifteen hourly minimum. They picked the worst guy, so like,
on yeah, on Wednesday, the House Education and Workforce Committee,
(40:36):
they had to postpone their presentation where they had this
Kuk economists come up and be like, oh my god,
if you start paying people fifteen bucks an hour minimum wage,
I mean, say goodbye to everything right, because I'm telling
you equality doesn't work. Uh. And the reason they had
to postpone it is because people started looking into this
(40:57):
man's past and found a weird blog he used to
write called No Shades of Gray or Zero Shades of
Gray that was like it self described, was like the
like no holds barred conservative blog, and he had some
problematic automatic takes that were I mean, so there's one
(41:18):
entry where he talks about in response to a story
about fast food restaurants having to begin listing calories on food,
He's like, oh, what's next. You know, the government's overreaching.
I guess at this point there should be a gay
sex tax, and wrote this really long thing about it.
Um and it says, I don't just read you a
little bit. You understand where this where the geniuses on
(41:39):
the GIOPI are coming from. It says, in gay sex,
we have an activity that is clearly leading to disastrous
health consequences. What rational person would engage in this sort
of activity. There's only one solution, Let's tax it. So
he's lining the not just having a fucking deeply homophobic
take on that. But you know, the government's stepping in
because too much calories is bad for us. And then
(42:02):
he says, come on, Sabia, you say his name is
Joseph Sabia. How are you going to enforce these taxes?
You're gonna send government officials to peep in everyone's bedroom eventually,
but first we have to mount the assault on big gay. No,
I'm not talking about Rosie O'Donnell. We can tax websites,
personal ads, sexual So anyway, this guy's out here only
(42:23):
have like two punch lines. That's crazy how bad they
are because I don't know if you noticed, they're not
good at comedy. Comedy requires empathy, right, yeah, I really,
I just don't understand. There's no the creativity coming from
the right. I don't understand why it's so terrible, right, Like,
there's not remember that it's okay to be white guy.
That track was kind of a banger, but not really.
(42:46):
He was ripping off existing material. You know, there's no Beyonce, right.
Do you remember how sad it was when Trump was
trying to book musical acts for the inauguration because no,
people like wingers make good music, right exactly, He's like
Ted new June. I guess I don't know he's going
(43:06):
to play a machine gun. But then he also this
man Joseph Sabia, the economist, Um, he also he's like
an in cell to like a very early in cell,
just based on his description of like college women. Uh.
It says, as women have strayed from the church, Okay,
they have. They have replaced what is holy with what
(43:27):
is temporarily pleasing. For Catholics, the model woman was married
the virgin Mother of God. She's beloved by the faithful
for her unflappable devotion to and trust in God. Okay,
keeps going, keeps going, And says today's college girl looks
to Ali McBeal, the trollops of the sex of sex
in the city and the flooz. He's on friends to
set their moral compasses. Additionally, other sex based relationships have
(43:50):
become commonplace. In recent years. A new and disturbing arrangement
known as quote friends with benefits has emerged. In this arrangement,
men are not even forced to perform the normal duties
of boyfriends, i e. Flowers, Valentine's Day cards, rides to
the abortion clinic. Okay, uh and it said and said,
girls consider these guys just friends. Whom they happen to
screw every now and again. This type of arrangement is
(44:12):
the next logical step in the direction that young women
have drifted in the last few decades. These women have
become unpaid horse. At least prostitutes made a buck off
of their trade. These women just gave it away. So
that's the kinds of people that they have to present
as experts on ship. Everyone's they're just you know, really
(44:32):
bad open on not ever getting any Yeah. So again,
just the kinds of experts, only the best people, and
everyone has this like shitty in cell background. I guess
let's go with a new story that that guy would
not be able to make sense of that in his worldview.
And that is a recent statistical analysis that found that
(44:56):
women led films do better at the box office. Sophia
is opening a bag of pirates. I had to let
people know as a lot of tension in this room.
It's a lot of tension because this pirate's booty is
looking at me to be gobbled up. So yeah, so
(45:18):
women are doing better all budget levels. So it's not
just you know, blockbuster movies, it's all budget levels. It's
almost like women are fifty percent of the population are
as relevant to the human experience. That's crazy. Whoa feminist?
What's that about the ship? But movie studios are paid,
(45:42):
like movie executives are paid to read the zeitgeist, and
they have spent the last like, I don't know, five
ten decades, uh, saying that like women led movies don't
do as well. Right, And then finally enough movies that
star women have come out and they did a statistical analysis,
(46:05):
and I still I still doubt that this changes anything.
But uh yeah, I mean yeah, there's also I think
that whole thing also showed clear it's still white man central, yes,
but despite the fact that diverse casts and female led
casts have done way better. The other thing was that
since every film that has gone on to pass one
(46:28):
billion dollars in global box office has passed the Beckdel test,
think about that ship too. I love that, you know
what I mean? Also shout out to the Backdell cast.
If you don't know if you want know about the
Beckdel test, check that podcast out on this here network.
But yeah, that's I didn't even realize that dimension of it.
This is a very common like thing to be told
in Hollywood, and they say it with people of color.
(46:49):
To my husband was making a TV show and was
casting a black woman as the lead. They were like, oh,
even black people don't like to watch black people on TV.
Oh I'm sorry, white guy, what are you saying? What
do you mean? How could that possibly be true in
(47:10):
any way? That like, people don't want to see themselves represented.
Anybody doesn't want that. That's an insane thing. There's so
many things that show that representation matters and effects like oh,
if you can't see it, you can't be it, you know. Anyway, Well,
I think it's like, even with politics, you have this
whole subset of the old generation still basically at the levers.
(47:34):
They don't want to let go, even with the evidence
in front of them, Like because even now you look
at politics or like what are you talking about? People
want maternity leave or this other ship that they can't
just quite get over despite all the evidence that says
you're fucking up. And yeah, we see this too in
the entertainment industry, where many of the decision makers still
have this very terrible mindset. But I guess now is
(47:55):
the box office returns show, Oh well, these are winners,
profit will timately guide them to the light. Yeah. I
mean it's like you would think that profit comes first,
but I think it's like if it also affirms our
longstanding yeah, like you know, patriarchal and white people oriented world, Like,
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if it confirms that, it's way easier to believe those
numbers than when it's like, hey, actually the opposite thing
is supported by numbers, and they're like, wait a minute,
that doesn't confirm to my worldview, right, yeah, And I
mean movies still remain dominated by white male actors or
white male lead movies, and there's no excuse at this
(48:40):
point other than just the fact that there is a
you know, residual abundance of white men in the Hollywood
like infrastructure, and the smart business thing to do would
be to have the most diverse staff and make the
most diverse movie. But you know, because it'll speak to
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a multitude of people, there is an opportunity. And I
mean it's also it's more interesting. It's like the argument
for not having all male comedy lineups or all white
people comedy lineups anything. If you think you're funny now, Brad,
wait till four other brads aren't right after you. You
know what I mean, If you're confident in your talent,
then like it'll only shine when it's contrasted to other
(49:22):
people's talent. Yeah, this is goes back to a study
I love talking about but where they found that people
who were in more diverse groups when compared to a
control where it was people in like homogeneous groups. So
the more like similar the people were, the groups were
less successful at the task they were doing, but they
(49:43):
were more likely to be very confident in it. And
because it was like easy for them to yeah, we're
all on the same bridge, because they arrive at whatever
decision they wanted to arrive at that was. It was
easy because they all agreed with one another. It's just
that the product was worse. Whereas people who were in
more diverse groups had less confidence because their process was
(50:05):
more conflict written, but it also resulted in a better product.
