January 26, 2026 • 52 mins
In this edition of Ted, The Texas Zeithog, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, the summary execution of Alex Pretti by ICE, Pam Bondi saying she'll stop terrorizing Minneapolis is they hand over voter records, the huge winter storm bearing down on the US (feat. The Ted Cruz Early Warning System), that new pro-AI copaganda Chris Pratt movie and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
But now I'm just washing down a nice cup of
chocolate milk like an adult. Hmm, whatever happened?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I feel like they were really pushing chocolate milk as
like a performance based Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It wasn't Kawhi drinking chocolate milk or some dumb shit
like there was.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Al Horford was the face of chocolate milk for a
little while. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
There's your problem? Oh, I could be like Al Horford.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Damn, I could have game like Al Horford.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean, I'm never gonna I'm never gonna hate on
my forty year old washed bald king in the NBA still.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
But the way he plays below the rim but still
manages to be effective all these years later.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Wait, what do you chalk that up to? Al? Oh,
that's chocolate milk.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
This chocolate milk that I've had in my locker for
the whole game and is now probably spoiled. Like I
can't think of a less sounds like what's in that bottle? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You want to hear to shake it? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
What is that? Marketing? Turning? Butter? Marketing milk to black
people's seems a little foul. That chocolate milk, chocolate? I
think that was probably what they were thinking in the lab.
They're like, well, a lot of lack those intolerance. What
about the chocolate milk, you know, chocolate Chocolate City, huh
(01:22):
mm hmm. D C. Russell Westbrook, maybe the DC Wizardsrussell
Russell west name Russell breast milk.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
As I said, your favorite as built with chocolate milk.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Everybody NBA chased their name to a milk bun.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's what they put on the back of jerseys during
the bubble.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, lebron Way, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this
trend edition of the NEYSA.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's a production of iHeartRadio as a podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Monday,
January twenty six. My name is Jack O'Brien, drilled to
be joined as always by my co host mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yes, yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, milk Man himself, the
chocolate milk Man himself, you know, and America keeps on. America.
You gotta just reach for a glass of chocolate, hold chocolate.
You got to drink the rest of your baby's chocolate
milks and figure out how you're going to explain that
shit later and be like, I got I got some
(02:38):
shit going on too, right now. I would love a
glass of chocolate milk you drank it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There was something we were podcasts we were listening to
over the weekend, my nine year old and I and
somebody said that eighty percent of adults admit to stealing
their kids Halloween candy.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah. He was like you, oh see that, do you? Oh? Hero,
he heard it. Damn. He's like, you don't do that,
do you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I was like, well, you don't really eat your Halloween candy, so,
but I wouldn't say I like I steal it?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, this is your younger son, right, no, my
older oh, because I've been telling them both. I was like,
you know, you're daddy eating ship, right, I'm just okay.
A part of me was like, oh, so it took that.
It wasn't enough coming from okay, Okay, he really had
that holes like usual suspects, but eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I mean I kind of just like I was. I
wanted to just keep lying.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You just look at him with the eyes slowly nod.
You're like you don't eat it? What? Yeah, you don't
even fucking know you don't even know. Brian just put
up a Jackie looked at the chat confused. That's a
reference to Friday when Dievo took the beach cruiser.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Way No, no, no, no, nope.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's kind of like Halloween candy. I got chocolate around
my mouth.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's kind of like it's both of ours.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Dad, that's right, all right, this is the episode what
was happening over the weekend. We're going to get into
the news, but first we like to let you get
to know us a little bit better by telling you
some stuff we think is underrated.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Overrated.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Miles, you want to kick us off with something you
thinks underrated?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, I mean, obviously everything is about another murder in
Minneapolis in this time Alex pretty the VA nurse. I
see you, nurse, I see you nurse. Yeah, like just
a most selfless position. Yeah yeah yeah. I had a
friend who worked as a trauma or size unit. The
(04:46):
things that these people deal with and keep going back
to work, holy shit. But overall underrated. I would say,
just in this this weekend, the people of Minneapolis, I
have to say, well, obviously a lot of the attention
is is put on the specifics of what's happened, but
the environment in Minneapolis is truly fucked up, and like
(05:07):
the weather's fucked up. The presence of federal agents is terrible.
They are terrorizing people, knocking on doors, threatening people will
be back for your family, doing everything they can to
disrupt just the daily lives of people there. And shout
out to a lot of the Zeigang from Minneapolis, Minnesota
who have reached out and sort of just like telling
(05:28):
me what it's like or how off everything is like
in a very very fucking dark way that they can't
quite describe. And I'm sure you know what it is.
It's just that life as you know it has ended.
And I think for that to have happened, for them
to still take the streets and you know, that massive
general strike on Friday, I think is a good example
(05:53):
of what the future can look like for people in
terms of how this is going to be resisted, because
I think most people, hopefully at this point, are arriving
at the conclusion that the Democrats aren't capable in terms
of responding in a way that really will resonate to
like a ground level that's tangible to all of us.
(06:15):
There can be a lot of cable pounding and a
lot of threats of impeachment and things like that, But
in terms of actually our own physical safety, that is
truly something that we have to look out for, like
we have to look out for each other. That responsibility,
unfortunately is now it's that it now rests on our shoulders,
(06:36):
and we really the focus really needs that we have
to be directing our focus inwards on how we are
going to get in touch with our collective power. Because
I think what happened in Minneapolis was very instructive with
that general strike, that these are moments where people come
together to show massive resistance because when they come in
and rough people up and nobody takes the streets, they go, oh,
(06:56):
see this is all right. And I don't think it's
a coincidence that the day following such a massive show
of resistance for the people of Minneapolis, that there was
a reprisal in the form of killing somebody who was
just a bystander. Was just a bystander who was actually
trying to help some help person who was getting roughed up,
you know what I mean. Yeah, So I think, you know,
(07:21):
I think people really obviously every city that's had to
endure an ice invasion. This is sort of luckily becomes
some form of a natural response. We we we we
tap into mutual aid groups, we tap in with our neighbors.
We try and help people get to work. You know,
recently a neighbor of ours was taken, and you know,
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everybody got together as someone who's just vending on the street,
and you just come together, you just buy buy whatever
they had left so then their family can get them. Like,
there are so many ways that people can contribute to
try and stabilize the situation. But I think what's really
underrated a just for everything that happened in Minneapolis, just
my heart goes out to everybody. But I think it's
(08:03):
also really worth people understanding that this is, this is
going to have to be part of the playbook. We
cannot fucking be getting taking these texts that we get
every five minutes, like this is big Gavin Newsom, just dude,
fuck off with all of that, because Gavin Newsom's it
does not have anybody's fucking back. Okay, so let's let's
(08:28):
let's be grateful that we have these examples, but know
that when we exercise our power collectively, that's the kind
of shit that moves the needle and it helps make
everybody feel protected and less scared, because when you're it
feels like you're alone, especially if you're just on your
phone room doom scrolling. But to again, I don't know
how many times it is, but like when you really
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know you are part of community, a mutual aid group,
or just your neighbors that are all in touch, these
are the thing. These are the building blocks that you
need to be able to resist us and not go
completely nihilistic over what's happening, because that's one hundred percent
the playbook of these people is they want to grind
us down to the point that we stop blowing whistles,
we stop protecting our neighbors, and we just say, well,
(09:10):
it's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They do not like having phones pointed at them that
they're they're putting people into a fucking database.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
This is like the one time I'm like, should everybody
just get meadow glasses now right? You know what I mean?
Because then it's like you don't have anything in your hand.
I don't even know. Like this whole weekend has been
such a fucking crazy time. But anyway, the people of Minneapolis.
Still despite all that, still having your neighbors backs. I
think it's spartening as much as it is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The economic pressure of a general strike like that is
something that they will hear, you know, Yeah, corporations will
hear it because it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Doesn't happen in a day. It builds up. It can
be Minneapolis, then the next day a couple other cities
join in solidarity. Then it gets larger and larger till
people really realize what the threat is. And I really
encourage people because we all have these people in our
lives who are not as politically engaged as we are.
I don't know how many. I don't know when the
last time you checked in with them is, but you know,
(10:09):
worth checking in with them again just to be like,
you know, you know everything's fucked up, right? Yeah? I
know I didn't last time I checked in twenty twenty
And you say, yeah, yeah, yeah, you knew it. But
then you kind of fell off a little bit. You
need to tap back in.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, well put My underrated is subcultures, little like communities,
little weird. I'm researching the early days of skateboarding for
an Icons episode, and just this group of weird kids
inventing a thing because they like can't stop doing it,
and it's like this tiny scene that explodes into a
(10:44):
multi billion dollar industry unfortunately. But for a while there
they just have this like undiscovered, unspoiled local subculture based
around who has the best like drained pool near their house, right, Yeah,
and like nobody really gives sit about it except them.
Like people are like, oh, you're still skateboarding, why don't
(11:04):
you like start hula hooping? You know, Like they're like that.
Everybody thought it was a fat but like they you know,
found each other. And I was thinking about that because
of that research. But also I was up at eight
am on Sunday morning with my nine year old who's
trying out archery, right, and they're like at this little
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archery range, like in the corner of a park. There's
this little like ren fair setting up and like like
a little ren fair, yeah, like a little private like
it was like the ancient Arts or something like a
celebration of ancient arts. And so they had like people
with like handmade clothes and archery and like falconry shit
(11:47):
just gathering at this field just have they they appeared
to be having a blast like little kids rolling up
with like medieval hoods made of sweatshirt material and just
like doing a thing with their friends for the love
of doing it, and like creating community because you have
to because you can't stop like wanting to learn how
to I don't know, better train your falcon.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Or some shit. I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I didn't stick around for a long It's I just
find that kind of cool and inspiring. And you know
a lot of the roots for the small glimmers of
hope from like political activism we see in the US
today came from like the occupy movement, which at the
time the mainstream media was just like what who.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Are these who's this clown? They don't have money?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, and like they don't have a clear path to power.
