Maria > Katrina, Pumpkin Spice Latte SZN 8.30.18

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season forty six, Episode
four of The Daily Zeitgeist for Thursday, August thirty, two
thousand and eight. Team, my name's Jack O'Brien, a kay oh,
Brian Zike Gang never believe it and the rest is
just the same as this song. Uh. That's courtesy of

(00:21):
Finn guard Bow on Twitter at real finj and I'm
thrilled to be joined once again by my co host
Mr Miles. Ray Miles, you know you better watch out
some brace some brazzerronly about szykang zyking sacking. Oh, I

(00:44):
keep going right, keep going fo yeah, bring it in
the second versus dedicate as well. You know there could
be so many ways to do that. Lauren Hill's been
in the Zygeist for real the last couple weeks, and
that ak is from the Drizzle at n sk Adson
or and Skatson. You could be n S Katson. I
don't know. I'm not gonna assume anything about you. I
wish she'd just like featured on other people's songs because

(01:07):
she's such a good rapper, like the way Andre does
like he He hasn't released a solo album, but at
least he still does features and you get to hear
him just like like her personality gets in the way.
You know, she's like, I'm not she if she still
wanted to feature, she'd bring the fujus. Okay, she's her
home thing now well and also telling people not to
look for a so that something about don't look at me,

(01:28):
don't look at me. Also, would you like to collaborate?
And we are throwing to be joining our third seat.
You've heard his beautiful singing voice already by the act
of that some comedian Derek Lamo. Hello, what's up? I
don't have a catchy seventies uh intro Okay, well that
is on you. Yeah, okay, we told I love music.

(01:50):
I just don't want to disrespect it that way. Disrespect Wow.
I guess we're gonna have to play back my singing.
I think auto te phones must be sucked up. I mean,
if you took a yeah like a tuner and put
it right to it, you were dead in the middle
of the time. We're not pitchy at all. Then, Wait,
who's your favorite band from the man? I mean it's

(02:12):
more favorite style like glam rock from the seventies, or
just really straight up pop like some pgs, Yes, like
what was actually on the charts? Yeah, right right, yeah,
but people love to shoot on disco, but it's just
like disco was the thing for queer folks before queer
folks could be openly queer. Like that is all. Vibe

(02:35):
into it. Yeah, and also think about two like Daft
Punk and Justice, those electronic groups, they wouldn't be shipped
without ripping off old disco tracks and just speeding them
up or chopping them up exactly. Shouts to disco forever. Alright, Derek,
we're gonna get to know you a little bit better,
but first we're gonna tell our listeners what we're gonna
be talking about today. We're gonna be talking Pumpkin Spice season.
It's back, baby. We're gonna be giving you a Netflix

(02:58):
recommend lacion. Uh. We're gonna be talking about the new
trend in knocking people's maga hats off their head and
what sorts of legal trouble that can get you into.
We're going to talk about the gops continued hunt for
anybody who insults Putin and the Kremlin. We're going to
talk about Trump's promise to evangelicals of what would happen

(03:23):
if a blue wave happens, it will be violent. It's freaky.
We're gonna talk how the mayor of Tallahassee came out
of nowhere to blow up expectations. Uh, when the primary
in Florida. Whe you come out of nowhere though, you
know you think about it? Yeah, according to the mainstream media,
lamestream media, Am I right, guys? Yeah? And how Mike

(03:48):
Sernovich and Kelly Ward rode to a loss, but how
that's probably the better thing for Republicans. We're gonna talk
about North Korea talks stalling out again in We're gonna
talk about the death toll from Maria, which has once
again been revised upward and now dwarfs the death toll
from Katrina, which I was alive daring Katrina. That was

(04:11):
a pretty big deal, right, guess yeah, I thought. So
we're gonna talk Kanye, We're gonna talk all sorts of stuff.
But first, Derek, we like to ask our guest, what
is something from your search history that is revealing about
who you are? Searcher story? So the last couple of
things I was searching was if I had a hammer
by Pete Seeger. Just it just kind of hit me

(04:35):
in the car. I was like, I need. I was
feeling real down, real frustrated about the world, and I
was like, I need, I need something pure, I need
something fun and just sat next to me. It was
just like, I know what you need, baby, PiZZ Sea
is talking very smooth to you. I know what you need, baby,
I know what you is me Pizza Papa PiZZ singer.

(04:58):
I think Hank Aaron. His biography was called If I
Had a Hammer Too. I believe it's a dope name
for I just remember as a kid, when like I
had book reports, I only did it on like athletes,
like historical athletes, and I was I went through that
stage historical figures. Everybody else was addressed as founding fathers.
I was dressed as Kareem Abdul Jabbar is No, no,

(05:22):
just had the goggles goggles and the Lakers rambus. Yeah.
I did not have a mustache yet. It was on
the second grade. That didn't come till third grade. Oh no,
it's the Hank Aaron biographys called it. I had a hammer. Look,
he's just a hypothetical family I had waving it around
in Pete's face. Yeah, No, different things, you know, he

(05:45):
was about hits Hank Aaron is about the home runs. Yes, uh,
and were you satisfied with like listening to it again? Yeah,
it's it's it's a really wonderful song. So like there's
an encampment for occupied l a that was involved before
a little bit we're playing music, and it was just
one of those songs that was like does anybody know?
Does anybody know? Like folk song? It was just us
sitting around with a group of guitars being like does

(06:06):
anybody know? For like ten minutes, I decided I'm playing
something else. Another thing I was googling was a great
recipe from a YouTube channel that I love called The
Boyles's Kitchen for Kay. For those of you who have
not have it, it's a slow swimmered pork in a
salsa vetta day sauce, and it is absolutely mind blowing

(06:27):
that what's the what's the secret in this recipe that
most recipes are getting wrong? Well, I don't know if
I was doing wrong, but like it's like it's there's
a specific ratio of like domteo and uh to other
chilis that you're using. So it's like whatever spice level
you can handle, you want to make it flavorful and fragrance,
so like you want to add it right and now
when you want to add lime and like mint and parsley.

(06:48):
But then there's also like what heat you more? You
anaheim A Serrano Halpenial kind of person at Chippo Smoked.
Give me the name of that YouTube channel one more
and more time a Boiler's Kitchen, Abila's kitchen. Yes, and
it is hosted by every Mexican grandmother. Got it? It
always rotate? Okay, It's just a version of everything I

(07:11):
saw being toasted by Cocoa grandma. There's a there's also
a YouTube channel like that I saw it for like
Italian Grandma's to or this one person was going and
just finding so many different nonas and it's just like
all these people are doing it off memory, Like we
gotta commit this to fucking digital video. Hell yeah, that's
actually a great idea, because I do feel like something
that's just being lost. Oh I did that with my grandfather.