And I mean this is true across everything, Like the
more diversity you have in a culture, the more open
exchange of ideas you have, the more success the more technology,
(50:26):
uh moves quicker than. The reason that like technology and
discoveries and medicine is moving so fast right now is
despite you know, authoritarian tendencies right now at the top
of different Western countries were still about as free as
we've ever been. And the reason there were fucking no
(50:46):
like technological or medical advances during the Dark Ages is
because ideas and people were not free, and it was
just a couple of you know, white people at the
top deciding who could talk to who. So yeah, look
at us now, look at us now, and the people
look hotter when you let everybody mix up, right, you
know what I mean? So also when you give them
(51:07):
what is it in their salt, the calcium what iodized? Yeah,
that's yeah in the Dark Ages, in the Dark Ages,
everybody had like facial goiterers because they weren't getting enough iodine.
And then once we started iodizing our salt, like, we
all became way hotter. Oh really, people look like literally characters.
(51:33):
Yeah yeah, wow. Yeah, that was one of the greatest
leaps forward. And that just in Western we got Gordon
faces like in Asian. I think it was just when
we started iodizing our salt, and I think that was
not happening in a lot of different places. I also
think it was probably the goiters were more common in
Western Europe because Western European people were filthy as fun, right,
(51:57):
right when they when they came to the New World,
they found Native American people to be like incredibly beautiful
and like clean and well kept compared to them, because
they thought bathing was bad for you, right, they thought
bathing was literally terrible for you. Like they all smelled good,
their hairs all shiny and silky. Mad. I just have
(52:18):
one dreadlock. You can strike a match off it. Ahead,
and just while we're on the subject of box office watch,
I wanted to talk about acclaim Netflix is making that
they're Kurt russell Christmas movie, The Christmas Chronicles, well named,
(52:38):
is they're claiming the number one movie of the year,
essentially because it in its first week it was viewed
twenty million times, which would be the equivalent of making
two million dollars at the box office. Um, but they didn't, right,
but they didn't. They didn't put it out in theaters,
which they totally could have done. But that's the same
(53:01):
thing they do with Bright too. Weren't they like, oh,
this movie would have done really well, right, right, Yeah,
But still it is frustrating. This is something we've been
talking about this week. How frustrated I am by the
fact that there are these huge companies that have all
this information about us that they just won't let out right,
And so there's all the companies that they're made our locations,
(53:23):
the twenty one billion dollar industry, and Netflix just also
doesn't release anything about like the ship that we're actually
watching unless there's like some big project. They you just
want to know who watched that Kurt Russell movie. You
want a detail, listen who it was. I'm surprised they
didn't even go any further there, like and assuming that
not like in one viewing, there's probably at least one
(53:43):
other person there. We're looking at it. I mean, three
billion dollars plus shared Netflix accounts, I mean, we don't
know how many motherfucker's are really watching. Yeah. I think
the most they've done was like right at the end
of the year in there like Twitter account like started
calling people out there, like to the one person who
watched Avatar nine hundred times this year? Who hurts you? Remember?
(54:04):
Like they were getting weird on their messy on their
Twitter last year. Yeah, Yeah, Well that was like a
thing they thought was like cute, like a funny thing
to be like who watched they were like that Wendy's account,
his mouth Lord of the Rings. Anna, Yes, it was
the Lord of whoever wants Lord of the Rings? Like
three times. What the funk happened? Right, And it's like,
that's funny, except you're seriously paying a lot of attention
(54:26):
to us and judging us all not telling us what
you're finding out. I wonder if they just know so
much so they're like, yo, we we can't even let
people know how much we know. It's too hot, Yeah,
because I'm sure you can really juxtapose that was some
psychographic data and be like, oh wow, there are five
kinds of people based on our Netflix viewing happens. The
(54:49):
other thing that's somewhat foreboding about Netflix is that they're
so deep in the whole they're spending way more than
they're making, and so it suggests that there's like some
end game where they start making money off of us,
off of all the information they've learned about us from
like their psycho graphics and you know, the things that
(55:10):
told them to make that Ashton Kutcher sitcom that takes
place on a ranch. That's like, like, they know all
this shit about us that is just kind of profane
and weird, and somehow they're planning on monetizing it, or
they'll just get bought by Apple, which would also be scary,
I think, because they'd be too big and powerful. But anyways, yeah,
(55:34):
it's not clear how anything works inside Netflix, so you
only get like their product and how much they're spending
on different ship too makes sense of it all and
none of it really makes sense. Yeah, well, I don't know,
because I think a lot of other companies are getting
wise to what Netflix is doing. They're like, well, fuck it,
We'll just take our ship, all of our i P
(55:54):
and all the things we own and make our all
streaming ship. That's where like a lot of those Marvel
shows are getting canceled because they're like, well, don't worry
when Disney starts their thing there, like, we'll just reboot
it over here because we own that i P anyway,
right right, So, which will suck because then you're gonna
be subscribing to like nine different things because it used
to be centralized. And then maybe that could be the
end of it for them, because the other films they
count on in as part of their library will begin
(56:16):
migrating towards the streaming platforms of those like networks or
studios and then they're left with just their originals and
like terrible other ships that I mean, I watch all
them ships. So I'm still here. I'm still here for you.
Next look, as long as there's married at first sight
Honeymoon Island, I'm gonna be fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're good.
And this is where you guys start talking about nine.
(56:43):
Don't worry Sophia and I we're having an in depth
conversation after this. Anyway, Sophia, it has been up to
this point really great having you. Where can people find
you and follow you? You can listen to my podcast
with Courtney Kosak, Reality Bites that's with a hy and
you can find me at the Sophia Everywhere th h
E s O F I y A. And is there
(57:04):
a tweet you've been enjoying? Um? Yes there is. The
tweet is by Anya Volts, and the tweet is Relationships
are so casual these days. Nobody actually has an anniversary anymore.
They're like October fourteenth is the day he responded to
my Instagram story for the first time, and it's like,
where did all the romance go? Why can't my dad
trade me for livestock anymore? Uh? Miles where can people
(57:31):
find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram
at miles of Gray. Uh. And a tweet that I
like is uh this is when Anna showed me from
Reductress earlier. It's a woman crying with the Christmas lights
and a wreath in her arms, and it says, all
(57:51):
I want for Christmas is you approval. The woman looks
so tortured. Love it nice delivery? Yeah, sweet, Thank you
so much. Another one just applies to our office is
how to cut out all the people who are not
obsessed with your dog. Gotta respect people's dogs. Yes, well yeah,
(58:16):
we we certainly don't do that enough. Um well, you
can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Opbrian tweet
I enjoyed from Supervisor around a Hosny issue tweeted this
is real and happening on one That is the live
read of Santa University, a live stage reading December one.
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season sixty one, Episode
five of Daddy's Right Guys, the podcast where we take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness using the headlines,
box Office Reports, TV rating, what's trending on ease and
social media? Which Friday, December fourteenth, two thousand eight. Team
my name's Jack O'Brien, a Kay, Jack O'Brian, Miles Gray
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and a hose Na the Daily's like guyst in your
ears keeps all problems at bay like the Salt Guy.
That is courtesy of Shawn Constantine on Twitter. And I'm
thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Great Jackie, are you all great? Jackie? Are
you all great? Are you all great? Jackie? Jackie? Are
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you well great? Dackie are you well great? Oh great?
Duckie day? Are you all gay? Are you all gay? Jackets? Dear?
All right? Anyway? That is from at Sir Brent's Worth,
Brent Liberator, believe you did the actual lean. That was
an incredible the smooth operator. Yeah, d whole pint of yes.
Oh that lead the lean from the video. Sorry, yeah,
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if I stopped breathing the smooth criminal water on my head,
different film. Uh. Well, we are sorrow to be joined
in our third seat by fan favorite and one of
our favorite comedians to have here on the show, Sophia Alexandra,
how are you feel good? All right, we're gonna get
(01:28):
to know you a little bit better. But first we're
gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're
talking about today. Talking about a fancy Russian robot who
turned out to be just a guy in a robot costume.
