Pelosi Vs. Progress, Life In An Amazon Town 9.30.21

In episode 999, Jack and Miles are joined by host of the Ridiculous Romance Podcast Diana Banks to discuss the how progressives won't budge, YouTube FINALLY banning vaccine misinformation? Amazons company times, Halloween candies by state and more!

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1. Progressives Won't Budge
2. Oh wow, YouTube FINALLY banning vaccine misinformation?
3. Amazon Can Fuck Right Off With These Company Towns
4. Most popular Halloween candies by state
5. St. Panther - Problems

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
Episode four of JO Daily's Eight Days. It's a production
of I Heart Radio and it's a podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Of course,
it is Thursday, September a k a international podcast areas.

(00:22):
It's our day. Miles, we did it. This is we
did it. We did a job. Yeah. I I could
totally picture one of my parents sending me a text
message on this day just being like, look, I know
you must be super busy on International podcast Day, but
I just want to like, like, you know, we're we're celebrating.

(00:42):
We're celebrating over here. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
I said, maybe Maccome's gonna be the thing that saves me,
because after all, I've got massive bon Oh that is
courtesy of Warring the Wear Bear, and I am thrilled

(01:06):
to be joined as always buy my co host, Mr
Miles Gras. If you thought you could escape the Crypto
Come controversy and Nicki Minaj Ballgate will prepare for this
a K. Which is what would you do on this
summer around home crying on a loan on the bedroom
floor because your ball is big and the only way

(01:26):
to relieve it is to by this weird topical spread
that costs a little bit of money. But your Coobra gone,
Covid kill maccock now and then out of lockdown? What's
the price to come now? So for you this is
just a good time. But for me, this is what
I call life. Oh my god, Claudette ortiase my biggest
crush on my life from city High. Yeah, shout out

(01:48):
to Locker running for that wonderful what would you do?
Fire day? K would you do? I gotta write that
down because I've never heard that song. I don't think high.
What was ever done doing? Okay? Yeah? And the only
way to feed him what it may have for a
little bit of money because the dad he's gone, Okay,

(02:08):
I think I have heard that. Okay, good. Anyways, I
really enjoyed your randish. Thank you, thank you. I'm honored
to be a sonic equivalent of Claudette and Happy International Podcast.
We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by a producer of comedy and theater at the twin

(02:30):
Head Theater in Atlanta. She's the organizer of the annual
Atlanta Fringe Festival. She is one of the hosts of
the wildly entertaining podcast Ridiculous Romance. Please welcome Diana Beck. Hey,
I wish I had a song, but I did not
prepare one. Hey, Happy International Podcast Day to you. First

(02:51):
you can we send the official international podcast Carol. What
is it? Uh? Lock the gates? Don't don't male male kimp?
That one part of that male MP conversion and everything

(03:12):
male kimp. It doesn't even really make sense as a mispronunciation.
But no, hey, that's how they got us to remember it.
Do I use service? Hell? No? M Diana? What's good? Well,
you were in Atlanta? Yeah? Yeah? How is Atlanta these days? Beautiful?
It's like the part of the year that the weather

(03:33):
is absolutely perfect and you're like, this is why I
live here. And then probably in a couple of days
it will be really hot and buggy again, and then
it'll be cold and but not snowy. So what's what's
Alanna's best season? For sure? That's everything happens between Labor
Day and Halloween, and then everybody stays inside the rest
of you. Okay, so this is it. You're You're in

(03:56):
the thick of it right now. Oh yeah, But the
fringe festival I do is in the summertime, and it's
like so hot, Like why are you making me do this?
That's worth it? Awesome. Well, we are going to get
to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to
talk about the continuing negotiation happening in uh Washington, d C.

(04:22):
Progressives are refusing to budge. Nancy Pelosi is you know,
just very budge happy. She you know, friction free. She
just wants to let let it, let it go, let
it flow. Uh. We're gonna talk about YouTube finally heard
about have you Have you guys heard this that there's
a vaccine misinformation on YouTube? Yeah, breaking news in the

(04:47):
YouTube headquarters and they finally decided to do something about it.
We're also going to talk about another mega corporation by
the name of Amazon. They are planning already have started
in a couple of cases, some company towns, which if
you don't know the history of company towns in America, yeah,

(05:08):
hold onto your butts. We'll talk about that. We'll talk
about you know, it is that time of year again
where we get a colorful map breaking down the United
States by preferred candy Halloween candy. So we'll check in
with that. All of that plenty Moore the first Diana.

(05:28):
We like to ask our guest, what is something from
your search history? A lot of my search history is
Helen Keller stuff right now because that's our next episode
of Ridiculous Romance. But also I did look up a
lot of stuff about soaking. Have you a Twitter? I
almost did. I also had a soaking a k A

(05:50):
that I could have sang this morning, but I wasn't
sure how up on soaking everyone wit? Are you serious?
You had a soaking again? Yeah, someone wrote a soaking
a k because we it was there's something popped off
on Reddit, and then on ninety Fiance there was a
there's a cast member who's Mormon, And then I started
talking about soaking on that but go on please day

(06:12):
and enlightened, enlightened the class. Well soaking as you do say,
as a Mormon, I guess the Mormon practice. But they're
trying to figure out how to have sex, like Mormon
teens are trying to figure out how to have sex
without offending God, and so they've decided what they can
do is is put a penis in a vagina, but

(06:32):
not move because it's the friction that is the sex part,
So they just kind of slide it in and hang
out in there. Oh, it's soaking must for everybody. And
then the reason I saw it was because someone was
talking about jump pumping, which is when two teens that
are soaking will invite a friend over to jump on

(06:55):
the bed so that they can get a little friction happening.
But they are not doing it, so they're not actually sinning.
That can't be true. It was a viral. It was
like a viral TikTok. That's a threesome. And second of all,
God what you do? And once you breach the palace gates,

(07:17):
I believe God is upset at that point. How many
times the battering ram is knocking on the gate. Maybe
he's more offended. Honestly, you think I'm stupid? Do it right? Right?
This was funny because over my eyes, I was like

(07:39):
speculating on like that with that idea. You remember, like
those like vibrating massage beds you put a quarter in shaking,
like were those designed by Mormons. I was always a
little confused by that. That like, yeah, that that seems
to add a lot of if you refuse to move yourself,
then that would be useful. So yeah, maybe it is

(08:02):
the soacac change. If you do move normally in sex,
why would you want a vibrating bed, wouldn't Yeah, it
seems it seems strange. Yeah, like you know, especially if
you're just normally having your friend come over to jump
on the bed or like shake you guys around a
little bit, why would you need a vibrating bed? And

(08:22):
what does the friend do? Like do you're like, hey,
put these AirPods in right, right, and they're like under
the covers I imagine because they're Mormons, probably all the
way up to the you know, their heads. And then
the friends just jumping on the bed like it was
like a friend like a freak and he's just like
like bent over, like just over you, like jumping them
down like yeah, y'all are next? Yeah, oh my god.

