November 15, 2021 • 50 mins
In episode 1030, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Aida Rodriquez to discuss People are quitting to find meaningful work but it’s harder for those making less money…, Jan 6 Snowflakes, want to go to Gitmo and claim they are being tortured by CRT!!!, American kids don’t know shit about food or where it comes from… and more!
- People are quitting to find meaningful work but it’s harder for those making less money…
- Hating work is having a moment
- Jan 6 Snowflakes, want to go to Gitmo and claim they are being tortured by CRT!!!
- American kids don’t know shit about food or where it comes from…
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two eleven, Episode
one of Dirt Dailies Like Guys, the production of I
Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Monday, November one,
which of course means that it is National Clean out
your Refrigerator Day. We we all observe right that I
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have some ship in my refrigerator. Right, that's a good reminder.
Actually good. I got some sausages. I got it too.
What's your shop? I may need to check on some
vintage I hear twenty eighteen was a good year for yeah,
exactly for Salvadoran style of Tosa. My name is Jack O'Brien,
a K. Jack O'Brian. The Dailies Like Guys treat because
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I'm in San Francisco. Magucci main is a pro, he
writes to my he's GEO locating me with a K.
Is this motherfucker? Well? I am thrilled to be joined
as always by my co host, Mr Miles Ground. I
was listening to PuF Daddy's No Way Out over the weekends,
so in honor of that, I'm hitting you with listeners.
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Man Ikey, I wanna be your podcast too low can't
you see? If fps aren't there, then just reload hot
takes on my steel Yo set reviews chi so shout
out to me. I was man, that album never gets
old because I'm constantly living in that area. That was
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also good. We haven't asked people to rate and review us.
I think since like for the pandemic, rate and review us,
we can, we could use our your reviews. Well. Speaking
of reviews, the reviews are in for our guests on
our third seat and they are bofo, they're rave. We
are thur to be joined in our third s. Truly
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hilarious stand up comedian you've seen on Last Comic Standing
Tiffany had his presents they ready, and her New Hours
special on HBO Max Fighting Words is so fucking good.
Our listeners, you guys are really gonna love it. Go
watch that ship now. Please welcome the brilliant, the super
fucking funny to Rodga. And they said, my name right,
(02:17):
I have some kale in my refrigerator that I'd never juiced.
You know how you buy the kale yeah this week
and then you're like, and it smells so bad and
you have to look at those sad leaves and you're like,
where did I go wrong? Yeah, i'da thank you so
much for coming on the shows. Honestly, I was telling
(02:37):
you before he went on, and the listeners as well,
fighting words, such a fucking good special. I can't tell
you how much I recommended. The jokes are fantastic, the
insight is amazing, it's heartfelt. I y, yeah, thank you.
That's the first thing I'll say is thank you. That
was such a pleasant experience. Yeah, you know, it's been
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really like refreshing to have so many man saying hey,
I see you. I thought your special was good because
there's so much sexism in comedy and yeah, you know,
like people already think that women are funny. A lot
of people say it out loud. They'll say to me like,
I don't really think women are funny, but I like you,
And I'm like, oh, that's a good. Yeah, I don't
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know yet. It's your delivery. It's like I as a
as a West Coaster, I've always had a love for
New York especially, and I think there's your your energy,
that New York energy too. There's just every every single thing.
I'm like, I love it. I love this. I love
just and also just like you even come into grips
with being Dominican in Puerto Rican, like I feel that
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as a biracial person, like I feel Black, do I
feel Japanese? And there's just so many things that I
feel like are that resonate with fucking anybody? And if
you like comedy, bonus because the ship is funny from
the jump. So yes, thank you, yeah, and thanks for
joining us at what is I think probably a very
very busy time. You were saying you had your l
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A premiere last week, you got your New York premiere
coming up? Yeah, what what's that experience been? Like, it's been.
It's new. You know, I'm used to going to the
premieres and people like moving me away out the way
so that a bigger person can take picture, and they
like you were we even got out the way we did,
you know, Like I remember I was on the red
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carpet behind Brittney Spears one time and I was it
was like they thought I was hurt the help Like
they were like I supposed to be holding out back there.
So it's just been it's been overwhelming. I didn't know
how much they were going to celebrate me. I didn't
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realize how big my premiere was actually gonna be. Um,
it was really just overwhelming because you know, I'm imposter syndrome.
I'm honest about it, and I was like that for me,
y'all spent all this, I want to You're like looking
at the step and repeat. You're like, i'd a Reguez
like this it's your special my name I had, like
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I broke down crying at one point. I was like
they really did this, dude. It was just I was like, like,
like the meme, Like I was like, oh, I think
it's been. It's been very positive hearing feedback from people
like yourself who have had the struggle with having to
to understand what their identity really is. You know, people
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who are tired of performative activism, people all kinds of
people just talking to me, people who love animals that
were like, yo, like, I'm so glad you spoke up
for the animals, and I was for everybody right well,
totally well deserved. And we're going to get to know
you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're
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gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about.
People are apparently quitting to find meaningful work. But it's
we're we're going to talk about that. It's complicated, sort
of dynamic where and America people feel defined by their jobs,
that fell need to define themselves by their jobs. So
just that that's a balance that people are dealing with.
We're gonna talk about the January six snowflakes who are
(06:11):
like rhetorically saying they want to go to get Moo,
but they don't want to go to get Moo. But
they're not even built for American gem Yeah, okay, so
we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about American
kids not knowing what like where food comes from. So,
you know, just good news in general about our schools,
all that plenty more. But first we do like to
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ask our guests what is something from your search history?
So I honestly, my friend who opens to me it
is a comedian too, and an influencer invited me to
go get Dominican sushi in New York yesterday and I
had no idea what that was. Oh I googled it
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and we went to this place KM Mama Sushi's and
they had like you know what it is like they
had these roles that have like the white cheese that
Dominicans have planting like me, Like it was like an experience.
So but before I went, I didn't google it to
see what that was. I I only know about it
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from listening to Jesus and Merry all the time because
Merrow always talks about the Mama Sushi on Dykeman, and
it's just been it's been a thing in my head.
But I'm curious, did you so you went? Is it?
What was it like? Was it good? Was delicious? Like
they had this seafood role that was actually and I
love sushi. I mean I went to Japan so I
could have real sushi because I was like, I want
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to I want to try to like real real sushi,
and I didn't have a choice, Like you know America, Americans,
you know have they have a way of ruining other
people's cultural stuff. Like but we sit there and the
fisherman go get that sushi and they tell you what
you and me eat you eat it. That was like
the ultimate sushi experience for me. But that it was good.
It was such a diffusion of like two of my
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favorite foods. I love Japanese food. I love sushi more
than any other you know, food outside of like Puerto
Rican and Dominican food everybody, and I love Dominican food,
sorry to my Puerto Ricans, but Dominican food is delicious.
So the fusion of those two it was, I mean,
it was just delicious. Like I mean, I'm not as
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up on Dominican food, So what is what was like
the most dominic But I'm very familiar with sushi, So
what was like the thing that was combining the most
Dominican menu item or flavor with It's called the Monster
and had it had like planting the white fried cheese
that they used in for breakfast and Dominican breakfast for food,
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but just this had beef in it had chicken in it.
I don't I'm out of meat eater, but I was like,
I gotta this. It was so good. Restaurants that name
their food like their roller coasters, that like six flags
like Monster, Get ready to eat the fucking Monster. There's
there's a sushi burrito place truck out in l A
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that has like these massive sushi barrio. It's it's honestly
a little much like I had to stop eating sushi
for a couple of months after I had them because
it was just like too much of a good thing.
But they're they're burritos are like named the Batman and
the Superman and like ship Like it feels like you're
at a at a theme park or something. I respect,
(09:28):
it's an experience. Yeah, because listening to ingredients isn't enough. Yeah,
I like salmon, but can you call it like something
more mythological for me to really I want that zeus,
let me get that's good. Yeah, this is like the
he's like the top one. Yeah. What what's something you
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think is overrated? Oh? The Kardashians, I think yeah, I
think that. You know, it's funny. It is like that.
I was like, we'll just people, let us live on
lives and then they're like, by the way, when they
got coffee by myself today. Yeah, I think that's just
so funny. I think they're overrated, you know, And I
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think they're toxic. That I don't. I don't, I'm not.
I don't want to call them toxic, but I think
the celebrity worship around them is toxic and it really
harms young young women and young men and young non
binary people like into believing the superficial stuff because they
don't get to see the behind the scenes, and they
don't get to see them without makeup, and they don't
get in real real life because everything is curated. So
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I think they're overrated, and and that's not to disc them,
but I think that that was happening around them is
overrated and it's very harmful to young people, right the
Institution of Kardashians. Yeah, there was a study about how
there's like that account like rich Kids of Instagram that's
just like these like young people just doing the most
private jets and things like that, and they were there
(10:55):
was like a study being like this is actually really
bad too because it's it's putting at the top for
like younger people the idea that you want to be
flying on p jets and in like massive you know,
being in a big gas truck or all these really
stupid lifestyle indicators which are completely antithetical to us having
a you know, livable planet. But it's interesting just how
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even then, like people are sort of like, let's see,
we gotta start sucking poking holes in this ship. They
should be reading books that were written by uh, what's
his name, Kurbannagut. The other thing that it does is
like for someone like me that comes from where I
come from. It entices people who are struggling and for
to go seek you out and try to rob you.
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And if you watch what's happening in l A, and
that's been happening when they say the poor will eat
the rich, is like, y'all keep flashing all the stuff.