(07:33):
You know, he used to have a barbecue restaurant up
in a like Baldwin Hills back in the day, and
he has barbecue saws that he makes from memory all
the time, and one day, I was like, yo, let
me just put the camera on you because I'd be like,
how do you do? And he I would write down
the recipe be like you know, he was just saying
a little bit of vinegar and a little bit yeah,
yeah exactly, And I'm like, you just poured a half
gallon of vinegar and sucking me up just a taste, yeah,

(07:54):
just a little bit. Yeah, put some onion in there?
Was that one or two? Yeah? Yeah, just like come
on now. Yeah, my mom has a chocolate chip cookies
that are like famous with everybody who's ever had one.
And we had them. Yeah yeah, yeah, they're cake as
fuck is how she describes it. But like she gives
the recipe at to other people. Nobody can repeat it though,

(08:18):
Like because nobody, because she's smart something back. Yeah, I
told him regular water, use sparkling water. That's right, Uh, Derek,
what is something that you think is overrated? Oh? My god. Democrats,
So yesterday, like the Senate, so there there are like
thirty three justices that are about to get approved, all

(08:42):
Trump appointed, and the Democrats hashed out a deal with
Mitch McConnell for potentially eleven and they ended up confirming
seven yesterday, and these are like lifetime appointments, so I
can go to home early. Yeah. Yeah. And every week
they're like we have to resist Trump and then the
first opportunity, it's like, well, if we of them this,
maybe they won't be so bad next time. It's like

(09:02):
how many times are you guys gonna get fucked by
the Democrats before you learn like you can't trust them?
And so people are like, well, what do we do?
What do we do? I'm like, you have to run.
You have to run, like go for city council, like
join a local office, do something, because like outrage alone
and calling your offices like is clearly not enough. Like

(09:22):
the Democrats have been like just like a really bad friend,
just taking like queer folks after dinner and people of
color after dinner and being like oh yeah, no, no, no no,
we'll take care you, take care you, and then when
the bill comes up, being like, oh I'll get you
next time. Ash, Yeah, I forgot my wallet, man, got
this one. Damn it. I'm sorry. Trump on the phone

(09:43):
with God, damn it. Yeah. We definitely saw that in
Florida too, where you know, you just you you run
on something that actually speaks to people and it's not
just sort of a boilerplate like yeah, we're in the
middle of the road kind of thing. And you're like,
I'm trying to appeal to working people and people have
callor everybody, and you're starting to see polls getting things
wrong in the other direction. Yeah, and that's what's amazingly

(10:04):
about the race in Florida was like nobody expected as
far as like mainstream media was concerned, Like nobody expected
Gillian to win, for him to like run on this
on what shouldn't be a radical platform, like hey, people
should be allowed to go see a doctor, Like that's
not a radical talk minimum ways, okay, right, but yeah,

(10:26):
in the same way that Trump, you know, used populism
to get people out, who I guess polls just like
weren't measuring. I think Gilliam got kids out and you know,
people who don't normally vote, I think is actually coming
in full force. Yeah, that's the whole key. So I
what I loved about AOC Alexander Acasto Cortez, what I

(10:47):
love that she said was like, we're not focusing on
swaying Trump voters, Like we're moved on, Like we're not
going to focus our time and energy on them, because
if they haven't made up their mind at this point
like that, then they won't. So but we do need
to engage people who have never voted before, who have
either never been inspired or have never cared about the process.
So I've been doing workforce development to kind of work
on my jay job for like ten years, and I've

(11:10):
been relating to people like, hey, you know this idea
that like you need to be involved just for the
simple reason that like if you're not at the table,
you're on the menu, and it matters the most, and
people are engaged the least at the local level. Like
last local election turnout in l A County was like
an abysmal and it's like, guys, this is where it

(11:31):
matters the absolute most. Like if you want your potholes
fixed and you want the five freeway done, like you
gotta go. What is something you think is underrated? Um
jury duty? Oh yeah, no, no, no, seriously, like jury duty,
Like everybody hates doing jury duty. But like if you
put it into a context of like how do I
make a difference, I'm just one person. I can't really

(11:53):
do a whole lot minute do jury duty. Take example
that most people take plea deals so they don't even
end up going to court, but the people who do
think that they have enough of a chance that they
might not get convicted. So you are really on the
front lines of preserving and protecting marginalized people. And for

(12:13):
all you white folks out there, like, if you want
to do the good work, like volunteer, did you jury
duty because you are canceling out like a potential potential
racist vote on a jury, right, yeah, because you'd be surprised. Man,
Like if you've ever been in a jury, how other
people are in their talking and like, oh no, like yeah,
someone might have to be the voice of reason in here, yes,

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and it's usually it's usually older people. And as we know,
like older people tend to be more heavily influenced by
Fox News. And it's like, are you really gonna let
those guys decide the fate of somebody when we're not
even prosecuting the people who deserve most to be prosecuted,
Like who cares to some dude soul some shipped from Walmart?
Like there are Walmart executives stealing from you every single day. Yeah,

(12:55):
and that that's right because the question that got me
off the last time was does anybody have any work
obligations that will make it difficult for you to be
on trial for the next three weeks? I was like, yeah,
like who doesn't And it was all like retired people basically,
and most most cases don't even last out long. Y yeah, exactly.
What is a myth? What's something people think it is

(13:16):
true that you know to be false that social programs
keep people dependent. Um, so I work for an organization
that really helps people re entering society. So people who
have been in prison for the last ten fifty years,
who are currently on parole a probation, and so you know,
there's this huge conception about like, well they're you know,
they're felons, so like who's going to hire them? And

(13:37):
it's like, well, if they've served their time, why are
they still being punished once they get out? Right? That
is something to me that that's really kind of been
like why are we still doing it this way? Not
a life sense, yeah, or disenfranchising people once they've committed
a felony, And it's like, we know the justice system
is racist towards people of color, Like we know that.
So it's really just a tool of disenfranchisement that keeps

(13:58):
white people the majority. But like political power wise, but
as far as like social programs, people are like, well
they're abusing welfare and they're abusing food stamps. It's like
they don't really get that much. Like general relief is
two a months. Yeah, it really isn't all that much,
and the worst part is like you have to pay
it back and you only get it for like nine months. Yeah.

(14:20):
So it's the way that social programs are are set
up is that like usually these organizations aren't talking to
one another, so like if you're collecting food stamps, are
not they're not talking to unemployment, they're not talking to
so and so, and they're not talking to so and so.
So these many agencies are in contact with each other.
And what happens is, so let's say I'm on Section eight,
I'm receiving public housing. If I get a job, which

(14:44):
is what I'm supposed to do to move out of
public housing because it's supposed to be on paper only
supposed to be temporary. If I get a job and
they make over certain dollar amount, they just basically say, well,
now you make over the acceptable amount of income, so
you have to move out, and this forces people to
quit their jobs because it's like, well, I don't have
enough saved yet to be able to move, and I
can't afford rent in Los Angeles because rent is six

(15:06):
dollars wherever you go for like a one bedroom. So
it's like, if I have kids, you know, if I
have any other straining circumstances, you've just forced me, even
though my desire is there, to abandon something that potentially
can help me long term R. And so it doesn't
so much create dependence as so much as the system
is really designed to keep people in poverty, and the

(15:27):
statistics about people like being on welfare, it's really like
not that many people stay on it for very long,
and and they don't imagine what would happen or how
our economy would change, or how our society would change
if instead of of of punishing people you know, who
are receiving public's assistance, like if we move to like

(15:48):
a more universal basic income where regardless of your age
or regardless of your UH, you know, other factors, your
your physical ability or your disabled status, um you received
a certain amount a month like this frees people up
to explore new things and to try new things and
to get different kinds of training. So particularly with my experience,

(16:11):
like I work with people who traditionally have and I
hate using this term like entry level or no skilled experience.
So they're working in warehouses, they're working entry level jobs
for nothing, you know, for absolutely nothing. And so for
them talking about that kind of opportunity because so our
program pays them to go to work a couple of