Why why are they doing this? And then it's just
a group of like minded people getting together and organizing
because they couldn't not do that and could and you know,
a lot of you know, it didn't result in immediate
political power, but there's a lot of learnings from that
(12:58):
that have been carried on.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, it's provocative and it you know, yeah, agitates people.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, all right, that's my underrated what's something you think
is overrated, Miles.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Uh, just in line with you know, just everything that's
happening the social media and things in the news or whatever.
You see a lot, like there's so many the phrase
and I've said some form of this. We've always talked
about some form of this, but like the phrase, this
isn't us or we are in a time like this?
(13:29):
How could blah blah blah do this. Uh, it's just
a straight up mischaracter fucking lie about what the US is, right,
you know, right, you just open open the page one
of the history books. You know, it's genocide, it's slavery,
it's violence. And so we've we've met, we've perfected that
art of oppression for centuries. That's actually the thing that
(13:51):
you United States has gotten really really good at that
aside from the popular culture and all these other things.
But like this is this is really what the United
States has mastered the art of and exported across the globe.
And you know, Jack, you've mentioned about how like the
Nazis came over to the US to be like, so
(14:12):
how do they divine their people and subjugate like others? Oh? Interesting? Interesting? Okay,
I'm going to take this back to Germany. I'm taking
this concept to Germany and then people are like, I
can't believe we're looking like Germany. No, you're looking like
what the Germans who took notes on American society were doing. Yeah,
(14:32):
And you know, I think the it has always been
like it's in a time, like it's always been like this,
you know, and this isn't us. Well, it's always been
someone else. The level of violence and harm has always
been part of the fabric of our society. It says
that the state has now broadened the eligibility requirements to
be treated like a subhuman trying to merely survive and
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take up for their own and I think black and
brown people especially, there's a fatigue with constantly going into
the streets screaming out for justice, warning people that if
it's happening to us, it's the logical conclusion is that
(15:17):
it gets to you, it doesn't end there. And I
think it's just like I I it's it is just
a very It's a hard thing to listen to because
suddenly the faces look different, the level of outrage is different,
and I get that there's a lot of different factors
(15:38):
coming together, and I'm trying to say, merely because these
people are white, that there's more attention, But I think
more than anything, it's that we really need to come
to grips and understand that this has been happening for years. Yeah,
And part of that part of actually moving through this
is to really understand that we've been ignoring this for
decades and using that shame of having ignoring the warning
(16:03):
lights that were flashing brightly in our faces for deck
for centuries, using that shame to really commit to understanding
the responsibility that we have at this moment, especially for
people who are suddenly realizing, wait, this country can be violent,
I think it's doubly important that you get in touch
with the idea that yes, it always has been and
(16:25):
I'm glad you're realizing that now, but please do not
shy away from the responsibility that we have. And by
that I mean like, find a way to get involved,
to help resist, contribute to that, to help others in need.
And I think the other part of it is like
people who are doing the calls for quote de escalation,
(16:45):
I think is a really gross word, because we don't
need the less violence, you know, we need to end
it full.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Stop, turned down a little bit, just like, let's go
ten percent down because we don't they apparently the people
don't like it at this level of yeah, yeah, yeah,
put it from a high high heat to like medium.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Okay, so the racist murder stove is firing all burners
at full high heat. What if we just went down
to medium heat on three burners? No no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No, yeah, And learning who to listen to, learning who
you've been ignoring, and you know, yeah, it's the most
consistent thing about the United States throughout history, Like that's
the one thing that keep there. There are a lot
of values that people are like those are American values,
and we see them completely go away in the name
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of this violent suppression.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And you know, it's funny a lot of those supposed
American values that people are like, these are American values.
Now to me, they reflect communities of color and marginalized
people you're talking about, like people who endure, who put
their heads down, work hard, provide for their families, care
about each other.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Those are values to aspire to. Sure they're not traditionally
the values that the US government has put their weight behind.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah. Yeah, so I mean that's like the thing, it's
like part you know, I've said this all that I
think anybody, especially you know, any any like black American
person has been raised just like with that reality check
from day one, which is wild, which is so wild
that a lot of people like they're now getting the talk,
(18:29):
you know, like the reality is giving them the talk.
They're like, oh, you know, this place will kill you
for nothing. So you know that when you go out
there and with how you interact with this, because the
deck is stacked against you and life is all about
how we're going to maneuver that. Given that reality, still
keep our humanities, still stay optimistic, still stay joyful, and
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still take up for each other while also thinking that
there is a path forward that actually brings a quality
to people.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, they'll kill you for looking out for each other
and showing them who they are.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'll give you for a fucking iced tea. Yeah the skittles.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, all right, my overrated is looking like JD. Vans like,
I don't want to I don't want to be look sister.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I should have followed you up with my Yeah, I
keep coming in with look like.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I just keep seeing people who look like they sat
down in front of a stylist and said, give me
the vance.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know, just like.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Short haircut, crop beard goes well with a certain face type.
I guess I'm just saying that there was a point
when the Chaplin mustache was no longer the Chaplin mustache, right, And.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
If this is like you think this is the best
look for you, you gotta go platinum blonde, you gotta
go big zzy top beard. I feel like I'm seeing
just too many JD Vance's out there, and it's obviously
very stupid. This is not the biggest thing, uh facings,
(20:11):
But I just I see a lot of people who
look like they sat down and said, give me, give
me the j D.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Maybe everybody take a look in the mirror. Are you
Are you JD vance maxing your advance maxing? Dude?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It just it does suggest to me that you don't
know what's.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Going on, you know, just shave the head or something,
or get a mohawk. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, go go go nuts, have fun. You know, I
do think you know platinum bloom.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Or do everything in your power to resist JD vans
So then you can read.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Claim right now and look, that's right, you bring back.
It's much it's much less noticeable or weird than the
Hitler mustache. But it is just like, I feel like
there's so many people out there. It's not fair. What
I'm saying is not fair. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm
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just saying the reality of the situation. I think we
have to understand the reality of the situation. Where all right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
we'll talk about the news.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And we're back.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We're back, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
So, as we've been talking about, there's another state sanctioned
execution that was caught on tape in Minneapolis. This time
thirty seven year old Alex Pretty was tackled by multiple
agents when he was trying to intervene when they were
pushing around a woman and then had a phone in
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his hand. I feel like people have seen, you know, Yeah,
I think people know. I mean people know we're here.
It's happened again.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And this is now the third person is shot in
Minneapolis in the span of like three weeks, basically the
second person that's been killed. And yeah, like we're doing
the same thing over again. We're in clear as day,
you know, whatever you want, summary execution, murder, whatever, clear
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his day and then you have the regime come out
immediately and just throw a reality smoke bomb down that
Luckily only twenty percent of the country is buying, and
everyone else is like, what are you even fucking talking about?
This guy was trying to run up on ice agents
with a gun. No, because like, those are the details, right,
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he had it. He was legally carrying a firearm.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
H And we wasn't brandying fans of that's one of
those US values that they've always been like, well, that's
just who America is. It turns out, no, that's not
that's not the one that's not actually who America is.
It just about uh, you know what that is being
used for, and if it's being used to enact violent
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white supremacy or not.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, yeah, and yeah again, just you read about his background,
he seems like someone who has very much cared about
his community, cared for the people that were in his
like literal care as a nurse and yeah, did anything.
You're outdoors, some fucking goons shove somebody down for nothing. Yeah,
and you go to help them up and then they stop.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You immediately start spraying him in the face with yeah,
a chemical agent immediately, you know, it's sick. At least
six people around him beating him down.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's just and if it's like if it's like a terrible,
terrible metaphor for just how like this country is. Man,
you have a group of powerless men who are so
desperate to feel some level of power. Yeah, and they
they'll stop at no went just for that, just for
that fleeting feeling, even if it absolutely up ends our reality.
(24:06):
And yeah, I mean I think just like even reading
how quickly d oj came out and you know, Christy
Noan being like, well he was a domestic terrorist and
just doing this whole thing. It's I think, you know
rightfully people are starting it. But were your videos? The
New York Post was like, I don't know about this one,
like it's it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The Wall Street Journal too, like, oh, this one seems
to be not going over very well. I do have
to wonder how much of that is also, you know
the fact that it is the journal of Wall Street
and there was a general strike and then this happened,
that might be getting some eyebrows raised.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's probably everything, right because everyone looks at the United States,
We're absolutely on fire to six I don't know what However,
maybe saying yeah, we're on fire, We're the hottest country
nation that everyone's like, dude, we need to disentangle ourselves
from this nightmare, from this like unfolding tragedy, this unfolding
(25:09):
like self immolation this country is doing. So I'm sure
this also feeds into the fact that like, Okay, not
only does Trump just say shit that like royals the
markets and and fucks things up, we're also making we're
even we're we're doubling down on the idea you want
nothing to do with the United States right now with
this kind of shit too. But again, this has always
(25:31):
been the case, but this just feels like now it's
arrived at the level for people that are in mainstream
media and sort of at higher levers being like, ooh,
now it's a little bit too much for me here,
because before it was okay, when I saw brown and
black people be brutalized, even when they were just separating families,
I really didn't care that much, right, But now like
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they're out here doing the wacky killings and stuff, it's
it's becoming a little too much.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And yeah, it's complicating the narrow for me.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Miles.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's a lot. A lot of the mainstream media headlines
are witness video complicates, federal accounts of Alex pretty shooting complicates.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Did you was that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
An autocorrect from contradicts was state Stange blame for events
leading to Alex Pretty's shooting? I was NBC News The
New York Times. Video shows moments in which agents killed
a man in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Mm hmmm, uh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The I do I mean for people and you know,
for people who don't didn't watch the video, it is
just you know, they shoot him many times while he's
on the ground, so just know that he comes into
the interaction holding phones. This is something that we've been
hearing lately that they're adding, adding everybody who's seen filming
(26:57):
them to database, like people with nothing to hide. Yeah,
and trying to document what they're doing. Seems to be
a real focus point of something they're trying to stop.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
They're also arresting witnesses at the scene for having seen
what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, I mean, yeah, they're right out at the scene
of Prettie's killing, his murder. They took like twenty some
they arrested twenty people who were witnesses. Yeah, or like
took detained witnesses. That is where we're at. They're like, oh,
you guys saw something, Well, y'all need to come over
here and let me go through your phones or all
this other shit. Yeah I can't. It's the other thing though, too,
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is all of this goes along with the fact that, like,
because these are the murders that happened on camera, yeah
you know what I mean. Keith Porter also got killed
by an off duty ice agent. He was off duty.
