Scary Rise in Anti-Asian Racism, Diet Coke Addiction 2.10.21

In episode 809, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Lydia Popovich to discuss Trump's impeachment trial, the anti-Asian racism, Dems trying to lower the stimulus check threshold, Diet Coke addiction, the Dog Shampoo Guy, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Trump's lawyers say he was immediately 'horrified' by the Capitol attack. Here's what his allies and aides said really happened that day.
2. Democrats say they have 'devastating' NEW evidence against Trump for his impeachment trial just before it begins - as ex-President 'forgoes golf to watch every minute on TV at Mar-a-Lago'
3. Rise in attacks on elderly Asian Americans in Bay Area prompts new special response unit
4. 'You have Chinese virus!': 1 in 4 Asian American youths experience racist bullying, report says
5. Progressives Score Victory In Push Against Lowering Stimulus Check Eligibility
6. The real thing: my battle to beat a 27-year Diet Coke addiction
7. Jonathan Kay: The main victims of progressive ‘cancel culture’ are progressives themselves
8. Jonathan Kay: I'll miss Taste of the Danforth, but not the woke lectures on cultural appropriation
9. Twitter LOLs at Quillette Editor for Washing His Hair With Dog Shampoo
10. Quillette Editor Appears on Fox News to Respond to Mockery from Seth Rogen and More Over Dog Shampoo Tweet
11. WATCH: Journalist's tweet sparks attack from 'left-wing' celebrities
12. The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’
13. WATCH: DILLA GHOST DOOM - Sniper Elite feat. MF DOOM

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy one,
Episode three of the production of I Heart Radio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
American's share consciousness. It is Wednesday, February. My name is
Jack O'Brien, a K. The switch Kid, as unknown by

(00:22):
the people, and I'm thrilled to be joined once again
by my co host, Mr Miles grind Oh okay, but
what I mean? That's miss Ship making like you got
it in your pockets. Yeah, that's Midship ugly in them
close you steady gossip. Yeah, that's miss Ship telling on
your man so you can scram. Yeah. That's Midship voted

(00:43):
out and acting like a sham. Yeah. That's Misship hating
on another man's come up. Yeah, that's miss Ship staying
in because you know you are bumma. Yeah, that's Misship.
You are mitch boy on my mama. Okay, let's get it.
Oh man, you remember that numb dumb juice schoolboy cue
from Juju on it to his chord. Because America's favorite
crip is in the building, honestly famous famous. Uh yeah,

(01:08):
I mean Blue Allegiance. He hates m Yeah right, exactly.
I mean, just off the strength of the of the colors.
You know what I mean. Only, um, that was dope.
That's all I gotta say about that. Hey, thanks, all right,
that was dope. And we are thrilled to be joined
in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Lydia.

(01:29):
Papa Bay is Hello, Hello, Hello, Lydia, Oh Lydia, Lydia.
I wish California didn't get Ridio, California. Where are you?
So we're all right. I'm looking at your zoom screen
and I see boxes, boxes, son boxes on boxes. I

(01:52):
got thanks, you know what I mean. You gotta get
boxes for them things. You gotta pack that ship up
every once in a while driving across country. Show what people,
you know, what's up? See what's going on? You know
what I mean? So are do you? You did the
thing that? Okay? Last time I remember we were talking
like I think your search history was about looking as
ship in Tennessee. It was in Tennessee. And now you

(02:16):
found land in Tennessee. Now you're in Tennessee. I have
found some land in Tennessee that I'm renting temporarily while
I look forward land that I will be purchasing. But yeah,
I left California, dog I left. I am sitting in
beautiful Middle Tennessee. I am looking up my window right
now into my neighbor's yard, which isn't my neighbor. It's
that they're deer, my neighborhood. Deep I'm looking. I am

(02:38):
looking at a series of trees, um looking at an
eagle feather sticking out of one of those trees. And
all I see is this trees, and it's gorgeous. It's
absolutely gorgeous. And I do have deer. I saw three
white tilled deer running through my backyard last night. Can
you even can you even at all? I look in
my yard and my neighbor I think was on road

(02:59):
rules in the nineties. I think that's the most I
can say about my neighbor. I believe it. So now
the track has been replaced with the Great Outdoors. Just
the great outdoors man. I'm just John Candy Lifestyle and
out here. You know, you to hear it. Watched Terry
and the Henderson's the other day and was like it
holds up. This is good. I was like, this is
gonna be My list is great man. So every day

(03:20):
I go out there and try to do a little
big foot call. You know what I mean, Let's find
me a man. You know what I'm saying, Let's get
him in here. I'm not afraid, you know, it seems Loyle.
You know, how was that drive? Was that g stop anywhere? Fun?
I got on, I got on a plane. I got
on a plane, got on a plane. Leaving l X

(03:43):
was terrifying. Truly was one of the more terrifying experiences
I've ever had in an airport. It was just so
many people and it was t s a had like
lost their mind. There was there was no sense of
like normalcy they were. It was just ridiculous. The stuff
that was happening there. It's it's a nightmare. But then
as soon as I got into Tennessee Airport was just crickets,
like literally nobody there. I was like crickets, they work

(04:05):
the airport. Ship. Yeah, it's a little bit of a change,
but welcome. But yeah, I didn't. Man, I'm not somebody
who talks trash. But now I just need to find
my forever land and build or renovate my forever house.
Yeah a Knoxville, tenn A Key or Tan a Key's
night gang, you know, holler at, Lydia, what's what's are

(04:27):
y'all in real estate? You know, in the real estate.
Let us know you got you know, fifteen to sixty acres.
I can hollower at what's up? Let's do this. You
know what I'm saying. I'm ready to get a land alone.
Let's do this. I'm like, you know, like growing for me,
growing up in l A my whole life. When I
hear somebody say sixty acres, I'm like, you're a billionaire. Well,

(04:49):
and that's why you grew up in California, right right, No, exactly,
Like the concept of land values completely fucked up. Yeah,
but yeah, shout out to the shout out to the
hectare gang out there. All right, Lydia, We're gonna get
to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
we're going to tell the listeners a few of the

(05:09):
things we're talking about. We'll check in with the opening
of the impeachment trial. We will talk about anti Asian
racism that is continuing to soar in these United States.
The Democrats are already showing just their plan to get
destroyed in the mid terms. We'll talk about that. We'll
talk about weather Q and on is cool anymore? Um,

(05:33):
we will talk about cancel culture, a k not really
canceled culture. What the rights definition of cancel culture. We'll
talk about diet coke addiction, We'll talk about the dog
shampoo guy, all of that plenty more. But first Lydia,
we like to ask our guest, what is something from
your search history that's revealing about who you are? Honestly,

(05:54):
let's take a look. I don't even know. I can't
even tell yet. Oh gosh, what you know what? The
last thing that I searched was disposal and recycling because
I live in an unincorporated county, so I need to
figure out how the hell you get rid of trash
when the city doesn't come and get it. Because I've

(06:15):
never done that before. I'm a city girl. I'm used
to like they there's a trash can and they come
and get it out here. They're like, yeah, you're gonna
have to figure that out. So I gotta I need
a line on the trash hustle out here. Man. I
was looking at various places. I need someone to come
get my get my trash. What what are the rates like?
When you got a high, you gotta come. That's what
I want to find out. I have no idea. I'm thinking, like,

(06:38):
I don't know. In l A it was like seventy
bucks a month for trash, so I figured truck. Yeah,
you ran a truck once a month and take to
take the trashion. Yo, you know what, Jack, you might
be on some ship. I need to splip this around.
Why am I paying someone to pick up my trash
when I could buy a truck and have me get

(07:00):
your hustle and then I get free trash and you
learn all kinds of weird shit about them because you
go through the trash. Thank you that sick ass truck?
Are you kidding me? And it's me on yellow all day?
That's my new favorite color. Going through the trash thing
is like a cliche and spy movies and ship and
like eighties movies had people going through other people's trash
like when they were trying to find stuff out about them.