We're gonna talk about more Earthquake Ship. That's gonna be
a new segment on the show, More Earthquake Ship. We're
gonna talk about the dude who claims he has witnessed
(01:50):
Donald Trump just grinding up the adderall and blowing lines. Uh.
And we're gonna talk about am I and David Pecker
our old home is from the days of flipping on Trump,
along with so many others and other things. We're gonna
talk about a lot today. But first, Sophia, what is
something from your search history that's really about who you are?
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I tried to search the most prolific child killers, Oh,
the people who murdered children or children that killed children,
who murdered the most people. Now that's more fun searching. Yeah,
And my favorite thing that I came upon in that
(02:34):
search was a child, a girl that had killed another child,
then came over to the mother's door, knocked on the
door and was like, hey, have you seen billy? I
feel like I saw him out in the meadow just
so she could watch. The mother discovered by body. That's
(02:56):
my favorite thing that I found. That's crazy. How old
was she? I think she was like seven or eight?
I mean like a child? Country was England? Wow? Recently? No,
there's like an old mythical tale. Yes, child, chill that
(03:18):
what the tale as old as time is from that
beauty they were talking about that little girl who is
savvage that is fucked up a little boy? Huh? You
don't know that the beauty and the beast were the
same person. You just blew my mind? Is that the moral?
That's the moral? Wow? Okay, yeah, that's the whole thing
(03:40):
where we watched that movie. Now, through being a fan
of Last Podcast on the Left, I've learned about killers
who really enjoy like it's true what they say about,
like look at who's that the crime scene when bodies
being discovered, because that's like part of the thrill for
a lot of thrill killers. That's why you return to
the scene at the time. There was a Japanese guy
(04:01):
who killed his classmates that were bullying him, and then
he killed his own mom because he didn't want her
to live with the shame of being the mother of
a killers the other way, that's the other direction right
now we do in Japan. So sweet about your mama.
I'm going to send that person a card. Good luck
getting into them. Are there any did you find any
children who like killed a bunch of adults, Like kids
(04:23):
who were like twelve vere younger that would be dope,
and nothing that was nearly as interesting as this, Like
everything paled one that, especially when you're like, yeah, I
think I saw him over there. Yeah, it was like
two in the morning. All the hair on my arms
stood up. That is so crazy, the idea that you
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went through some other bunk stories to be like, man,
this ain't fucking late enough. Got google other child. I
was like, please, a child that didn't even care whether
the victim's mother was going to see it now for me. Thanks.
So that's what you'll get On Sophia's Twitter feed and
something like that and her dating podcast Reality. But yeah,
(05:07):
use you guys listen to when Jackie learn a lot
about our romantic lives. If you ever thought, what's it
like to date us? Yes, check it out story so
you'll never want to date us again. It's not true.
I think everyone's going to fall a little deeper in love.
You were vulnerable. A lot of listeners don't think that
(05:29):
jack is capable of being vulnerable, that he's just a
brain and humor machine. You're wrong. I want to see
a grown man cry over having a baby. Check out
another podcast. It's not that one. What is something you
think is overrated? Okay? You know I fucking write these
down in advance. Okay, have you guys seen the movie
(05:52):
The Favorite? No, I'm about to though I have the
screener is amazing, ok underrated? Big fan of that movie.
First of all, it's just so many women being so
dope and like hilarious. It's a legit funny movie. I
heard it's just like walks this really amazing line, but
(06:13):
you being like tortuous and hilarious at the same Yeah,
I tweeted, I was like it made me like think
and it made me horny and it made me like
it was a real weird those same time, Jack, you
know this is your underrated correct, that is my underrated.
(06:39):
We were going out listening to the whole album. Okay,
I thought that might have been too emo to say,
but talk about don't listen to a whole album of
music anymore. It's all, let's what's the best songs single? No,
listen to a fucking album. I prefer doing it on
a tape or vinyl, not because I think the sound
(07:01):
quality is richer or some bullshit, which it is it is.
I know, don't write you like no. Um. The reason
I like it is I read something a long time
ago that made me think of albums in a way
that it was really cool. And every time I listened
to tapes or vinyl, I think about that, which is
that people used to when they made albums, think about
the first side on the second side, Like, how do
(07:24):
you want to begin end this part? In this part
because there's no tracks, there's no skipping tracks. Yeah yeah,
but it's also like annoying you to do that, so
and you get more uh. I guess you pay attention
more to the music when you physically have to go
and flip the thing to like side B, and it
(07:47):
makes you connect more with what you're listening to, and
it us still also be like you would study the
liner notes and you would just lay around and like
try to the experience of listening to the whole album,
I think like you will rediscover songs in a different
way versus just listening to some of your favorite songs.
That's all. Especially, Yeah, I think like Marvin Gay, What's
going On is a great album if you don't listen
(08:08):
to all the way because like there's a central theme
that kind of goes through the entire album and like
the songs going to the next And I was like,
oh yeah, listening to albums like in college, I think
I had a profession to be like, you should listen
to albums all the way through, and that blew my mind. Also,
I think that Blurredline's case was solved, and I think
Robin Thicken Frell oh them like five million dollars totally.
I think I finally just got like five million bros. Sorry, Yeah,
(08:33):
especially albums that were made at the time, because that
was part of the intent. Yeah, exactly, That's what I mean.
I like to think of them as filmmakers. My favorite
albums tell a story where that barret come from inside.
What is something you think is overrated? Sophia overrated? Adding
lady endings to jobs like a comedian. I am so
(08:59):
fucking so gendered descriptors of occupations. Yeah, like you're if
you're not calling someone a doctoris or a lawyeris, please
do me the fucking favor of not calling me a
comedian presidents even when you're like people, I think I
think they're being polite, but I'm like comedian. Yeah, no,
I do the same thing as I'm a comedian. That's
(09:22):
what I am. You don't need to know I have
a vagina in that word from yourself. Yeah, I mean
obviously because I opened with a vagina dentat a bit.
She's a comedian, walks immediately. Right. It's easier though, too,
because like you just give it one thing, Like you
(09:42):
stop saying Stewart iss or students fight intended or what not.
Waitress is a server, you know what I mean? Or
firefighters instead of firemen, right, you know, Okay, we've got
to move towards that more podcaster. Yes, you know, yeah,
podcasts is not a thing. Podcasts sounds like an amazing
podcast though. And also I'm wearing like like I'm serving
(10:04):
you like a ham in one hand and like I
don't know what stew in the other, and I'm wearing
like a roughly like kind of like lunch lady, yeah
outfit where I'm like, I'm here to serve right, podcast
dress cast straighter? Okay, all right? What is a myth?
(10:26):
What's something people think is true? You know, to be false?
Feminists can be feminine in small fonts like sophia. You
can do better? Can you're saying they can be? Yes.
I just feel like, you know, it's very trendy to
(10:47):
be like feminist or you know they're hard and they're badass,
and I think that means to a lot of people
that you can't like be feminine and enjoy ship that
people think is like friver List just because it's feminine.
You can be a feminist and like makeup and shave
your legs. I feel like that's an argument make men
(11:08):
have more against feminism right than women themselves, because I
feel like that's when you see on Twitter, they're like, oh,
you like this, but you're a feminist because it's like
a very shallow, one dimensional I wish that was true.
I live in an ideal world. When I'm here. There's
a serial like thing that was going around of like
women posting signs being like I'm not a feminist because
it's like and they were like, because I like my husband,
(11:30):
because because I don't mind that he opens my jar
for me. Like these are the kind of things that
you don't think that, Like you think women should be
immune to like someone else limiting us, but no, we're
also capable of women. Okay, you're right. I assumes that
women can be terrible. Two miles. I think women are women.