And think about the detainees that have died, yeah, and
people who have died in custody that coroners have ruled
a homicide. Yeah, like a Cuban detainee recently. So like
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it even like the outrage should be there because it's
this is happening with or without the video. But again
I think because we live in a unfortunately have to
see it to believe it. Society right now, this is
sort of like what it takes is to just have
this grizzly killing just captured on video and yeah, and
(28:28):
look what happens. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I continue to find the perspectives of people who lived
through this in Russia pretty illuminating. In addition to people
who have lived through it in the United States for
the past, the entire history of the United States. But
you know, Gary Kasper of The Chess Champion was pointing
out that these things are happening by design, like they
(28:51):
create the chaos that he needs to interfere with the
electoral process going forward because he can't afford to lose
power at this point. Yeah, like even congressional power. We there,
We'll get to the leaked Ted Cruz recording that happened
like at the beginning of the administration where he was like,
they're gonna impeach you every week if you if you
(29:15):
raise prices like this. But yeah, he's just going from
place to place trying to get all the infinity stones
he needs and just like you know, killing people to
do it. And people are still being like, well, surely
once this video, once we show you this video, he'll
he'll see the error of his ways.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I mean, the the midterms are
going I mean, like you have to at this point.
Everyone's got to be like, Okay, so what's going to
be our response when he steals the midterms? Yeah, you
know what I mean, That's why I think the collective
action that took place in Minneapolis is good because that's
(29:57):
gonna happen. That's gotta be the norm. That's got to
be part of it as a foundational aspect of how
people resist this, because like, to your point, we're going
so far into the darkness now, like in terms of
like officially you know what I mean, like all this
like brutality and stuff with people have been like, well,
oh god, it's a tragedy. But now it's like fully
(30:18):
articulated being like, well, you know, now we can go
through with like administrative warrants or even like judicial warrants
that the sentiment builds every day that they're like, these
people do not deserve to be free after this. Yeah,
And so all the Republicans are thinking, well, then there
can't be an after this, right, there can only be
(30:40):
this in perpetuity. So now how do we do that,
because that's the only way I will be able to
protect myself for engaging in the act of like all
this fucking harmful shit that you know, all these harmful
policies that the administration has been putting in place. So yeah,
I mean, I think to that point, it's wild that
after this happens, the DOJ calls and they have They've
(31:03):
got a they got a deal they can make with
the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, straight up. Hours, this is from Democracy Now. Hours
after Customs and Border Patrol officer shot and killed ICU
nurse alex Pretty on the streets in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi
sees on the shocking incident to demand access to voters
unrestricted personal data, reigniting fears that Donald Trump is trying
to steal the next election. Yep, they were, Yeah, they're
(31:28):
just like, Okay, no, you don't want that to happen again. Cool,
just give us the next election.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Okay, so they give us them, Yeah, give us the
bones of the election. Yeah, so we can we can
manipulate them into whatever shape we want possible, because really
the point of having all that data is to do
massive purges and then be like, I mean, because the
other thing, too, is there's also still the potential for
them to disenfranchised voters who have changed their names through
marriage and stuff, which would mostly be like women through marriage,
(31:56):
to be like, oh, well, your birth certificate doesn't match this,
and now we can actually negate your vote. There are
a lot of things being talked about and somewhat in
place are ready to try and prevent any kind of
democratic majority in the midterms.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, I think like the past handful of elections, there's
been a lot of fear around like, well, you know,
they're saying they're telling people to go out to the
polls armed, and then like there isn't a shooting incident
or anything, and so people are like, you know, I
feel like there's been the stories of like this election
could be really fucked up, and then they haven't gone
(32:34):
in that direction yet that we know.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I think for them, they're going to just do everything
in a non physical way. They'd rather be like, oh, sorry,
your name's not on the list, can't come in to day,
or just vote manipulation on the back end to be
like just goose the numbers and be like yeah, man,
blowout wins for MAGA somehow in this place that the
(32:58):
polling showed the exact opposite, because yeah, there's no way
like this this government now is so so fucking illegitimate.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
That yeah, that they're not even trying to be legitimate.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
No, no, And if you're that illegitimate, then you're like, well, yeah,
I do what the fuck I'm gonna do? Pretend I'm
gonna go with the will of the fucking people and
face some kind of I mean, who even knows what
the Democrats would do, Like, honestly, you maybe you might
want to have the Democrats be in powered because they
might be like, all right, guys, you promised to knock
it off, right, Okay, all right, let's move on now.
We had enough of that. Now, enough of that now.
(33:31):
But yeah, it's it's a very very uh freaking situation. Luckily, though,
the Secretary of State of Minnesota basically said fuck you
and your whole crew to Pambondy with that said quote.
Attorney General Pambondi knows full well that the governor has
no formal role in managing our elections or maintaining our
voter registration system. She's also well aware that this specific
request is the subject of active litigation with our office.
(33:53):
Our position on the federal government's request to access Minnesota
voting records starts and ends with the law. The law
does not give the federal goal government the authority to
obtain this private data. And then turns out there are
also thirty one other states that have told the DOJ
fuck off with them trying to get their hands on
voter data, and the Department of Justice is like like,
(34:14):
like the Secretary of State was referencing in litigation with
twenty four states over that, and the courts so far
have very quickly dismissed three of those claims. So I
think now, I think they probably were realizing, Okay, we're
not winning in court by doing the give me day, right.
So now another part of this is like with these
(34:35):
ice invasions, you get to the turn the heat up
for civil unrest to try and create your optics to
be able to justify the Insurrection Act or whatever the
fuck you're going for. But also maybe if you put
enough violence on a state, you can get them to
bend to your will and say, now, give me the
tools I need to rat fuck the election too. Yeah,
(34:55):
you can trying.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
You can make it all stop, just click straight up
like the yeah, the speed was like again, they're not
trying to hide this ship. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
The other thing is if if the exchanges, we'll make
it all stop if you give me that voter data.
So what the fuck is this immigration talk about? Right,
So the voter data is so important to you that
you will end your massively quote unquote important. It's tied
to the existence of our nation mission to try and
(35:26):
uh to kidnap all of the non white people in
this country because all you wanted was.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Voter data voters too, right, trying to get rubbers, to
get anybody who is not part of the Trump voting dema.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But either way, if you're saying we'll stop doing quote
unquote immigration enforcement for voter data, then it was never
about immigration. And again it never was about immigration enforcement
because this wasn't an issue. We don't have a bunch
of people who are here who are undocumented doing all
kinds of fucked up, crazy violent crimes. This is again
just part of your liketh noo state grab bag of
(36:01):
fun things you want to do to you know, continue
to put as much pain onto people that don't look
like you while also you know, keeping the carceral technology
industry well funded. Yeah, I mean I did.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I did, like start having the thought like will he
like how mask off because because that move is so
mask off though, like you you do start to wonder
like how far towards the putin power grab are we going?
You know, are people gonna be poisoned? You know what
I mean? Like that's not that that's like, but but like,
(36:36):
just how little of a fuck do they give at
this point? It seems it seems like very very little
of fuck how they're perceived.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
And it's like the one thing that you see is
like now that there's there are some Republicans in office
who are like, Okay, this is like I can't do
all this, Like I'm fine with being racist and stuff
right and a xenophobe, but like also just straight up
lying about a guy legally carrying a gun who was shot,
was face who was face down on the ground.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
We are a whole ship legally carring guns.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah. And it's funny too, Like even the NRA and
other gun lobbying groups have been like, dude, there needs
to be a fucking investigation. What the fuck is what
what are we talking about here? Because a lot of
the stuff that the DOJ and Border Patrol DHS are
saying is like, well, if you are if you are
armed legally in the proximity of law enforcement, that is
a death sentence.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Do you remember Kyle Rittenhouse running past a bunch of
police with a ar Yeah, after having killed multiple people
and them like what are you doing out here? You're
probably out past your bedtime, buddy.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, get back there, all right. Oh oh yeah, they're
down that way. Go ahead, Pale. But again, I mean
it just I mean, at this point, it's like if
you were thick enough to think this, like this wasn't
the game the whole time. Yeah, it's like they're showing
you in a real time. They're like, I mean, yeah,
the second Amendments for like us not you, Yes, obviously,
And you know the idea that you can be armed
(38:10):
at a protest, that's to excuse somebody who would go
kill people who are against what our worldview is. It's
not I'm just using your language because that's how I
get you guys pot up in a debate over it,
rather than people beginning to be really seeing it for
what it is. And these people don't want anything except
for the death and despair of non white people. That's
(38:32):
just that's that's what they're that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll talk about the Winter Storm, Ted Cruz and Chris
Pratt's new movie. Ooh, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
And we're back. We're back.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Shout out to everybody who's holed up right now, dude.
The winter storm. Yeah, just fucked up this country Canada,
which everyone checking Ted Cruz's travel itinerary could have seen coming,
because he was once again photographed bailing on Texas as
(39:16):
as a massive ice storm is bearing down on Texas
and traveling to in this case, last time I was Cancun.
This this time it was southern California, not not like
lax but Laguna Beach.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah. Yeah, getting on a flight to Laguna Beach. I mean, look,
that's he's so consistent about being like adverse weather in
the state I represent, I'm out here. I mean, it's
a pretty good example of how all politicians think. It's like, well,
the the hard parts for you guys, not for me
to deal with. No, I'm I'm going to use my
(39:52):
resources to leave and you can. You deal with it.