(07:22):
But that is like real deal, like they actually that's
like the way to find out ships. Yeah, does that
mean that all of the homeless people who go through
trash in Los Angeles are secretly CIA agents? I didn't
say you said ever know? You never know? I was
watching that um the Devil next store about a dude

(07:47):
who has suspected in Cleveland and like the late seventies,
early eighties, is suspected of being Ivan the Terrible, like
the one of the prison camp cars. Yeah, and like
his defense just like starts getting all these documents from
one of the committees that's investigating him. And it was

(08:08):
just somebody going through their trash like outside of a
New York building, and they were like, yeah, we taped
this together. We have all these documents, and that holds
up in court. Apparently you threw it out right. So
it's just it's trash. It's trash. Where you're telling me
as I should burn all of my trash, Well, that's
what I was gonna say. That trash fires. Uh. That's

(08:30):
when I lived when I was very young. Uh, in
West Virginian Unincorporated area. That was how people got got
rid of their trash with trash fairs. Yeah, like you
know other spots in the world. You know, it's still
like you know, yeah, I am the I am the
trash people. I burned my ship right here in my backyard. Yeah,

(08:51):
I gotta look at the burning trash. Yeah, so trash
that gang to holler Lydia. You got you're either plug
for or you know, maybe you got a truck connect
so she could start a bus there. I have a
little hype on the idea of driving around a garbage truck. Yeah,
and just the wildest vibe though if I'm not saying
you are, but you were low key going through their

(09:12):
trash and creating like blackmail dociers on them and be like, no, man,
you don't get it. This trash thing paid for itself
in the first month when I started getting hush money
payments from now I'm gonna need the east half of
your land, these cracker barrel receipts and these Zacksby's receipts.
And what this tells me is he has another bit

(09:35):
when you start going to crystal yeah, because there isn't
one in this county. So I huh. I think I
should do my own version of Snapped, but like garbage
trash based only and just try to find people just
cheating on each other. That would be a fucked up
podcast where it's like someone goes through the trash of
a random building and then talks to a person based

(09:58):
on what they know from going through their trash. Just
freaks him out probably better YouTube prank video. But somebody's
a good podcast or awful one, or just a career
as a clairvoyant you know, Oh yes, the scam psychics.
Oh that Lydia, that's the wave you gold through them

(10:21):
and then you know the little details and like, do
you want a reading that's kind of feeling from you?
Please sit in my vibe corner. People people in the
South are love to believe. They They're like Molder and Scully.
They just want to believe, so you get just give
them an excuse to believe. The truth is out there though. Yeah, man,
it's somewhere somewhere. It's out here. It's out here, somewhere.

(10:42):
I'm gonna find it. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated?
I was just thinking about this this morning because my
feet are are hanging off of it right now. A
foot hammock for underneath your deatht Now, this is something
I can't even picture, I don't think. So basically it
goes hand in hand with like step your desk game up.

(11:04):
I made a purchase that I think is underrated. I
think a lot of people look over it because they're like,
oh no, I can't I can't afford that. I got
an electric lowering and raising desk so that I could
stand up and then sit down without cranking it or whatever.
But this thing had the option of a foot hammock,
and I was like a foot hammock? What the hell
is that? And I just got it because like why not.

(11:26):
It's literally a tiny hammock that carabineers on underneath your
desk and just hangs there. So when you're sitting like
I am, and you're leaning back and you're on a
zoom thing, you just got your feet on a little hammock.
They're just hanging there. They're nice and supporting. You know.
I've seen another one where like if the desk was
big enough, it could be a whole as hammock to
sleep into. Right that exists to this desk also has it.

(11:47):
It supports You can buy from them a little nap
hammock that supports someone up to three hundred pounds, which
I was like, player, what I have dignity and I
have the rest of a house where I could now
just fine. That feels like a really fucked up life though,
when like you need the desk because you're so you're
such a workaholic, like man office. But I can't do

(12:10):
it for the body, but for the feet though, Yeah,
I'm with it's. It's honestly, like as you can rock
it back and forth. If you're like a desk fidgeter.
It's kind of nice because it gives you some tension
to play with. Yeah, it's it's I mean, I really
I can't speak kylie it looking look into foot hammocks. Guys,
do yourself a favor, especially with all this zooming and
hanging out inside and virtual talking on the TV phones

(12:31):
that's what I call my computer now, the TV phone.
That's that's the Southern term. You gotta talk on the
TV phone. Yeah, like that's just I think those are
just slippers. Yeah, honestly, if I sewed on little like
shirp of foot, like, you might have just inspired the

(12:53):
next level, like basically uh huh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, okay,
it might be worth like a trip to a right
to cut the tops off of some shitty seat. You're like,
what did you do right there? Who freaking started that?
Sit down, put your feet and then talk sh it,
see how it fucking innovator? What is something you think

(13:14):
is over it? Lydia, I mean we talked about it
at the top of the top of the Hour. California. Man,
I was born and raised in California. I always thought
California was amazing. I think that it's a perfectly beautiful place.
But dishes are done in California. Dog, it is overrated.
Like I just the Bay Area. I left that I

(13:34):
came down to Los Angeles. Dishes are done in Los Angeles. Man,
there's too many people. Corona is the epicenters of the
world is in Los Angeles. The world. That's crazy. There's
just too many damn people. You can't even buy land.
Poor Miles doesn't even know what the concept of land
is because he's lived in California his whole life. Yeah,
I don't even know what a jacket is, dude. Let

(13:55):
me just spret it this way. The rent that I
pay for my home here is not teen hundred dollars
less than what I paid in my than Los Angeles.
And I have three bathrooms, four bedrooms, two decks, a garage,
a circle driveway, and I'm on an acre of land.
I'm sorry to decks like a fucking DJ. You won
the ones and two what the whole two whole outdoor

(14:17):
eat like areas like a multi level deck. That's the
thing that I think I more people I wish like,
especially like local California people understood, because to try and
like live in in l A, like it's it's a
very specific route or your finances being so tight together

(14:38):
to achieve that that you look at like I remember
even trying to look for a house and like being like, well,
what's this get you somewhere else? I'm like, what the fuck?
Spend seven times more for ten times less? And then
I'm like, but I'm of here and that's the only
the only thing that's really keeping me and like my
family ship like that. But like on a practical level,

(15:00):
I'm so infuriated at how you know, inflated the land
costs are, especially it just doesn't make sense to me.
I started adding it up, and it's like I've been
working my whole life and saving my whole life to
buy a house. And I started really looking at Los
Angeles and looking around, and I left the Bay Area
because I knew I couldn't afford a home there and
there just wasn't the land. And then in l A
it's like even if you're in the valley, you don't
have to spend a million dollars to get a decent house.