(08:47):
I mean you have to imagine that a teenage friend
around the age of people who are engaging and soaking
would be the last person you could trust to be
discreet and not look like that seems like they kind
of all go together that be like, no, it's cool,

(09:09):
he's not gonna look, he's not gonna look. We're all good,
and then like, is it orgy? Like a bunch of
people in a bounce house and then while out jumping
in there one'm soaking couple in the middle and everyone else. Oh,
that's that's called rough sex. Yeah, it's like a Mormon
gang bang, I guess or something. Let us know the hacks,
you know, if the what other soak cocks are there? Yeah,

(09:32):
soaking for for days and days on the San Andreas
fault line, just waiting for for the next earthquake, for
the big one to come to patients. Yeah, you're a
soaking seismologist. Let us I mean in that case, God
is actually the one doing the movement, so you could
kind of Yeah, I thought you wanted me to have that, right,

(09:55):
If you didn't want me to have sex, then yeah.
I saw one comment about it that I was like, true,
where they're like but when when if? If it's the
friction when you put it in and then eventually I
assume take it out, Is that not one sex had
one will have one sex? Please sir? Yes, that does

(10:15):
seem why not count? Does the intern exit part not count?
I know that's that's what's funny, Like what's the I'm
really I would almost want to sit down with like
a teenager who's telling you why it's okay? Yeah? Yeah, same,
like what show me what a pump looks like that
you would say that's bad and then let me break
down for you that those movements are included in the

(10:37):
soaking that you're doing. Yes, that's that's where I think. Yeah,
you you and I should conduct an interview or something.
As your attorney, I would advise that you not do that. Yeah,
I probably won't talk to under age people about sex
acts in any way. Yeah, sure that I'll take that.
I'll take that advice this time to make sense. I

(10:57):
do wonder if any parent has ever like walked in
on a soaking act and like had the couple like
try to justify it to them. We were being perfectly
still praying with her mother, go away. I'm praying at
the moment. Please. Yes, what is something that you think

(11:18):
is overrated? Diana? So many things? Really, I would say
sheet masks, if you know what I'm talking about, like
a skin care product, the sheet masks that are in
those little patches, rip it and you pull it out
and you kind of lay it on your face and
you look like a weirdo. I hate them. I think
there's like trending weight too much. I think they're not useful.
They drip all over you. They're not fun to wear.

(11:40):
I don't understand them. Just a little bottle and do
your face and let it quick slowly tighten over time.
That's what I like to get. We've talked before on
the show about those masks. I have pitched them as
a great mask for a stalker like slasher movie because
they are truly terrifying. I've I've definitely been frightened by

(12:05):
them just walking into my bedroom and my wife turns
around and looks, yeah, like it really does work as
a like horrifying. Like if if somebody walked in with
one of those on, it would it would really reminded
I vividly reminder of like that scene in The Cable

(12:26):
Guy where they go to medieval times and Jim Carrey
puts all the chicken skin on his face and he's
like silence that or the other one, which is what's
that movie the Brendan Fraser Baseball movie with Albert Brooks
where he's the picture the phenomen or something, Yeah, and
in that one, there's like a scene yeah the rookie

(12:49):
that he actually like he puts a tortilla on his face,
and that also reminds me of it, So I don't know,
or the Scout, it's the Scout, the scalt there we go,
the old Albert Einstein curt Is. That's what they kind
of because they're just kind of hanging off. They don't
mold your face and they look weird. When one year
our theater company for parade did Depression era Halloween costumes, which,

(13:11):
if you want to go on a weird Google image
search there they're literally like burlap sacks with holes in them,
so they look so terrifying. And then like a few
months later they were all on a plane doing one
of those white face masks and did a little selfie
and I was like, you look exactly good. Have warned
that for Halloween. So I think exactly the era Halloween
terrifying costume right now, historical Halloween costumes just across the border,

(13:35):
very frightening, but yeah, Depression era in particular, Yeah, they
remind me of Um. They're sort of the skincare equivalent
of the Michael Myers mask, which is like, you know,
there's lots of like drama theory around. You know, you

(13:55):
have the the like happy mask, the sad mask, and
then like the neutral mask. And the neutral mask allows
you to like project whatever is inside you, like onto
that mask. Which is why Keanu Reeves is so successful
is because he is a human neutral mask. But the yeah,

(14:16):
it's just blankness that you can put project whatever horrors
existing your own line. But you can you can turn
it up because they print designs on him. Now for
more fun, you know what I mean. Like I've seen
some where it will be like a frog face or
like a kabuki mask some ship when I was fan,
there's like all kinds of graphic ones. I think, just

(14:37):
just to bring a little bit of fun to the
face mask game. Yeah that makes this sound worse. Yeah,
maybe I don't know, kobooky mask turned around and that
would be more more comfortable. I don't know. Yeah, I
don't think there's any way to get used to it.
I think the thing identified the most of what you
said was when it drips, like because like you know,

(14:57):
they're supposed to be hYP you know, very hydrated. But
then I remember the last time I put one on,
this was kept going down my neck and I was like,
I hated that feeling and it feels awful. Yes, And
then I don't know my A lot of my skincare
concerns are around my jawline, and then you know, they
don't mold your face. So I feel like I'm just like,
it's just hanging off and I'm just unhappy. I don't

(15:20):
feel like I'm taking care of myself at all. What
is something you think is underrated? Oh? Man, I had
a hard time with this one. Actually, I'm still on
a depression era or masks what You'll have to excuse me.
It's just that you're like Jack's like, I'm sorry, i

(15:41):
haven't been listening this entire time. I'm still looking at
these masks like ending the show. They are good though.
If you want a scary costume, just go back to
history and get one of their weird cheap things. You
will look like a horror show. Yeah. Um, I think
you know what's underrated? He's hanging out without having anything
specific to do. I feel like, like, you know, I'm

(16:03):
in my thirties, so I feel like people have a
harder time hanging out. So they're always like, well, let's
get together and do something specific dinner, a movie, a thing, whatever,
and if you don't, like I don't always have something
on my mind that I want to do, but I'm like,
there's people I want to spend time with, and I
wish it was easy to kind of be like, can
we just like sit together quietly. I don't know, have

(16:24):
anything specific going on, We're just hanging out. Yeah, that's
a great call. I really like that idea of like
hanging out without an agenda, because I when I look
at how my relationships evolved, like from my twenties or
teens into my thirties, is like, most of the time
we were hanging out with no fucking agenda ever, and
then there's this weird thing of getting older where like

(16:47):
your time seems more precious and like things have to
get done. But then some of the best times you
have were just hanging out with somebody. They come over
and you fucking do nothing. Maybe you look at a
couple of YouTube videos and laugh at some ship or whatever,
and then you're like, damn, that was that was great.
I didn't I have to think of anything, which could
just be you know, immature, or just be in our

(17:11):
in each other's company. Yeah, totally and you have to
like get a head count for dinner reservation or whatever,
you know, like just no plans. I just want to
see you. You're my plans. I'm very bad at doing that.
I really want to get it together, Diana. You are
my plan. Okay, I'll all right. I guess you'll adjust