(16:32):
days a week. It's only a part time job. But
in that other time, we're we're linking them up with trainings,
were linking them up with other things that they have
self identified me like, well, I'm kind of interested in this,
but I've been conditioned to think that that's completely unattainable
for me. So it's once you provide a pathway for folks,
they usually do it because it's like they just haven't

(16:52):
had the access. And once you give somebody that access,
like what they can do with it is incredible. I mean,
look no fur or than like the do it yourself
era that we're all living in. Like before you'd have
to sneak into the studios like Spielberg did just to
be able to be on set. But it's like now
anybody can shoot a film like we have that access

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and we have that technology, and like a bunch of
amazing artists are coming out of being able to do
it by themselves. And that's exactly what has to happen
with the rest of the workforce, especially as we're like
modernizing and replacing the entire sections of workers with robots.
It's like, we have to do something to replace those
those jobs that have been lost. Yeah, go to your

(17:34):
grocery store. Half of the check out things are robots.
And that was they used to be union jobs. And
part of like stigmatizing those kinds of welfare benefits as
part of the thing and being like, oh, we'll see. Look,
we can kind of look at them as people who
are undeserving, and you know, why do we need to
help them, because you know, they obscure the facts around
how welfare is used, and you know, they reject the
idea that people naturally want better for themselves. Just give

(17:56):
them the opportunity to exactly, you will see that. That's
we're just built like that. Yeah, it's like, well, they
don't work hard. It's like I haven't met anybody who
works harder than somebody who's working two and a half
jobs just to make rent. Right, Yeah, Like it's not
their fault they're poor. They're just poor. Right. If I'm
working seventy five hours a week just to sustain myself, like,
that's weed slavery, that's not I don't have another word

(18:20):
for it. Like, that's just that's what it is. It's
it's a system that is designed to keep you on
a treadmill and you're just treading water and you're not
getting anywhere. And if you don't believe that the systems
intentionally designed this way, it's not like they're not giving
that money away to some people. Rich people are getting
that money given away to them in the form of
tax cuts and you know, all these different and they

(18:41):
hoard it at the top. So then just when someone
who works seventy five hours, they shouldn't have to if
they got paid a decent wage, you wouldn't need to
work two jobs and works any five hours and be
sixty years old. Yeah, And that's that's what I present
to my clients. It's like, if you were making enough
so that you could work one job and let's say
thirty hours a week, if you were able to staying
yourself and your family on a part time job, or

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even like a full time job, what would you do
with that extra money? And a lot of them are
like I would send my kids this, I would buy this,
I would do this, I would fix my credit, I
would fix my car. And it's like that is the
kind of people either spend it or they invested in themselves.
And that is the type of stuff when we have
a service based economy, that's what keeps the wheels turning.

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And so by weighing everybody down, by forcing them to
take these little independent contractor gigs like uber and lift
and you know, task grabbing and all those things, this
is just money for me so that I can make
a living, so that I can get by. It's like
you're putting people in a position where they can't spend
extra money, and that limits the amount of available jobs,
and those things are ultimately going to be reduced. Like

(19:46):
the pond is shrinking at an astronomical rate. It's the technology.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back, and so is pumpkin

(20:08):
spice season. It's that time of year when we all
give ourselves an excuse to basically drink milkshakes with our
morning coffee and take like the level of sugar that
you get in there and whipped cream. I've been enjoying
the memes where it's basically treated like some combination of
white girl Spanish fly and white girl cat nip, like

(20:31):
in in the meme world. But I guess this is
in the meme economy. But this is basically I feel
like the and the way I feel about college football,
where like I don't really like college football or follow it,
but once college football season starts, it like starts to
feel like fall to me. For whatever reason. I feel
like this is sort of a non sport version of

(20:53):
that for the consumer culture, consumer based signal that the
seasons are changing, yes, and this guy is great. Yeah.
I mean that's like the thing where you go, oh shit,
that's right, pumpkin Okay, so it's fall. Yeah, I mean
that's that's how since we no longer have seasons because
of climate change, it's like we there are certain indicators

(21:14):
like pumpkin spice, Oh, it's fall. It's like the McRib,
Oh it's summer, right, shamrocks shake it's march, yeah, shamrock
March it's only March, right. I'm glad some things are
still respected. If they had a year round, I mean,
that's that to me, would be runaway capitalism. I don't know.
In this office, there's clearly there's some people who fucking

(21:37):
hate the pumpkin spice lattes, people who love the pumpkin
spice lat day. To me, I don't really give a fuck.
Drink whatever the funk you want. You don't throw your
money whatever you want to. But we all know that
the best seasonal beverage from a coffee shop is the
winter dream t latte from coffee bean tastes like mulling spices.
I'm a big fan of the egg no glatt is.

(21:58):
Hell yeah, isn't that thing like calorically so? I didn't
realize that until I looked at the calories and it's
got like a hundred more calories than the pumpkin spice,
like the ones that are already famous for being calorically dense.
They're like, oh yeah, we put an egg yolk and
two extra pounds of sugar. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
the eggnog is nice. I wish that they had uh

(22:19):
they still I wish they still had the apple cider.
The hot apple cider was amazing. They just have straight
hot apple cider apple cider and they put like a
cinnamon stick in it. Great, you'll put them on the stove.
And like the pumpkin spice war debate, like I'm always
going to air on the side of sweet potato, like
sweet potato pie over pumpkin pie, sweepotato spice over pumpkin

(22:41):
spice every single time. Could you imagine there's a sweepotato
spice latte? Someone hits the ideas out there, happen, make
it happen in tagony in it. Yeah, let me get
that yam latte. We just wanted to follow up on
I think we mentioned yesterday the show Magic for Humans.
I Caitlin was talking about that. Yeah, and we we

(23:03):
watched a Twitter video that people just need to check
out where it's a clip of people watching a clip
from the show Magic for Humans. But it's one of
the better trailers I've seen for a Netflix series. It
was perfect. They tricked a man into believing that he
was invisible, he had become invisible, and the reaction this

(23:24):
on this man's face. That alone, I was like, Okay,
I'm i'm aa binge watch this ship forever. Although Netflix,
you know, they do not like people saying binge watching.
Because during who the funk was it, someone was doing
a press tour for a Netflix show. It was on
a watching Bend Guy Pierce because Guy Pierce is in
a new series on Netflix, and like someone said binge

(23:48):
watching and think he's like, actually, Netflix doesn't want to
sing binge watching or whatever. Okay, look that's how people
watch it. I'm sorry, fucking this is where we're at,
where people just stare at the screen abusing Netflix. It's
away from him now, like the lingo was locked in yes, yeah,
yeah whatever marathon marathon viewings. Yeah no, no, we've been
to watching anyways. We uh. This video that we're talking

(24:12):
about is on YouTube and we will post it in
the footpe. So there's been a couple of stories now
about young folks knocking MAGA hats off of classmates. I
think this is an interesting debate because both examples of
it happening that I'm aware of, the students got charged

(24:33):
with battery, and like there was one in San Antonio,
Wendy's I think where a dude like ripped it off
of yea and then and it was caught on video.
He also I think dumped a drinking their face. Yeah.
And then in this case, a young woman named Joan
Butler could face battery criminal charges after she admitted to

(24:55):
stealing a Maga hat from a classmate at Union Mine
High School in El Dorado, California. Why would you admit it,
ding dong? But she was just like, yeah, I'm tired
of having to go to class with people who are
wearing what is basically a symbol of hate and racism smels.