(11:54):
It assumes that feminism is attempting to just erase all
differences between men and women and to categorize masculine things
as it's better. You know that a woman that's like,
I'm not like other girls I love b are sweeping
up football jersey, you know, like a daily back tattoo. Yeah,
(12:17):
like I love Rick and Morty. It's like everybody everybody
can like those. They're not gendered. Not Oh, if she
likes Rick and Morty, she's better than a girl that
just cross stitched. It's born out of a very Yeah,
I think regardless of your gender or your whatever, your
viewpoint is on it. It's born out of a very
superficial understanding of what Yeah, because you're like, I think
(12:39):
feminism just like when a woman stomps on the guy's
balls exactly, and I think that's it. Yeah, am getting
that right? You got it? Great? Great, That's why I'm
not feminist. Yeah, precisely. I just feel like, you know,
we're doing ourselves a disservice to like grade what kind
of feminist you are based on what your interests are
and then preferring masculine quote unquote seeming interests and also
(13:00):
entering interests like men have been chefs for like an artists,
more no more respected chefs for much longer than women,
but cooking somehow is considered a feminine and domestic thing.
So we're getting fucked on two levels. It's like there's
not as many women profiting from being chefs and getting
(13:23):
as much respect. But at the same time, if you're
a man who cooks, it's like either you're gay or
being feminine. If you're a woman who yeah, you're doing
domestic ship and you could be doing more important things
with your time, but you're not, you dumb domestic bitch.
So yeah, anyway my thoughts exactly. Oh you were saying
that's not right. Oh yeah, yeah, terrible. Alright, guys, that's
(13:45):
enough about here the present tense. I want to take
you into the future, where a robot named du Boris
dazzled audiences at a tech forum near Moscow. Uh and it,
you know, answered questions, danced, dem straited, skills that not
many humanoid robots have many Russians have you Yeah, also
(14:06):
also that Uh but yeah, I've long been disappointed by
humanoid robots. They suck at walking, They're just idiots. They're
good at dancing, doing the robot Okay, maybe not definite.
I was saying that off Mike, But well, anyways, Boris,
(14:28):
who had given us all hope that the future might
be here, he turned out to be a human, just
a snow oid robot. About he was just a human
in a really good Halloween. Yeah. It was a really
weird thing where like they like Russian State TV was
(14:48):
like check out Boris, like it's got them, And then
a lot of people in Russian are watching, They're like yo, there,
how like people who just had a very elementary understanding robots,
like we're the outward sensors so it can make sense
of where it is in space, and like why is
it making so many unnecessary movements as it dances? Like
at one point when you look at the footage, it
looks like a dude in a fucking suit pretending to
(15:11):
be a robot. And then like people on stage like,
whoa boris this robot? And then the the I think
the people who were organizing the technology form, We're like, well,
we never said it was like a robot. We never
said that, really, and they're like, what your headline was,
check out this crazy good robot. Yeah. They were just
like no, no, no, no, we don't we don't know.
(15:32):
We never said that. But the wild thing was like
when you look at the photos from the thing, you
could see the guy's neck like from in between the
helmet and like where the shoulders started the thing. But again,
you know it's fun to I guess pretend. Yeah, but
the rope, but the costume was bought from a website,
so it was like it was an expensive suit. It
wasn't a cheapass robot suit, like it was one of
the more like you had to put your money into
(15:54):
this home. But also, don't we have a history of
cheating with Russians. I think every America too. You guys
are the only ones that you're good a cheating. I mean,
we cheated the Olympics hardcore. We also it's true by
any means, yeah, but yeah, no we don't. Didn't. We
also pretend to have a chess robot at one point
(16:15):
that used to beat people, and then it turned out
it was just a chess master. The turk. I think
I think that was a Hungarian dude, Hungarian well whatever,
it's former us the mechanical turk or a tumaton chase
chess player. This is actually a thing that has been
like a hoax multiple times throughout history, and it's just
you know, they'll have a thing that looks like a
(16:37):
robot that will be like, can you beat the amazing
chess playing robot, and then it's just a dude like
in a suit, sitting there like playing it, and you're like, yo,
the robot sneeze. Yeah. It's It's the oldest trick and
a very simple trick, but it apparently still works because
it fooled the unfoolable RT or whatever Russian state television.
(17:00):
This was guy's Earthquakes have been in the news a
little bit. Uh, and that's always unnerving for us here
in l A and California. But this time, so the
last earthquake was in all the way up in Alaska,
and this time it was in Tennessee. So the middle
of the country you don't really think about in the
(17:21):
context of earthquakes. But long ago, eighteen eleven to eighteen
twelve and eighteen thirteen there were that's how long the
after shocks lasted for. There was this thing called the
New Madrid seismic Zone where all these towns along the
Mississippi River just got completely like swallowed by the earth
by this like seven point nine I think earthquake that
(17:45):
I think it's one of the top three strongest earthquakes
in the history of North America on record, and it
basically like it turned the earth. There's this thing called
liquefaction where the particles of dirt in the ground like
shakes much that they basically stopped cohering together and they
like swallow everything on top of them. I don't need this.
(18:06):
And there it's sent it's sent tsunami's up the Mississippi River.
It was just fucking bonkers. And so that's the thing
that they're saying, could happen again. Basically, so this earthquake
in Tennessee could be related to the New Madrid. It's
the same seismic zone or whatever. So it is like
a fault line that's running along Yeah wayow. I was like,
(18:30):
is that fracking? Yeah? Like no, no, no, has been
there right, yeah. But it's crazy because it's like the
most dramatic earthquake I've ever heard of, and it was
along the Mississippi River. They basically say that if this
happened today, Memphis would be gone and St. Louis would
be in ruins. What yeah, what? But like it would
(18:51):
just swallow up, Like when they say it would Memphis
would be gone. They're saying the damage it was just
like not the liquid liquiff. I don't know, I've been
talking about equifex thing, but I think probably those towns
aren't necessarily as much built for earthquakes. Los Angeles people
where there, like, yeah, there's earthquakes here, so we need
to retrofit everything in the event that shaking. And also
(19:15):
because it's landlocked, and because of the type of rock
that exists in that part of the world, which is
like limestone, the rocks don't take the shaking as well,
So rigid shale in the West is better at containing
the shock waves. Basically, well, perfect that we're blessed, yes,
(19:39):
you know, except we got l a though. Was just
like it's basically outlined by fault lines. So yeah, cool, yeah,
no we're all fucked. But no we're safe, guys. Yeah yeah, yeah,
forget it. But it's like you can get such good juice,
that's true. Actually have moon juice in Memphis? Do you guys?