(15:21):
Do you know what a million dollars get you out here?
Nine decks probably, yeah, exactly, have decks. A million dollars
you can have ten to sixty acres at a nice house,
you know what I mean. Like and Dolly pardon will
like pull up and be like welcome. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

(15:43):
That's only where she lived. It's just a thing in
the state. You spend a million, you spend a MILLI dolly, Yeah,
it's part of the rules. So yeah, man, California is overrated.
It's it's there are things in California is an amazing
like yes, avocados, fresh produce, Like I get it, Like
we're paying for things. But at the same time, it's like, man,
how long are you gonna you know, I gotta get
my bank in my buck. I've worked hard my whole life.

(16:05):
I want to I want to yield, yield the results,
you know, right. Yeah, but when the pandemic is over,
we can go to the grove. So I mean, Jack,
we can go to the grove fucker right now. And
there's the problem. There are at the grove, like right now,

(16:29):
walking along, walking just like looking at stores that have
been boarded up since May, and it's like, do you
not remember the race war dog? You're not here for sneakers?
What's going on? I've been thinking just since, like that
tweet you're talking about Jack about someone saying you know,
New York is not nice but is kind and l
A is nice but not kind. And I've really been

(16:50):
sitting with that because I really think about like the
real utter lack of community that exists within l A.
Because it's a lot of transplants and then a lot
of people who are just here to fucking make money
and nothing else and drive in a car where they
will not interact with anyone except people they invite into
their car um and there's just no sense of knowing

(17:11):
who you live with and who are your neighbors are
and yeah, like that and then hearing lyddy like and
I'm like, yeah, man, there's just so many there there.
For all the good things that are that I can
see and I've experienced, like, there's also these other things
that are really lacking that I wish were more present.
But yeah, I mean, and that's so true. I mean
that the energy n l it was wearing down at
me a little bit, because you're right, Miles, everyone's there
for a reason and nobody's going to kind of create

(17:32):
a community, and people don't seem to have the time
to just have the basic pleasantries. And one thing I
will say, you know, I've been here for two weeks
and everyone is so nice, Like the manners are over
the top, yes, ma'am, no sir, Oh how are you doing?
Oh it's so great. Like everyone tells you a little
bit more than you want to know about them, right,
you know. And that's when you're like city Vibe kIPS

(17:53):
kicks and you're like you're telling right now. Yeah, Like
I wouldn't got some key's made at Lows And the
woman was like, oh you like keys? Like I had
just started talking like keys. I need to open my
house literally everybody needs, right, She's like, what do you
talk about? Like you like keys? How you like birds? Right?

(18:13):
Like you like you know, sixteen ounces to a pound,
twenty more to a key? Yews, welcome to lowse y Lo. Okay, yeah,
Miles would fit in right, fit right in, And yeah,
just weirding people out being like you're talking keys, talk

(18:34):
about a narco trafficking. I'm sorry, no, I don't think
if you we just go back to the conversation. You
asked how we made our country gravy? And I told you,
and then you said, am I talking about narco trafficking? Okay,
never mind? That was okay, That's what I thought you
meant when you said pork sausage. You with that white right,
It's like, well, that's flower to make the gravy. Okay,

(18:57):
all right, I know that's smart. That's smart, yeah, flower right, Okay,
we're going to see where we're going. All right, all right,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
and talk about some stories. And we're back. And so

(19:22):
is uh impeachment in the halls of Is this just
gonna be like because and this is not me saying
that this is not warranted. It's fully, fully warranted, but
just knowing how the Republicans are, this is gonna be
the new reality where they're gonna consider this like, well,
now we get to impeach Biden for anything once they

(19:43):
have control of the House, which will be two years
from now, as we'll discuss um. Yeah, I mean, it's
it's like such a weird dynamic because the first impeachment
was like this, it's such a weird thing. I mean
to other to reasonable people, like it's clear what happened,

(20:04):
but in the logic of trying to convince ghouls uh
in the Senate to do the right thing, it's like
it's a wash um. And now like with this time,
we have like Jamie Raskin, who you know who lost
his son like a week before the insurrection, where he
we found out in his opening argument that his daughter
and son in law were visiting dirt on the sixth

(20:27):
and they had to hide and standing Howyer's office and
they're like, we thought we were done. We thought we
were going to get killed. And in terms of someone
who is a like a you know, legal scholar, lawyer,
and it happens to be in Congress, Yeah, he's a
good person to lead this because he's definitely like he's
making this his life's work at the moment to actually

(20:49):
bring the awareness that needs to hopefully get these other
senators to convict. But just watching his opening and then
Bruce cast for Trump, it's like, yo, this even legal
defense right now. He didn't say one thing to rib
Butt anything that Jamie Raskin said from what all this
is unconstitutional, right and not and not even that, like

(21:12):
he was just being like, oh like saying like giving
compliments to the senators and ship, Like it seemed like
that ship where like you didn't read the fucking book
and you had to do the book report, so you
started off by like doing like, well, yes, because uh,
the Portrait of Dorian Gray was written by Oscar Wild.

(21:34):
Now what's wild is he had to be at the
end of his name, Like it's like you're like you're
you're gleaning all this information off the cover and you're
not saying shit. And that's what the opening arguments felt
like for his defense, I mean not surprising now at
this point, no, because every lawyer was like, I can't
look at least there were some like moves I could

(21:55):
do in my brain to justify completely making an ass
of myself in core or quote unquote court of this trial.
But yeah, now he's he's truly dealing with just like
really like like they it's misspelled United States like multiple
times in documents they were filing. That's that's where that's

(22:16):
next level, dude. I think it was like it was
just like that one where you're typing so fast because
it's like s T A E T S just like
from SOD. But so that must have been what they did, right,
That's that's what it seems like, Yeah, how do you
or it was like in the first line. It's just

(22:40):
it's all so funny. But that's what's so infuriating because
where we have people out there who have real stakes
in this. I mean not to mention every American citizens,
this is stakes for everybody, but like laying out the
case and being like, Okay, he didn't say he incided.
How come you have the people who came who rioted
said they did it because the president and told them

(23:00):
to or these all these other things they played video
of like Trump's speech and then people repeating exactly Trump
like word for word, what Trump had told them to
do while they were storming a capital um I Meanwhile,
like motherfucker's like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton were trying
to do the shop where they they couldn't see the
video suddenly hurting their eyes to be like like to

(23:23):
you know, not experience what actually occurred that day, and
to preserve their fucking fragile, you know, shameless egos. The
I mean, it's at six I think is what one
of the more recent polls said of people think he
should be you know, prevented, convicted essentially. And one of

(23:45):
the analysts heading in was, like, they fucked themselves. Trump's
defense team sucked themselves by claiming that he was immediately
horrified by the rating of the capital, like in the
same way that like watering it. The whole thing was
the cover up, right, It wasn't the initial uh you know,
breaking into the Capitol. It was Nixon trying to cover

(24:07):
it up. And like Trump's, uh, the whole strategy has
always been that he doesn't cover anything up. He just
does it like it's not illegal. Um. But that so,
I think people were honing in on this idea of
them telling a lie about what he actually did on
the day of like as the raid was happening, uh,

(24:28):
claiming he was immediately horrified and immediately like telling people
to stand down or whatever. And uh, you know, there's
a quote from Ben's ass from you know, not during
the try, not during this trial, but just generally talking
about that day saying it was not an open question
as to whether Trump had been quote derelict in his duty,

(24:51):
and then the quote goes on to say As this
was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the
White House confused about why other people on his team
weren't as excited as he was. As you had rioters
pushing against capital police trying to get into the building.
This is a Republican who's on the jury of this trial.