(17:34):
my invitation. What's on your face? Don't worry, We're going
to have a great time. What are you projecting that's
on my face? What do you think is on agenda?
Free hangouts you know, or no plan hangouts? I love that. Yeah,
let's get it back. Because what was like what would

(17:55):
you do? Yeah? Jack, you know like in your like
I feel like college right is true? I mean aside
from being like we're gonna drink or something, there was
still just like what are you doing right now? Like
just chilling? They'll come through, Yeah, yeah, great? House is
dirty or something like don't worry. If you're a friend,

(18:16):
you don't, I don't care what your house looks like.
You've ever said that in my life. I like that.
I love a world where I think about that dirty.
I think that just reveals that your house is never
as dirty as mine is, because I don't know, well, look,
I'll do a panic clean. I just gave up a
long time ago, prone to a last minute clean up

(18:37):
before somebody comes over. Yeah, well this is why I
miss having parties, because having a party was such a
great excuse to like clean, like, well, have a party
just because we'll get the house together. But now we
don't have parties anymore because you know. Yeah, and then
just low key like judge your friends who don't clean
up before they leave. They're like, yeah, I gotta go there,

(18:58):
like you brought all this ship and it's a mess,
but you're just gonna all right. And then you have
like that new friends, like let me help you clean up.
You're like I never expected you to be Wow, yeah,
I love you now. The one time Miles came to
my house, he and On both were like hung around
and cleaned up after and oh yeah, well yeah that

(19:20):
was me favorite favorite person. Yeah yeah, because we're just like,
I'm sorry, man, I can't let this our mother's voices,
it's right now and there's no way I could leave
watching someone else clean me and my wife just watched
you or just yeah there's a little a little bit
over there in the corner. Yeah, but you're dust into

(19:43):
the bathroom. They're like, yeah, yeah, someone made a mess
in there. If you don't mind. This becomes a little
bit easier when you have kids, if the other people
have kids, because then you just call it a play date.
But it just means like your kids are running around
chasing each other. Well you sit back. But that is
also a pretense, right that, uh, they have to have kids,

(20:06):
which is limiting. And I said, Jack, let's have a
played it, and you're like, get a kid, Get a kid, bro,
And you're like, all right, give me fifteen minutes. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll be back to
talk news. And we're back, and things are continuing to

(20:35):
develop in Congress. The reaction to Nancy Pelosi's decision to
decouple the infrastructure bill and the three point five trillion
reconciliation bill has ramped up. People are predictably not psyched.
Yeah yeah it uh, it's like it started off just

(20:55):
being like, yeah, maybe we'll vote on him separately. That
was just again was not going to fly with the
Progressive Caucus. She tried to then sort of disingenuously suggest
that like, well, we got to do the bipartisan bill first,
like we gotta do it like way quicker because it
might jeopardize highway funding. That wasn't true, and just like
a very weird thing to say. And I think a

(21:17):
lot of progressive progressives felt that they were going to
do the same thing that's been happening for many years
with the Progressive Caucus, which is they have real concerns,
they try and exert some leverage, but they won't have
enough folks to do it. Nancy Pelosi will then be
like yeah, yeah, yeah, more on that later, wave them
out of the room, and deliver a very watered down
bill that like a lot of activists and progressives are like,

(21:39):
this fucking miss is the whole point, Like you just
did this to pat yourself on the back, Like we
actually need to change things fundamentally, and every time we
get to a point to do this, we get tossed
aside and then it's in service of a larger corporate agenda.
And this is you know, they feel that that's happening again,
and this time things are just very different. There's possibly

(22:01):
possibly up to thirty four Democrats that will tank the
bipartisan bill because you know, as we record, their scheduled
to vote on this today, and if that were to happen,
I don't see how that passes without those votes because
there's only a three vote margin that the Democrats have.
And then if you even get some Republicans who want
the bipartisans sticker on their report card for the mid terms,

(22:23):
which is what all these other centrists want, it's gonna
it's still gonna be really difficult. And I just want
to say, like again, there's a reason why they're putting
up such a big fight over this three point five
trillion dollar Build Back Better whatever, big baller brand Act.
Thing that is very important when it comes to policy,

(22:43):
rather than just saying, like very clearly the thing that
will make your life easier, it's things like paid family leave,
expanded child tax credits, universal pre k, free community college,
expanding Medicare to cover vision and dental, like actual, you know,
a legit effort to try and come back climate change.
This is why, like you know, progressive like yeah, this

(23:05):
is the version that really needs to go like that, Okay,
how are we gonna pay for that? Here's how we're
gonna pay for that. Because you want more he wants
some more change. This is what this is what it
could be, closing tax loopholes for private equity managers and
wealthy wealthy heirs, increasing the corporate tax rate, raising the
top individual tax rate, imposing it three sir tax on

(23:26):
income over five million dollars, increasing better tax enforcement with
the I R S to go after fucking people who
have just been letting money blow in the wind, and
allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. And we already saw
that last bit what corporate democrats were doing, saying like, oh, yeah,
I'm against this because well hold on, let me, let
me let the lobbyists tell me what I'm why, because

(23:47):
it will stifle private sector innovation. And you had you
had an answer for that. I I usually just say
how you pay for it? And uh, conversation ship. Yeah,
this is the whole platform. And that's why this is
so important, Like because progressives are like, you can't keep
doing this thing where you promise people a bunch of

(24:07):
ships in the in the pursuit of office and then
not deliver or deliver a fraction of it. And this
is what they're holding out for. And yeah, I I
feel for these people in the progressive caucus because it's
a fucking hard job. You are having to be very
strategic because you know, at this point you will this

(24:27):
is this is one of the few chances that we
have it a bill that actually looks like progress in
any kind of way. Yeah. Yeah, And Kirsen Cinema is
just getting absolutely rained on with corporate dollars right now,
Like there's is it so with without them, they can't
do the bipartisans We should stop calling it bipartisan the

(24:49):
republican like you know, mangled version, So like who is
saying no to like other than Republicans, who is saying
no to the actual like build back better. Well, the
whole thing is because they have to pass it through
reconciliation in the Senate, and which means Cinema and Mansion

(25:12):
need to get on board. But they keep doing stuff
like to your point, with Kirsten Cinema, She's just do
a huge fundraiser with like some of the biggest business
lobbying groups paying for it. It was like almost six
grand a seat type fundraising dinner and and at the
place at the place she's like, I'm against raising taxes
and a lot of this stuff that you asked the

(25:33):
how will they pay for it part she was against
a lot of that stuff in this room full of
wealthy you know, the in the wealthy business class, and
she's not really clear on what she wants to do.
Joe Mansion again, who's like the boy made of coal?
There's no way to understand what his math is as
because I mean he's he is a fossil fuel like byproduct,

(25:54):
so how could he get on board with climate change stuff?
But there's a lot of this stuff in this that
is pulled is really strongly in West. I was just
going to say this is also popular, like closing tax
loopholes for private equity managers like who is Like I'm
sure they're going to have to change the focus here,
but like these are great answers to the question of