Do you have moon juice? Doubt it? They're ribs though,
(20:00):
the ribs though not a game to Memphis. Tenni kee. Alright,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back
edward back and uh, did we want to talk about
the adderall sniper in chief? Well, this is a great
(20:23):
story because it's the intersection of things we all know
about politics and terrible open mic comedy. Yeah, and this
comedian quote unquote named Noel Castler uh took to the
stage in New York, I think, and basically just spilled
the t on like his time working on the Apprentice,
and it was like I don't give a funk about
my nda uh and let's just listen to some of
(20:46):
the nuggets he drops. Yeah, it's like he knew he
wanted to like get some publicity out of having this
like crazy information, and rather than doing like an interview
with ABC, he's like, I'm gonna launch my stand up
career because he didn't know how stand up worked, and
here are the results. He's a speed freak. He crushes
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up his adderall and he snits it because he can't read,
so he gets really nervous when he has to read
cute guards. I'm not kidding, this is true. I had
a twenty four page n D a nondisclosure agreement. I
didn't know that he was becoming president. Now it's no way,
dumb ass. I'm telling you everything I know. So he
got and he crushes up these pills. That's why he
sniffing when you see him in debates, and when you
see him reading, it's why he's tweeting. You know, he's
(21:30):
like he's out of his mind. It makes sense if
you think about it. Met the amphetamine was invented by
the Nazis to keep the fighter pilots up all night
on the bombing runs, right, So it makes sense that
Trump when uses to hate tweeting the self centered rage
and four am on a toilet, So we missed a
couple of awful jokes. I'm glad super producer Nick cut
(21:51):
that out because there's some lame ass jokes about his
preference for women. But yeah, he also spilled some tea
about when he was doing the Miss teen US a
competition Teen USA. Mind you, he was inspecting their teeth
like the fucking Westminster Dog Show and then being like,
if you want to win, maybe in the penthouse and
(22:14):
people were apparently going up, and the people who went
up were performing well in the competition. Yeah, I don't
know what. The people would laugh at that story and
he would be like, no, I'm serious, which is not
usually a good stand up strategy, but it is a
fucking crazy story that this guy apparently had access. Yeah,
working on the Apprentice saw that he was snoring. I mean,
(22:35):
you know, who knows if this is real, but it
he was sniffing so goddamn much during those debates where
you're like, yeah, that's when everyone was like what is
going on? And that is definitely something that happens you
start getting well, I mean if you don't want yeah,
I meant doing that below, but I think that weren't
(22:55):
you saying, like in the eighties though, he was like
into doctor prescribed pep or something. There was that the
doctor the doctor said that da Yeah, there was a
doctor who prescribed him all sorts of pet pills and
like feel good pills, and he uh yeah, he has
like a medical record history that I think people are
trying to pull from his doctor's office. That either the
(23:19):
Secret Service came in and like pulled it or something
or like got rid of it. But it was that
dude who like looked all shady porn director. Yeah, yeah,
who does not look like like like your weed prescription checks.
He checks your fucking blood pressure for two seconds. Yeah, yeah,
you're good. Okay, you might want to get your blood
blood pressure. Yeah. I forget the specific details, but I
(23:42):
know that he was like using basically medical speed during
the eighties and then like the trail kind of went cold.
And I mean this is there's a type of celebrity
who you know, uses their influence and celebrity to you know,
get doctors to give them the good ship. Ever, celebrities
any person who grew up on the well a lot
(24:03):
of like teetotaling celebrities like Elvis never took illegal drugs.
He just died of a drug overdose from drugs that
like his homide doctor just prescribed dry or Dr pepper. Yeah,
I think. I mean, that's the same kind of mentality
a lot of people who get even into other prescription
drugs do because they're like, well, it's not a drug,
and it's easy to just in your mind be like, oh,
(24:24):
I'm not a drug addict taking these things, and that's
never gotten anyone in trouble. Yeah, except for America right now,
so we'll see, you know. And it's also like, for
sure he's on speed when he tweets, Yeah, like the
middle of the night, Like how else do you think
that happens? Yeah, I thought he's a man with incredibly
poor nutrition, Like of course he would be asleep, Like
(24:48):
do you know what I mean, Like he doesn't eat
well enough to have energy. He doesn't exercise, he doesn't
believe in it. He believes that exercise wears out your machinery. Right,
So if you don't believe in any of those things,
I can't imagine you have enough energy to run the country.
So of course you're going to be a speed at it. Well,
there's also that thing he said that he only needs, like, what,
three hours of sleep at night. I wonder if that's
(25:09):
a lie he created, because he's just covered up, whacked
out all night. Only three hours of sleep exactly. And
I need a screwdriver and some old TVs. A lot
of porn, a lot of poorn. And there's also the
dude who he wanted to give the entire Veterans Affairs
department too, who ended up having to pull himself from contentions.
(25:30):
Doctor Ronnie, I think was the name something. One of
the things that he got in trouble for was being
like a doctor feel good hand pills, and a lot
of people were like that. It's funny because there are
a lot of people on other administrations were like, yeah,
well you know, yeah, take those flights, something to go sleep,
you need something to stay up. No, I don't doubt that.
So I gotta say doctor feel Good always sounds amazing
(25:53):
as a job. He's not a bad guy, he's making good.
Call it something more nefariously. Yeah, the killer of Prince right, Yeah,
the doctor yeah killed the King of pop and Prince.
(26:13):
It's not the same doctor, but doctor doctors, doctors who
just didn't know how to say no. Enabler doctors. Yeah, alright,
yeah exactly, doctor murder earl. Yeah, it's got we'll workshop that.
I think we I think we got it. Okay, let's
print move forward from here. Uh, let's talk about am I.
(26:38):
This is a company that we've been talking about for
a long time, since before they were in the National spotlight.
This is run by a dude named David Pecker who
is a friend of Donald Trump. Uh and am I
publishes National Enquirer except I think okay, yeah, they're like
(27:00):
two tablets that a yeah. But anyways, he's gotten pulled
into the entire Trump investigation because he was basically catching
killing stories to try and protect Trump. So he would
buy a story and then just not run it in
order to protect Trump from, you know, having that story
(27:22):
told to another outlet. Right. Well, in this case, now
they're saying he's involved now because it's an illegal campaign
contribution by paying money for someone to alter or influence
the outcome of an election. Uh. And yeah, he got
caught up in all this ship and we find out, oh,
he has an immunity deal and he's ready to talk
about all that that's happened. So at first we know
(27:44):
Michael Cohen got done for doing that, but there's a
lot to say that, oh, well, he's a liar, so
we can't really trust his testimony. But now you have
people like David Pecker who's like, well, I can tell
you everything, and we have receipts. And there's also his
like second in command, who also has immunity and can testify.
But the whole thing with Cohen's plea basically makes it
hot for a lot of other entities. So am I
(28:05):
was the first one. They've basically are now caught up
in this and are working with the investigators and also
the Trump organization itself. And now, like you know, granted
Trump is one of the part of that executive body
that runs the organization, but the other people who work
there and are part of that decision making are his
children's that he loves. Uh So that's Ivanka Eric I
(28:27):
don't know if he loves him, and yeah, and the
other yeah, and the two are exactly. And then also
this other guy, Alan Weisselberg, who has been the CFO
of the Trump organization forever. He was like Fred Trump's accountant.
This guy, uh, Weisselberg also has immunity. So you've got
like basically like three other people besides Cohen who can
(28:47):
actually attest to what happened and basically say like, yeah,
this motherfucker is directly implicated in this felony. He was
all done at his direction. Uh, So yeah, we'll see
what happens there. And I think that has also led
to a lot of people, like especially the GOP, did
begin kind of having to check how they're defending this president,
because first you have people like or and Hatch was like,
I don't care, even if it's like he's like the
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Democrats are trying to smear this guy, and like the
report is like this is the southern district of New York.
Who's pointing this out as I don't care? And then
grass Lee is also, remember right, remember because he's white,
it's all good. And then but then Marco Rubio is like, well,
we have laws, so maybe you know, if you break
the laws, I guess like maybe you should like answer
to said laws. I don't know, like not really putting
(29:29):
his foot in, but definitely not defending him. Uh. And
also Bill Cassidy was also kind of saying the same thing.