(25:17):
I can't I don't know if I can disagree with that,
Like if if people were wearing like Nazi hats, like
you would, I think the argument is like, well, just
because I wear this doesn't mean there's therefore blah blah blah.
But I think at the very least the school should
realize that this is disrupting the student body by letting
people wear these things. I mean, I'm sure if some
kid was rocking Antifa ship there will be some group

(25:39):
of ship heads who would try and funk with that
kid in the same way. Well, I mean, look at
look at it from this perspective. So, like, the schools
already have a list of things because they're quote unquote
disruptive to the learning process of what students can and
can't wear. Like women in particularly, it comes down on
like like we're seeing more and more, more and more
young girls being uh sent home because they have shorts

(26:01):
on or because they wearing tank tops that that you know,
the school is considering that it's too revealing. Black women
in particular have had their hair policed for forever. That's crazy.
So it's like you can't say that the school already
doesn't engage in this kind of behavior. And it's like
we are in a political climate where like if you
are are are from a marginalized community, if you're if

(26:22):
you're queer, if you're a personal color, you know, if
you have a disability, etcetera, cotcetera, etcetera, the way that
you have to navigate life is with caution. And so
for for these maga chud's, it's like, well, you know,
I'm being targeted because you know, because of my hat,
And it's like, well, you have something that you can
take off. For these people, they don't. That is their

(26:44):
existence is a target. And so like learn a little
bit of empathy. Number one. It's like that that reaction
that you have right there, and then with like, well,
I just don't think it's fair because I'm a white
male and I like chap that I should be treated
this way. And it's like, okay, that right there are
You've identified the problem. Now just extend that to people

(27:04):
who don't fucking look like you. Yeah, the white fragility
is staggering. Well, but they have, but they have to
become victims of something to operate properly, because they can't
just be full throt like yeah, we were on top
and I can keep this maghat on. Well, there's there's
really interesting conversations to kind of be had their like
a really nuanced way. So I was listening to this guy,

(27:26):
Michael Kimmel, and he's kind of an expert on like
on masculinity, and he was talking about how like the
promise of America or the promise of white America has
slowly been stripped away because of capitalism, because of these
multinational corporations. It's limited the economic freedom that white people
once enjoyed. And also I think it's just the function

(27:48):
of this sort of late stage of capitalism that the
country's into. Where As you're saying resources dry up corporations
are trying to dismantle the state and every way they
can and and pick a part the carcass of what
was once a ming economy, and that I think limited opportunity.
That's what allows now for people to be like, hey,
it's not the corporations, it's these immigrants, it's not the corporations.

(28:08):
Is black lives matter, it's not these corporations, it's gay people,
you know what I mean? And these are all distractions
for this diminished opportunity that everyone's feeling, when really it's
has nothing to do with that. They're pitting people against
each other when all you have to look up and
be like, wait, who's actually doing better than everyone else?
Because you can say, oh I hate all these you
can be xenophobic and all this other stuff, But you
asked this person, are you happy with your job? Are
you hap with your income? Are you happy with your

(28:30):
access to healthcare? Education? Probably not? H And then and
really understand who who's at the levers making those decisions
that are affecting you at that level too, Yeah and
so and so. You know when we have like these
debates and we have these talks and people are like, well,
it's it's class, not race, And I'm like, look, it
is partially that, but it is also race, because when
you give racist money, they don't suddenly become not racist.

(28:53):
Yeah yeah, the man. I mean, look, it's it's funny too,
Like you said, like in school, Like I went to
school where my classmate he had redlocks, and they were
like for years they were trying to be like, you know,
that's an unnatural hairstyle. It's oh fuck you. There was
a girl who was just sent home the other day
where she was crying. There was a video of her
because they kept saying, oh, your your hairstyle is unnatural

(29:14):
because she had you know she had Yeah, And the
same thing. I remember, I couldn't have a fucking lineup
or a fade in high school because they're like, uh,
you know, that's that's too edgy or something. I was like,
you're just trying to do you just don't want me
to rock my hairstyle the way I had it. I
had a part once in high school. They were like, yo,
you gotta go to the fucking Dean and ships here.

(29:36):
I came back with two parts the next week. Um. Yeah,
so let's maybe think about not letting people wear maga
hats to school. The very least I mean about it
clearly that it's it's causing problems, and people do it
to antagonize people. It's not that's the fascist, to antagonize
people of color, your class, fascist statement fascist easta. I

(29:59):
mean happen right after the election two and these in
school kids were chanting Trump at brown kids because they
knew it was and that's how it causes distressed. So
we can't even pretend that like, oh, it's just an
innocent hands, just a hat. It's like, no, it's a symbol.
It's like the dog whistles are gone like it We're
talking like blaring ambulance alarms. Yeah, Miles, Yeah, there's a

(30:24):
gentleman named Bruce or who works for the Department of Justice. Yeah,
he's a gentleman. He is a gentleman, got soft hands,
and he is being antagonized by the Trump administration, of course,
which doesn't totally make sense because I mean they're conservatives,
and conservatives usually ally with the Department of Justice. Oh, Jack,

(30:45):
I wanted to do some closed door hearings, but with
Congress and everyone's like, okay, I wonder why you know,
and Bob goodluck came out like this guy, I'm Tony,
just Bruce Or Man, he's a fucking deep Stater. He
went to Deep State University and majored in antonium uranium
or whatever the fun they want to say. And yeah,
so everyone's like, okay, uh, they're saying, will you ask

(31:07):
them why? Well, what why are you angry at this man?
Oh well, let me tell you something. His wife used
to did some work for Fusion GPS, who made the
Steel dossier. Therefore, uh, he is aligned against the president
and all this other bullshit. And you know, we we
found out that he was talking to Christopher Steele. Uh,
even though the FBI approved their discussions clearly, because here's

(31:28):
here's the thing. If you take all that aside, if
you really look at what the fun is going on,
Bruce Or is like the fucking god him c of
understanding Russian organized crime. So we talked earlier about Peter Struck,
who was the FBI agent who had the text messages,
and yeah, the text message didn't look good, but he
clearly was probably acting very professional. As we said before,
the way these bureaucracies work, it's hard for one man

(31:50):
to just take something totally left if Putin gave Trump
a list of people would be on it, and so
would Yeah, and Struck was the like expert in Russian
count like a counter intelligence in general, and he exposed
that group of literally like the real life version of
the Americans where used to Russians who were like moving
from Canada to the US to France and just trying

(32:11):
to infiltrate the government. He spotted him, got him, uh,
and then they smeared the ship out of him. And
now he's no longer at the FBI and would probably
be a witness to any you know, early intelligence about
what was going on between Russia and the Trump campaign. Now,
Bruce Or he is the master of Russian organized crime,
like he indicted like the head of the Russian mob.