Don't need it to be in there with you. Fuck that.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
A lot of people on social media, we're celebrating him
as Texas's own early warning system for snowstorms and labeling
him the Texas Groundhog. Did you see him getting off
light to a tropical warm location. Uh?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, something.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, it's like an arthritic knee acting up, you know. Yeah, yeah,
but this time instead of throwing his family under the bus,
because that's what he did last time. He was like,
my wife had planned this. She was going to be
so mad at me. He claimed to be traveling for
pre planned work. His office wouldn't actually say what that
work was, which it seems like you're you're.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You should have said an emergent pre planned. That means
then you know what it is. So what was it?
It was pre you I feel like you can articulate
it since it was already planned. Now merely described the plan. Ah,
I can I can't actually tell you that it.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Was an emergency trip to Laguna Beach, a location that's
primary economy is surf lessons. As far as I know,
I'm sure there's like there's a lot of wealthy donors
out there too. Oh oh yeah, that is a very
republican part of southern California. But yeah, if he had
(41:11):
been flying to lax like, I feel like the business
claim might have looked more solid. Headed to Laguna Beach
on business yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Uh huh with with who yeah, some some beach cruiser
manufacturers and try him out. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
And then also this weekend he there was leaked audio
of a conversation in which he warned Trump about a
mid term bloodbath, saying you're going to lose the House,
You're going to lose the Senate. You're going to spend
the next two years being impeached every single week, to
which Donald Trump responded, fuck you Ted. On the leaked audio,
(41:48):
Is that is the audio?
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Can you hear it or no? It's just everyone's account
of it.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think it's available, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
I didn't. I didn't go out of my way to
actually try and hear it. But he was no. It
feels like it's like Axios has it, but I have.
Maybe they're just they're like, well, we got it and
we're just printing what it said, all right or not. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
It does feel like this is probably leaked by his
people to try and set them up as like the
reasonable alternative to Trump in twenty twenty eight or just
going forward, if I had to guess.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Look, dude, everyone is looking is trying to figure out
their exit position, right, you know, whether that's a financial
one for people that are in the cabinet or the
sycophants and co conspirators and all this On the right,
they're also like, well, what's my exit position. Because Marjorie
Taylor Green certainly figured hers out. She's like, let me differentiate.
Now I act like I was always against this, and
(42:42):
then maybe I can hop back in and look reasonable
by comparison, because she just her recent quote over the
week when she was like, you guys are like we'd
you're being incited into civil war? Wow?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
And this is your brain that she's got, the same brain,
that's the same brain that gave you Jewish space lacers.
Comes you are being incited into civil war?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
What the fuck from the dark imagination? Yeah, exactly, Jewish
space lasers? Is I support American's First and fourth Amendment rights.
There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing. Anyways,
she goes on, it's just hard, I said, MAGA considered
it like this. We lost our minds when you watch
Biden's FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions
(43:26):
and arrests on peaceful j Sixers who walked in the
Capitol through open doors. Imagine if one of our MAGA
independent journalists, even just a MAGA supporter, stood in the
street outside of JA Sixer's house. Well, Biden's FBI care
to a law enforcement operation home invasion and arrest. Then
Biden's FBI goes to the Maga Guy videoing at all
and shoves a woman with him to the ground and
sprays them with bear spray and then throws the Maga
(43:48):
Guy to the ground as Maga Guy was trying to
help the woman off the ground. Then Biden's FBI beats
Maga Guy on the ground, disarms Maga Guy, and then
shoots him dead. What would have been our reaction? That
is the most wacky sentence, but that was legitimately what
she posted. She's like, guys, think of Mega Guy and
that it could be Maga.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I damn, that was actually fucking That was like the
end of a time to kill when Matthew mcconnae is like,
now Madden, she's white. Yeah for me, I hadn't thought
about it for a Mega Guy said that.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
She said Mega Guy, And I'm sure those people aren't
listening to anymore because he they hate women and b
they don't even see it as Maga anymore. But again,
broken clock and all that she's she's she tried, She
tried a peaceful jan sixers. That's why you know she's
still She's still Marjorie Taylor Green because she still lives
in that bizarre reality sixers.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, heavily armed those guys well, trying to invade the.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Armed at a protest. I believe a lot of people
had guns on them there too, but seeming again, That's
why I think pointing out the hypocrisy is meaningless at
this point, and you just have to be like, no,
you're talking about Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Yeah,
like this fucker wants to end everything, so there's no like,
oh but he doesn't want to end for him. Yeah,
we can't this you our way out of this fascist takeover? No,
(45:06):
and like and don't get nihilistic and don't think you're
just gonna get work, Like that's not what it is.
It's the look they're one fucking god is money. That's right, truly,
because that's like the one thing. It's like you can
you could be a person of color and be around
Donald Trump because you have money, do you know what
I'm saying? Like it's all so the things that fuck
with their money, that's the most elegant way to try
(45:29):
and rock their boat, just to figure out how to
fuck up their coins and things like that. But yeah,
uh here, but hey, Ted Cruz, I don't know what
the fuck you were doing. But uh, don't think you're
don't think that you're gonna end out. You're gonna walk
out of here looking like a hero at all.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Either he's gonna try though, he's he's gonna try. Yeah, finally,
less check in with the box off the smiles.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I was talking shit. I was talking shit. On Friday.
A couple of people, a couple of listeners.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Are like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
I know you like I like, I know he like
ribbing on Chris Pratt, but the movies not that bad.
It's bad, but it's not that bad. And I was like, Okay,
I like, I appreciate that. Take like look, glucklick, look
it's bad.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
So this is his copaganda pro AI thriller, which yeah,
you guys talked about then to last week, it made
just eleven million dollars of the box office, but because
it isn't Cinner's Variety, one of the main industry papers
framed it as a win since they ended Avatar three's
(46:30):
five weekend rain and gave it a nice built in excuse.
Blamed its poor performance on the winter storm even though
it was already tracking poorly and received terrible reviews. I'm
just gonna read this from Variety because we've covered at
length varieties coverage of Sinners. When Sinners came out and
you know, over performed expectations by a mile, and they
(46:53):
were like, still got a lot of meat on that bone. Man,
there was kind of a loss. Actually kind of took
an l on that one. But from this Chris Pratt
sci fi thriller Mercy collected eleven point two million dollars
in its North American debut, enough to end the five
weekend reign of James Cameron's behemoth Avatar Fire and Ash.
Though not a blockbuster result for Mercy, it's an impressive
(47:16):
taally considering the massive winter storm that's currently blanketing a
large portion of the US with snow. So like, this
movie's kind of a hit. Cost sixty million dollars and
everybody's like do everyone who saw it does not seem
that fond of it. It's the worst opening ever for
a Chris Pratt starring movie, even worse than Passengers, which
(47:38):
was the sci fi movie co starring Jennifer Lawrence that
hid the movie's premise from all the trailers. The premise
was basically abduction as romance.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Oh great, great right? Yeah, which, by the way, did
you know this might be me?
Speaker 2 (47:53):
I want to figure out if I'm just an idiot.
That movie song Sung Blue with Huge Jackedman and uh
Kate uh not winds Lip other Kate yep, I know
you're talking about she's got nominated for an oscar, the.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
One from Almost Famous.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Yeah, Kate from Almost Famous? You did you think that
was a Neil Diamond biopic? Kate Hudson, Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
I don't know. I only the only thing I knew
were like just that it was like there was controversy
around it. I didn't even know it was coming out,
and people like this is not right, and I was like,
what the fuck's going on with that? I'm also like,
I like two actors I could care less about, So
I have no idea what the fuck Wait, it's not
about It's about kept saying about oh.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Oh like Diamond songs and apparently like just a wild
story where like just everything bad that can happen to
her does that?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
I think I've seen that movie. It's called Saving Silverman,
right about wacky shit having to a group of Neil
Diamond loving dudes.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Neil Diamond fandom is like a much more popular subject
for movies than Neil Diamond himself. Yeah, like what is
his life that he keeps getting skipped over for biopics?
But people are just like, but those songs, though, how
do we about Neil Diamond without having Neil Diamond.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Be the character in it? It's not about the diamond itself.
It's about the sparkle around it, man, Yeah, and that's
what we want to focus on. Yeah, I know, no clue,
but if it's worth seeing, let me know. All of
the words used to describe it did not resonate with
my spirit at all.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
About a subculture, maybe I have to maybe I have
to give it a shot. It's about a Neil Diamond
cover band subculture.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
I'm always like kind of almost impressed when movie studios
just like hide to the central conceit of the movie
and they're like, man, they're gonna fucking this when they
go see it.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
But we got to get them to buy the ticket.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Like all the musicals for like, after musical stopped doing
well West Side Story and stuff, they were just like, yeah, no,
Mean Girls. The musical it's just mean girls, but another
wicked with the music note inside the one of the letters,
Wonka was a musical that they didn't tell you was
a musical. But anyways, uh chal one, the chalame one
(50:23):
was yeah, that was a musical. But they were just
like and it worked. The musical one fucking worked like
they people kept going to see those and then just
being like, well, I guess the songs are okay.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
I wonder if they were doing that thing. They were
so fucking addicted to the Greatest Showman buzz with two
Jackman that they're like, fucking load up another Jackman musical, dude,
and then Neil Diamond. All the all the middle aged
and boomer baddies will be out in the theater, singing
in the theater, tears in their eyes, looking at Jackman
(50:54):
on HG H or is is he ripped in this one? Now?
He looks pretty good. He's not.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
He's not like doing the he's not doing Wolverine.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
He's not doing Wolverine.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
But he's also not doing like Christian Bale body acting
where it's like, damn man, put on.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Going out there a fucking twig.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, milkshakes with every meal. But yeah, so I don't
know other than variety people seem to think this is
a pretty major setback for Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Guys, I think that's the worst thing. Worst thing that
could happen is variety keeping for your movie. I know,
so far as when they shit on it. You set
a record for Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
That is the number of nominated.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
I was so happy to see that I missed that episode.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Sixteen sixteen nom nom Yeah, dude, all right, those are
some of the things that are trending on this Monday,
January twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
We are back tomorrow with the who last episode of
the show. Ye. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourself, get your vaccines while you still
can't give blue shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Bye bye. The Daily Zeite guys as Executive produced by
Catherine Law.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Co produced by Bae Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jeffries.