So I think it's got Trump a little worried. But
do you also think that like part of him when
they did the catch and kill on the story of
him with the newest like with the Playboy, asked Kary mcduell,
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don't you think part of Trump was like mad that
that news didn't get out because he was like, how
are people not gonna know? I hit that was Also
it's a ten year old fucking worry. Also, I mean
I saw her picture and I was like, he definitely
wants this to get out. Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty good, right,
I don't know, nothing happened, is very simple transaction. I
don't know nothing's wrong, but if there was a transaction,
(30:12):
it was pretty good at it. Well. Yeah, and I
think when you see just how how it's getting closer
and closer, we're seeing bigger chunks of his like fake
facade statue start to crumble. You know, he's apparently, according
to NBC, they're saying he's really confided in close aids
that he is very worried about impeachment. Now he's like, uh,
I didn't know. I couldn't do that, right, So maybe
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we'll see what happens. We'll see, you know, we've got
the new Congress coming in new year, so we shall
see where they take it. But yeah, it's definitely looking
like it's getting closer and closer to Mr Trump. Mm hmm. So,
speaking of it being close to the end of the year,
Time Magazine has released their Man of the Year Person
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of the Year award and it's basically a combination of
journalists who you know suffered or died to you know,
fight injustice, Jamal Kashoji being one of them. And uh,
that kind of ties into the next story we wanted
to talk about, because the Senate has now decided to
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care about Saudi Arabia. Uh. And it's not totally clear
why they're now like deciding to worry about people from Yemen,
but they are, which is good. It's just a matter
of like, how are they going to justify it? I
guess yeah, I want how do you move forward? Because
so they Senate passed a resolution using the War Powers
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Act or the War Powers Resolution to end US cooperation
with the Saudis in Yemen. Now this isn't the end
because there's also a similar bill in the House I
would have to pass. But the Republicans have procedurally done
a lot to Basically they're doing a lot of trickery
to make sure it doesn't come to a vote. But
those things can change once the Democrats are in the
majority come next year. But it's odd because, you know,
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in the beginning, when a lot of even Democrats senators
were confronted with the evidence of what's happening in Yemen
over the what past three years, they were like, I no, no,
I don't know. Uh. And then suddenly, like afterhog, people
are like, oh, okay, well let's like that's what that means. Yeah. Well,
and then now it's like, well, what what reason now
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have are they using to begin reevaluating this relationship with
Saudi Arabia? Is it the oh, you know, it was
okay when like tens of thousands of civilians are dying
needlessly and children are dying of starvation and widespread famine,
that's fine. But now that this journalist got kill, will
hold on? Now is the calculus that we need Saudi
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Arabia as like a strategic ally or is it the
freedom of the press angle? Or is it you know, like,
it's weird to see how they're gonna begin to articulate
why they're suddenly now there's the votes, especially in the
Senate to try and do something. It's just embarrassment, right, Well,
of course, yeah, I mean the pressure, the pressure clearly
got to a point where they're like, the Kaushog thing happened,
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and then now people are looking at all this other
ship and they're like, ye know, what the funk is
going on? Right? There was that picture of the starving
girl who was starving because Saudi Arabia had been just
bombing the ship out of her town and Yemen and
and the ports where any of the aid was going
to come, right, and you know, she was on the
front page of the New York Times and captivated a
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lot of people's attention and was just one of the
most horrifying pictures you've ever seen. And then she died
on November one. Hashog died on October two. So it's like,
you knowhowg brought attention to this conflict and to Saudi
Arabia being uh, just international funck boys. And so then
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like the New York Times was motivated to, you know,
send more resources to Yemen. And maybe it's just like
the freedom of the press sort of working. I think
it's just that the Hahog thing made it too hot
for them that they finally had to acknowledge how bad
the Yemen ship was too. And I don't think they
really gave a fuck because it was only public outrage,
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because I mean, pictures had existed for years, so if
you really wanted, if you wanted to get there, you
could figure out what was happening. So it's a dark outcome.
You're like, well, I'm glad it happened, but you know,
like what's going on the other thing too? Is I
wonder if they're gonna just solely be like, well, it's
all MBS, you see, that's the problem. That way they
can keep the status quo in terms of the relationship,
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the elite alliance between the US and Saudi Arabian just
be like, whoa is MBS. That has to go and
that's the problem. But are you just gonna ignore anything
that's happened before that? It's you know, we'll see what,
you know, Like, are we really going to actually reevaluate
the relationship between the two countries. I don't think we're
going to go to war with MBS or yeah no,
but I mean, and Saudi Arabia is not going to
(34:52):
back down from what I mean, if the US spearheaded
a thing to be like, Yo, you're sucking up my man.
That's a that's a that's a it's a huge shift.
But I think also to the fact there's also way
too much money in like the defense industry that is
being used in lobbying to keep this thing going on,
because if we pull out of this conflict, that inevitably
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means less arms sales or you know, there are a
lot of money isn't gonna come the other way for
people who are trying to arm this outias and they
have a stake in this too. So yeah, anyway, although
Trump's argument about like, well we have so many, so
many arms sales that we can't like stop selling them
arms or it's going to hurt our businesses, it's kind
(35:34):
of bullshit for like, not not just ethically but also
like militarily, Like don't worry, well, the people who make
these arms will find some group is a new customer,
and they'll lobby to put them off a list of
why we can sell them. It doesn't matter, that's not
the case. They're just like, just come on, this is
(35:55):
an easy customer we got. I'm a little worried that
that it's taking us like more and more every time
to care about associate a situation like we need like, oh,
this is a picture of a murder child, just like
the picture of the Syrian child washing up on shore.
It's like, do we just need to see children's bodies
graphically displaying like the fate of the country in order
(36:19):
for us to have any kind of real attachment to
fixing the situation? Do we only begin to care when
it's like so so dramatic and it shakes us out
of And is it getting worse because like the news
is getting crazy and crazier with like everything Trump is doing,
and it's hard to keep the same level of outrage
(36:39):
going all the time. So is it just that now
it's going to be even harder for us to give
a ship. Well, I think it's also on the media
to to keep reminding people. It's easy to obscure what's happening.
If you only report on ship that's going on yem
In like once every six months, you know, there's no
Most people, if they're not proactive enough and understanding what's
happening the news, they're more passive audiences. So like if
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you're just talking about all this other ship, it doesn't
come to the forefront, and it takes the media being like, hey,
this ship, because I mean, look at even like with
the with gun control, there's so many kids have been
killed in mass shootings, but there's still no like yeah, well,
I don't know. I don't know what it is because
I think most people are empathetic enough, like when confronted
(37:22):
with that kind of ship, you'd be like, yeah, that's
not right, right, But the leaders of media is writing
about it. But also like that's not what's being presented
to us. Like when you go and see what's trending
on Twitter or whatever, I mean so frequently the things
that are being served to me in my moments or whatever,
it's like those are the things people are clicking on,
but they're all really dumb. And it's hard also from
(37:45):
like you have to catch yourself and be like, wait,
why am I clicking on now? Before like I click on,
Hey they murder a journalist or these people are starving
to death. So I mean it's on us, and it's
on the media like you're not. I mean yes, but
there are these huge institutions that are in place that
(38:07):
I don't know. It's I think it's hard for us
to hold like people to account for not being more
interested in it, because I think that's just the problem
with like Twitter being a news source or you know,
us having these algorithmically derived like yeah, yeah, but there's
also more stories than before about everything because everything is
(38:29):
a quote unquote like I think people have to just
confront their privilege to and understand that. I also need
to be aware of people who have a vastly nearly
antithetical existence to mine that is completely different and it's
uncomfortable I think for a lot of people to be like,
oh my god, but like I don't want to think
about it. Like I think that's the problem a lot
(38:51):
of people. They'll see it and they I don't really
want to think about it. I really don't want to
think about it. But you know, it's usually it's usually
not until the ship comes to your doorstep that people,
and then it's too late, right, So what do Yeah,
I don't know, just please, uh, just keep your eye
on ship. I don't know. I don't say. Man, if
you if you look at that ship and you're not
moved to do something, try and just figure out, like
(39:13):
you know, do what you can to try and move
in a direction where you can be more empathetic and
not just sort of tune out for your own comfort, right,
because I think that's the problem for like our own sanity,
which I know it feels like, oh, it's just part
of my self care, but it can't be part of
our self care to like not let the horrible ship
(39:33):
and that could make us care about other people. All Right,
we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back, and we just wanted to check in
(39:54):
real quick with a real world villain who puts any
movie villain that has ever been invented to shame, except
he's like, I guess not, he wouldn't make a good
movie villain because he's like, unless you could kill somebody
with douche chills, which I think this guy might actually
(40:15):
succeed in doing one day. Yeah, so this dude is
kind of the architect of the GOP's economic argument against
fifteen hourly minimum. They picked the worst guy, so like,
on yeah, on Wednesday, the House Education and Workforce Committee,
(40:36):
they had to postpone their presentation where they had this
Kuk economists come up and be like, oh my god,
if you start paying people fifteen bucks an hour minimum wage,
I mean, say goodbye to everything right, because I'm telling
you equality doesn't work. Uh. And the reason they had
to postpone it is because people started looking into this
(40:57):
man's past and found a weird blog he used to
write called No Shades of Gray or Zero Shades of
Gray that was like it self described, was like the
like no holds barred conservative blog, and he had some
problematic automatic takes that were I mean, so there's one
(41:18):
entry where he talks about in response to a story
about fast food restaurants having to begin listing calories on food,
He's like, oh, what's next. You know, the government's overreaching.