I'm not trying to shame you for it, but I'm
just letting you know that there are some people really
struggling and they're really hungry, and they're desperate, and they
don't know how to process their feelings. And you know
they might meet you that jetway one day and snatch
its most steps that harder you flash, harder you get
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flashed on everyone like that. I don't think I have
seen an exercise of celebrity influence like I have seen
since the Kardashians became famous and then everybody started to
look like them, Like it was almost like physically like
they just like everything started just like on average, the
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average human being in America, definitely in l A started
looking like they could be a part of that family.
That was like, there's definitely been influential celebrities, I'm sure,
like when the Beatles got famous, Like people started rocking
that their haircuts, but like this, yeah, it's just everything.
It almost defies physics how much people are starting to
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look like them and just for that, like that visual
presentation of like whether it's what you're wearing or just
the lifestyle you're living, like in general, like completely changed
the trajectory of like this is the thing that you
should aspire to now fully everybody. You know what's funny,
I was on one of those girls still lambing. If
you look at that corner over there, you'll see, like
(13:05):
in a lot an assortment of Jordan's right, because I
was one of those always have been like a sneaker
head and always been a girl who likes to rock
my you know that round the way girl. Look. That's
always been you know, my sensibility. I like to wear
dresses and be feminine, but I also really enjoy you
know that. And when I was younger, I remember that
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I would be the girl that got the attention because
I was dressed like that and everybody else like we
have on you know, we would go We're going to
a football game, and and my friends got on heels
and make up. You want to do that, don't Campbell,
like you, you know, you gotta walk up all these
stairs and then I'd be the one with the Jordan's
and a cap and a T shirt, and the dudes
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will always step to me, and my friends will be like,
I were all this, I did all this. Now it's
the other way around. Now. It's even when you have
on a baseball cap, you still have the spiltered look.
And I just think it's so unfortunate to feel the
pressure to look a certain way when you don't even
look like that in real life, like you know, like
you could do all of that what happens behind the scenes.
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So I just think it's it's so much pressure to
put young people, you know, feeling like they gotta be rich,
they gotta be beautiful, they gotta be thin, they got
they have to be everything, and they only have a
certain amount of time to achieve that, Like and that's
it's really sad. Yeah, what is What's something you think
is underrated? What I think is underrated is spicy tuna
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on a rice cake? All right? The favorite? I mean
it is in L A L. Yeah, that's the I
feel like that's that's like the I think that's like
one of the first dishes, people start like flexing on
people when they're like if they're transplants to l A.
They're like, yeah, you know, had to get that crispy
(14:54):
rice spicy tuna. You know, like that's like and for
me it's funny because you're growing up in like Japan
and also over here in l A. I was like,
my mom would be like, that's you know, looking at
American sushi or like because even again, I know Noble
really created that, so not to say he's not Japanese,
but always like that's not traditional sushi bombination ship. And
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then cut to my mom going to a restaurant. She's like,
I love this, actually my favorite it's delicious. You know
the thing about it is, I'll tell you why I
love it and why I'm Puerto Rican and Dominican with
Cuban stepfather. I grew up eating rice every day of
my life. Every day of my life. We my mom,
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she would make spaghetti and there would be rice to
go with it. Like everything. It was just that in
like a straight up Caribbean Latin person. So you put
a rice and I told you my two favorite foods,
and then you put spicy tuna, right, I mean I
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love my my My favorite thing is it's to eat
some just album core. But I love spicy tuna all rice.
That just made me hungry. All right, let's take a
quick break. We'll all go shovel down some spicy tuna
on yeah, and we'll be right back. And we're back.
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So the big news in the mainstream media is people
are more people are quitting than than ever before. There's
more unemployed people than ever before. The great resignation is
upon us. What what is happening? And so there's a
couple of things happening. One trend that people are kind
of starting to document is that people seem, especially young people,
(16:50):
seem less likely to just do a job because it's
a job. They're more likely to kind of want to
follow their passion. It's funny you you highlighted this article
for US Smiles that where this like this study calls
it what I call the passion principle, the prioritization of
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fulfilling work, even at the expense of job security or
a decent salary. So they've like managed to laboratory eze
just people doing what they love. Yeah, not not mimicking
like our parents or grandparents who are like I worked
myself into bone dust. So you're like, oh, no, that's
for me. But yeah, this is like you know again,
(17:35):
that's not new. I think for the longest time, we've
heard things like you gotta follow your passion. Man, if
you if you do what you love, you'll never work
a day in your life. And and and that is
true to a certain extent. I mean, there's a lot
of stuff to indicate. Through certain studies, like with interviewing
college students or career coaches, found that over seventy of
college educated workers believe that passion is like really important
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in making a decision, like when it comes to what
what kind of career should I take? And sixty seven
percent of them say that they would prioritize meaningful work
over job stability, high wages, and work life balance. And
I think on a certain level that made sense for
I don't know. When I graduated in fucking two thousand seven,
I walked into a fucking recession, and I'm like, to fuck, okay,
(18:21):
I don't know what the funk I'm I thought I
knew what I wanted to do, but now I really
have no fucking idea what I want to do. And
I think that forced me into a moment of truly
thinking of like, well, right now, not many things are
an option, So maybe let's take this time to figure
out what is, you know, something that really energizes you.
And I think the idea being that like if you again,
if you like what you do, then you won't feel
(18:44):
like you're just you know, going day in day out
and wasting parts of your life by just toiling. But
the thing that's really interesting about that is that that
idea of following your passion works to a certain extent. Right,
it's probably working for people who either have some family
that they can support, that can support them through a
career transition, or just in general if there are social
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safety nets. This was an interesting statistic that said, when
working class college graduates pursue their passion, they're about twice
as likely as a wealth as wealthier passion seekers. Interesting
description to later end up an unstable, low paid work
far outside that passion. Right, So there's a lot of
you know, social safety net career things sort of tied
up into everything that's happening at the moment. I also
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think there's collective trauma from the last couple of years,
and people I can't imagine that there weren't some people
who were like, oh, I make a better living getting
unemployment than I do doing this job, and now I'm
going out and risking my life and they don't care
about me because I'm not worthy of health care. And
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so I can't imagine that people had, you know, the
the facing your mortality the way we did in the
last couple of years, where people don't give enough credit
for that. People were probably like, yeah, I'm and it's
and and it's not like coronavirus has disappeared. It's not
like COVID is still not here. So I can't imagine
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that people knowing how many people passed away and it
was just like a brush of this group of people
that are just gone. Now that people are like reevaluating
quality of life, yeah, and I think like that kind
of goes to the other point that they're making that
you know, in America especially, we tend to like the
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first thing people ask someone is like what do you do?
And then like that defines like how you think of
that person, or it defines how you think of yourself,
like you feel a certain way about having a job,
or like talking to somebody and not feeling great about
your job more than other countries. And so I think
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that that's another implication of the study is that it's
okay to not have a cool sounding job if you're
able to, you know, have a good work life balance
and take care of yourself and the people that you
care about and then pursue the ship that you love,
like when your job that respects boundaries, like allows you
(21:13):
to Yeah, you know what, I just I got to
say this because it's burning inside of me. I don't
know where I was gonna say it, but I need
to say it. So there's a shortage of Santa Claus. Right,
there is a shortage of Santa Clauses throughout the country
because the people who dress up like Santa Claus do
not want to get COVID. They don't want little kids
(21:34):
who are not vaccinated sitting on their laps. Right. I
thought it was because they don't want to get in
trouble for you know, other reasons, But it was because
of that. But I think it's interesting because a lot
of the people who believe in Santa Clause that, you know,
don't they want you to say Merry Christmas, not happy Holidays.
Tend to be affiliated with this ideology that COVID vaccinations
(21:58):
are not necessary, that we shouldn't be wearing masks, but
it's just performed. A lot of it is performative because
everybody is going to protect their own high and so
now you gotta hold bunch of Santa Clauses that are
not dressing up and not going out because they don't
want to get COVID. But I'm like about COVID wasn't real?
So well we got no, I mean, it is it? Fuck,
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You're right, it's real, and I'm and I'm sure. That's
why I do think though that like having a generation
or just a populist like after the pandemic that is
less likely to be interested in doing like kind of
boom grinding miles as you put at work and like
soul deadening work like that is going to have a
(22:47):
fundamental impact on like, Like one of the big things
that ties into job like satisfaction is like feeling like
you're doing something. And we talked last month about like
studies that have shown that, like you know, up to
like forty two, like most jobs in the American economy
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are just bullshit jobs that are like make work jobs
that like allow people to have a job managing other people,
and that's like basically why those jobs exist. Like I've
the longer I've spent working in the American economy, the
more I've realized that that seems to be at least
half of jobs is just like bullshit, make work jobs,
(23:32):
like in a lot of cases, make other people rich jobs. Yeah, precisely.
And that's like the other thing that in this article
in The Atlantic points out too, is like you know,
employers love when they can find people who say they
love their job, because that means they can they can
squeeze more out of you. And that's where like they're
like and that was sort of like the thrust of
this is like, don't fall into this pit of like
I love my job, because it's not all You're not
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always work. You're most of the time, I would say,
of us aren't working for us. We're working to make
someone else a lot of money. And like to the
idea of like what it means to work, and just
like these bone grinding jobs, like I even think about
even guilt I would have about being like it's my
job hard enough, you know, like am i am i?
Am i? Am I? Because I look at the examples
(24:15):
of jobs my family has had through the generations, and
I'm like, dude, I've been my grandmother fucking laughing at me.