But now I'm just washing down a nice cup of
chocolate milk like an adult. Hmm, whatever happened?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I feel like they were really pushing chocolate milk as
like a performance based Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It wasn't Kawhi drinking chocolate milk or some dumb shit
like there was.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Al Horford was the face of chocolate milk for a
little while. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
There's your problem? Oh, I could be like Al Horford.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Damn, I could have game like Al Horford.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean, I'm never gonna I'm never gonna hate on
my forty year old washed bald king in the NBA still.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
But the way he plays below the rim but still
manages to be effective all these years later.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Wait, what do you chalk that up to? Al? Oh,
that's chocolate milk.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
This chocolate milk that I've had in my locker for
the whole game and is now probably spoiled. Like I
can't think of a less sounds like what's in that bottle? Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You want to hear to shake it? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
What is that? Marketing? Turning? Butter? Marketing milk to black
people's seems a little foul. That chocolate milk, chocolate? I
think that was probably what they were thinking in the lab.
They're like, well, a lot of lack those intolerance. What
about the chocolate milk, you know, chocolate Chocolate City, huh
(01:22):
mm hmm. D C. Russell Westbrook, maybe the DC Wizardsrussell
Russell west name Russell breast milk.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
As I said, your favorite as built with chocolate milk.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Everybody NBA chased their name to a milk bun.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's what they put on the back of jerseys during
the bubble.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, lebron Way, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this
trend edition of the NEYSA.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's a production of iHeartRadio as a podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Monday,
January twenty six. My name is Jack O'Brien, drilled to
be joined as always by my co host mister Miles Gray.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yes, yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, milk Man himself, the
chocolate milk Man himself, you know, and America keeps on. America.
You gotta just reach for a glass of chocolate, hold chocolate.
You got to drink the rest of your baby's chocolate
milks and figure out how you're going to explain that
shit later and be like, I got I got some
(02:38):
shit going on too, right now. I would love a
glass of chocolate milk you drank it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There was something we were podcasts we were listening to
over the weekend, my nine year old and I and
somebody said that eighty percent of adults admit to stealing
their kids Halloween candy.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah. He was like you, oh see that, do you? Oh? Hero,
he heard it. Damn. He's like, you don't do that,
do you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I was like, well, you don't really eat your Halloween candy, so,
but I wouldn't say I like I steal it?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, this is your younger son, right, no, my
older oh, because I've been telling them both. I was like,
you know, you're daddy eating ship, right, I'm just okay.
A part of me was like, oh, so it took that.
It wasn't enough coming from okay, Okay, he really had
that holes like usual suspects, but eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I mean I kind of just like I was. I
wanted to just keep lying.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You just look at him with the eyes slowly nod.
You're like you don't eat it? What? Yeah, you don't
even fucking know you don't even know. Brian just put
up a Jackie looked at the chat confused. That's a
reference to Friday when Dievo took the beach cruiser.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Way No, no, no, no, nope.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's kind of like Halloween candy. I got chocolate around
my mouth.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's kind of like it's both of ours.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Dad, that's right, all right, this is the episode what
was happening over the weekend. We're going to get into
the news, but first we like to let you get
to know us a little bit better by telling you
some stuff we think is underrated.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Overrated.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Miles, you want to kick us off with something you
thinks underrated?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, I mean, obviously everything is about another murder in
Minneapolis in this time Alex pretty the VA nurse. I
see you, nurse, I see you nurse. Yeah, like just
a most selfless position. Yeah yeah yeah. I had a
friend who worked as a trauma or size unit. The
(04:46):
things that these people deal with and keep going back
to work, holy shit. But overall underrated. I would say,
just in this this weekend, the people of Minneapolis, I
have to say, well, obviously a lot of the attention
is is put on the specifics of what's happened, but
the environment in Minneapolis is truly fucked up, and like
(05:07):
the weather's fucked up. The presence of federal agents is terrible.
They are terrorizing people, knocking on doors, threatening people will
be back for your family, doing everything they can to
disrupt just the daily lives of people there. And shout
out to a lot of the Zeigang from Minneapolis, Minnesota
who have reached out and sort of just like telling
(05:28):
me what it's like or how off everything is like
in a very very fucking dark way that they can't
quite describe. And I'm sure you know what it is.
It's just that life as you know it has ended.
And I think for that to have happened, for them
to still take the streets and you know, that massive
general strike on Friday, I think is a good example
(05:53):
of what the future can look like for people in
terms of how this is going to be resisted, because
I think most people, hopefully at this point, are arriving
at the conclusion that the Democrats aren't capable in terms
of responding in a way that really will resonate to
like a ground level that's tangible to all of us.
(06:15):
There can be a lot of cable pounding and a
lot of threats of impeachment and things like that, But
in terms of actually our own physical safety, that is
truly something that we have to look out for, like
we have to look out for each other. That responsibility,
unfortunately is now it's that it now rests on our shoulders,
(06:36):
and we really the focus really needs that we have
to be directing our focus inwards on how we are
going to get in touch with our collective power. Because
I think what happened in Minneapolis was very instructive with
that general strike, that these are moments where people come
together to show massive resistance because when they come in
and rough people up and nobody takes the streets, they go, oh,
(06:56):
see this is all right. And I don't think it's
a coincidence that the day following such a massive show
of resistance for the people of Minneapolis, that there was
a reprisal in the form of killing somebody who was
just a bystander. Was just a bystander who was actually
trying to help some help person who was getting roughed up,
you know what I mean. Yeah, So I think, you know,
(07:21):
I think people really obviously every city that's had to
endure an ice invasion. This is sort of luckily becomes
some form of a natural response. We we we we
tap into mutual aid groups, we tap in with our neighbors.
We try and help people get to work. You know,
recently a neighbor of ours was taken, and you know,
(07:41):
everybody got together as someone who's just vending on the street,
and you just come together, you just buy buy whatever
they had left so then their family can get them. Like,
there are so many ways that people can contribute to
try and stabilize the situation. But I think what's really
underrated a just for everything that happened in Minneapolis, just
my heart goes out to everybody. But I think it's
(08:03):
also really worth people understanding that this is, this is
going to have to be part of the playbook. We
cannot fucking be getting taking these texts that we get
every five minutes, like this is big Gavin Newsom, just dude,
fuck off with all of that, because Gavin Newsom's it
does not have anybody's fucking back. Okay, so let's let's
(08:28):
let's be grateful that we have these examples, but know
that when we exercise our power collectively, that's the kind
of shit that moves the needle and it helps make
everybody feel protected and less scared, because when you're it
feels like you're alone, especially if you're just on your
phone room doom scrolling. But to again, I don't know
how many times it is, but like when you really
(08:49):
know you are part of community, a mutual aid group,
or just your neighbors that are all in touch, these
are the thing. These are the building blocks that you
need to be able to resist us and not go
completely nihilistic over what's happening, because that's one hundred percent
the playbook of these people is they want to grind
us down to the point that we stop blowing whistles,
we stop protecting our neighbors, and we just say, well,
(09:10):
it's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They do not like having phones pointed at them that
they're they're putting people into a fucking database.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
This is like the one time I'm like, should everybody
just get meadow glasses now right? You know what I mean?
Because then it's like you don't have anything in your hand.
I don't even know. Like this whole weekend has been
such a fucking crazy time. But anyway, the people of Minneapolis.
Still despite all that, still having your neighbors backs. I
think it's spartening as much as it is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The economic pressure of a general strike like that is
something that they will hear, you know, Yeah, corporations will
hear it because it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Doesn't happen in a day. It builds up. It can
be Minneapolis, then the next day a couple other cities
join in solidarity. Then it gets larger and larger till
people really realize what the threat is. And I really
encourage people because we all have these people in our
lives who are not as politically engaged as we are.
I don't know how many. I don't know when the
last time you checked in with them is, but you know,
(10:09):
worth checking in with them again just to be like,
you know, you know everything's fucked up, right? Yeah? I
know I didn't last time I checked in twenty twenty
And you say, yeah, yeah, yeah, you knew it. But
then you kind of fell off a little bit. You
need to tap back in.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, well put My underrated is subcultures, little like communities,
little weird. I'm researching the early days of skateboarding for
an Icons episode, and just this group of weird kids
inventing a thing because they like can't stop doing it,
and it's like this tiny scene that explodes into a
(10:44):
multi billion dollar industry unfortunately. But for a while there
they just have this like undiscovered, unspoiled local subculture based
around who has the best like drained pool near their house, right, Yeah,
and like nobody really gives sit about it except them.
Like people are like, oh, you're still skateboarding, why don't
(11:04):
you like start hula hooping? You know, Like they're like that.
Everybody thought it was a fat but like they you know,
found each other. And I was thinking about that because
of that research. But also I was up at eight
am on Sunday morning with my nine year old who's
trying out archery, right, and they're like at this little
(11:26):
archery range, like in the corner of a park. There's
this little like ren fair setting up and like like
a little ren fair, yeah, like a little private like
it was like the ancient Arts or something like a
celebration of ancient arts. And so they had like people
with like handmade clothes and archery and like falconry shit
(11:47):
just gathering at this field just have they they appeared
to be having a blast like little kids rolling up
with like medieval hoods made of sweatshirt material and just
like doing a thing with their friends for the love
of doing it, and like creating community because you have
to because you can't stop like wanting to learn how
to I don't know, better train your falcon.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Or some shit. I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I didn't stick around for a long It's I just
find that kind of cool and inspiring. And you know
a lot of the roots for the small glimmers of
hope from like political activism we see in the US
today came from like the occupy movement, which at the
time the mainstream media was just like what who.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Are these who's this clown? They don't have money?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, and like they don't have a clear path to power.
Why why are they doing this? And then it's just
a group of like minded people getting together and organizing
because they couldn't not do that and could and you know,
a lot of you know, it didn't result in immediate
political power, but there's a lot of learnings from that
(12:58):
that have been carried on.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, it's provocative and it you know, yeah, agitates people.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, all right, that's my underrated what's something you think
is overrated, Miles.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Uh, just in line with you know, just everything that's
happening the social media and things in the news or whatever.