(32:31):
And this man who was the head of Russian mob,
his name has floated in and out of this Muller
investigation too, of having connections to other people who are
involved in this stuff, you know, oh, like Dera Posca,
who is the connective tissue between Paul Manafort and Putin.
Like I think twelve years ago, Bruce Or was one
of the people who flagged him, being like do not
let this guy in the country. He's up to some
bullshit and we don't funk with the funkery here, so

(32:52):
keep him out. So now this all makes sense because
they're going after Bruce or because he is. You know,
if anyone can start connect dots between organized crime in
Russia and the US, they would be this person. So
now they've done a full, full corporate job, full corp
press pressing the man, and when really he hasn't done
ship like he's done nothing that's actually a violation. They're

(33:13):
just speculating all these things and trying to tarnish his
character when this guy has been like a career organized
crime fighter like from the jump. Uh. And also when
you want to talk about how bad Christopher Steele is,
keep in mind he's m I six is, or was
m I six is Russia expert. So when they were talking,
these are two people who are straight up like it's
like the All Star team where it's like, you know,

(33:34):
why would Lebron be talking to Kobe Bryant or whatever?
Like the people good at what they do. They're in
the same field. Of course they see each other at
the time because there are things they know, you know,
affect each other's job. And again they were communicating with
the FBI's approval. He wasn't divulging anything that was dangerous.
They're just like, oh yeah, maybe you guys, can you know,
brief each other on something. It's one of those situations

(33:55):
where the answer to that question actually makes you look
really bad because Still is the expert on Russia. He
is a very trusted expert on Russia. So it makes
sense that people from the Department of Justice will be
talking about steal like a basement dwelling Q and on
conspiracy theorist and like completely don't acknowledge it, like this guy,
like the UK trust him with their Russian knowledgy. Yes, well,

(34:18):
I mean that, well, that's part of the game plan.
Like the Republican game plan has always been like oh
you're cool. We're like we're cool, You're Lauren Order person cool.
Until you have the expertise, it's like, oh, ship, now
the tables will turn. Now we have to project everything
onto you to discredit you. But that's what just said.
When you see like people like Bob Goodland and Tradaddy

(34:38):
and Devin Nonez who went all the way to the UK,
mind you to try and talk to like m I
six and G s h Q to be like, hey,
can I talk to your spy people to try and
dig up ship, and they're like, we do not want
to talk to you, like go home. We're like we're
not interested. We know what you're up to. And it
shows you that they're just doing the Kremlin's work essentially,
where they're like, you know, okay, this makes sense this

(34:59):
person no too much, let's try and discredit them. Okay, great,
Like it's it's so anti American, it's unbelievable. But this
is the world we live in. How many times a
day do you think Trayouty's hair changes, like his hair stuff,
Oh my god, I think every every time he's well paid,
Like every time they cut to him in a hearing,
he's got a different hair, like the fast wave, then

(35:21):
saying it's like the flock of seagulls kind of dude,
is amazing. Sorry I cut you off. No, no, no no,
that was like, if anything, it's incredibly American, right, Yeah,
it's true. I guess I I try and speak from
this idealistic version of how I think the country could be,
while you know, completely ignoring like usually we're talking about
the FBI and suddenly it's like, hey, man, the FBI though, Yeah,

(35:43):
that's what's so weird. Like there's all these democrats being
like I support the FBI, and it's like literally in
this very specific instate, it's like there's probably an activist
list that I'm on, Like yeah, like yeah, between torture,
porn and you know, suppressing dissident voices in the country. Yeah,

(36:03):
but well you're talking about why you're on the list
because of your torture. Well yeah, me and Gina Hospital.
You know, we used to kick it back in the day. Oh,
got it, got it? All right. Let's talk briefly about
President Trump. Uh, you know, his strategy for dealing with
this upcoming blue wave is uh, we got we got

(36:25):
kind of a brief preview of it, and his Fox
News interview the day after our Super Tuesday when Cohen
like basically was like I did a crime and he
told me to and Man of Fort was found guilty.
The day after that, Trump was on Fox News and
he said, if I'm impeached, like all hell will breaks

(36:46):
basically like just painting a picture of a post apocalyptic
landscape from like an eighties movie, the economy will crash.
And so he continued with that effort to paint a
picture with the A D words that he uses by
saying that if the blue wave comes, they will and

(37:07):
this isn't In a meeting with evangelicals at the White House,
he said, quote, they will overturn everything that we've done,
and they'll do it quickly and violently, and violently. There's
violence when you look at Antifa and you look at
some of these groups, these are violent people. Yeah, the
other part was there the level of hatred, the level

(37:27):
of anger is unbelievable. And then he says, uh, this
November six election is very much a referendum on not
only me, it's a referendum on your religion. It's a
referendum on free speech and the First Amendment. So he's
really just full on being ringing the panic alarm, being like,
can you do something? And also can you be violent? Me.
I'm just gonna keep saying this word violence and maybe

(37:49):
that will go into your brain somehow. Trump has the
vocabulary of one of those refrigerator poem magnetizstah. But it
is something that we actually absolutely need to be worried
about and keep an eye on. So everybody remembers during
the OBMA aginistration, like there was a severe rise in

(38:10):
white supremacy groups, like they were actively trying to buy weapons,
like their their stockpiling ammunition. And so recently there have
been a couple of reports like ProPublica published something on it.
There have been a lot of white supremacists entering the
military specifically to get training. And then once they've done,
you know, there for four to eight years, they come

(38:30):
back to their racist buddies and be like, guess who
knows how to hunt people? And so like we know,
like we just inherently know that there are a white
supremacist groups who are very anti government, who who have
already murdered people, like there are what forty three I
think that last I read forty three individuals have been
murdered over the last like three years, and another like

(38:52):
seventy who have been injured, like not killed, but severely injured.
So the violence is right underneath the surface, like it
is is there, like I have the forty three people
who have been killed by white supremacists, like in organized terrors,
like what are some examples of the wells Neil Wilson, Um,
the women who was stabbed on the train, um, the

(39:15):
the other Portland stabbing where the two where the white supremacists.
He was trying to attack a woman with a her job,
but too white men stepped in and they both unfortunately
lost their lives. Um, you know Heathery higher in in Charlottesville, Um,
the nine black parishioners who were murdered in the church
by Dylan Roof. Like there are tons of examples there

(39:37):
and we kind of keep moving on and it's interesting,
like they're isolated incidents and it's like, no, this is
a giant network of people who are showing you that
they are willing to murder you. And we need to
be taking it more seriously because it's like they have militias,
we have memes, but ours are so dang means are dead.

(40:01):
They absolutely are. But like, if let's say, if the
Blue Wave does happen, which there seventy days until the election,
Like if you're not, you guys need to start canvassing,
Like please get involved, find a local organization, get like
a Caul Tree together so you know you can like
help core Pool people to their polling place. Please get

(40:21):
involved if you haven't yet. If the Blue Wave happens
and we do happen to impege Trump, like I guarantee
you because of the level of violence, because of how
he can inspire people to take those kinds of actions.
And he has already like the newsroom shooting, repeating that
same rhetoric, like conservative media inspires violence. Like I wrote

(40:42):
a really long piece about it back in two thousand
and five where I was connecting the points of where
like somebody had used like Second Amendment solutions, and that
was the same week that Gabby Gifford got shot in
the head in Arizona, UM and I was making all
these points of like when you hear this in conservative media,
you see this action on people when they when they
bomb abortion clinics, when they threaten um, you know, when

(41:05):
they threatened women, when they kill people of color or
queer people, Like there is a direct correlation. And yeah,
freedom of switch is important, but we shouldn't be ignoring
and we shouldn't be protecting speech that incites violence. And
there's no competition between like white supremacist terror attacks and

(41:26):
other terror attacks that like white supremacist terror attacks not
counting nine eleven have killed the most number of people
in American history, and there at the very least seems
to be a huge double standard. All right, we're gonna
take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back,