(25:11):
But you know they'll like the question isn't really like
how many people, like what percentage of people think they
should convict, It's like how many what percentage of people
would not vote for a Republican if they didn't convict.
And I think the gamble the Republicans are making is
that it's not enough for them to have to do anything. Yeah,

(25:32):
I mean it's well because either way, even if they
have calculated the risk or haven't, the programming is the same.
It's just, you know, uphold all of the de facto
forms of oppression that have existed at by any means necessary,
even if that means just looking a video dead in
its eye and being like that didn't happen, Right, that's it.

(25:53):
It doesn't matter, like it's just it's always full steam
with the same fucking program they should do, like a
remake of a Cheeto's commercial. The uh, super Bowl, it
wasn't me. Um, that's that's what they're going with pretty much.
It's the same concept. Yeah. Oh and one other detail

(26:14):
of the impeachment coverage that you know, we had been
talking about how there was a bit of a lull
since we last heard from Trump, and you know, my
hope had been that he was going to stay shut
the funk up for a while at least. Um. Apparently
his like people familiar with his thinking say, he is

(26:34):
waiting it out until the impeachment trial is over, and
then he's going to be quote guns blazing, return to
politics after the impeachment trial because he's gonna act like
getting acquitted is you know, a like he did the
first time, Like it's a saying that he's innocent. So
so it's and so it won't be tweets anymore, So

(26:57):
it'll just be appearances on Fox and O A In
and news Max. Basically, I think, like that's the only
place that he can do this. So I mean, so
good luck with that, you know, all the best, but
you just, you know, fall the fun back and almost
a curious what like other I mean, you know, the
Democrats seem to know that this is more about getting

(27:19):
public opinion uh strong enough that it forces Republicans to
actually do the right thing. So I'm curious to see
what these pieces of evidence and other things we're going
to see throughout this trial. Um yeah, they say that
new devastating evidence, We'll see what I mean. Let's be real.
The storming of the capital was as devastating as it get.

(27:42):
That's why this is so ridiculous to me, because it's like,
how much more do you need? Guys? And honestly, it's
like this is stuff that has been there lying this
whole time. This is not new sentiments. It's just the
fact that people who feel this way don't have to
cover it up anymore because the chief of our whole
country was like, yeah, I know, it's cool. Yeah, let's
get this you know. Yeah, oh my god, it's just okay,

(28:05):
let's just tamp it down now. Let's let's bury this
should underground again. That's what's going to happen. Yeah, Well
they'll try or maybe just it'll it'll come back like
with some new mutated Godzilla type racist part. I feel
like that's where we're had just yeah, because I mean,
like without the Twitter thing, the Twitter, like him having
his Twitter shut down at the same time that he

(28:27):
was having to like kind of pull back because the impeachment,
or at least that was his strategy to pull back
because of the impeachment trial. Like that definitely seemed to work.
But when you have an authoritarian and a population that
like craves him, like what really wants his authoritarian like
rule and distraction, Um, they'll they'll find oppressed me daddy, please,

(28:53):
and like capital is always on the side of authoritarianism,
so they're gonna jump on that or find a way
to look the other way. Um. So I don't I
don't think it's gonna be enough to just be like, well,
Twitter did the good thing and now we're we're saying
now it's solved. It's like, oh, it's that easy to
actually because the bigger thing was white supremacy. But okay, yeah, well,

(29:15):
speaking to of white supremacy, Uh, let's talk about the uh,
you know, long term trend but recently even more troubling
trend of anti Asian racism in America. Um. Yeah, there's
you know, I hate crime that happened recently in the
Bay Area. Uh, and it's part of a broader trend

(29:40):
to uh Asian American actors got involved with um, you know,
offering a reward to solve the case, and like so
it's finally getting some attention. But this has been a
long term issue. It's it's just anti anti Asian racism
is really a it's wild of being black and Japanese American.

(30:04):
Like I've it's weird to kind of reconcile what it
means to even be American looking through the lens lenses
of the collective experiences of like Asian Americans and African Americans. Um.
You know, obviously, like we had been saying at the
beginning of the pandemic, when motherfucker's are out here calling
ship wuhan flew or China virus, that racist rhetoric was

(30:28):
just helping to laser focus all that hatred into what
we're now seeings like just record year of hate crimes
against Asian Americans. And you know, it's nothing new, but
it occupies a very unique blind spot in American society
and media, just because especially through like the evolution of
like the model minority, the Asian model minority that was

(30:49):
was emerging in like the middle of the last century.
But like, you know, well we kind of have to
start at the Gold Rush because you kind of gotta see,
you're not gonna understand, like you can't understand anti black racism,
we'll talking about slavery, right, So you can't talk you
can't understand anti Asian racism without understanding the beginnings of
immigration from from Asia into into America. So in the

(31:11):
beginning the gold Rush, okay, that's when it all kicked off.
Everybody was trying to get to California in the forties
and fifties to fucking strike gold. That was one of
the first significant influxes of Asian immigrants and Chinese people specifically,
they were about one fourth of the miners during the
Gold Rush. But obviously because you have a white majority
or dominant class, they looked at these perceived intruders and

(31:35):
started engaging in violent, terroristic acts of racism to base
to out them from the mining and that relegated a
lot of these Chinese immigrants to lower wage jobs, which
is the railroad and farming and things like that. And
then then slowly they began codifying these into like Chinese
Exclusion Act and saying, you know what you can if
you want to kick a motherfucker out because they're Chinese

(31:57):
gold to do you, honey, because this is the law now,
and that sort of momentum evolved. So once there was
a smaller population of h Chinese workers to work farms
and things like that, the Japanese came in and that
was the next And then that's the next group. Who Okay,
they're gonna work the farms, like damn, they did a lot,
well all that little bit, and now they're starting to
succeed a little Okay, well, now we need new laws

(32:19):
to kind of make ship hot for them. And then
Filipino Americans came in, and they liked that better because
Filipinos were part of a country that was annexed by
the United States and felt like there was a little
bit more of a parallel crossover to work in the
United States from the Philippines. So all this like moment
it's it's been happening since, you know, the beginnings of
of Asian immigration, and that essentially leads to fucking what

(32:41):
we saw during World War Two. Japanese people, Japanese Americans
literally put in concentration camps for years because of Pearl Harbor.
Yet Italian and German Americans, you know, do your thing,
you know what I mean, because because you're white, um,
and that's just how that's just how it goes out here.
So it just like this, you know, looking through all

(33:02):
of this, you're like, it's always a thing that has existed,
but we don't teach it, so we don't really think
of it as a huge part of our American cultural history.
But it's also like this evolution of like the model
minority in the sixties, because a lot of people were
pointing at Asian Americans who are succeeding as a way
to sort of funk up the dialogue or conversation around

(33:23):
the pursuit of civil rights for black people, because they're like, well,
these Japanese people are like they have their own businesses
and are going to colleges and they're doing so well,
like minorities are able to succeed in this country. Like
as this count fucked up counterpoint, And I think that
has also led to this very weird, you know, monolithic
perception of what an Asian American person is, which is

(33:45):
typically like, oh, there are people who can make money,
who are maybe uh achieving hot higher levels demographically academically
or higher incomes. So it also like what that also does,
is it it's sort of erases the nuance of what
the Asian American community looks like. It's like Nepalese Americans
face all kinds of high levels of of poverty and unemployment,