You see a lot, like there's so many the phrase
and I've said some form of this. We've always talked
about some form of this, but like the phrase, this
isn't us or we are in a time like this?
(13:29):
How could blah blah blah do this. Uh, it's just
a straight up mischaracter fucking lie about what the US is, right,
you know, right, you just open open the page one
of the history books. You know, it's genocide, it's slavery,
it's violence. And so we've we've met, we've perfected that
art of oppression for centuries. That's actually the thing that
(13:51):
you United States has gotten really really good at that
aside from the popular culture and all these other things.
But like this is this is really what the United
States has mastered the art of and exported across the globe.
And you know, Jack, you've mentioned about how like the
Nazis came over to the US to be like, so
(14:12):
how do they divine their people and subjugate like others? Oh? Interesting? Interesting? Okay,
I'm going to take this back to Germany. I'm taking
this concept to Germany and then people are like, I
can't believe we're looking like Germany. No, you're looking like
what the Germans who took notes on American society were doing. Yeah,
(14:32):
And you know, I think the it has always been
like it's in a time, like it's always been like this,
you know, and this isn't us. Well, it's always been
someone else. The level of violence and harm has always
been part of the fabric of our society. It says
that the state has now broadened the eligibility requirements to
be treated like a subhuman trying to merely survive and
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take up for their own and I think black and
brown people especially, there's a fatigue with constantly going into
the streets screaming out for justice, warning people that if
it's happening to us, it's the logical conclusion is that
(15:17):
it gets to you, it doesn't end there. And I
think it's just like I I it's it is just
a very It's a hard thing to listen to because
suddenly the faces look different, the level of outrage is different,
and I get that there's a lot of different factors
(15:38):
coming together, and I'm trying to say, merely because these
people are white, that there's more attention, But I think
more than anything, it's that we really need to come
to grips and understand that this has been happening for years. Yeah,
And part of that part of actually moving through this
is to really understand that we've been ignoring this for
decades and using that shame of having ignoring the warning
(16:03):
lights that were flashing brightly in our faces for deck
for centuries, using that shame to really commit to understanding
the responsibility that we have at this moment, especially for
people who are suddenly realizing, wait, this country can be violent,
I think it's doubly important that you get in touch
with the idea that yes, it always has been and
(16:25):
I'm glad you're realizing that now, but please do not
shy away from the responsibility that we have. And by
that I mean like, find a way to get involved,
to help resist, contribute to that, to help others in need.
And I think the other part of it is like
people who are doing the calls for quote de escalation,
(16:45):
I think is a really gross word, because we don't
need the less violence, you know, we need to end
it full.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Stop, turned down a little bit, just like, let's go
ten percent down because we don't they apparently the people
don't like it at this level of yeah, yeah, yeah,
put it from a high high heat to like medium.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Okay, so the racist murder stove is firing all burners
at full high heat. What if we just went down
to medium heat on three burners? No no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No, yeah, And learning who to listen to, learning who
you've been ignoring, and you know, yeah, it's the most
consistent thing about the United States throughout history, Like that's
the one thing that keep there. There are a lot
of values that people are like those are American values,
and we see them completely go away in the name
(17:39):
of this violent suppression.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And you know, it's funny a lot of those supposed
American values that people are like, these are American values.
Now to me, they reflect communities of color and marginalized
people you're talking about, like people who endure, who put
their heads down, work hard, provide for their families, care
about each other.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Those are values to aspire to. Sure they're not traditionally
the values that the US government has put their weight behind.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah. Yeah, so I mean that's like the thing, it's
like part you know, I've said this all that I
think anybody, especially you know, any any like black American
person has been raised just like with that reality check
from day one, which is wild, which is so wild
that a lot of people like they're now getting the talk,
(18:29):
you know, like the reality is giving them the talk.
They're like, oh, you know, this place will kill you
for nothing. So you know that when you go out
there and with how you interact with this, because the
deck is stacked against you and life is all about
how we're going to maneuver that. Given that reality, still
keep our humanities, still stay optimistic, still stay joyful, and
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still take up for each other while also thinking that
there is a path forward that actually brings a quality
to people.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, they'll kill you for looking out for each other
and showing them who they are.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'll give you for a fucking iced tea. Yeah the skittles.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, all right, my overrated is looking like JD. Vans like,
I don't want to I don't want to be look sister.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I should have followed you up with my Yeah, I
keep coming in with look like.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I just keep seeing people who look like they sat
down in front of a stylist and said, give me
the vance.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know, just like.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Short haircut, crop beard goes well with a certain face type.
I guess I'm just saying that there was a point
when the Chaplin mustache was no longer the Chaplin mustache, right, And.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
If this is like you think this is the best
look for you, you gotta go platinum blonde, you gotta
go big zzy top beard. I feel like I'm seeing
just too many JD Vance's out there, and it's obviously
very stupid. This is not the biggest thing, uh facings,
(20:11):
But I just I see a lot of people who
look like they sat down and said, give me, give
me the j D.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Maybe everybody take a look in the mirror. Are you
Are you JD vance maxing your advance maxing? Dude?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It just it does suggest to me that you don't
know what's.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Going on, you know, just shave the head or something,
or get a mohawk. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, go go go nuts, have fun. You know, I
do think you know platinum bloom.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Or do everything in your power to resist JD vans
So then you can read.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Claim right now and look, that's right, you bring back.
It's much it's much less noticeable or weird than the
Hitler mustache. But it is just like, I feel like
there's so many people out there. It's not fair. What
I'm saying is not fair. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm
(21:03):
just saying the reality of the situation. I think we
have to understand the reality of the situation. Where all right,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
we'll talk about the news.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And we're back.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We're back, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
So, as we've been talking about, there's another state sanctioned
execution that was caught on tape in Minneapolis. This time
thirty seven year old Alex Pretty was tackled by multiple
agents when he was trying to intervene when they were
pushing around a woman and then had a phone in
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his hand. I feel like people have seen, you know, Yeah,
I think people know. I mean people know we're here.
It's happened again.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And this is now the third person is shot in
Minneapolis in the span of like three weeks, basically the
second person that's been killed. And yeah, like we're doing
the same thing over again. We're in clear as day,
you know, whatever you want, summary execution, murder, whatever, clear
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his day and then you have the regime come out
immediately and just throw a reality smoke bomb down that
Luckily only twenty percent of the country is buying, and
everyone else is like, what are you even fucking talking about?
This guy was trying to run up on ice agents
with a gun. No, because like, those are the details, right,
(22:42):
he had it. He was legally carrying a firearm.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
H And we wasn't brandying fans of that's one of
those US values that they've always been like, well, that's
just who America is. It turns out, no, that's not
that's not the one that's not actually who America is.
It just about uh, you know what that is being
used for, and if it's being used to enact violent
(23:06):
white supremacy or not.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, yeah, and yeah again, just you read about his background,
he seems like someone who has very much cared about
his community, cared for the people that were in his
like literal care as a nurse and yeah, did anything.
You're outdoors, some fucking goons shove somebody down for nothing. Yeah,
and you go to help them up and then they stop.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You immediately start spraying him in the face with yeah,
a chemical agent immediately, you know, it's sick. At least
six people around him beating him down.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's just and if it's like if it's like a terrible,
terrible metaphor for just how like this country is. Man,
you have a group of powerless men who are so
desperate to feel some level of power. Yeah, and they
they'll stop at no went just for that, just for
that fleeting feeling, even if it absolutely up ends our reality.
(24:06):
And yeah, I mean I think just like even reading
how quickly d oj came out and you know, Christy
Noan being like, well he was a domestic terrorist and
just doing this whole thing. It's I think, you know
rightfully people are starting it. But were your videos? The
New York Post was like, I don't know about this one,
like it's it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The Wall Street Journal too, like, oh, this one seems
to be not going over very well. I do have
to wonder how much of that is also, you know
the fact that it is the journal of Wall Street
and there was a general strike and then this happened,
that might be getting some eyebrows raised.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's probably everything, right because everyone looks at the United States,
We're absolutely on fire to six I don't know what However,
maybe saying yeah, we're on fire, We're the hottest country
nation that everyone's like, dude, we need to disentangle ourselves
from this nightmare, from this like unfolding tragedy, this unfolding
(25:09):
like self immolation this country is doing. So I'm sure
this also feeds into the fact that like, Okay, not
only does Trump just say shit that like royals the
markets and and fucks things up, we're also making we're
even we're we're doubling down on the idea you want
nothing to do with the United States right now with
this kind of shit too. But again, this has always
(25:31):
been the case, but this just feels like now it's
arrived at the level for people that are in mainstream
media and sort of at higher levers being like, ooh,
now it's a little bit too much for me here,
because before it was okay, when I saw brown and
black people be brutalized, even when they were just separating families,
I really didn't care that much, right, But now like
(25:52):
they're out here doing the wacky killings and stuff, it's
it's becoming a little too much.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
And yeah, it's complicating the narrow for me.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Miles.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's a lot. A lot of the mainstream media headlines
are witness video complicates, federal accounts of Alex pretty shooting complicates.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Did you was that?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
An autocorrect from contradicts was state Stange blame for events
leading to Alex Pretty's shooting? I was NBC News The
New York Times. Video shows moments in which agents killed
a man in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Mm hmmm, uh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The I do I mean for people and you know,
for people who don't didn't watch the video, it is
just you know, they shoot him many times while he's
on the ground, so just know that he comes into
the interaction holding phones. This is something that we've been
hearing lately that they're adding, adding everybody who's seen filming
(26:57):
them to database, like people with nothing to hide. Yeah,
and trying to document what they're doing. Seems to be
a real focus point of something they're trying to stop.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
They're also arresting witnesses at the scene for having seen
what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, I mean, yeah, they're right out at the scene
of Prettie's killing, his murder. They took like twenty some
they arrested twenty people who were witnesses. Yeah, or like
took detained witnesses. That is where we're at. They're like, oh,
you guys saw something, Well, y'all need to come over
here and let me go through your phones or all
this other shit. Yeah I can't. It's the other thing though, too,
(27:39):
is all of this goes along with the fact that, like,
because these are the murders that happened on camera, yeah
you know what I mean. Keith Porter also got killed
by an off duty ice agent. He was off duty.