(26:15):
how are you gonna pay for it? Is we're gonna
tax rich people, and not in a way that like
we're we're going to make them pay taxes and like
close loopholes, like we're gonna make them played by the
same rules as you. Yeah, you know how you look
at your paycheck and go fuck man, if those taxes
weren't in there, I'm be loving this ship. Well guess

(26:37):
who Guess who does out of time billionaires, they don't
do it, and they look at their checks like yeah,
and it's It's a really interesting dynamic because I think
mansion and cinema are finding themselves at a point where
these policies are wildly popular, but they are way too
entrenched in the corporate wing of the Democratic Party to

(27:00):
begin to turn on their their their masters. You know
that they are unable to because the things that we're saying,
We're like, yeah, this is great for everybody except the
people with the most money who spend the most money
trying to influence Congress. And that's why we're seeing people like,
what does this makes sense? Like this is wildly popular. Ye,
you're saying no, yeah, O frustrate. Let's move over to

(27:22):
the world of tech. Because I'm tired of being frustrated.
I'm ready for some strong, timely, swift maneuvers. And therefore
I want to talk YouTube because they you know, right
on Q about yeah, right on que and on. Three

(27:42):
years later, YouTube announced a ban on vaccine misinformation and
the termination of the accounts of several you know, prominent
anti vaccine influencers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who seems
to be the one that like the causes his name,
like pull people who are on the edge or like

(28:04):
on the border between anti bax or and you know,
just have questions over to the ANTIAX side. But yeah,
the new policy was crafted as the company began to
see false claims about COVID nineteen vaccines spill over into
misinformation about vaccines in general. According to a company blog post, yeah,

(28:25):
I mean this feels again years too late. Years and
I think the increased scrutiny around vaccine and COVID misinformation
in the last you know, nineteen twenty months finally got
them to act. There the company, they say, quote, we're
now at a point where it's more important than ever
to expand the work we started with COVID nineteen to

(28:48):
other vaccines. And you're like, yeah, this is this is
so late. This is always say and they've always had
a quote unquote policy against COVID misinformation, but it didn't
seem very effective because half the time I felt like
people were like reposting terrible YouTube links with some nonsense
in it. And there's their thesis here seems to be

(29:08):
that because COVID misinformation is spilling over to misinformation about
other vaccines. That's the breaking point, Like even though we're
in the middle of a fucking like global pandemic that's
killing you know, millions of people like I. I and
the anti vaccine movement started years ago, and that's they
already had a very strong platform to start with with COVID.

(29:32):
So it's like it's filling over to other vaccines at
this are existing things spilled over to a pandemic and
it got bigger because everyone has to care, right, they're
just misdiagnosing it completely. They're like, no, no, no, that
already has been happened. Now you're worried about the thing.
I mean, now that Nazism is on the rise, we're

(29:53):
thinking about like we're just figuring that out now. It
seems like completely out of order. And you know, they
had this like you know, specific policy, but now they
want to just make sure that it's like all kinds
of content, that stuff saying that falsely claims approved vaccines
are dangerous or ineffective or even like medical treatments that
aren't properly that have not been approved to you know,

(30:15):
take that kind of shift off and you know, and
also the stuff that vaccines can cause autism or cancer,
And sadly, the anti vaxxers may have already gotten what
they want because they are very good at shape shifting
on the Internet to like dodge moderation and use different
hashtags or language to like escape the very intelligent algorithms.

(30:39):
And you know, the whole their whole point was they
wanted to weaponize the COVID vaccine fear to get more
people to question all vaccines. You know. And there's this researcher,
Renee Arresta who it leads their research on anti vacs
disinformation at the Stanford Internet Observatories. She said, quote anti
vaccine active this have been very vocal about the fact

(31:01):
that they saw COVID as an opportunity to undermine confidence
in the childhood vaccine schedule. Seeing YouTube take this action
is reflective of the fact that it seems to be
aware that that tactic and dynamic was beginning to really
take shape. Now we're on a precipice, basically saying that
like the approval for COVID vaccines for like young kids
like coming in the next few weeks would just open

(31:24):
the floodgates to even more wild ship to to get
parents like very fearful and says, quote, it is going
to be an absolute nightmare. The plan from day one
has always been to use those stories to undermine confidence
in vaccines more generally. I mean that, Okay, that makes
sense that they're doing this now, because there there was

(31:44):
other articles like super producer DJ Dramas put an article
that was talking It was a bunch of healthcare experts
talking about the concern that this was going that they
were seeing vaccination levels drop in like across the board,
and just not just COVID stuff things, but they were

(32:04):
seeing like children's vaccinations drop off. And in the article
they were claiming that it was just based on people
being less likely to want to go to the hospital
because of the pandemic. But this makes more sense because
I mean, those diseases are a lot of times way
more dangerous to children, and so they're endangering children in

(32:29):
a in a very real way right with unbeknownst to them.
It's like the real all that false sense of safety
was because people were vaccinated, and then that these are
actual diseases that affect children very acutely that you know
a lot of people are very worried about, like these
smaller outbreaks happening of like fully preventable diseases that we've

(32:52):
been trying to eradicate through vaccination. Yeah. Cool, that's good
that that's their stated strategy. Yeah, and I mean it's yeah,
it's yeah, they're their community building. You know, we are
headed for just an absolute ship storm once uh, you
know the f d A approves vaccines for five to

(33:14):
twelve year olds, because you know, that's that's still like
I know a lot of parents who are like, you know,
got the vaccine themselves, but are on on some wait
and see ship about children's vaccines or this vaccine in
particular for children. And you know, I think parents are

(33:35):
more likely to be extremely cautious and virgin on paranoid
when it comes to the health of their children. But yeah,
I think it's going to be a real ship show.
So it's good that they're doing something at least. I
think that's why it's particularly insidious to have this be
your your mechanism to create more vaccine hesitancy. Is like,

(33:56):
you know already that parents would do anything to keep
their kids safe, fucking anything, most healthy parents, and to
then capitalize on that fear and distort reality to the
point where they're even questioning what their pediatrician would suggest
for the livelihood of their child is like it's it's
fucking terrible and you and for all the people who

(34:17):
would wait and see. Man, there's so many fucking articles
about these wait and see people who are being like,
don't wait and see, Like we waited and found out
and it wasn't it wasn't the right move at all.
And we're like, like, you know, people are talking about
like we got the vaccination like this second my dad
flatlined like in the in the I see you like

(34:38):
because we knew, like we were stupid, right, and yeah,
even with and it's wild though too. How you know,
there are there are there are children unfortunately who are
succumbing to the virus and even like young like teenagers
and things like that. But I'm not sure how much
of that is like being reported because it seems like
you get more of these like morbid like deathbeds worries

(35:00):
from like ant like like really out in the open
anti vax people who are now regretting it versus like
really showing like the actual pain that is caused by
family when they lose like a younger loved one. Yeah,
I think people generally like don't want to see children
hurt like on the news. So but I mean it's

(35:21):
when that is the subject that is being determined, like
you need to take a fucking look, you know, and yeah,
the wait and see thing is, Yeah, that's the that's
the thing I've heard a lot of parents like ask
doctors about, and you know, they're there's very good like
look into it, not from not on Facebook, but look