(34:08):
same with Hmong people. Like it's it's not just Chinese,
Japanese and Indian Americans, which I think everyone's like, see
Asians are good, they're good. You see them, their doctors
they got and so it when we have all these
acts of racism, it's it's not quite registering for people,
like it's like, oh, oh, that's awful, but it's not

(34:31):
sort of I don't think seen as the same uh
level of violence or the sheer terror causes for a
community because of these other examples, it's not part of
the narrative of what the experiences for an Asian American person.
So I mean when you look at like what's happening
especially with in the Bay Area, Um, you know in
San Francisco, eighty four year old man from Thailand, he

(34:53):
died after being attacked on his morning walk. There was
an Oakland a few people in the Chinatown and Oakland
there we're getting show of dettacked, robbed, you know, that
people were taking cash out for Lunar New Year, so
people were like, they're going to get got Like that's
just the thing people were thinking because people have are
walking around with more cash. Um. And all of this
is still happening even when you look at what's happening

(35:14):
like in our schools, because there is this report that
came out um that like Asian American Pacific Islander students
in California were the group too that were most likely
to experience bullying. And on top of it, uh like
a majority of students when they were talking about what
kind of racist rhetoric is normalized, it seemed to be
that a surprising amount of students are like, it seems

(35:35):
like Asian jokes are like, are not as offensive even
though it's the same territory of as a racial joke. Um,
So we're having to have this real reckoning with what
it what this what the conversation has been between America
and Asian Americans because no one is actually I think
because for me, I wasn't taught about any of this

(35:57):
ship in school and I grew up in California. It
took my parents to be like, do you what what
you said in the gold Rush. What they saying about
Asian people, Huh what that they like to do laundry?
Ye okay, No, But I'm saying like, because we don't
have these uh, real conversations about our history, our history

(36:20):
as a nation for the mistreatment of any group, be
it Indigenous people, Latin x whoever, like we're only we're
only doomed to keep repeating these sort of things. And
I feel like it's really happening again right now because
this isn't This isn't it's not a conversation that's had
enough about like observing anti Asian racism and what that

(36:40):
means and what everyone's part is in trying to come
back that. Um so yeah, it's and there needs to
be better. I think education too across minority groups, right
like because if you want to take a look back
and you're talking about the Japanese tournament camps, right I
think it's something I didn't even know until I was
in college and actually kind of like really diving deeper
and studying different thing. And one of the things that

(37:01):
I studied in college. I have a degree in Latin
American history, and one of the things that I had
no idea about until I literally took Latin American history.
Was something called the Broscero program. The Broscero program happened
around the nineteen forty two ninety five, which is coincidentally
the exact same time that we are in turning Japanese Americans,
who at that time were the primary source of agricultural labor.

(37:22):
So the United States government had to figure out a
way to pick all these crops because they had put
people in internment camps that were picking these crops. So
what they did is they made a deal with Mexico
to allow workers to come north to work for seasonal
portions of time, so sort of temporary ability to come
in and primarily up and down the state of California specifically.
So you also started seeing animosity between groups because you

(37:45):
were seeing Mexican people coming in taking work from Asian jobs.
You have to kind of look at how all these
pieces sort of pattern and network together, you know, And
and it's important because the country, you know, our governments
have done the same thing to all of these groups.
Like you said, what we've seen with Native American people,
what we've seen with Asian people, what we've seen with Latinos,
what we've seen with black people, like it's the same playbook,

(38:07):
but it's done in a way that sort of silos
and makes these communities more wary of other communities and
other minorities and white people in general. And until we
start putting this together and really speaking openly and really
start leveraging and understanding that we need to speak up
as within our own racial groups and also as racial

(38:27):
groups as a whole against the government, Like we're never
gonna get anywhere. There has to be acknowledgement of the stuff.
There needs to be education. And that's one example. There's
been so many examples of that that basically our institutionalized racism.
And it's wild too because even within communities, right because
even with my black cousins, I was Jackie Chan you know,
I was Jetly or whatever, and but then I don't

(38:50):
I don't live my cup, what this in my fani?
What am I gonna say? You know, like it's it's
love or whatever. But then you get older and you've
got to actually really like we actually have it's so
casually set head, there's never a checking of it's like,
you're not gonna reduce me to this one version of
a celebrity or whatever. You, you're touchstone for Asian culture.
Like it's the same ship. Like if someone comes to

(39:12):
Human some white guy called this, Oh hey, what's up
Kobe Bryant or some fucking dumb shit about whatever black celebrity,
it's the same ship, And I think, yeah, it's it's
it's just like over the summer where you know, I
found myself imploring people to check anti black racist talk
or any kind of fucking discriminatory language, that it has

(39:35):
to start within where you were at, because you don't
want people to think you're somebody who you can say
ship like that, or you can you can perpetuate these
kind of um discriminatory perspective races, fucking racism called racism,
you know what I mean? Um, So, and now it's
the same thing. But I think it's now it's like
do we have to keep pointing out It's like, okay,
so the summers for black anti black racism, the fall

(39:59):
for Asians ball is now awareness around anti Asian racism
when it's like yeah, and it's not again and it's
not it's not always necessarily about white supremacy, but it
can because it can happen within groups that aren't white.
But in terms of understanding like what we're seeing, like

(40:20):
we also have to know, like this country was also
letting Americans know, like we don't really give a about
Asian people, you know what I mean. And that's the
thing that taste is historically still in the you know,
sort of the back of everyone's mouths, whether they know
it or not. And you know, and in that Bay Area,
you know, where the first you know, significant group of

(40:40):
Asian immigrants are coming to We're still seeing this play
out centuries later, and I think that's what's important is
and even in the United States, we're still replaying the
same things because we're not actually taking the second to
be like, I can't believe we did that as a country,
and we really should have never done that. Acknowledgement. Yeah,

(41:03):
don't try to explain it, don't try to contextualize it,
just acknowledgement and reflection. Yes, this occurred, and no that
is not good. It is How can we make sure
this never happens again? Right? Yeah, it took like the
eighties for a congressional fucking committee to be like, I
think the Japanese internment program was based on racial prejudice,

(41:27):
Like God, but that's that's the pace at which we
have these mini reckonings that you know, at the end
don't seem to have the effects that we need them to.
The I mean, it does go back to white supremacy
because like even you know, if no, no matter what
group you are, that's being discriminated against, like it's impossible

(41:50):
not to let that poison like seep in. H Yeah,
I mean I meant that, not that it's like obviously
internalized white supremacy, but not to say that this is
only occurring with white people against whoever, you know what. So, yeah,
from colonialism, right, except of coming here and that now

(42:11):
that there was a white person from a European country
that oh, now we have brought civility, you know what
I mean, and and shooting any native cultures that are
are there to begin with, right, and it just gets replaced,
It just gets replaced. It just gets replaced. The way
is the Germans were treated like the the go to
villain of history because they are, you know, the they

(42:35):
symbolize evil, right like the German Nazis. The way German
Nazis were treated in pow camps. There's a pow camp
in Alabama where they were treated like a part of
the community, welcomed into the community. Nazi POWs, you know,
after the fact, like actual like people who had roles

(42:56):
within the Nazi government and the Nazi war effort, we're
welcomed into the US government like that. It's they make
sure that you can't miss the message, you know. It's
it's like, well, yeah, they were on some funk shoot
a couple of years ago, but they're going to help
us make big bang bangs now, so you know, all