And think about the detainees that have died, yeah, and
people who have died in custody that coroners have ruled
a homicide. Yeah, like a Cuban detainee recently. So like
(28:04):
it even like the outrage should be there because it's
this is happening with or without the video. But again
I think because we live in a unfortunately have to
see it to believe it. Society right now, this is
sort of like what it takes is to just have
this grizzly killing just captured on video and yeah, and
(28:28):
look what happens. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I continue to find the perspectives of people who lived
through this in Russia pretty illuminating. In addition to people
who have lived through it in the United States for
the past, the entire history of the United States. But
you know, Gary Kasper of The Chess Champion was pointing
out that these things are happening by design, like they
(28:51):
create the chaos that he needs to interfere with the
electoral process going forward because he can't afford to lose
power at this point. Yeah, like even congressional power. We there,
We'll get to the leaked Ted Cruz recording that happened
like at the beginning of the administration where he was like,
they're gonna impeach you every week if you if you
(29:15):
raise prices like this. But yeah, he's just going from
place to place trying to get all the infinity stones
he needs and just like you know, killing people to
do it. And people are still being like, well, surely
once this video, once we show you this video, he'll
he'll see the error of his ways.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I mean, the the midterms are
going I mean, like you have to at this point.
Everyone's got to be like, Okay, so what's going to
be our response when he steals the midterms? Yeah, you
know what I mean, That's why I think the collective
action that took place in Minneapolis is good because that's
(29:57):
gonna happen. That's gotta be the norm. That's got to
be part of it as a foundational aspect of how
people resist this, because like, to your point, we're going
so far into the darkness now, like in terms of
like officially you know what I mean, like all this
like brutality and stuff with people have been like, well,
oh god, it's a tragedy. But now it's like fully
(30:18):
articulated being like, well, you know, now we can go
through with like administrative warrants or even like judicial warrants
that the sentiment builds every day that they're like, these
people do not deserve to be free after this. Yeah,
And so all the Republicans are thinking, well, then there
can't be an after this, right, there can only be
(30:40):
this in perpetuity. So now how do we do that,
because that's the only way I will be able to
protect myself for engaging in the act of like all
this fucking harmful shit that you know, all these harmful
policies that the administration has been putting in place. So yeah,
I mean, I think to that point, it's wild that
after this happens, the DOJ calls and they have They've
(31:03):
got a they got a deal they can make with
the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, straight up. Hours, this is from Democracy Now. Hours
after Customs and Border Patrol officer shot and killed ICU
nurse alex Pretty on the streets in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi
sees on the shocking incident to demand access to voters
unrestricted personal data, reigniting fears that Donald Trump is trying
to steal the next election. Yep, they were, Yeah, they're
(31:28):
just like, Okay, no, you don't want that to happen again. Cool,
just give us the next election.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Okay, so they give us them, Yeah, give us the
bones of the election. Yeah, so we can we can
manipulate them into whatever shape we want possible, because really
the point of having all that data is to do
massive purges and then be like, I mean, because the
other thing, too, is there's also still the potential for
them to disenfranchised voters who have changed their names through
marriage and stuff, which would mostly be like women through marriage,
(31:56):
to be like, oh, well, your birth certificate doesn't match this,
and now we can actually negate your vote. There are
a lot of things being talked about and somewhat in
place are ready to try and prevent any kind of
democratic majority in the midterms.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, I think like the past handful of elections, there's
been a lot of fear around like, well, you know,
they're saying they're telling people to go out to the
polls armed, and then like there isn't a shooting incident
or anything, and so people are like, you know, I
feel like there's been the stories of like this election
could be really fucked up, and then they haven't gone
(32:34):
in that direction yet that we know.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I think for them, they're going to just do everything
in a non physical way. They'd rather be like, oh, sorry,
your name's not on the list, can't come in to day,
or just vote manipulation on the back end to be
like just goose the numbers and be like yeah, man,
blowout wins for MAGA somehow in this place that the
(32:58):
polling showed the exact opposite, because yeah, there's no way
like this this government now is so so fucking illegitimate.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
That yeah, that they're not even trying to be legitimate.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
No, no, And if you're that illegitimate, then you're like, well, yeah,
I do what the fuck I'm gonna do? Pretend I'm
gonna go with the will of the fucking people and
face some kind of I mean, who even knows what
the Democrats would do, Like, honestly, you maybe you might
want to have the Democrats be in powered because they
might be like, all right, guys, you promised to knock
it off, right, Okay, all right, let's move on now.
We had enough of that. Now, enough of that now.
(33:31):
But yeah, it's it's a very very uh freaking situation. Luckily, though,
the Secretary of State of Minnesota basically said fuck you
and your whole crew to Pambondy with that said quote.
Attorney General Pambondi knows full well that the governor has
no formal role in managing our elections or maintaining our
voter registration system. She's also well aware that this specific
request is the subject of active litigation with our office.
(33:53):
Our position on the federal government's request to access Minnesota
voting records starts and ends with the law. The law
does not give the federal goal government the authority to
obtain this private data. And then turns out there are
also thirty one other states that have told the DOJ
fuck off with them trying to get their hands on
voter data, and the Department of Justice is like like,
(34:14):
like the Secretary of State was referencing in litigation with
twenty four states over that, and the courts so far
have very quickly dismissed three of those claims. So I
think now, I think they probably were realizing, Okay, we're
not winning in court by doing the give me day, right.
So now another part of this is like with these
(34:35):
ice invasions, you get to the turn the heat up
for civil unrest to try and create your optics to
be able to justify the Insurrection Act or whatever the
fuck you're going for. But also maybe if you put
enough violence on a state, you can get them to
bend to your will and say, now, give me the
tools I need to rat fuck the election too. Yeah,
(34:55):
you can trying.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
You can make it all stop, just click straight up
like the yeah, the speed was like again, they're not
trying to hide this ship. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
The other thing is if if the exchanges, we'll make
it all stop if you give me that voter data.
So what the fuck is this immigration talk about? Right,
So the voter data is so important to you that
you will end your massively quote unquote important. It's tied
to the existence of our nation mission to try and
(35:26):
uh to kidnap all of the non white people in
this country because all you wanted was.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Voter data voters too, right, trying to get rubbers, to
get anybody who is not part of the Trump voting dema.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
But either way, if you're saying we'll stop doing quote
unquote immigration enforcement for voter data, then it was never
about immigration. And again it never was about immigration enforcement
because this wasn't an issue. We don't have a bunch
of people who are here who are undocumented doing all
kinds of fucked up, crazy violent crimes. This is again
just part of your liketh noo state grab bag of
(36:01):
fun things you want to do to you know, continue
to put as much pain onto people that don't look
like you while also you know, keeping the carceral technology
industry well funded. Yeah, I mean I did.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I did, like start having the thought like will he
like how mask off because because that move is so
mask off though, like you you do start to wonder
like how far towards the putin power grab are we going?
You know, are people gonna be poisoned? You know what
I mean? Like that's not that that's like, but but like,
(36:36):
just how little of a fuck do they give at
this point? It seems it seems like very very little
of fuck how they're perceived.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
And it's like the one thing that you see is
like now that there's there are some Republicans in office
who are like, Okay, this is like I can't do
all this, Like I'm fine with being racist and stuff
right and a xenophobe, but like also just straight up
lying about a guy legally carrying a gun who was shot,
was face who was face down on the ground.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
We are a whole ship legally carring guns.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah. And it's funny too, Like even the NRA and
other gun lobbying groups have been like, dude, there needs
to be a fucking investigation. What the fuck is what
what are we talking about here? Because a lot of
the stuff that the DOJ and Border Patrol DHS are
saying is like, well, if you are if you are
armed legally in the proximity of law enforcement, that is
a death sentence.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Do you remember Kyle Rittenhouse running past a bunch of
police with a ar Yeah, after having killed multiple people
and them like what are you doing out here? You're
probably out past your bedtime, buddy.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, get back there, all right. Oh oh yeah, they're
down that way. Go ahead, Pale. But again, I mean
it just I mean, at this point, it's like if
you were thick enough to think this, like this wasn't
the game the whole time. Yeah, it's like they're showing
you in a real time. They're like, I mean, yeah,
the second Amendments for like us not you, Yes, obviously,
And you know the idea that you can be armed
(38:10):
at a protest, that's to excuse somebody who would go
kill people who are against what our worldview is. It's
not I'm just using your language because that's how I
get you guys pot up in a debate over it,
rather than people beginning to be really seeing it for
what it is. And these people don't want anything except
for the death and despair of non white people. That's
(38:32):
just that's that's what they're that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll talk about the Winter Storm, Ted Cruz and Chris
Pratt's new movie. Ooh, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
And we're back. We're back.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Shout out to everybody who's holed up right now, dude.
The winter storm. Yeah, just fucked up this country Canada,
which everyone checking Ted Cruz's travel itinerary could have seen coming,
because he was once again photographed bailing on Texas as
(39:16):
as a massive ice storm is bearing down on Texas
and traveling to in this case, last time I was Cancun.
This this time it was southern California, not not like
lax but Laguna Beach.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah. Yeah, getting on a flight to Laguna Beach. I mean, look,
that's he's so consistent about being like adverse weather in
the state I represent, I'm out here. I mean, it's
a pretty good example of how all politicians think. It's like, well,
the the hard parts for you guys, not for me
to deal with. No, I'm I'm going to use my
(39:52):
resources to leave and you can. You deal with it.