(35:43):
at like actual scientific research on it. Yes, they were
able to get this approved faster than any vaccine before,
but it was because so many people are working on
it because of fucking global pandemic and they were really
good at their jobs, and and the technology date dates
back for like over a decade I think actually m

(36:04):
RNA technology or whatever. So it's like, I know, it's
a fast vaccine, but it was really they had something
existing that they just had to spend the year customizing
for this virus instead of like we started from scratch
and it only took us a year. That's not what happens.
It's and it's wild to like even you know, I

(36:24):
have family who's vaxed heavy and when I talked to
them as I work on them to come around to
what's happening. It's interesting how much they are taking just
a headline and not really interested in anything else. Like
my one relative was like, well, aren't you worried about
like really like this thing that we tell the time, like, well,

(36:45):
what about your genet like your d n A. Aren't
you worried that? It's like it's like a it's like
a genetic thing that it is not going to change
or I'm like, that's not it's not altering your d
n A. It's in fact, it's it's a messenger RNA.
It's time on your immune system created very specific and
just explaining things like that, they're like oh, and I'm

(37:06):
like so yeah, like that's I'm a little worried that
you thought that's what was happening, because just because the
word r n A was in and I'm like, do
you even I mean, I didn't want to be like
do you know what ury is? But uh, just to
say right right right, but just to slightly just here.
I really before I would take a very heavy hand
and just be like I'm talking about and the more

(37:27):
I'm just like, no, you know what, I just need
to take this as if someone is telling me to
have like a bad opinion on music. So what do
you believe is the best album of all time? Oh? Okay,
well let me tell you about that really quick, and
what's going on here? And that seemed to actually give
them a little bit more like give them a reason
to actually read something. Yeah, they were like, oh I

(37:49):
thought it was this. I'm like, no, not at all,
and like I can, I'll send you some stuff to
look at very you know, like USA Today type stuff,
no agenda, just to read it. And that seemed to
help thaw things a little bit or at least begin
a process where it's more open to discussing what their
own misgivings or ideas that they had around it, or

(38:09):
how that could change. That sounds nice. I guess that's
been the most frustrating to me is that people keep saying, well,
I'm gonna have to do my research, and I'm like
waiting for you to do the research, because if you did,
you would find a lot of good information that that
it's fine, you know what I mean. And as if
people that got the vaccine didn't also look some ship
up before they got their shots, I mean, I don't know.

(38:31):
I'd be like, would you prefer that the person who
created the vaccine checked like learned everything from YouTube. Would
that make you feel comfortable? Yeah? There, I just think
it's funny that you thank you. I'll say today doesn't
have a genda. You know, they're owned by somebody miles
all the money or a money. Look at the colorful

(38:53):
patchart big and you will ye, Big Big Inc. Big
Color Inc. The full color isn't always full. I think
that's front or something. All right, let's take a quick
break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and

(39:21):
I wanted to talk about Amazon Amazon company towns. Baby,
just try not to open up your zillo, your red
fins immediately and start looking for real estate inside an
Amazon company town while we do this story. I know
it's going to be tempting. But Bloomberg heralded how the

(39:44):
promise of Amazon factory towns in a recent article will
lift the working class, offering a solution to inequality, presumably
because it was written by a stack of Amazon smiles
in a trench coat. There communities that are basically already
sprouting up around Amazon fulfillment centers, and Amazon is like,

(40:07):
we will make them more livable for the working class.
These types of towns are what the future of the
working classes? Like those are actually direct quotes from that
Bloomberg article. All right, that's frightening to hear an Amazon
taking it. This is the future of the working class. Okay,
time to get organized. This is class. Yeah, exactly to

(40:31):
pretend that this is a fresh new idea is like
next level corporate gas lighting. But so first of all,
we can take a look at this already because Amazon
is basically already unofficially doing this and the results are
pretty unnerving. So in California's Inland Empire that you know
that that's an area that is full of Amazon fulfillment

(40:52):
centers and the company has been reshaping the surrounding community.
For example, at a high school and say and Bernardino,
students can take classes in the quote Amazon Logistics and
Business Business Management Pathways career track that's not like a
single extracurricular activity. That is a like learning philosophy that

(41:18):
like follows you. Teenage students on this career track get
to wear golf shirts with the Amazon logo or are
forced to, which also appears on a banner in the classroom.
Lessons involve learning Amazon's fourteen leadership principles and taking field
trips to Amazon warehouses, which is basically the box factory

(41:40):
field trip from the Sibisons. But an Amazon spokesperson proudly
bragged that the goal here is to make sure that
these kids just go to work for Amazon and never leave.
This sounds really like an r OTC program, Like they're
full everywhere uniform. Yeah, there's and I I feel like

(42:04):
my mind immediately went to cult. But to call it
cult like is a little unfair to cults because cults
typically aren't able to buy their way into high school curriculums. Yeah. So,
in this quote about the San Bernardino program from a
New York Times article, the students instead of being educated
here and trying to find this is a quote from

(42:24):
that spokesperson. The students, instead of being educated here and
trying to find a job in the l A market
or somewhere else, they can be educated here and remain here,
And then they're unsurprisingly paying way less in taxes than
the city was hoping for when they opened up all
these factories and fulfillment centers there, which is a problem

(42:47):
because there's a lot of wear and tear on roads
with so many Amazon vehicles leaving from here, and with
so many people at the Amazon site being treated like ship,
it generates a lot of calls to police and emergency
services for worker injuries and just you know, fender benders
and things that happened when there's a bunch of people
together there. There's a Business Insider article that's basically parenting

(43:11):
the Bloomberg piece, but added that the historical precedent of
factory towns suggests that Amazon's twenty one century parallel will
quote improve work for millions of Americans, which is so
confusing because unaware of the history of factory towns, Like,

(43:31):
I think they're just counting on people being unaware of
the like their readers being unaware of that they're right.
I mean, most people have no historical context or anything.
And I guess that is pretty specific to know, like
labor history or factory towns, but in general, you don't
be like, hey, why don't you want to live in
a place where your boss controlled fucking everything? Horrible? And also,

(43:54):
wasn't the South Park episodes specifically, like every all of
this wasn't this? Yeah, it really feels very like black Mirror.
I know I said that a lot, but that's just
because the world is turning into various episodes of black Mirror.
I think it feels Orwellian nice or cock gask maybe,

(44:16):
So just to give our listeners in case you're not
familiar with factory towns specifically, factory towns built two house
and contain the working class part of a company. Because
I feel like the closest thing we've had that was
like highly publicized in recent years was Disney's factory town,

(44:37):
which was called Celebration, and it was more like a
suburb like UH subdivision that was just designed by Disney
for like their high level employees for the most part.
Whereas this has more in common with these factory towns
that sprung up following the Industrial Revolution, which basically just

(44:59):
further exerted companies grips over the population often amounted to
glorified prison camps. And those are quotes from Smithsonian dot
Meg that hyper left wing UH communist manifesto. So well,
let's talk about Pullman, Illinois is a company town built
by sleeping car like railroad car magnate George Pullman in

(45:24):
eighty he was like the Elon Musk of his time,
and that like the thing he built was kind of
seen as cool. Like when railroads were becoming a thing,
he had these cars that you could sleep in that
were like super luxurious and like associated with like cool ship.
Like people like aspired, Yeah, they were sheic and people

(45:46):
aspired to like ride in them. So and he was,
you know, this sort of celebrity tycoon. And so he
built this community to prevent labor unrest, and people could
only rent their homes, no one was allowed to buy them,
meaning workers could be evicted on short notice and were
subjected to random inspections, pullman band bars in town meetings

(46:09):
because that would be too much communication between the workers.
And his influence even extended to adding which books were
in the library and which shows the local theater performed.
Then you know, he was known like publicly for paying
people okay at first, like maybe even better than other

(46:29):
manufacturers of rail cars. But then once he got people
in this like captive state, he lowered their wages, but
he didn't lower their rent, which led to Yeah, so
this led to a strike, which ended when the U. S.
Cavalry was sent in and several dozen citizens were shot dead.