(43:17):
is all is forgiven. But yeah, it's it's I didn't
really even realize, you know, like that even California, right
that groups of kids who are most likely to experienced
that were Asian American, Like it's yeah, and and I
think that's really indicative of the work that still has
to be done, because that's what you're seeing. If if
that's happening in schools now, this ship is not going

(43:40):
away for at least fifty years, you know what I mean,
Like that's you and if so, we have to actually,
we have to do all this work now to ensure
a better future for ever. You know, we might see it,
we might see a glimpse of it, but at least
we got to do something to let leave something good
for the next generations to come along and not have
to deal with this ship. Yeah, all right, let's take

(44:03):
a quick break and we will be right back and
we're back. Uh, and real quick checking with the Democratic
Party on things not relating to impeachment. In the campaign,

(44:25):
it was Trump is a bad guy, uh, and he
is not going to help you if you're poor. We
will help you if you're poor. Uh. Yeah, no vote
for us. And then they are changing the two thousand
dollars to four hundred and making it a higher threshold

(44:48):
for people to be eligible for it um And just
like all sorts of ship that, it's just they they
talked themselves into. Yeah, they wanted to be like, no,
I can't be seventy five thousand can't be the income
cap for you to get a stimulus check. We need
to bring that down to fifty thousand. But then everyone's like,

(45:09):
so you're gonna help less people than even Trump did.
Are you talking about? Like what is that doesn't even
make sense on paper? You know what I mean? You're
only making dollars a year. Jesus Christ. We should be
sending a month just because yeah, exactly, I mean like,
off the strength of this, everybody should just beginning that

(45:29):
ship just because because you can afford to. But yeah,
it's really it's just such a bizarre thing, right because
these centrist democrats are like, I think that's the best move.
So progressives had to do the thing where they're like, um,
not helping people is a bad look, and they'll be
able to say that Trump helped more people, like oh, right, right, right, right, right, okay, okay, yeah, okay.

(45:52):
So so then they decided to keep things as they were,
so seventy five thousand still they cut off in this
the latest iteration of the bill. But it's like a
mid term campaigning is going to kick off in the
next eight months. Some are about to kick off in weeks,
because that's just how fucking hot shit is right now. Um.
And on top of all the already the voter suppression
tactics were seeing at a state level, because there the

(46:15):
machine is learning how it got hacked by the will
of people to vote. Um, it's just such a dumb
thing policy wise to have this like a memory in
someone's mind, to be like, remember when I said two
thousand and it was fourteen, When it was fourteen and
then they said no, but you have to make fun
if you feel like in the middle now and it's
only for these people and it's gonna be less, less

(46:35):
help for less people. It doesn't make sense. And it's
the kind of ship that's just so infuriating, Like how
the fuck are you going to hold a majority when
you're walking into ship like this off just in the
first fucking hundred days. Yeah, the progressive wing of the
party is gonna need to hold hold the line. And

(46:57):
oh yeah, I'm surprised that that was a successful as
it was. You know, that they weren't that they weren't
like okay, Bernie bros. Or whatever. You know, Okay, AOC
is not your friend, like that sort of ship, like
pushing back as much as you know, as much as possible.
It does seem like that worked, But I can't I

(47:17):
can't imagine that's gonna hold for two too much longer.
Especially Republicans are pushing back, you know, like I think
we have seen though that Chuck Schumer is beginning to
have some feeling that he can get primari from the left,
you know. So there that's the and again it all
boils back. That's the only thing that's gonna get these
people to act is you've got to put their status
at risk. Yeah, that's it, that's all. It doesn't really

(47:39):
matter about the policy we do, don't with my status.
I'm a center with that. Okay, what, okay, fine, I'll
be for bill reform because my status is at risk,
not because it's the right thing to do. Imagine that
making choices based on what's right and what's the proper
thing as opposed to and I live in Los Angeles,

(48:01):
it's possible, can't do it. Don't took that part out.
But but it is like it's but that's what's so funny.
The bar is so low in that sense that like
just by being a decent person, people like it's Lord Jehovah,
come back. This person said, all people deserve to be
to live with dignity. What is kind of Christ's figures?

(48:22):
It's like, no, this is what what are we doing?
Like why have we made that such a far away
thing to reach for? Right? That's the unattainable? Yeah, is
the is the right thing? Like that says a lot amount,
Like you know, just by framing it like that, you
know what the thing? Nobody you know what time it
is you know exactly what time it is help people.

(48:42):
That's that's that's ridiculous, that's wild. Why don't we do that?
That doesn't make any damn sense. Yeah, we'll see. I
mean that's I think we were all watching to see
what moves are being made because everyone's saying like, if
you don't help people, you're gonna lose support. It's that.
It's that nobody's nobody's gonna be like, oh, I've voted

(49:03):
against Joe Biden because he gave me too much money
to help me when I was downtrodden, right right, Yeah,
Like who has ever said that? Like, who's ever like
an issue voter been like, oh my god, the help,
the help was too much. Now I get there'll always
be that group of people who are always anti social
welfare anything who didn't receive it somebody, Why did they

(49:26):
just take care of it themselves. I've got nine billion dollars,
I've been saving it and hoarding it. How come they
don't do that? Well, I don't understand. What do you
mean you haven't sold fossils? Know why? Because they have
to probably provide insurance for their for their employees. That's
the problem with them. That's why they're upside down. You
gotta do is pay them under the table and diet cokes.

(49:50):
Speaking of diet cokes, miles here refording around this article
that is a truly wild journey through the life of
the author who was addicted to diet coke, like from
age four, uh for on to like through our thirties

(50:11):
and seven years, Yeah, twenty seven years of diet coke addiction,
and the the idea of diet coke addiction seems like
people who are like, oh my god, I'm addicted to
this new salad that I just tried and not like.
But this is like, this is definitely yeah, puts you
in the mindset of this is because I think we

(50:31):
talked about this a lot on this show because you're
a self proclaimed d C boy, you know what I mean.
You're literally sipping upon a d C right now. Um.
But like how we talk about it's like a thing
where for you, it's like it's like the perfect little
bit of caffeine and you don't think cow whatever like it.
And I think there's always a joke about like diet

(50:53):
people are addicted to diet coke, But it's because like
we're actually seeing people in real time, like no, but
this motherfucker literally can't go like more than a few
hours ago. It's ill too, because diet coke is like
it's never like nobody's like, oh, I'm addicted to diet
Mr pib Like, no, it's always diet coke. Like it's
a very specific in people who are into diet coke
are into diet coke. Yeah, there's some descriptions in this

(51:16):
article that made me want to go drink a diet
coke because she's like the caramel flavor like floods my
brain pan. I was like, oh I need. I literally
thought when you guys brought this up that we were
going to be talking about Lisa from the Real Housewives
of Salt Lake, because that chick NonStop diet coke, Like
every scene she's driving through a fast food drive through

(51:39):
like and a large diet coke, Like I've never seen
her eat food. But Lisa the one who got drink
tequila company yes, and accidentally recently poured glue in her
eye and had to go to the hospital. She got
nailed blue in her eye. I don't know how you
accidentally he was nailed blue in your eye. For people
who don't know real house. I have Salt Lake. It's
trash superducer text and all the time about this, it's ridiculous.