Don't need it to be in there with you. Fuck that.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
A lot of people on social media, we're celebrating him
as Texas's own early warning system for snowstorms and labeling
him the Texas Groundhog. Did you see him getting off
light to a tropical warm location. Uh?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, something.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, it's like an arthritic knee acting up, you know. Yeah, yeah,
but this time instead of throwing his family under the bus,
because that's what he did last time. He was like,
my wife had planned this. She was going to be
so mad at me. He claimed to be traveling for
pre planned work. His office wouldn't actually say what that
work was, which it seems like you're you're.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You should have said an emergent pre planned. That means
then you know what it is. So what was it?
It was pre you I feel like you can articulate
it since it was already planned. Now merely described the plan. Ah,
I can I can't actually tell you that it.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Was an emergency trip to Laguna Beach, a location that's
primary economy is surf lessons. As far as I know,
I'm sure there's like there's a lot of wealthy donors
out there too. Oh oh yeah, that is a very
republican part of southern California. But yeah, if he had
(41:11):
been flying to lax like, I feel like the business
claim might have looked more solid. Headed to Laguna Beach
on business yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Uh huh with with who yeah, some some beach cruiser
manufacturers and try him out. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
And then also this weekend he there was leaked audio
of a conversation in which he warned Trump about a
mid term bloodbath, saying you're going to lose the House,
You're going to lose the Senate. You're going to spend
the next two years being impeached every single week, to
which Donald Trump responded, fuck you Ted. On the leaked audio,
(41:48):
Is that is the audio?
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Can you hear it or no? It's just everyone's account
of it.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think it's available, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
I didn't. I didn't go out of my way to
actually try and hear it. But he was no. It
feels like it's like Axios has it, but I have.
Maybe they're just they're like, well, we got it and
we're just printing what it said, all right or not. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
It does feel like this is probably leaked by his
people to try and set them up as like the
reasonable alternative to Trump in twenty twenty eight or just
going forward, if I had to guess.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Look, dude, everyone is looking is trying to figure out
their exit position, right, you know, whether that's a financial
one for people that are in the cabinet or the
sycophants and co conspirators and all this On the right,
they're also like, well, what's my exit position. Because Marjorie
Taylor Green certainly figured hers out. She's like, let me differentiate.
Now I act like I was always against this, and
(42:42):
then maybe I can hop back in and look reasonable
by comparison, because she just her recent quote over the
week when she was like, you guys are like we'd
you're being incited into civil war? Wow?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
And this is your brain that she's got, the same brain,
that's the same brain that gave you Jewish space lacers.
Comes you are being incited into civil war?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
What the fuck from the dark imagination? Yeah, exactly, Jewish
space lasers? Is I support American's First and fourth Amendment rights.
There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing. Anyways,
she goes on, it's just hard, I said, MAGA considered
it like this. We lost our minds when you watch
Biden's FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions
(43:26):
and arrests on peaceful j Sixers who walked in the
Capitol through open doors. Imagine if one of our MAGA
independent journalists, even just a MAGA supporter, stood in the
street outside of JA Sixer's house. Well, Biden's FBI care
to a law enforcement operation home invasion and arrest. Then
Biden's FBI goes to the Maga Guy videoing at all
and shoves a woman with him to the ground and
sprays them with bear spray and then throws the Maga
(43:48):
Guy to the ground as Maga Guy was trying to
help the woman off the ground. Then Biden's FBI beats
Maga Guy on the ground, disarms Maga Guy, and then
shoots him dead. What would have been our reaction? That
is the most wacky sentence, but that was legitimately what
she posted. She's like, guys, think of Mega Guy and
that it could be Maga.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I damn, that was actually fucking That was like the
end of a time to kill when Matthew mcconnae is like,
now Madden, she's white. Yeah for me, I hadn't thought
about it for a Mega Guy said that.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
She said Mega Guy, And I'm sure those people aren't
listening to anymore because he they hate women and b
they don't even see it as Maga anymore. But again,
broken clock and all that she's she's she tried, She
tried a peaceful jan sixers. That's why you know she's
still She's still Marjorie Taylor Green because she still lives
in that bizarre reality sixers.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Yeah, heavily armed those guys well, trying to invade the.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Armed at a protest. I believe a lot of people
had guns on them there too, but seeming again, That's
why I think pointing out the hypocrisy is meaningless at
this point, and you just have to be like, no,
you're talking about Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Yeah,
like this fucker wants to end everything, so there's no like,
oh but he doesn't want to end for him. Yeah,
we can't this you our way out of this fascist takeover? No,
(45:06):
and like and don't get nihilistic and don't think you're
just gonna get work, Like that's not what it is.
It's the look they're one fucking god is money. That's right, truly,
because that's like the one thing. It's like you can
you could be a person of color and be around
Donald Trump because you have money, do you know what
I'm saying? Like it's all so the things that fuck
with their money, that's the most elegant way to try
(45:29):
and rock their boat, just to figure out how to
fuck up their coins and things like that. But yeah,
uh here, but hey, Ted Cruz, I don't know what
the fuck you were doing. But uh, don't think you're
don't think that you're gonna end out. You're gonna walk
out of here looking like a hero at all.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Either he's gonna try though, he's he's gonna try. Yeah, finally,
less check in with the box off the smiles.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I was talking shit. I was talking shit. On Friday.
A couple of people, a couple of listeners.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Are like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
I know you like I like, I know he like
ribbing on Chris Pratt, but the movies not that bad.
It's bad, but it's not that bad. And I was like, Okay,
I like, I appreciate that. Take like look, glucklick, look
it's bad.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
So this is his copaganda pro AI thriller, which yeah,
you guys talked about then to last week, it made
just eleven million dollars of the box office, but because
it isn't Cinner's Variety, one of the main industry papers
framed it as a win since they ended Avatar three's
(46:30):
five weekend rain and gave it a nice built in excuse.
Blamed its poor performance on the winter storm even though
it was already tracking poorly and received terrible reviews. I'm
just gonna read this from Variety because we've covered at
length varieties coverage of Sinners. When Sinners came out and
you know, over performed expectations by a mile, and they
(46:53):
were like, still got a lot of meat on that bone. Man,
there was kind of a loss. Actually kind of took
an l on that one. But from this Chris Pratt
sci fi thriller Mercy collected eleven point two million dollars
in its North American debut, enough to end the five
weekend reign of James Cameron's behemoth Avatar Fire and Ash.
Though not a blockbuster result for Mercy, it's an impressive
(47:16):
taally considering the massive winter storm that's currently blanketing a
large portion of the US with snow. So like, this
movie's kind of a hit. Cost sixty million dollars and
everybody's like do everyone who saw it does not seem
that fond of it. It's the worst opening ever for
a Chris Pratt starring movie, even worse than Passengers, which
(47:38):
was the sci fi movie co starring Jennifer Lawrence that
hid the movie's premise from all the trailers. The premise
was basically abduction as romance.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Oh great, great right? Yeah, which, by the way, did
you know this might be me?
Speaker 2 (47:53):
I want to figure out if I'm just an idiot.
That movie song Sung Blue with Huge Jackedman and uh
Kate uh not winds Lip other Kate yep, I know
you're talking about she's got nominated for an oscar, the.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
One from Almost Famous.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Yeah, Kate from Almost Famous? You did you think that
was a Neil Diamond biopic? Kate Hudson, Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
I don't know. I only the only thing I knew
were like just that it was like there was controversy
around it. I didn't even know it was coming out,
and people like this is not right, and I was like,
what the fuck's going on with that? I'm also like,
I like two actors I could care less about, So
I have no idea what the fuck Wait, it's not
about It's about kept saying about oh.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Oh like Diamond songs and apparently like just a wild
story where like just everything bad that can happen to
her does that?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
I think I've seen that movie. It's called Saving Silverman,
right about wacky shit having to a group of Neil
Diamond loving dudes.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Neil Diamond fandom is like a much more popular subject
for movies than Neil Diamond himself. Yeah, like what is
his life that he keeps getting skipped over for biopics?
But people are just like, but those songs, though, how
do we about Neil Diamond without having Neil Diamond.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Be the character in it? It's not about the diamond itself.
It's about the sparkle around it, man, Yeah, and that's
what we want to focus on. Yeah, I know, no clue,
but if it's worth seeing, let me know. All of
the words used to describe it did not resonate with
my spirit at all.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
About a subculture, maybe I have to maybe I have
to give it a shot. It's about a Neil Diamond
cover band subculture.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
I'm always like kind of almost impressed when movie studios
just like hide to the central conceit of the movie
and they're like, man, they're gonna fucking this when they
go see it.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
But we got to get them to buy the ticket.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Like all the musicals for like, after musical stopped doing
well West Side Story and stuff, they were just like, yeah, no,
Mean Girls. The musical it's just mean girls, but another
wicked with the music note inside the one of the letters,
Wonka was a musical that they didn't tell you was
a musical. But anyways, uh chal one, the chalame one
(50:23):
was yeah, that was a musical. But they were just
like and it worked. The musical one fucking worked like
they people kept going to see those and then just
being like, well, I guess the songs are okay.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
I wonder if they were doing that thing. They were
so fucking addicted to the Greatest Showman buzz with two
Jackman that they're like, fucking load up another Jackman musical, dude,
and then Neil Diamond. All the all the middle aged
and boomer baddies will be out in the theater, singing
in the theater, tears in their eyes, looking at Jackman
(50:54):
on HG H or is is he ripped in this one? Now?
He looks pretty good. He's not.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
He's not like doing the he's not doing Wolverine.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
He's not doing Wolverine.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
But he's also not doing like Christian Bale body acting
where it's like, damn man, put on.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Going out there a fucking twig.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, milkshakes with every meal. But yeah, so I don't
know other than variety people seem to think this is
a pretty major setback for Chris Pratt.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Guys, I think that's the worst thing. Worst thing that
could happen is variety keeping for your movie. I know,
so far as when they shit on it. You set
a record for Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
That is the number of nominated.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
I was so happy to see that I missed that episode.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
Sixteen sixteen nom nom Yeah, dude, all right, those are
some of the things that are trending on this Monday,
January twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
We are back tomorrow with the who last episode of
the show. Ye. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourself, get your vaccines while you still
can't give blue shots, don't do nothing about white supremacy,
and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
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