(41:53):
And we have a theory on Trey Addy his hair
from super producer Ana Hosnia that Tray Adds hair is
mirroring Jamie Lee Curtis's hair. Um. Now, we do not
know if he's doing that intentionally or if if there's
some sort of mummy curse where at any time she
changes her hair his hair just magically moving it on
his head. But we will keep you guys abreast of

(42:16):
the latest details on that. And primaries happened on Tuesday eight.
Was calling it the day of the Weird Primaries ahead
of it, and I think they were also saying that
it paid off on that with unexpected things happening. Wait,
why are they called the weird primaries? I think they
were just expecting, like weird ships, that they were weird races,

(42:38):
and uh, they didn't totally know what was going to happen.
And Andrew Gillham came through and made ship weird for Florida.
He was not shown to be a leading in any
polls that were conducted in the during the race. He
wasn't even really close in the polls leading up to

(42:58):
yesterday's election, and his whole strategy was turn out young people,
turn out black people more than anyone expected, and that
actually worked. Yeah, go to the base, don't bother, you know,
going to It's the same thing like Stacy Abrams did
too with her strategy for her nomination for gubernatorial candidate

(43:19):
and Georgia, and it's the same thing. Like there were
some people were like, Okay, let me see if I
can get I think it was a Gwen Graham Is
who he was running against in Florida. She was more
doing the centrist Democrat thing of like running on like
the legacy of her family being in Florida politics, her
dad was a governor as well, and being like yeah,
I'm the Democrat kind of thing. And someone was like, hey,

(43:39):
you want fifteen dollars an hour, you want medicare for all,
Like this is what I'm trying to do, this is
what I'm gonna this is what I want to deliver
to you as governor. And clearly that strategy fucking worked
because yeah, yeah for young people of America, because I
feel like the young people of Florida are super fucking
motivated and organized because of the Parkland kids, but like
all across the country, this has to be like a

(44:01):
wake up call that you can affect change, Like your
vote does matter like a lot. That's how people like
saying that they were voting on their birthday, like they
had just turned old enough to vote. That's amazing, That's
that's such an incredible and kind of an inspiring thing.
Like I want to tell Nate Silver just like just
go have a seat, dude, Just go chill for a minute.
Whatever data you're collecting hasn't been reliable, Like he was

(44:24):
caught off guard by you know, the presidential election. Who's
caught off guard by these men terms, Like clearly the
metrics that you are using aren't taking into account that,
like shit is not normal. Like we have like a
weird balance of these independent candidates, these highly democratic candidates

(44:45):
who see the need for more progressive policies. And it's like, well,
where did these people? We weren't anticipate them winning. It's like, well,
when we show up, we win, and they're doing the
work to make that happen. So how can you put
things in a traditional frame when and for the last
two years, we've been living in a dystopia, right, And
I think Nate Silver. First of all, I think Nate

(45:07):
Silver gave Trump more of a chance than most people
in the lead up to the election. But I do
think that his whole model relies on pulling and pulling
was you know, super predictable in two thousand, two thousand
twelve because it was dealing with a known quantity like
America's enthusiasm America, like how organized Americans were in the

(45:28):
past hundred presidential There haven't been hundred presidents, but you know,
the past however, many presidential elections hadn't really changed. And
it does seem like things are changing on both sides
in terms of how organized people are going to get,
how motivated they are going to be to get out
and vote, or you can't measure people's existential dread. It's like,

(45:50):
you know, I voted for Trump because I feel like
my whiteness is at stake, right, And you can't measure that.
And I think with people who are voting for people
like Alexandriacazio Cortez and and Drew Gillham, you're not measuring
Oh wait, there's an existential threat of late stage capitalism
that is affecting these people, and now they're demanding more
thyre like you're gonna have to help me with medicare,
you have to help me with healthcare. You're gonna have

(46:11):
to help me make a living wage. And those are
things that for years past, we were sort of coasting
down and it was harder to realize just how bad
it was getting. And now it's reaching that sort of
saturation point where it affects more people than it ever has.
And now the tune changes sort of like, hey, you
want a tax cut, it's like, or you want safer
while it's like I need to go to college, you

(46:32):
know what I mean, I gotta take care of my kids.
Like we're not. That's the new thing that I think
people are not realizing is what is actually speaking to
people the more they look at their surroundings and the
resources they have. Yeah, and just the system as it
existed before signal that that is changing. So I talked
before about how you know and listening to the Crooked

(46:55):
Media podcasts, they were talking about how the way that
you would determine if somebody was like a Bible candidate,
as you would take their phone, go through their contact
list and be like Okay, they're good for a hundred
thousand dollars, they're good for fifty and add up how
much money they have to break a certain level of
having enough money in their contact list to get fundraising

(47:17):
to be a candidate. And Gilham was wildly outspent, you know,
in the primary. And so, I mean things are changing,
Like all the conventional wisdom is is going out the
door because people are just getting out there, they're organizing,
and you know, it's been a weird bride product of
Citizens United where we were expecting like all of this

(47:39):
influx of of dark money and all of this influx
of corporate money to really kind of dramatically change our elections,
and it's like they have. But as a reaction to that,
things have also becoming becoming more focused on grassroots Like, yeah,
you can go ahead and outspend me, but you don't
have the manpower and you don't have the plo form

(48:01):
that's gonna actually make people want to come out and
vote for you. Yeah, you were just depending upon the
same thirty percent of the population or of your district
coming out and voting. And it's like, nope, those rules
are gone. Those rules are out the door. We're gonna
bring in young people because they know how important social
media is, they know how to organize, they know how

(48:22):
vital it is right now to get involved, and they're
just beginning their lives, so they look at what's ahead
more than maybe a baby boomer does and says, holy shit,
I'm gonna have to contend with this when I'm thirty,
when i'm forty, when i'm fifty. Much easier to be
fifty in your fifties and be like, yeah, this is
it's been fine like this. These kids are aware everyone.
Younger people are just more aware of, you know, what

(48:43):
we're actually up against in terms of how we're going
to make a life for ourselves. Yeah. And Kelly Ward,
this is just something I was looking for because she
was the one who had Mike Cernovich on her campaign
bus and was like saying that the McCain family announcing
that John McCain was going to stop getting medical treatment

(49:04):
and basically agreeing to die was like a distraction from
her campaign. She like they wanted a narrative. Yeah, So
she got her ass whooped. In the GOP primary, Martha
McSally got nearly fifty percent of the boat and it
was a three candidate race. So this is not good
for Democrats because they definitely wanted to go against Kelly

(49:27):
Ward and McSally is the more formidable general election opponent.
But yeah, I guess just she'll have to kind of
we'll see how much she can appeal to any swing
voters in that state though, because when you full on
embraced Trump, because she had to fucking kiss the ring
wait wagon to that star to get there, and it
makes it look like a flip flop two because she
boycotted going to the Republican Convention because she didn't want

(49:50):
she was like, yo, Trump's garbage. Yeah, and they're all
willing to hitch to hitch their trailer to that train
as long as it temporarily. Well, I mean it'll serve
me in the lunch because I'm getting these Trump voters
and it's like, I don't think they're really seeing long
term what that actually is going to do. It was
kind of like the Tea Party, where like the Tea Party,
you know, they had these radical uh they had these