I guess at this point there should be a gay
sex tax, and wrote this really long thing about it.
Um and it says, I don't just read you a
little bit. You understand where this where the geniuses on
(41:39):
the GIOPI are coming from. It says, in gay sex,
we have an activity that is clearly leading to disastrous
health consequences. What rational person would engage in this sort
of activity. There's only one solution, Let's tax it. So
he's lining the not just having a fucking deeply homophobic
take on that. But you know, the government's stepping in
because too much calories is bad for us. And then
(42:02):
he says, come on, Sabia, you say his name is
Joseph Sabia. How are you going to enforce these taxes?
You're gonna send government officials to peep in everyone's bedroom eventually,
but first we have to mount the assault on big gay. No,
I'm not talking about Rosie O'Donnell. We can tax websites,
personal ads, sexual So anyway, this guy's out here only
(42:23):
have like two punch lines. That's crazy how bad they
are because I don't know if you noticed, they're not
good at comedy. Comedy requires empathy, right, yeah, I really,
I just don't understand. There's no the creativity coming from
the right. I don't understand why it's so terrible, right, Like,
there's not remember that it's okay to be white guy.
That track was kind of a banger, but not really.
(42:46):
He was ripping off existing material. You know, there's no Beyonce, right.
Do you remember how sad it was when Trump was
trying to book musical acts for the inauguration because no,
people like wingers make good music, right exactly, He's like
Ted new June. I guess I don't know he's going
(43:06):
to play a machine gun. But then he also this
man Joseph Sabia, the economist, Um, he also he's like
an in cell to like a very early in cell,
just based on his description of like college women. Uh.
It says, as women have strayed from the church, Okay,
they have. They have replaced what is holy with what
(43:27):
is temporarily pleasing. For Catholics, the model woman was married
the virgin Mother of God. She's beloved by the faithful
for her unflappable devotion to and trust in God. Okay,
keeps going, keeps going, And says today's college girl looks
to Ali McBeal, the trollops of the sex of sex
in the city and the flooz. He's on friends to
set their moral compasses. Additionally, other sex based relationships have
(43:50):
become commonplace. In recent years. A new and disturbing arrangement
known as quote friends with benefits has emerged. In this arrangement,
men are not even forced to perform the normal duties
of boyfriends, i e. Flowers, Valentine's Day cards, rides to
the abortion clinic. Okay, uh and it said and said,
girls consider these guys just friends. Whom they happen to
screw every now and again. This type of arrangement is
(44:12):
the next logical step in the direction that young women
have drifted in the last few decades. These women have
become unpaid horse. At least prostitutes made a buck off
of their trade. These women just gave it away. So
that's the kinds of people that they have to present
as experts on ship. Everyone's they're just you know, really
(44:32):
bad open on not ever getting any Yeah. So again,
just the kinds of experts, only the best people, and
everyone has this like shitty in cell background. I guess
let's go with a new story that that guy would
not be able to make sense of that in his worldview.
And that is a recent statistical analysis that found that
(44:56):
women led films do better at the box office. Sophia
is opening a bag of pirates. I had to let
people know as a lot of tension in this room.
It's a lot of tension because this pirate's booty is
looking at me to be gobbled up. So yeah, so
(45:18):
women are doing better all budget levels. So it's not
just you know, blockbuster movies, it's all budget levels. It's
almost like women are fifty percent of the population are
as relevant to the human experience. That's crazy. Whoa feminist?
What's that about the ship? But movie studios are paid,
(45:42):
like movie executives are paid to read the zeitgeist, and
they have spent the last like, I don't know, five
ten decades, uh, saying that like women led movies don't
do as well. Right, And then finally enough movies that
star women have come out and they did a statistical analysis,
(46:05):
and I still I still doubt that this changes anything.
But uh yeah, I mean yeah, there's also I think
that whole thing also showed clear it's still white man central, yes,
but despite the fact that diverse casts and female led
casts have done way better. The other thing was that
since every film that has gone on to pass one
(46:28):
billion dollars in global box office has passed the Beckdel test,
think about that ship too. I love that, you know
what I mean? Also shout out to the Backdell cast.
If you don't know if you want know about the
Beckdel test, check that podcast out on this here network.
But yeah, that's I didn't even realize that dimension of it.
This is a very common like thing to be told
in Hollywood, and they say it with people of color.
(46:49):
To my husband was making a TV show and was
casting a black woman as the lead. They were like, oh,
even black people don't like to watch black people on TV.
Oh I'm sorry, white guy, what are you saying? What
do you mean? How could that possibly be true in
(47:10):
any way? That like, people don't want to see themselves represented.
Anybody doesn't want that. That's an insane thing. There's so
many things that show that representation matters and effects like oh,
if you can't see it, you can't be it, you know. Anyway, Well,
I think it's like, even with politics, you have this
whole subset of the old generation still basically at the levers.
(47:34):
They don't want to let go, even with the evidence
in front of them, Like because even now you look
at politics or like what are you talking about? People
want maternity leave or this other ship that they can't
just quite get over despite all the evidence that says
you're fucking up. And yeah, we see this too in
the entertainment industry, where many of the decision makers still
have this very terrible mindset. But I guess now is
(47:55):
the box office returns show, Oh well, these are winners,
profit will timately guide them to the light. Yeah. I
mean it's like you would think that profit comes first,
but I think it's like if it also affirms our
longstanding yeah, like you know, patriarchal and white people oriented world, Like,
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if it confirms that, it's way easier to believe those
numbers than when it's like, hey, actually the opposite thing
is supported by numbers, and they're like, wait a minute,
that doesn't confirm to my worldview, right, yeah, And I
mean movies still remain dominated by white male actors or
white male lead movies, and there's no excuse at this
(48:40):
point other than just the fact that there is a
you know, residual abundance of white men in the Hollywood
like infrastructure, and the smart business thing to do would
be to have the most diverse staff and make the
most diverse movie. But you know, because it'll speak to
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a multitude of people, there is an opportunity. And I
mean it's also it's more interesting. It's like the argument
for not having all male comedy lineups or all white
people comedy lineups anything. If you think you're funny now, Brad,
wait till four other brads aren't right after you. You
know what I mean, If you're confident in your talent,
then like it'll only shine when it's contrasted to other
(49:22):
people's talent. Yeah, this is goes back to a study
I love talking about but where they found that people
who were in more diverse groups when compared to a
control where it was people in like homogeneous groups. So
the more like similar the people were, the groups were
less successful at the task they were doing, but they
(49:43):
were more likely to be very confident in it. And
because it was like easy for them to yeah, we're
all on the same bridge, because they arrive at whatever
decision they wanted to arrive at that was. It was
easy because they all agreed with one another. It's just
that the product was worse. Whereas people who were in
more diverse groups had less confidence because their process was
(50:05):
more conflict written, but it also resulted in a better product.