Oh you a podcast? Or to how far did you
go to get water? And I'm like what it came
out to think? And there's a lot of and I
think there again because of the idea of your job
being wrapped in your identity. It really is insidious, which
(24:36):
is why I like, you know, people are pivoting the
things like actually the things that matter to me. Isn't
necessarily saying I have I do X for a living
rather than I have a thing. Look, I know I
have to work because that's how capitalism is, or else
I will be homeless and starving. So let me find
something that actually gives me the freedom to do the
ship that I actually like to do. And I don't
(24:57):
have to get too so wrapped up in thinking my
work has to be the thing that gives me everything
that I want. Yeah. If you hear these kids now,
and which I respect, that they are calling out this
toxic capitalism that's driving us into the ground. You know, people,
we're really weaponizing socialism and communism and those buzzwords to
(25:18):
alarm people who are being you know, motivated emotionally and
through their pain, and you know, they're all of that
stuff is being hijacked to serve a great purpose, to
keep feeding this toxic capitalism that is running the world,
not just America. And it's just interesting to see people
now calling it what it is because the conversation have
(25:38):
been framed so that if you called out capitalism as
having toxic properties, that you were being anti American. And
now people are starting to say, oh, man, like this
man made how much money during the pandemic because I
didn't have any food in my house. And I just
think it's important and I think it's admirable to hear
(25:59):
people finally starting to say, with the real you know,
where the real sources, because from that is where the
white supremacy reigns down on us, and the patriarchy and
the sexism and the religious oppression, and it is all
a function of rich people getting richer at the expense
of those who are willing to bleed for being a Republican,
(26:20):
a Democrat, you know, working for this company or that company.
And now people are finally saying, yeah, nah, I'm good right,
and to the point where like you're saying. Like in
previous eras, it would be like, oh you're what are
you talking? What's all that? Ship? You tell you a socialist?
You're like, oh no, no, I'm not a comedy or
a pink. Oh no no. And now it's like, oh,
you're a socialist, And now already's like yeah and what right?
(26:44):
So yeah, I mean to work for us to right, yeah,
exactly like my senators kids go to a good school. Right,
I'm curious for you, Like I like, even in your
special right you talked about how you you did a
lot of political commentary in that and then you're like,
I don't know if that's for me. And I think
especially for people who are in the arts performative, there's
(27:06):
definitely an evolution of thinking like is this a job
I want to have? Is this a job I can
sustain my life with, sustain in a family with it?
Should I just take something that's more consistent? What sort
of what was your sort of path through all of
that to kind of arrive where you're at right now?
So I'll be honest with you, I've never made any
money for being an activist, right, So when people it's
a it's a thankless job, right, And it's not a job,
(27:29):
it's just our civil duty, as you know, people who
live on a planet with other people. I think it's
just healthy to say I care about you and if
you don't have food, that should matter to me, because
it's just I don't know, it's just I guess where
the definition of humanity is for me. What I had
to evolve too and learn in this business is that
(27:50):
one I have the privilege of doing it because I
have a job in comedy that I do get paid for.
And if I don't want to do this anymore, I
can just go write my jokes. And but there are
people on the ground who do this every single day,
who fight for the planet, fight for it, you know,
racial justice and equity, that fight for the rights of women.
(28:13):
And those people don't get a lot of followers on Instagram,
you know what I mean. But if Kim Kardashian said
I'm gonna help this lady get out of jail, Everybody's like,
oh my god. There are people who are doing that
every single day. That the people who actually helped Kim
kardashi and accomplished that, that you that they get overshadowed.
(28:35):
And so I didn't want to be a part of
that because I feel like that's toxic too. So I
decided that I was gonna use my my whatever I
have to shine a light on the people who do
that because they need the support. They need the economic support,
and they need the moral support because it's a really
hard job to fight for stuff. And that I would,
(28:55):
I would continue my advocacy and activism through my art.
And so I'll write the jokes about this, but I
am in no way equipped nor um informed enough to
talk about some of the things that people who this
is their expertise, and I just felt like I was
in the way and I wanted to get out the way.
The other thing is that people are exhausting. As I
(29:16):
said in there, it's hard to fight for people that
you hate. IM like I want to turn a ride,
you know what I mean. Like I was just like
I can't stand you all, Like because the worst you
damned if you do, damned if you don't. You know,
if I say something is why are you saying something?
Why are you talking for us? If I don't say anything,
why are you not saying anything. I just decided that
(29:39):
I was gonna redirect my energy and I was gonna
put it in my scripts, and I'm gonna put it
in my writing. I'mna put it in my jokes and
the movies that I write and the TV shows that
I make. I'm gonna get out of the way, and
I'm gonna let those people who do what they do
with any time I have any power or visibility, I'm
gonna shine a light on them. Yeah, and I could
you could tell, especially like in your special. I really
(30:00):
loved how you gave everyone a lower third, like no
one was just anonymous or just a like a thick
like back wallpaper or nothing. You're like, no, this is
this this person, this is the name of this group,
even if they're performing on the street. That was just
like you know, again, you could see that permeate through
your work. So yeah, I appreciate that you noticed that
because that was something that I had to vocalize. I
(30:24):
was like, you know, those people are important, and this
is one of the people that look like this don't
get to be on HBO, Max, with Netflix, with with frequency,
so that this is their opportunity to shine. Give them
a name. Yeah, now you're platforming them, and now hundreds
of thousands of people will see a name be like,
(30:45):
oh I thought that that group was. Let me look
them up and yeah, really commendable. Thank you. All right,
let's let's talk about some people who are bringing prisoners
rights to the attention of people who don't normally pay
attention to that, and that is the January six snowflakes
(31:06):
who just can't even like process how they're being treated
in prison. And you know, like the you look at
the Tugger Carlson propaganda documentary and like that, that seems
to be the underlying idea there is like there's a
political war on white people when it's actually like there's
a law that says you can't try and kill your
(31:29):
congressmen and vice president. But but they they seem confused.
You know, they're fucked up. And look, that's what whiteness
will do to you. Sometimes you get a little bit
accountability and the wheels fucking completely blow off because two
of these fucking clowns who are in there, they are
they're trying to get them there, like trying to file
(31:50):
a motion for bail because they're like, we don't, can't.
This place is terrible. Now I'm not gonna I'm not
here to say that prison is a good place to be,
or that I necessarily advocate for prisons in general, But
in this narrow context, there's just something really rich to
me about these entitled fucking wanna be rebellion fuckers acting
like this is just too much. So they've written a
(32:11):
letter this is part of their motion, where they said
things like this, and the complaints are all over the place.
They said, quote, we are compelled to alert the world
of the capitalized d for whatever reason, of the diabolical
conditions in this quote unquote correctional facility which continues to
crush all of its detainees. We are political prisoners on
American soil who have been unjustly and unfairly incarcerated. And
(32:35):
it goes on to say all because of our political affiliation.
So they they just looked how they voted and put
them in prison. Is interesting if they're true. And they
go on with their sort of pseudo victimhood rant about
how they would rather be in Guantanamo obey. They said,
we hereby make the following requests. Let us spend our
(32:57):
precious and limited days in Guantanamo Bay. Cube. Uh oh, sure, sir,
are you have you? Are you okay? You clearly don't
know the human rights violations that occurring, but go ahead, yeah,
you might like that. And they go on to say, like,
you know, if we're gonna be treated like enemies of
the country, that this, that and the other. And then
they make other claims about like mice or exploding toilets
(33:17):
and mistreatment from guards, which is be fair, that's pretty normal.
I think that is something that people do regularly complain about,
so that's valid. But then they go on to list
some other ship that just trying to sound like they're
just trying to get sympathy, because you know they're not.
They're just not built for the prison system in general.
That that's one of the defendants. They the lawyer says, quote,
Ryan is regularly discriminated against for being white. He is
(33:41):
forced to endure disgusting racial animus and slurs regularly. The
jail also prevents him from having a reasonable access to
reading materials while simultaneously streaming anti white messages and critical
race theory propaganda across his tablet. This is psychologically damaging.
Staff were political clothing with BLM Kamala Harris, Joe Biden,
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and the Vote Democrat on it. I don't know why,
I says the vote Democrat. But that's that's the horrors
of the world they're in truly horrific. So you know what, Um,
it's so funny because some of those people went went
there on private jet, right, they went on this direction
that was that was the quote. When you're accustomed to privilege,
(34:26):
equality feels like oppression. Yeah, they're like, the service around
here is terrible. The room service sucks. My tablet, I'm
forced it. What then are they talking about a tablet
compared play bab iPads? They're playing reruns of Living Single
on my tablet. This is critical race theories. Remember that
(34:48):
guy that was requesting Vegan fair, he was like, got
it the Shalman and he did get it. And you
know what's funny, it's like they're not equipped for that
those prisons and not neither are these fourteen year old
black kids that get sentenced to prison, and neither are
you know, the white kids like that white young boy
(35:09):
that got went to prison for having marijuana before it
became legal and got a life sentence, whose mother has
been fighting throughout the country trying to get her son freed.
And so it's like, you're not equipped for prison. These
are the things that you rally for when you are home.
These are the things that lock them up, put him
in jail. That this is what you advocated for. So
(35:33):
what's wrong, son? Why are you that? Why are you that?
Like energy? Where's that? Keep that energy right? Exactly? And
you know I think also that I I speak about
this the lack of education because you can be rich
and not be and be dumb as a door knob.
(35:53):
The lack of education in this country continues to be
the greatest threat to our freedom and democracy. You have
these people who are are being rallied emotionally because they
hate immigrants, they hate people of color, they hate black people,
they hate women, they hate trans people, they hate gay people.
And now here comes your messiah. That is just validating
all of those and also irritating and agitating the wound
(36:16):
that you feel because you think that these people are
trying to take away what they've been taken away from you,
and so you now you are. There's this mass hysteria
amongst those people that they're willing to kill that I mean,
they're the children from Lord of the Flies. Look at them.
They were they were planning to murder these people that
and and so now you're in jail where you're supposed
(36:39):
to be because that's what people who do like do
stuff like that, that's where they go. And now you're
seeing the conditions of the people who have had to
endure that, who have been unjustly imprisoned, who who didn't
you know, Now you're seeing our world and you quite
you don't like it. You don't like an outside and
(37:00):
you don't like it inside. And I think it's it's fabulous.