(46:51):
So this formerly beloved tycoon, when he died, they had
to bury his coffin under layers of concrete so no
one would desecrate his body because of the ship he
tried with his factory town. There are other famous company
town massacres in which striking workers were evicted from their
homes and murdered by cops and militias. Uh. There's one

(47:12):
in Ludlow, Colorado, and Color, Wisconsin where it was toilets.
I know. So Color Color was plumbing fixture factory that
opened in nine They immediately started making like just buckets
and buckets of money, so they started building houses for
couples and dorms for single men who worked their finance schools,

(47:34):
had pension plan paid well. And then when the depression hit,
the employees tried to strike because they lowered their wages,
and Color responded by arming deputies like their own private
police force with machine guns. Uh. And then there was
predictably a clash and forty strikers were shot too, were killed.

(47:56):
And but don't I mean, but here's the thing, and
I don't want anyone to think that that's gonna happen
in an Amazon town. Obviously, will just be monitoring your
every step with our technologically advanced dormitories that will know
if you're lying, if you're calling in sick, and then
we'll deduct your pay that way, and we'll know if
you're talking bad about us. But it'll be great. It's

(48:17):
gonna elevate the working. You're gonna love it because it's
gonna be a bit easy place. It'll be really affordable.
Just don't just forget about the other like rights that
you might have. Do you think their houses have bathrooms
or do they just come with a bunch of water bottles.
I mean that is the thing to like keep in mind.
Like Facebook and Google are also trying this, but there
I think mostly focusing on like the people who work

(48:40):
on there like already like extravagantly, you know, really nice campuses,
and you know, it's more for the people who are
already extremely well compensated. They're trying to build like little
luxury communities like Disney did, which, by the way, the
Disney thing didn't like end well by any means. Disney
ended up selling it after they were like a bunch
of murders in Celebration Florida. There's somebody should make a

(49:05):
movie about Celebration Florida. For sure. What murders are right
for instance, a grizzly X one grizzly X murder of
that variety. But just as you mentioned though, I mean,
the Amazon thing is so concerning because this is a
company that is already exerting so much control over their

(49:29):
you know, lower income employees lives that they have to
piss and water bottles. They're being constantly monitored like reality
show contestants. They're so stressed that they had to build
these things called Amazen booths, which are basically upbraak coffins
where you can cry in peace for five minutes. They
they have little videos that you watch while you're in there.

(49:52):
I do love that it's five minutes, like the that's
let's go, Let's go, Let's go. They feature easy to
follow well being activities in the little cry conference, including
guided meditations, positive affirmations, calming scenes with sounds like I
just imagine like going from you are brutal, like just

(50:16):
nervous breakdown causing job at Amazon too, then going into
like a weird like like suspension like that the booths
that the astronauts from Aliens are existing when they're in
suspended animation and being like having yeah, having a computer
be like you're great, You're doing wonderful. You are happy,

(50:39):
you are complete, you are respected, You are not a
political prisoner. Yeah, this is not a labor camp you
like Jeff Bezos. Do you think Amazon eventually is going
to try to rebrand is like amazing or something like that,
because like the Amazon name, because I just feel like
this that feel like they're gonna have rebrand at some point,

(51:02):
because the tide is like people are slowly like they're
like I don't know, it's this fucking thing that I
use to sometimes get shipped quickly or watch a TV
show on, but there's this untold human suffering behind it,
and they're on their way to like like you're saying,
indoctrinating kids from high school to be like don't question,
like we love you like your family where your father

(51:23):
worked here, your father's father worked here, your father's father's
father worked here, and why would you you know, why
would you eliminate that bond? And like you're saying, Diana
about like r OTC, like I could I could see
in some fucked up, bizarre future where people are like no, man,
like we're an Amazon family, like we're a military family. Yeah,

(51:44):
I totally would see that they're like, look, I'm gonna
hand down to you my Gulf shirt with the Amazon though, right,
because it happens like you know, grandfather's dry fit polo
shirt and this can be ears now, right, And I
don't know, I mean like it's the same thing like
when you go to places like in when in Michigan

(52:05):
when cars were being manufactured, they are much more regularly
in an intense fashion. There were people like generational employees
of like Chevy or you know, Cadillac or something like that.
And that made sense because in that place you lived,
this was a place that offered your family stability or
upward mobility than obviously things changed, the nature of corporate

(52:27):
profits changed. But I think, you know, I can see
this but in just a much darker version, because it's
not just more like oh, Amazon provided us like an
opportunity to do more. It's like Amazon is the only
fucking thing I could do, and to not do it
meant like on nearly certain death. Yeah. Speaking of Amazon
and company towns and car manufacturing, there's the story of

(52:48):
ford Landia that people can google themselves, which is when
Henry Ford built a town in the Amazon rainforest in
Brazil and there was a revolt and the people who
worked there cut the cut the telegraph lines. It was like,
all right, we're not stuck in here with you, You're
stuck in here with us. We're those man we need

(53:15):
we need like horror ship like that, you know what
I mean. We're like billionaires like they think they're getting
one over and then like the working class people turned
into a massacre? Is that like the purge? Kind of?
Well the purge, I feel like you can project too
much shit onto it, like from whatever you're like, like
I think like Ford Landia, Like if you just a
few tweaks and you're like, oh my god, Like, don't

(53:38):
be the greedy capitalist who tries to exploit a bunch
of people, because the lesson there is like they're gonna
cut the bottoms of your feet off. Yeah that sounds painful.
All right, let's check in with Halloween candy trends off
of that. Yeah, like shift of gears do on this show.