And I mean this is true across everything, Like the
more diversity you have in a culture, the more open
exchange of ideas you have, the more success the more technology,
(50:26):
uh moves quicker than. The reason that like technology and
discoveries and medicine is moving so fast right now is
despite you know, authoritarian tendencies right now at the top
of different Western countries were still about as free as
we've ever been. And the reason there were fucking no
(50:46):
like technological or medical advances during the Dark Ages is
because ideas and people were not free, and it was
just a couple of you know, white people at the
top deciding who could talk to who. So yeah, look
at us now, look at us now, and the people
look hotter when you let everybody mix up, right, you
know what I mean? So also when you give them
(51:07):
what is it in their salt, the calcium what iodized? Yeah,
that's yeah in the Dark Ages, in the Dark Ages,
everybody had like facial goiterers because they weren't getting enough iodine.
And then once we started iodizing our salt, like, we
all became way hotter. Oh really, people look like literally characters.
(51:33):
Yeah yeah, wow. Yeah, that was one of the greatest
leaps forward. And that just in Western we got Gordon
faces like in Asian. I think it was just when
we started iodizing our salt, and I think that was
not happening in a lot of different places. I also
think it was probably the goiters were more common in
Western Europe because Western European people were filthy as fun, right,
(51:57):
right when they when they came to the New World,
they found Native American people to be like incredibly beautiful
and like clean and well kept compared to them, because
they thought bathing was bad for you, right, they thought
bathing was literally terrible for you. Like they all smelled good,
their hairs all shiny and silky. Mad. I just have
(52:18):
one dreadlock. You can strike a match off it. Ahead,
and just while we're on the subject of box office watch,
I wanted to talk about acclaim Netflix is making that
they're Kurt russell Christmas movie, The Christmas Chronicles, well named,
(52:38):
is they're claiming the number one movie of the year,
essentially because it in its first week it was viewed
twenty million times, which would be the equivalent of making
two million dollars at the box office. Um, but they didn't, right,
but they didn't. They didn't put it out in theaters,
which they totally could have done. But that's the same
(53:01):
thing they do with Bright too. Weren't they like, oh,
this movie would have done really well, right, right, Yeah,
But still it is frustrating. This is something we've been
talking about this week. How frustrated I am by the
fact that there are these huge companies that have all
this information about us that they just won't let out right,
And so there's all the companies that they're made our locations,
(53:23):
the twenty one billion dollar industry, and Netflix just also
doesn't release anything about like the ship that we're actually
watching unless there's like some big project. They you just
want to know who watched that Kurt Russell movie. You
want a detail, listen who it was. I'm surprised they
didn't even go any further there, like and assuming that
not like in one viewing, there's probably at least one
(53:43):
other person there. We're looking at it. I mean, three
billion dollars plus shared Netflix accounts, I mean, we don't
know how many motherfucker's are really watching. Yeah. I think
the most they've done was like right at the end
of the year in there like Twitter account like started
calling people out there, like to the one person who
watched Avatar nine hundred times this year? Who hurts you? Remember?
(54:04):
Like they were getting weird on their messy on their
Twitter last year. Yeah, Yeah, Well that was like a
thing they thought was like cute, like a funny thing
to be like who watched they were like that Wendy's account,
his mouth Lord of the Rings. Anna, Yes, it was
the Lord of whoever wants Lord of the Rings? Like
three times. What the funk happened? Right, And it's like,
that's funny, except you're seriously paying a lot of attention
(54:26):
to us and judging us all not telling us what
you're finding out. I wonder if they just know so
much so they're like, yo, we we can't even let
people know how much we know. It's too hot, Yeah,
because I'm sure you can really juxtapose that was some
psychographic data and be like, oh wow, there are five
kinds of people based on our Netflix viewing happens. The
(54:49):
other thing that's somewhat foreboding about Netflix is that they're
so deep in the whole they're spending way more than
they're making, and so it suggests that there's like some
end game where they start making money off of us,
off of all the information they've learned about us from
like their psycho graphics and you know, the things that
(55:10):
told them to make that Ashton Kutcher sitcom that takes
place on a ranch. That's like, like, they know all
this shit about us that is just kind of profane
and weird, and somehow they're planning on monetizing it, or
they'll just get bought by Apple, which would also be scary,
I think, because they'd be too big and powerful. But anyways, yeah,
(55:34):
it's not clear how anything works inside Netflix, so you
only get like their product and how much they're spending
on different ship too makes sense of it all and
none of it really makes sense. Yeah, well, I don't know,
because I think a lot of other companies are getting
wise to what Netflix is doing. They're like, well, fuck it,
We'll just take our ship, all of our i P
(55:54):
and all the things we own and make our all
streaming ship. That's where like a lot of those Marvel
shows are getting canceled because they're like, well, don't worry
when Disney starts their thing there, like, we'll just reboot
it over here because we own that i P anyway,
right right, So, which will suck because then you're gonna
be subscribing to like nine different things because it used
to be centralized. And then maybe that could be the
end of it for them, because the other films they
count on in as part of their library will begin
(56:16):
migrating towards the streaming platforms of those like networks or
studios and then they're left with just their originals and
like terrible other ships that I mean, I watch all
them ships. So I'm still here. I'm still here for you.
Next look, as long as there's married at first sight
Honeymoon Island, I'm gonna be fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're good.
And this is where you guys start talking about nine.
(56:43):
Don't worry Sophia and I we're having an in depth
conversation after this. Anyway, Sophia, it has been up to
this point really great having you. Where can people find
you and follow you? You can listen to my podcast
with Courtney Kosak, Reality Bites that's with a hy and
you can find me at the Sophia Everywhere th h
E s O F I y A. And is there
(57:04):
a tweet you've been enjoying? Um? Yes there is. The
tweet is by Anya Volts, and the tweet is Relationships
are so casual these days. Nobody actually has an anniversary anymore.
They're like October fourteenth is the day he responded to
my Instagram story for the first time, and it's like,
where did all the romance go? Why can't my dad
trade me for livestock anymore? Uh? Miles where can people
(57:31):
find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram
at miles of Gray. Uh. And a tweet that I
like is uh this is when Anna showed me from
Reductress earlier. It's a woman crying with the Christmas lights
and a wreath in her arms, and it says, all
(57:51):
I want for Christmas is you approval. The woman looks
so tortured. Love it nice delivery? Yeah, sweet, Thank you
so much. Another one just applies to our office is
how to cut out all the people who are not
obsessed with your dog. Gotta respect people's dogs. Yes, well yeah,
(58:16):
we we certainly don't do that enough. Um well, you
can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Opbrian tweet
I enjoyed from Supervisor around a Hosny issue tweeted this
is real and happening on one That is the live
read of Santa University, a live stage reading December one.
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M be there, you'll see some favorites there. You will
see some favorites there. You'll miss some other favorites there.
H And another tweet I was enjoying is uh, w
d s You tweeted this sesame street mupp that will
become the first to experience homelessness and Diane gotta shut
the funk up, tweeted, Oscar the grouch been living in
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a trash camp for forty night here exactly which is
true and the best people you need should bring more
attention did He was like, Oscar, you're such a grouch.
H You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zygeys
for at the Daily Zeist, on Instagram. We have Facebook
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where post our episodes and our footnote where we link
off to the information that we're talking about in today's episode,
as well as the song we ride out on my
Asco song we canna write, Let's go out on a
little remix by Flying Lotus of a Brandon Coleman song
called walk Free. So this is walk Free, the fly
Low remix. And you know everybody's going to your weekend
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walking freely, okay, on yourself, on your spirit, on your desires.
This week, I love you uncle Mikes'll say, I love
my uncle mis Hi. We're gonna write out on that.
We'll be back on Monday and joy weekend. Everyone by
you'll get through to time because you're on my side.
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It's all every year we go, look in your life, moments,
into your memories. As a dangels By, he said it
to you. Listen to my line he through the time,
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pass time with me.
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