My stepfathers from Cuba. He was a political prisoner. I say,
send them, give them their request. Let them go over
there so that they can see what's happening over there,
and that will give them some perspective. Right, that's like parenting.
When I told my mom I wanted to run away,
She's like, Okay, we'll then pack your ship and then
(37:20):
you can go outside and then live on the street,
because that's what you want, right, That's when you come on. Now,
keep it up, keep up the energy. Here's your backpack.
You need a pillow. And I'm like, I don't want
to run away. Like guess what I thought, Yeah, you know,
I tried to take my video game. She was like,
a hold on bitch, that's mine right right right right? Oh,
you paid for that like you take one outfit, right right?
(37:43):
He paid for that Police Academy handheld video game. They
had a Police Academy handheld. Yes, I love it was
like my ship and I didn't even know how to
play it. I just love the movie because I just
like Michael Winslow as a kid. Give me the Police
Academy game. It's terrible at it. All right, let's take
a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back
(38:15):
and speaking of you know, lack of education being an
issue in this country, So we're starting to see the
American kids now more than ever, don't know where food
comes from ages four to seven in particular, like think cheese, bacon,
hot dogs, chicken nuggets, shrimp, and hamburgers come from plants,
(38:36):
which I guess like some hamburgers do. Maybe that like
broke theirn their brain. I think the thing that like
sort of the study points to is they said there's
two big things contributing to kids sort of not being
as on top of ship as maybe in previous years.
Is that a like more than ever now less kids
live near or on farms, so like agriculture culture is
(38:58):
not really a sound as much in front of kids,
like just by osmosis getting into their heads. And also
that there's such an emphasis now from like the educational
system to tell kids like what to eat versus where
food comes from and beings basically like you need a
balanced diet, you should be eating this, you shouldn't be
eating this, rather than this is how our food, our
(39:20):
food is cultivated and made. And I mean, I think
that definitely that tracks on some level. But they even
asked to ask, you know, kids to categorize food based
on animal based or plant based, and almost half of
the kids thought that French fries came from animals, not
and not even knowing like that ship is a potato
cut up and fried family. Oh yeah, I know, Jack,
(39:43):
Yeah for you. But the other thing they say is
from parents not really having conversations with their kids about
where meat comes from. And also I think given the
state of the earth and pollution and how more people
are confronting their diets, that some adults have like a
more strained relationship with like meat consumption. So they're kind
of like in this weird space of not really talking
(40:05):
about it or not knowing. But I'm just thinking, Yeah,
it's it feels like everything we're not having the right conversations,
and some of us it's just too uncomfortable. It seems,
I guess so sad. So you know, like if you
think about what is being taught in schools, like they're
not learning geography anymore, that got cut, you know, like
(40:26):
history is is very the history books are pretty sad
that they're giving the kids that they're not when they're
taught civic studies. They don't really understand and respect farmers
because so many so much political agenda goes into curriculum
now because whoever the superintendent is at whatever school, they're
(40:47):
monitoring what curriculum they're gonna use at this school. We're
we're arguing about critical race theory. Was this which is
college curriculum and somehow got hijacked into you know, you know,
Grammars school education. But it's interesting to see the manifestation
of the lack of quality of education that people are
(41:09):
our children are receiving. And the elite people who have
a lot of money who can send their kids to
these private schools, they're not learning it either, like you know,
they're just in a safer environment. According to them. You know,
they have uniforms. But the truth is is that because
that whole you know, my my son went to a
(41:30):
college prep school and they prepare them for the college
that's like the next step of that prep school. So
they just keep the rich people going whatever. And Omar
was able to go to that because he he had
to think his way into that school. But it's just like,
if you think about the quality of education in this country,
it's no surprise that children don't know where meet it's come.
(41:51):
They're getting their education from Netflix, you know, like they're
getting their education from watching television. And it's just really
sad to think that a bunch of kids don't know
where food comes from, because it's really hard to explain
to kids that, yes, if you eat me that some
people believe that that is to be of service for people,
(42:11):
but the way it's been abused, in the way that
it's been the animals have been mistreated, how do you
sit down and tell somebody, you know, right, it's like
you want to see a slaughterhouse video, Like I mean,
do you are you really trying to I mean, we
can educate you, but and I think that's another thing
that parents are trying to be like, I don't know
how quickly to introduce a small child to the concept
of slaughter and to eat things. But I don't know.
(42:34):
I think about like my own upbringing, and I was
raised in the house where my parents sort of were
guided by the philosophy. I was like, well, if the
kid has a question, we're gonna answer directly, Like no
one fucking start crating weird, like, you know, don't water
ship down. And if even if I give you a
straight answer, it doesn't connect, then chew on that for
a little bit. So like as a kid, I was
(42:56):
always just being like, yeah, a chicken. It's like I'm
eating like like just doing that kind of ship. No,
I'm like, oh, that's what this is. Bacon is a
pig or things like that. But I'm curious if, like
I don't know at what age any of y'all were
like ever confused about where food came from or you're
always sort of it's just something that you know. They're like, yeah,
(43:16):
that ship comes from there. That's how we live. My
father is a chicken farmer, okr father, So we knew,
which is why I stopped eating me early. Because I
would make friends with with a little chicken, and I'll
be like, my brother was a devil. My brother was like, yeah,
you know who that is? Like, you know, he was
(43:38):
just the worst person on the planet. That's one thing
about coming from like an immigrant family, because and working people,
they have a respect for other people who work. So
if you want to know, like you'd be like, where
does that that rice come from? You want to know
where that rice comes from? A whole bunch of people
go out there just that that's like my house, Like
(43:59):
there people working right now while you're sitting up here
watching your little television show. How didn't that Because I
was in Florida and it was hot, sweating, and so
I always knew where you know, like I remember, you know,
my ex's mom was worked at a towel mill and
made towels, so I and I was when I and
(44:20):
I was a teenager, so I was just like I
always had a sensibility about where things came from because
they're usually made by the people who have to work
really hard so that all the other people can have
what they need. Well, I just don't understand why you
want to sugarcoat back right, because I think there's a
way that you don't have to get into the you know,
the minutia of slaughtering and animal or things like that,
(44:42):
but very be like this is where it comes from.
Things don't just appear. It's typically born out of someone
else's labor, and that's why we have to respect ship.
But yeah, I think again when you look at sort
of what kids learned now, and I don't know if
it's really necessarily an indictment on the education system because
clearly their gaps they're but just like things are changing,
and I think on some level we're just more and
(45:05):
more disconnected from the fact that we rely on each
other as well. Like that, it's like everything, like everything
is not a given like that. I also think that
the attitude towards like farmers is like that back towards
veterans in this country and soldiers, like everybody loves them,
but do they really you know what It's like, this
(45:26):
is attitude about it's so American to love the farmers.
But then when they you know, they need water, they're
having a drought, or they don't have people. All these
people who were talking about the immigrants taking their jobs,
they have these deportations and then in California, you saw
the farmers were like, we we don't have people that
want to do it. Where are all those people who
(45:46):
said the immigrants wanted their jobs. Why are you not
energy facing energy here? Because oh it sounds like you
realize how hard it is and now you and what's
odd Oddly enough, it's like those like layers that work
in agriculture in the Central Valley, they have the highest
fucking vaccination rate of like anywhere, you know what I mean.
And it's just wild how people just again, all these
(46:10):
myths and and dumb stereotypes that go to people's heads
just keep us with a very limited worldview, just disconnected
from how the world actually works, disconnected from where the
food comes from, from who makes that food, from, what
a vaccine is from why you're still alive even though
you had chicken pox, like you know all that ship.
It's been such a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist.
(46:32):
Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? Um,
you can find me right now on HBO Max and
then you can also I'm on Twitter at funny A
I d A and on Instagram and um only on
there on Friday through Sunday. So there you go. And
(46:56):
is there a tweet or some of the work of
social media you've been joint Yes, nobody tweeted, I want
to say, because I thought, I mean, my thread right
now is mainly people talking about the uh my special,
but you know, praising or whatever. But I thought this
was funny because one woman said, funny, I got my
best friend makes fun of me for having conversations with her,
(47:18):
don't but she he does talk back. That's my favorite
sweet And that was from Cindy Stooky, which I thought
was funny because it was like, I talked about how
we are white women talk to the animals and I
just thought, you know, she was really really a good
(47:39):
sport about it. That's so funny. Miles, it's been great
co hosting this episode. Where can people find you? Follow
you find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of
Gray and also check out the other show for twenty
Day Fiance? Where are we talk about ninety d fiance?
(48:01):
That's Sophia Alexandra and I a tweet that I like
the first one actually mean it's it's one from the
Daily Show from last week, but it was just so
funny because the judge and that Kyle Rittenhouse case. The
tweet from at the Daily Show was breaking Judge and
Kyle Rittenhouse case reveals he has adopted. Kyle Rittenhouse declares
miss trial quote because he's my son. God, what a
(48:23):
fucking transparent abusive nonsense anyway. Uh And the other one
is from at Palmer Rachel Ce. Rachel Palmer tweeted mid
twenties smiling at strangers and bars to try and have sex.
Mid thirties smiling at strangers in the park to try
and have mom friends. Yeah like, same move, same move.
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You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Some tweets I've been enjoying Blair. Blair sucky recent guests
tweeted I used to have a faithful reply guy named
piss Freak, and I'm wondering if you got married it
or something because I haven't seen him in a while.
If you're reading this, I hope you're doing well. Pissed
freak and Dr Libido at piss Freak, Okay, I'm back.