(50:12):
radical candidates who were like really embracing and doubling down
on all of these awful policies, and yeah, they got
a handful of guys through, but they were freshmen representatives
who like who were committed to those policies and couldn't
make friends with anybody and ended up getting voted out
the next term. And so you you have the same

(50:32):
thing where you have all of these people hitching their
posts to these radical policies. And at the same time,
because of all these these grassroots activists and because of
all the networking that is happening to reach voters who
have never been who have never cast about before, or
to reengage people who may have registered to vote because
eight years ago, you know, they believed in Obama's campaign,

(50:53):
but after that was just kind of like and whatever, uh,
capturing those people. It's like, you were in for us surprise, baby,
the you're you're catering to the fringe. You're catering to
this frothing of white America that will say and do
anything to keep power. But you're in for a surprise

(51:15):
when you find out that, like, oh we outnumbered you
guys were just now discovering a weight to lock arms. Yeah,
because right now, you look, you can appeal to all
those Trump boardies you want. You don't see people putting
boots on the ground for the wall or fucking whatever anything.
You know, these there's not no one, No one's there
for that. They're these people like rhetoric. You do see

(51:36):
people coming out there for living wages and ending just
completely horribly racist policies of immigration policies or healthcare and
things like that. You don't have that energy for this nonsense.
And they should just look at that and be like,
oh shit, people don't pull up for this stuff. Yeah,
thank you for bringing that up. So this is a
reminder for folks, like stop trying to debate and change

(51:57):
people's minds on Facebook and on Twitter. Stop it. Like
all of that precious energy is doing like could be
directed somewhere else to do an order or your community
that really really needs it. So like we know, because
we've had these these experiences, you're not going to change
a compoty's opinion, So stop it. Like just focus on
one thing that you can do in your community. Focus

(52:17):
on one thing and like do that one thing with
other people who want to help. And don't know how
I do wonder we need to look this up, but
I wonder what the attendance for Trump rallies has been
looking like recently I'm sure still pretty solid. Yeah, I mean, look,
it's like a fucking it's a concert for racist racist

(52:40):
would stock but to produce our next stump is telling
us that he was apparently not happy with the attendance
at the West Virginia rally the judgment day. Well, they
even looked fucking sad, like they were sort of like this,
like that, even the people in the background. We usually

(53:01):
get the most wacky people back there, including the two
black dudes I screen grab. You don't risk uh that
they were kind of in the background, people like I
never saw more sort of like solemn faces with maga
hats on than on that Tuesday where people just kind
of like it felt you know this again, but they'll
still show up. But that that was a rough day
to go on stage. Yeah, so just real briefly, and

(53:25):
it's crazy that this is a brief story, but this
is basically a story that isn't getting a whole lot
of run. But the death toll from Hurricane Maria in
Puerto Rico is now close to nine eleven scale and
it actually dwarfs Katrina. It's up to two thousand, nine
hundred over people. Katrina was one hundred thirty three, and

(53:50):
that was a basically administration defining massive funk up that
brought about huge changes in the bushop illustration. And it's
just crazy that this isn't a bigger deal. Well, you know,
I think because it's been a slow burn and the
it's been so long for there to be like fully

(54:12):
embraced official numbers. I mean, a lot of people on
the ground and active is saying, yo, you think sixteen
people fucking died like when Trump came was like, you know,
now a real disaster like Katrina. Luckily we don't have
those numbers, and like you know, a lot of people
are saying there are more aggressive estimates that put it
close to hundred, not even two thousand, nine seventy five,
which is I think that the reason that's coming out

(54:33):
now is because the governor of Puerto Rico said, I
want to have you know, I think it's George Washington
University and a couple of the university's come here doing
the analysis and tell me what that actional number is
independent right, And then but in the White House was like, okay,
that's fine. And that's why we're getting this number now
is because the White House did tell them like, Okay,
do your analysis, but yeah, it's a shame because you
think about, you know, all the money we spend after

(54:55):
nine eleven, you know more, Yeah, exactly, and uh, we
can't even do right by these American citizens in Puerto Rico.
I think it was literally all the money was spent after.
It shows a pattern. So like think about Hurricane Harvey,
so in Texas, like the amount of money that was
spent in emergency funds and compare it to Hurricane Katrina.

(55:18):
Compare it to Puerto Rico, compared to literally any place
where that's heavily populated with people of color, and you'll
notice like we'll send aid for like a minute, we'll
send aid for like a second. So like right now
in Puerto Rico, there are tons of companies that are
trying to come in after the disaster and stake acclaim

(55:38):
Naomi claims. It's the smash and grabs exactly, And it's
like in one Fell Swoop, they're coming trying to gentrify
an entire island. We haven't found a way to really
hold the government accountable for those kinds of things. That's like, well,
we have elections, and it's like, well, people aren't forget
about those things that we move on because our culture

(56:00):
is so fast paced and so rapid, Like two thousand
eighteen were you know, it's nearly September. It feels like
it's lasted a thousand years, Like I am exhausted, but
it's like it's word. The year isn't even over. It
isn't even up yet. So you see like Hurricane Harvey
and like, oh my god, terrible, awful disaster. We need
to help, and so average people are pitching in their

(56:22):
dollars and then they feel like, well, I've done my
part and they can go back to their lives, assuming
that the federal government will pick up the pieces and
do what they're supposed to do. But they haven't, and
it's because they're severely underfunded and they're severely inept and
that's been really on purpose. So particularly with her in Kikatria,
and like George Bush's appointment to FEMA, like that dude

(56:45):
flat out admitted when he was off for the job,
like I am not the dude for this, I am
not qualified, never run a big I've never run a
complex disaster. Man Boy Scout troop before he was Like
working with Racehorse is prayer to that. Yeah, exactly, and
so you see it over and over and over again
where it's well, the government will take care of it,

(57:07):
so I can just kind of move on with my life,
move on with my my millions of other things that
I'm worried about because I'm probably not making enough money.
I'm probably not I'm already stressed out all the other
daily life stresses. So it's like both Democrats and Republicans
have done this where they've put incompetent people in place
of government, and then when it doesn't work, it's the

(57:27):
Republicans who have flat outside like we'll see, this is
why government doesn't work. This is why we have to
hand it over to corporations so that they can handle
things because they're much more effective. And then they're much
more efficient because they have a profit motive. It's a
way too, I think, in really bad faith, dismantle the government,
and it's like leaving people out in the cold intentionally

(57:48):
so that way you can give more money to people
who are already well, just sabotage it and then let again,
you know, pick apart the carcass of what was once
left of like what the government used to do, especially
when they be in selling off these kinds of things. Yeah,
I don't know, it's the show. I think, you know,
a lot of it has to do too, especially when
you look at the president. The race plays into that

(58:08):
in a very poignant way to like you could tell
when he was saying everything about the mayor of San Juan,
just like had all this ship to say about her.
And you know, you look at a bunch of brown
people and try and act like they're not Americans, that's
a clear sign to where it's like, yeah, like you know,
Katrina was a little bit it's a little bit different
than there was it was in the mainland or whatever.
But because it's a commonwealth, they just go, oh yeah, well,

(58:31):
you know, it's it's not on there. They can't really vote,
so yeah, and it's not like they were even in
a financial position that they would be able to take
care of themselves because of all the amount of debt
that they've been saddled with intentionally. So it's like you
you've put people in an economically rough situation and disaster
happens and it's like, well, we can't take care of this.
We're depending on the government to help us out. We're

(58:52):
depending on everyday citizens to help us out. When all
of those things fail, it's like, well the corporation comes
in and saves today. Well I've got you and rinse,
you know, repeat. And instead of having Kanye West saying
George Bush doesn't care about black people, we have Kanye
West talking about how his sandals were actually inspired by
Japanese passion. Well that's where we are. What did he say?