(53:58):
From Capitalist Dystopia, take can be Land. Yeah, we're easy
company town. I might live there. Yeah, I know, go
work for Nestle, little Boy, because they're the one companies
like we have water for our employees. That's true. They will,
they will have all the waters. But Zipia is like
this job site who does like you know, they pretty

(54:19):
regularly put together like these maps based on their research
of like certain trends, and they do in every year
with Halloween candies. Sometimes we follow it. I think most
of the time we do just because it's interesting to
see the way they get to this. Their methodology is
that they sort of put together a list of like
fifty top candies, like like whether they're really popular or
really well known because people fucking hate them, and then

(54:41):
from there compare what the like Google search traffic is
based on the state, So if one is trending highest
of all those fifty, they're like, okay, so that seems
to be the one that's very popular in this state
given But it's like comparative, right, Like it could be
that Snickers is the number one search in all of
these towns, but it's just not comparatively more popular in

(55:04):
one town than the other. I feel like is theistic
if that's why it's not exact. So it's just like
here's a feeling of what's happening. And I think the
top line sort of thing is they're saying that more
than States prefer chocolate candies twenty two preferred gummies or
The thing that I'm really worried about is in Colorado

(55:25):
they love black liquorice, and Oklahoma they love circus peanuts
black liquorice. I'm sorry, I can't. I can't. I can't
that innus flavor that I just do not. I don't
like it. I don't like it. I like caraway seas.
You know, I fun with rye bread here and there,
but don't make me black liquorice. Please. I think you

(55:47):
mispronounced anus, Yes, Jack, that anus flavor is. I just
can't get around um. They I didn't realize they border
one another. So maybe that's what's what's going on. There's
just a what is the circuit? I always see it
looks like packing peanuts and that are like blue and pink,
and I'm like, that's not I remember just being a kid.

(56:09):
That's not candy. That's that's with it. When I was
a kid, it was are they marshmallow or they like
nougat or something? Yeah, they're marshmallow there basically very cheaply
produced orange marshmallows that by being the color orange and
being named peanuts, I feel like that is the only
thing that is giving them any flavor other than sugar.

(56:32):
But it is like, because you're going in with the
expectation of a peanut e orange e flavor, they skate
on that on just being basically sugar packing material. I'm
looking at the other ones. California's most popular as jolly
ranch or hard candy. Okay, I mean that actually, I

(56:53):
feel like that reminds me of all the candy Like
I would get a lot of those growing up, and
I hated them because the green out on one's tastes
like fucking gasoline. Miles, you could have given me all
your green apples. That's my favorite. Oh it is? Well,
I look, I'll go to my mom's house. I think
her garage. I still got him from two, so I'll
find him your way your favorite flavor of everything. Or

(57:14):
you're just I don't know, why do what about watermelon?
I don't know who's as good as halle Wow another one.
I'm like straight gasoline. It's so artificial to me. I'm
also just I think in general, as a kid, I
only thought chocolate was the thing worth having, right Like,

(57:36):
I just didn't. I was like whatever, skill like Skittles
are cool. They're sugar, but like, give me that chocolate.
That's what that's what I'm working here for. Shout out,
shout out to Illinois. They love air heads over there.
That's such an interesting one that brought me back. Air
Heads is like a spet. Like every now and then
you'd be in a gas station and be like, let
me spends on one air head and just and it's

(57:57):
like a perfect thing where you're like, takes it back
to childhood, and that's it. I don't need anymore. Like
your whole mouth starts hurting. Yeah, I mean this this
is a biased chart, by the way, because they're counting
tutsie pop as a chocolate, which seems kind of questionable

(58:19):
to me. Yeah, fruit and then it becomes chocolate. Yeah, yeah,
that's different. And even rolls are real chocolate, right, they're
like chewy, chocolate flavored whatever. Not nigid. But okay, that's
another one that I would be. You know, when they

(58:41):
would have the giant tutsie roll, like the one that's
almost candy bar sized. For whatever reason, I was like, Oh,
this one's gonna taste like chocolate and it's a big
taffy turd yeah, rolls have like zero chocolate content. I
think they're just brown. Going by the logic of this chart,
where it's like, I'm more into this candy than it

(59:05):
seems like other people are. Where where would you fall
on that? What's your like kind of secret guilty guilty
pledge as nobody says ever, I mean the peanut butter
chocolate combo I think for me is is all will
always be Halloween For some reason, I didn't know they
made peanut butter chocolate combos. No nothing, That's actually a

(59:32):
fucking brilliant idea because pretzels with peanut Come on, Yeah,
go fucking market that ship. Go make that ship right
now in your girl, bring back to the class um. Yeah,
I'm I'm definitely a Reese's Peanut Butter Reese's Pieces because
also et Reese's pieces. Reese's Pieces. Isn't it like Reese's
peanut butter cups is like every I think that's like
probably the most favorite candy in the world, I would

(59:58):
assume in America at the very least, but Reese's Pieces,
A lot of people do not funk with Reese's pieces. Yeah,
have you had peanut butter Eminem's those are good too.
I think they're superior because they're bigger, they have more
pimp better than I should do a taste test, because
when I go to the movies, I will house a

(01:00:19):
bag of Reese's pieces and go and just like go
and have like so much sugar. I just going to
diabetic job, be vibrating above your chair. So yeah, that
and like these other Twizzlies, new Twizzlers that I got
the last time I was there. This was like maybe
fifteen years ago when whenever, the last time I was
in a movie theater. But there are some new Twizzler
joints that were so good I couldn't believe it. And

(01:00:42):
they were just like special about them. They were like
like salack and tasted like anus and they were like
a poland peel kind of like other can I don't know,
I gotta I gotta look again. If there's so many,
I'm so behind with my candies. I have seen that
polland peel. Yeah, what about you, Diana? What's your where

(01:01:02):
do you land on here? What's your home state? Me
is Georgia, So skittles, But yeah, but for you, I mean,
if you had to pick, if let's say you had
to pick a state because that was your candy. Yeah,
you see your is your favorite candy on here? Or
you are? Are you sort of an outlier now because
peanut butter eminem's are my favorite. During the pandemic, I

(01:01:24):
actually had to stop eating them because I would get
like party sized bags like a party and I would
eat them all by myself in like two days. It
was way too much sugar. It was horrible. Okay, so
you you'd be up in Indiana that looks like where
peanut eminem's are peanut M and m's not peanut butter
eminem That was like what, I fall more into the

(01:01:45):
Reese's cups because of the peanut butter or would I
go peanut M and M's because of the eminem itself?
Like which more important the delivery system or the flavor.
I developed a real uh peanut Eminem's problem during the
pan It was bad. Did yeah? Oh yeah? The party
size that that really rang true with me. I was,

(01:02:07):
what's the party size bag? Looked like it's like a backpack.
I mean it's the Donner party yo wagons, the Costco
size that they sell a Target for some reason, right right,
It's just like a bucket basically the lit kind of

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I don't think it is five pounds, right, I mean
it's a lot though, Jack, I don't know if you remember,
but oh yeah, yeah, I think it's at least a
pound of It's not something you should be eating as
a single singular zips up zips. You gotta keep it
because that's their assumption is you're eating this over the

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course of a year, and thus you you we need
to put a zip on it to keep it fresh.
And uh, you know, my my logic time maybe too,
when I was in college and I would just get
so stoned and just I would do something like eat
a whole bag of like party size eminem. My fucking

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stupid logic at that time was, well, there's no way,
like they would just put this much unhealthy ship, like
it can't be bad if I just eat this whole
thing right now like that. Otherwise it was there trouble
because people will be dying going down eating all these things.
And for whatever reason, that was my narrow logic to
be like, and that's why it's okay that I had
this whole bag, this entire handle of vodka can be