(49:11):
Blessings upon you, Blair. You are very sweet, and then
Blair replied, piss freak you're back, thank god. Five explation points.
You gotta love it, piss Freak. Yeah, and it's not
just a clever name. And then Rodan then Robert Schultz tweeted,
did you know there's actually more sugar and fruit than
in soda? Did you know I'm actually hanging on by
(49:33):
a thread as it is, like I don't I don't
need to hear that ship and Okay. You can find
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two eleven, Episode
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deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Monday, November one,
which of course means that it is National Clean out
your Refrigerator Day. We we all observe right that I
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have some ship in my refrigerator. Right, that's a good reminder.
Actually good. I got some sausages. I got it too.
What's your shop? I may need to check on some
vintage I hear twenty eighteen was a good year for yeah,
exactly for Salvadoran style of Tosa. My name is Jack O'Brien,
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Is this motherfucker? Well? I am thrilled to be joined
as always by my co host, Mr Miles Ground. I
was listening to PuF Daddy's No Way Out over the weekends,
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Man Ikey, I wanna be your podcast too low can't
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(01:29):
also good. We haven't asked people to rate and review us.
I think since like for the pandemic, rate and review us,
we can, we could use our your reviews. Well. Speaking
of reviews, the reviews are in for our guests on
our third seat and they are bofo, they're rave. We
are thur to be joined in our third s. Truly
(01:51):
hilarious stand up comedian you've seen on Last Comic Standing
Tiffany had his presents they ready, and her New Hours
special on HBO Max Fighting Words is so fucking good.
Our listeners, you guys are really gonna love it. Go
watch that ship now. Please welcome the brilliant, the super
fucking funny to Rodga. And they said, my name right,
(02:17):
I have some kale in my refrigerator that I'd never juiced.
You know how you buy the kale yeah this week
and then you're like, and it smells so bad and
you have to look at those sad leaves and you're like,
where did I go wrong? Yeah, i'da thank you so
much for coming on the shows. Honestly, I was telling
(02:37):
you before he went on, and the listeners as well,
fighting words, such a fucking good special. I can't tell
you how much I recommended. The jokes are fantastic, the
insight is amazing, it's heartfelt. I y, yeah, thank you.
That's the first thing I'll say is thank you. That
was such a pleasant experience. Yeah, you know, it's been
(02:57):
really like refreshing to have so many man saying hey,
I see you. I thought your special was good because
there's so much sexism in comedy and yeah, you know,
like people already think that women are funny. A lot
of people say it out loud. They'll say to me like,
I don't really think women are funny, but I like you,
And I'm like, oh, that's a good. Yeah, I don't
(03:18):
know yet. It's your delivery. It's like I as a
as a West Coaster, I've always had a love for
New York especially, and I think there's your your energy,
that New York energy too. There's just every every single thing.
I'm like, I love it. I love this. I love
just and also just like you even come into grips
with being Dominican in Puerto Rican, like I feel that
(03:38):
as a biracial person, like I feel Black, do I
feel Japanese? And there's just so many things that I
feel like are that resonate with fucking anybody? And if
you like comedy, bonus because the ship is funny from
the jump. So yes, thank you, yeah, and thanks for
joining us at what is I think probably a very
very busy time. You were saying you had your l
(04:00):
A premiere last week, you got your New York premiere
coming up? Yeah, what what's that experience been? Like, it's been.
It's new. You know, I'm used to going to the
premieres and people like moving me away out the way
so that a bigger person can take picture, and they
like you were we even got out the way we did,
you know, Like I remember I was on the red
(04:21):
carpet behind Brittney Spears one time and I was it
was like they thought I was hurt the help Like
they were like I supposed to be holding out back there.
So it's just been it's been overwhelming. I didn't know
how much they were going to celebrate me. I didn't
(04:43):
realize how big my premiere was actually gonna be. Um,
it was really just overwhelming because you know, I'm imposter syndrome.
I'm honest about it, and I was like that for me,
y'all spent all this, I want to You're like looking
at the step and repeat. You're like, i'd a Reguez
like this it's your special my name I had, like
(05:06):
I broke down crying at one point. I was like
they really did this, dude. It was just I was like, like,
like the meme, Like I was like, oh, I think
it's been. It's been very positive hearing feedback from people
like yourself who have had the struggle with having to
to understand what their identity really is. You know, people
(05:28):
who are tired of performative activism, people all kinds of
people just talking to me, people who love animals that
were like, yo, like, I'm so glad you spoke up
for the animals, and I was for everybody right well,
totally well deserved. And we're going to get to know
you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're
(05:48):
gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about.
People are apparently quitting to find meaningful work. But it's
we're we're going to talk about that. It's complicated, sort
of dynamic where and America people feel defined by their jobs,
that fell need to define themselves by their jobs. So
just that that's a balance that people are dealing with.
We're gonna talk about the January six snowflakes who are
(06:11):
like rhetorically saying they want to go to get Moo,
but they don't want to go to get Moo. But
they're not even built for American gem Yeah, okay, so
we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about American
kids not knowing what like where food comes from. So,
you know, just good news in general about our schools,
all that plenty more. But first we do like to
(06:34):
ask our guests what is something from your search history?
So I honestly, my friend who opens to me it
is a comedian too, and an influencer invited me to
go get Dominican sushi in New York yesterday and I
had no idea what that was. Oh I googled it
(06:55):
and we went to this place KM Mama Sushi's and
they had like you know what it is like they
had these roles that have like the white cheese that
Dominicans have planting like me, Like it was like an experience.
So but before I went, I didn't google it to
see what that was. I I only know about it
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from listening to Jesus and Merry all the time because
Merrow always talks about the Mama Sushi on Dykeman, and
it's just been it's been a thing in my head.
But I'm curious, did you so you went? Is it?
What was it like? Was it good? Was delicious? Like
they had this seafood role that was actually and I
love sushi. I mean I went to Japan so I
could have real sushi because I was like, I want
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to I want to try to like real real sushi,
and I didn't have a choice, Like you know America, Americans,
you know have they have a way of ruining other
people's cultural stuff. Like but we sit there and the
fisherman go get that sushi and they tell you what
you and me eat you eat it. That was like
the ultimate sushi experience for me. But that it was good.
It was such a diffusion of like two of my
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favorite foods. I love Japanese food. I love sushi more
than any other you know, food outside of like Puerto
Rican and Dominican food everybody, and I love Dominican food,
sorry to my Puerto Ricans, but Dominican food is delicious.
So the fusion of those two it was, I mean,
it was just delicious. Like I mean, I'm not as
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up on Dominican food, So what is what was like
the most dominic But I'm very familiar with sushi, So
what was like the thing that was combining the most
Dominican menu item or flavor with It's called the Monster
and had it had like planting the white fried cheese
that they used in for breakfast and Dominican breakfast for food,
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but just this had beef in it had chicken in it.
I don't I'm out of meat eater, but I was like,
I gotta this. It was so good. Restaurants that name
their food like their roller coasters, that like six flags
like Monster, Get ready to eat the fucking Monster. There's
there's a sushi burrito place truck out in l A
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that has like these massive sushi barrio. It's it's honestly
a little much like I had to stop eating sushi
for a couple of months after I had them because
it was just like too much of a good thing.
But they're they're burritos are like named the Batman and
the Superman and like ship Like it feels like you're
at a at a theme park or something. I respect,
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it's an experience. Yeah, because listening to ingredients isn't enough. Yeah,
I like salmon, but can you call it like something
more mythological for me to really I want that zeus,
let me get that's good. Yeah, this is like the
he's like the top one. Yeah. What what's something you
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think is overrated? Oh? The Kardashians, I think yeah, I
think that. You know, it's funny. It is like that.
I was like, we'll just people, let us live on
lives and then they're like, by the way, when they
got coffee by myself today. Yeah, I think that's just
so funny. I think they're overrated, you know, And I
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think they're toxic. That I don't. I don't, I'm not.
I don't want to call them toxic, but I think
the celebrity worship around them is toxic and it really
harms young young women and young men and young non
binary people like into believing the superficial stuff because they
don't get to see the behind the scenes, and they
don't get to see them without makeup, and they don't
get in real real life because everything is curated. So
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I think they're overrated, and and that's not to disc them,
but I think that that was happening around them is
overrated and it's very harmful to young people, right the
Institution of Kardashians. Yeah, there was a study about how
there's like that account like rich Kids of Instagram that's
just like these like young people just doing the most
private jets and things like that, and they were there
(10:55):
was like a study being like this is actually really
bad too because it's it's putting at the top for
like younger people the idea that you want to be
flying on p jets and in like massive you know,
being in a big gas truck or all these really
stupid lifestyle indicators which are completely antithetical to us having
a you know, livable planet. But it's interesting just how
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even then, like people are sort of like, let's see,
we gotta start sucking poking holes in this ship. They
should be reading books that were written by uh, what's
his name, Kurbannagut. The other thing that it does is
like for someone like me that comes from where I
come from. It entices people who are struggling and for
to go seek you out and try to rob you.
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And if you watch what's happening in l A, and
that's been happening when they say the poor will eat
the rich, is like, y'all keep flashing all the stuff.
I'm not trying to shame you for it, but I'm
just letting you know that there are some people really
struggling and they're really hungry, and they're desperate, and they
don't know how to process their feelings. And you know
they might meet you that jetway one day and snatch
its most steps that harder you flash, harder you get
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flashed on everyone like that. I don't think I have
seen an exercise of celebrity influence like I have seen
since the Kardashians became famous and then everybody started to
look like them, Like it was almost like physically like
they just like everything started just like on average, the
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average human being in America, definitely in l A started
looking like they could be a part of that family.
That was like, there's definitely been influential celebrities, I'm sure,
like when the Beatles got famous, Like people started rocking
that their haircuts, but like this, yeah, it's just everything.