(52:02):
And also I just want to say I tried to
look for Lisa's tequila. You can't find it in stores,
so it's a scam. Yeah, it's also probably trash tequila.
Yeah exactly. Oh you taught tequila from a person who
is not from any traditional culture of making. Okay, fine,
but you made a fun diamond bottle. But yeah, this

(52:22):
diet coke thing, it really it's it's like when you
see what she had to go through, right, she was
saying she was on a seven can a day pace
basically to the point where like there will be moments
where she would get up like before she went to sleep,
because she's like, hell and I waking up and get
going to the store from my d C. That's the
mother waiting for me, and I need my morning diet

(52:45):
coke waiting for me. But it's but it it all
tracks right, and that's like why she had to do
all these things. Like she thought she could just be
like all right, I'll stop drinking that ship, but realized,
like there's physical dependency. She had to see therapist, addiction expert,
behavior counselor a hypnotherapist, and even was like on that

(53:06):
was it was she like a diet coke like Facebook
group to yeah, that coke addiction Facebook group. But I
mean that ship's real, Like that's yeah, and like that.
The one thing in the article that I wasn't crazy
about is like she was like as demoralizing as it
was I like sought help for my you know, like
kind of treating the idea of like getting help for

(53:27):
your diet coke addiction as like a ridiculous thing. And
the shame around addiction in general. Yeah, shame around addiction,
which is like, yeah, everybody help, you need help. Yeah,
just be glad that ship was diet coke. Yeah. I
could totally identify with the Like I I used to
uh have the coffee maker like times to make the

(53:49):
coffee in the morning because like otherwise I couldn't, like
I couldn't trust myself to actually put the two ingredients
in correctly, like in the morning after like nine hours
without coffee. Jack, I'm going to suggest that you've never
try opiates. I'm gonna just say, let's not just not

(54:10):
even for fun, don't don't even like if you break
something like I'm gonna need you just to like just
chew on a leather strap, you know what I mean.
Let's let's don't. You don't need the sweet, sweet goodness
of oxy flowing through them them them vains. You're a
great father, You're you know, you're a wonderful Man's let's
keep you on the straight and narrow guy if he

(54:31):
ever goes missing, and we need to start diet coke
plants and then opioid factories. Diet coke thing though, like
how does because you know, I drink a little coffee,
but it's never to the point where I'm like, I'm
not a person's like I don't talk to me till
I've had my coffee type person. I know. I mean,
you know, her majesty is kind of like that. But

(54:52):
like what happens? What's the road to the runaway train
of diet coke addiction? Like it starts off because what
were you drinking it for the affine when you were
a kid or did this start? Like how do you
get to diet coke become a part of your routine?
Are you t Yeah? Like I'm thinking it starts off
with being like, oh, I gotta pick me up from
a cup of coffee, and you're like, Okay, that's cool.

(55:14):
I like that it helps me. And then you start
being like, okay, you know what, I'm gonna do another one,
and then another one, and then it's never really fully
been a part of my Like Mountain Dew at a
time was part of my process. I needed that ship
to like get through for real ones fourth period. Uh.
But diet coke has always been like on and off,

(55:35):
and usually it's like, pretty soon I realized, like I
have less energy after I'm drinking diet coke, like within
an hour than I did before, and so I'm able
to like kind of pull myself off. But it is
Caffeine in general is a constant uh up up, down
down type situation for me where I always need need

(55:57):
some caffeine. How you would a caffeine you know what.
I used to be really bad with it, and I've
actually I'm in a good spot. I definitely I enjoy it.
I don't like to start my day without it. Um,
I am cranky in the morning regardless of if I
have coffee or not. I'm like the sun is up,
my eyes are open. You can funk right off until
I tell you to um, and that usually happens around
ten am. I start loosening up a little bit, but

(56:20):
I've got it down where I I frontload my morning.
I have a pretty serious cup of coffee in the morning,
um or I make myself, you know, like a two
shot latte at the house, one of you know, one
of those two situations, and then I usually keep it
to that and I try not to drink it the
rest of the day. I have my front loaded. I
have a really nice strong cup of coffee and then
I keep it going and I just drink water the
rest of the day. I'm actually not a soda drinker.

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I'm not a tea drinker. I'm like very into bubbly water.
San Pellegrino is my my bubbles of choice, so I
try to keep it bubbles and flat. And then every
once in a while, I like to surprise and you know,
get a little treat, get a little sody pop. I
do like a Dr pepper, big fan of a dr Pepper,
but it has to be ice cold, and I like

(57:00):
it in a can um and I rarely get through
a whole cann of dr peppers. Those little half cans
are kind of my joint. Well, you can't even Wow,
that's some real ship. You're like, you're definitely not a
soda drink, and you're like, I can really get through
a can of soda. Yeah, it's too much for me.
I'm like, like, I like, I start gulping it down
and then I'm like it starts making my stomach feel gross,
and I'm just like I should have this in my

(57:21):
body and then I just stop um and and it's
hard to me, like I really do. I just and
I even my coffee, I like a little bitter. I
don't like it super sweet. I'm a I'm a I'm
a water lady. I'm just get it. But you know what,
though I love cheese, though I think I love cheese

(57:42):
much eating opioids, Like, I can't put that ship down.
I can't say no and butter. I can't say no
milk out of my life, but cheese and butter. Yeah, butter,
I mean but butter, and it will never leave. I
think I can give up cheese before I give up butter.
M Yeah, oh wow, think about it. Stuff, because butter
influences baked goods, so many things, on anything, and it

(58:05):
tastes better not being able to put butter on a steak,
get the funk out of your old punch you in
your face, or just having a good old fashioned bite
of butter. You know in some sugar. There's a butter
cop You know you've ever had butter on the cop
where you just peel the paper back, Man, there is
a butter. The only place I know where to get
it is Pavilions on Vine and Melrose. Oh, yep, the

(58:29):
pand Express built in Yep. It comes wrapped in a
white paper and it is from Belgium. I forget the
name of it, but it's white paper and it's just
wrapped in a block. That is the best butter. It
is seven dollars a pound. I will not lie to you,
but go buy that butter right now because it is
hand done and the way they do with Belgium, and
there are swirls of salt and cream in it. And
if you talk about want to have a slice of butter,

(58:50):
Oh Lord, Jesus, baby Jesus. All of it's in the round.
It's like almost round, right, No, No, it's it's it's
a brick. It's like somebody cut it off a brick.
It's not the big fat one but circular, like yes
it has cursive on it. Yes, yes, yes, yes, blue
and red writing. Get that butter. Shout out to butter.