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bad for me because it's illegal, right, They get in
trouble for selling it this much of it, Like that's
what I say, kept saying they'd get in trouble. It
was bad, that's beautiful, whatever rationalization I could use to
just desecrate my own body. Oh yeah, I mean, yeah,
that's what I was doing. I was like, well, it's
a pandemic, it's tough times, you know, comfort yourself however

(01:04:03):
you can. Meanwhile, my stomach is like, um, we've had
so much yellow number five or whatever. Die in here,
Like you're giving me literally a tumor right now. You
stop someone's yellow number five. You're digestive tracks? Do Louis
Bega yellow number five? Number five? Yeah? I'm my two

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thoughts here are one. I don't see blow pops anywhere.
I do love to just house a blow just crunch
into that ship and just you know, treat it like
a stick of gum. And then also, yeah, just what
what you were saying? Well, the Reese's Pieces. My relationship
with Reese's Pieces is so based on movies. It's like, man,

(01:04:48):
they really fucking nailed that product placement and then the
fact that they're in every movie theater and I still
remember like eating a big gas bag of them while
seeing Honey Shrun the kids, when I was like, really,
isn't that so weird? Because my whole thing is I
could see ET s a little funked up hand touching
the little Reese's pieces. It's weird. When I put my

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hand in the bag of Reese's pieces, I have this
weird like sense memory that I do a p o
V of my hand and it's Et touching the Reese's pieces.
Thank you, Steven Spielberg, Thank you. Wow. It makes senseful
that they're popular Halloween candy because they're already orange wrapped pieces,
already fall colors. I mean, it's like, if you're into decore,

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they do it all for you, right, and plus Et
there's Halloween elements to that. It's just like, was Et
just a big marketing vehicle for Reesus? Like they conceived it,
it was like a psi opes movie around Reese's pieces,
go right. I believe it started as the original script

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headed as Eminem's and they went to Mars and I heard,
you get the funk out of here, kid, So they
had to with Reese's pieces. And that's why we have
Reca's pieces today because but yeah, that became the thing
where like by accident, people saw the power of the
Reese's pieces product placement and that launched you know, a

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thousand Dodge Chargers into action movies. Right. Oh wow. I
didn't realize that the whole deal was that ambling made
with her. She was like, we're not gonna pay for
anything to put in this movie. And then you got
to do a million dollars worth of advertising. Oh really
yeah to promote ET Wow, and you can use and

(01:06:40):
you can use e T in the ads. Well, I
mean that's that makes deal. Yeah that that Yeah, that's
a good deal. I feel like we've been trying to
get Et too guests on this podcast for a long time.
I know, keeps blowing us off dead. We got Elliot coming.
Oh man that it was so cute now that like

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fifty year old man. Yeah, it's I never I just
rewatched ET at Tarantino's movie Theater with my kid, and
I hadn't seen it since I was a lot younger
and as a as a parent. It just hit me
back then, I was like, who's this dork? Fuck him?
But yeah, now, really really great child performances in that movie.

(01:07:27):
Yeah he's fifty. Yeah, yeah, time flies huh. I don't
know why. I'm like, oh good, he's still he's thirteen,
just a couple of years older. Elliott from the e
T is the thirteen. Now people are like, whoa, he
looks so different. Diana has been such a pleasure having

(01:07:53):
you on the podject. Thanks for having me. Where can
people find you and follow you? I'm on Twitter and
Instagram him at dianamite boom and please listen to Ridiculous Romance,
the podcast co host with my husband. Yeah. Yeah. And
is there a tweet or some of the work of
social media you've been enjoying? It was hard to it

(01:08:13):
was hard to pick its. Twitter's on fire. But I
think since we talked about vaccines a lot today, I'm
going to have to say Mohannad Elashiki tweeted, please stop
saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took
my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep
working fuck at all. Where can people find you with

(01:08:40):
a tweet you've been enjoying? Well, first, you can find
me on the latest episode of Hood Politics, and he
had me on to talk about lobbying, so I got
to talk about all kinds of things from my time
as a lobbyist in my perspective, and just trying to
make it break it down easier for people to understand
how what the nature of lobbying is, what it's really

(01:09:03):
there to do, and why it's a fucking evil thing
for the most smart. Obviously there's good lobbying too, but
let's be real, most of the kind we're hearing about
now isn't great. So check out hood Politics to see
that or to rather to hear that. You can find
me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and
also the other show, the FCE podcast for Fiance with

(01:09:24):
Sophie Alexandra. Check us out at twitch dot tv slash
for twenty Day Fiance. A tweet that I like, I
think I have to Actually they're they're they're just very
very wonderful tweets. The first one is from Tommy mcnam
at Tommy mcnam tweeted, uh, starting my eulogy with my
grandpa understood the assignment, Like, yeah, it's a great one.

(01:09:49):
And then this is just a very very juvenile, childish
tweet that I like. At Human Underscore not Underscore Bees
tweeted we all dream of the Great British trip and
this person mapped out all these sort of points in
the UK, like for this road trip, and it's all
stuff like shitter, tin ass hill, Aali penistone, cocker Mouth,

(01:10:12):
dick Place, cock bridge and twat. So there's all of these.
Uh yes, I just laughed at that, and best believe
I checked because I'm like, I don't want to get duped.
And oh, I thought you're gonna say, and they are
in fact a human and not bees, because I'm still
suspicious about that one. They are actually bees. They're definitely

(01:10:33):
be a couple tweets I enjoyed. Rebecca Wiser tweeted crazy
that you can have a job where you're responsible for
saving a human life, or you can have a job
where you need to send an email but don't. And
that hit hard for me because my wife she comes
home from a long day in the COVID tents and

(01:10:55):
I'm like, oh, I'm so tired. I've been thinking about
sending to email all day. Uh. And then Andrew, he's
thinking about these emails. Oh my god, we've been married
long enough. But just the idea that she would give

(01:11:16):
me a foot rub is the funniest thing I can
possibly Andrew Nado tweeted a horror movie, but the killer
wears flip flops, so there's an ominous twip fwip sound
as he hunts you down, like I always one. That's
so funny. Maybe maybe we could pair it with the

(01:11:37):
sheet mask and sheep mask and they're wearing those flip
flops that they give you the nail salon when you
get a pedicure. Ye. Yes, I'm ready for self care
self care slasher. Yes, terrorizing the spas. You find me

(01:11:57):
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that we talked about today is episode as well as
a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what

(01:12:18):
song are we telling people to go check out? We're
gonna ride out on this Thursday to problems by St Panther.
St Panther, I believe it's from Earth Buying, California. Shout
out SoCal uh and it's just like a multi instrumentalist
singer songwriter. So I'm you know, I love people who
are literate in all of the musical arts and making music.

(01:12:41):
And this track is like a funky sort of new
new age R and B track. It sounds like if
Erica Badu was like a millennial or gen Z kind
of saying like her sort of deliveries is sort of
in that way. So it's familiar yet now. So this
is Problems by St Panther Awesome. The Daily Zyka is
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