It almost defies physics how much people are starting to
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look like them and just for that, like that visual
presentation of like whether it's what you're wearing or just
the lifestyle you're living, like in general, like completely changed
the trajectory of like this is the thing that you
should aspire to now fully everybody. You know what's funny,
I was on one of those girls still lambing. If
you look at that corner over there, you'll see, like
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in a lot an assortment of Jordan's right, because I
was one of those always have been like a sneaker
head and always been a girl who likes to rock
my you know that round the way girl. Look. That's
always been you know, my sensibility. I like to wear
dresses and be feminine, but I also really enjoy you
know that. And when I was younger, I remember that
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I would be the girl that got the attention because
I was dressed like that and everybody else like we
have on you know, we would go We're going to
a football game, and and my friends got on heels
and make up. You want to do that, don't Campbell,
like you, you know, you gotta walk up all these
stairs and then I'd be the one with the Jordan's
and a cap and a T shirt, and the dudes
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will always step to me, and my friends will be like,
I were all this, I did all this. Now it's
the other way around. Now. It's even when you have
on a baseball cap, you still have the spiltered look.
And I just think it's so unfortunate to feel the
pressure to look a certain way when you don't even
look like that in real life, like you know, like
you could do all of that what happens behind the scenes.
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So I just think it's it's so much pressure to
put young people, you know, feeling like they gotta be rich,
they gotta be beautiful, they gotta be thin, they got
they have to be everything, and they only have a
certain amount of time to achieve that, Like and that's
it's really sad. Yeah, what is What's something you think
is underrated? What I think is underrated is spicy tuna
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on a rice cake? All right? The favorite? I mean
it is in L A L. Yeah, that's the I
feel like that's that's like the I think that's like
one of the first dishes, people start like flexing on
people when they're like if they're transplants to l A.
They're like, yeah, you know, had to get that crispy
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rice spicy tuna. You know, like that's like and for
me it's funny because you're growing up in like Japan
and also over here in l A. I was like,
my mom would be like, that's you know, looking at
American sushi or like because even again, I know Noble
really created that, so not to say he's not Japanese,
but always like that's not traditional sushi bombination ship. And
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then cut to my mom going to a restaurant. She's like,
I love this, actually my favorite it's delicious. You know
the thing about it is, I'll tell you why I
love it and why I'm Puerto Rican and Dominican with
Cuban stepfather. I grew up eating rice every day of
my life. Every day of my life. We my mom,
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she would make spaghetti and there would be rice to
go with it. Like everything. It was just that in
like a straight up Caribbean Latin person. So you put
a rice and I told you my two favorite foods,
and then you put spicy tuna, right, I mean I
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love my my My favorite thing is it's to eat
some just album core. But I love spicy tuna all rice.
That just made me hungry. All right, let's take a
quick break. We'll all go shovel down some spicy tuna
on yeah, and we'll be right back. And we're back.
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So the big news in the mainstream media is people
are more people are quitting than than ever before. There's
more unemployed people than ever before. The great resignation is
upon us. What what is happening? And so there's a
couple of things happening. One trend that people are kind
of starting to document is that people seem, especially young people,
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seem less likely to just do a job because it's
a job. They're more likely to kind of want to
follow their passion. It's funny you you highlighted this article
for US Smiles that where this like this study calls
it what I call the passion principle, the prioritization of
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fulfilling work, even at the expense of job security or
a decent salary. So they've like managed to laboratory eze
just people doing what they love. Yeah, not not mimicking
like our parents or grandparents who are like I worked
myself into bone dust. So you're like, oh, no, that's
for me. But yeah, this is like you know again,
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that's not new. I think for the longest time, we've
heard things like you gotta follow your passion. Man, if
you if you do what you love, you'll never work
a day in your life. And and and that is
true to a certain extent. I mean, there's a lot
of stuff to indicate. Through certain studies, like with interviewing
college students or career coaches, found that over seventy of
college educated workers believe that passion is like really important
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in making a decision, like when it comes to what
what kind of career should I take? And sixty seven
percent of them say that they would prioritize meaningful work
over job stability, high wages, and work life balance. And
I think on a certain level that made sense for
I don't know. When I graduated in fucking two thousand seven,
I walked into a fucking recession, and I'm like, to fuck, okay,
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I don't know what the funk I'm I thought I
knew what I wanted to do, but now I really
have no fucking idea what I want to do. And
I think that forced me into a moment of truly
thinking of like, well, right now, not many things are
an option, So maybe let's take this time to figure
out what is, you know, something that really energizes you.
And I think the idea being that like if you again,
if you like what you do, then you won't feel
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like you're just you know, going day in day out
and wasting parts of your life by just toiling. But
the thing that's really interesting about that is that that
idea of following your passion works to a certain extent. Right,
it's probably working for people who either have some family
that they can support, that can support them through a
career transition, or just in general if there are social
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safety nets. This was an interesting statistic that said, when
working class college graduates pursue their passion, they're about twice
as likely as a wealth as wealthier passion seekers. Interesting
description to later end up an unstable, low paid work
far outside that passion. Right, So there's a lot of
you know, social safety net career things sort of tied
up into everything that's happening at the moment. I also
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think there's collective trauma from the last couple of years,
and people I can't imagine that there weren't some people
who were like, oh, I make a better living getting
unemployment than I do doing this job, and now I'm
going out and risking my life and they don't care
about me because I'm not worthy of health care. And
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so I can't imagine that people had, you know, the
the facing your mortality the way we did in the
last couple of years, where people don't give enough credit
for that. People were probably like, yeah, I'm and it's
and and it's not like coronavirus has disappeared. It's not
like COVID is still not here. So I can't imagine
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that people knowing how many people passed away and it
was just like a brush of this group of people
that are just gone. Now that people are like reevaluating
quality of life, yeah, and I think like that kind
of goes to the other point that they're making that
you know, in America especially, we tend to like the
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first thing people ask someone is like what do you do?
And then like that defines like how you think of
that person, or it defines how you think of yourself,
like you feel a certain way about having a job,
or like talking to somebody and not feeling great about
your job more than other countries. And so I think
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that that's another implication of the study is that it's
okay to not have a cool sounding job if you're
able to, you know, have a good work life balance
and take care of yourself and the people that you
care about and then pursue the ship that you love,
like when your job that respects boundaries, like allows you
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to Yeah, you know what, I just I got to
say this because it's burning inside of me. I don't
know where I was gonna say it, but I need
to say it. So there's a shortage of Santa Claus. Right,
there is a shortage of Santa Clauses throughout the country
because the people who dress up like Santa Claus do
not want to get COVID. They don't want little kids
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who are not vaccinated sitting on their laps. Right. I
thought it was because they don't want to get in
trouble for you know, other reasons, But it was because
of that. But I think it's interesting because a lot
of the people who believe in Santa Clause that, you know,
don't they want you to say Merry Christmas, not happy Holidays.
Tend to be affiliated with this ideology that COVID vaccinations
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are not necessary, that we shouldn't be wearing masks, but
it's just performed. A lot of it is performative because
everybody is going to protect their own high and so
now you gotta hold bunch of Santa Clauses that are
not dressing up and not going out because they don't
want to get COVID. But I'm like about COVID wasn't real?
So well we got no, I mean, it is it? Fuck,
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You're right, it's real, and I'm and I'm sure. That's
why I do think though that like having a generation
or just a populist like after the pandemic that is
less likely to be interested in doing like kind of
boom grinding miles as you put at work and like
soul deadening work like that is going to have a
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fundamental impact on like, Like one of the big things
that ties into job like satisfaction is like feeling like
you're doing something. And we talked last month about like
studies that have shown that, like you know, up to
like forty two, like most jobs in the American economy
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are just bullshit jobs that are like make work jobs
that like allow people to have a job managing other people,
and that's like basically why those jobs exist. Like I've
the longer I've spent working in the American economy, the
more I've realized that that seems to be at least
half of jobs is just like bullshit, make work jobs,
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like in a lot of cases, make other people rich jobs. Yeah, precisely.
And that's like the other thing that in this article
in The Atlantic points out too, is like you know,
employers love when they can find people who say they
love their job, because that means they can they can
squeeze more out of you. And that's where like they're
like and that was sort of like the thrust of
this is like, don't fall into this pit of like
I love my job, because it's not all You're not
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always work. You're most of the time, I would say,
of us aren't working for us. We're working to make
someone else a lot of money. And like to the
idea of like what it means to work, and just
like these bone grinding jobs, like I even think about
even guilt I would have about being like it's my
job hard enough, you know, like am i am i?
Am i? Am I? Because I look at the examples
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of jobs my family has had through the generations, and
I'm like, dude, I've been my grandmother fucking laughing at me.
Oh you a podcast? Or to how far did you
go to get water? And I'm like what it came
out to think? And there's a lot of and I
think there again because of the idea of your job
being wrapped in your identity. It really is insidious, which
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is why I like, you know, people are pivoting the
things like actually the things that matter to me. Isn't
necessarily saying I have I do X for a living
rather than I have a thing. Look, I know I
have to work because that's how capitalism is, or else
I will be homeless and starving. So let me find
something that actually gives me the freedom to do the
ship that I actually like to do. And I don't
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have to get too so wrapped up in thinking my
work has to be the thing that gives me everything
that I want. Yeah. If you hear these kids now,
and which I respect, that they are calling out this
toxic capitalism that's driving us into the ground. You know, people,
we're really weaponizing socialism and communism and those buzzwords to
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alarm people who are being you know, motivated emotionally and
through their pain, and you know, they're all of that
stuff is being hijacked to serve a great purpose, to
keep feeding this toxic capitalism that is running the world,
not just America. And it's just interesting to see people
now calling it what it is because the conversation have
(25:38):
been framed so that if you called out capitalism as
having toxic properties, that you were being anti American. And
now people are starting to say, oh, man, like this
man made how much money during the pandemic because I
didn't have any food in my house. And I just
think it's important and I think it's admirable to hear
(25:59):
people finally starting to say, with the real you know,
where the real sources, because from that is where the
white supremacy reigns down on us, and the patriarchy and
the sexism and the religious oppression, and it is all
a function of rich people getting richer at the expense
of those who are willing to bleed for being a Republican,
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a Democrat, you know, working for this company or that company.