(59:15):
He did you say? He clarified what he said on
Kimmel like when he's asked him, He's like, you said,
George Bush doesn't care about black people. Was like, what
do you think about don't you think a yeah? And
he was like he just paused. They went to commercial
and they never brought it back up. So you know
when you like stumble and then like kind of break
into a jug because and actually meant to stumble and
you were breaking into a dug. So he basically broke

(59:38):
into a jug two weeks later because he came a
second yeah, he was like, yeah, I mean what I
meant to say was two weeks later on a radio
show he basically said and what he said didn't explain anything.
He was like, I think basically he has such a
big ego that he wants black people to like him.
It's like, yeah, I don't think he cared, was his answer.

(01:00:00):
That was his answer though, That was what like, he
cares what black people think about him because he has
a big ego. He says, like the rest of Kanye
cares what black people. Wait, So if by that logic,
what the funk has Donald Trump done to try and
appeal to people of color other than bring out diamond
and silk? Yeah? Exactly, Yeah, Central Park five people not

(01:00:23):
renting apartment in this to them? Is that to be
able to black people? I don't. I really don't. Man,
for Connie's shut the funk up, bro, Just go go
figure your fucking self out and stop trying to act
like the way you wore those young ass sandals was
Japanese style, because as a black and ease person, I
know that is a lie. My man, Uh, the Zodi
style sandal you put put on that tweet, he was

(01:00:45):
like Japanese style, man, that is meant that's like that's
intentionally worn like that where you know, like there are
two ways to wear a Zodie. You could put it
all the way on which your heels still on there
or if you want to be a little more swagger,
you act like you got the heel coming off the side.
But those are also you know that they're made to
fit your foot. What he had or tiny sandals and

(01:01:07):
heals it dangling off the back. So again, because his ego,
he was probably like, somebody find me a fashion wave
that I can say I was riding. Why I was
probably he probably had the prototypes. They came too small,
but he still onto flex and then he had to
go with the young ass sandals. But I think it's
even simpler than that. So, like, Kanye is a dude.
While his mom was still alive, like you know, he
was very open about like his bipolar disorder and how

(01:01:30):
his mom kind of kept him in check because it's like,
you know, did you pray to Jesus today? Baby? Like?
And so when she died and his career like blew
the funk up. You see it with a lot of
celebrities where it's like, who's gonna tell Kanye no, he's
a he's a millionaire who like says what he wants,
does what he wants, and he's surrounded by people who

(01:01:50):
were just enabling him. He specifically this actually showed a
lot of, you know, self awareness. He blamed the whole
thing on his former manager, Doncy, not being around. He
basically said the downfall of Kanye West, referring to himself, emparsing,
So we know it's Kanye is directly related to Doncy

(01:02:11):
not being around, he said, fighting back tears. So yeah,
he doesn't. He doesn't have people there who can tell
we're looking out for him to fight the paparazzi with him. Yeah,
that's who do remember that whole ship went went down
with the paparazzi fight. That was with Doncy, his tour manager. Yeah,
you know, hopefully finding some friends. You know, if you
don't have a friend, all of your friends at one
point should say to you, yo, shut the funk up,

(01:02:32):
right if you don't hear that a lot. And that
was really telling about the TMZ tape right where that
dude just like he was straight with him. It's like, hey, man,
like here's how you're sucking up and immediately had that
light bulb but you saw it. Oh my god, right,
I'm fucking yeah, Derek, it's been a pleasure of having
you man, Thank you so much. Yeah, this has been great.

(01:02:54):
Where can people find you, follow you Twitter at my
name Derek most uh L E M O s U, Instagram, Facebook,
all the social media stuff. Um my website just launched
Derek Almos dot com. I've got some podcast projects on
the pipeline. Nice And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes? So?

(01:03:16):
Um At Instant Sunrise they did a firestorm thread of
every US president talking about how they ship. Oh yeah,
that is like a thread and I was like, whoa
George General? And I was like, yeah, that was exactly
what it was. And you know, for anybody who's not like,

(01:03:38):
I'm sure your listeners are pretty sappy, but like you
see over and over and over and over and over again,
just how ingrained big business has been with with presidential elections,
and it's like, this is exactly why you guys have
to get involved. Like I can't stress it enough, Like yeah,
our president saying ship but and we can do better,
but y'all gotta make it happen. The power does rest

(01:03:59):
with people. Just got to realize that power. Miles where
can people find you? You can find me and follow
me at Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram. There
are two tweets that are like one is from our
boy Mr Brody read he put c K talking about
Luis c K emboldened hundreds of white guys to tell

(01:04:20):
jokes about their dicks at open mics, and for that alone,
he should be banished indefinitely. And another one is from
at Cup of Chino caught on the Hot Rocks. He said,
why do so many people in here think someone watching
your Instagram story means anything more than they were bored
on the toilet. That's true because that's when I the
stories are active, when I'm got the squatty potty activity

(01:04:41):
you live in. Oh my God changed my life. Game
Chamber changed my life went from a fu forty five
minutes and shitter to because I like to watch the
Instagram stories. But yes, it's a yo. I'm I can't
say too much because they don't sponsor the show. By god, Lee,
it helps. So if I stopped watching your Instagram stories

(01:05:05):
like a month or two ago, that means you were
in the fifth the minute of his Instagram that I'm
really backed up. Yeah yeah. My tweet is from Karen
kill Gareff. Just very simple, what a time to be inside? Uh?
I like and agree with that sentiment. Uh, You can

(01:05:25):
follow me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can
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our episodes. In our foot note, we link off to
the information that we talked about in today's episode, as
well as the song we write out on. You can

(01:05:45):
also find the foot notes in the episode description Miles,
what song are we getting write off on today? Okay,
so you know Trump was really out here and trying
to get the evangelical in line warning of a fire
and brimstone. Uh, you know liberals get their way of quality.
Oh my god, that would be a funny, awful thing.
So this track is actually from Death from Above. It's

(01:06:07):
from their new album. It's called Holy Books, a little
bit of a commentary on you know, our holy books
and the ghosts we call our friends. So yeah, this
is definitely and I can send me night one of
my favorite just like power duos because it's just drums
and bass and my goodness, the way he got that
am Peck, Dan Armstrong, Clear, loose Sight, basses, banging it's

(01:06:27):
a it's a site to behold and a sound to behold. Alright,
we're gonna write out on that. We will be back
tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to
get them. Please Cloris lower when you choose to fun

(01:07:06):
cars to cart the same songs key, nor say she

(01:07:28):
was again kind of I don't know you don't say
she wants a kind of a side shooting as a

(01:07:52):
star claw call yeah the slash sounds and never stop
the say so to keep down. Hi fi believe m h.

(01:09:33):
I don't go for the home pay books, don't say
your loves it ain't try no looks. I don't know
pay books, don't say your losing trt, no loans, go
to the Holy books. Don't say she loves ain't got

(01:09:58):
no loss, I don't don't, don't, don't say it lasting.
God knows not a word

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