(59:12):
Shout out to the dairy butter. Do love it. Yeah,
all that to say is I wasn't a big diet
coke fan because I don't like a Sparta May. So
that's the thing I I used to be the same way.
I would never drink Sparta May and like I had
in my brain I think from a very young age
that it was like poisonous, so like even the taste
like really fucked me up, and like I was like

(59:34):
I'm allergic to that stuff. Uh, and then I just
pushed through it for the second the coffee. But this
art is now a part of me the way this article,
I don't know, like this article might as well be
sponsored content to the addictive mind for diet coke. I
had the same experience with the nicotine one time with

(59:56):
an article that was about like quitting smoking, and uh yeah,
I was just like, well this only made me really
wanna like try all of the things. Yeah, the this
talks about like how the doctor is like it's really
bad for your stomach that you're drinking eight of them,
but don't worry about the asport tame like that is

(01:00:18):
not as dangerous as people think. And I was like,
I'm gonna go crack a diet coke right right, right,
especially when they say it's definitely a better option than
full sugar coke, but it's not you're having that is
potentially harmful. Yeah, okay, well all right, that sounds about right,
Diane Sawyer. By the way, uh like a twelve pack

(01:00:38):
a day unable amount of diet coke consumptions. Yeah, yeah, rack, alright, yeah, alright,
real quick. Did you guys hear about or see the
tweet from the dog shampoo guy Jonathan Kay? I did not. Okay, yeah,
and Myles, I know you've been off socials, so I

(01:00:58):
wanted to catch you up on this. Uh So this
dude tweets. Uh So it turns out his name is
Jonathan Kay and he tweets. So it turns out I've
been using dog shampoo on my hair for the last
few months, Princes. I only discovered it when I ran
out and needed to get more. This is partly my
own fault, but it doesn't help that at armand Hammer

(01:01:22):
has the word quote pets in like four point typeface.
I'm guessing this is common. And he posted this with
a picture of the bottle and it does say soothing
oatmeal shampoo and then four pets very small um, but
there's a big dog on the on the bottle, and

(01:01:43):
so people were like is this real? Like, uh, is
he actually serious? And he was like, look, guys, people
are pointing out the dog thing on the bottle. I've
seen lots of shampoo, he said, quote lots of shampoos
I used in the past. Have pictures of waterfalls or

(01:02:03):
people cleaning dishes, or gazally drawn women frolicking and pastures
or dudes under waterfalls. And people were like, yo, you've
been using dish soap. Dude. What's even buying any of
his like products for self? Cared? This just reeks of like,

(01:02:27):
oh no, is that my mom's house, you know what
I mean? And never bought anything for themselves, or they're like,
I think the bottle was blue. Ship had nineteen year
old thinking it's not for topical use. The heck, um,
he is a editor at a you guessed at libertarian

(01:02:51):
uh right, because he wants to be left to his
own devices to make his own decisions, which he's clearly
good at. Yeah. Um, and this I'll pave the way
for him to make an appearance on Fox News complaining
about how he was attacked by the left. I just
I like how Seth Rogan hopped on that thread, and

(01:03:13):
I was like, dude, this guy's fucking dumb, Like how
objectively stupid do you have to be? And then johnnythank
is like been trolled by at Seth Rogan achievement unlocked,
and he's just broken replaced back, I'm not trolling you.
This is objectively stupid. I honestly have no clue who
you are beyond this stupid tweet. And then his mom,

(01:03:34):
his mother, Barbara, replies to commentator, by the way, oh
my god, and it's like my son is a journalist.
And then he's like, yeah, thanks, mom, I got this.
It's like this, but to your point, it really is
playing like out like ship headed nineteen year old kids, like,
oh no, my mom had just a whole life. It's like, yeah,

(01:03:57):
but did you also have a dog that you bathed
in there? Yeah? Oh never mind, never mind. He's a
piece of shit and just his whole fun. I mean,
I just love that you could look at a thing
that has a dog on it and you're like, there's
no no other analysis has to be done, like why
is there a dog? Why did it say four pets?

(01:04:18):
If you even looking? Soothing? Oh good, soothing, oatmeal, shampoo
for my undercoat. The dishes thing is so funny to
me that that's that was his pool to be like, yo,
people do this all the time, right Lydia. It has
been a pleasure as always having you. Where can people

(01:04:39):
find you and follow you? People can find me on
the inner webs Lydia popovitch dot com is my website.
I'm on Instagram and Twitter at hater Tuesday. Um. Yeah,
sometime when comedy is real or I feel like comfortable
enough to come out and do it somewhere, I will
do it. But otherwise, you know, look at my pictures,
read my tweets, send me a high five, like tips

(01:05:00):
on trash removal in Tennessee. Hell yeah, man, let me
know what's up. Let the newcomer to the state welcome
them with open arms. Is there a tweet or some
of the work of social media you've been enjoying, you
know what, I've been trying to stay off of social
media for the most part. I just I've found my
life to be cleaner. So that's going to be my tip.

(01:05:21):
Delete that app, man, you know what I mean. And
when you got something to say, call a friend, say hey,
remember the old way we used to share. Man, I've
really been thinking about X, Y and Z and have
a real thoughtful conversation with an actual human instead of
just firing off thoughts. That's that's what I think. I
think we can be fighting, like fighting invisible people in
your mind the gallery, like ripping you apart, Like I

(01:05:45):
don't even know what am I doing to myself? What
is happening here? Exactly? Exactly the self tortures. No, though
we're steady on social media, I mean, do what you
gotta do if you have to. But I'm all for
living in real life. I'm trying to take it back. Man, Miles,
where can people find you? Here? You experience you and

(01:06:07):
is their tweet? You've been enjoying Twitter, Instagram at Miles
of Gray and also for Tony de Fiance. Oh and
also I'm on Alex Schmitch Smittia clam secretly incredibly fascinating.
Where we're talking about refrigerators and it's by far if
you look. I didn't know about refrigerators until he just

(01:06:29):
started dropping just science upon my brain. Uh, and we
have a really great time. So check out that podcast
because it's a really good time. Now for a tweet
that I like. You know, I have not been on
Twitter recently or Instagram or even TikTok I am. I
have been experimenting with being on the social media on

(01:06:50):
and off. But you know what, I always have time
to check out my reductress um and it just says
this is great at Reductress. Three sad lamps who should
just try going for a run or something. It's like
these like desk lamps that look all fucking uh all
wacky and stuff. So shout out to to the Sad
Sad Lamp Gang. And then another one uh from Reductress

(01:07:13):
for apocalypse ready workouts even though you die the instant
you run out of contacts. Readybody with bad eyesight gang.
If you're like that's that way, it's I always worry, like, yeah,
what are y'all gonna do if you're losing glasses? That's
why all those tech billionaires are getting lace right or
you need like in uh New Zealand, you need pairs

(01:07:37):
upon pairs of Kurt ram By protection basically at the ready.
A couple of tweets I've been enjoying. Carol Channing Tatum
O'Neill tweeted Army Hammer's existence darkness aside feels crafted by
the thirty Rock Writer's Room. It's like if there were
a famous actor Slash Air called Donkey Donut and we're

(01:07:59):
all just like okay. Uh. And then Chris college Arrow
tweeted the gap at my resume. It was then that
I carried you my child, um. And then Steve Costillo
tweeted Batman begins at Conception. And then Darth Orogynus tweeted

(01:08:19):
David Lynch must drink so much beer to come up
with this stuff. I just love someone out there, like
a ship that was darth orogynous, Darth underscore Erogynus. The

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talked about in today's episode, as well as the song

(01:09:03):
we ride out on Miles. What are we riding out
on today? Well, you know, February early February is always
an interesting time because this is around the time where
Jay Diller's birthday is on the six and then his
death anniversaries on the tenth. Today is the tenth. So
I what I wanted to do is do a track
honoring two people, uh that have actually left us. And

(01:09:26):
this is gonna be J Dilla plus m F Doom
from this like very like it was like this this
project that that um Stone still put out that was
called Dilla Ghost Doom. It was J Dilla Fucking Ghost
Space Killer and MF Doom um and there and the
two mc s are wrapping over Dilla's beats. This track

(01:09:48):
specifically is called Sniper Elite. Then it's MF Doom spitting
over Dilla's be called Anti American Graffiti from Doughnuts, which
is one of my favorite beats on that album. So
resting piece to two two goats at um So, yeah,
shout out to you all. This is Sniper Elite Alright.
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