And now people are finally saying, yeah, nah, I'm good right,
and to the point where like you're saying. Like in
previous eras, it would be like, oh you're what are
you talking? What's all that? Ship? You tell you a socialist?
You're like, oh no, no, I'm not a comedy or
a pink. Oh no no. And now it's like, oh,
you're a socialist, And now already's like yeah and what right?
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So yeah, I mean to work for us to right, yeah,
exactly like my senators kids go to a good school. Right,
I'm curious for you, Like I like, even in your
special right you talked about how you you did a
lot of political commentary in that and then you're like,
I don't know if that's for me. And I think
especially for people who are in the arts performative, there's
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definitely an evolution of thinking like is this a job
I want to have? Is this a job I can
sustain my life with, sustain in a family with it?
Should I just take something that's more consistent? What sort
of what was your sort of path through all of
that to kind of arrive where you're at right now?
So I'll be honest with you, I've never made any
money for being an activist, right, So when people it's
a it's a thankless job, right, And it's not a job,
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it's just our civil duty, as you know, people who
live on a planet with other people. I think it's
just healthy to say I care about you and if
you don't have food, that should matter to me, because
it's just I don't know, it's just I guess where
the definition of humanity is for me. What I had
to evolve too and learn in this business is that
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one I have the privilege of doing it because I
have a job in comedy that I do get paid for.
And if I don't want to do this anymore, I
can just go write my jokes. And but there are
people on the ground who do this every single day,
who fight for the planet, fight for it, you know,
racial justice and equity, that fight for the rights of women.
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And those people don't get a lot of followers on Instagram,
you know what I mean. But if Kim Kardashian said
I'm gonna help this lady get out of jail, Everybody's like,
oh my god. There are people who are doing that
every single day. That the people who actually helped Kim
kardashi and accomplished that, that you that they get overshadowed.
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And so I didn't want to be a part of
that because I feel like that's toxic too. So I
decided that I was gonna use my my whatever I
have to shine a light on the people who do
that because they need the support. They need the economic support,
and they need the moral support because it's a really
hard job to fight for stuff. And that I would,
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I would continue my advocacy and activism through my art.
And so I'll write the jokes about this, but I
am in no way equipped nor um informed enough to
talk about some of the things that people who this
is their expertise, and I just felt like I was
in the way and I wanted to get out the way.
The other thing is that people are exhausting. As I
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said in there, it's hard to fight for people that
you hate. IM like I want to turn a ride,
you know what I mean. Like I was just like
I can't stand you all, Like because the worst you
damned if you do, damned if you don't. You know,
if I say something is why are you saying something?
Why are you talking for us? If I don't say anything,
why are you not saying anything. I just decided that
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I was gonna redirect my energy and I was gonna
put it in my scripts, and I'm gonna put it
in my writing. I'mna put it in my jokes and
the movies that I write and the TV shows that
I make. I'm gonna get out of the way, and
I'm gonna let those people who do what they do
with any time I have any power or visibility, I'm
gonna shine a light on them. Yeah, and I could
you could tell, especially like in your special. I really
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loved how you gave everyone a lower third, like no
one was just anonymous or just a like a thick
like back wallpaper or nothing. You're like, no, this is
this this person, this is the name of this group,
even if they're performing on the street. That was just
like you know, again, you could see that permeate through
your work. So yeah, I appreciate that you noticed that
because that was something that I had to vocalize. I
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was like, you know, those people are important, and this
is one of the people that look like this don't
get to be on HBO, Max, with Netflix, with with frequency,
so that this is their opportunity to shine. Give them
a name. Yeah, now you're platforming them, and now hundreds
of thousands of people will see a name be like,
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oh I thought that that group was. Let me look
them up and yeah, really commendable. Thank you. All right,
let's let's talk about some people who are bringing prisoners
rights to the attention of people who don't normally pay
attention to that, and that is the January six snowflakes
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who just can't even like process how they're being treated
in prison. And you know, like the you look at
the Tugger Carlson propaganda documentary and like that, that seems
to be the underlying idea there is like there's a
political war on white people when it's actually like there's
a law that says you can't try and kill your
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congressmen and vice president. But but they they seem confused.
You know, they're fucked up. And look, that's what whiteness
will do to you. Sometimes you get a little bit
accountability and the wheels fucking completely blow off because two
of these fucking clowns who are in there, they are
they're trying to get them there, like trying to file
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a motion for bail because they're like, we don't, can't.
This place is terrible. Now I'm not gonna I'm not
here to say that prison is a good place to be,
or that I necessarily advocate for prisons in general, But
in this narrow context, there's just something really rich to
me about these entitled fucking wanna be rebellion fuckers acting
like this is just too much. So they've written a
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letter this is part of their motion, where they said
things like this, and the complaints are all over the place.
They said, quote, we are compelled to alert the world
of the capitalized d for whatever reason, of the diabolical
conditions in this quote unquote correctional facility which continues to
crush all of its detainees. We are political prisoners on
American soil who have been unjustly and unfairly incarcerated. And
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it goes on to say all because of our political affiliation.
So they they just looked how they voted and put
them in prison. Is interesting if they're true. And they
go on with their sort of pseudo victimhood rant about
how they would rather be in Guantanamo obey. They said,
we hereby make the following requests. Let us spend our
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precious and limited days in Guantanamo Bay. Cube. Uh oh, sure, sir,
are you have you? Are you okay? You clearly don't
know the human rights violations that occurring, but go ahead, yeah,
you might like that. And they go on to say, like,
you know, if we're gonna be treated like enemies of
the country, that this, that and the other. And then
they make other claims about like mice or exploding toilets
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and mistreatment from guards, which is be fair, that's pretty normal.
I think that is something that people do regularly complain about,
so that's valid. But then they go on to list
some other ship that just trying to sound like they're
just trying to get sympathy, because you know they're not.
They're just not built for the prison system in general.
That that's one of the defendants. They the lawyer says, quote,
Ryan is regularly discriminated against for being white. He is
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forced to endure disgusting racial animus and slurs regularly. The
jail also prevents him from having a reasonable access to
reading materials while simultaneously streaming anti white messages and critical
race theory propaganda across his tablet. This is psychologically damaging.
Staff were political clothing with BLM Kamala Harris, Joe Biden,
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and the Vote Democrat on it. I don't know why,
I says the vote Democrat. But that's that's the horrors
of the world they're in truly horrific. So you know what, Um,
it's so funny because some of those people went went
there on private jet, right, they went on this direction
that was that was the quote. When you're accustomed to privilege,
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equality feels like oppression. Yeah, they're like, the service around
here is terrible. The room service sucks. My tablet, I'm
forced it. What then are they talking about a tablet
compared play bab iPads? They're playing reruns of Living Single
on my tablet. This is critical race theories. Remember that
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guy that was requesting Vegan fair, he was like, got
it the Shalman and he did get it. And you
know what's funny, it's like they're not equipped for that
those prisons and not neither are these fourteen year old
black kids that get sentenced to prison, and neither are
you know, the white kids like that white young boy
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that got went to prison for having marijuana before it
became legal and got a life sentence, whose mother has
been fighting throughout the country trying to get her son freed.
And so it's like, you're not equipped for prison. These
are the things that you rally for when you are home.
These are the things that lock them up, put him
in jail. That this is what you advocated for. So
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what's wrong, son? Why are you that? Why are you that?
Like energy? Where's that? Keep that energy right? Exactly? And
you know I think also that I I speak about
this the lack of education because you can be rich
and not be and be dumb as a door knob.
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The lack of education in this country continues to be
the greatest threat to our freedom and democracy. You have
these people who are are being rallied emotionally because they
hate immigrants, they hate people of color, they hate black people,
they hate women, they hate trans people, they hate gay people.
And now here comes your messiah. That is just validating
all of those and also irritating and agitating the wound
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that you feel because you think that these people are
trying to take away what they've been taken away from you,
and so you now you are. There's this mass hysteria
amongst those people that they're willing to kill that I mean,
they're the children from Lord of the Flies. Look at them.
They were they were planning to murder these people that
and and so now you're in jail where you're supposed
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to be because that's what people who do like do
stuff like that, that's where they go. And now you're
seeing the conditions of the people who have had to
endure that, who have been unjustly imprisoned, who who didn't
you know, Now you're seeing our world and you quite
you don't like it. You don't like an outside and
(37:00):
you don't like it inside. And I think it's it's fabulous.
My stepfathers from Cuba. He was a political prisoner. I say,
send them, give them their request. Let them go over
there so that they can see what's happening over there,
and that will give them some perspective. Right, that's like parenting.
When I told my mom I wanted to run away,
She's like, Okay, we'll then pack your ship and then
(37:20):
you can go outside and then live on the street,
because that's what you want, right, That's when you come on. Now,
keep it up, keep up the energy. Here's your backpack.
You need a pillow. And I'm like, I don't want
to run away. Like guess what I thought, Yeah, you know,
I tried to take my video game. She was like,
a hold on bitch, that's mine right right right right? Oh,
you paid for that like you take one outfit, right right?
(37:43):
He paid for that Police Academy handheld video game. They
had a Police Academy handheld. Yes, I love it was
like my ship and I didn't even know how to
play it. I just love the movie because I just
like Michael Winslow as a kid. Give me the Police
Academy game. It's terrible at it. All right, let's take
a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back
(38:15):
and speaking of you know, lack of education being an
issue in this country, So we're starting to see the
American kids now more than ever, don't know where food
comes from ages four to seven in particular, like think cheese, bacon,
hot dogs, chicken nuggets, shrimp, and hamburgers come from plants,
(38:36):
which I guess like some hamburgers do. Maybe that like
broke theirn their brain. I think the thing that like
sort of the study points to is they said there's
two big things contributing to kids sort of not being
as on top of ship as maybe in previous years.
Is that a like more than ever now less kids
live near or on farms, so like agriculture culture is
(38:58):
not really a sound as much in front of kids,
like just by osmosis getting into their heads. And also
that there's such an emphasis now from like the educational
system to tell kids like what to eat versus where
food comes from and beings basically like you need a
balanced diet, you should be eating this, you shouldn't be
eating this, rather than this is how our food, our
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food is cultivated and made. And I mean, I think
that definitely that tracks on some level. But they even
asked to ask, you know, kids to categorize food based
on animal based or plant based, and almost half of
the kids thought that French fries came from animals, not
and not even knowing like that ship is a potato
cut up and fried family. Oh yeah, I know, Jack,
(39:43):
Yeah for you. But the other thing they say is
from parents not really having conversations with their kids about
where meat comes from. And also I think given the
state of the earth and pollution and how more people
are confronting their diets, that some adults have like a
more strained relationship with like meat consumption. So they're kind
of like in this weird space of not really talking
(40:05):
about it or not knowing. But I'm just thinking, Yeah,
it's it feels like everything we're not having the right conversations,
and some of us it's just too uncomfortable. It seems,
I guess so sad. So you know, like if you
think about what is being taught in schools, like they're
not learning geography anymore, that got cut, you know, like
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history is is very the history books are pretty sad
that they're giving the kids that they're not when they're
taught civic studies. They don't really understand and respect farmers
because so many so much political agenda goes into curriculum
now because whoever the superintendent is at whatever school, they're
(40:47):
monitoring what curriculum they're gonna use at this school. We're
we're arguing about critical race theory. Was this which is
college curriculum and somehow got hijacked into you know, you know,
Grammars school education. But it's interesting to see the manifestation
of the lack of quality of education that people are
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our children are receiving. And the elite people who have
a lot of money who can send their kids to
these private schools, they're not learning it either, like you know,
they're just in a safer environment. According to them. You know,
they have uniforms. But the truth is is that because
that whole you know, my my son went to a
(41:30):
college prep school and they prepare them for the college
that's like the next step of that prep school. So
they just keep the rich people going whatever. And Omar
was able to go to that because he he had
to think his way into that school. But it's just like,
if you think about the quality of education in this country,
it's no surprise that children don't know where meet it's come.
(41:51):
They're getting their education from Netflix, you know, like they're
getting their education from watching television. And it's just really
sad to think that a bunch of kids don't know
where food comes from, because it's really hard to explain
to kids that, yes, if you eat me that some
people believe that that is to be of service for people,
(42:11):
but the way it's been abused, in the way that
it's been the animals have been mistreated, how do you
sit down and tell somebody, you know, right, it's like
you want to see a slaughterhouse video, Like I mean,
do you are you really trying to I mean, we
can educate you, but and I think that's another thing
that parents are trying to be like, I don't know
how quickly to introduce a small child to the concept
of slaughter and to eat things. But I don't know.
(42:34):
I think about like my own upbringing, and I was
raised in the house where my parents sort of were
guided by the philosophy. I was like, well, if the
kid has a question, we're gonna answer directly, Like no
one fucking start crating weird, like, you know, don't water
ship down. And if even if I give you a
straight answer, it doesn't connect, then chew on that for
a little bit. So like as a kid, I was
(42:56):
always just being like, yeah, a chicken. It's like I'm
eating like like just doing that kind of ship. No,
I'm like, oh, that's what this is. Bacon is a
pig or things like that. But I'm curious if, like
I don't know at what age any of y'all were
like ever confused about where food came from or you're
always sort of it's just something that you know. They're like, yeah,
(43:16):
that ship comes from there. That's how we live. My
father is a chicken farmer, okr father, So we knew,
which is why I stopped eating me early. Because I
would make friends with with a little chicken, and I'll
be like, my brother was a devil. My brother was like, yeah,
you know who that is? Like, you know, he was
(43:38):
just the worst person on the planet. That's one thing
about coming from like an immigrant family, because and working people,
they have a respect for other people who work. So
if you want to know, like you'd be like, where
does that that rice come from? You want to know
where that rice comes from? A whole bunch of people
go out there just that that's like my house, Like
(43:59):
there people working right now while you're sitting up here
watching your little television show. How didn't that Because I
was in Florida and it was hot, sweating, and so
I always knew where you know, like I remember, you know,
my ex's mom was worked at a towel mill and
made towels, so I and I was when I and
(44:20):
I was a teenager, so I was just like I
always had a sensibility about where things came from because
they're usually made by the people who have to work
really hard so that all the other people can have
what they need. Well, I just don't understand why you
want to sugarcoat back right, because I think there's a
way that you don't have to get into the you know,
the minutia of slaughtering and animal or things like that,
(44:42):
but very be like this is where it comes from.
Things don't just appear. It's typically born out of someone
else's labor, and that's why we have to respect ship.
But yeah, I think again when you look at sort
of what kids learned now, and I don't know if
it's really necessarily an indictment on the education system because
clearly their gaps they're but just like things are changing,
and I think on some level we're just more and
(45:05):
more disconnected from the fact that we rely on each
other as well. Like that, it's like everything, like everything
is not a given like that. I also think that
the attitude towards like farmers is like that back towards
veterans in this country and soldiers, like everybody loves them,
but do they really you know what It's like, this
(45:26):
is attitude about it's so American to love the farmers.
But then when they you know, they need water, they're
having a drought, or they don't have people. All these
people who were talking about the immigrants taking their jobs,
they have these deportations and then in California, you saw
the farmers were like, we we don't have people that
want to do it. Where are all those people who
(45:46):
said the immigrants wanted their jobs. Why are you not
energy facing energy here? Because oh it sounds like you
realize how hard it is and now you and what's
odd Oddly enough, it's like those like layers that work
in agriculture in the Central Valley, they have the highest
fucking vaccination rate of like anywhere, you know what I mean.
And it's just wild how people just again, all these
(46:10):
myths and and dumb stereotypes that go to people's heads
just keep us with a very limited worldview, just disconnected
from how the world actually works, disconnected from where the
food comes from, from who makes that food, from, what
a vaccine is from why you're still alive even though
you had chicken pox, like you know all that ship.
It's been such a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist.
(46:32):
Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? Um,
you can find me right now on HBO Max and
then you can also I'm on Twitter at funny A
I d A and on Instagram and um only on
there on Friday through Sunday. So there you go. And
(46:56):
is there a tweet or some of the work of
social media you've been joint Yes, nobody tweeted, I want
to say, because I thought, I mean, my thread right
now is mainly people talking about the uh my special,
but you know, praising or whatever. But I thought this
was funny because one woman said, funny, I got my
best friend makes fun of me for having conversations with her,
(47:18):
don't but she he does talk back. That's my favorite
sweet And that was from Cindy Stooky, which I thought
was funny because it was like, I talked about how
we are white women talk to the animals and I
just thought, you know, she was really really a good
(47:39):
sport about it. That's so funny. Miles, it's been great
co hosting this episode. Where can people find you? Follow
you find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of
Gray and also check out the other show for twenty
Day Fiance? Where are we talk about ninety d fiance?
(48:01):
That's Sophia Alexandra and I a tweet that I like
the first one actually mean it's it's one from the
Daily Show from last week, but it was just so
funny because the judge and that Kyle Rittenhouse case. The
tweet from at the Daily Show was breaking Judge and
Kyle Rittenhouse case reveals he has adopted. Kyle Rittenhouse declares
miss trial quote because he's my son. God, what a
(48:23):
fucking transparent abusive nonsense anyway. Uh And the other one
is from at Palmer Rachel Ce. Rachel Palmer tweeted mid
twenties smiling at strangers and bars to try and have sex.
Mid thirties smiling at strangers in the park to try
and have mom friends. Yeah like, same move, same move.
(48:46):
You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Some tweets I've been enjoying Blair. Blair sucky recent guests
tweeted I used to have a faithful reply guy named
piss Freak, and I'm wondering if you got married it
or something because I haven't seen him in a while.
If you're reading this, I hope you're doing well. Pissed
freak and Dr Libido at piss Freak, Okay, I'm back.
(49:11):
Blessings upon you, Blair. You are very sweet, and then
Blair replied, piss freak you're back, thank god. Five explation points.
You gotta love it, piss Freak. Yeah, and it's not
just a clever name. And then Rodan then Robert Schultz tweeted,
did you know there's actually more sugar and fruit than
in soda? Did you know I'm actually hanging on by
(49:33):
a thread as it is, like I don't I don't
need to hear that ship and Okay. You can find
us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. Were at the Daily
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to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
as well as a song that we think you might
enjoy my as well, song do we think people might
be enjoying? Oh Man Ida Got has a man got
me in a New York mood? And I just let's
do Let's do a track by E s G. It's
the great band from the Bronx. We've gone out on
a few tracks of there as before. Back the UFO
(50:16):
might be one of their more notable ones because it's
been sampled so many times in rap and hip hop.
But this one is called the Beat, and like all
their songs, it's just like raw, the rhythm sections really dope.
I love the vocals and a great way to start
your week. So this is E. S. G. With the
beat al right. Well, The Daily Zike has a production
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